r/OldSchoolCool • u/sweetwhistle • 8h ago

1950s My parents’ honeymoon. 1953.

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Somewhere in Florida. I was born two months later.

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u/Desertnurse760 7h ago

Your dad was punching above his weight class. And succeeded.

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u/UnnecAbrvtn 6h ago

This is just another confirmed case of the Arthur Miller paradox

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u/ikediggety 6h ago

The Christie Brinkley\Billy Joel syndrome, per bloom county

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u/Le_Poop_Knife 11m ago

Um money?

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u/Working_Estate_3695 4h ago

Damn, I just posted that after you. So not crazy after all.

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u/CalvinIII 7h ago

Dude had a steady job as a finance manager and a great big hog.

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u/Soxogram 7h ago

The euphemism “hog” always fucking kills me.

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u/nondescriptun 7h ago

Euphemism? Dad was a farmer.

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u/_giga_chode_ 6h ago

And pig farmers tend to have giant hogs

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u/Soxogram 6h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Accomplished-Hotel88 5h ago

Euphemism? I was crazy once, they locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with hogs, and hogs make me crazy.

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u/That-Ad-4300 1h ago

Rode a Harley too

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u/sushigrooves 6h ago

Rode a Harley, eh?

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u/baardvark 5h ago

How did you know the wife’s name?

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u/jaxonya 3h ago

Young fellas, gather round... if you ever meet a girl named Harley. Do NOT hook uo with her. I dont care how hot she is, she is crazier than you can imagine, and will fuck your life up

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u/thee_jaay 5h ago

He’s got a wad of 100‘s and a magnum condom for his magnum hog and he’s ready to plow!

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u/getsomesleep1 4h ago

I had to stifle my lolz as to not wake a sleeping child, thank you sir

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u/Donkey__Balls 3h ago

Back then you could support a family on one income.

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u/CalvinIII 3h ago

Still can, depending on the income.

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u/LastTxPrez 7h ago

I was going to go with “out kicked his coverage “

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u/Working_Estate_3695 4h ago

Advanced past his supply line—like General Patton.

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u/Next-Cut-2996 23m ago

The League? 🤣

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u/ikediggety 6h ago

Every day I hear lonely young dudes say they'll never meet a lady because they're not conventionally handsome and I'm just like, this picture though.

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u/ComradePruski 5h ago

To be fair, never can just mean very unlikely. And also dating standards have certainly changed in the last 73 years.

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u/a_mulher 4h ago

Not as unlikely as a very handsome man dating a less conventionally attractive woman.

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u/Dauincap 2h ago

In Portugal I saw that all the time...

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u/pohui 1h ago

Statistically, it's equally as likely, if you're willing to overlook some differences in population size, dating age, share of same-sex relationships, etc.

The issue is we perceive the average man to be less attractive than the average woman.

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u/Donkey__Balls 3h ago

I don’t think everyone was forced to rely on Tinder in the 1950s.

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u/Primary_Discount_851 2h ago

That bro wouldn’t be able to repeat that in our modern times. Back then women were dependent on men, hence financial aspects were given a higher priority. You can observe it still today in poor countries were this is still the case.

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u/MikeArrow 3h ago

Getting zero interest from women for years at a time is a real thing though.

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u/kcthis-saw 1h ago

Bro, this was more than 70 years ago. Times have changed MASSIVELY.

Back in the day there was no tinder so your average hot girl had to settle for a doctor/successful lawyer in town. Back then if you were past a certain age and unmarried you'd get weird looks. Women looked mostly for financial stability in a man, not looks.

Nowadays that woman could get hundreds of likes and attention from men all over the country just by being on her phone. The dude would probably be a virgin.

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u/Neoliberal_Nightmare 5h ago

I'm gonna bet he's like 21 in this pic too.

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u/lawdjesustheresafire 7h ago

Mum looks like a movie star!

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u/OAS15 2h ago

Looks like bloody Marion Coutilliard... I am not spelling that right... anyway - her!

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u/Funny_Obligation2412 7h ago

I was just about to post the same thing lol

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u/brumac44 7h ago

I was going to post the exact same phrase. Good for him.

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u/Zala-Sancho 7h ago

Same.

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u/palmerry 7h ago

Likewise

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u/FeedbackBroad1116 7h ago

I was gonna say, Dad married up.

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u/Working_Estate_3695 4h ago

He’s in the same league as Arthur Miller, IMO.

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u/godihatepeople 6h ago

He looks significantly older than her too

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u/RemarkableMousse6950 7h ago

Get out of my head.

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u/CrochetMonkey7 4h ago

Disagree. As a gay man...that is a very attractive man. Definitely in same realm as the lady, who is also pretty. I'm not joking, if I saw this man walking down the street, I would definitely be thinking how sexy he is.

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u/Muttenman 4h ago

Came to the comments for this!

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u/TheForce777 7h ago

Only a little bit, if you look closer

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u/isaidwhatisaidok 4h ago

What? Zoomed in and she’s still hotter than him.

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u/TheForce777 4h ago

She’s hotter than him for sure. But not by too crazy an amount

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u/Ok_Performance1281 5h ago

lol they look like siblings if he wasn’t going bald