Banzai said:

You guys struck a chord with me here. Ahhhhh, those seventies. I finished high school a year early, did a term in the Navy (Saigon was falling and they were pushing helicoptors off carrier flight decks into the ocean to make room for the refugees),

It was a hoot!

-Banzai

Well spoken, Banzai!

The carrier flight deck that you speak of was the USS Midway and I, personally, was aboard her then!

That operation was known as “Operation Frequent Wind” and you can Google it to see a bunch of images from the time. Also, I am in several of those images (tho, quite a bit younger and fitter than now!)

During those three days of operations, South Vietnam President Thieu (or something like that - I never COULD speak or spell the lingo!) - flew onboard with hundreds of pounds of heroin. He was planning to use it as cash in the States. It went over the side along with his helicopter.

It was an amazing time, all right. Every few years I pull out the old cruise book to reminisce!

Thanks for the reminder.

Bulldog

As a woman, you are highly bitchy, short-sighted, small-minded, and liable to be a Lumberjack Lesbian, because as all real men know, the first thing a dyke desperately wants, but can never have, is a mans’ dick, so they MUST make fun of it…..

So much for your gay argument…….fag.

Buy this book, because it pisses off retards that want to run your life because they exist and own vaginas. Even someone as weak as Sandy has hope, but stupidity by choice is pathetic, which IS possible, as she proves.

You sound like an interesting guy, and as a fellow geezer we probably have something to talk about. Drop me a line — you can find it in the man forums.

Peter Frampton “wanted you to show him the way”, big bags of pot were called lids cost about 10 bucks (that’s about 4 fingers worth), the movie deep throat was all the rage and had to be seen in the “pussy cat” theater cause video was not consumer ready yet.

You never wanted to shake anyones hand in one of those places, especially Peewee Hermans.

We wore Levy bell bottoms and rode Harleys that you actually had to kick start and had no suspension. gas was around 45 cents a gallon, anything on the menu at taco bell was .25 cents and you could get a bell-beefer sandwhich (taco-bell, bring those fuckers back).

I had a mustche then as I do now exceept now it’s gray. I still look bitchin albiet my well earned beer belly.

Did you notice, I haven’t mentioned women yet and probably won’t because they were so insignificant then and didn’t matter maybe except to “suck start” your harley (HeHeHe).

Spoke too soon, porn was in its infancy and the women didn’t work out or use silicone. They had big natural boobs and big fuckin hairy bushes! There was a hep-cat named Russ Meyer that made these great big boob movies. If you can still find them, it’d be worth your while to roll them.

There were only two major contributions that I can recall through my drug induced haze that women did, one was to burn their bras.

I really don’t know what the significance of that was except to liberate their boobies from the man-made constraints, but let me tell you brother, boobs were flowing like beer at an Octoberfest in germany.

ACHTUNG BABY!

Linda Lovelace made the other contribution. She showed the world what could be done if a woman put her head to it. “Deep-Throat” became synonamous with all things naughty.

She could actually swallow a 13 inch kielbasa and not choke, amazing! I am told she practiced on bananas, cucumbers and Harry Reems.

Women didn’t land on the moon, find a cure for polio or win the brickyard 500.

There you have it, two contributions by women in a decade!

I don’t remember disco. I was over seas when it was popular in the U.S and returned state side when it got popular over there. I was also abroad during the bicentenial year.

I did have the most killer stereo system though. Unfortunately, vacume-tubes were becoming unpopular then and were replaced by refrigerater sized, solid state receivers.

They were loud, reliable and rock-solid. You could power a stadium with them, spill beer all over them and they would come back for more!

We’d buy them overseas and ship them back for cheap and they lasted and lasted. You can find good stuff on ebay if you know what you’re looking for.

What are high priced classics today were cheap everyday transpo then. I drove a ‘69 chevelle “SS” 396 (400 hp) and you could actually watch the gas gauge needle drop at a stop light, run the quarter mile in under 10 seconds and at .45 cents a gallon, who gave a shit!

Thanks for the walk down mamary lane.

It was a hoot!

-Banzai

I could never grasp the concept of burning water either, but I’ve seen many women who were exceptional at it. LOL!

- behrouz - looking for a face

Sam Adams said:And I don’t know any women who are really into good sound reproduction. What the hell is wrong with them?

No Y chromosone.

My brother still has a mid-line Pioneer stereo he bought in 1980 and it works perfectly. A young friend of mine bought a circa 1974 Marantz 4270 which he regards as the centerpiece of his home entertainment system. And I have my dad’s set of speakers he bought in 1975 and they produce a sound matched in my opinion only by few modern speakers. None of this really proves anything, it just represents my blowhard opinion.

But you’re right, playing audio then required expensive equipment to get good fidelity, and if you had a crappy turntable, your top of the line amplifier and speakers still sounded like crap. CD / DVD technology is a godsend.

And I don’t know any women who are really into good sound reproduction. What the hell is wrong with them?

Really? Surely for an audiophile, the pinnacle (for analog sound reproduction) in amplifiers was reached in the 60’s with relatively reliable tube designs. For playback, probably a clean well-made stable 18-bit DAC setup from CD. Or maybe DVD-DA. Maybe. And speakers? I don’t know. I’m happy with mine from the 90’s, but I sure can’t hear to 20k anymore. But some of the boutique speaker manufacturers in the 70’s were pretty good, I’ll grant that.

Sorry, for me when I think “hi-fi” and the 70’s I think vinyl records, cassette tape, and 8-track. But I missed a good part of the 70’s.

Of course, women had nothing to do with anything of the above either, so your central point holds.

Best,
-wolfe

Anyway, enjoy.

Good: Kick ass rock and roll with fireworks and laser showsBad: Disco

Good: PunkBad: Glam rock

Good: The drugs were really, really goodBad: The drugs were TOO good. Killed or damaged a lot of people who just wanted to have fun

Good: Civil rights movementBad: Women’s lib

Good: Watergate, Nixon resigningBad: Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter

Good: Hooking up with chicks using your CB radioBad: (1) Having to hear ever-fucking-body say “That’s a big ten-four, buddy”. (2) “Convoy” by CW McCall. Fucked up song.

Good: “Enter The Dragon” and the Kung Fu series with David CarradineBad: Every numbnuts on the street acting like Bruce Lee

Good: Herpes was about the worst STD you could getBad: Herpes epidemic

Good: Most broads still knew their place despite the “women’s lib” thing, and most hot chicks went without brasBad: The phrase “male chauvinist pig”

Good: Muscle carsBad: (1) The “energy crisis” that killed the muscle car. (2) Chrysler “K” car

Good: The drinking age in most states was 18Bad: Most US beer wasn’t worth drinking

Good: Porn started to become socially acceptableBad: There were a LOT of bad porn movies

Good: The Star Wars movesBad: Obsessive Star Wars fans

Good: Almost every movie rated “M” (now called “PG”) and “R” had lots of tits in themBad:

Good: The best home stereos ever made (many still working perfectly today)Bad: No downside — those fucking stereos ROCKED!

Good: Everyone smoked weedBad: Everyone smoked weed

If it was a male cop who just snatched some girl off her bike and threw her down you’d all know about it because the news cunts would be whining 24/7.

Just like the Don Imus “tragedy”.

-Dick

Dick Masterson said:

The ERA didn’t happen.

-Dick

True. It needed a 2/3rds majority of states to ratify it, and it failed by two or three.

son of the suns said:

I hope the drugs were worth it because the equal rights amendment wouldn’t have happened if men alive then were smacking women into place and winning southeast Asia. Instead of getting high.

The ERA didn’t happen.

-Dick