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Throwback Thursday Classic Memes for Anyone Who Remembers a Landline

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Every house I grew up in had a kitchen phone with a cord stretched so far into the pantry it could tow a car. Phones were shaped like hot dogs back then, and nobody asked questions. We dig through the vault every afternoon, and this Throwback Thursday batch of classic memes picks up where yesterday’s trip through the classics left off. Stretch the cord and dig in.

Robert Smith of The Cure sitting on a hotel bed, as the answer to fun.

Honestly, a perfect Saturday.

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Classic memes pick: a woman in pioneer dress by a fireplace while her phone restarts.
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Collage of retro hot dog shaped telephones asking to talk on them until falling asleep.

Peak landline technology. No notes.

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Two close-ups of a man closing his eyes after dropping keys at the door.
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Classic memes tweet suggesting same-day laundry folding should go at the top of a resume.
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Man staring blankly while eating a temporary snack before choosing a formal permanent snack.

The temporary snack always wins.

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Tweet about character silhouettes, showing the dark profile of a bearded man with glasses.
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Classic memes post where someone asks if tattoos hurt and replies they're from Oklahoma.

Geography lesson, painful edition.

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Three panel comic where a talk show crowd attacks the fish ancestor who crawled ashore.
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Plate of spaghetti under text about forgetting, then gaining, a spaghetti eating shirt.

Wearing mine right now, no joke.

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Classic memes edit of J. Robert Oppenheimer's quote rewritten about warm milk and bedtime.
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Text exchange where a 20 year old cousin admits grilling meat directly inside his oven.
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Fake GoFundMe page with a pun about needing leg surgery, showing zero dollars raised.
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Classic memes tweet about hearing someone carefully try out a brand new vocabulary word.

You can hear them loading it in.

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Tweet presenting a fictional high trust society simulator as a virtual reality game.
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Tweet reacting to a lasagna pan built from seven different microwave lasagna brands.

Seven brands, one pan, zero apologies.

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Classic memes tweet with a dark Spider-Man joke about being flexible as a kid.
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Person in a full bomb disposal suit with a long pole, approaching a girlfriend's mood.

Approach with caution and snacks.

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Horse leaping across a stormy sky, with a crude rant about streaming buttons on remotes.
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Classic memes tweet about deaf people expecting the sun to make a noise.
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Private jet crashed into a luxury kitchen, joking about Taylor Swift getting water at night.

Short trip to the fridge.

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Tweet comparing eight Detroit Tigers bullpen headshots to every guy at a Midwest bar.
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Classic memes photo of a cook standing in a kitchen buried in dirty pots.

Every pan I own, used once.

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Mr. Burns lounging on a fluffy rug with the phone, crushing while pushing 30.
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Skull shaped toilet in a store aisle with text inviting a spooky bathroom break.

Fall decor has gone too far.

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Half of these are older than my phone plan, and I still laughed like I was on the family computer with someone yelling to get off the internet. The old memes about snacks hit hardest, mostly because I have stood at the pantry eating a placeholder snack for ten minutes. A few of these viral tweets have aged better than my haircut from that era, which is a low bar, but a real one. The best memes always find their way back around, like that one cousin who still cooks everything directly on the oven rack.

Another round of vintage memes lands tomorrow afternoon, same time, same couch, same questionable posture, same crumbs on the remote. If that is too long to wait, Wednesday’s meme dump has fresher material, and Sunday’s classics hit like a rerun you know by heart. Bring a snack, ideally a permanent one, and maybe a phone with a really long cord. Hit a share button below and send this to the friend who still remembers their childhood landline number.

Who needs to see this?

Send it to the friend who’ll laugh the hardest, or post it for everyone.

Posted by Phil M. About the author

Phil co-founded Thunder Dungeon with Roy in 2012 and has been a meme tastemaker ever since, helping turn a page of funny finds into viral photo and video creations, one of the largest meme community apps and a daily home for memes. He's more than memes, too: Phil is an award-winning comedic actor and director whose feature films are on streaming platforms.

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