What's on the B-side?
Sugar Sugar - The Archies backed w/
Melody Hill. Not a hit
Sugar Sugar - The Archies backed w/
Melody Hill. Not a hit
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Things That Make You Feel Old
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Google says Jody was the B side. I don't remember the song
Without looking I thought it was Hats Off To Larry, a fair tune of it's time... . But... I guess I bought that 45 as well. The first 45 my sister bought was Be Bop Baby by Ricky Nelson. Google says it was released in 1957. That would be the year we got our first record player.
The Black Panther Party stood for Freedom.
Did you happen to catch the excellent, but short, series 1969 that aired a few months ago? Every episode was insightful and informative.
One in particular, The FBI and the Panther, I think you'd enjoy. It was about the Black Panthers, focusing on one, Fred Hampton. Really, I think anyone who wonders about the BP should see this. Having been a child at the time, I had very limited knowledge of certain things that were going on. This filled in a lot of the blanks.
I lived it. Saw it in the news, read it in the papers.
Payphones make me feel old but a Phonebooth would make me feel ancient.
Payphones make me feel old but a Phonebooth would make me feel ancient.
I can remember making local calls from a pay phone for a nickel. I can also remember trying to see how many kids we could cram in a phone booth. Neither make me feel old. I AM old.
Neither make me feel old. I AM old.
It was a dime for me, but I hear you--I'm old, too!I can remember making local calls from a pay phone for a nickel. I can also remember trying to see how many kids we could cram in a phone booth.
You know what I'd love to have? One of those iconic red British phone booths. They're fetching big bucks now as decorative pieces. I have no idea where I'd put it, but it would be fun to have one.
They are way cool. They look great in the yard.
When I was a teen, me and my buds were cruising the main drag trying to meet up with a car load of chicks. Another car load of boys had the same idea and squeezed in between the target vehicle and us and forced us up onto the sidewalk. we didn't hit anyone but we reduced one of the standard Bell phone boots to a gazillion shards.
Needless to say... it was time to go home.
When I was a teen, me and my buds were cruising the main drag trying to meet up with a car load of chicks. Another car load of boys had the same idea and squeezed in between the target vehicle and us and forced us up onto the sidewalk. we didn't hit anyone but we reduced one of the standard Bell phone boots to a gazillion shards.
Needless to say... it was time to go home.
Sky Captain and the World of Tommorow
Milo Willamson
Android Expert
Knowing I had every action figure of Star Wars, and the Falcom when I was really younger around five or six, how I looked at every single actor, held them in my hand. And still never felt the fandom underneath their feet, even though it was back before the internet.
Things That Make You Feel Old: looking at my birthdate. 
Flash Gordon the series.
After driving to and experiencing totality, I plan to never again miss a total solar eclipse crossing the USA. That being said, the next one to experience will be April 8 2024. Sweeping up from Mexico it crosses Texas and continues it's trek in a NE arc into Canada.
I strongly advocate not missing the opportunity to experience totality. It is freaky and a life time experience. There will be a total solar eclipse crossing mid USA East to West August 12 2045. The path of totality crosses the Southern part of my state and I plan to be there for the experience. However, I will be 93. Now that makes me feel old.
I strongly advocate not missing the opportunity to experience totality. It is freaky and a life time experience. There will be a total solar eclipse crossing mid USA East to West August 12 2045. The path of totality crosses the Southern part of my state and I plan to be there for the experience. However, I will be 93. Now that makes me feel old.
Well, these days, with more and more people living past 100, 93 isn't really that old.
(Okay, it is, but who wants to be a party-pooper?!)
Well, these days, with more and more people living past 100, 93 isn't really that old.
(Okay, it is, but who wants to be a party-pooper?!)
I like your thinking. I wasn't joking... I plan to live to experience the eclipse. I told my friends over the holiday that we may have to hire a bus to get us there... let's plan on it.
You should make plans yourself. It crosses your great state as well. We are making early plans for the eclipse of 2024.
I'm sure you're going to be there. I wonder, will you think back to this then-obsolete thing called an Internet forum, and remember talking about it?I like your thinking. I wasn't joking... I plan to live to experience the eclipse. I told my friends over the holiday that we may have to hire a bus to get us there... let's plan on it.
I don't know, buddy, it's still hard for me to think long-term. I'm still very much in an "I woke up--I'm still alive!
" way of thinking. Let's see if 2020 brings future-thinking vision with it.
Milo Willamson
Android Expert
Same here MB, same here, it is hard for me to think extremely long term, due to my "Hey buddy slow down man, this is not a rocket ship pally." type of thinking.I'm sure you're going to be there. I wonder, will you think back to this then-obsolete thing called an Internet forum, and remember talking about it?
I don't know, buddy, it's still hard for me to think long-term. I'm still very much in an "I woke up--I'm still alive!
I'm certain I'll fondly recall these days and all of the fine people I met here.
You will be there. Start making your plans now.I don't know, buddy, it's still hard for me to think long-term. I'm still very much in an "I woke up--I'm still alive!
Milo Willamson
Android Expert
Knowing that death's own shadow is yet to touch you.. And you just want to curl up in bed, laying..
For me, having been a super-achieving, type-A, workaholic, and then seeing all that screech to a halt (thanks, brain tumor!
), my life had already slowed way...way down. But looking death in the eye a few years later, with all that accompanied it, changed my very sense of...I don't know how to word it...being? living? existing? I don't know. It's just different now.I faced my first near-fatal illness at 21. I can't really remember any more what discussions, if any, my husband and I had about him being a young, widowed father.
I don't think we did. I think we both just believed that I'd get better. I need to ask him what he remembers.Years later, when he kissed me goodbye outside the OR, the day of my craniotomy, I was at total peace, and despite the [awful] odds, it was all okay. I had complete trust in my brain surgery team...I was just fine. Prior, I had made sure all legalities were accounted for; I was good.
But this last one altered me on a whole different level. The severity of it, the length of time hospitalized, the 7 surgeries during that time [4 that I have no personal recall of], and the 100% inability to do anything for myself took its toll. It's like it told me: "You're not invincible! And you're not YOUNG any more, either!" People my age die. But that was true when I was 22, too. I don't know why it's so different now.
Just to be clear, I'm not afraid of dying. (I'm afraid of being left helpless, but not dying.) My will and trust are in order. My bedroom...not so much. *shrug* BTW, Joy Noelle [my favorite cat, for the uninitiated], is explicitly named in my will and trust.
Milo Willamson
Android Expert
Had puemonia ten years ago, living with acid reflux and a hyper active thyroid ontop of my biploar was not pretty, last evening had the strongest hyper active storm front, I could not explain, it was like Darth Vader facing against Luke Skywalker type of ordeal, sometimes I had to swallow my pills and make my bed out of it. I feel really calm today, I am glad my soon to be in-laws are pretty decent people. So they understand anyways. Somehow I keep pushing myself thrife until time stops. Glad we stuck aroundFor me, having been a super-achieving, type-A, workaholic, and then seeing all that screech to a halt (thanks, brain tumor!
I faced my first near-fatal illness at 21. I can't really remember any more what discussions, if any, my husband and I had about him being a young, widowed father.
Years later, when he kissed me goodbye outside the OR, the day of my craniotomy, I was at total peace, and despite the [awful] odds, it was all okay. I had complete trust in my brain surgery team...I was just fine. Prior, I had made sure all legalities were accounted for; I was good.
But this last one altered me on a whole different level. The severity of it, the length of time hospitalized, the 7 surgeries during that time [4 that I have no personal recall of], and the 100% inability to do anything for myself took its toll. It's like it told me: "You're not invincible! And you're not YOUNG any more, either!" People my age die. But that was true when I was 22, too. I don't know why it's so different now.
Just to be clear, I'm not afraid of dying. (I'm afraid of being left helpless, but not dying.) My will and trust are in order. My bedroom...not so much. *shrug* BTW, Joy Noelle [my favorite cat, for the uninitiated], is explicitly named in my will and trust.
I'm really happy for you, Milo, that you're acquiring in-laws who seem very nice. As you know, my in-laws were extremely special to me, especially Dad. I like knowing that you and your soon-to-be in-laws get along so well. Marriages that have in-law problems must be tough!
Milo Willamson
Android Expert
Knew them for nearly twenty years too, they are my managers too, big open hearts and minds too.
well I've had 3 Heart Attacks so far but i would also love to see that solar eclipse of 2024.
Wow. That's crazy. Are you doing okay now?
Are you following doctors' orders, eating right, exercising, etc.? Then you should be there!