1970 was 40 years ago!

[Brewman_Jax]

OMG! Time does fly, doesn't it?

:wow: :scared:

[hippywife]

1. I know!

It makes me crazy when someone lists something for sale as Vintage when it comes from the 70's. I see it all of the time, tho.

:hi:

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Don't make me come through my screen and hurt you! *said the woman who was born in '71*

:P

[BOSSHOG]

6. Ah Sweetheart, you're just a Kid

I graduated from High School in 72!

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Awww, you are too sweet. *hugs* But this kid has grey hair and recently realized

that she is halfway through raising her own kiddos. *unfathomable as it seems*

[sarge43]

11. My mom was fond of saying,

"My grey hair doesn't bother me, but my kids' sure do."

[av8rdave]

12. Hang on tight...

The second half of raising those kids will go by so fast it will water your eyes!

Also causes your hair to turn gray, btw.

[grace0418]

22. I'm a year older than you and just now working on having one of those kiddos.

May not happen, but it's fun trying. :)

[triguy46]

13. Don't make me come through my screen and hurt you! *said the man who grad. HS in 1970*

[libnnc]

3. Shhhhhhhhhh

I'm trying to put off my "OMG WTF I'm 40!!!111" meltdown until September.

[Brewman_Jax]

4. I saw some disco CD's in the oldies/classic section

:cry:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Scary, isn't it?

I once saw an essay that noted that the Vietnam War is closer in time to World War II (twenty years) than we are to the Vietnam War. Sounds impossible to any boomer, but it's true.

[PassingFair]

8. Thanks A LOT!

...and I was doing SO WELL....

[livetohike]

9. The year I graduated high school......

funny it doesn't seem that long ago :-).

[sarge43]

10. Time doesn't fly; it's supersonic.

:wow: indeed.

[Arugula Latte]

14. Shit. I'm old.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. Here's what was happening to me about that time:

- For my 5th birthday, instead of buying me a heavily advertised, ridiculously expensive everybody-wants-it all-the-rage toy, my parents decided to buy around 30 very cheap toys. Bouncy balls. Plastic toy cars. Story books. Coloring books. A box of color pencils. Puppets. Soft rubber Monica's Gang dolls that whistled when you squeezed them. And probably more I don't remember. I still get all giddy inside when I remember waking up and seeing all of the loot neatly arranged on the table.

- For the World Cup, they bought a green and yellow helium balloon with a picture of a soccer player and "Brasil 70" painted on it, and left it hung over the TV to give luck to the Brazilian team. I wanted to play with the balloon, but my parents strictly prohibited me to touch it until the Cup was over. Brazil won, and I got the balloon to play with until it deflated.

- Learned the capitals of all countries in Europe, the Americas, and a few ones in Asia and Africa.

- Was in mortal terror of Johnny Sokko's Flying Robot. Whenever it would come up on TV, I'd run away screaming.

- Speaking of TV, I had a rigid ideology: the only thing worth watching was cartoons. My favorite: Shazzan. Runner-up: The Impossibles. Made lots of drawings of the Herculoids. Oddly, I'd always draw Igoo with four arms.

- Read ludicrous amounts of Disney and Monica's Gang comics. Also Harvey comics, Hanna-Barbera comics, Beetle Bailey and others I forget. My favorite character was Magica DeSpell. I called her "La Brujita".

[Zomby Woof]

16. I was 3

It was the first Halloween I remember trick or treating. I was Bingo from the Banana Splits.

Wow - I think was the same costume I had:

[kwassa]

17. Kent State

the definitive end of the sixties. It happened about 60 miles from where I lived; I was a senior in high school.

[whistler162]

18. Guy Lombardo was alive and playing!

[laylah]

19. Even when we are NOT

having fun! :evilgrin:

[bigwillq]

20. Crazy, isn't it???

The 70s were the decade I was born. Can't believe someone born in the same decade as me will be 40 this year. Time flies!!! :)

[grace0418]

21. Thanks for reminding me my 40th birthday is in less than three months.

:scared:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

23. There was a 1970?

:hide:

[LiberalEsto]

24. I was in my freshman year at Rutgers

and got heavily involved in the anti-war movement that summer.