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TGIFfunnies 11/21/25 EDITION: Random Thoughts

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 1 day, 2 hours ago to Entertainment
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More like satire rather than humor but it's entertaining anyway . . .
Just making use of all the Human memenome's in the entire meme pool .

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  • Posted by $ allosaur 21 hours, 49 minutes ago
    How to be a right-wing extremist in 2025 reminds me of hearing Charlie Kirk recommend that young in their twenties should all get married and start families. Hating jackasses with KDS lividly disagree.
    I can also recall having a fully functioning kid's Kodak when I guess I was in the Sixth Grade. Took black and white photos of government buildings during a school bus trip to Montgomery, Alabama's capital.
    Me dino loved to play dodgeball during the Fifties. Schools in Alabama provided white dodgeballs back then.
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    • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 21 hours, 35 minutes ago
      I had the Kodak that printed the photos. You had to wait some amount of time then peal a backing off to reveal your photo.

      PS. I just thought, maybe I should have Named this bunch: Random 'Memories', instead of "Thoughts".
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      • Posted by 73SHARK 15 hours, 34 minutes ago
        All I had was a tiny Brownie. I didn't know that Kodak made an instant camera like a Polaroid.
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        • Posted by mccannon01 10 hours, 34 minutes ago
          Yes, Kodak made an instant camera like Polaroid for a couple of years and were sued by Polaroid for it. Kodak had to cease production and pay Polaroid $800 million. When Polaroid started, Kodak made the film with the understanding Kodak would always make the film. When Polaroid fired up its own film plant, then Kodak responded with an instant camera of its own. Neither company won in the end.
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          • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 10 hours, 30 minutes ago
            Another Moment in History!
            Thanks Craig
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            • Posted by mccannon01 7 hours, 33 minutes ago
              I was working for Kodak in Rochester, NY when all this went down. I worked with process systems that made parts for the cameras and chemicals for the film. The coolest feature was the pictures were self developing before your eyes. You could watch the image come to clarity over a few minutes. Once in a while I see one of these cameras show up in an antique shop or second hand store. I would say unopened film packs are extremely rare by now.
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          • Posted by Steven-Wells 3 hours, 28 minutes ago
            I had one of the Kodak instant cameras. I made a side-by-side comparison at a camera show with the Polaroid version, I thought the Kodak version produced more appealing color pictures.
            After the lawsuit was settled, Kodak offered some money for turning in some specific part from the camera. So, I got some money back.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 11 hours, 47 minutes ago
        Me dino can't remember if my Kodak printed photos. If it did I forgot.
        That was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
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        • Posted by JakeOrilley 8 hours, 14 minutes ago
          Mine never did - had the basic, then mail in the film and wait a couple of weeks to see how well the picks turned out../....
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          • Posted by $ allosaur 2 hours, 29 minutes ago
            What you just described has a far, far away been there done that "feel" to it.
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            • Posted by JakeOrilley 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
              Yeah - I used to take pictures of stuff that I wanted to be able to look back on and enjoy. Did not ever try to get a candid shot, just wanted to remind myself that at "that" particular point in my life I was able to enjoy being wherever I was at the time. I have snaps from my '72 trip to Italy, a place that I thought that I would never get to go to - went with the Latin Club I joined when I was taking Latin in HS. Those picks mean more to me, and bring back more memories, than the digital pics I have from Italy in 2016. Funny what brings back good memories, and what is just kinda - yeah, that was fun...
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      • Posted by Steven-Wells 3 hours, 24 minutes ago
        Polaroid made the cameras for which you peeled off the back of the film (and coated the black and white pictures.) Kodak did not have a peel-off version. After Polaroid invented their color instant camera with its chemistry fully contained in the permanent picture, Kodak developed a version. Others within this thread have commented on details.
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    • Posted by Steven-Wells 3 hours, 20 minutes ago
      I recently started reading a classic book and discovered just how old Kodak cameras were.

      "It looks like part of a keep, and is close to an old chapel or church. I could not enter it, as I had not the key of the door leading to it from the house, but I have taken with my kodak views of it from various points."
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      Jonathan Harker’s Journal
      Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 2 hours, 14 minutes ago
        Me dino was quite young when I read Dracula. Don't recall the Kodak but I was impressed by how well it was written. I was already weaned on classic horror movies.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 10 hours, 42 minutes ago
    Holy smokes, OUC! A walk through great memories AND memes of truth! Watch out for the slivers on the teeter-tauter and the burning hot sheet metal slide, Ha ha. Yep, the dodge ball days were great. Brainwashing complete, but can be avoided by home schooling or going into the trades instead of college. No matter what the kids do today they will never be as cool as grandma! Thanks for the great Friday set, OUC!
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  • Posted by JakeOrilley 11 hours, 43 minutes ago
    Hey OGC loved the random thoughts -
    You know the brainwashing is working...
    The Spanish translation was enlightening...
    And EVERYONE should have a chance at dodgeball...
    And many weeks go by between me still taking pictures...
    And the lobster in the tank.

    Thanks for the great collection!!
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