Curiosity ~ Lucidity ~ Humanity
Snickers
The three broadcast networks
Alcohol content of beer1
The sound of air brakes on buses
Wheaties
Recidivism rates2
The term “top forty”
Kleenex
Scotch Tape
Battery voltage (size A, AA, AAA, D)
Pencil erasers
Toilet floats
Total openly gay presidents3
The Chevrolet bowtie emblem
Toddlers cry at the same point during Bambi4
AM/FM radio bands
Dimes
The relative market share of Coke v Pepsi5
Coat hangers
Missing 13th floors
Hopscotch grids
Cement trucks
The general association between dresses and gender
The complexion of hockey players6
The absence of resolution on UFOs.
The smell inside bars
Majority public belief in the Devil7
The NBC chimes
The Morton Salt Girl
1. Alcohol content of beer link 2. Recidivism rates a) present day link b) 1950s link 3. Openly gay presidents: ZERO 4. Bambi link 5. Coke v Pepsi market share a) 1950s link b) contemporary link 6. Complexion of hockey players 93% white as of 2011 link 7. Belief in devil—falling but more than half link
Don we now our gay apparel
Pronouns
Dollars to doughnuts1
It can’t happen here.
Would you like a spanking?
The Cadillac of [name product]
Streaming
Tea party
They
Directory Assistance
Fox
Horizontal knob
Send it by airmail.
Musk
Hot buns
Gender: check one
Vaccines
Dime store
More doctors smoke Camels2
Help wanted: stock boy (white)
Asbestos: durable and safe
Iron deficiency anemia or “tired blood”3
Ike and Dick
Washington Redskins
I want those reports by noon, hon, and get me some coffee.
1. Dollars to donuts link 2. More doctors smoke Camels link 3. Iron deficiency anemia link
Dennis Kaplan Bio-Fragment: From the perspective of my boy-self in the 1950s, life contained no clues that Snickers would outlive Pan American Airlines, or that I would one day live in a world without Oldsmobiles. I did believe that by this time humans would have established extraterrestrial contact and that the republic would be in better shape, but that’s another list.