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By way of Ian from Productive Outs, we have been alerted to the greatest Google Image Search string in the history of Google Image Search:

Behold: ““Baseball cards glasses”.

As a bespectacled youth, I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to suggest that Ron Kittle was my Susan B. Anthony and Cesar Chavez rolled into one.

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And that’s, like, the 785th-best card in that search string. Go forth, and marvel at the days when contact lenses were ... I don’t know, too expensive? Made out of human skin? I have no idea why they weren’t wearing contacts, but that’s our gain, I suppose.

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