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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 12:14:59 PM   
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*sigh* I really envy you. I would have loved to live in the 60/70s :(


Your English is great, so if you haven't you should watch the movie "Dazed and Confused." It takes place on the last day of school in 1976 (I graduated HS a week later than the movie), and is spot on in myriad ways as to how it was to be an American teen in the 70s. It's a classic.

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 1:18:31 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

*sigh* I really envy you. I would have loved to live in the 60/70s :(


Your English is great, so if you haven't you should watch the movie "Dazed and Confused." It takes place on the last day of school in 1976 (I graduated HS a week later than the movie), and is spot on in myriad ways as to how it was to be an American teen in the 70s. It's a classic.

Ola, I have not seen that one indeed. Thank you very much for the tip

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 2:22:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		The TV series Wonder Years, about growing up in the '60s, is like a slice right out of my life.

I'm a year older than the moose, having graduated HS in '75.

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 2:22:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was born in 1960, so I reached adulthood during that era. The music of the time really was phenomenal, but other than that it seemed like a pretty turbulent and disturbed period. Political and social unrest was pretty pronounced, leading to the run of assassinations (JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King), the Vietnam War was polarizing and difficult and sad, politics was a mess, society in many ways was a mess. We were in a period of transition, so things were unsettled.

I few years ago (roughly 2010), I took a group of 20-somethings on a long hike in a wilderness area. On the drive home, one of them asked me if I had ever seen a time as unsettled and divisive as this now. I thought back to the Civil War, to the Jim Crowe ere (which included pretty common lynchings), to the '60s with all the protests and assassinations, to the '70s with political turmoil, gas lines, etc.) and I laughed and told them, "These are good times."

To clarify: I've never had it "bad." I've been very fortunate to live in a time and place in which there's has been mostly peace and relative tranquility. I've been mostly free to do what I wanted and to go where I wished with who I want. What's there to complain about? (Other than John's Banzai!, I mean.)

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 2:40:41 PM   
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That one I saw when it premiered before realizing it was just a soap opera.

My sister watched All My Children (daytime soap opera in USA), started working, got married, worked, got laid off & had kids then. Looked at it again and found after 17 years she had not missed anything!!


*sigh* I really envy you. I would have loved to live in the 60/70s :(


The good news: I lived in the 60/70s. The bad news: my father forbade a television set in the house. (I had to go elsewhere to watch Neil Armstrong step onto the Moon.)

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 2:48:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Vintage 1959 here. I think the 60s and 70s were turbulent for several reasons. One which is overlooked is how we were coming to terms with the requirements of being the leading nation in the aftermath of WWII. People realized there were costs associated with being able to set and influence world events. And there were conflicts, most obviously generational, over the willingness to bear the costs.

To top that off, challenges to American economic dominance were arising in Germany, Japan and other countries who were recovering from the effects of WWII. This made it difficult for young adults to remain in the communities they grew up. So there was a generational schism based on changing expectations when it came to chasing the American Dream if not a major revision in what the American Dream even meant.

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 3:47:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Not to mentioned the evolution into a new racial paradigm in which we were trying to make "all men are created equal" a reality, and the sexual revolution. Anytime there is change, there is friction, so friction there was.


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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 8:38:33 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin


quote:

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58


quote:

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

*sigh* I really envy you. I would have loved to live in the 60/70s :(


Your English is great, so if you haven't you should watch the movie "Dazed and Confused." It takes place on the last day of school in 1976 (I graduated HS a week later than the movie), and is spot on in myriad ways as to how it was to be an American teen in the 70s. It's a classic.

Ola, I have not seen that one indeed. Thank you very much for the tip


It's also notable for being, I'm pretty sure, the first major movie role for both Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey. The latter's "all right, all right, all right" catch-phrase was born in that movie. Affleck plays a total tool of a bully.

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 8:39:24 PM   
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The TV series Wonder Years, about growing up in the '60s, is like a slice right out of my life.

I'm a year older than the moose, having graduated HS in '75.


So how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 8:40:42 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I was born in 1960, so I reached adulthood during that era. The music of the time really was phenomenal, but other than that it seemed like a pretty turbulent and disturbed period. Political and social unrest was pretty pronounced, leading to the run of assassinations (JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King), the Vietnam War was polarizing and difficult and sad, politics was a mess, society in many ways was a mess. We were in a period of transition, so things were unsettled.

I few years ago (roughly 2010), I took a group of 20-somethings on a long hike in a wilderness area. On the drive home, one of them asked me if I had ever seen a time as unsettled and divisive as this now. I thought back to the Civil War, to the Jim Crowe ere (which included pretty common lynchings), to the '60s with all the protests and assassinations, to the '70s with political turmoil, gas lines, etc.) and I laughed and told them, "These are good times."

To clarify: I've never had it "bad." I've been very fortunate to live in a time and place in which there's has been mostly peace and relative tranquility. I've been mostly free to do what I wanted and to go where I wished with who I want. What's there to complain about? (Other than John's Banzai!, I mean.)


I recently tried to describe the draft to a millennial. I don't recommend it if you have no patience.

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 8:53:32 PM   
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So how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?


They actually still run this commercial. Talk about bang for your marketing buck!


Wa

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 9:03:52 PM   
Bullwinkle58


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So how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?


They actually still run this commercial. Talk about bang for your marketing buck!


Wa


I looked it up on YouTube for grins awhile ago, but haven't seen it on TV in a LONG time.

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 9:33:23 PM   
Grfin Zeppelin


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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

The TV series Wonder Years, about growing up in the '60s, is like a slice right out of my life.

I'm a year older than the moose, having graduated HS in '75.

Aaawww thanks alot to you too.
I really appreciate these recomendations.

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 9:47:56 PM   
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< Message edited by Termite2 -- 5/3/2016 9:50:29 PM >

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 10:04:59 PM   
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60's pretty much sucked.


As a participant and a survivor of all the excesses of the time, I must respectfully disagree. I would offer examples of what I base my opinions on, but I am not sure what the applicable statute of limitations are.

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 10:14:54 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

I recently tried to describe the draft to a millennial. I don't recommend it if you have no patience.


Most millennial's don't even know we have troops at risk overseas! It is very disheartening to my sons, who are at risk!!

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/3/2016 10:27:34 PM   
Bullwinkle58


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ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin


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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

The TV series Wonder Years, about growing up in the '60s, is like a slice right out of my life.

I'm a year older than the moose, having graduated HS in '75.

Aaawww thanks alot to you too.
I really appreciate these recomendations.


If you don't mind spoilers, ten minutes of cuts. The whole movie is NOT about drugs.

Just a lot of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7mCEK2tx7s

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/4/2016 2:10:21 AM   
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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/4/2016 11:28:59 AM   
Reg


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I remember defence recruiters coming around to my high school and the only job they could offer the girls was typist.....

Some fundamental things have changed since the 70's.



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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/4/2016 11:56:04 AM   
Reg


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Have we padded your thread post count enough yet???



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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/4/2016 12:17:41 PM   
Bullwinkle58


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Mention the Soviet's and see how many blank looks you get.


I'm of that era and I work with a Czech ESL teacher. I continually slip and say "Czechoslovakia". She just smiles at me . . .

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/4/2016 6:13:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		I still say Czechoslovakia from time to time too. My stepmother has a brother who lives in Prague (how you get from Birmingham, AL, to Prague, Czech Republic, must be a long story, but I don't know it).



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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/4/2016 6:16:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		John has been out of town a few days for a family funeral. I think he'll return tonight, so the game will resume.

I think, at the time of his departure, he was rather uncertain what was going on in the Marshalls and why. He'd just expended alot of fuel to surround and scare the Allies into making a mistake. The fact that all of this didn't result in an invasion (well, not yet, by my reckoning) nor a major clash probably left him thinking, "What's going on? Why?"

But I think he'll return energized after giving the game thought for several days. He's probably come up with a new way to attack or to take advantage.

So let's see what happens.

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/4/2016 7:34:02 PM   
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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/4/2016 7:38:59 PM   
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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/4/2016 7:39:48 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58


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ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin


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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

The TV series Wonder Years, about growing up in the '60s, is like a slice right out of my life.

I'm a year older than the moose, having graduated HS in '75.

Aaawww thanks alot to you too.
I really appreciate these recomendations.


If you don't mind spoilers, ten minutes of cuts. The whole movie is NOT about drugs.

Just a lot of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7mCEK2tx7s

Did a quick peak and yep, thats my cup of tea. Thanks again.

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/4/2016 9:02:57 PM   
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Mention the Soviet's and see how many blank looks you get.
When was the last time you saw something touted as solid state electronics?


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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/4/2016 11:27:18 PM   
Bullwinkle58


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Well you guys will be pleased to here then that they changed their name again to Czechia.


Didn't make the papers here. One name change per century. It's a rule.

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/5/2016 12:32:11 AM   
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Mention the Soviet's and see how many blank looks you get.
When was the last time you saw something touted as solid state electronics?



SSD?

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RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent - 5/5/2016 12:56:10 AM   
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It takes place on the last day of school in 1976


Lol...

Speaking of the last day of school in 1976...

I was a freshman in high school (born Mother's Day 1961) and that morning before class I stepped across the street to have a smoke before going in for final exams. (Yea... I started smoking young, but I was hardly alone. Only thing I ever did that I truly regret)

There was another kid out for a smoke, but he didn't have a light. He asked his friends for one, but they teasingly refused to give him one.

So, he wanders over and asks me. I whip out my Zippo and give him one.

Only, it turns out that he wasn't trying to light a cigarette, to my surprise was trying to light a big, fat spliff.

He passes it over to me and, being young and game, I take a hit.

That's when I discovered what the term "Opium dipped Thai stick" meant.

And, one hit was all it took... Except I took about five.

I float into class, the teacher passes out the test, I take a look at it and...

The next thing I knew I was pulling my head up from puddle of drool on my desk. I look at the clock, and there's only about fifteen minutes left from the hour and a half for the class.

I probably burned my chances of Harvard on that day. :)


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