Testy Area 51 - Page 10

The yearly thing will come tonight, and we will discuss what 1976 means to us then.

Banana slug: That thing is so cute!

Barry Lyndon: I saw this a few months ago and loved it.

Shadow of the Vampire: Thanks for reminding me that I need to see this movie. What did you think of it, Steve?

Online bulb: What online bulb?

~T

How do I fix my online bulb?

~T

So what you're saying is that I should stop yelling out your name at satanic orgies?



Well, that's kind of an embarassing question to ask among friends, isn't it, Thi? :b

All right then, its settled. Next satanic orgy I attend I'm gonna yell out "JACK BRIGGS"!


BTW, Steve. Three posts in a row? That's rather unseemly. Almost like your trying to bump the thread's numbers or something!

Steve, humanity shares a common link with apes; we did not evolve from them—we both share a common jumping-off point in the saga of evolution.

Speaking of evolution and eras gone by, there was, well, 1976:

• Little did I know it in October of that year, but I would come to know later in life the true meaning of the word "tragedy"—I got married to Linda.

• The first inkling of tragedy was just after that event, when I learned I couldn't simply spring for a great deal I saw on a Marantz Model 3600 preamplifier.

• However, I already started hatching a plot to replace the DCM Time Window original-generation units with what I wanted all along: a pair of Dahlquist DQ-10a phased-array, enclosureless speaker systems (that looked and sounded like electrostratics, but were cone- and dome-driven dynamic units) augmented by a Dahlquist DQ-1W woofer unit (10 inches, sealed enclosure). The system would require a different means of amplification, I felt. But I knew that would be a more difficult sell.

• The presidential election in November meant I was able to even my score, my batting average. This time I picked the winner.

• I couldn't believe that I hadn't listened to Linda about seeing the remake of King Kong. Look, I knew it couldn't be that good, either. But I thought I knew more about great monster flicks than my newly minted wife (with whom I had been living for most of the year anyway).

• Another scholarship!

• The American Bicentennial. I feel curiously detached.

• The mighty Kawasaki Z-1 is, in my view, starting to get a little long in tooth when, late in the year, the Big K introduces the next generation: the KZ1000, a 1015cc version of the same bike.

• But Suzuki introduces the similarly themed but somehow more radical GS750.

• My parents would not relent in letting Linda and me have one of their color TVs. Stuck with Linda's black-and-white portable. A new item gets etched onto the grand to-do list of life.

• Early in the year, after scoring well on a test, me and the buddies hang out at a popular bar. Things get rowdy. We get tossed out.

• Jefferson Starship, the woeful current incarnation of what was once Jefferson Airplane, scores an interestingly composed hit in "Miracles."

• Jerry Ford denies in a debate with Jimmy Carter that the Soviets have any sort of control over or influence in Eastern Europe. Probably cost him the election.

• Saw 2001 in 35mm more than ten times.

• Though I like "Band on the Run," I am having difficulty relating to Paul McCartney's "Wings" tour. Question Linda's involvement musically. No answer satisfies.

• Taxi Driver best new movie I see all year long.

• The Russians are the only ones flying humans in space. American manned space effort on ice for five more years.

• Rumors abound that Honda is designing a six-cylinder superbike. Can't believe what I'm hearing. Z-1 looking older.

• Is it me or is it popular music that is becoming increasingly unlistenable? Spend more time with Copland, Respighi, and Beethoven. Besides, the recordings of the serious music sound better on my equipment.

• The only thing I care to see on TV are the syndicated Star Trek reruns when I get home from class. (And The Invaders, starring Roy Thinnes). Spend most of my evening time listening to music and altering my consciousness.

• The Absolute Sound—still referred to as an "underground" audio magazine (I still have the first thirty issues)—and Audio both hail the Mark Levinson JC-2 preamplifier as the best such component of its kind. Lists for a then-astonishing $1,100. The vacuum-tube Audio Research is at $750; interests me more.

• Carlos Kleiber's reading of the Beethoven fifth symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on Deutsche Grammophon makes the overplayed warhorse almost seem new again. Sounds awesome on my system.

• Rode on my Z-1 more than 250 miles to catch screenings of Zardoz.

There's more from then, but my memory this evening is strictly short-term.

"There are greater things in heaven and earth..."

Now, what does 1976 mean to you. Come gather around and share your 1976 moments with the greatern community.

Since I've established a beachead in this thread, I notice the absence of He Who Made It All Happen, my boss, our leader.

Jack:

You've been beached? Damn dude. You really shouldn't let them keep pushing you back out into the ocean like that. Then that won't happen so often.


I didn't know your boss read our little Internet site. Damn I am sure proud!

It my best Rozz voice...."I'm watching you! Allllwaaayyyss watching!"

Parker

1975 and 1976....5th and 6th grade...hmmmm...
the memories are hazy...I'll just read Jack's memories
and remember those.

I remember that my fellow 5th and 6th graders were enjoying
Tuesday nights on ABC, with HAPPY DAYS and LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY back to back. I must've been enjoying my saturday dose of Road Runner, and Superfriends, and whatever Krofft show was on at that time...Land of the Lost?

Since I"m certified for CPR, I thought i would revive
Thread Killer, then I saw this thread and thought...OK!
(I'm certified, but I didn't take the hypocratic oath).

Dennis:

That was just a joke I thought was cute when I signed up. I've been waiting all these years for someone to say something about it. And it would be Fluffy Pumpkin's human who would actually click on that.

Wait a minute.

What were you doing looking at my membership profile? I'm going to alert an HTF administator immediately!

As for the rest of you, please post your 1976 memories now, as I am waiting for permission from Steve to move on to 1977.

Your friend and mine,
JB

(Steve: "My" Sandra and I are talking again!)

Dennis, when you call Fluffy Pumpkin, do you call out that entire name? "Here, Fluffy Pumpkin...how can we do your bidding?"
Or do you shorten that name to something else?
Just wondering.

"Fluff Pump"

1976 was the year that I have no memories of.

Who's been calling me a "dim bulb?"

Why is it that people always seem to ignore a question I have? Nobody answered my gravy question in that deep fry turkey thread in After Hours. And our Steve ignored my "which four movies haven't you seen" question from his own thread in Movies.

~T