Yeah, that's my birthday cover and I gracefully concede defeat. But was yours any better?
Scroll down to the bottom to search for your embarrassing, deeply politically incorrect cover.
Posted by at April 04, 2003 12:09 PMAt the risk of revealing my callow youth, here's mine. Never knew I was born in such troubling times.
Posted by: Vidiot on April 4, 2003 12:31 PMSlightly more famous cover for the week after I was born than the week I was.
Posted by: aine42 on April 4, 2003 12:34 PMI have serious doubts that some of these are women. Late 70's (lack of) fashion notwithstanding. Like the second one down on the far right column.
Posted by: romakimmy on April 4, 2003 12:40 PMYou realize this is a sly marketing exercise, commissioned by Scruham, Grabbit an Run and designed to discover the 9622 demographic?
[I wish I had the waxy skills to compile a neat graphic of our generational range. As it is, I think I'll be just about able to work out our average age. My guess: just under or over 30.]
Posted by: Miguel on April 4, 2003 12:43 PMCarter and Brezhnev meet. Debauchery and hilarity ensue.
And don't worry Vidiot, since P-lo went MIA, I'm pretty sure I'm the youngest monkey.
Posted by: ufez on April 4, 2003 12:47 PMChairman Mao. (do we still call it Red China?)
Miguel, you will forever be older than I am.
Posted by: b*nnyf*re on April 4, 2003 12:51 PMMigs, I skew the average a bit too - Vidiot was born in the month I graduated from high school.
I like the one for the week after my birth better too, aine42.
And there weren't any Pampers in the can! They were invented in the 1950's, but my ma was not on the cutting edge.
Posted by: tizzie on April 4, 2003 01:05 PMLenoard Bernstein?
Boy, that Steve Case has really screwed up Time-Life.
It reminds me of one of the first radio programmes I wrote. I was fifteen and asked one of my father's typists to type up my notes, so that the cool, professional broadcaster wouldn't screw up my beautiful words.
It went very well. Except the song credits. The whole 30 minutes were built around Leonard Cohen's "Songs of Love and Hate" and every time he read the track title he'd add, in the bass, sonorous tone that was fashionable then:
"por Leontort Cotten"
I still have nightmares about it.
Posted by: Miguel on April 4, 2003 01:12 PMSo, wait, are we doing the week it's dated or the week it went on sale?
For me, this was on sale when I was born.
This, however, is dated my birthday week. Who the fuck is Carlos Castaneda and what does he have to do with me?
You're older than you've ever been, and now you're getting older...
Posted by: Vidiot on April 4, 2003 01:12 PMCool, I'm young enough to be the bastard child of Miguel and the tizztress and/or b**f***.
Posted by: ufez on April 4, 2003 01:12 PM
*but immediately takes pity on the mite and gives him his milkey-milk*
Posted by: Miguel on April 4, 2003 01:20 PMCarlos Castaneda wrote a series of books about Don Juan of the Yaqui Indians (among them The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge and Journey to Ixtlan) in which he traveled with a South American Shaman and participated in peyote rituals among other things. They're kind of neat books, though they have been derided as flat-out fabrications and not the non-fiction that Castaneda claimed.
Posted by: kafkerlesque on April 4, 2003 01:20 PM*sigh.*
If I had a dime for every time I've said that...
Well, some things never change.
Posted by: Chico on April 4, 2003 01:29 PMLike my cover it says it all for my age, a few days early though.
Posted by: Thomcatspike on April 4, 2003 01:43 PMheheheh.... This is one of those "kaibutsu feels like a whippersnapper" threads... Luckily, I'm not too ashamed to reveal my cover, as Ufez has already shown that I'm not alone in my demographic range.
Posted by: kaibutsu on April 4, 2003 03:49 PMFunny, the cover of the Time for my b-day is Commercials, I'm guessing they are referring to the age of tv advertisement. And on it is a plate of spaghetti. Which to me, w/o meat, is just noodles & tomato soup. Anyway, realized last night I must of ate spaghetti growing up twice a week if not more like you see in the picture...yet rarely have it now. If I do, main portion is meat balls with the shell like pasta( great for holding the sauce in every bite)& speghetti sauce.
To repeat Chico's statement: Some things never change.
Posted by: eyeballkid on April 4, 2003 04:26 PM
Cool, I'm young enough to be the bastard child of Miguel and the tizztress
Of all the bastard love children I could have, you'd be my favorite.
Now run to the Corner Market and score some crack, willya hon?
Posted by: tizzie on April 4, 2003 06:13 PMHmmm. A dead, southern lawyer-politician. Great.
On the other hand, Mrs. Commish has this guy.
Posted by: yhbc on April 4, 2003 07:16 PMSpeaking of Reagan's children here's a video of my son spinning a rifle. I apologise in advance for the quality (son's friend recorded it) and only six of you per day can view it, per bandwidth issues-but I'm proud of my boy and wanna share.
I still don't know if I will let you see pics of my girls tho.
Posted by: b*nnyf*re on April 4, 2003 07:30 PMBunny: Cool video. Reminds me of Bill Murray in "Stripes"..."Why did the chicken cross the road? To get from the left to the right...Right!"
Is your son the one being carried in the top photo?
Posted by: ColdChef on April 4, 2003 08:47 PM
bunny, my computer wouldn't play the video but I love the picture. He looks sweet as pie with that soup-pot on his head.
Posted by: tizzie on April 5, 2003 07:18 AMYeah, he has thirteen or fourteen of those things in his room. That "soup pot" description of yours will be our little secret. Heh.
If he could remember to take out the trash he's be darn near perfect. *gushes*
Posted by: b*nnyf*re on April 5, 2003 11:03 AMWow, bunny's son is Beetle Bailey!
just kiddin'..damn spiffy lad ya gots there, good luck to him.
Posted by: jonmc on April 5, 2003 01:55 PMI win. Generous of you to post this on my birthday, Miguel.
Posted by: djacobs on April 6, 2003 01:28 PMHappy Birthday, dj.
You know we're going to call you "Porno Plague" from now on.
Posted by: kaf on April 6, 2003 02:44 PMA very happy birthday to you, pleasure seeker djacobs! :)
Posted by: Miguel on April 6, 2003 06:43 PMI want to make a Porno Plague as WMD joke but it's just too damn early...
Posted by: Cyrano on April 7, 2003 10:30 AMBilly Graham with a nekkid chick and a snake. Jeez, I'm getting old.
Posted by: SteveInMaine on April 7, 2003 10:59 AMRyan:
hahahahahahahahahahaha!
*breathes*
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
That and the Porno Plague are by far the funniest. Mine don't even warrant linking they're so dull.
Posted by: readymade on April 7, 2003 05:47 PMRyan, how cool! Now you can choose John Travolta as your Personal Jesus!
*har* sorry, cracked myself up there.
Posted by: tizzie on April 7, 2003 05:51 PMYou know, how on Halloween, all the kids look in their bags and say what groovy stuff they got...and Charlie Brown says "I got a rock."?
I got an election special.
Posted by: dejah420 on April 9, 2003 10:45 PMLet me skew the average a few days older; I was born on the day James Dean died, which means there was a movie named after my birthday (Yay!) that starred Richard "John-Boy" Thomas (Boo!). Also on that date, the Ohio Turnpike was opened, and the day I was brought home from the hospital, "Captain Kangaroo" debuted on American TeeVee. Still, the first Time Mag of my life featured The World Series and Casey Stengel, a week after Nassar and a week before Nixon. Sigh.
Posted by: wendell on April 12, 2003 12:17 AM*crashes through thread wall*
Can anyone point me to September 2003?
*wanders off*
Posted by: kaf on September 30, 2003 11:29 AMThe lights...the lights! The space aliens are carrying me away home!
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