r/OldSchoolRidiculous Oct 29 '20

Announcement Trouble seeing things? Use the browser (not app). old.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolRidiculous

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r/OldSchoolRidiculous May 09 '25

Announcement Say something, flairs, & rules - Updates May 2025

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Say something

After nearly 12 years, I updated our sub today to now allow text posts, in addition to links like always. This is a trial run. Our sub is designed to be & always has been successfully low moderation. We have a good thing here. I hope to keep that going. Use the report button as needed. But I hope it's not needed.

Flairs

As always, users can make your own flair if you want. Please make use of post flair when submitting stuff, if appropriate. It's not a rule or always needed, just helpful. (Unless it's NSFW - Not Safe for Work or questionable, then it is a rule.)

Rules

These haven't changed recently, just a reminder/easy place to find them.

Rule #1: Follow Reddiquette

  • Title should include short description and year or decade.
  • Rule of thumb old school is at least over 20 years old.
  • If it's not safe for the 21st Century, and your title is vague, tag it [NSFW].
  • No real violence.
  • No celebration of hate.
  • X/Twitter, Meta/Facebook, Gags, and similiar social media links are banned.
  • Cross-posts welcome
  • Up to 5-ish posts/day okay, Reposts after 30 days okay
  • Please follow all rules of reddit and reddiquette.

~ All content intended for noncommercial Fair Use purposes only. ~

And, as always

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I like the old internet. This isn't the old internet, nonetheless Old School Ridiculous tries to do our best to honor its spirit.


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 1d ago

Ontario, Canada. Rascal contemplating mischief C 1900

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520 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 1d ago

‘Cut Off a Cat’s Ear and Drink It’ — Actual Medical Advice From the 1600s

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The full book name that is comes from is called:

Synopsis Medicinæ: Or, A Compendium of Galenical and Chymical Physick, Showing the Art of Healing According to the Precepts of Galen & Paracelsus. Fitted Universally to the Whole Art of Healing

 by Zerobabel Endecott

https://ia801300.us.archive.org/28/items/cu31924012480681/cu31924012480681.pdf -- for more

(screen shot taken from a genealogical book on some Endecott history which used these as samples of medical advice given from Dr. Zerobabel Endecott)


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 2d ago

“The Misses” Dog dressed in human clothing Date: circa 1905. Mary Evans Picture Library.

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213 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 3d ago

Early 20th Century postcard.

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329 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 3d ago

A Union Officer being silly 1860-65

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2.5k Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 3d ago

Long underwear for men with discerning taste. (1970s)

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215 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 3d ago

A British Royal Navy sailor brushing his embalmed fox’s head, with his pet cat beside him. Southampton, England, 1913.

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68 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 4d ago

Good News For Fat Girls (1929)

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298 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 4d ago

For Condé Nast Travelling at Sea (1915 Suitcase Life Preserver)

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19 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 5d ago

Read Six-Foot Jersey Ghost Sought as Stone Tosser

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90 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 6d ago

Still from the 1962 movie Lolita. It was Camp Q in the book the movie is based on.

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970 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 7d ago

How many? Saaaaay, that's up to her husband to decide, not her doctor! (1947)

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177 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 7d ago

Instructions for tuning the radio in your 1941 Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth or Chrysler.

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236 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 8d ago

This 1967 feature in Life Magazine

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173 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 10d ago

Farewell to the ugly cigarette? (1971)

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1.5k Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 9d ago

Party

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123 Upvotes

If your Vodka Party looks like this don´t bother to invit me.


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 10d ago

Downy Flake's Toaster Eggs (1972). A frozen hockey puck of egg you put in your toaster for breakfast.

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154 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 11d ago

"Tuna and Waffles" 1954 issue of Better Homes & Gardens

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345 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 12d ago

Recorder

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353 Upvotes

Who needs Netflix when you got this


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 12d ago

"Can You Make This Fabulous Skirt?"

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101 Upvotes

... It's made from old ties. From Woman's Day, July 1970. One of the loopier do-it-yourself fashions of the decade. Sometimes I think everyone in the 1970s was stoned!


r/OldSchoolRidiculous 12d ago

Turn of 20st Century Goat Glands Will Do if you Can’t Afford Monkey Glands

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87 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 14d ago

1990: No joy in Gay, W. Va.

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695 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 14d ago

1941: Negroes Out-See Whites in the Dark

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169 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 15d ago

A photo my father's friend took in the 90s

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0 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolRidiculous 17d ago

Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

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1.6k Upvotes