Let’s do the time warp again!
Walter Cronkite is all over my TV set. The Watergate Hotel is back in the news. Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the walk on the moon. And Tom Watson is leading the British Open. Are we back in the ’70s?
I just hope this doesn’t mean they’re bringing disco back.
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josef nix
July 19th, 2009
1:40 pm
It never fails that when I post something which seems to have no connection whatsoever with the topic, it winds up top of page 2…
Skip
July 19th, 2009
1:52 pm
Josef shouldn’t you be out robbing, stealing, raping, or killing?
Terry
July 19th, 2009
1:57 pm
We had another Reagan, he was named W thats how we got in this mess
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
2:00 pm
Skip @ 1:52
“Josef shouldn’t you be out robbing, stealing, raping, or killing?”
To those just now tuning in to this page only, this comment does have some relevance to something said earlier and does relate in a fashion to the topic at hand…
Skip–if I weren’t in such a good mood and if I didn’t believe in civil discourse, I would respond; but to what end, I know not.
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
2:02 pm
JAY–take a look at the exchange with Skip, then take a look at what the AJC moderator keeps holding up.
Bosch
July 19th, 2009
2:08 pm
joseph,
I’m fine. Thanks for asking. Laying off the hot sauce for now.
The Rapture is an evolution of thought dating back to the Puritans. I think. As I’ve often said on the old blog, I wish the rapture would hurry up and happen and take all the fundies away so the rest of us can live in peace.
wet wiccan
July 19th, 2009
2:15 pm
Personally, I liked the 70s, at least the first half. I was young, in great shape, turned more than a few heads, my whole life was ahead of me. They say you are only young once, but if you do it right, once is enough!
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
2:18 pm
BOSCH–thanks for the answer. That, too, would stand to reason. I will go back start there. I knew that it became a phenominon with the Great Awakening and I’ve been researching the mutations undergone in the South in relation to that event.
There’s a bridge in New Orleans called the Rapture bridge. It’s one of those “hump” bridges. Going up, the traffic is bumper to bumper, but coming down, it’s all cleared out. Locals claim the only explanation is that the rapture is taking place at the top. The I-10 bridge over Pontchartrain has two-humps side by side and is called the Dolly Parton bridge!
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
2:22 pm
wet wiccan–ain’t it the truth! My 70s experience was like yours. I had a ball and regret nothing and given the chance would do it again pretty much the same way.
Kamchak
July 19th, 2009
2:24 pm
josef
I do see a pattern—your moderated comments generally occur during dialog with me and on the weekends
Kamchak
July 19th, 2009
2:29 pm
dialogue–trying to learn how to use firefox. Where is spell check on firefox?
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
2:29 pm
Kamchak–and they have a common theme…two Southern liberals trying to intellectually discuss what it means in cultural terms above and beyond a discussion of the “colorful people” or “inbred miscreants” perameters…
Scooter
July 19th, 2009
2:36 pm
High josef,
Like you and wet wiccan I had some of the best times of my life in the 70’s. I got out of the military in 72 and had a BLAST! Like AmVet, not to big on Disco. Did the Honky Tonk thing, never could dance.
Dusty
July 19th, 2009
2:36 pm
Well, it looks like dull day at Dimsville here today. But I have come fully prepared to BLOG!! Yes, indeed!
I have removed my Sunday go-to-meeting dress ( the pink chiffon with the big rose bonnet). I came home full of peace and charm BUT…NOW… I am wearing my helmet, bullet proof vest and son’s old army boots. Ready for attack! Anyone who quetions MY integrity is gonna get it with my personal AK55 late model water gun. And it’s a killer so watch your step, Bubs and Bublettes. I am on full alert..
Today’s subject is DISCO. Disco?? Isn’t that something you put in biscuits to make them tender? Come onnnnn. Toss your “walkers” aside and live it up! Even someone as old as RedNeck (Mexican War vet) is trying to do Michael’s moon walk or what ever that dance was that caught his hair on fire. Maybe we can get Bookman to try that one so we can get a little excitement going here.
Well, I am enjoying this “global warming” just like Andy. I had to pull up my star blaze quilt last night and that was kinda hard since it was in the closet. But I’m not complaining. We don’t have air conditioning. Who needs it? If global warming continues I may build a fire.
But…we will probably have a hurricane soon. Everytime I plan to go to the beach, ZIP, comes a hurricane. We were hanging on to the beach condo at Tybee last year just to keep from getting blown to Savannah. Nothing like living it up at the beach.
Oh yes, there was a question about rapture. I think you can get one down at Smoothie Sam’s with whipped cream if you pay extra. Maybe josef should try it instead of drinking all evening on the veranda.
Normal and Boschi should be here soon. Then we can talk about ‘Nam and cheesy shrimp. I love it when we get all in-telect-chul like josef. He learns a lot from us.
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
2:36 pm
An observation–the Mexican roofers (and yes, I know they were Mexican, recognize the accent) came in at 9:00 a.m., stripped the old roof, put on a new one and had it done and the yard cleaned to a fair thee well and were gone by 2:00 p.m. Neighbors down the way hired a non Mexican crew and it took two days.
Scooter
July 19th, 2009
2:40 pm
Bosch no surgery I take it? Too bad about the hot sauce!
Kamchak
July 19th, 2009
2:41 pm
josef
So…is the spam filter a “colorful person” or an “inbred miscreant”?
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 19th, 2009
2:42 pm
Some day I’ll discuss our supposed Puritan heritage but today I don’t have time. It’ll be along the lines of Josef’s post that was help up for days.
Good day, all.
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 19th, 2009
2:43 pm
*held up
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
2:45 pm
Hey Dusty–glad you’re here. I’m going to have to check out in a minute (the Russians are coming) but I know you’ll liven things up unless you get put in Moderation or sent to your room with no cheesy grits. Haven’t hear from Normal today round here. Hope he’s okay. Leave me be, sippin’ on the verandah. It keeps me out of trouble, but I do keep the garden hose handy just in case and the Unmentionable does have his bb gun he claims is to run of the squirrels, but I got my doubts. Seen some quibbles today, but they were the yellow-bellied kind. Keep ‘em honest! And, in all seriousness, I DO learn a lot from y’all.
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
2:48 pm
Kamchak–evidently not! I have pulled the posts up and since I have nothing else to do next week am going to analyze them and see what I find…
wet wiccan
July 19th, 2009
2:48 pm
I am no Bible scholar, but I think the rapture is just wishful thinking on the part of some. The church (true believers) have never escaped persecution or martyrdom in the past, why should the end of the world be any different? Rev. 6:10-11 seems to suggest that the church will still be here in the days of the great tribulation.
Scooter
July 19th, 2009
2:49 pm
Dusty hey, you may be a little confused. MJ wasn’t moon walking when his hair caught on fire. He was running and singing “Beat It”.
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
2:50 pm
Kamchak–methinks moderator is a carpetbag-scalawag!
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
2:54 pm
wet wiccan @ 2:48–thanks…and that’s where “how long, oh, L-rd” comes from, use it all the time and never knew I was quoting the Book of Revelation.
AmVet
July 19th, 2009
2:57 pm
Well, I can tell you that that virtual censoring b@st@rd rejects that most vile name of Joe C0cker. (You gotta use a 0 instead of an o!)
Scooter, your posts reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Homer ponders whether 1972 or 1973 was the best year for rock and roll.
Years later I learned that both the greatest album of the era (arguably) Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon as well as IMHO the penultimate LP of that era – in terms of sonically demonstrating how the world was changing by the minute even within an album – Todd Rundgren’s A Wizard/A True Star were both started in 72 and finished in 73.
Definitive proof that there is no answer, Homer.
@@
July 19th, 2009
3:04 pm
Getalife:
About the investigation of that “secret” assassination program? How could it have been so secret if the New York Times did a piece on it back in Dec. 2002? It was in the Times for the whole world to see!
Now I know our reps in congress have an aversion towards reading but I’m guessing they DO READ the NYT. Bills? Barely if ever.
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
3:07 pm
Am Vet–you’ll get no argument out of me on Dark Side of the Moon…
josef nix
July 19th, 2009
3:09 pm
out of here for the time being…y’all be nice, now, y’heah
Dusty
July 19th, 2009
3:25 pm
josef,
you cannot run off and leave this scintillating blog. From what I read, you are quite welcome to borrow my bullet proof vest temporarily. There seems to be a scalawag of some kind around.here.
Would you mind if I borrow Unmention’s BB gun? I have a big unusual brown with white tummy squirrel whom I think is a pig in disguise. He eats 90% of the bird food. Yesterday he was rappeling up the feeder wire and could hardly make it he is so fat. He also gets in fights with the gray squirrels. My backyard seems to be the local wildlife zoo. I get all the crazy ones. The neighbors say there is a ooyote around. Now that is too much!!
By the way, I grew up in a SC town of seven thousand. Went to the Methodist church faithfully. Went “up north” for “higher edjucashun”. Came home and married a Lutheran. Still a Lutheran and never once have I heard rapture mentioned at church. It is in the dictionary in general terms but it was not “general” in the church I now attend or before. Just one more point on the “rapture”.
SCOOTER, please excuse my misinformation on MJ. My knowledge of him is somewhat limited. He was quite a performer from all accounts. Just like Elvis, I never found either of them “interesting “. Oh well, millions did for both of them.
Well, let me get busy. Tomorrow I leave for a few days in North Carolina. Good SC peaches on the way. Big time in them thar hills. Where is that suitcase??
getalife
July 19th, 2009
3:33 pm
@@,
The point of the investigation was not briefing Congress but think it will end up in a torture investigation.
Redneck Convert
July 19th, 2009
3:34 pm
Well, what a bummer. This tall lanky guy from Duluth won the British Open. Duluth–half redneck and half rich people. Not like Johns Creek where there’s nothing but rich people. Anyway when they give away the trophy I was expecting a fancy jacket or something like that. But all they give the guy was a old, beat-up pitcher they call a cup. I’d hate to drink my coffee out of that thing.
This bunch lost me when they started talking about Pink Floyd. What kind of homo calls hisself Pink Floyd? At least I can remember the 70s. Lots of lines at the gas station and you had to spend your money fast before it was worthless. Auto loans were at about 17% and there wasn’t hardly any jobs. Our president talked about the lust in his heart and he got into a battle with a rabbit. You can have the 70s, I don’t want them.
Well, time to go down to Ryans and then take a nap and get ready for work tomorrow. I hope nobody takes the Whiner’s bet. He don’t pay off if he loses. Just ask getalife. Have a good p.m. everybody.
RW-(the original)
July 19th, 2009
3:42 pm
Kamchak,
Click on tools then options then advanced. You should see a box that says “check my spelling as I type” or something like that. Check that box and then spelling errors will be underlined in red when you type them.
wet wiccan
July 19th, 2009
3:44 pm
Dusty, enjoy your vacation!!
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 19th, 2009
3:46 pm
2. You are a regular (at least once weekly) contributor to a political, economics or science blog with an Alexa traffic global ranking of 50,000 or lower.
Look, y’all, I’m doing everything I can to get bookman’s hit count up, because I’m such a stand up guy, but is it my fault that he cuts and pastes socialist propaganda from the democrat talking point memos that no one wants to read?
And look at this
http://www.wunderground.com/US/MN/Minneapolis.html
the high temp in Minn/ Minn was 77 degrees, and the average for this time of year is 82.4, so your hack would have owed me 25 bucks on Day #1.
And do tell, stooges, I can I “welch” when you are the ones that owe me money?
welchers
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 19th, 2009
3:48 pm
how can I welch, when you owe, geez.
TnGelding
July 19th, 2009
3:57 pm
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 19th, 2009
11:23 am
I took advantage of the cooler weather and turned the A/C off Friday when the sun went down and opened some windows and doors since we had been doing some painting. Haven’t turned it back on….yet.
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 19th, 2009
4:22 pm
Mark Steyn: Yes, it’s interesting. Barbara Boxer, she slaps down a senior military officer for having the impertinence to call her ma’am, and she punches his lights out for that, rhetorically, because she obviously feels she’s being condescended to, that this officer only sees her as a woman. And yet the minute she sees a black guy sitting in front of her talking about energy, she starts quoting the NAACP at him, as if you can only balance one negro’s view with the view of a more acceptable negro. I mean, this is the kind of grotesque, racial politics in which the contemporary Democratic Party is marinated. It’s basically a kind of progressive apartheid where as long as you remain the house pets of liberalism, you’ll be regarded as an approved spokesperson of your identity group. But God forbid you should ever have a dissident free thought of your own that doesn’t conform to the role they’ve allotted you as the approved identity group pets of their party.
And the House Pets have the nerve to call Republicans “racist.”
Unreal
Dusty
July 19th, 2009
4:37 pm
Making progress.
Found suitcase..
Found a quibble, brown with white tummy.
(josef, your quibble was a phony.)
Fear not the “Moderation”
RW will fix it. Until then
Go to tools, then fools, the the big BO
Use “Sweetly Underarms”
No more moderation!!
Thanks, wet wiccan, for the good wishes.
It will be fun.
If I get a speeding ticket,
I will call Angry Black Man.
He will set them straight. Yes!
Now to find some clean clothes to pack!!
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 19th, 2009
5:12 pm
Let’s check in and see how the democrat’s health care bill is coming along-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6SMli3ZrUA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideosearch%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DBell%2520Boeing%2520Osprey%2520V22%2520test%2520crash%26sourceid%3Dnavclient-ff%26rlz%3D1B3GGGL_enUS28&feature=player_embedded
Aww, that’s too bad.
TnGelding
July 20th, 2009
5:46 am
I Report (-: You Whine )-:
July 19th, 2009
5:12 pm
Well, it won’t be the end of the world if nothing gets passed. It’s a complex, contentious issue.