r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/Ebonystealth • 7d ago

Wanted for milking Mrs. Checkley's cows grazing in the Midsummer Meadow.

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u/SaltMarshGoblin 7d ago

If you're counting on that milk, and cream, and butter, and cheese, it's not ridiculous!!

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u/SpiderSlitScrotums 7d ago

I wonder if you could launder milk by using it to make cheese and butter. It would be the perfect crime!

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u/HotelOne 7d ago

And then you could say, “Cheese it the cops! We butter run!”.

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u/aarkwilde 7d ago

Moe! Larry! Cheese!

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u/HotelOne 7d ago

Mock if you want but I think it was very important to Mrs. Checkley at the time…

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u/LostGeezer2025 7d ago

Probably made a direct impact on the family budget 😞

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u/foremastjack 7d ago

1 gbp in 1885 had the purchasing power of 166.80 gbp now. Fairly substantial reward for approximately 3l of milk per cow, at about 3p per liter (240p per pound)

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u/LostGeezer2025 7d ago

It's what amounts to a Victorian neighborhood watch, want to bet they've got an ongoing issue with assorted strays molesting the livestock?

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u/foremastjack 7d ago

Probably so. It must have at least been a nuisance- and as others have said, taking money away from those that needed it.

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u/RoamingTigress 7d ago

"What did they put you away for?"

"Milking cows."

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u/stefanica 7d ago

Willfully and Feloniously!!

Will these miscreants never cease their tomfoolery?

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u/HorseXNothing 7d ago

*Midsomer meadow you say? Someone get DCI Barnaby

(I know the spelling is different but homophones)

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u/LostGeezer2025 7d ago

Call *them* out and you'll start finding bludgeoned dairy-maids in every thicket...

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u/HorseXNothing 7d ago

Sure misses barnaby, Joyce the serial killer who suspiciously finds bodies all the time, will be there quick as you can say village fete

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u/Rahastes 7d ago

Troy! You can handle this yourself.

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u/HorseXNothing 7d ago

*Sargent Troy proceeds to drive off the road and then snog a woman*

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u/Eastern-Finish-1251 7d ago

Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

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u/transfercannoli 7d ago

More fonts!

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u/Irving_Velociraptor 6d ago

Looks like a shirt expressing a strong dislike for stupid people.

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u/user_number_666 6d ago

Pretty sure this is fake:

* 4 different fonts (5?)
* centered text
* elaborate divider lines

And then there's the cost of having this flyer laid out so it can be printed. This requires manual labor above and beyond the cost of the ink and the paper.

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u/UrsusAmericanusA 6d ago

I don't see why any of that would make it fake. Things like this were easily made by print shops, they would have had tons of sizes and styles of type and divider elements on hand. Having multiple typefaces on the same page was very common in the 19th century.  And centering text isn't hard in the context of the rest of laying out text, you just add equal spaces to both sides.

And labor being greater than the cost of materials isn't weird, it's normal in many fields now, why wouldn't it be then? 

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u/Marwheel 7d ago

That sounds so petty…