For over-40's...How cool we were!

[Shanty Oilish]

Kids today have no idea how cool we were. Remind me. What cool things did you do when you were young and cool?
I once drank from a beer passed to me by Nureyev. Yeah I wiped it off first :P

[bamademo]

1. I'm still cool

I'm just middle aged now. :-)

My boyfriend was a lead singer in a rock band. I wore bell-bottoms and halter tops and was just too too. Oh wait, I still wear bell-bottoms and halter tops. :hippie:

[RebelOne]

4. Yeah, I still wear bell bottoms, but no halter tops

Too much middle-age spread. But I was definitely cool (in fact, still am).

[Booberdawg]

2. Culottes and Elephant Bells

:eyes:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

3. who let old people in DU?

I have a feeling I know how cool the over 40's were back in the day. After all, weren't you always saying "Don't trust anybody over 30" or some such thing? Consider me "a kid" who does know how cool all of you over-40's were back in the day.

By the way, I think you were right back then not to trust anybody over 30, as I don't trust anybody over 30 today in EXACTLY the same way!

:pals:

[Shanty Oilish]

7. Credentials---I voted D in '72

If that doesn't make me an underground dem I don't know what could!

[sendero]

10. I wan't quite old enough...

... to vote, but argued against Nixon that year. A female classmate called me a "radical complainer". Yeah, I guess I am :)

[GalleryGod]

12. I Voted TWICE for McG in '72!

Voted at College at 8 a.m.
Drove home;VOTED there!

It didn't Help.
GEORGE got BURIED by Trick-the-Dick:wow:

[roguevalley]

20. snicker. I voted D in '71. First year 18 year olds could vote. :-D

[BiggJawn]

27. You sure it was '71?

I thought it was '75.....

[kanrok]

30. Then You'll remember this slogan:

Why change Dicks in the middle of a screw? Vote for Nixon in '72.

[trof]

33. Me too. First time voting. I was 31.

Married, with our little girl on the way. Figured it was time to clean up my act and try and become a responsible citizen, so I registered to vote for the first time.

I considered myself to be an independent, but never voted for a repug.
Due to the method of selection in the last presidential "election" I became a yellow dog for the rest of my life.

[sendero]

9. Fortunately...

.... I never bought into that "don't trust over 30" nonsense, I was pretty sure I would see the other side of 30 myself :)

And in general, I don't buy into the idea that integrity fall off like so much hair :shrug:

[RebelOne]

36. You are going to need these "old people's" votes for 2004.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Hey! Hey! LBJ!!!

How many kids did you kill today?

And then there was:

Nixon, pull out like your father should have.

[hunter]

6. Streaking.

;-)

[name not needed]

34. people still do that(im 15 by the way)

my friend went streaking along a highway.

[trof]

35. The Streak

-Ray Stevens

Here he comes, look at that, look at that
There he goes, look at that, look at that
And he ain't wearin' no clothes

Oh, yes, they call him the Streak
Look at that, look at that
Fastest thing on two feet
Look at that, look at that
He's just as proud as he can be
Of his anatomy
He goin' give us a peek

Oh, yes, they call him the Streak
Look at that, look at that
He likes to show off his physique
Look at that, look at that
If there's an audience to be found
He'll be streakin' around
Invitin' public critique

He ain't crude, look at that, look at that
He ain't lewd, look at that, look at that
He's just in the mood to run in the nude

Oh, yes, they call him the Streak
Look at that, look at that
He likes to turn the other cheek
Look at that, look at that
He's always makin' the news
Wearin' just his tennis shoes
Guess you could call him unique

[Iverson]

8. Hey, baby!

I'm so cool you could store a side of beef in me.
I'm so hip that I have trouble seeing over my pelvis.

Remember the Fugs' excorcism of the Pentagon in October 1967?

:D

[GalleryGod]

14. October & November 1969: The MARCHES on Washington

Armies of the Night:smoke:
Sleeping in Churches:hangover:
The Sexual Tension of Round-the-Clock-Issues-Teach-Ins:RELIEVED:loveya:

[roguevalley]

21. and the Fish cheer?

[soleft]

11. I did the circuit

Yes, the circuit. The strap your hands cross my engines circuit in Asbury Park, NJ, where the wind whips down the boardwalk.

[Bertha Venation]

13. I didn't do anything cool.

I just WAS cool.

Still am. B-)

[Westegg]

15. Ah youth, hot youth!

I once got drunk with Robert Plant. I once got tongue-kissed by Leonard Bernstein. I once smoked a joint with Jeff Bridges.

In the fifth grade, I was one of only two students in my prep-school (all male) class to vote for McGovern in the '72 "mock election." The motto of my school? "Do It Because It's Right."

There's some other stuff I did but I can't remember it now.

[ThreeCatNight]

16. Passed out issues of....

The Louisville Free Press after school in the early 70s.
I would actually pay $$ for any issues still in existence.

[AndyTiedye]

23. You Don't Have to Stop Being Cool When You Get Older

I Voted for McGovern in 1972 and did a lot of protesting against the war.
The protests against the Bush* wars seemed a bit like old times.

I also saw my first (of over 200) Grateful Dead shows in 1972.

One doesn't have to stop being cool just because one gets older.

I was in my forties by the time the rave scene got going here,
(Finally, people who like to dance even more than Deadheads
and do it all night! Where have you been all my life?).
The ravers seem to think I'm cool, perhaps because I can still
dance all night, or perhaps because I give them hope that they
will not become their parents.

Ride the Music

AndyTiedye

[Kat45]

17. In college, we would have "sessions" (involving pot)

A sign-up sheet went up that said only "Session. Friday, 1:00pm" with lines for only 10 (or was it 20?) people to sign up. If you were into it, you knew what it was. Each person chipped in a dollar, and we would buy an ounce (or was it a half ounce?). At the appointed time, we would all enter a room, close the door, and nobody would leave until it was all gone. Sometimes, each person would have his or her own joint. :smoke:

(Then on the same Friday night, we'd all go downstairs to a party involving a keg.)

[Archae]

18. Disco!

Yup, went to those to meet girls. :crazy:

[LuLu550]

19. Kewl? I was and still an kewl

Where do I begin? My first concert was the Beatles...got tear gassed at the March on Washington...Hitchhiked across the US and Canada in the summer of 1972...was backstage at a concert featuring the Beach Boys, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, and Joni Mitchel...was in a recording session with Little Feat....
do you want more or are you still bowing to my superior Kewlness?????? :hippie:

[supernova]

22. Whadday mean, "were?"

I'm still my sweet, cool, self. B-)

[TrueAmerican]

24. I'm confused

I turned 40 last week. Does that mean I am over 40? You can tell me the truth, I can take it.

The plus side is even thou I am now 40, I have never been in better shape. ;)

[VOX]

25. "On strike, shut it down!"

What kids today don't get (or maybe aren't interested in) is that they have *the* power, potentially - perhaps even more than we did.

Regardless of the authoritarianism and police-state aspects of the late 1960s-early 1970s, there was a genuine regard for, and much shrift given to youth. (Granted, there were some serious commercial aspects to this, too.) We took over schools, stood shoulder-to-shoulder against the war and got our message across. We took our licks for the cause.

If there were a genuine "youth-quake" today, kids could move mountains. I wish they could comprehend that.

[Faygo Kid]

26. Bell bottoms and Mr. Natural

Well, Mr. Natural was pretty cool - and bell bottoms were a sign of rebellion (that's why we all wore them).

[BiggJawn]

28. 20 years old and had a full-dresser Harley.

'77 Electra Glide "Classic"...And chicks would come up to me and say "Take me for a ride" and some of them would take ME for a "ride" later...
Yeah, I was the Pied Piper*...

Hope the M-F that boosted it got killed on it!

*Tull reference...

[Ellen Forradalom]

29. I caught a drumstick that the Clash's drummer tossed out into the audience

Aragon Ballroom 1977. How cool is that?

[Insider]

31. peed in central park

smoked the herb during the smokeout in washington park
danced to larry levan at the paradise garage (nyc)
danced to tee scott at better days (dive)
dressed like annie hall
shopped for annie hall clothes at second hand stores
shopped at second hand stores in the east village
drank evian when it was still in glass bottles
cut hair like grace damn jones LOL

n...y...c...

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

32. I used to be famous for my home made pop-can bongs

of all places, at the Air Force base where I was stationed. Shhhh. Don't tell the MPs or the narcs! ;-)

[Cheswick2.0]

37. hmmm, I led a walk out when I was in middle school

We were protesting Kent state. we were right next to the HS and they were doing it so we decided to join in. I'll never forget how great the teachers were. They didn't try to stop us when we all stood up and walked out of class at the designated time. I think they knew what we were planning and none of us got in trouble.

We also planted several hundred trees on the first Earthday and spent many hours collecting trash from local streams. I am not sure I was cool or just a big geek.