"Sure, college kids in the '70s discussed and debated than they do today, but at the same time they were blowing their minds on dope and listening to the Who"

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My co-worker just proclaimed this. True? False?

btw my co-worker is 24 and listens to nothing but Glenn Miller.

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

"blowing their minds on dope"!

The Who was TIRED by the 70s!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Your coworker is welcome to its beliefs.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Your co-worker needs to lay off the dope.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Your coworker clearly needs his/her mind BLOWN by Dr. Pepper.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

my co-worker also just said he thinks that "When the Montreal Expos do move, they'll move to Cuba. You can count on it."

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

me: "How about Washington?"
him: "No chance in hell. Cuba. Maybe Vegas."

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Is this the MIDGET COWORKER?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

the midget is long gone! or rather, I'm long gone from that job.

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

sounds like a MENTAL MIDGET, this one

― Edgware General (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

i've thought this before, but i'll say it now: the world gear! lives in seems infinitely more funny than mine.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Get him stoned and then mutter obscurely about the real reasons behind Glenn Miller's death.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Your co-worker has just precisely described what Robert Pollard was doing before he formed Guided By Voices

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

What the fuck, let's all chant at once: "PENNSYLVANIA 6-5000!"

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

my co-worker also just said he thinks that "When the Montreal Expos do move, they'll move to Cuba. You can count on it."

OMG.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

would it be better or worse if he knows about the Nationals?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

me: "How about Washington?"
him: "No chance in hell. Cuba. Maybe Vegas."

GIGGLETITS

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

This coworker of yours sounds like they need to move to DC and get a job in Penn Quarter and agree with their boss that the Chop House is a great restaurant with good beer. (it's the glenn miller part) (and the stupid as balls part) Do they wear striped shirts?

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

daily ensemble:

black windbreaker jacket, vintage
short-sleeved, plain t-shirts. gray or orange or black
pants: dockers. black or beige.
haircut: johnny unitas

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

He wears a medal of St. Lombardi, I figure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

him: "I don't know who Kurt Cobain is. I know that he's dead. However, since I'm from Orange County, I've heard of the rapper Sublime, who overdosed."

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Tell him to get one Artie Shaw!

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Ah, the OC thing. All is clearer. Ask him if he was a YAFfer.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Tell him you think you're a better drummer than Gene Krupa and proceed to do the drum solo from Sing Sing Sing on his desk with pencils every day when you walk by.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

the rapper Sublime!!!!!!!!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

I sure am glad college kids stopped smoking dope

― matlewis, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

I once called my aunt in college and spoke to her partner because she wasn't there and when I went on about school work, he did say it was different in the sixties and I expect the seventies were no different or just a continuation of that trajectory, but I'm committed to the idea that there was a moment of seriousness and truth before the commercialization of higher education in the present day, in addition to the media interest and fictionalization on TV, and really, I have no doubt in my mind that seriousness and truth peaked in the SLE course of my year whose participants would forever be tainted or blessed to refer to themselves sheepishly as booklovers and perhaps, as misfits or nerds.

― youn, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Does this guy actually talk this stiltedly? He sounds like an Onion vox pop.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.matthewmcconaughey.net/wooderson.jpg

― wooderson, Thursday, 30 June 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

I went to college 1976-1980 at a large state university that had been a HOTBED of radical activity 'n protest in der late 60s. And the political/intellectual atmosphere ten years after was one of absolute apathy I'd have to say, most people were into dope-smoking (and other drugs) as a way of blowing off steam after studying. The pressing concern of most of my peers was getting into law school or graduate business school. Jimmy Carter was right about the post-Watergate malaize hanging over the US, people just seemed burned out on the whole idea of engaging the system/debating great issues (let alone changing the world). And while the new left had yet to really dominate the faculty, the spectre of 60s-centric p.c. academia was rearing its ugly head. By my senior year, even the long-dormant fraternity/soroity system was rising like a phoenix from the ashes.

Believe me, when the YUPPIE phenom occured in the early 80s, I wasn't shocked at all, just felt like I'd seen it coming.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 30 June 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

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