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2021-07-01 // day precision

Forgetting option notices becomes a Rorschach test

Posted by Dan Cary

Original source text

Two-panel meme: a person holding wine and a cigarette says it does not affect the baby; twenty-eight years later an office worker asks why they cannot remember option-year notices.
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Editorial interpretation

A deliberately crude prenatal-exposure gag is used to explain forgotten option-year notices. Members respond with self-deprecating jokes, and the founder calls memes a Rorschach test. The archive preserves that rhetoric as cultural evidence; it does not infer anyone’s medical history from the joke. SOURCE DISCUSSION — transcribed original comments 2021-07-01 — Alyson Savage: [Reaction-only comment; animation not preserved.] [Reaction GIF not preserved as animation.] 2021-07-01 — Dan Cary — reply in Alyson Savage’s thread: Alyson Savage memes are sometimes a Rorschach Test, aren’t they? 2021-07-01 — Alyson Savage — reply in Alyson Savage’s thread: Dan Cary definitely. This one made me laugh so hard I cried. Living for this page since I found it. 2021-07-01 — Katie McConnell: My kids probably won’t get into contracting… 😂 2021-07-01 — Jenny Harris: Damn. I wonder if that’s why I don’t remember shit. I’ll have to ask my mom. Lmao. 2021-07-01 — Dan Cary — reply in Jenny Harris’s thread: Jenny Harris it would explain a lot about me… 2021-07-01 — Dan Cary — reply in Katie McConnell’s thread: Katie McConnell I made it… just saying 2021-07-01 — Jenny Harris — reply in Jenny Harris’s thread: Dan Cary -I asked my mom; she said no. Lol Coverage: Eight displayed comment records retained; one Tenor reaction has no authored text and its animation bytes are not preserved. Thread-root links are retained without guessing immediate parents. Thread grouping follows source thread-root links; unknown immediate reply parents are not inferred. Dates preserve the displayed day, with timezone unknown. The heading, alt text and opening historical explanation are AI-assisted editorial interpretation. The original caption, preserved image renditions and transcribed discussion are source material. Public images are metadata-stripped display derivatives of Facebook-served files; the original upload files and edit history were not established.

Topics: Early Years, July 2021, option years, self-deprecation, community response, dark humor