People Share Memorable Stories From Y2K

If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember the hysteria that surrounded the events leading up to Y2K.

It’s been 20 long years, but back then, some people were convinced that once the calendar flipped over to 2000, everything would go haywire: Planes would start falling out of the sky, our systems would crash, currencies would be wiped out, etc.

I was in the middle of nowhere in Colorado that night (and I didn’t have a cell phone), so I knew that if the sh*t hit the fan, I’d probably be just fine.

In the end, we didn’t have anything to worry about, but you know how people get when they start to lose their minds.

AskReddit users shared their stories from that memorable evening.

1. That’s kinda weird.

“I was managing the IT department in a state agency, and were under enormous pressure to prevent any Y2K problems. On NY day I went to work before dawn and tested everything before the Exec Director arrived. Relieved that everything was working ok, we went to IHOP For a celebratory breakfast. The IHOP bill was date/timed stamped 32Dec1999.”

2. Keep on living.

“My favorite thing was cemetery headstones that were not Y2K compliant. People had headstones made before they died with the 19 pre-engraved, planning on filling in the next two digits when the time came. Oops, they kept living.”

3. Joke’s on you!

“I lived overseas and was watching the news with family and friends on the armed forces network, the newscast did the countdown and then at 1 they cut the feed and it went to static. There were several gasps and then about five seconds later the feed came back and the newscast shouted “Just kidding! Happy New Year!”

I thought it was pretty clever.”

4. Oh, mom…

“My mother was one of those folks that was convinced that everything was going to implode for Y2K. She thought that it would be like a post apocalyptic nightmare – no food at the stores, banks shut down, people rioting – the whole nine yards.

She desperately tried to convince me, my two brothers, and all of our families to come to her place in the country and bunker down for the duration. Of course, none of us were going for that but we did keep in touch so that she didn’t worry too much.

I will never forget the phone call where she explained that she had stock piled canned goods, bought a generator, and bought a MILK COW. The cow was so that the kids would have milk since there obviously wouldn’t be any at the store after all commerce broke down.

Shm. Her heart was in the right place but really mom?!? A milk cow?? None of the kids were even babies that would need milk.

She ended up selling the cow shortly after nothing happened. We still laugh about the Y2K milk cow.”

5. Working overtime.

“My dad was a systems analyst, working for what was then a major UK high street retailer based in Liverpool, who had their own in house Epos system that my dad worked on.

His department learned of the y2k issue at a conference in 94 or 95, and had the system 90% compliant by 1998 but the management were very cautious. Everything was tested and retested and dad was on call throughout December 99, with incredibly generous rates.

The office was at the Albert Dock, and dad was called in new years eve as a precaution, so we got to watch the fireworks over the Mersey from the top floor where dad’s office was. Dad reckons the extra pay (after tax) amounted to about six weeks pay.”

6. A lot of time went into that.

“I worked in IT at one of the Dow Industrial companies’ headquarters, and I spent a high percentage of 1999 doing “Y2K tests” on every single computer, server, printer, fax machine and, I’m pretty sure, coffee maker.

No problems, and no signs of problems. That year was a waste of my life.”

7. This is amazing.

“In October, my dad finished off the spam he purchased for Y2K. He bought 12 cases of it because it was super cheap leading up to y2k and he just really enjoys spam. I am honestly impressed at the dedication of someone to eat 288 cans of spam over 20 years.”

8. Out in the country.

“I am from the RURAL midwest. Looking back at my childhood, you would think I grew up in the 1970s and not the 90s because of how country my hometown was.

My family didnt really understand Y2K but they bought into the hype. A lot of religious people were twisting the whole thing into an apocalyptic type of thing.

I was a kid and it scared me. I dreaded new years eve, because I was worried that was when the world would end. A few days prior, a low flying aircraft of some kind flew over the family farm. It was so loud and must have been going fast because there was a sound that may have been a sonic boom. I was outside with my grandpa and I ran inside at the sound, hid under the kitchen table and started bawling.

My grandpa fished me out from the table and I told him why I was so scared. He and I rang in the new years together that year so he could show me that everything would be fine.”

9. A little chaos.

“I’m a firefighter and was working on the Y2K night. Right at midnight, all of our primary radio and CAD systems failed. It was a huge, system wide failure just like everybody predicted would happen. We were getting dispatched by backup radios and our dispatchers were writing down calls on pieces of paper.

The suck is that my engine company had the first call of the year, but we didn’t get credit for it because of the confusion. When they put calls into the computer after it was fixed we ended up with call 00013.

Fuck you Engine 3, we were first. Sincerely, E12.”

10. “It was perfect.”

“We were in high school. Had a huge group of friends 30+ that spent New Years at one my friend’s parent’s house.

We were doing the countdown. Everyone was nervous from all the hype that computers were not going to be able to calculate the date correctly and revert to 1900, shutting down vital city systems. (Internet and computers were just beginning to take over managing everything. For reference, I had a beeper in high school guys!)

5….4….3….2…1…. The entire house goes completely dark. Silence.

Friend’ dad comes upstairs looks at our scared faces and starts his ass off, slapping his legs and doubling over with humor. Can’t catch his breath. He flipped the breaker. Lights back come on. Happy Y2K everyone!!

It was perfect.”

11. Go back to bed.

“Alberta, Canada. My Dad worked for the provincial government and was assigned to Alberta Environment’s Y2K rapid response team. If the millennium bug caused anything in the oil fields to go boom, Dad would have to supervise clean-up efforts.

January 1, 2000. At around 1:30 AM, Dad got the call. “Yeah…everything’s fine. Rapid response team is being disbanded. Go back to bed and enjoy your day off.””

12. A great time to do acid.

“Lived in a house in the middle of the boonies with my friends shortly after high school. This house was owned by a survivalist software engineer who said we could live there rent free on the condition that we all go through survivalist training by a high ranking marine officer at his own expense. This was him initiating a small group of go-getters who would help him recreate society after the Apocalypse, which was inevitably coming (most likely with a y2k societal collapse).

I learned how to navigate and triangulate with and without map and compass, lead a group of civilian soldiers, and shoot a Colt 45. By the end of training, I could assemble and disassemble it in a minute and 7 seconds blindfolded. The peak of our training was when my best friend and I (both female) took down a line of cans at 30 yards from the outside in, one starting on the left and the other starting on the right, in complete tandem, hitting the middle one simultaneously. The man who trained us was gushing with pride that day.

New year’s came around. We sat by the fire, took some acid and contemplated what was next for our lives.”

13. Militia men.

“I grew up in rural Tennessee, and my neighbors at the end of the road were a legit militia. Like, they had built a bunch of bunkers and stockpiled food and fuel and weapons, and went out in the woods on training exercises.

Through the Clinton administration, they were mostly preparing for a New World Order / Black Helicopter / Hillary Clinton takeover type scenario. But Y2K really meshed with their worldview.

They offered to let my neighbor (a machinist and welder) join their crew, but I guess they didn’t have much use for my family.

In October, we got a misdelivered xeroxed newsletter in the mail. It was totally creepy. Full of helpful tips for setting up your own little warlord-dom after Y2K–how to subjugate the population, set up roadblocks around your fiefdom, getting the most our of your serfs once civilization fell, building alliances with your neighboring warlords.

My machinist neighbor (who always had some shady characters hanging around his place) told the militia he’d be fine and went and bought a fucking machine gun.

After New Year’s, we didn’t see the militia much. Their leader died a few months later, which was really a shame, because 9/11 would have been right up his alley.”

14. Nice work!

“Lost my virginity on 31Dec99. That was 20 years ago?!”

15. The end is here.

“Neighborhood kid hit some kind of transformer with a mortar shell, knocked out the power on our block and a few others about 15 minutes after midnight. I was 12 and thought it was funny, I guess I never truly belived society could crumble from some 1s and 0s. However, a couple of guests who were my parents are started wailing like armageddon had just began. It was funny.”

Well, that brings back some interesting memories from 20 years ago, now doesn’t it?

Do you remember where you were for the Y2K craze when we entered the year 2000?

Tell us all about it in the comments. Let’s hear some good stories!

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These Facts Are Totally True, but Very Hard to Believe

What we’ve got here are 14 facts that are going to send you straight to Google so you can verify if they are BS or not.

And when you find out we were playing it straight, well, your mind just might be a little bit blown.

14. Time is a strange thing.

As mentioned [here] (http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1rsyio/whats_your_favorite_fun_fact/cdqjw5t), Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr. and Barbara Walters were born in the same year.

13. We’d never know what hit us.

Gravity propagates at the speed of light. So if the sun were to suddenly disappear, we would continue orbiting for 8 minutes.

12. Everything’s bigger in Texas.

There are more tigers in Texas than there are in the wild.

11. Just keep that in mind, folks.

Shrimp is called an abomination four times more than homosexuality in the Bible

10. I don’t….know?

And every time you shuffle a deck of cards, it’s likely that the particular ordering of cards has never been arranged before.

9. Harsh.

The current United States flag was designed by then 17 years old Robert G. Heft, as part of a school project. He received a grade of B-

8. Unsurprising, really.

Fortune cookies were invented in America and are seen in China as an american symbol.

7. I feel like this has happened to me more than once.

If there’re 23 people in a room, there’s a 50% chance two of them share a birthday. edit: google “birthday paradox” for more information.

6. It just SEEMS wrong, but it’s not.

Humanity is less violent now than it has ever been, which is a steady trend through history.

5. Those long-suffering Cubbies (no more!)

The last time the Cubs won a World Series: Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Oklahoma, and New Mexico were not yet states The Ottoman Empire still existed The Titanic had not been built yet Prohibition had not occurred yet The NBA, NHL, and NFL did not exist yet Radio and Television did not exist…

4. He has more subscribers than there are people in his home country.

A swedish guy who screams at video games is the most popular Youtuber in the world.

Edit: For the people who are apparently too lazy to read the child comments, I’m talking about Pewdiepie.

3. Spoiler alert: it’s kind of impossible.

There are three hundred billion stars in the Milky Way.

There are AT LEAST one hundred billion galaxies in the KNOWN universe. Using 300bn as an average for the number of stars per galaxies, that makes 3e22 stars in the observed universe.

That’s 30,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. Try to wrap your head around how unimaginably big that is.

2. The mental images…

Blue whales don’t have enough blood in their body to get an erection, they would pass out from lack of blood in the brain, to compensate female blue whale vaginas are the size of an average living room

1. Everyone who ever ruled Europe was cousins.

King Edward V, Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilheim II (the monarchs of England, Russia and Germany during the first world war) were cousins. Edward was first cousins with the other two, who were second cousins with each other.

I Googled so hard, y’all, and now I kind of don’t know what to do with myself!

Do you keep any of these on your hip for parties? Share them with us in the comments!

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The Chainsaw Was Originally Invented to Assist with Difficult Childbirths

If you thought that c-sections were awful and take weeks to recover from, well…you’re right.

But you should also count yourself lucky. In the (not as far back as you’d think) past, your doctor or midwife might have whipped out a chainsaw if an emergency arose during labor.

Basically, the chainsaw is so good at cutting through wood and stuff because it was originally designed to be able to easily slice through flesh and bone.

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Chainsaws were invented by two Scottish surgeons, John Aitken and James Jeffray, who were looking for a “more humane” way to widen the birth canal when a baby was breach or became otherwise lodged in the birth canal.

Yeah. Instead of cutting open your abdomen to remove a dangerously stuck infant (like a modern C-section), they used to just stick a knife into your pelvis and start “widening” it so the baby could slip free.

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And, as if giving birth wasn’t terrifying and painful enough already, the chainsaw was invented in the 18th century – prior to the development of a little thing called anesthesia.

The chainsaw was supposed to be a faster, less painful (somehow) option for a procedure called a symphysiotomy.

Image Credit: Pixabay

Neither the procedure nor the chainsaw is today used in hospitals – in maternity wards or elsewhere – but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it happen on an upcoming season of American Horror Story.

Because just thinking about it makes me want to scream.

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Check This Out: People Explained 7 Full Versions of Cliches in This Tumblr Thread

If there’s any possible way to get a point across faster, people are going to figure it out. If that means using a cliche instead of unique and descriptive words, then so be it. If the cliche needs shortening, so we don’t have to say as many words at all…then okay.

But this cool thread found on Tumblr gives us the full version of the cliches we’ve come to rely on when we get lazy. And it’s pretty interesting what we’re cutting without even realizing it.

Check these out.

1. Curiosity killed the cat…but did it?

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2. Blood is thicker than…what?

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3. Being a jack of all trades is actually a wise philosophy.

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4. Conformity is not always “great.”

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5. Beware those fair weather birds.

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6. I would much rather be the second mouse.

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7. This isn’t a saying, but I like this line of thinking.

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Next time you want to spit out some platitude, consider what you really are saying. Is it even what you really mean? We should all pay more attention to the words and thoughts we put out there. So when you want to say something, you can strive to make it meaningful.

Stop serving up word salad without meaning and say something we want to think about.

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An Incredible Photo Shows a 65-Foot Hawaiian Lava Dome

This is really something else…

The Mauna Ulu eruption of Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii lasted from 1969 to 1974 – a total of 1,774 days. Back then, it was Kilauea’s longest recorded eruption, producing approximately 460 million cubic yards of lava over those 5 years. It was truly a rare natural phenomenon.

Recently, the US Geological Survey posted this photograph from 1969, taken by photographer J.B. Judd. The image was of a rare dome fountain of lava measuring approximately 65 feet high. It was one of 12 dome fountains occurring the first year of the eruption. The flow of lava was so heavy, it reached 7.5 miles out into the ocean.

This particular fountain began on October 10, 1969 and lasted until October 13, and it may have reached the enormous height of ~245 feet. What made this phenomenon so special, aside from its massive size, was its orb shape. Typically, lava fountains look like geysers, spraying molten stone up into the air.

In the tweeted photo, the dome looks like it’s occurring on water. It is, in fact, on the land. The dark grey matter in the foreground that looks like waves are actually flows of lava.

Photo Credit: U.S. Geological Society

Fountains are caused when gas bubbles in molten rock near(ish) to the surface trigger an eruption of lava from a lava lake, fissure or vent. A rapid expansion occurs, which eventually explodes outward in a fountaining event.

Photo Credit: U.S. Geological Society

The Mauna Ulu eruption, though it lasted five years, isn’t even close to the longest running volcanic eruption. That title now goes to Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, which has been erupting continuously since 1983.

But the images above of Kilauea are an impressive reminder of the destructive power of active  volcanos – and Hawaii’s got a whole bunch of them.

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These History Memes Just Might Teach You Something

For some reason, a lot of kids don’t like history in middle and high school. Personally, I think it has something to do with so many history teachers at those levels being coaches who do the bare minimum in the classroom…but that might just be my own experience talking.

I’m someone who grew to love history in college and beyond, so I love to see the interesting bits finding new, awestruck minds on the internet.

To that end, here are 16 history memes that just might teach you something new today!

16. Here are you still hungry?

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15. The cleverness. It burns.

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14. Yes, let’s do that insanity.

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13. Yes. This is the collective expression on France’s face.

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12. Until you end up there yourself. Womp womp.

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11. Spoiler alert…it’s not the army.

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10. A more accurate depiction I have not seen.

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9. I need more for my collection.

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8. It’s always the season.

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7. This just made me laugh for real. The bread would be a lot more pleasant.

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6. It’s always the barbarians. Dammit.

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5. You’d best rethink that strategy.

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4. Yep, it’s just that creepy.

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3. At least have the sense to look ashamed.

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2. With their own stick. Damn.

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1. This wins best photoshop award.

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I can’t say for sure that I learned anything new, but these memes definitely never get old.

How about you? Did you learn something? Share it with us in the comments!

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How Did Casper Became a Ghost?

We’ve all heard about the story of the friendly ghost who just wants to make friends – and if you’re anywhere close to my age, you have a strangely romantic relationship with Casper, since we all immediately fell in love with Devon Sawa when this happened:

But where did the story come from in the first place? How did Casper die? Why is he a friendly ghost and not a scary one?

There are a lot of questions if you think about it, and if you want answers, we might have a few.

Since his debut in 1945, Casper the Friendly Ghost has appeared in dozens of animated shorts and specials, hundreds of comic books, as well as the feature film referenced above. The affable ghost always searches among the living for friends instead of people to frighten and encounters problems due to his non-corporeal status.

The character was created by writer Seymour Reit and artist Joe Oriolo back in 1940. But before the duo could pen their children’s book based on the concept, the two were drafted, and while they were gone, the animation studio they worked for was sold to Paramount – a sale that included the intellectual property of all employees (what a racket).

They were given $200 for their then-untested character.

In 1945 he appeared in a short called The Friendly Ghost, but the film made no mention of how Casper came to be a spirit in the first place. It did reference siblings who enjoyed scaring people, but no other personal details.

He appeared in another short in 1948, There’s Good Boos To-Night. In that one, he is shown leaning on a tombstone (presumably his own), while his “neighbors” – the ghosts from the nearby headstones – go on their nightly haunts.

Casper began starring in comic books in 1952, and it was due to Harvey Comics that Casper finally got a ghost family: a mom and three uncles, who were later named Fatso, Fusso, and Lazo. Originally, none of the group had backstories, talked about what their lives were like when they were alive, or made reference to a beginning of their relationship to each other.

Basically, it seems that Casper’s early mythology sort of implied that he and the others like him were “born” ghosts and had never been alive at all.

The 1995 feature film, starring Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, and Devon Sawa, gave Casper a full living backstory. He told Christina Ricci’s character that he had been a boy named Casper McFadden who had died from the flu – perhaps the Spanish flu, based on his dress and the time period – at the age of 12.

In it, we also see Ricci’s mother portrayed as an “angel,” suggesting there’s a more complicated hierarchy and mythology for the dead than the comics had previously envisioned – perhaps something more along the lines of what’s established in It’s a Wonderful Life? But that’s just speculation.

The original creators had to let go of Casper before they could fully flesh out their idea of who he was and how he became a ghost – friendly or otherwise – so perhaps it’s fitting that the truth of his origins seem to be left up to whoever is continuing his story at the moment.

Though, to me, the fact that he seems to get so much comfort from hanging around a particular headstone seems the point to the fact that it is his headstone. That means he was once alive, and he perished before his time.

I know he’s a child’s character, but hey. Life isn’t fair, and sometimes a bittersweet touch is just what a story needs to make it come alive (see: The Fox and the Hound).

Or in this case, dead.

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How Did Casper Became a Ghost?

We’ve all heard about the story of the friendly ghost who just wants to make friends – and if you’re anywhere close to my age, you have a strangely romantic relationship with Casper, since we all immediately fell in love with Devon Sawa when this happened:

But where did the story come from in the first place? How did Casper die? Why is he a friendly ghost and not a scary one?

There are a lot of questions if you think about it, and if you want answers, we might have a few.

Since his debut in 1945, Casper the Friendly Ghost has appeared in dozens of animated shorts and specials, hundreds of comic books, as well as the feature film referenced above. The affable ghost always searches among the living for friends instead of people to frighten and encounters problems due to his non-corporeal status.

The character was created by writer Seymour Reit and artist Joe Oriolo back in 1940. But before the duo could pen their children’s book based on the concept, the two were drafted, and while they were gone, the animation studio they worked for was sold to Paramount – a sale that included the intellectual property of all employees (what a racket).

They were given $200 for their then-untested character.

In 1945 he appeared in a short called The Friendly Ghost, but the film made no mention of how Casper came to be a spirit in the first place. It did reference siblings who enjoyed scaring people, but no other personal details.

He appeared in another short in 1948, There’s Good Boos To-Night. In that one, he is shown leaning on a tombstone (presumably his own), while his “neighbors” – the ghosts from the nearby headstones – go on their nightly haunts.

Casper began starring in comic books in 1952, and it was due to Harvey Comics that Casper finally got a ghost family: a mom and three uncles, who were later named Fatso, Fusso, and Lazo. Originally, none of the group had backstories, talked about what their lives were like when they were alive, or made reference to a beginning of their relationship to each other.

Basically, it seems that Casper’s early mythology sort of implied that he and the others like him were “born” ghosts and had never been alive at all.

The 1995 feature film, starring Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, and Devon Sawa, gave Casper a full living backstory. He told Christina Ricci’s character that he had been a boy named Casper McFadden who had died from the flu – perhaps the Spanish flu, based on his dress and the time period – at the age of 12.

In it, we also see Ricci’s mother portrayed as an “angel,” suggesting there’s a more complicated hierarchy and mythology for the dead than the comics had previously envisioned – perhaps something more along the lines of what’s established in It’s a Wonderful Life? But that’s just speculation.

The original creators had to let go of Casper before they could fully flesh out their idea of who he was and how he became a ghost – friendly or otherwise – so perhaps it’s fitting that the truth of his origins seem to be left up to whoever is continuing his story at the moment.

Though, to me, the fact that he seems to get so much comfort from hanging around a particular headstone seems the point to the fact that it is his headstone. That means he was once alive, and he perished before his time.

I know he’s a child’s character, but hey. Life isn’t fair, and sometimes a bittersweet touch is just what a story needs to make it come alive (see: The Fox and the Hound).

Or in this case, dead.

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Here Are the 5 Presidents With the Highest IQ Scores

This should get a whole lot of people arguing due to the current political climate in this country, but what the heck! Let’s do it anyway!

A researcher and psychologist from the University of California, Davis named Dean Simonton put together a list of what he estimates IQs of the American presidents to be after the age of 18 – although, to be clear, the research was done in 2006 and only extends from George Washington to George W. Bush.

Simonton took into account intellectual brilliance and openness to establish his estimates. Let’s take a look at the results!

1. John Quincy Adams

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John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) was the sixth American president and, according to Dean Simonton’s research, had an IQ of 175. Adams was a Harvard graduate, studied all over the world, and spoke seven languages.

2. Thomas Jefferson

Biography of Thomas Jefferson (Third President 1801-1809)

Jefferson (1743-1826) was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States. Simonton places his IQ at 160 – and, oh right, he helped write a little document called the Declaration of Independence.

3. James Madison

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James Madison (1751-1836) was another brilliant Founding Father, and he had an estimated IQ of 160. Madison, called the “Father of the Constitution,” helped write the Bill of Rights.

4. John F. Kennedy

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JFK (1917-1963) graduated from Harvard in 1940, was a war hero during World War II, and became the second-youngest president in U.S. history. He also had an IQ of 159.8. Not too bad…

5. Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

Say what you want about Bill Clinton (1946- ), he’s a very smart guy. Clinton served two terms as the 42nd American president and he sports an IQ of 159. He studied at Georgetown and Yale.

 

Rounding out the top 10 were:

6. Jimmy Carter

No Known Restrictions: President Jimmy Carter and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Marion S. Trikosko, 1977 (LOC)

7. Woodrow Wilson

 

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8. John Adams

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9. Teddy Roosevelt

TR: гнездование куклы (nesting dolls)

10. James Garfield

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Now, we know you have some opinions about this. Let us know in the comments!

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Was McDonald’s Better When We Were Kids? You Bet It Was!

Back when us olde rfolks were growing up in the 1980s and ’90s, going to McDonald’s was definitely not a twice or more a week sort of event that happened because mom (cough, cough) didn’t plan very well. Not by a long shot.

It was a special occasion that was fun and nutritious!

Well, maybe not nutritious. But definitely fun – at McDonald’s there was stuff to do and clowns to see and gifts to get.

Scroll with me down memory lane and see for yourself.

1. Happy Meal Toys

So many great toys that you couldn’t play with until you ate everything and drank all your soda because they didn’t have milk haha.

Hot Wheels - Happy Meal toys

2. The Employees

They smiled and wore nice smocks and they actually liked kids.

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3. Playplaces

Sometimes our moms would take us there just to let us play when the weather was bad and we couldn’t stand to be indoors anymore. And someone would always leave their shoes in the cubby, lol.

McPlayplace

4. Officer Big Mac

Big Mac jail was fun. We would fight to see who would go in.

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5. The Nintendo 64 Kiosk

Times were tough back then. Not everyone had a new N64 with those super awesome graphics.

But McDonald’s had them for us to play with.

Nintendo 64 Kiosk at McDonald’s from gaming

6. Burger Stools

Yes, they were hard to sit on. Yes, they were super cool. Yes, you raced your sister to get your choice of seat.

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7. McDonald’s Halloween Buckets

An autumn essential presented to you by your favorite neighborhood McDonald’s.

McDonalds Halloween buckets from the 90s

8. McDonald’s Pizza

It was good. Deal.

McDonald’s Pizza in the early 90’s. It was shockingly good from pics

I don’t know what to tell you children of 2000 and later. You missed the golden years of the golden arches. The food is still decent and you might get a smile from a cashier wearing a logo-ed golf shirt, but it’s not the dreamland of yesteryear.

We just didn’t know what we had.

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