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The 1970s will never be fully understood.
More evidence that the 1970s were the strangest time in America: In 1970, Sesame Street’s Ernie’s signature song “Rubber Duckie” reached No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. It’s absolutely inexplicable.
Read MoreThe sexually suggestive Mr. Snuffleupagus
We spent the weekend at the in-law’s home in the Berkshires, where my daughter was playing with my wife’s old Fisher-Price Sesame Street Clubhouse, circa 1973. The in-laws throw nothing away. Included in the set is the fabled Mr. Snuffleupagus. Were toymakers in the 1970s completely blind, or is it possible that millions of there…
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