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Post by Montana Bab on Mar 30, 2007 23:22:35 GMT -6
Well, I guess the truth's out, I am now a confirmed antique While all you 'kids' were samplin the 'goods', (ET TU, ELIZABETH ??) I was having babies and being a model goodie, goodie. I never tried a drug in my life Trish, For the life of me I've never even heard of Kajagoogoo! But then, I think I was a decade or so ahead of the good old 60's! Thanks for tying this thread back to GAC. I sure never thought they had drugs back in those days! Talk about naive! Well, then, there, now, I guess we'd better turn this thread back to it's original theme. Thanks for the memories all you 'hipsters'. Born and Bred in those Montana hills under that big, big sky-drinkin goat's milk (It's good for what's ails ya.)
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Post by clw on Mar 31, 2007 6:56:26 GMT -6
I'm not quite sure to this day how I survived the 60's, but those were some days and somehow I avoided brain damage (I think). Trish, you bring back memories. While I was busy protesting, my husband was fighting in VietNam. When we met later in life, we had many a lively debate about THAT and learned a lot from each other in our short time together -- we only had six years. So I know exactly what you mean by the yin and the yang.
I would imagine that cocaine was available to cavalrymen on a daily basis. It was a routine medicine in those days in the stable -- used as a local anesthetic for equine injuries. I collect the odd antique horse stuff and among my treasures is an old ceramic stable jar with the word 'Cocaine' applied under the glaze.
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Post by harpskiddie on Mar 31, 2007 10:31:45 GMT -6
Tricia:
I watched your Cubs demolish the Mariners in a preseason tilt last night. I gotta say the Cubbies looked [as Billy Crystal might say] Fantaaaaaaastic, darlin'...............
Gordie
Ps: to the questioner who asked how this thread turned to dope. It's the Twilight Zone, man - it's ALL about dope. You don't think that Serling dude wrote straight, do ya?
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Post by Tricia on Mar 31, 2007 21:23:31 GMT -6
Gordie--
As much as I cringed when the Cubs hired Sweet Lou, he's about to have the last laugh on me. I thought he'd spend the entire time throwing bases and arguing calls, but the year off (unremarkably spent in the Fox booth) seems to have mellowed him ... a bit. But it's great to see Cub players--most notably Ronny Cedeno--work the counts and force that pitcher to throw stirkes ...
Now as for GAC and the abuse of mind-altering chemicals (liquor and pharmaceuticals), he did appear to have a pretty laissez faire attitude towards others using the stuff, despite what he bragged to Libbie whilst on campaign ... perhaps he learned one thing from Reconstruction duty.
(Kajagoogoo is a band from the early 80s. British and mechanical)
--t.
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Post by elisabeth on Mar 31, 2007 22:49:00 GMT -6
I wonder if Weir was in the habit of using, erm, chemical stimulants, as well as his well-known alcohol problem? In one of those letters that just came up at auction, GAC refers to Weir normally having a "listless manner", yet on June 25th 1876 he was distinctly hyper. A spot of "nose-candy", perhaps?
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Post by Diane Merkel on Mar 31, 2007 23:35:15 GMT -6
Poor Tom gets accused of most everything! I suppose it's possible that he had more than one vice. Addictive personalities usually do, but I would think anyone, no matter how listless, would jump into hyperactivity under the circumstances of June 25!
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Post by harpskiddie on Apr 1, 2007 0:11:58 GMT -6
Weir's personal baggage consisted of several lengths of rubber tubing, a dozen or so etna burners and seventy three spoons. He was alleged to have started out with six hundred and twelve.
In the interests of fairness, I should perhaps point out that Tommy boy was too busy deflowering the female population [his nickname among the boys in the barracks was Agent Orange] of the plains to get into serious drug use.
BTW, we must all be on something. Noone has bothered to notice, or at least mention, that "remember" has a "b" in it.
Gordie, one of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers - Keep On Truckin'
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Post by elisabeth on Apr 1, 2007 2:40:07 GMT -6
We've just all been too polite to mention it!
Actually, with GAC always being so short of money, he'd have been smart to encourage a bit of addiction in his entourage. If he'd been able to set up as sole supplier, he could have coined it. A lot of interesting powders could be shipped in among the "crystallised eggs" and "portable lemonade", one would think ... Still, as it was all legal anyway, it mightn't have been worth his while to bother.
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Post by crzhrs on Apr 2, 2007 9:03:17 GMT -6
It musta been the peyote!
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Post by Melani on Apr 5, 2007 23:08:07 GMT -6
I've been away and just read this thread--Tricia of Palatine, Illinois, I'm from Prospect Heights.
I won't tell you guys what I was doing in the seventies--too boring by comparison.
Back to the beginning--believe it or not, I've never seen the "Twilight Zone" episode--is it available?
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Post by rch on Apr 6, 2007 11:40:57 GMT -6
Melani
The Twilight Zone episode is available on DVD. It's Episode 10 of Season 5 and titled "The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms." Movies Unlimited has the whole of Season 5 for over $70.00, and the episode is also available with three other episodes in Vol. 19 for about $15.00. I didn't check amazon. You might also look for the episode on the Sci Fi Channel.
Re: the names on the monument in the photo
The names Connors, Langsford, and McCluskey are the names of the latterday National Guardsmen who literally go over the hill to join Custer. The rest of the names are those of men killed at the battle.
rch
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Post by Jas. Watson on May 24, 2007 15:16:28 GMT -6
I regret to say that I have never seen that episode either--but know about it. Maybe someday....
I'm surprised that one 19th century recreational substance hasn't been mentioned; Nitrous Oxide ('laughing gas'). During the Civil War you'd see advertisements saying that so many cubic feet of the stuff would be introduced in the auditorium and charge admission--I suppose there was some kind of entertainment on stage too? In the Brooklyn, NY cemetery is the grave of a certain NY Colonel who got to be the first O.D. on the stuff...I guess he just laughed himself right out.
Trish, you lived in San Franando Valley?--a 'Valley Girl' hunh? I was brought up there...not that I'd brag about it though. But one thing I bet you never knew about the place; during the 1960's and 70's out past Callabasas there was a quite active 7th Cavalry reenactment troop that had a 'post' out there (complete with barracks and stables etc.) that used to 'patrol' the hills north west of the valley on a very regular basis, a couple weekends a month.
Jas~
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Post by armand on May 31, 2007 5:42:05 GMT -6
I often wonder if my perception of reality was somehow influenced by massive doses of Twilight Zone when I was just emerging from the trauma of learning to read. The story of the tank crew was definitely my favorite, and I was already rather Custer-literate. Even then, however, I felt that somehow a quartet of mid-twentieth century GIs armed with automatic rifles should have made a difference. I can also remember being incensed at an episode of the 'Time Tunnel' , when the time travellers get Reno to accept to take a young trumpeter (or trooper, can't remember) in his battalion by asking him 'If you had a son like that, would you want him to serve under a man like Custer?'
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