Here is the infamous original cover for the VCR edition of The Little Mermaid, which is famously rumored to contain a phallic symbol that was removed from later posters and DVDs.
Here's what a dollar bill used to look like.
Here's what Confederate currency looked like.
Here's what Lysol used to look like.
And here's what 7UP used to look like.
Here's what it cost to give birth in 1954 (with inflation, this would be about $830 today).
This is what Times Square looked like in 1958.
Here are the original drafts for the game Pac-Man.
Here are air hostess requirements from the 1940s.
Here's what the original toys that inspired Pooh and his friends looked like.
Here's one of the early editions of Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope, back when it wasn't part of a series and it was just called Star Wars.
Here are people lining up to see the first film.
Here's an old drug identification kit for customs officials.
Similarly, here's a doctor's medicine bag from the 1930s.
Here are the rules to writing Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts, straight from creator, Chuck Jones.
Here's what a Woodstock ticket looked like.
Here's an old ad for radium in a hair product before it was known to be unsafe...
Here's an old stain remover that literally used lighter fluid.
Finally, we'll end on two that were eerily prescient — this newspaper article from 1953...
...And this ad from 1996.
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#37 They eventually amended "Rule 4" and gave the coyote a maniacal British sounding voice calling himself, "Wile E. Coyote...Soooper Geeenius" ad nauseum.
Sure, please tell me how many seeds there are in a water melon!
Technically, all of those questions are answerable, but it takes a certain level of creative intelligence that they didn’t have. For instance, the answer to your question is correctly: “As many as that particular watermelon happens to contain.”
Soooo, I'm guessing you have one of those original KKK Memberships!
true. since now they are allowing non-citizens to vote, hold office and collect benefits. being an American citizen doesn't mean anything
What other illiterate ethnicities?
How many of these questions would you be able to answer?
But honestly
I can answer all of them correctly. All…of…them. They are mostly trick questions not meant to be taken literally.
Except, they are taken literally, that was the entire scam. One mistaken or incomplete answer and you DONT GET TO VOTE, and they didnt have cell phones or internet to look up answers. It was NOT about illiteracy, it was about making something impossible for the sake of naziesque racism.
#19 I have a reservation for a quantum computer from IBM...
#25 And, now you can buy bitcoin. LOL
#31 Back before they had to be able to wrestle with crazy people.
#33 It was always part of a series. It said "Episode IV" at the beginning of the movie. Were we supposed to assume there would never be another movie?
fun fact 1.8 million people died from a disease in 2018 and no lockdowns were done. also 100,000 people die from vaccines every single year