Agreed. Fleek is totally bogus. Gag me with a spoon.

As a semi-old, I do not understand fleek, not do I want to. I will continue to use whatever words were popular on the '80s & '90s and leave it at that.

I have so many questions

This one's my favorite. Couldn't "ACT YOUR AGE—PLEASE" be the advice we could give our entire culture?

"A Damn Cat"

I now wish to begin a "Bring back Etti-cat" campaign.

I understand your compassion, but I do not feel it. My grandfather had typhus as a young man, and it aint pretty. So though I am sure they are intelligent, dear creatures that got bad lot in the order of things, my fear has been mongered by pesticide resistant lice and fleas.

Rats were scapegoating gerbils. Typical rat move.

You need to watch how you talk about guinea pigs around here.

Florida sewer rat.

"Say 'Kotex' so you don't have to say 'menstruation."

I tell my husband, because he has an interest in these things. I also livetweet it the whole time, #reddawn.

I don't tell anybody. Do you really tell people so regularly that you need a euphemism for it? I don't mean it's weird to tell, I'm just interested as it's not something I'm inclined to share.

Sixty cents in 1920 dollars = $7 today.

Thanks for the new screen name, Kotex!

Laundresses were stereotypically haggard, because washing clothes was hard as fuck. It was probably the most physically uncomfortable and demanding domestic chore, which is why even middle class families on modest budgets sent their laundry out if they possibly could.

That poor laundress in the last ad looks so bedraggled and haunted. I wonder what the deal is supposed to be with her. Was this the archetypal "laundress" look at the time?

Now if only there were a way to get the wearers of too much cologne and perfume to read this and realize that it applies to them.

Are you sure this isn't one of those things where your friends and family are struggling to be near you and you are blissfully unware. I have a friend that experiments with the no-soap/shampoo thing and there is a definite sour grungy tangy funk happening there.