Another unhinged picture on my 45 y.o mom's fridge

[u/Jazzlike-Rise4091]

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[u/drfunk]

Your mom and I are the same age and apparently appreciate the same early Internet humor. Say hi to your mom for me.

[u/Jazzlike-Rise4091 → u/drfunk]

Haha I shall

[u/xXRendanXx → u/Jazzlike-Rise4091]

My mom would definitely love this. I'll have to share it. 😆

[u/Zarxon]

Never underestimate the Elder Millennial

[u/im_just_thinking → u/Zarxon]

Damn, I was like wym elder millennial at 45, but then realized that's legit..

[u/fall3nang3l → u/Zarxon]

We are the generation that bridges the gap between tech aversive boomers and tech dependent Gen Z +

Shout out to Gen X.

The Elder Millenials are the only generation that have lived in the before times and the after times. We were there for pay phones, collect calls, the birth of cell phones and the modern Internet, computer labs to computers on our phones, school lunch tickets to paying for our kids lunches on the web. Online gaming, to paying by check or money order and 6-8 weeks for delivery to ordering online and having it at your house in less than an hour.

Dialup to broadband. Nights and weekends and on-peak, off-peak hours. Collect calls to Venmo.

It's been a trip. Waiting for the blockbuster movie/best seller novel that encapsulates this epic journey of our generation.

[u/UntitledImage → u/fall3nang3l]

r/xennials … I am not a millennial thank you very much! 😅

[u/Jazzlike-Rise4091]

It's been there since at least 2008, she's literally the funniest person I know

[u/CharcoalGreyWolf → u/Jazzlike-Rise4091]

I remember working retail in the early nineties when everyone wanted the Tickle-me-Elmo at Christmas, either for somebody’s kid or to scalp them in the newspaper.

They’d walk in go “Do you have the Ti-“

“No. Nobody does.”

[u/moving0target → u/CharcoalGreyWolf]

I survived that one as well as two different Playstation wars.

[u/CharcoalGreyWolf → u/moving0target]

For me, Black & Decker Snakelight and probably a few more

[u/NetworkingForFun → u/moving0target]

For me it was KB Toys during Christmas and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

[u/flippingchicken → u/CharcoalGreyWolf]

Well, that still hasn't changed, except at this moment it's needohs/squishies.

[u/CharcoalGreyWolf → u/flippingchicken]

In retail, there’s almost always one thing for children and one thing for adults that everybody has to have for their relatives at Christmas.

In the adult case, it’s usually the gift that people buy for someone when they have no idea what to get them. In the kid world, it’s whatever every kid decides they want for Christmas as a result of peer pressure (everybody’s getting it!) Be it the original Air Jordans at $100 a pair, or a specific model of skateboard, or a Thighmaster.

[u/flippingchicken → u/CharcoalGreyWolf]

Yeah, a few years ago it was hatchimals, and before that it was probably fidget spinners or something. People always gotta have the "new thing" everyone else has. Next year it'll be something else.

[u/CharcoalGreyWolf → u/flippingchicken]

Tamagotchi to Ripstik scooters and more.

60 percent of the stuff at minimum will either be a dud or something that is popular for six months and then found in a garage sale four years later.

[u/Tonto151 → u/Jazzlike-Rise4091]

"Since at least 2008." Yeah, that tracks. This was peak comedy back then.

[u/davewave3283 → u/Jazzlike-Rise4091]

I’m a bit jealous. I love my mother but she is as funny as a damp rag.

[u/WearyAsparagus7484]

We are a fun age. Those of us that haven't lost our minds, that is

[u/osi_layer_one → u/WearyAsparagus7484]

have you checked the lost & found?

[u/moving0target → u/WearyAsparagus7484]

I'm more fun without mine...or is it my filter...?

[u/Neoxite23]

Remind me of Tickle Me Hello.

Tickle him once he laughs with glee! Tickle him twice and he vibrates as he laughs uncontrollably! Tickle him three times he starts to question the nature of the relationship!

[u/Mugwumps_has_spoken]

One of my friends got me the original Tickle me Elmo when they came out, half gag gift. It was a birthday gift - just a few months before they became "THE Christmas present of the year". I was already in college. But damn if that thing wasn't way popular among everyone in the dorm.
We all cracked up making Elmo shake with laughter. Even more so if it Alcohol was involved.

I still have Elmo, and he is still in pretty damn good condition.

[u/GrincherZ]

I remember my dad and my old step mom got us one of the tickle me Elmo’s in the 90s when they came out.

People were trampled to death buying these mfs

We got it - like 5 of us kids age 7-10 or something and all we did was punch him in the nuts to make him say “ah ha he he that tickles”

[u/Dist__]

change my pitch up

[u/XawdrenRS]

Thought this was r/bertstrips for a second.

[u/razzi123]

Dont forget, that "Tickle Me Elmos" came out of the factory tested.
with just 2 test tickles"

[u/robpaul2040]

That's still in a file on my work computer :p

[u/Debalic]

Yup, Xennials are a weird bunch. 👍🏼

[u/fripperiffic]

I still remember seeing this somewhere when it first appeared. I am 44, and this definitely brought back some great memories, thanks for sharing!

[u/SirNortonOfNoFux]

That's like the cookie monster in family guy who heats up cookie dough on a spoon lmao

[u/MutantApocalypse]

Lookup "Knee-high Park." You're welcome.

[u/cliqclaqstepback]

Your mom is my kind of people.

[u/algernonradish]

RFK Jr finna downvote that asap.

[u/Budget-Box7914]

Now she just needs Narcan Kermit on her fridge... just to be safe.

[u/NoPudding1885]

The fact that this was apparently normal advertising back then is the unhinged part. Imagine seeing this on a fridge and thinking “yep, totally appropriate for a child.”

[u/Jazzlike-Rise4091 → u/NoPudding1885]

I didn't even understand it until I was 13 so

[u/RF-Guye]

Reminds me of the rocket man out in Bend Oregon...He wanted to create a line of toys called building a brighter future. If the kid was too dumb to play with it, it killed them!

Sure, there's gonna be some accidental deads, but My hope for the greater good is all in...who'swithMe?

[u/CaptainPunisher]

I remember this.

[u/Hour_Trip_9890]

That’s weird.

[u/Patient-Telephone122]

Why do I feel sad seeing innocence ruined? Because we can’t have absolute peace on earth?

[u/pen_name1953]

West Wing fans have joined the chat.

[u/Walter_Armstrong]

The cousin of Tickle Me Emo

[u/Jazzlike-Rise4091 → u/[deleted]]

Old way of spelling it in English I suppose

[u/Jazzlike-Rise4091 → u/[deleted]]

Dude why are you asking me that. This meme predates 2001. Why would I know

[u/ubcoo-ibcoo → u/Jazzlike-Rise4091]

Sir this is Reddit. When we address op we do that. Maybe the chat should at least learn today convulses is spelled like that.

[u/Predator_ → u/Jazzlike-Rise4091]

Yet again... Rule #2: NO MEMES

[u/Jazzlike-Rise4091 → u/Predator_]

Tou must have nothing better to do. I'm done replying to you

[u/Jazzlike-Rise4091 → u/[deleted]]

She said she printed it out at the library in college

[u/kingsumo_1 → u/[deleted]]

It's an old fucking meme. One that I remember from way back when. What they hell is your hangup?

[u/kingsumo_1 → u/[deleted]]

Really? Sounds like someone needs to go touch grass, and then maybe take a nap.