Am I the only one who remembers memes before the internet, when they were folded up ditto copies of dirty cartoons that kids would bring into school?
Posted by ASAPRockyDennis@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 47 comments
Never knew where they came from or where they went. The only one I’ve been able to remember is a mouse with a huge cock saying “here kitty kitty”. Can anyone remember or post other examples?
this_is_Winston@reddit
Oh yeah, when xerox became a thing. I'd find them in my dad's lunch pail
cookiesandpunch@reddit
If you worked in an office in the late 80s or early 90s they were joke faxes and every workplace had a folder full of them
dustymag@reddit
People used to hang photocopies of comics and different funny things at the checkout of the store, or at their desk too. Some of them were kinda dirty.
slowtreme@reddit
somewhere in my house I have overhead transparencies of old dirty cartoons.
OlderNerd@reddit
I am 58 and I never saw this before. So I think apparently I wasn't cool enough to share this with
FocalorLucifuge@reddit
I remember this being brought into school as a gag.
I still can't figure out how a can opener is supposed to help.
Ranger-5150@reddit
Because they’re packed tighter than a can of sardines. You use the can opener on the sardines to get them out.
It’s a reference to a reference…
hippywitch@reddit
And the old way of making cars. I remember getting into cars in the 80’s & early 90’s and it was like entering a small tank. The volume of metal and heft the vehicles had.
FocalorLucifuge@reddit
Ah gotcha.
Muttywango@reddit
Wow. My Dad still has these in his car.
FocalorLucifuge@reddit
Lol, I first saw these something like 36 years ago.
Maybe you or your dad can tell me about the can opener? 😂
Muttywango@reddit
I've had this discussion with Dad.
He said it's for when a car parks too close by the side of yours and you can't access the door on the opposite side. So you need the opener to enter through the roof.
The chances of that circumstance arising are small hence the 30 year old pile of small wrinkled photocopies in the glovebox of every car he's owned since.
FocalorLucifuge@reddit
Through the roof? Not all cars have sunroofs and even then, that makes little sense.
Actually the can of sardines reference to a reference mentioned by the other user made more sense.
Muttywango@reddit
The opener would be for the metal of a car without a sunroof, similar to a sardine can.
His last 2 cars have had glass roofs, still keeps the scruffy 7th generation photocopies.
DarthGuber@reddit
Had a mimeograph of this one when I was in the service. We'd walk around the ER saying "lizard, lizard, are you ok?" https://www.reddit.com/r/comedyheaven/s/OAuFqj6Bmg
FireGodNYC@reddit
When the teacher would send us to the Ditto Machine 🤣😂🤣
RasSalvador@reddit
I remember one.... That was like "50 Slogans for Condoms"
"If she's acting spunky cover your monkey"
Etc...
RasSalvador@reddit
There was one with like 50 different slogans for condoms...
"if she's acting spunky cover your monkey"
...
Gizmo_McChillyfry@reddit
I remember the "Shit List" that I got via fax at work in 1990, which had some people in the office laughing so hard that they were crying.
This isn't the exact thing I remember but it's pretty close.
HillbillyEEOLawyer@reddit
I remember that one!
wtfsafrush@reddit
The one I remember was the SCUD missile launcher cartoon. Which was a camel with a missile in its mouth and an Iraqi about to hit it in the balls with a sledgehammer.
GogglesPisano@reddit
The internet remembers!
happyme321@reddit
That was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this post. 😂
Thirty_Helens_Agree@reddit
I remember one with Wilma Flintstone doing things with a mammoth’s trunk.
psychnursegivesshots@reddit
I still have this tucked away somewhere. It got passed around school after some kids mom had it faxed to her at work.
PacRat48@reddit
Yep I remember that one too
TheBugHouse@reddit
I always thought the fancy business cards that said "you are hereby cordially invited to go fuck yourself" were really cool. Actually, I still do.
Mykidsatbrownies@reddit
Ok I remember one about why E.T.'s neck gets so long, with a pic of E.T. taking a piss in a toilet. Second pic showed the toilet seat falling on his dong, whoosh, up goes the neck. I was not supposed to see that! The adults thought it was hilarious.
_Sasquatchy@reddit
Yes, it's just you. Everyone else has moved on.
Respond-Leather@reddit
I remember a heavily photocopied cartoon drawing of the 1988 presidential "race" making the rounds.
A hairy penis labeled "De-cock-is" was chasing a hairy vulva labeled "de Bush"
Rojelioenescabeche@reddit
Some were black light posters like this one I had
https://i.imgur.com/La1ysqd.jpeg
SourChipmunk@reddit
I had a bunch I wanted to post, but the NSFW filter killed them.
SourChipmunk@reddit
OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit
I feel like a lot of them were r/BoomersHumor, but I clearly remember a popular one being the image of Bart Simpson stuck in the buttcrack of a large woman with the caption "CRACK KILLS." It also became a popular bootleg shirt.
SourChipmunk@reddit
SourChipmunk@reddit
Draggin' ass
SourChipmunk@reddit
99titan@reddit
My mom had a drawer full from the hospital she worked at.
Thirty_Helens_Agree@reddit
There were a bunch in the trucks where I worked too.
BaronNeutron@reddit
Yes you are the only one. 160K members of the sub, but it is just you.
Aware_Sweet_3908@reddit
I remember the Lorena Bobbitt articles being faxed around offices by my mom and her friends
velvet42@reddit
I remember them being things that people made xerox copies of to bring to work, my parents would come home with them sometimes
Moonsmom181@reddit
I remember when getting access to a copy machine was golden. Cut and paste meant actual scissors and tape.
justmisspellit@reddit
“You don’t have to be crazy to work her, but it helps!”
“Hang in there” Kitty
“Once on the lips, forever on the hips”
Hi-Scan-Pro@reddit
I remember reading about memes in the late 90's. The definition was something like "an idea or behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation". I can't remember what I was reading so the quote might be off. The memes we all know and love today are more like single cell comics covering a myriad of topics meant to promote literally any kind of reaction.
Recklusive@reddit
lol yes! I was probably 6 or 7. My buddy David would bring them to after school daycare or whatever it was called. We called them “The Papers.” Probably warped me more than I like to admit. Whatever.
Odditeee@reddit
I learned about “memes” in college, early ‘90s, I think it was a sociology term, “a unit of cultural information”, analogous to “genes”, that evolved as they moved through a society.