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    "Easy To Care For… Need No Ironing"

    Remember When Getting Sexy With A Computer Was A New Concept?

    Diablo Cody's Sweet Valley High Flick To Be Set In The '80s

    Just When You Thought You Loved Mad Men Style!

    "The Game Is Broomsticks"

    "Show Her It's A Man's World!"

    Teenage Wasteland: Your Old Diaries Are Awkward, Awe-Inspiring

    "It's A Little Too Delicate For Anyone But A Girl!"

    Suffocating Babies… It's A Good Thing!

    Don Draper Would Not Approve
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    Image of NewsBunny NewsBunny
    09/26/09

    In reply to Don Draper Would Not Approve
    Is that Matt Lauer?
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    Image of Dodgergirl Dodgergirl
    09/25/09

    In reply to "Easy To Care For… Need No Ironing"
    It has been ridiculously hot in LA the last few days, and let me tell you: sitting in front of the fan in your underwear on a sweaty gross hot day does not look like this.
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    Image of LaFemme LaFemme
    09/25/09

    In reply to "Easy To Care For… Need No Ironing"
    Underwear does not require ironing? Tell this to my old host brothers in Spain, I am fairly certain underwear ironing was viewes as non-negotiable.

    Come to think of it, I also remember my old French host mother handing me a neatly stacked pile of folded period panties and being....really taken aback.

    Oh and big rayon underwear seems sooo gross. Might as well punch some holes through a Hefty bag and tie it around your waist. /shudder
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    Edited by LaFemme at 09/25/09 7:34 PM LaFemme was starred LaFemme was unstarred
    Image of curiousgeorgiana curiousgeorgiana
    09/25/09

    In reply to "Easy To Care For… Need No Ironing"
    Yeah, my grandmother still irons my grandfather's boxers, socks, and handkerchiefs. And I really wish I didn't know this.
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    Penny_Esq promoted this comment curiousgeorgiana was starred curiousgeorgiana was unstarred
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    09/25/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: My mom took heat from my grandma for declining to iron my dad's tighty whiteys when they got married. Yeah feminism!
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    Image of curiousgeorgiana curiousgeorgiana
    09/25/09

    @Penny_Esq: Ugh, I'm surprised he didn't divorce her. What a lazy slut.
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    Image of Callisto Callisto
    09/25/09

    In reply to "Easy To Care For… Need No Ironing"
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't rayon, by definition, incapable of being "naturally absorbant"? Or "natural" anything?
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    Image of GirlFailer GirlFailer
    09/25/09

    In reply to "Easy To Care For… Need No Ironing"
    No one likes a clammy clam.
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    Image of quickqueenof quickqueenof
    09/23/09

    In reply to Remember When Getting Sexy With A Computer Was A New Concept?
    I think this image explains my husband's entire life goals.
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    Image of mariamariamaria mariamariamaria
    09/23/09

    In reply to Remember When Getting Sexy With A Computer Was A New Concept?
    "Or when you could put a TV on top of a typewriter and pretend it was a computer?" HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! OMG you're not joking - they actually did it! I wonder if people noticed.
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    Image of Cam/ron Cam/ron
    09/23/09

    In reply to Remember When Getting Sexy With A Computer Was A New Concept?
    The ad makes sense for its time, many PC users as well as Silicon Valley programmers and executives were single, lonely and sex-starved (not that times have changed). The great PC game developer Sierra Online released "Softporn Adventure," and there were dozens of homebrewed porn games for the C-64.

    /Geek moment over
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    Image of AlfredNubbah AlfredNubbah
    09/23/09

    In reply to Remember When Getting Sexy With A Computer Was A New Concept?
    That's not a typewriter, it's an original Apple ][ with the label taped over. (It's not an Apple ][+, which had a recessed power indicator, or an Apple ][e, which had an extended keyboard.) And the Apple ][ sure could use a small television as a monitor; I know mine did.

    I feel confident that the screen image is simulated, though.

    I'm going to crawl back into my Geek Hole now.
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    BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) promoted this comment AlfredNubbah was starred AlfredNubbah was unstarred
    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    09/24/09

    @AlfredNubbah: I'm in the Geek Hole with you. I was about to say I used a TV with my Radio Shack comp--and sadly a cassette player too.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    09/23/09

    In reply to Remember When Getting Sexy With A Computer Was A New Concept?
    I'm wearing this outfit right now.
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    Image of sassyredhead sassyredhead
    09/23/09

    @bluebears: Please tell me you are also sporting the sexy face!
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    Image of sarasasa sarasasa
    09/23/09

    @sassyredhead: And the hair! It is essential.
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    bluebears promoted this comment sarasasa was starred sarasasa was unstarred
    Image of bluebears bluebears
    09/23/09

    @sassyredhead: of course! as SparklyTempest points out its impossible not to make the sexy face.
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    09/23/09

    @sarasasa: Sadly not the hair, but I do pull out my pink satin sheets for when I get my compute'in on.
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    Image of AEchinoderm AEchinoderm
    09/23/09

    In reply to Remember When Getting Sexy With A Computer Was A New Concept?
    Mmmmm, kids? Long ago home computers DID use TVs as their monitor. Sorry to burst your collective bubbles, but dedicated monitors back then were: a) real expensive, and b) monochrome (green or amber). For computers with color capability (Apple II, TRS-80, Commodore 64, Sinclair...) the only way was to put a TV up there, which was not a problem with the computers' crappy video resolution.

    Mind you, the soft could be ordered on floppy disk or CASSETE!!!
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    Kivrin promoted this comment Edited by AEchinoderm at 09/23/09 6:56 PM AEchinoderm was starred AEchinoderm was unstarred
    Image of Kivrin Kivrin
    09/23/09

    @AEchinoderm: I remember this, too. I salute you, fellow old-school nerd!
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    Image of mommy_dearest mommy_dearest
    09/23/09

    @AEchinoderm: I miss the Commodore 64. We had one for the whole elementary school (which was a luxury, we knew) with a cassette drive so we could play the Pac Man knock off, Gobbler. Oh, the days...
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    Edited by mommy_dearest at 09/23/09 7:29 PM mommy_dearest was starred mommy_dearest was unstarred
    Image of Clarissima Clarissima
    09/23/09

    @AEchinoderm: Since my first computer was a Quadra 660 AV, it came with a monitor, but for the past 5 years I've used my tv as a dual monitor for my laptop when I need it. It's great to have the option.
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    Image of AEchinoderm AEchinoderm
    09/23/09

    @Clarissima: Nice to have things come full circle, ain't it?
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    Image of KimberleeJean KimberleeJean
    09/23/09

    In reply to Remember When Getting Sexy With A Computer Was A New Concept?
    I'd still rather play Global Thermonuclear War...
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    sassyredhead promoted this comment KimberleeJean was starred KimberleeJean was unstarred
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    09/23/09

    @KimberleeJean: How 'bout some Oregon Trail?
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    Image of whothewhatnow whothewhatnow
    09/23/09

    @KimberleeJean: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
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    BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) promoted this comment whothewhatnow was starred whothewhatnow was unstarred
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    09/23/09

    @whothewhatnow: Would.you.like.to.play.a.game?
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/23/09

    In reply to Remember When Getting Sexy With A Computer Was A New Concept?
    [Satire alert] Okay, the device on the left I can remember how to operate; just like riding a bicycle, one never forgets. But, we really need some help from the Valleywaggers with the box on the right. Is that some sort of CPU that used a regular TV for its video output? Or just a piece of crappity crap crap?
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    Image of howinsidious howinsidious
    09/23/09

    @The Lone Scout: Computers used to use CRT televisions for output.
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    The Lone Scout promoted this comment howinsidious was starred howinsidious was unstarred
    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/23/09

    @howinsidious: Wow, I don't remember that, but then again I didn't have an early model at home. So, you're saying that none of the components pictured above are fake?

    I do remember lugging a "portable" Compaq suitcase computer home from work once. One roundtrip on the subway with 28 pounds of metal and plastic was enough for me.
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    Edited by The Lone Scout at 09/23/09 7:09 PM The Lone Scout was starred The Lone Scout was unstarred
    Image of funzette funzette
    09/23/09

    In reply to Diablo Cody's Sweet Valley High Flick To Be Set In The '80s
    I would love, love, love it if this movie looks like a satirical take at oblivious upper middle class white privilege.

    Elizabeth: "Jessica, I'd like you to meet my new friend Lisa. She's from....Detroit".

    Jessica: "Oh hi! Elizabeth mentioned a new black girl moved in next door. Your family seems so nice, like the Cosby Show!"

    Elizabeth: "Jessica, black people are just the same as white families, and we shouldn't see color, because we're all alike".
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    LaComtesse promoted this comment Edited by funzette at 09/23/09 4:18 PM funzette was starred funzette was unstarred
    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    09/23/09

    @funzette: THIS I would be down with.
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