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Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Fishhead,

I understand if people post drunk at night, but this is the middle of the day. Have some pride. Sober up.

canuckistan · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:22 pm Post subject:

Haight-Ashbury?

Wink

dogbert · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Location: Killbox 90210

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I was expecting the title would only attract us old geezers, so I wrote that kind of post. Since others are reading it as well, and dogbert said it was an ajosshi tale, I went back and added some stuff to make it more of an ajosshi story.

Someone once said it wasn't kosher to do that, but I don't care. It's my post.

If people don't like it, blame dogbert.

nicholas_chiasson · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Location: Samcheok

My Russian History Professor was a ninformer for the Police at Kent State as an undergrad. He told us that his 'good work' made him among the first American students to study abroad in the Soviet Union.
-5 kids dropped the class the next day. I was NOT among them.

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Thanks for the links. I had no idea so much of that old music was online now. It was a kick to see Tommy and Dick Smothers again on that Jefferson Airplane clip. There was a rumor that Gracie Slick tried to put LSD in Lady Bird Johnson's tea when she went to some tea party at the White House.

Anyway, thanks to you, I got to hear my favorite J.A. song this morning: Lather

Lather was thirty years old today,
They took away all of his toys.
His mother sent newspaper clippings to him,
About his old friends who'd stopped being boys...

And Seargent Dow Jones, twenty-seven years old,
Commanding his very own tank.

But Lather still finds it a nice thing to do,
To lie about nude in the sand,
Drawing pictures of mountains that look like bumps,
And thrashing the air with his hands.

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

IOW, violence was your answer then, and violence is your answer now. At least you are consistent. Wrong, but consistent.

The Bobster · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

I turned 10 that year, so my memories are appropriate to that age.

I remember RFK getting shot, and I had barely remembered his brother being shot when I was in kindergarten, and thinking, "Man, it must suck to be in that family."

I vaguely remember when MLK was killed also, and the main vibe I picked up from my lilywhite 'burban enclave was the grown-ups with some anxiety about how the "Negoes" over in the next town would be feeling about that.

Mainly I did did my desultory best at softball, continuing to suck at it, and kept my scrapbook up-to-date about the space program. Since kindergarten, I was always certain I would be an astronaut when I grew up. This wasn't just an ambition, mind you, I was sure of it.

Oh, also,I remember a guy in the schoolyard had heard something from his parents about "guerrilla warfare" going on in the jungle, and mainly through bad spelling (am I spelling it right, even now?) this guy had us all convinced it was a "gorilla war" and the army had somehow taught orangutangs how to operate M-16 rifles and wear combat fatigues ... in many ways, life is more interesting when you are 10.

On a family trip to see relatives in a distant state, the older kids thought it would be funny to try get me and a cousin my age named Panny Sue (I think) to kiss each other in front of everyone. We enjoyed it enough we did it some more even without an audience, and even though I didn't tell my buddies when we got back home, I decided I'd get me some more of that whenever it came around. Haven't changed my mind about it, actually, all these years later ...

That's about all for '68.