Ahem, BG... (Updated!!! With Thunder and Lightning!)

Your mentioning your red/white/blue t-shirt with large peace sign necklace had me thinking back to favorite ensembles when I was around that age. I remembering pestering my mother for this beauty!! One of my best friends had the more patriotic color combo. I went for harvest gold/brown! w00t!

I also wore mine with a stunning harvest gold jersey knit peasant blouse (50../50 blend), or an equally scary harvest gold, 100% plastic buttondown. No pure cotton back then. Actually, here's the description of the shorts/skirt:

Acrylic knit bonded to acetate tricot! Mmmm, breathable! No wonder it had a zipper! You'd suffocate otherwise!

I wish I had a photo of the shoes... they were brown and were called, "Charlie Brown Shoes". I don't remember why, but I can see them in my mind. I'll have to search the almighty Google to see if they mention those. I don't know if the name was regional or national. My one sister and I both had them.

UPDATE!!!

My time machine info retriever has delivered a photo of Mr. Thundra... circa 1970... It would be selfish of me not to share. :) Sorry for the poor quality. The time machine does not have a working scanner.

I think Thundra missed his calling as one of The Brady Bunch.

Comments

[zombie rotten mcdonald]

Ahem, BG...

is this going to be a 'thing' now?

[Jennifer]

Ummm, I believe I "ahemmed" before it became a thing. Someone else took it and ran with it. I won't name any names...

I'm merely doing what I do, and I've always ahemmed.

[ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©]

I have also been in the Ahemorrhage business for some time.

But Sadly, No! wins, I suspect.
~

[Jennifer]

Yeah, I think many have been in the ahemming business for a long time. I keep thinking of Foghorn Leghorn... or some such character.

[Jennifer]

I'm now flashing back to a trip to Kings Island, looooong ago, where the signs all said, "Ahem! You must be this tall to ride!"

[Jennifer]

Grrrr. I'm sick of the robo-code dealio and am turning it off. Spam be damned!

Also, thundra... I think I found a photo of you. :)

[ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©]

Ah haha!

But I don't think I looked like that.

Bell bottoms? Of course...you'd have to look a long time to find the straight legs kids run around in today.

But a sweater vest? You must have me confused with Little Ricky! Not to mention the long sleeves.

Bell-bottom jeans and a t-shirt, and muddy from running around in the woods and swamps looking for creatures would be about right.
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[Jennifer]

I would have been right with you in those swamps and woods. I remember hiding at a few neighbors' houses while my clothes dried so my mother wouldn't question if I was at the swamp, getting more snails, salamanders and tadpoles/frogs. :)

I was also forbidden from bringing any more of them into the house when my mother found a teeeeeeeny dried, and very dead toad in her flour canister. I think I was set up.

[ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©]

Someone set us up the toad.

I was forbidden from bring snakes home. But I suppose you can guess how the persistence of youth versus ophidiophobia of mom eventually played out.
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[Jennifer]

I didn't mind young garter snakes, but hated the blue racers we had around us. :-P

My mother HATED snakes. She played with speedras though...

[Jennifer]

Someone set us up the toad.

機関士：何者かによって、爆発物が仕掛けられたようです。

[Jennifer]

Also, at first I misread ophidiophobia as oedipal...

[ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©]

In A.D. 2101, Speedra War was beginning...
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[Jennifer]

Thank gawd I'll be long gone in 2101...

[zombie rotten mcdonald]

Shirley Jennifer won't leave before the Holy Year of 2112....

[Jennifer]

LOL! Good point.

[Substance McGravitas]

I owned a lovely all-purple suit with vest once, when I was in grade school. At night the vest looked like two giant monster eyes in the closet. I was too scared to move.

[B^4]

Thank gawd I'll be long gone in 2101...

You won't be uploaded into a filthbot?

At night the vest looked like two giant monster eyes in the closet.

That would make a great animated gif!

[blue girl]

I don't think I ever had one of those awesome skorts!! And how about that harvest gold? It was everywhere. We had a harvest gold refrigerator forever.

Acrylic knit bonded to acetate tricot!

Can you just FEEL how suffocating those clothes used to be? They were so "solid" and heavy!

It's so funny the materials that used to be so "in" and they'd promote it like it was just great. Yesterday, on the fleece high heeled clogs site, they were so excited because the heels were "marbled acrylic" !!!!

[Laura]

I had some goucho's! Now those, I liked.

You all were so styling back in the 70's! :P
Still looking for my picture.....

((Hugs))
Laura

[Jennifer]

BG- I remember that skirt as feeling like really thin foam rubber!

Laura- I had the dreaded gauchos as well. Not my fave.

Yes, an animated vest would be good.

[blue girl]

really thin foam rubber!

Ha ha! I remember that kind of material too.

I also had gauchos!

[blue girl]

Speaking of lovely 70s fashion....

The Skimmer's brother had a rainbow wedding! The Skimmer wore a mint-ish green tux.

Laugh. Out. Loud.

[Jennifer]

I had never heard of the rainbow wedding, BG, until you mentioned it to me a year or so ago.

Mint green... mmmmmmm! I hope he had ruffles!

[blue girl]

Oh, of course!

70s fashion: The gaudier the better.

OT: Someone left a comment on an old post of mine about Bobness. I miss him and his blog/writing!!

[Jennifer]

Bobness!!! He was an interesting dude... definitely dancing to the beat of his own drummer. What did he end up doing? I vaguely remember him ending his blog. Was he writing a book?? I can't remember.

[blue girl]

I think he got a new job and couldn't have a really aggressive political blog like he did cuz it wouldn't be good if they found out!

Yeah, he was a riot. A very creative mind, whip smart.

He left a comment on my blog awhile back that at least he had his moment in the blogging sun -- when he wrote that parody of Sarah Palin saying that dinosaurs and Jesus were alive at the same time. And everyone from Matt Damon to Maureen Dowd picked it up like it was a serious thing! LOL Sarah Palin never said that, Bob made it up and people thought it was real. HILARIOUS.

[Jennifer]

I had forgotten about that! That was so funny.

I often wonder how many people are hiding their real selves on blogs. Sometimes I go through the day, eyeing people, wondering... is this the real you? Or do you only let it out on your secret blog? :)

Yes, he was very funny, and very smart.

[Jennifer]

Wow! It's completely gone! I thought he might have left it up and just didn't continue, but it's gone (his TypePad one)! I couldn't even access cached pages.

[blue girl]

Sometimes I go through the day, eyeing people, wondering... is this the real you?

I often wonder when I meet someone in person if I'd read their blog and would never connect the two.

What about this scenario:

What if one day thunder and I are in Kroger's at the same time. What if he's in front of me at check out. What if we'd make random chit chat and then he'd leave the store. And neither of us would never know that he and I were there together!

Could happen!! Maybe it already has!!

[blue girl]

If Bob acted in real life like he did sometimes in his writing, I think someone would lock him up! lol

[Jennifer]

What if one day thunder and I are in Kroger's at the same time. What if he's in front of me at check out. What if we'd make random chit chat and then he'd leave the store. And neither of us would never know that he and I were there together!

Yeah, I've wondered that one before. There were times I was sure Brando and I must have walked past each other, many years ago, and never knew.

You'd probably recognize thunder though because he'd be taking pictures of everything and asking the checkout person where the orb section was. :)

[Jennifer]

If Bob acted in real life like he did sometimes in his writing, I think someone would lock him up!

Good point.

[Another Kiwi]

You'd probably recognize thunder though because he'd be taking pictures of everything and asking the checkout person where the orb section was. :)
Also his left foot would keep getting itself into the conversation

[blue girl]

LOL

[blue girl]

Maybe that's what our random chit chat will be about:

Me, "Wow, you have an interesting left foot."

thunder, "Thanks, I take photos of it often!"

lol

[ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©]

I heard that!
~

[Jennifer]

LOL!

BG- OT, we saw the Namath documentary. It was fun. His sister reminded me of "Church Lady". :)

[blue girl]

His sister reminded me of "Church Lady". :)

Ha-ha! Yes, she was Church Lady-ish!!

[B^4]

What if one day thunder and I are in Kroger's at the same time. What if he's in front of me at check out. What if we'd make random chit chat and then he'd leave the store. And neither of us would never know that he and I were there together!

You mean, you don't have thundar?

[Von]

Oh.
My.
Goodness.
That is one sassy skirt.
AND
I want one.

[Jennifer]

You'd have to hop in the time machine, Vonnie!!! Or make your own.