[UA] Circle of Friends -- Sounds of 70s Campaign Ideas

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Stuart Anderson <stuartanderson at qwest.net> wrote:
> Royal Minister of Stuff wrote:
> 
> >  He may not deserve ridicule, but ridicule he
> > got.  Him and -I know this is going to touch a
> nerve-
> > Kneivel.
> 
>     Now you've done it. I can't even *believe* you
> chose to
> go there! 

I've never been able to resist picking at scabs.

I agree, though, Evel Kneivel is THE image of
spectacular daring in the 70s.  I credit the entire
show "That's Incredible" to kind of things Evel made
us think about. (I also credit the time I broke my
sister's arm by landing on her with my bike in an
ill-judged attempt to jump an arroyo near our house to
the sequined daredevil.)

> But man--if you could've
> seen him
> strap that goddamned rocket bike to his ass and
> launch
> himself into the void over Snake River--I think even
> a hip,
> liberal innalechual like yourself 

How dare you call me that!  My dad was a supply
seargent in 'Nam, dammit, and I sold my soul to a
huge, evil corporation a long, long time ago.  I've
done it more times than I can count, in fact (although
I prefer to think of it as something akin to "The Skin
Game.")  I read an article in some stupid paper with
too many club ads back in portland describing how
"purple is not cool" and started wearing purple all
the time.  And I've never read Dante's "Divine Comedy"
OR Milton's "Paradise Lost."  And I'm just as happy to
see the US profit from stomping on some angry foreign
nation as anybody, as long as I get my cut. I just
very rarely get my cut.


> You couldn't wake the Tiger in the
> 70s,
> because he was always awake, trying to cope with
> Bigfoot, the
> Bermuda Triangle, cults, ancient astronauts (my
> personal
> favorite) and the Loch Ness Monster.
> --Stu

This was also the time of Carlos Casteneda and
speculative history.  I beleive I mentioned Vietnam
earlier, as well.  That was definitely very big in the
early seventies.  Pictures of monks setting themselves
afire on television (to protest your own damn country)
is something you can not afford to leave out of your
70s game.

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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