Bell Bottom Blues
stephent28
Posted 2008-11-24 1:08 PM (#10158)
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2ifbyC
Posted 2008-11-24 1:12 PM (#10159 - in reply to #10158)
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'Bell Bottoms'. That's one reason I didn't join the Navy! :eek:

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schroeder
Posted 2008-11-24 1:55 PM (#10160 - in reply to #10158)
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My oh my we're getting very nostalgic stephen...... It's not a healthy sign. Get a grip and buy yourself a new guitar. :p
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stephent28
Posted 2008-11-24 2:02 PM (#10161 - in reply to #10158)
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That's NOT ME!

I would never have those little figurines in my room!
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Gallerinski
Posted 2008-11-24 2:13 PM (#10162 - in reply to #10158)
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Brad, that twinkle in your "friends" eye has me a little worried. Did he grow up to be a ukulele player or something?
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Jeff W.
Posted 2008-11-24 2:24 PM (#10163 - in reply to #10158)
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You could drive a '68 VW MicroBus up those pant legs.
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stonebobbo
Posted 2008-11-24 2:57 PM (#10164 - in reply to #10158)
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Originally posted by stephent28:

I would never have those little figurines in my room!
I think that's a Hamm's Beer bear!
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Beggin
Posted 2008-11-24 2:58 PM (#10165 - in reply to #10158)
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the one on the right looks like a "Toby"
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cholloway
Posted 2008-11-24 3:13 PM (#10166 - in reply to #10158)
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I wish bell bottoms would come back in style... then I could market a line of tropical bell-bottom shirts for guys like us!
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Mark in Boise
Posted 2008-11-24 4:11 PM (#10167 - in reply to #10158)
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From the Land of Sky Blue Water. Hamm's the beer refreshing!
I grew up in Milwaukee. My first song was probably a beer commercial.
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Waskel
Posted 2008-11-24 4:24 PM (#10168 - in reply to #10158)
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It's in the water! (that's why it's yellow..)
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Mark in Boise
Posted 2008-11-24 4:32 PM (#10169 - in reply to #10158)
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Turned out that Sky Blue Water and Tumwater were a lot alike, or that's what they said when Hamms and Oly merged. I thought Tumwater was kinda skunky, but it did smell like the paper mills in Wisconsin.
Back to the topic, my pants are so much bigger at the top now that they would have to be huge to have any bell at the bottom.
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Oddball
Posted 2008-11-24 4:33 PM (#10170 - in reply to #10158)
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Actually, bell bottoms is one of the reasons I DID join the Navy. How ridiculous is that?
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Mr. Ovation
Posted 2008-11-24 4:38 PM (#10171 - in reply to #10158)
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While the Seafairer's were certainly comfy, the original dungarees were certainly more durable and made a heckuvlot better floatation device.
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2ifbyC
Posted 2008-11-24 5:30 PM (#10172 - in reply to #10158)
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Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Oly
Some of the BEST commercials EVER (70's)! "It's the Artisan water."

Excuse while I go and try to find some of those oldies on line...


cholloway ,

Make sure they have the Flexon(TM) waists bands! :D
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stephent28
Posted 2008-11-24 6:48 PM (#10173 - in reply to #10158)
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Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Originally posted by stephent28:

I would never have those little figurines in my room!
I think that's a Hamm's Beer bear!
Yeah...I kinda recognized the bear but Godzilla and the monkey with the drum is kinda disturbing.
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Waskel
Posted 2008-11-24 6:48 PM (#10174 - in reply to #10158)
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I seen um!
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Slipkid
Posted 2008-11-24 6:52 PM (#10175 - in reply to #10158)
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Stephen... what in the world inspired you to dig up that photo & post it?? Don't you have an anniversery or something to celibrate???

Yep.. A Hamms beer bottle... and it was unopened. If it had not fallen off the shelf I bet I could have got a pretty penny for on e-bay. A Blatz beer thingy is to the right of that... and to the right of that... it's GODZILLA!!!

I'm sure my friends 12 string has long turned to sawdust. But the Balladeer lives on!!

p.s.... the Blatz guy was playing a banjo.
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stephent28
Posted 2008-11-24 6:55 PM (#10176 - in reply to #10158)
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Originally posted by Slipkid:
Stephen... what in the world inspired you to dig up that photo & post it??
Well, some people like Jeff will scour the internet looking for strange unexplainable photos.

I choose to go to the OFC social site :D .

I was wondering when you would discover the thread and chime in.
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Jeff W.
Posted 2008-11-24 7:26 PM (#10177 - in reply to #10158)
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I don't think that characterization is justified, Stephen





(my apologies beforehand, Clifford)
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Mark in Boise
Posted 2008-11-24 7:35 PM (#10178 - in reply to #10158)
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You mean Blatz, Milwaukee's finest beer? I forgot some of the words to that one, "smoother........less filling, that's clear. Blatz is Milwaukee's finest beer." Had a keg, bottle and can sing that tune.
Jeff, I knew Cliff played the flute, but you didn't have to out him in such a cruel fashion.
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cholloway
Posted 2008-11-24 8:55 PM (#10179 - in reply to #10158)
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In the '60s a commercial for a local brewery in New Orleans used to advertise... "Drink JAX, the beal jeer!" (hic)
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2ifbyC
Posted 2008-11-24 9:23 PM (#10180 - in reply to #10158)
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Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Oly
Some of the BEST commercials EVER
Here's ONE .
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stephent28
Posted 2008-11-24 11:15 PM (#10181 - in reply to #10158)
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Wow...didn't know Mark was in a beer commercial! No wonder his first song was about beer.
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MusicMishka
Posted 2008-11-25 12:54 AM (#10182 - in reply to #10158)
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Now this is the real deal: and Preston on the Hammond to boot...so fine!


Bell Bottom Blues
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lanaki
Posted 2008-11-25 2:33 AM (#10183 - in reply to #10158)
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do you still own that ovation, brad? how 'bout the pants?
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Slipkid
Posted 2008-11-25 6:54 AM (#10184 - in reply to #10158)
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Guitar---- yes
Pants ---- no

Bell Bottom Blues has always been a song I'd like to learn to play.
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an4340
Posted 2008-11-25 9:30 AM (#10185 - in reply to #10158)
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That was style!
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stephent28
Posted 2008-11-25 11:17 AM (#10186 - in reply to #10158)
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The pants are cool and his haircut is cute in the photo but Brad ultimately suffered the same fate as many of us who had long hair back in the day...........


I am glad I grew mine long while I had it.
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Mr. Ovation
Posted 2008-11-25 11:38 AM (#10187 - in reply to #10158)
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I have a theory... nothing to base it on, so I'm just putting it out there.

Short Hair in youth = full hair later in life.
Long Hair in youth = less hair later in life.

I had short hair for most of my life under age 30. Once out of the Navy, I tried growing it longer, just cause I could. I still can. I know others in the same, but they all "grew up" with short hair.
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Slipkid
Posted 2008-11-25 11:43 AM (#10188 - in reply to #10158)
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I certainly can't argue with that theory.
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Mark in Boise
Posted 2008-11-25 11:46 AM (#10189 - in reply to #10158)
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I had a crewcut in my youth, Miles. Then gradually got longer through high school and college. I prefer the grass doesn't grow on a busy street theory.
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Waskel
Posted 2008-11-25 11:56 AM (#10190 - in reply to #10158)
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Doesn't grow on rocks, either...
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Tim in Yucaipa
Posted 2008-11-25 11:56 AM (#10191 - in reply to #10158)
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God only made so many perfect heads. On the rest, He put hair. Mine is approaching perfection.

....oops, did this topic just turn religious?
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Mark in Boise
Posted 2008-11-25 12:01 PM (#10192 - in reply to #10158)
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I started losing my hair rapidly as soon as we had our first kid. I also turned 30 about the same time, but I prefer to blame it on the kid.
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2ifbyC
Posted 2008-11-25 12:12 PM (#10193 - in reply to #10158)
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Balding seems to be more prevalent today as opposed to years ago. An older gent back in my 20s had a theory relating to that.

He said that showers removed more natural oils than did baths. As a result the reduced natural nutrients and protection results in more hair loss.

In my case, the hair that resided on that little bald spot on the back of my head has migrated to places unpopulated in the past!
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moody, p.i.
Posted 2008-11-25 12:29 PM (#10194 - in reply to #10158)
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Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I had a crewcut in my youth, Miles. Then gradually got longer through high school and college. I prefer the grass doesn't grow on a busy street theory.
Yeah, people are walking all over me too. This topic is depressing me, and to top it off, my beard is almost as grey as Beal's........
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Mark in Boise
Posted 2008-11-25 3:27 PM (#10195 - in reply to #10158)
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I got a chuckle out of Wabbit's rocks comment. I'm notoriously hard-headed.
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Waskel
Posted 2008-11-25 9:37 PM (#10196 - in reply to #10158)
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:D
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