OK, so maybe I'm just an old fart but...

[Freeebird]

TRANSMISSION TRANSMISSION TRANSMISSION!

You guys are beautiful. Best laugh Gayle and I have had in a long time. I never would have related the trawlerites nickname for a transmission to a transvestite. Let's see, what else has changed.... in 1950 a 'fag' was a cigarette.

Bob
Still waiting for a TRANSMISSION

Hell, I remember when being gay meant you were happy. Call somebody "good buddy" on a CB radio now days and see what happens. These darn kids are ruining everything for us old farts!

 

[bobk]

Hell, I remember when being gay meant you were happy. Call somebody "good buddy" on a CB radio now days and see what happens. These darn kids are ruining everything for us old farts!

Speaking of old farts, has anybody heard from Waltp recently? No answer on his phone.

Bob

 

[Man Hatt'n']

Just stumbled onto a PBS fundraiser show and I am dumbfounded at how clean-cut those early music rock & roll radicals were! I was a kid at the time (Sixties, +/-) and don't have clear recall of watching at the time. The PBS show is touting a bunch of Ed Sullivan clips - The Beatles, Stones, Jim Morrison & the Doors, The Animals - in suits and ties and button-down shirts! Hair that barely touches ears and collars! What was the fuss about? Howard

 

[Trojan]

I guess, I'm according to this thread an old foggy. I loved SOME of the late 50.the 60's. No big bands. The 70's were mostly want-a-bees with mixed crap to make money. Not much good came out of the 70s. I still like Zeppelin.The Beatles Suck big time. They were a product of war babies. If they were to show up again they would be a flop. They were a drastic change just like Elvis was. If you listen to Elvis you can tell he can't sing worth a crap, but I liked him. I like Opera, Old rock and Mid Country. Old Country Sucks and New Country is just Hill-Billy rock. I can't stand my grand kids music. My kids like Country and the Old Rock. What can I say I lived through it all. In general it all depends on what you grew up with. Today I sing mid country. George Jones type. But you will never know what kind of music will emulate from My boat.

BILL

 

[MikeP]

"The Beatles Suck big time. "

LOL!

Funny how opinions/taste vary...

If I had to do the traditional "desert island" with only one artist's music available on my eternally charged Ipod, it would be the Beatles.

 

[rsmith]

Looks like Gilligan got your Ipod.

 

[MikeP]

I'd send it to Apple and demand a replacement!

A quick war story somewhat related...inserted into a hot LZ one day in 1968. After we were down and consolidated, I noticed that my Seiko watch had actually taken a piece of shrapnel into the face, destroying the watch and luckily leaving my wrist untouched.

My comment was, "Damn, this thing says 'shockproof,' I guess it isn't!" We were laughing about that when one of my squad leaders suggested I ship it to Seiko with a note about being disappointed about it's "durability." So I packed it in an empty C-rat box and a few days later when a resupply chopper showed up, I gave it to one of the door gunners, asking him to figure out how to ship it to Seiko with my note in the box.

About 3 weeks later I got a small package on another resupply chopper - a new Seiko from the factory! I suspect Apple would not do the same thing!

FWIW, back then Seiko watches were not in the US. The only people that had them were US military in the far east since they were available in the PX. In fact, for a couple of years, if we saw a non-military person in the US with a Seiko watch we'd ask (humorously, of course) "Where the heck did you get that watch, were you in Vietnam?"

 

[rsmith]

Good story Mike . Seems like support isn't what it used to be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRjuQGMvSQo