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Today — February 19, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1918.  
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea1986.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Humpty Dumpty will be repaired with chewing gum.  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northern Illinois State Teachers College's 1922 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Virginia Commonwealth University's 1973 yearbook.


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Old News (permalink)
"Women are sissies too!"  From B.A.R., 1986.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1909 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bigfoot: "I receive your thoughts perfectly, but I'm not getting through to you!"
Man: "Even if I could read your mind, I wouldn't try."
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1960.  It actually exists: the Bigfoot Bible.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1973 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
Spoiler: it was bumble bees and rattlesnakes that soiled the nudists' clambake.  "Nudist colony gets scare."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I want an answer — I want a question — I want peace — inside."  From State University of New York College at Oneonta's 1971 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877). 
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of the Holy Cross' 1910 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mort(e) by Robert Repino.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg University's 1946 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"The little bag of happiness.  Have you got yours?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1912 yearbook.
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