• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Seconding that Chick Tracts are comedy gold (Exhibit A). They’re so feverishly deranged that they become an unintentional parody of evangelical Christianity. Solidly “so bad it’s good”.

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      13 hours ago

      They used to get left in the bathrooms on Washington State Ferries pretty reliably and I got together a pretty good collection. The first one I read was the classic Dungeons and Dragons one, this would have been pretty close to its first publication too. I wish I had kept those.

      • smh@slrpnk.net
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        12 hours ago

        I used to get them as a kid, trick or treating. I kind of miss them in a messed-up nostalgia way.

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      There was a table in the NYC subway many years ago that had thousands of them and they were handing them out. I definitely took a couple, knowing full well what they are, for the sheer novelty.

      Also to give them a few less to hand out to someone who might be susceptible because fuck em