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If you ever get tired of dating apps, there's another option. (media.piefed.world)

submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/justpost@lemmy.world

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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