Reminiscing about 1977....

[pokerfan]

Watching George Lucas on Conan

All I can say is leaving that movie (Star Wars) as a sixteen year old with his eleven year old brother in tow I should never have been in control of a GM (Olds) with a 455 cubic-inch Rocket V8, rated at 340 horsepower without the 4bbl carb, which it had.

Thirty miles back to the farm dodging TIE fighter all the way. Made it home safely but....

I remember rocketing onto I-90 (Washington exit 280) at full power. I couldn't hit 120 mph not for lack of trying but cause I had to slow to take WA 195 South to the farm. Then I hit 140 I think, it's hard to tell with those old 120 speedos.

WTF were my parents thinking giving me the keys to this monster? Oh yeah, that they were sending us to some Sat sci-fi movie and not fucking crank on celluloid!

My only explanation is that I'm already dead and this is all just a dream. But if that's the case, where the hell is Jessica Alba?

The afterlife sucks then.


Oh yeah, I felt my first naked boobies in 1977.

Huzzah!

[Omphaloskepsis]

1. I felt my first naked boobie in 1977.

I was hungry.. Thanks mom!

[RetroLounge]

2. 1977 was a good year for naked boobies

I was 16...

:D

RL

[pokerfan]

3. I was given formula

hence my endless fascination.

[CatholicEdHead]

12. So was I back then

[pokerfan]

13. I also spent my first four weeks in an incubator

(low birth weight.)

So I was starved for human contact and affection. I've since made up for that.

[fudge stripe cookays]

4. I started GETTING boobies in 1977.

:D

Well, OK. 1978. Sorta.

I remember summer camp, Dorothy Hamill haircuts, and everyone and their brother listening to Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours."

[Richard Steele]

5. That was you?

:rofl:

[pokerfan]

9. I never got the chance to apologize for breaking your brassiere

I'm sorry.

[SarahB]

6. I started Kindergarten that year.

I didn't even have boobies then. :yoiks:

[Left Is Write]

7. We were up on my uncle's lake property in August of 1977.

I was in the cabin my family was using, sitting at the kitchen table playing solitaire, listening to the radio.

The announcer read the news that Elvis Presley was dead. I ran outside to tell my parents - they were at the picnic table; dad was gutting fish and mom was making beer batter.

[Aristus]

8. I remember seeing Star Wars the first time. I was eight. For the rest of the day

I was "pow-pow-pow-ing" TIE fighters from an imaginary laser cannon blister.

[pokerfan]

11. My little brother was five when

when we landed on the moon.

For months he walked around the house in slow motion emulating the moonwalkers. Cute stuff.

[Rising Phoenix]

10. I was born in 1977

great year!

[LaraMN]

14. Me too! A fine vintage indeed!

:thumbsup:

[hfojvt]

15. that means I'm old enough to be your dad (and hers too)

young lady, goto your room!

[Omphaloskepsis]

17. Also 1977.. Do you know what this means?

We are turning 30.. Shoot me in the fucking head. I wish I had enough money for a mid-life crisis.

[LaraMN]

18. SHHHHH!hhH!H!!!1!!

I have until MID-DECEMBER!
No talking about it!!!

[Faygo Kid]

16. My daughter turned one that year, Stevie Wonder, Roots, Star Wars at Halloween

I was slightly younger then. Will always remember every single solitary kid that Halloween dressed in a Star Wars outfit.

[PassingFair]

20. I graduated from Finney High on Detroit's east side that year.

Vernor's kicked Faygo's ASS!

But Town Club had SASSPARILA (which spell-check
INSISTS is spelled Sarsaparilla)
for less than 5 cents a bottle!

[Eagle_Eye]

19. Ronnie Van Zant went to Rock ' N Roll heaven in 1977

Lynyrd Skynyrd

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

21. My niece was born in 1977

And I spent my summer (aged 14-15) babysitting her in California. One day I stupidly shut the front door behind me and it locked her in the house while I had a pot of soup on the stove. The neighbor broke the garage window to get in before my sister could make it home from work. The soup burnt the pot, but little one was fine. Good times!

I also started high school that year.

[GenDem]

22. Ahhh ......1977

The year I graduated. My 30th class reunion is this Saturday. I just came home from our final reunion organizing committee meeting. We were trying to figure out which tunes to download for our reunion float, as our theme is -- Class of '77 Rocks.

:hi:

[pokerfan]

23. Well, let's see now...

You dont' have much to work with cause it was such a crappy era for music. :rofl:

For starters:

Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Jimmy Buffett - Changes in Latitudes
Commodores - Brick House
Rick Derringer - Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Boston - More Than a Feeling
Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get it Right
Edgar Winter Group - Free Ride
Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop
Foghat - Slow Ride
Peter Frampton Do You Feel Like We Do
Head East - There's Never Been Any Reason
Heart - Magic Man
KISS - Rock & Roll All Nite
Little River Band - Happy Anniversary
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone
The Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
Nazareth - Love Hurts
Ram Jam - Black Betty
War - Why Can't We Be Friends
ZZ Top - Tush