Posted on 12/04/2002 11:34:20 AM PST by Wolfstar
Is there more than one?
There are some oddities where an actor gives to a Republican committee and then to a far left congresscritter.
What if conservatives became the next "cool" minority?? What if whispering that you were gay or into bestiality didn't have the same sting any more, and the "cool" people started to let slip that they had some "conservative leanings"? Am I dreaming here, or could that happen??
Amen.
I applaud your resolve for so many years. My only regret is that I didn't start my personal boycott as many years ago as you.
I do too; this, I think is a first. I hope they are able to take all the heat and that this is sincere. I hope you have a good evening, too, dansdevilsfoodcake. :)
It keeps growing!!! :-)
They held the wrap party at Wellstone's funeral.
dansdefunniestdingieverheard! lol!!!
Back in late 1969, the time for me to end my employment with the US Army was nearing, and I was going to use my accumulated back pay and other discharge pay to pick up a new motorbike once I got back to The USA, probably via San Francisco. But what kind [Harley was under AMF ownership/management then, and widely considered overpriced junk]
The Japanese had come a long way from the little Honda *Benly* twin-cylinder bikes they built when I'd enliisted, and though we'd lost a couple of family members at Pearl Harbor and Grandma would not have a Jap TV or camera under her roof, I thought I might give one a try. And lo and behold, Cycle World magazine ran a cover story on the new Honda 750cc 4-cylinder model, with a bikini-clad blonde California cutie astride the thing; turned out she was the 18-year-old daughter of the publicist for the California dealership that imported the first one. That did it; the cover of the magazine got tacked to the inside of my footlocker, and first chance I got to an overseas phone line, I called the dealer/importers, impressed that a guy in Vietnam was interested enough in the bike to make the long distance call about it. We traded letters back and forth as well, set a deal, and I had a fixed price on the slightly used demonstrator once I returned home and they had the continued use of a bike that was a certain sale, plus the possibility of some additional publicity about the discharged soldier buying it from them. And taking that cute girl out to dinner on it before I returned home was at least a possibility...turned out her name was Mary Collins....
Sadly, it didn't work out; the bike was laid down and wrecked during a test report, though I was offered the same deal on an identical replacement. Naw, I found a deal on something else instead, a fire-breathing Norton P-11 desert racer that suited my tastes fine and was both fun and more practical. A few months later, the 750 Hondas became the first motorcycle in history to suffer a recall by the Department of Transportation due to drive chains and transmissions locking up, a problem I could do without.
But a couple of years later, the movie 10 with Bo Derek came out [after she'd married Hollywood director John Derek and changed her last name.] She looked familiar, and I still had the old magazine cover in my bike ridin' scrapbook. Yep. The baby fat was gone, and it was her...now known as Bo Derek.
Yep, drop-dead gorgeous now, just as she was cute as a button then. And *Bo Derek* sounds a lot more Hollywood than Mary Collins did....
That's the only Japanese motorbike I've ever regretted not owning.
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