2021-07-01 // day precision
Forgetting option notices becomes a Rorschach test
Posted by Dan Cary
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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:
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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
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Topics: Early Years, July 2021, option years, self-deprecation, community response, dark humor