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Post by garnabby on Nov 28, 2017 14:52:12 GMT
LarryS, when the whole world is "fucked up", it's you. And V. Didn't you guys do anything normal kids did, and, hence, still do? Shoot a bird, or nurse one back to health? "Break into" an old, abandoned factory building with walkie talkies? Make a banjo in wood shop class, build a slot-machine from scratch, or enter a town fair contest such as soap carving, or backing up a tractor with a wagon on behind? Read a book on magic? Put a firecracker in a frog? Booby trap something with some long strong thread? Build an eaves dropping device, or miniature UFO hot-air ballon with small candles and a dry cleaner bag? Make a 300-ft copper wire aerial on the top of a 30-ft building to get "all" the radio stations at night when they had the interesting talk shows? Hide under your brother's bed, and wait for him to undress and sit on it before firmly grabbing his angles. Or see (hear) someone break a leg in a soccer game? "Anything goes" stuff. Connections of life. What's up with all that nose-in-the-air ancient stuff about tv no one remembers because it was just on at the time. I think I heard somewhere that cartoons are the first stage in setting our youth on the road to over achieving and producing.
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Post by larryS on Nov 29, 2017 19:54:04 GMT
Remember Romper Room, at the end of the show she would look in a phoney magic mirror....and name the children she sees watching in tv land....and you would wait for her to name your name. And when she did....I was so happy...I would run to my mom and announce that my name was called.
then I would get in my car, and go to work.
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Post by Mrv on Nov 29, 2017 20:24:31 GMT
Down memory lane ...
I had a child's crush on Annette Funicello of "The Mickey Mouse Club" and later I had the hots for Angela Cartwright of "Lost in Space."
Loved all the monster movies and war movies shown on Million Dollar Movie.
Godzilla, Walk in the Sun, Guadalcanal Diary among others.
As I hit adolescence I became a faithful listener of Cousin Brucie on WABC: those transistor radios were quite the ticket back in the day.
I can just see it now: my girlfriend and I lounging around the pool on our beach towels while a guy I know nods out nearby while sniffing Testor's glue out of a paper bag.
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Post by larryS on Nov 29, 2017 20:42:59 GMT
too bad buddy...I was next in line for annette.
But then I dumped her for Ann Margaret when I saw Bye Bye Birdie in 1963...where she played a teen with cleavage.
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Post by larryS on Nov 29, 2017 20:47:41 GMT
Also an obscure one..but a big crush on ann francis...honey west around the same year
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Post by Mrv on Nov 29, 2017 20:51:10 GMT
Let's not forget "Man from U.N.C.L.E."
"Mission Impossible" was very cool, as was "I Spy."
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Post by larryS on Nov 29, 2017 20:51:28 GMT
although there was easier access to annette every day......as well as sally field......
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Post by larryS on Nov 29, 2017 21:00:24 GMT
Yes cousin brucie was a staple for me too, no surprise there. He was on WABC 770. But there was also WMCA AROUND 630 on the dial. Not sure of the exact number....they had "the good guys". I think Jack Spector might have been one of them. Both satios equally good for to 40 before FM took over.
Actual radio personalities..and that crossed over into FM as well.
Now we have a FM station here playing 70's 80's 90's music called JACK FM....and there is no live person talking. Its all pre programmed music, with a producer in the background putting it all together with commercials, promos, etc. Very cost effective. But no "sets" that I enjpyed growing up anywhere to be seen. I think that word is banned from radio. No one knows what a "set" is anymore/
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Post by larryS on Nov 29, 2017 21:05:48 GMT
Let's not forget "Man from U.N.C.L.E." "Mission Impossible" was very cool, as was "I Spy." the avengers....another hottie oh by the when i was looking for Bye Bye Birdie......I came across this well know song from the movie.....and I smiled at the change in terminology toDAY....OF A GIRL GETTING "PINNED"
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Post by Mrv on Nov 29, 2017 21:35:05 GMT
Thinking back, it's funny how things work.
I was clueless about sex but found myself interested in / "attracted" to girls, not guys.
A few of my friends were gay, although I'd no idea of it at the time: I learned this later.
The "gay" friends did arts and crafts stuff, which was OK, but my other friends and I played baseball, football and the like.
I never had (and still do not have) any homosexual tendencies, notwithstanding the fact that some of my best friends while growing up were / turned out to be "queer."
To this day I am very LGBT tolerant, except for one time I went dancing with my first wife in Portland; we wound up at a lesbian bar.
A few patrons took an interest in my wife, surrounded her, and wouldn't let her rejoin me; the biggest bull dyke came over and wanted to kick my ass (she might have been able to, but probably not).
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Post by garnabby on Nov 29, 2017 21:56:28 GMT
I guess not. You have to have had a normal childhood to get out of it.
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Post by garnabby on Nov 29, 2017 21:57:17 GMT
This stuff wouldn't make it on Diversity Tomorrow. But is sure is funny to watch people post link after link, and concomitant gibberish just to prove some sort of weird point. Carry on.
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Post by larryS on Nov 30, 2017 1:22:59 GMT
OF COURSE YOU WERE CLUELESS ABOUT SEX.....we all were. There was no internet. After u move west, when I was in my mid 20s there was Dr Ruth Westheimer who had a weekend show talking frankly about sex in great detail.
I remember listening to the song Lola when it came out and for the life of me couldnt fatham what was being talked about....a woman that talked like a man? What was that all about. I never heard of such a thing.
I looked at david Bowie album covers and wondered if he was some sort of sexual freak? Something I wasnt aware of? Does he like girls? do girls like him?Is he male and female.. I had no clue. Was he gay? Who the fuck knows...I was in the dark about what is gay, or trans-sexual, or trans-gender. I didnt even know the designations, let alone the definitions.
I remember in high school, in science class, the teacher mentioned the word pregnant in a sentence ..and a girl raised her hand and asked...Mr jACKSON...how DOES a girl become pregnant. We were all clueless
There was no cable....and no porn unless you went into NYC to a seedy theater in times square. I did that once and it was creepy.
People were clueless sexually, but then came cable, VHS, and then the internet....and it became very clear.
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Post by larryS on Nov 30, 2017 1:32:00 GMT
I wonder if the snake charmer Jason ever got this
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Post by Mrv on Nov 30, 2017 1:32:07 GMT
My folks never sat me down for a "birds and the bees" discussion: I figured it out on my own.
My first girlfriend was a very cute, big breasted Italian girl whose mother was a night nurse at the VA hospital.
We'd both been raised Catholic and had a strong sense of guilt-driven morality / propriety.
We'd get as far as "second base" but never pushed it beyond that.
The most painful (literally) memory of this time of my life centers on the first and only time we chose to "spend the night together" in her mom's bed while her mom was at work.
We stayed up ALL NIGHT, kissing, caressing but going no further: no third base, no touching of genitals at all, no sexual release.
Not to be too blunt but I'd kept an erection ALL NIGHT while in bed with her; shortly after I left I noticed, once things "calmed down below," that I had a pronounced sensation of pain and discomfort in my crotch.
Obviously I couldn't ask my folks about it, so I just thought I'd somehow injured myself for life.
Hello, blue balls.
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