Posted on 07/01/2004 8:34:16 AM PDT by qam1
Me too! I was busy trying to find decent clothes that
weren't hippie (impossible in the '60's), busy cooking and
cleaning and doing normal ordinary things for my family,
unencumbered with my own importance or the need to get out
and act like a bigshot revolutionary. With the help of the
media, the liberals and the doped up teenagers and twenty
somethings, Vietnam is just a rewritten piece of history.
You occasionally see an "old" hippie who never got over
the greasy ponytail and the ratty beard, but mostly they
have moved on to just ordinary liberals, and in a few
cases conservatives if the LSD didn't permanently damage
them. Yep. Sickening. I got out and demonstrated during
the 2000 Bush/Gore election carrying Sore/Loserman signs.
The first time I've ever demonstrated, rallied we called it.
This will sound rather strange, but the symbol itself was supposed to represent a nuclear bomber. There's a painting from 1963 (the time of the ban the bomb movement) called "Leopardskin Nuclear Bomber No2" by a Colin Self which if you look at it has the same profile of the portions of the symbol inside the peace sign's circle; evidence that the symbol represented a bomber with swept back wings.
You actually thought "Dirty Dancing" was a REALLY good movie.
No Gen-X guy thought this was a good movie, If he said he did he was either gay or trying to get some. It was the ultimate chick flick nightmare for us until the Boomers decided to top it with their movie "Beaches" years later. And what was weird was every girl thought Jennifer Grey was so hot even though us guys found her ugly.
So strike that one off the list for guys for us our ultimate/favorite/most memorable Gen-X movie moment was the pool scene with Phoebe Cates
As a female, the 80s started out with the hope that someday I would find a guy that would kiss me exactly the way Han kissed Leia in Empire....and dress like him tool...and have a heap of junk like him....well, you get the picture....
OK, Not quite Phoebe but slave Leia was definitely up there (plus I can post a pic without getting permanently banned)
That's why I don't like 1981 as the cutoff year for Gen-X, IMO in order to be a true Gen-Xer you have to remember seeing at least one of the Star Wars movies (The real ones not the prequels) in the theater.
ALL TOO WELL!!
For some reason this one stuck in my mind, But today I went to Mcdonalds and there was a family in front of me who ordered Happy Meals and Yes Happy Meals still do come in Boxes so this is wrong.
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