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Unknown pic posted by random unknown internet person.

Still, though. Mood, amirite.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dude looks in his 60s but likely those are his kids and he had a rough first 40 years...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

He probably is 40 and smoked 35 of those years

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can narrow it down to the 1970s in California.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Possibly. I was going by the California plates on two of the cars but that doesn’t really mean anything.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Based on the flashy style lights around the sign, I'd guess Las Vegas. Super close to California, so that would explain the license plates.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All Holiday Inn signs looked like that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Super iconic at the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

But zooming in on the texture of some background buildings, I'd bring it back to L.A.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

70s CA or NV would be my guess as well. Love the aesthetic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That guy looks like he knows how to get rid of a body.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's Paulie, his first cousin Sal owns a meat-packing business.
"LPT for ya, Paulie: steer clear of the capicola until further notice, capisce?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, that's Bill Smitherson, long-time Ohioan and car parts manufacturer who moved to Arizona after he took early retirement to work in film production.

He was Paulie, but only up until last week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Never mind the deep New Jersey accent.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

to the tune of Holiday Road

🎵Holiday I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-inn🎵

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah yes... the good ol' days!
Exactly like the type of picture that would have been part of an Internet K-hole massive photo-dump a couple of decades ago.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This has me imagining an entire movie where you take Escape from Witch mountain, but make the bald butler dude actually an enforcer with the Italian mob helping the kids escape the CIA that wants to turn them into magical assassins.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Played by Joe Pesci

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Holy crap. The boy on the left could have been me. Check out the huge collar and bell bottoms.

The girl on the right could have been my brother. :D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Those bell bottoms are epic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Is that Marlon Brando?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Ffffound.com is gone too.

Edit: I know your comment had nothing to do with him, but now I’m reminiscing about the digital artworks of Yugo Nakamura (yugop.com, or https://tha.jp/ if anyone is interested).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

i can't load the site now but i remember yugop. It was unlike anything else on the web.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Would you say that kid's wearing an Op or a Lightning Bolt shirt?
I'm going with Lightning Bolt, because I don't remember such huge collar on Op shirts. Of course, my memory could be glitching.

Remember how Op shirts were everywhere? Conversely, Lightning Bolt shirts were harder to come by, therefore cooler.
Meanwhile, with pants it was the opposite. Lightning Bolt was everywhere, Op was scarcer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This goes HARD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Looks like the man's pockets are made specifically for grabbing the dick. Not on the sides. Right in front.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Las Vegas innit?