March 1968 non sequiturs

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etaoin22 · #1 Post by **etaoin22** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:16 pm

LBJ quit at the end of the month.

I had fixed up an old tube radio with tubes I could still buy at the drugstore at the shopping center (didnt call them "malls" yet in Canada), not that difficult, mostly looking through the long list of alphanumeric tube designations, once you figured out which one was gone.

It picked up WJR and WABC like the dickens.

The Tigers were obviously up to something very special in spring training, and the broadcasters felt it.

Interestingly, best young pitcher that spring was Les "Sugar" Cain IIRC, and I dont know whatever happened to him..

peacock2121 · #2 Post by **peacock2121** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:33 am

I was sure I would never, ever have a boyfriend and that nobody liked me.

I tried out for cheerleading and was rejected.

I hoped that once I turned 13, life would alter.

Beebs52 · #3 Post by **Beebs52** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:49 pm

I was at Everett High and trying to get over a pixie haircut.

silvercamaro · #4 Post by **silvercamaro** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:51 pm

I was cool. I thought I was, anyway.

ontellen · #5 Post by **ontellen** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:52 pm

I was living in a house with 5 other girls and we sure partied on. I had just started dating David.

christie1111 · #6 Post by **christie1111** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:53 pm

In Sept of this year I was bitten by a german shepard so badly that I coould not walk for 2 weeks or go to school for a month.

But I began swimming as therapy, something I have continued to enjoy

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #7 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:56 pm

I was still wearing diapers, or was not born yet, depending on how old I feel.

Beebs52 · #8 Post by **Beebs52** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:57 pm

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I was still wearing diapers, or was not born yet, depending on how old I feel.

Blasphemy, I tell you! Or heresy. Or something. Oh dear.

T_Bone0806 · #9 Post by **T_Bone0806** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:59 pm

I was in 5th grade. This would be about the time when Charlie R. asked me if I knew what a Trojan was. I said, yeah, it's that wooden horse that those guys hid in.

Nowadays a 1st grader would laugh at that answer.

Beebs52 · #10 Post by **Beebs52** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:01 pm

T_Bone0806 wrote:I was in 5th grade. This would be about the time when Charlie R. asked me if I knew what a Trojan was. I said, yeah, it's that wooden horse that those guys hid in.

Nowadays a 1st grader would laugh at that answer.

So, there were no Underoos involved yet? Just regular ol' unnerwears?

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #11 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:02 pm

T_Bone0806 wrote:I was in 5th grade. This would be about the time when Charlie R. asked me if I knew what a Trojan was. I said, yeah, it's that wooden horse that those guys hid in.

Nowadays a 1st grader would laugh at that answer.

Wasn't there a movie, where some high school student told an adult that condoms were for filling up and using to scare off squirrels.

I think that it was Summer of '42.

T_Bone0806 · #12 Post by **T_Bone0806** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:04 pm

Beebs52 wrote:
T_Bone0806 wrote:I was in 5th grade. This would be about the time when Charlie R. asked me if I knew what a Trojan was. I said, yeah, it's that wooden horse that those guys hid in.

Nowadays a 1st grader would laugh at that answer.
So, there were no Underoos involved yet? Just regular ol' unnerwears?

I don't think Underoos had been invented yet. That's why I had to make up for my deprived childhood.

Before anyone says it, that's deprIved, not deprAved.

T_Bone0806 · #13 Post by **T_Bone0806** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:06 pm

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
T_Bone0806 wrote:I was in 5th grade. This would be about the time when Charlie R. asked me if I knew what a Trojan was. I said, yeah, it's that wooden horse that those guys hid in.

Nowadays a 1st grader would laugh at that answer.
Wasn't there a movie, where some high school student told an adult that condoms were for filling up and using to scare off squirrels.

I think that it was Summer of '42.

I knew what they were by high school at least.

I read a lot.

Beebs52 · #14 Post by **Beebs52** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:07 pm

T_Bone0806 wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
T_Bone0806 wrote:I was in 5th grade. This would be about the time when Charlie R. asked me if I knew what a Trojan was. I said, yeah, it's that wooden horse that those guys hid in.

Nowadays a 1st grader would laugh at that answer.
Wasn't there a movie, where some high school student told an adult that condoms were for filling up and using to scare off squirrels.

I think that it was Summer of '42.
I knew what they were by high school at least.

I read a lot.

Me, too. That was my line!