148 best u/wishingwellington images on Pholder | Old School Cool, Aww and Gen X

I have wondered frequently as an adult how this series became near required reading for 5th graders

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Christmas 1981 - I had been begging for an Atari for months but was sure my mum couldn’t afford it. Was I ever surprised!

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Outside Dave's Art Pawn Shop in Dallas, TX, prepared to go in and videotape my then boyfriend's band with my GIANT camcorder. As you did in the summer of 1991.

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My daughter decided to give Captain Beans some catnip. She forgot to put the bag away. I came home to this.

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Miami 1982: My grandfather thought this was a hilarious response to mother’s questions about how well I was being supervised by my grandparents over the summer. My mother was not amused.

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Well, we know this one isn't an American model. Must be from one of those socialism countries.

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San Francisco 1973: This was taken shortly before my mother kicked my father out due to a severe drug problem & is the last picture of him in the album. For many years afterward, I had the idea that we had left him out in this field.

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The government surveillance drones would be more realistic if they weren't all named Matthew*

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Teach your children well...

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[OC] It’s a trap, I know it’s a trap but I can’t resist Lieutenant Jan’s fluffy tum tum

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[OC] Y’all I’m worried my new rescue hound, Sir Bing Bong Bellamy, is having a hard time settling in. What could I do to help him feel more at home? 😂

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Portrait of my mom & I from Sears in California, 1975. As the only child of a single mother, my world unexpectedly changed forever 22 years ago today. If you're an adult lucky enough to have a loving mother who is still with you, tell her how much you appreciate her.

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After Janine left, Paul realized he’d been overweight & unhappy for a long time, he needed to make a change. Everyone laughed when he first started running but with a few months, his buff new body started really turning the chicks’ heads.

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Lieutenant Jan Taylor has some cute white peanuts to make your Monday brighter

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After Josh left, all Emmy's friends told her to find happiness in things she did when she was young. So even though she couldn't fit into her fishnets and corset anymore, she did her make-up like she used to, put on her black boots and strode confidently into the basement goth club, ready to dance.

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Poor Bing Bong. 5 hours since breakfast, 5 hours until dinner.

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Cookie love watermelon. She monch.

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Redwood City 1978: My mom and I at a costume party for my 7th birthday. I have been looking for this picture for a few years, I'm so happy I found it - figured I'd share!

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TGIP: Thank Gato its Peanuts! Happy Friday from Captain Beans 🫘

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Suddenly single after Lenora left him for the pool’s chlorine distributor duck, Marshall stands nervously at the door of his pretty young Birdr date. He’s heard millennials hate doorbells. Should he knock? Text her? He could ask one of his kids, but that might be awkward.

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Miami 1978: My mother and I were visiting her parents in Florida when we drove past a waterslide that had recently opened. We had never seen one before, so my grandpa treated us to a visit the next day. He snapped this picture on our first run down, and it still makes me smile.

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Captain Beans improves the view with fabulous fireworks

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Cookie has been following me around huffing & whining for pets all morning, the lomggørl equivalent of “mommy mommy mom mommy mommy mommmmm mommmyyyyy mom mom mommy”

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Cookie is the big spoon, Binky Shortbread is the little one

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This is Rabbit. She just got her purrever home today, adopted from the incredible Naughty Cat Cafe in Chattanooga Tennessee 💕Look at her magnificent celebratory display!

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I can quit anytime! Eugene had shouted as Stacey left with the chicks, I don't need alcohol, I'll show you! but when she stepped outside of her new apartment to go to work, Stacey saw that nothing had changed.

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Monday morning fireworks from Captain Beans

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Captain Beans hopes everyone has a wonderful whisker-full Wednesday

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Captain Beans has the most irresistible little smudgy face, I just love her so much 💕

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Morning fireworks from lovely lady Captain Beans

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Snooty girl in her jim-jams

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[OC] Sarge is anxious in the vet’s waiting room. He remembers this is where the pokey things are 💉

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Meet Cookie. Today is Cookie's 5th birthday. She is retired from racing and living her best life. Please say happy birthday to my sweet lomgzoomygørl.

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Data Entry cat Captain Beans was told that she could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from 9-11, if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she’s filing then Beans should be able to listen to the radio while she’s collating.

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37 years later it’s my birthday again & I am in a *MOOD* - Please send relevant memes & cute pets 💕

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Captain Beans is absolutely done with your nonsense, Monday. You’ve been warned!

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Captain Beans does not understand why I would go on vacation when everything I could ever need is right here. She humbly requests that I do not do it again.

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🎼I got up to wash my face, when I come back to bed, Bing Bong’s taken my place 🎶

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Captain Beans says I'm here. I brought fireworks. What more do you want? It's Monday.

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Captain Beans would like to offer a hump day high 5 to all you super cool cats out in redditland

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Captain Beans says “let’s roll that beautiful beans footage” with some peanuts thrown in the mix!

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Darren couldn't believe it, she'd changed the locks. He stared glumly at his clothes, vintage vinyl records and golf clubs on the lawn. She'd really meant what she said this time. He should have never flirted with his new secretary bird. Sighing, he looked up the number of a sharp divorce attorney.

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This is what I see when I open my eyes in the morning; BING BONG!

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Captain Beans would like to remind you all that reading is fundamental 📚

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It’s Cookie the retired racer’s birthday. Cookie is living her best life.

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Got a Swiss Colony catalog in the mail today, brought back memories!

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[OC] Sarge hopes you will be his valentine 💕

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Lieutenant Jan Taylor living the life...she sends you all caviar fishes and peanutty dreams

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Double Decker Piebald Caturday with Lieutenant Jan Taylor & Captain Beans

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Captain Beans says she would like to ensure you have sufficient cattutude in your life today

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Oregon 1972: One of the very few pictures of me with both my parents. They were hippies of the “drop out” variety, we lived off the grid in a cabin the woods.

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Which one of y'all are responsible for this?

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1963: My mother age 18, with her dog Heidi

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[oc] If you’ve had a rough week, Sarge would like to offer you a cold nose and a warm heart ❤️

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Just found this picture of me from college in Virginia 1992. I was on my bed lighting a cigarette, when a friend grabbed my camera, told me to sit up & turn to my right. It wasn’t until I developed & printed them that I saw what she did!

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Spare a thought for poor longgirl Cookie & her sister Bimky Shortbread who were tricked by the seemingly nice vet, she did them a poking for vaccinations. Send chimkn pleez.

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I really loathe Angela but I have to give her credit. Unlike Deavan & Robert, she doesn't think children should be sharing a bed with an adult stranger. +1 for Angela.

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Just say, 'I''m a grown-up. I can...I can manly do things.' Little Leo, smarter than any of the adults in his life. Totally broke my heart tonight. All 3 boys deserve better.

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After a catastrophic tryout, Captain Beans is excited she still got a gig as the new lead singer of Purrvana

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North Bend WA 1996: Me with the mural behind the Mar-T Cafe which was the Double R Diner in Twin Peaks. And yes, I did have cherry pie and two cups of hot black coffee because I'm a nerd like that.

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Cal regretted his fight with Doris over her hunky executive assistant, but she had blocked him on her phone so he was reduced waiting outside her office building each day, hoping to convince her to come back.

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In an effort to stop Ted leaving, Kelli quoted her favorite movie “The endangered thing isn’t really real, you know.“ she sobbed “Don’t forget I’m also just a girl. Standing in front of a boy. Asking him to love her.”

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Charlotte + Liz = 😍

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Binky Shortbread may be hogging the bed, but Cookie stole her blanket!

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Captain Beans: She is style, she is grace, she have blotchy on her face

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Is it just me, or do Tom & Florian seem to like each other more than they like Stacey & Darcey? I don't mean in a romantic way, it just seems like they are always enjoying themselves when talking to each other, where they both seem somewhat pained/annoyed when talking to their girlfriends.

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Blotch is beautiful, with love from Captain Beans

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Captain Beans would like to speak to the manager about the needless focus on work when there is a lovely kitty who needs scritches

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The real Bing Bong wishes you all a relaxing and lazy Sunday like his 💕

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No matter how terrible my day is going, I still feel a spark of joy when I see the new and unwatched flags on a 90DF show

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Cookie & Binky Shortbread promise they were absolutely innocent of all wrongdoing in the matter of the missing lunch meats.

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One year ago today, we adopted Lieutenant Jan Taylor, US Space Force aka Interplanet Janet & our lives have been happier & floofier ever since 😻

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In 1995, a group of Usenet nin fans met in Cleveland, did this, and there was no panorama mode.

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Sarge would like anyone who is having a rough time to know that he thinks you’re great.

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Look at Bing Bong’s cute Christmas portrait from day camp! ❤️💚

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Northern California 1981: You know it's old school when three wheel ATVs were still legal and kids wore headgear every day. Shortly before I fell off and the three wheeler drove over my leg. Good times!

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These new Beavis & Butthead episodes are pure gold

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Hello from NW Florida where the numbers are climbing but it's still all a Dem Hoax! MAGA y'all!

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Who didn't love Little Golden Books as a child?

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I interrupted an important strategy meeting between Lieutenant Jan Taylor & Captain Beans

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Captain Beans would like you to know this Verizon box fits and so she sits 🐈

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Bing Bong would like to say he has NOT GUILTY of going in the trash can, he has no idea why he is being accused & feel he is being unfairly targeted

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San Francisco 1973: My grandfather took this photo of me & my mother on a visit from Miami. He loved it so much it hung on the wall of his house for the next 40 years.

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San Francisco 1975: Mom & I lived in an old victorian made into a triplex. Two men recently arrived from Vietnam lived there too. They were so happy to be in America, they had parties all the time, just invited anyone they met on the street. The only picture I have, not great, but it makes me smile!

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Oregon 1969: My mother embraced the drop out kind of hippie culture, she and her college friend set out hitchhiking from Chicago to San Francisco in 1968 but ended up on a commune in Oregon instead. She's in the front with the purple tights, the others are fellow commune residents.

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Thanks for the hospitality Detroit, but you've been...

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Bing Bong has finally learned “sit”! What a good boy he is.

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Lake Tahoe 1979: On the chair lift with my mom during my first ski trip

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San Francisco 1972: My hippie parents dressed up in their nicest duds so they wouldn't shock my grandparents' sensibilities when they came out from Miami to meet me

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What‘a the first brand name sneaker that you managed to convince your parents to buy you? Mine were:

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Sarge wants to be sure I think he is the best good boy. I do.

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Bing Bong is my Co-Pilot

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I'm at my desk working and look up to see Bing Bong outside like this! Must be nice! Also, do y'all's coonhounds dislike getting wet? He hates rain, being misted with the hose, and won't go in the pools at day camp. Is it a breed thing or just him?

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After 6 years without a kitty in the house, I am happy to introduce our purr-fect new family member, Lieutenant Janet Taylor, US Space Force (aka Lt. Jan or Interplanet Janet)

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1975 family portrait ft. Raggedy Ann taken at Kmart portrait studio. Definitely old school, but not necessarily cool

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Since y'all liked my human nin logo, here's the whole Nincon 95 a.m.nin group shot

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NYC 1966: This was one of my late mother's favorite photos of herself, taken before she got involved in the counterculture and ended up dropping out of mainstream society. By 1969 she was living on a commune in the woods of Oregon.

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Lil bullfrog hanging out by my car tonight 💚

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From Her to Eternity

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Wears a mask ... then hugs a total stranger without it.

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At first I was so worried Captain Beans & Lieutenant Jan Taylor wouldn’t learn to get along, but now they’re besties 💕

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Miami December 1964: My mom at age 19. Not sure if the car is her parents' or her friend Jim's. I know there are lot of super savvy car folks here, can anyone tell the make and model of this vehicle from the front end?

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N. California 1980: We stress and obsess about big choices in life, but often it's the little choices you don't think twice about that change everything. My decision to have a horseback riding party for my 10th birthday changed the entire trajectory of my mom's and my life.

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1953: grandfathers 2nd wedding. My “real” grandma was a stunner, but had a lot of mental probs. So for his second wife, he chose a “plain Jane” (her words) who would always be there & truly love him. She did! They were together through thick & thin for over 60 years.

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Duranies: Did you travel in packs of 4-5? Which friend were you?

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Seattle 1997: Anyone remember Happy Puppy Games? At the time they were the largest gaming site on the internet. When I worked there as a designer, we made these promotional postcards of the bosses for some reason.

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Beavis & Butthead Do the Universe: Anyone watched it yet? My teenager and I are fixing to hit play!

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