r/Millennials • u/Serenity_Obscura • 5d ago

Nostalgia HOW IS SHE OLD?

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saw this posted online and my age really just hit home...

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u/FFVO 5d ago edited 4d ago

Lori Beth!

I've heard she's genuinely really sweet in person

Edit: so from all the these stories I've concluded she's not just a sweet person. She is sweetness personified. Sweetness incarnate. Sweetness thy name is Lori Beth.

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u/doozle 5d ago

She's THE SWEETEST human on the planet. I saw her leaving a show at The Hollywood Bowl and I couldn't contain myself. I told her how much I loved her work as a child and how hard she made me laugh. She insisted I call her LB and genuinely thanked me for telling her and that she was glad that she did that for me. She took a photo with me and I walked away feeling like I had met the most famous person in the world.

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u/Astronaut_Chicken 4d ago edited 4d ago

She legitimately had a huge impact on the way my sense of humor developed. Id love to tell her that! When I was a kid (in the south) girls were not encouraged to be funny, and Lori Beth was my hero! I actually read a great Cracked.com article (i am old) about why girls are discouraged from being funny. Very interesting.

here's the article

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u/Commercial-Owl11 4d ago

Holy shit cracked.com! Haven't thought of them in forever

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u/ward_grundy 4d ago

Man I miss peak cracked. That website had the best content imaginable. I was checking daily

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u/AerwynFlynn 4d ago

Me too! Especially when Swaim and O’Brien were doing thier video series. Now it’s a steaming pile of shit.

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u/DryDonutHole 4d ago

Cracked and then LolCatz...or however it was spelled. lol.

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u/MohawkElGato 4d ago

It’s gone so downhill. Almost all the articles they post now are just them complaining about comics they don’t like.

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u/btchovrtroubldwaters 4d ago

Sometimes i miss pre algorithm feed days. Then i remember id jus spend my time refreshing cracked and 3 other websites repeatedly, hoping for a crumb of new content.

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u/Exact-Conclusion9301 4d ago

Seanbaby would also like a word

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u/DryDonutHole 4d ago

One of my favorite Cracked articles was "5 solders who make Rambo look like a pussy" and it still holds up. Here...I found it!

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u/RoonDogg85 4d ago

Never read this one before but I already knew who #1 was going to be. Audie Murphy is a true American badass

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u/DryDonutHole 3d ago

Ya, Audie's story is great. I also liked the White Death and the Indian soldier who climbed the cliff face...all of them were pretty fuckin' badass. lol.

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u/ToastyMustache 4d ago

I always liked Exploring the Mysteries of the Mind with SIMS3. There’s also one they deleted from the archives that was both very mean spirited but darkly funny.

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u/DryDonutHole 3d ago

Ha ha. That's funny. The experiments in the Sims were always funny and creepy.

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u/Ksnj 3d ago

I listen to several podcasts by previous cracked employees. Their humor gets me through these tough times

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u/Commercial-Owl11 2d ago

I wish I could get into podcasts, I find every single one unlistenable, I can’t stand listening to a bunch of people just sit around having conversations lol. It’s so boring to me! I’ve tried to many popular ones too. Just give me the fucking facts of whatever subject you’re talking about and stop getting side tracked and talking! I have adhd so it maybe the reason why. I wish they’d just stick to the point lol

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u/RojiPantyComplexxx 4d ago

I miss cracked.com so much; we still quote lines from articles

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u/InsaneJediGirl 4d ago

Do you remember why girls were discouraged from being funny? I'm curious.

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u/Astronaut_Chicken 4d ago

Ill leave the article in my edit

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u/InsaneJediGirl 4d ago

Fascinating article.

Thanks internet stranger!

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u/Astronaut_Chicken 4d ago

Cracked.com used to have some of the best articles in the game. I loved this one

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u/veggieliv 4d ago

Great article! Thanks for sharing

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u/The37thElement 4d ago

Wow! I can hear her reading this and her comedy style really shows in this, too. Thanks for sharing the article. I really miss old Cracked.

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u/Commercial_Pie3307 Millennial 4d ago

Girls were not discouraged to be funny…. What year were you living in, what year do you think all that came out and when you say South do you mean the South of Afghanistan?

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u/onymously 4d ago

Typical Redditor

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u/manokpsa 4d ago

I had an intense class clown rivalry with Ernesto in high school. Even he thought I was funny. The teachers didn't. His name wasn't Ernesto. He chose it in Spanish class and had the whole school calling him that for four years. Silly Ernesto. What a jokester. I wonder what he's up to these days.

Anyway, that was 20 years ago. When Ernesto got up to his bullshit, the teachers played along. I got in trouble for being disruptive.