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Tballz9 t1_jbrjoc8 wrote

As a kid of that era it is hard to explain to people just how big the Rubik’s cube was at that time. The things were everywhere. It doesn’t surprise me at all that this was the best selling book, as we didn’t have the internet yet, and books were how people learned things. God, I feel old. Lol.

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TimmJimmGrimm t1_jbrbtij wrote

Let me be the asshole and say... is it such a bad way to go?

Rather than be one of those kids blown up in the sky in WW2, or someone slaughtered by advancing fanatics of whatever nationality, this guy got to go out with a laugh from adoring fans. Or slowly dying of some disease in your tweens, like meningitis before 1941.

Too soon? Yes. For sure. Most people like the idea of dying at 88 years of age or so. But a bad way to go? Please, let us agree to disagree.

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