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Michael Clayton James · 1w
This reminds me a bit of R. Crumb's Keep On Truckin'. The timing is similar, in that everybody started using the meme later, and many associate it that way. I haven't researched it, but my guess is t...
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I also thought Garbage Pail Kids because they came in a pack with gum. Maybe the Rat Fink cards were in like baseball cars style packs? 77 is still 4 years before my dawning of conscience though. I just have a connection to the Rat Fink resurgence in the 80s.
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Michael Clayton James · 1w
Yes. Exactly that. There was also something like Garbage Pail Kids as well in 77. I was in 7th grade. We had pop rocks too... I think it first came out then. I didn't even know the origin of Rat Fink until much, much later.