Random (but not really)

Thanks Jim!

For putting this song in my head.

(Because)

12 Responses to “Thanks Jim!”

  1. Jim Wright Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 11:25 am

    There are days (a lot of them actually) where I’m glad I missed the 80’s

  2. Michelle Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 11:31 am

    Now see, I think been a teen in the 70s would have been much worse. :)

  3. Jim Wright Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 11:43 am

    Seen “That 70’s show?” Shudder, yeah, I lived that.

    People who wax nostalgic for bellbottoms and Farrah Fawcett Hair are just goofy.

  4. Michelle Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 11:48 am

    I remember the 70s as a child. With a kind of sick fascination. :)

  5. kim Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 11:56 am

    Looking back on pictures from the 80’s, i just can’t think as to why our parents let us go out in public with hair like that! (i had the cyndi lauper look…half shaved head..purple hair….)

  6. Michelle Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 11:58 am

    I think I prefer my weird hair (which was pretty much accidental, to be honest) to being able to tell you what underwear the majority of female students prefer. (Victoria’s secret. Primarily thongs.)

  7. Jim Wright Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    Urg! The “Whale Tail,” I could really live without that. And those dammed lowrider jeans girls wear today - it’s like an outbreak of “Plumber’s Crack.” I simply can’t understand why you’d want you asscrack hanging out. I’m always temped to dump my spare change down into it ;)

    On the other hand, a couple of years ago when I was assigned to USS Valley Forge, we were tied to the pier in San Diego. Across the quay, the USS Bonhomme Richard was returning from a deployment and the pier was filled with wives, girl friends, and families. I was standing on the bow of Valley Forge with a number of my crew, and below us on the pier were two remarkably well endowed young ladies - both sporting the thonged whale tail. One of them dropped her cell phone, bent over to pick it up - and one my crewmates became so distracted that he tripped and fell into the anchor chain penstock (the large hole that allows the anchor chain to pass through the side of the ship’s hurricane bow). We managed to grab him before he fell 40 feet onto the concrete pilings below.

    Seriously, the thong is a public danger.

  8. Michelle Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 1:11 pm

    (laugh)

    I will definitely have to add danger to public safety to my list of why low-rider pants are horrific.

    Though if you think they’re bad just as a general rule, let me remind you that I live on one of the heaviest states in the nation.

    Sad thing is so many of those women would be beautiful if they wore something just the slightest bit flattering. (sigh)

  9. Tania Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    I kinda miss the weird haircuts and fun colors of the 80s. Then again, I did ok on the music quiz.

    I’m with Michelle. I was trying to find a friend of ours at about 1 AM a month or so ago, and ended up in a bar that I would never go to (I’m over 30, too old). This really cute girl had the most unfortunate muffin-top I have ever seen with her too tight low riders. If they had been a size or two bigger she could have pulled it off and looked as good as a girl can in low riders. But Muffin Top and Bum Cleavge just made it look rather sad and unfortunate. Poor kid.

  10. Vince Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

    Now see, I think been a teen in the 70s would have been much worse

    Musically, disco sucked. But look at this great music from the 70s:

    Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here
    Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsies
    Bob Marley - Natty Dread, Exodus
    Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
    Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
    Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
    Queen - A Day At The Races
    Leonard Cohen - New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Songs of Love and Hate
    Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
    The Clash - The Clash (The 1977 UK version, not the revised 1979 US release), London Calling
    Jethro Tull - Aqualung, Thick as a Brick
    Aerosmith - Aerosmith, Toys In The Attic
    Lou Reed - Rock ‘n Roll Animal
    Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo
    Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
    AC/DC - Highway to Hell
    The Boomtown Rats - Tonic for the Troops, The Fine Art of Surfacing
    Led Zeppelin - IV, Physical Graffiti
    The Who - Who’s Next
    Bob Marley & the Wailers - Natty Dread, Exodus
    Blondie - Parallel Lines
    Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True Deluxe
    The Eagles - Hotel California
    Dire Straits - Dire Straits
    The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St.
    Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
    Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
    Bruce Springsteen - Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town

    And that’s just a sample.

  11. MWT Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    Lowriders drive me nuts. Why would anyone want to emphasize their love handles and hip fat by turning them into misshapen blobs pouring out the top of the pants?

  12. Michelle Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    Bum cleavage. Heh! Except that it’s not so funny in person. And I unfortunately see that all the time. (sigh)

    Vince, some of that I like, but others…AC/DC? Yetch.Ted Nuget? No thank you. Led Zeppelin and Eagles–entirely too overplayed.

    I have a good friend who adores Bruce. Me? He’s fine, but not a favorite.

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