49 Comments on 1977- The world looks mighty good to me
Yum.
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Married my 1st ex wife that year.
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I married my wife on Sept. 11, 1977. I was 24 and she was 21. Bought our first house for $17,500 and our house payment was $152 per month.
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Life sure went by quick.
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January 1977 packed up a UHaul and moved from China Lake to DC. Very cold year. Mississippi River was frozen over. Roots was first airing. And Hotel California would fade out on one radio station and would resume playing when you picked up the next station. After that cross country trip I never wanted to hear that song again.
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I was nine. Remember trying to build a car model while hearing my older sister listening to Styx and Boston. Over. And over. And over. Had pretty much given up watching Six Million Dollar Man by that point, except for the one with Bigfoot. That was an event, yessir.
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I remember 1977 for the worst winter I’ve seen in Cleveland. Really cold, blizzards and 15 foot snow drifts. I was still a year away from meeting my wife.
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Anon above wuz me.
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Dammit. I just had an attack for the old style ham salad the butchers sold in delis in the 70’s.
A pox upon you all!
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Heater on the UHaul broke and we froze until we got to Memphis to get it fixed. What a miserable trip. Sick as a dog throughout, 3 unrestrained cats in the cab of the truck with a litter box on the passenger side floor.
That trip lasted through two presidencies. Ford was President when we left. Carter was sworn in as we rolled into Virginia.
1977? Not a great year.
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Reboot – Around here it was Lawson’s chip chopped ham, their sour cream chip dip and their famous advertisements for the Big O.
Glad to see I’m not the only one with a 9/11 wedding anniversary.
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1977? Let’s see, I was a Masshole with a wife, a kid, a converted summer cottage for a house that (thank God) made it thru another winter. Oh yeah, we had one of the biggest Massholes that ever walked the Earth for Governor, Mike Dukakis who the following winter, would f*ck up so bad during the blizzard of ’78 that it’s still used as a lesson today. Good times, goooood times.
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1977 – -3 1/2 years after returning from VN, Jimmy, my Team Mate,was MIA/KIA for just over 5 years, pissed off and bitter, Married, 2 children, full-time student, Junior year at College on the GI Bill, sold everything I had of value, living from hand to mouth, fishing, gardening and odd jobs to make ends meet. I thought the struggles would never end, many did, others took their place.
Most of my life-long and college friends are no longer here.
Today is a tough day.
Memorial Day Melancholy. My apologies. Miss you Jimmy, may you be repatriated home and bring closure to your family and friends.
Blessings upon those who were here before us and the life they provided us. May our children and their children’s children be so fortunate.
Blessings.
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The reason we got married on Sept. 11, 1977 was it was the day after my wife’s 21st birthday, she wanted it that way.
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1977 was a good year for us. God blessed us with our son and a 39-year career running trains with the ATSF/BNSF railroad.
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Our first car was a 1975 Honda Civic CVCC hatchback which I had bought a year before and paid for in part by selling a Martin D 18 guitar. When I told her later that I had sold the Martin guitar to pay for the Honda she wasn’t too happy with me as she was a very good guitar player. I should’ve kept the guitar because that little Honda wasn’t all that great of a car and well the Martin guitar is probably worth more now than what I paid for the Honda. At least she forgave me. Geoff the aardvark again, I keep forgetting to log in correctly.
Was in the USAF. Bought my first new car, a plain jane 1977 Toyota Corolla at Old Mill Toyota in Omaha. It cost $3998.00 drive out. I put 81K miles on it and sold it four years later for $3100. Left the USAF, moved back to Texas and went to work for Pennwalt Corp. making ethyl mercaptan (very nasty stuff).
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Had my first son in 1977. Great year! Lived outside of Cleveland and worked as a telephone operator when the worst snowstorm I’ve ever experienced hit. It was so bad, the company had to send around the line trucks to pick us up and get us to work. Literally got snowed out of my house for two days because I couldn’t get down my street and neither could the snow plows.
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1977, I graduated from an excellent public HS in Delaware.
It offered: 22 AP courses, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Latin (I took 5 yrs), excellent annual Musical, had one of the first and few HS radio stations, great coaches and sports teams, large band, computer programming club, auto shop that serviced the faculty’s cars, football games attended by thousands, class size of 450, had around 30 black fellow students and no race issues.
The next year federally mandated busing began, despite massive community protests that insisted that integrating more blacks into our school would help all. Instead kids were bussed out and in at great expense, all after-school programs were trashed, excellent curriculum was gone, kids rode buses 2 hrs each way daily to schools that became prisons.
With the public school system executed, the drain on DE began taking it from The Diamond State to the shithole that spewed out Biden who disgraced the nation by occupying and defiling the 2nd highest public office.
PS Race problems grew until Wilmington (formerly the Chemical Capital of the World, was crowned “Murdertown USA” and the pols made every attempt to deny that even though, per capita, it was more deadly that living in Bagdad during Shock and Awe. WPD officers twisted the city logo, “A place to be somebody” (gawd) to “A place to be somebody in a chalk outline”.
Liberalism is more destructive than the Black Death.
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Rat Fink, just read your posts. Lawson’s had THE BEST chip dip, and I can still sing the Big O commercial!
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I was 12 and was too busy with barn work and the milking to worry about Tootsie Rolls. Dad was driving truck full-time and I was stuck with 39 head of cattle to tend to along with going to school. I hated it then but would give anything to travel back in time now.
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Graduated high school that year, graduating class of 21. Had my first car, a purple and white four door Ford falcon, a real chick magnet.
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Anonymous – I musta had the same 1975 Honda Civic CVCC hatchback you did cuz that thing was the big turd I’ve ever owned in my whole half century of driving! Nice when it worked, but holy mackerel was it ever unreliable! Had it for a year and a half – has engine problems, transmission problems, brake issues, failed bearings, bad wiring, etc. Got rid of it cuz I got tired of paying for towing and riding a bike when I needed to go somewhere!
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’77 – Birth of our 3rd.
While stationed at NavSecGru command at Homestead AFB, it snowed in Miami. It was the start of the next ice age!!!
Climatologists and Time mag said so.
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I was 12 and had such a fun summer that year. My best friend’s family had a cottage out in the country and on the water and we spent many hours swimming in the river and fishing from the pier, walking dirt roads to go to the candy store and one of the best things was a new soft serve ice cream stand had just opened and all summer long they served towering cones of ice cream. Heaven.
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“Liberalism is more destructive than the Black Death.”
Plagues eventually burn themselves out. Leftism spreads incessantly until it’s destroyed or conquers all.
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Love reading the comments. The Seventies is my favorite decade and ’77 in particular my favorite year (various reasons, mainly music). I was 12, My first concert was that year: Rush, at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago (Farewell to Kings tour). One day I want to have a man-cave that is all ’70s décor. Shag carpet, lots of greenish, sculptured upholstery, maybe some paneling on a wall…a great place for my vintage hi-fi and Zenith console stereo.
My first car was the 1976 Honda CVCC! I bought it in ’83 when I graduated high school, paid $350.00 for it.
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Elvis also died that August in 1977 (too many jelly donuts, fried p’nut butter and banana sandwiches, drugs etc. did him in) I remember some women I worked with at the time at a state institution for the handicapped and disabled were extremely distraught when he died. I don’t get the whole fascination with Elvis like these ladies did, it was like royalty died or a member of the family.
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Spent that year serving on the USS MIDWAY aircraft carrier based out of Yokosuka Japan, flying the A-7 aircraft of VA-93 all over the Western Pacific.
Mostly good memories !
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I still regret telling my little brother those were Tootsie Rolls in the cat’s litter box. 🙁
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After having sold my only possession that I had that was worth anything, I bought a 1 way ticket and flew to Alaska to seek my fortune. That was January 1. I didn’t find a fortune, but it worked out alright. Time flies.
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Elvis died on my 21st birthday.
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1977?….comes back to me in gray kinescope….worked part time in a liquor store. Went to art school….had a 1973 HD electroglide that I bought at a state patrol auction….toured the Poudre canyon with Laurie Blanz on the back….had beers at Mishowakas in the canyon…
Laurie and my bike both looked good nekked….
P.S…..it’s *word press*….
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At age 74, I still love kids candy. I had a tootsie roll a couple weeks ago. YUM. Necco candies has been in the news lately. Never could stand Necco wafers.
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I launched an A-7 once at NAS Miramar N. of San Diego when I was a plane captain and some A-7’s flew into Miramar on a training mission. The damned lower jet intake under the nose of the plane scared me to death since I was used to the intakes being over the wings on F-4 Phantoms. And we once found a stray 20 mm cannon shell from an A-7 on the deck of the USS Kitty Hawk CV3 during a FOD walkdown (foreign object damage), they raised holy hell about that with the ordnance guys for missing that shell.
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1977 – after getting a divorce, I moved from Monterey, CA to San Diego, enrolled in school, got my computer science degree, which led to the job where I met my wonderful second husband. He was a blessing to me.
@reboot – we still can get that ham salad at my little village grocery store here in PA. Homemade pimento cheese, too. Yum.
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A FOD walk to spot a 20
Golden nut does even better
Worth a 20 a day for 3 days in a row
4 if your Lucky, Irish and Tuesday
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Someone please fix the autofill in for logging in who we are, thanks. I’m not anonymous and it’s driving me nuts to make sure I log in correctly.
How’s come we can’t get no Bosco* around here anymore?
*Bosco Chocolate Syrup, at that time called Bosco Milk Amplifier, was heavily advertised on children’s shows during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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^^Works fine for me Geoff.
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geoff
Remember when we had to write our name on every page.
Computers.
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^^^^
I’m Geoff…
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LOL aw you guys had such great stories. Even the bad ones. 😀
Of all the commercial jingles I’ve ever had stuck in my head, that one was the stickiest.
WDS, please tell us about the ’78 winter story and how Dukakis ruined it.
Re: the auto-fill. There will be another attempt to fix that today.
Yes, it was a WordPress issue, but not completely. So thank you very much for hanging in there with us, my friendlies. Much appreesh.
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Not only do I remember Bosco and the jingle, I remember the schoolyard lyrics to it, too.
I hate Bosco
Bosco’s bad for me
Mama puts it in my milk
To try and poison me
I fooled Mama
I put it in her tea
Now there’s no more Mama
To try to poison me.
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These stories are GREAT and tell a lot about IOTW readership. Suggestion: We need the same group shared experience for other years! Say, 1968 and 1971. 🙂
2
Winston tastes bad
like the one I just had,
no filter no flavor
it’s made of toilet paper.
1977:
Jimmah Cahtah sworn in as President
Elvis Died
Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash
Disco is all you can find on the radio
Huge blizzard
Son of Sam murders
55 mph speed limit
slow ass no power cars
raging inflation
Basically 1977 sucked when I lived through it. However, it looks totally awesome compared to today.
Yum.
Married my 1st ex wife that year.
I married my wife on Sept. 11, 1977. I was 24 and she was 21. Bought our first house for $17,500 and our house payment was $152 per month.
Life sure went by quick.
January 1977 packed up a UHaul and moved from China Lake to DC. Very cold year. Mississippi River was frozen over. Roots was first airing. And Hotel California would fade out on one radio station and would resume playing when you picked up the next station. After that cross country trip I never wanted to hear that song again.
I was nine. Remember trying to build a car model while hearing my older sister listening to Styx and Boston. Over. And over. And over. Had pretty much given up watching Six Million Dollar Man by that point, except for the one with Bigfoot. That was an event, yessir.
I remember 1977 for the worst winter I’ve seen in Cleveland. Really cold, blizzards and 15 foot snow drifts. I was still a year away from meeting my wife.
Anon above wuz me.
Dammit. I just had an attack for the old style ham salad the butchers sold in delis in the 70’s.
A pox upon you all!
Heater on the UHaul broke and we froze until we got to Memphis to get it fixed. What a miserable trip. Sick as a dog throughout, 3 unrestrained cats in the cab of the truck with a litter box on the passenger side floor.
That trip lasted through two presidencies. Ford was President when we left. Carter was sworn in as we rolled into Virginia.
1977? Not a great year.
Reboot – Around here it was Lawson’s chip chopped ham, their sour cream chip dip and their famous advertisements for the Big O.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7r6A6YQdtI
@Geoff.
Glad to see I’m not the only one with a 9/11 wedding anniversary.
1977? Let’s see, I was a Masshole with a wife, a kid, a converted summer cottage for a house that (thank God) made it thru another winter. Oh yeah, we had one of the biggest Massholes that ever walked the Earth for Governor, Mike Dukakis who the following winter, would f*ck up so bad during the blizzard of ’78 that it’s still used as a lesson today. Good times, goooood times.
1977 – -3 1/2 years after returning from VN, Jimmy, my Team Mate,was MIA/KIA for just over 5 years, pissed off and bitter, Married, 2 children, full-time student, Junior year at College on the GI Bill, sold everything I had of value, living from hand to mouth, fishing, gardening and odd jobs to make ends meet. I thought the struggles would never end, many did, others took their place.
Most of my life-long and college friends are no longer here.
Today is a tough day.
Memorial Day Melancholy. My apologies. Miss you Jimmy, may you be repatriated home and bring closure to your family and friends.
Blessings upon those who were here before us and the life they provided us. May our children and their children’s children be so fortunate.
Blessings.
The reason we got married on Sept. 11, 1977 was it was the day after my wife’s 21st birthday, she wanted it that way.
1977 was a good year for us. God blessed us with our son and a 39-year career running trains with the ATSF/BNSF railroad.
Our first car was a 1975 Honda Civic CVCC hatchback which I had bought a year before and paid for in part by selling a Martin D 18 guitar. When I told her later that I had sold the Martin guitar to pay for the Honda she wasn’t too happy with me as she was a very good guitar player. I should’ve kept the guitar because that little Honda wasn’t all that great of a car and well the Martin guitar is probably worth more now than what I paid for the Honda. At least she forgave me. Geoff the aardvark again, I keep forgetting to log in correctly.
TRF, Mighty Juicy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZZGV_4Vc5I
11s Fruit Exchange
7-22-11
Was in the USAF. Bought my first new car, a plain jane 1977 Toyota Corolla at Old Mill Toyota in Omaha. It cost $3998.00 drive out. I put 81K miles on it and sold it four years later for $3100. Left the USAF, moved back to Texas and went to work for Pennwalt Corp. making ethyl mercaptan (very nasty stuff).
Had my first son in 1977. Great year! Lived outside of Cleveland and worked as a telephone operator when the worst snowstorm I’ve ever experienced hit. It was so bad, the company had to send around the line trucks to pick us up and get us to work. Literally got snowed out of my house for two days because I couldn’t get down my street and neither could the snow plows.
1977, I graduated from an excellent public HS in Delaware.
It offered: 22 AP courses, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Latin (I took 5 yrs), excellent annual Musical, had one of the first and few HS radio stations, great coaches and sports teams, large band, computer programming club, auto shop that serviced the faculty’s cars, football games attended by thousands, class size of 450, had around 30 black fellow students and no race issues.
The next year federally mandated busing began, despite massive community protests that insisted that integrating more blacks into our school would help all. Instead kids were bussed out and in at great expense, all after-school programs were trashed, excellent curriculum was gone, kids rode buses 2 hrs each way daily to schools that became prisons.
With the public school system executed, the drain on DE began taking it from The Diamond State to the shithole that spewed out Biden who disgraced the nation by occupying and defiling the 2nd highest public office.
PS Race problems grew until Wilmington (formerly the Chemical Capital of the World, was crowned “Murdertown USA” and the pols made every attempt to deny that even though, per capita, it was more deadly that living in Bagdad during Shock and Awe. WPD officers twisted the city logo, “A place to be somebody” (gawd) to “A place to be somebody in a chalk outline”.
Liberalism is more destructive than the Black Death.
Rat Fink, just read your posts. Lawson’s had THE BEST chip dip, and I can still sing the Big O commercial!
I was 12 and was too busy with barn work and the milking to worry about Tootsie Rolls. Dad was driving truck full-time and I was stuck with 39 head of cattle to tend to along with going to school. I hated it then but would give anything to travel back in time now.
Graduated high school that year, graduating class of 21. Had my first car, a purple and white four door Ford falcon, a real chick magnet.
Anonymous – I musta had the same 1975 Honda Civic CVCC hatchback you did cuz that thing was the big turd I’ve ever owned in my whole half century of driving! Nice when it worked, but holy mackerel was it ever unreliable! Had it for a year and a half – has engine problems, transmission problems, brake issues, failed bearings, bad wiring, etc. Got rid of it cuz I got tired of paying for towing and riding a bike when I needed to go somewhere!
’77 – Birth of our 3rd.
While stationed at NavSecGru command at Homestead AFB, it snowed in Miami. It was the start of the next ice age!!!
Climatologists and Time mag said so.
I was 12 and had such a fun summer that year. My best friend’s family had a cottage out in the country and on the water and we spent many hours swimming in the river and fishing from the pier, walking dirt roads to go to the candy store and one of the best things was a new soft serve ice cream stand had just opened and all summer long they served towering cones of ice cream. Heaven.
“Liberalism is more destructive than the Black Death.”
Plagues eventually burn themselves out. Leftism spreads incessantly until it’s destroyed or conquers all.
Love reading the comments. The Seventies is my favorite decade and ’77 in particular my favorite year (various reasons, mainly music). I was 12, My first concert was that year: Rush, at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago (Farewell to Kings tour). One day I want to have a man-cave that is all ’70s décor. Shag carpet, lots of greenish, sculptured upholstery, maybe some paneling on a wall…a great place for my vintage hi-fi and Zenith console stereo.
My first car was the 1976 Honda CVCC! I bought it in ’83 when I graduated high school, paid $350.00 for it.
Elvis also died that August in 1977 (too many jelly donuts, fried p’nut butter and banana sandwiches, drugs etc. did him in) I remember some women I worked with at the time at a state institution for the handicapped and disabled were extremely distraught when he died. I don’t get the whole fascination with Elvis like these ladies did, it was like royalty died or a member of the family.
Spent that year serving on the USS MIDWAY aircraft carrier based out of Yokosuka Japan, flying the A-7 aircraft of VA-93 all over the Western Pacific.
Mostly good memories !
I still regret telling my little brother those were Tootsie Rolls in the cat’s litter box. 🙁
After having sold my only possession that I had that was worth anything, I bought a 1 way ticket and flew to Alaska to seek my fortune. That was January 1. I didn’t find a fortune, but it worked out alright. Time flies.
Elvis died on my 21st birthday.
1977?….comes back to me in gray kinescope….worked part time in a liquor store. Went to art school….had a 1973 HD electroglide that I bought at a state patrol auction….toured the Poudre canyon with Laurie Blanz on the back….had beers at Mishowakas in the canyon…
Laurie and my bike both looked good nekked….
P.S…..it’s *word press*….
At age 74, I still love kids candy. I had a tootsie roll a couple weeks ago. YUM. Necco candies has been in the news lately. Never could stand Necco wafers.
I launched an A-7 once at NAS Miramar N. of San Diego when I was a plane captain and some A-7’s flew into Miramar on a training mission. The damned lower jet intake under the nose of the plane scared me to death since I was used to the intakes being over the wings on F-4 Phantoms. And we once found a stray 20 mm cannon shell from an A-7 on the deck of the USS Kitty Hawk CV3 during a FOD walkdown (foreign object damage), they raised holy hell about that with the ordnance guys for missing that shell.
1977 – after getting a divorce, I moved from Monterey, CA to San Diego, enrolled in school, got my computer science degree, which led to the job where I met my wonderful second husband. He was a blessing to me.
@reboot – we still can get that ham salad at my little village grocery store here in PA. Homemade pimento cheese, too. Yum.
A FOD walk to spot a 20
Golden nut does even better
Worth a 20 a day for 3 days in a row
4 if your Lucky, Irish and Tuesday
Someone please fix the autofill in for logging in who we are, thanks. I’m not anonymous and it’s driving me nuts to make sure I log in correctly.
How’s come we can’t get no Bosco* around here anymore?
*Bosco Chocolate Syrup, at that time called Bosco Milk Amplifier, was heavily advertised on children’s shows during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
^^Works fine for me Geoff.
geoff
Remember when we had to write our name on every page.
Computers.
^^^^
I’m Geoff…
LOL aw you guys had such great stories. Even the bad ones. 😀
Of all the commercial jingles I’ve ever had stuck in my head, that one was the stickiest.
WDS, please tell us about the ’78 winter story and how Dukakis ruined it.
Re: the auto-fill. There will be another attempt to fix that today.
Yes, it was a WordPress issue, but not completely. So thank you very much for hanging in there with us, my friendlies. Much appreesh.
Not only do I remember Bosco and the jingle, I remember the schoolyard lyrics to it, too.
I hate Bosco
Bosco’s bad for me
Mama puts it in my milk
To try and poison me
I fooled Mama
I put it in her tea
Now there’s no more Mama
To try to poison me.
These stories are GREAT and tell a lot about IOTW readership. Suggestion: We need the same group shared experience for other years! Say, 1968 and 1971. 🙂
Winston tastes bad
like the one I just had,
no filter no flavor
it’s made of toilet paper.
1977:
Jimmah Cahtah sworn in as President
Elvis Died
Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash
Disco is all you can find on the radio
Huge blizzard
Son of Sam murders
55 mph speed limit
slow ass no power cars
raging inflation
Basically 1977 sucked when I lived through it. However, it looks totally awesome compared to today.