Someone made a post about prank calls.

@Adrift Yes very late 60s and early 70s. They were all over the place. Me and a bunch of roommates operated out of our apartment. We also had them in our cars. The apartment was known as Rangoon Base.

@Explorer you've nailed it. Society has launched the capacity. Where comedians used to be laughed at. Now everything that's a joke becomes offensive. Everybody so damn on edge touchy feely

@Gibbon Exactly. Somewhere along the way, we forgot that not every silly thing needs to be taken seriously. A little harmless foolishness used to be part of the fun. 😊

@Explorer yeah, it happened during our time, too, when things like the slapstick of the Three Stooges became, oh, that's not funny. That's terribly violent. I mean, give me a break, folks.
Cartoons like Daffy Duck getting run over by a steamroller getting up and walking around flat as a piece of paper. Oh that one's appalling too. You're teaching our kids to stand in front of steamrollers.
I'm sorry. I question the mentality of the people who make these judgments more than I question the things they're judging themselves. The I'm sorry in front of that is not an apology. It's just sorry as hell. We have to even think about that stupidity.

@MsSwan I remember the dumb one about calling a local drug store and asking, do you have Prince Albert in a can?

"Yes."

Well, you'd better let him out
before he suffocate

We were like 12 years old doing that.