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Sunday, September 16. 2007

Remembering

Remembering the 60s. Dino

Remembering the 70s. Hog on Ice

Yes, I guess those were two stupid decades in many ways.

Posted by Bird Dog in Politics at 17:25 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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How could a decade that started out with Chevy 409's, Dodge Hemis, and GTOs end up so squirrely?
#1 Rufus on 2007-09-16 20:24 (Reply)
Cause everyone had cheap tires on the rear end?
#2 Luther McLeod on 2007-09-16 20:45 (Reply)
On a more serious note... It won't end until I, a tail-ender baby boomer, am dead. A slight majority of those my age, still alive, who lived the 60', 70's cannot be reached. Only a larger hit of 'something' might shake them from their stupor. Unfortunately, 9/11 did not do that for them.

I think only cold steel on their neck might do the trick now, and of course it will be too late then. So, we have to hang on for another 15-20 years. Only time and Mr. Death will end the scourge.
#3 Luther McLeod on 2007-09-16 21:26 (Reply)
RE: the Seventies…
Reports today that Camillus Cutlery (a well known knife factory in upstate NY that once employed several hundred people) is closed and they are auctioning everything. Hang on to those Camillus knives. Once had a really nice one but was tear-gassed while sleeping, very early one morning, at the 1971 (?) Newport Jazz Festival. Then a National Guardsman in a gas mask rousted us, saw the knife and took it. Woodstock was over but we were still young and dumb.
#4 Patina on 2007-09-17 14:52 (Reply)

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