Do You Remember What GD:P Was Like During The '68 Primaries?

[Syrinx]

I was looking through some old files tonight, and found this screenshot I made back then.

(NIXON: "Sock it to me!")

[RummyTheDummy]

1. Hilarious!

And very well done. More! More!

[Skittles]

you need to add stupid campaign slogans

:puke:

[Ken Burch]

16. And maybe a Lounge thread entitled "exactly WHAT did you clean for Gene"?

And A Yippie discussion group too.

[unc70]

166. How do you cleanly remove a "flower" stuck to your car?

Those suckers might fade on you, but never found a way to remove them once they had firmly bonded with one's exterior.

Somewhere I might have pictures to prove it!


While I like some of the topic titles, all of them except the MLK one are much more May 1968 than Feb 1968.


I have been thinking a lot about 1968 recently as each 40th anniversary event appears on the calendar. When I saw on the front page of the local paper one of the iconic photographs from the Tet offensive that is seared into all our minds, I was so shocked and so stunned by the rush of memories that I could barely function for hours. I really dread reliving so many things from that year; so much horror, pain, suffering, conflict, alienation, and fear for our future; our hopes pinned on those few political leaders with any courage, briefly soaring but quickly crashing in the face of power struggles, inompetence, betrayal, or the worst, assassinations. Only the Christmas Eve view of our first earthrise as Apollo emerged from behind the moon, seeing our tiny blue marble from this totally new perspective, only this shared experience was able to unite us all, however briefly. Our world would never be the same, and neither would we.

Maybe we should have a forum where we can discuss those events of 1968 and how they are reflected in 2008 and in us. I will put that in a post and request. I know there will be many times when it would be good for me to be able talk with others here and find comfort and understanding. Many of you were in the middle of all that and are certain to reflect many different viewpoints. It would also be a good way for those of us who understand that period to convey some of that to those who are younger. If you are like me, you have never really written down your experiences to be shared with others; you might have told a few stories to your family or friends, prompted by old pictures or a college yearbook,


BTW in 1968 and 1969, I was working with some of the early hypertext and related systems, early relatives of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) that implements the World-Wide Web including DU. We were using light-pens to interact with our expensive video screens; the mouse was just being invented and integrated into the systems. We mostly used keyboard controls (Tab, arrows) to move around among display objects.

[MrSlayer]

2. Brilliant.

:rofl:

K&R

I love the usernames.

[angie_love]

3. True

:rofl:

[Drunken Irishman]

4. I'm an asshole. :(

[cboy4]

13. Leave it to an Obama supporter to spoil the party.

Why don't you people go to bed.

[Bicoastal]

18. Those no-good Obama people are all terrible, terrible jerks...

...no, it wasn't funny at all, but lighten up, will ya?

[cboy4]

20. I'm not talking about Obama supporters in general. I'm

talking about the usual suspects, and they know who they are.

[Drunken Irishman]

29. It was joke.

A bad one, maybe, but c'mon.

I love RFK.

[Bicoastal]

34. Not much of a Joke, dude. And you know I love you and Obama...

...but I'd delete this. Assassination jokes don't play too well among Democrats...

[Drunken Irishman]

41. Sorry.

I didn't mean to offend anyone.

[Ichingcarpenter]

35. Drunken Irishmen

Casey McCarthy had just arrived in New York City
and was amazed at the enormity of everything.

Having drunk a pint or two on the flight over,
he sorely needed to relieve himself. The first door he entered happened
to be a large health club, and he asked the clerk if he might use the men's room.

The clerk said certainly and told Casey the men's room
was the third door down the corridor on the left.
Now Casey, trying to appear sober, weaved his way down the hallway
remembering some of the directions.

When he reached the third door, he turned RIGHT ,
opened the door and immediately fell into the deep end of a pool.

The clerk, realizing Casey's mistake, ran down the hall
and burst through the door, prepared to save him,

and heard Casey shout, "Don't flush, I'm in here!"

[Drunken Irishman]

43. Thank you, great joke.

Here's one for you.

An Irishman had been drinking at a pub all night. The bartender finally said that the bar is closing. So the Irishman stood up to leave fell flat on his face. He tried to stand one more time; same result. He figured he'll crawl outside and get some fresh air and maybe that will sober him up. Once outside, he stood up and fell on his face again.

So he decided to crawl the four blocks home. When he arrived at the door he stood up and fell flat on his face. He crawled through the door and into his bedroom. When he reached his bed he tried one more time to stand up. This time he managed to pull himself upright, but he quickly fell right into the bed and is sound asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

He was awakened the next morning to his wife standing over him, shouting, "SO YOU'VE BEEN DRINKING AGAIN!" Putting on an innocent look, and intent on bluffing it out he said, "What makes you say that?" "The pub just called; you left your wheelchair there again."

[Ichingcarpenter]

48. I think you fell off your wheelchair and almost got flushed

with your original statement but me, being of Irish decent, I
sympathize on your lack of drunken judgement implementing really good
sardonic Irish black humor.

Great Joke on this one but the first one lacked the spirt of the thread.

You are forgiven, now take your mental wheelchair and crawl back to bed.


LOL......... Peace out.

The OP that started this thread did a much needed thing.

[Bicoastal]

46. Haha! Now THAT'S a joke we can all rally behind. Here's another.

Irishman goes to a bar and orders "Three shot glasses of your finest Irish Whisky." Bartender does, and watches him drink each one down, one after the other.

Next day, he comes and does the same thing. The Barkeep says "You know, I can put all three shots into a tumbler for ya." "Oh don't do that, my good man," sez Irish.

"Ya see, I've got a brother Seamus in Dublin who I never see, and another brother Cameron in London who never sees either of us. So what we do is when any of us go to a pub, we each ask for three glasses of whiskey--and so instead of being so far away, it's just like we're drinking together back home."

How charming, thinks the Bartender.

This goes on for a few weeks, until one day, the Irish man comes in and says, "TWO shot glasses of your finest Irish Whiskey, my good man." Bartender does, and waits until the Irishman has drunk both, then says, carefully, "Something happened to Seamus or Cameron, I guess. My condolences."

"What? No, they're both fine and in quite good health!"

"Well, then why only two shot glasses?"

"Ah, that," laughs the Irishman. "Ya see, yesterday I finally quit drinking..."

[Ichingcarpenter]

50. Good one and I laughed out loudly on that one too.

Now lets go back to this great thread
and give it the spirt that it needs.

[provis99]

155. of course, you know Jesus was Irish

Don't believe me? Well, he never got married, never had a real job, and his last request was for a drink!

[NMMNG]

32. "Ignored" being a twit again?

How typical. :puke:

[cboy4]

38. It's so monotonous.

:eyes:

[Ken Burch]

194. At least you deleted it.

Thanks for that.

[Kitty Herder]

5. Love it! K&R nt

[JI7]

6. hahahha, this is great

[Dogmudgeon]

7. Fan. Fucking. TASTIC!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Author! Author!

:headbang:

--p!

[cboy4]

8. OMFG

:spray: !!


I think this was back in the day before the internets were connected by tubes.

[GoneOffShore]

154. Not tubes - strings

And it ran on steam.

[Ken Burch]

9. I thought there were THREE boxing gloves!

one for Humphrey, One for Bobby, One for Gene.

And I guess they'd already deleted the "Huntley and Brinkley SUCK!" thread before you made that.

[bluestateguy]

10. That's quite a piece of work.

K&R

[enigmatic]

11. This is the post of the year!

This is hilarious; well done!

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. Where the hell is McCarthy?

He started the whole thing for me.


Wonderful post and photoshop........BTW

nominated.

[JI7]

37. Eugene is the ONLY one that opposes the Vietnam War

and wants to bring the troops home.

[Ichingcarpenter]

59. He will be pushed out by the party elite just watch

I hope Gore speaks at the convention, I hear Gore Vidal will comment with some
asshole right wing guy named Buckley.

http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/debates.html

[blondeatlast]

123. UNELECTABLE, dammit. Get your head out of the clouds. I know, it's '68 and hard to do, but try;

we have work to do! :rofl:

[Hart2008]

140. Get clean for Gene! "We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country..."

McCarthy’s presidential campaign worked outside normal Democratic Party channels. Volunteers, many of whom were students opposed to the war, went from door to door trying to convince voters to support McCarthy. Their slogan was “Clean for Gene,” meaning that they cut their long hair and put on their best clothes to campaign for McCarthy.

http://ca.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761589343/McCarthy_Eugene.html

"There is only one thing to do - take it to the country!" Senator McCarthy angrily declared in a Capitol corridor 15 months before the 1968 election, after hearing the Johnson administration make its case for the legality of the war.

Mr. McCarthy, a man of needling wit, triggered one of the most tumultuous years in American political history. With the war taking scores of thousands of American and Vietnamese lives, he rallied throngs against this "costly exercise in futility" and stoked a fiery national debate over the World War II model of an all-powerful presidency. He challenged Johnson in a primary, and the president, facing almost certain defeat, ended up withdrawing from the race.

Mr. McCarthy was a disarming presence on the stump as he mixed a wry tone and a hard, existential edge in challenging the White House, the Pentagon and the superpower swagger of modern politicians.

An acid-tongued campaigner, Mr. McCarthy was sometimes a puzzlement, veering from inspired speechifying to moody languishing. But he was the singular candidate of the Vietnam War protest, serving up politics and poetry, theology and baseball in a blend that entranced the "Clean for Gene" legions who flocked to his insurgent's call.

"We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it," he told them. His supporters were delighted by what they saw as his candor, yet some were troubled by the diffidence that marked his public persona.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/national/11mccarthy.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1202926129-B8/UV11bPgaiu91VC0lzWA


What Senator in this race has really taken it to the people about the war, or impeachment?

[Bicoastal]

14. Even back then, Dems were eating their own...

...:rofl:

[Dr.Phool]

83. I was a proud supporter of Pigasus back then.

Until the Czechago cops ate him.

[meow mix]

15. lmao

nice

[newmajority]

17. Geezus... can you nominate something for DUzy of the Year?

:rofl: I'm laughing so hard my head hurts :rofl:

[Catchawave]

113. I thought the same thing !

:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

19. What> you cut it off just before MY post about that Dreamboat Rush Limbaugh

I hope he doesn't get drafted.. I was KUQT back in those days :)

[Ichingcarpenter]

24. And no mention of the SDS which was MoveOn back then

Which I was member of.......

SoCalDem it does bring back memories doesn't it sister?

[SoCalDem]

28. Why you..you..you rebel.. Unfortunately the '60s did not reach Kansas until 1971

and I was married & moved to Indiana by then.

m,y group rebelled by wearing jeans & mocassins to class & staying out all night & getting drunk

[Ichingcarpenter]

31. LOL,......

Unfortunately after my small venture in the SDS, the war and the draft
I had to move from Northern Virginia to California.

Only because it had better surf on the internet.......LOL

[NewJeffCT]

82. I think SDS was well to the left of MoveOn...

if I'm not mistaken. That is one of the differences between 1968 and 2008 - those radical groups like SDS and the Black Panthers are not really significant anymore, if they even exist at all. However, now it is the RW radical groups that make all the noise & get the media attention - the Minutemen, the Religious Right, Fred Phelps, Ann Coulter, etc - that help move the center to the right.

[Hardrada]

200. Are you lining up with Dohrn or with PL?

If you're an anarchist we could give you a ride to East Lansing?

[bling bling]

21. I love it.

Nicely done.

[greguganus]

22. Damn! Skinner sure is older than he looks! n/t

[anamandujano]

190. or "Breaking News: Skinner's parents will meet in 10 years!"

Beautiful job OP.

[Eurobabe]

23. I was too young to remember

but my parents were sure pissed!

Hilarious.

[Kurovski]

25. Wow.

:D

Talk about crafting a joke! :thumbsup:

[SaveOurDemocracy]

26. Hahahahahahahahahah...... K&R!!!

:spray:

[Yuugal]

27. Awesome!

K&R for a masterpiece.

[Zynx]

30. "Only Humphrey can defeat Nixon!!!!11!!"

[NMMNG]

33. Funny!

:rofl:

[CitizenLeft]

36. ROTFL!

Thank you! :rofl:

[Demeter]

39. Somebody Has Way Too Much Free Time

[JI7]

42. i hope he has even more time, i would like to see similar for other years

[Catchawave]

115. The 1980 Kennedy-Carter primary war which gave us

St.Ronnie :(

[McCamy Taylor]

144. Speaking of free time, Senate snuck through telecom immunity while we were infighting....

[ellisonz]

40. Lifetime DUzy in Visual Achievement.

[JI7]

44. no to dynasties, no to Bobby

the Hillary supporters should love that one.

[Ichingcarpenter]

56. Who is this Hillary you speak of?

Let me tell you, if its a woman or a black you speak of, they would never
be president of the United States.

Get with the grove!!!
What are you some type of hippie commie fag?


You belong tied up like the Chicago 7,
by a real judge, like Hoffman,
that knows the constitution.

[goodgd_yall]

176. I was thinking that the other day

If the same argument was used then, RFK could have been argued as continuing a dynasty.

[Rocinante]

45. Ha!

Outstanding. As usual. :thumbsup:

[Hissyspit]

47. Leary is dead.

Those were the days. Back then a cult was a cult.

[Hart2008]

160. No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in. n/t

[laststeamtrain]

49. I'm leaving DU. I'm voting for Benjamin Spock & Eldridge Cleaver.

Peace & Freedom Party all the way. Liberals suck.

[Ichingcarpenter]

52. Timothy Leary just gave this thread a tab of acid

and they don't even know it.


Wait...........

[New Dawn]

51. LOL that is great!

[democrat2thecore]

53. This is a CLASSIC! Love the usernames too! Great job -nt

[Bicoastal]

54. God, I love Ralph Nader...

"Unsafe at Any Speed" is such a great read, and he's so young and handsome, too...



Could a promising political career be in his future?

[Ichingcarpenter]

55. Damn he does look and sound like he has potential

I wonder if he will ever run for Congress or the Senate?

He might do a great job and then get a Presidential appointment later
and serve in that capacity if we are lucky?

[fortyfeetunder]

57. This is funny -- and....

Obama might have signed on as B-BallBarry, oh, wait he would have been 7 then, think his mom would have let him sign on here?

And Hillary...well she would have been a Republican then....she would have probably been in Freeperville.

[JI7]

58. 1968 was the year she switched sides

http://www.leseluchs.de/content/cover/allmisc/!shhill2.jpg

[fortyfeetunder]

65. Yeah, can you imagine a first post on DU from Ms. Rodham?

Hi everyone....

I just returned from the Republican National Convention and realized....

(let y'all use your imagination)

[Ichingcarpenter]

73. I realized I meet this guy

Who took a toke but didn't inhale and is cool.

[Hart2008]

202. HRC in '68: "I am a fish, and Bill Clinton is my bicylcle." n/t

[cascadiance]

163. Not too much later this guy "switched sides" too...

I just read this article back from the days when he was still reasonably sane, and it was one of the most personally enlightening articles I've ever read, mentioning here almost specifically some nasty crap my parents might have been working alongside when I was living overseas in that period of time.

http://www.cia-on-campus.org/internat/sinews.html

[Mister Ed]

171. OMG! I'm off the fence now! That picture changes everything.

From here on in, I think I'm for Hillary.

Yep - "All the way with Hillary", that's my slogan.

:loveya: :evilgrin:

http://www.leseluchs.de/content/cover/allmisc/!shhill2.jpg

[Syrinx]

201. wow, I'd never seen that picture of Hillary before

She's gorgeous!

[quakerboy]

60. You know its gonna be bad

when you have to use wikipedia to get the joke...

Er.. i said nothing. thanks for the laughs.

[Ichingcarpenter]

61. My brother goes door to door selling Encyclopedias

What is this wikipedia you talk about?

Each volume is cheap and he gives the first two for free.

All homes have them.

[quakerboy]

63. Ehh

Ive never been one to reread. I read my books and pass them on. I read the encyclopedia... story line was a little hard to follow at times. Couldn't really recommend it.

[Bongo Prophet]

62. OMFG MAN- IF NIXON GETS ELECTED HE WILL SHUT DOWN THE NET FOR DECADES!!!

OK YOU CAN KICK THIS TO THE DUNGEON IF YOU WANT. BUT I AM TELLING YOU. HE WILL US SHUT DOWN.
I KNOW I WENT A LITTLE OVERBOARD LAST WEEK BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT. I HAVE INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE MAN.

SHIT I AM STARTING TO COME ON TO SOME REALLY FINE SUNSHINE. MAYBE I WILL POST SOOPN BUT RIIFHT NODW I MA HAVINGSTROULBE JA=AEEPING THIN'SGG STRAIIGHST I;L CHISK BA;K LATSR

Excerpt from the Book of Al:
"And lo, it did come to pass that the internet was shut down, and the tubes stuffed with cotton. It was not until a young vice president named Albert Gore unstuffed those tubes and once again the free speech flowed. This was followed by decades of squabbling and infighting until the waters rose to their ankles..."

I can feel the healing vibrations just EMANATING off of this.
The aura is a deep and abiding blue, and is quite groovy.

Deepest respect for what you are doing, Syrinx my brother.

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Syrinx]

188. The Book Of Al!

That's great! And thanks!

[OzarkDem]

64. That's so fucked up its pathetic

I'm also guessing you voted for Bush and thought it was ok too.

Enough of the kool aid in DU. Get a grip folks.

[Syrinx]

66. wtf?

[Bongo Prophet]

68. I think OzarkDem got some of the brown acid, though it's hard to tell.

Kids these days don't know anything about set, setting and dosage.

[Ichingcarpenter]

72. He probably thought that the whole strip of paper was a dosage.

Do you think we can talk him down?

[Bongo Prophet]

77. I have done that a few times, but not in this environment.

Best to go somewhere more quiet, like DU groups>Chillout Room.


:hippie: :crazy: :smoke:

I'll take one arm, you get the other.
hey, pass that thing.

[Ichingcarpenter]

69. Only Conservatives have no sense of irony or humor

I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.

[Jackpine Radical]

101. Jeez, man. That's some really bad acid you got there.

Better flush it before it kills the other neuron too.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

110. What the hell?

:rofl::rofl:

[LSK]

186. are you kidding me???

GET A SENSE OF HUMOR!

[Hekate]

67. Love it!

:rofl:

Hekate

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

70. Ok, that is fucking awesome.

Laughing so hard I'm crying!

[BringBigDogBack]

71. That is frickin awesome.

[newmajority]

74. Hey, did you guys hear that the Yardbirds broke up? Bummer, man...

I guess their guitar player, Jimmy has this new group called Lead Balloon or something like that. I'll bet they suck! How the hell could they be better than the Yardbirds?

BTW, don't eat that brown acid that's going around, man. Bad tripsville. :evilfrown:

[jackson_dem]

75. I forecast a DUzy winner

:rofl: :toast:

[pamela]

76. I heard Skinner keeps his baby in a box.

FREE BABY SKINNER!

[RFKHumphreyObama]

78. Very well done ....a few errors though

1.Vice President Humphrey was not involved in the race until President Johnson withdrew from the contest on March 31 1968. The main battles on DU during February 1968 would have presumably been between President Johnson's and Senator McCarthy's supporters in the lead up to the New Hampshire primary
2. RFK didn't enter the race until after President Johnson's defeat in the New Hampshire primary in March 1968. RFK had disavowed his intention to run for the presidency on January 1968. Therefore the focus on RFK would probably have been more of the type of situation we see with Gore's treatment on this board -"let's draft him" or "I hope he enters"

But otherwise this is a hilarious masterpiece:thumbsup: Well done!

[barbtries]

79. thank you

that was great. i was about 5 years away from casting my first vote then, and believe it or not, i didn't even have a computer. great work.

[raccoon]

80. Cute! I love it. nt

[Pacifist Patriot]

81. Hmmm...02/12/68. Could have been the day I was conceived.

Cranks aside, I think this is hilarious!

[RoadRage]

84. Wow.. this is hysterical. Amazing what Photoshop can do for ya. : ) K&R

[CaptJasHook]

85. OMFG absolutely the greatest post in a month.

Syrinx is my new hero of the day!!!

[nxylas]

86. That screenshot needs an "In Color" under the logo

To distinguish it from all those black and white websites that were still around in those days.

[FraDon]

87. Brilliant! • k&r

Oh, memory lane ...

Say, I heard Bob Dylan's getting back together.

No, no; you'll drown! Take your finger off the hole!

[yardwork]

88. ROTFL! k&r

[Armstead]

89. Groovy

Love the screen names

[begin_within]

90. Dan Rather looking forward to "peaceful, even dull Chicago convention"

[suston96]

91. But...but...Al Gore had not invented the internet yet.........

[helderheid]

92. !!!!!

:spray: :rofl:

[begin_within]

93. AWOL Texas Air National Guard members "will never go anywhere anyway" - Commander

[Libby2]

94. LMAO....good job.

[begin_within]

95. "We'd have to be really desperate to nominate a Hollywood actor for President" - Goldwater

[GCP]

96. We are unworthy! (Bowing)

Absolutely brilliant!

[asdjrocky]

97. Kudos, kudos, kudos-

This was a great laugh this morning. Thank you so much. Love the Op, "Robert Kennedy is such a sexist jerk". Really good work here.

[NoBorders]

98. Freakin awesome!

Well done.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

99. JoeNamathFan is a troll.

:applause:

[mckeown1128]

100. FUNNY!!! K and R nt

[TooBigaTent]

102. Those were the days - when Democrats were Democrats and repugs were...

well, at least repugs are still the same.

We had good candidates who remembered what a Democrat was supposed to stand for.

Those were the days.

[Jackpine Radical]

103. This may not be the greatest OP ever.

But it's in the running.

Thank you!

[begin_within]

104. Stanley Kubrick was ROBBED!

[lutefisk]

105. Now that's funny! Very Onionesque.....n/t

[DeeDeeNY]

106. You are talented and brilliant!

I was in college that year, and I still remember how my friends and I felt it would just be the end of the world if Nixon got in.

[begin_within]

107. And this is the computer we were all using:

[Armstead]

111. Here's my computer

[begin_within]

116. Showoff! Some of us only had these:

[Armstead]

135. Here's what I started on before the KayPro

[begin_within]

136. Luxury! I started on DU with only this:

[lutefisk]

130. My, what a big floppy you have!...n/t

[begin_within]

137. Everything was floppy until Viagra.

[cascadiance]

203. Here's mine, but I think these were 20 years later...

Now in high school in the 70's I had one of these.
(I think it was the middle one here)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

108. Terrific!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[nomorewhopper]

109. hahahaha great post! k/r

[AngryAmish]

112. This is how we dealt with Hillary supporters in 1968 in Chicago

[begin_within]

119. And this was the 1968 Republican convention:

[AngryAmish]

121. hahahaha!

[David Zephyr]

114. OMG! That is the simply the best!

K&R! Brilliant!

[rndmprsn]

117. brilliant! K&R!

[incapsulated]

118. lol, very well done!

:D

[blondeatlast]

120. Eugene McCarthy-unelectable? Why does DU buy the media spin? nt

[Elspeth]

122. There should be special DUzy for this one.

:kick:

[girl_interrupted]

127. K&R! And Eugene McCarthy wound up endorsing Reagan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_McCarthy Go Figure! LOL!

[Hart2008]

141. That strategy might have worked if the party nominated Hart in '84.

How was McCarthy to know that the party would nominate his understudy from Minnesota in the face of polls showing that he was a sure loser?

[no name no slogan]

178. Mondale was a Humphrey protegee

McCarthy was a pariah after 1968. He couldn't even get arrested after that.

[KoKo]

124. OMG...That's incredible!

:rofl: :thumbsup:

[Arugula Latte]

125. Remember back then The Internets were all in black and white?

And you had to hand-crank the web from time to time to keep it running?

[myrna minx]

183. I really liked the smell of the mimeograph internet tube postings.

:hi:

[navarth]

126. nice. I remember those days VERY well

you know what was different? why so many more people hit the streets?

we had a DRAFT. bring that back and we'll change this shit up FAST.

p.s. I preferred the green mescaline.

[Strawman]

128. Well done, sir

That is really clever. :rofl:

[RepublicanElephant]

129. lol!

:rofl:

[theboss]

131. I hope I am your muse for this idea

I want to be the Medici of great print shop ideas.

[Syrinx]

162. definitely

You are my inspiration!

[SharonRB]

132. ROFLMAO

This is hysterical. Definitely deserves a DUzy!

[democrattotheend]

133. Pretty funny!

And really good point. Kind of strange to see some of the people we have iconized being vilified...but that's probably how it would have been.

[Rowdyboy]

134. Absolutely brilliant! Bravo.............Mine was the 99th recommendation!

[robertpaulsen]

138. Am I the first to congratulate Skinner for his 40 years of service here?

Amazing how 40 years later, people STILL need to be told how to hide those damn threads!

[Skinner]

139. That is classic!

I love it. :rofl:

[HughMoran]

142. Good work!

I like it. :D

[McCamy Taylor]

143. Brilliant! This is absolutely wonderful! You just made my day!

:rofl:

But you forgot one.

"RFK stole Gene's Primary!" Clean4Gene

[NashVegas]

145. Cute

Very cool.

[GenDem]

146. Funniest thing I've seen in a long time!!!

....and it says it all.

[classof56]

147. Good job--very funny!

Brought back a lot of memories, all paling in comparison to the fact that 1968 was the year I gave birth to my first child. Oh My Gosh--is she about to turn 40??? Yep, guess she is. We kept the newspaper from the day she was born, still have it for her to ponder and be amazed for years to come.

Tired Old Cynic

[tavalon]

148. Fabulous!

You clearly have too much time on your hands and are too creative for your own good.

Thanks for the laugh.

[Politicub]

149. Love it! K&R!

:kick:

[blondeatlast]

150. "don't_need_fish_" is a sockpuppet! I KNOW she was tombstoned as "Dolenz' Groovy Monkey"

(spelling correct--that's how I spotted that troll!)

[D-Sooner]

151. More threads like this please!

It really lightens the mood around these here parts.

[Medusa]

152. If you can remember 68, you weren't really there.

:hippie: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :hippie:

[FogerRox]

153. WHo locked my CLapton is god thread?

Very fucking funny, top notch stuff. KNR

[jzodda]

156. Bravo!

n/t

[Maestro]

157. Awesome!

Great job "digging" this up. :thumbsup:

[MarinCoUSA]

158. Bravo! Well done.

n/t

[cascadiance]

159. You need a Crawdaddy Magazine Ad...

I think this one matches the date properly...

[appal_jack]

161. word-up Syrinx... n/t

[myrna minx]

164. Hahahaha!

:kick: & R

[Faygo Kid]

165. I remember the Lounge dustup that year: McLain or Gibson - who's the best?

Denny won 31, but Bob had an ERA of 1.12. Amazing. Bob was the man in the World Series, but the Tigers won 4-3 in a thrilling fall classic, as Mickey Lolich beat the Cardinals three times, including the clincher over Gibson.

Back when baseball was baseball, and if you think the Hillary-Barack feud is ugly on Primaries, you should have seen us get into it on the Lounge with McLain-Gibson.

Ahh, memories. Thanks for the post.

[madrchsod]

167. best post of the year so far--

in 1968 i had one of these

[joeybee12]

168. This is wonderful...but....

...maybe you have too much time on your hands? Thanks!

[The Doctor.]

169. Skinner... what's your secret to looking so good after all these years?

[Patchuli]

170. Thank you! I love it!

I was only 13 but those were some fun times! Bring back Laugh-In!!! :hippie:

[goodgd_yall]

172. Good job!

:7

[GOPBasher]

173. That's hilarious! I especially love the screennames. :-) n/t

[no name no slogan]

174. Yup, I used to post here on this

BTW, heard any good Spiro Agnew jokes lately?

[Cabcere]

182. Three words

and the first two are "Grow A" :P :crazy: :hi:

[NBachers]

192. Kim Agnew

Nope, but I keep wondering whatever happened to Kim Agnew!

[grantcart]

198. He ended up living mostly in the middle east

once when I was on assignment in Bangkok I saw him go into a "girlie bar" at noon.

[Reterr]

175. lol-reced

:D

[elixir]

177. Nicely done. Hysterical!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

179. You just gave this DU'er checking in after a looong work day an outstanding gift!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the :rofl:, best medicine and all that.

:rofl:

:toast:

[lutefisk]

180. Caption this draft resister:

http://www.rubyan.com.nyud.net:8090/politics/rumsfeld_cheney_1975.jpg

[Renew Deal]

181. Here you go

[bagimin]

184. Great job!

I just wish I wasn't old enough to remember it..

[Samantha]

185. A note from the original Hell No I Won't Go poster

I love this thread and remember those days fondly.

Sam
(the poster formerly known as Hell No I Won't Go)

[onenote]

187. Grooviest post in DU's history. Only thing missing is a reference to Clearasil

Proud to have provided the 150th recommend!!

[bridgit]

189. dat'z punny!!

:)

[Boudica the Lyoness]

191. My ignore list

Very funny. I just spent an hour trying to put Laugh in Dem, Peace_guy and that bastard IDreamofGenie on my ignore list lol

[Neecy]

193. This is BY FAR my favorite DU post of all time

:) :) :) :) :)

[D23MIURG23]

195. LMAO!!!

[pinto]

196. Ha. Great piece Syrinx.

:thumbsup:

[LowerManhattanite]

197. Stu...

...PENDOUS!

[Syrinx]

199. thanks to everyone that complimented my joke!

It's fun when people like something I do.

:hi:

[Ken Burch]

204. The ironic thing, given your "if Kennedy gets the nomination, i'm voting for George Wallace" thread,

Is that, had Bobby lived and received the nomination, a lot of people who ended up voting for Wallace were expected to vote for him. These were people who backed the Wallace campaign not out of die-hard racism(that wing of the campaign was unreachable and basically joined the GOP as a block in '72), but because they saw Wallace as a candidate of working-class outsiders.

Assuming that all Humphrey voters would've stayed with Bobby(which seems likely), and assuming that those Peace Democrats who stayed home out of disgust with events in Chicago would've gone to the polls(which also seems likely given that Bobby was clearly a dove and his nomination would have kept things much calmer in the streets outside the convention)the addition of this wing of Wallace voters would've ensured a solid, possibly a landslide Democratic victory, rather than the Age of Milhouse.

[Ken Burch]

205. In addition to your "Walter Cronkite is a Piece of Shit" thread,

You'd also need one that said "Fuck You, Eric Sevareid!", or something like that.

[WillyT]

206. ROFLMAO !!! - Best Post Of The Year !!! - K & R !!!

:bounce::yourock::bounce:

:rofl: