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The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to Just Post@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

If you ever get tired of dating apps, there's another option.

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If you ever get tired of dating apps, there's another option.

The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to Just Post@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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  • Zephorah
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    2 months ago

    I wonder if this worked for her. Surely there’s a record somewhere.

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      Likely if you care to search local archives that are probably not online.

      There are plenty of people who did find someone via newspaper ads. Though I don’t think it was ever common.

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        I just want the drama, not to do the work to find it.

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      According to a comment by editorgrrl in this r/TheWayWeWere reddit post, it is a joke.

      Life magazine (sometimes called “old Life”) was a parody published by graduates of the Harvard Lampoon.

      [The] image is one of ten fake personal ads from volume 27, number 679. Transcription of the two which appear on page 121 at the link…

      https://archive.org/details/life2728mitc/page/n9/mode/1up

      Another version they gave:

      https://archive.org/embed/life2728mitc

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