There's nothing as American as a Wolpertinger Jackalope! She stuffs a wild bikini.

Did we have more fun last Century? Did Millennials ruin everything? Or did the Interwebz spoil it for us all?

Let's put it this way, entertainment was actually entertaining. That seems to sum up the very fabric of that time vs this time. We were not only allowed to have fun, we were encouraged to have fun. It was an era of Dean Martin, Johnny Carson, and Hal Needham. We now live in an era symbolized in media by Jimmie Kimmel and Seth Rogan. They don't offer entertainment, they offer hatred and snark. Entertainment reflects the times in which it is created. These times just don't give much in the way of simple, feel good fun. Pity. The Jackalope could be the very emblem of that nicer, less stressed time. Not saying it was perfect, of course, but it was fun.

You're sounding like a Boomer, and that's not a bad thing. At 2/3 of a century plus, I'm definitely in the Boomer category.

Actually, I'm a 1981 model, so whichever category that date would fall into. I was, however, raised to appreciate what came before me.

There have been times when I'm convinced my brain was protected from something over that summer where my classmates were watching MTV but I was watching the Leave It To Beaver marathon!

(Seriously, I think it was after that summer that the class returned for the next school year and they seemed to've been brainwashed, entire personality reversal. They went from being able to think critically to towing the media line over that one summer. The only factor they had in common was that they spent the summer watching MTV. Mere coincidence? Probably, but it's still weird...)

That makes you about four years older than my girlfriend. She has a more mature, can I say, 'old', outlook. She was raised by her mother (two years older than I am) and grandmother in a house with very limited television. When we talk I have to remind myself she's a generation younger than I am (7 months older than my daughter).

MTV ruined the Millennials! That's a thought for the ages. It's quite possible and that sounds like a reasonable assertion. No wonder the world is so screwed up.

That question can be fully explained in two words.
George Burns.
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Proof that the previous generation understood comedy and decency

Yes -- George Burns didn't need to go George Carlin to be funny. Likewise... Bill Cosby.

Looks marvelous!