← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · JoseyWales
Thread ID: 20481 | Posts: 13 | Started: 2005-10-01
2005-10-01 16:31 | User Profile
maybe again one of these days... [img]http://i.cnn.net/si/si_online/covers/images/1962/0924_large.jpg[/img]
2005-10-03 22:11 | User Profile
JoseyWales,
Nice Picture.
2005-10-04 01:09 | User Profile
Those girls were a bit chunky. Girls today don't have those kind of legs, at least, not ones I can see on campuses.....
2005-10-04 01:17 | User Profile
Greater, freer days.
2005-10-04 01:33 | User Profile
1962? Aside from the point Jay made, it was not much different the first time I went to a game at Vaught-Hemingway -- in 19[I]92[/I].
I pais $30 for that issue on Ebay, and it's worth every penny.
2005-10-04 01:34 | User Profile
1962? Aside from the point Jay made, it was not much different the first time I went to a game at Vaught-Hemingway -- in 19[I]92[/I].
I paid $30 for that issue on Ebay, and it's worth every penny.
2005-10-04 09:08 | User Profile
[QUOTE=jay]Those girls were a bit chunky. Girls today don't have those kind of legs, at least, not ones I can see on campuses.....[/QUOTE]
They definitely wouldn't be cheerleaders in today's world (of course, back then grades & deportment were probably factors, not just looking like a stripper), but any way one cares to slice it, that brunette up front is a real beauty....
I'll be saving a copy of that pic on my hard-drive, for nostalgia's sake....although is it truly nostalgia if you didn't live through the era in question?
2005-10-04 16:17 | User Profile
Isn't the administration attempting to get rid of the mascot, Col. Reb?
My younger brother went to Ole Miss, and it is still a gem of a campus in many respects ... very large contingent of students still hold the battle flag in high regard along with bumper stickers stating "save Col. Reb."
Speaking of mascots, I think William and Mary is going to lose their mascot name, the Tribe.
2005-10-05 02:46 | User Profile
Kevin_O'Keeffe,
You right about that. [QUOTE]They definitely wouldn't be cheerleaders in today's world (of course, back then grades & deportment were probably factors, not just looking like a stripper), but any way one cares to slice it, that brunette up front is a real beauty....[/QUOTE]
Yes, the first two girls are great looking.
The thing is people in the US are fatter than in 1960. The percentage of the population being overweight has gone up greatly. The girls on that SI cover are not fat. I was on a campus today, I do not know where jay is but I see a lot of young women who are down right fat. But I did see a good number of thin girls too.
2005-10-05 12:07 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust] Yes, the first two girls are great looking.
The thing is people in the US are fatter than in 1960. The percentage of the population being overweight has gone up greatly. The girls on that SI cover are not fat. I was on a campus today, I do not know where jay is but I see a lot of young women who are down right fat. But I did see a good number of thin girls too.[/QUOTE] In the last fifty years, we have had dual social pathologies in this regard. First, the mass media has become obsessed with promoting an extremely skinny, almost pre-pubescent or androgynous, and certainly unhealthy body shape as the ideal of beauty. Look at Kate Moss, for example. Perhaps her face is pleasant, but she looks like a prisoner of war. At the same time as mass culture was fetishizing the skeletal look, the average American was getting fatter and fatter. So now we have the worst of both worlds -- we fantasize about unhealthy skeletons, and we become unhealthy pigs. We need to get back to the traditional Western ideal of a strong, healthy body.
2005-10-05 15:58 | User Profile
Last year, I broke down just outside a little town in New Mexico. The main part of the town is now off the beaten path, and all the stores were closed in the early "60's and late '50's. One of the locals there took me for a tour of them, and we stepped right back into the past. One hardware store still had lots of stuff on the shelves, toasters, and small appliances. There were several "brand new" 1960 refridgerators and stoves. Anyway, I found a pile of [I]Good Housekeeping[/I] magazines. The ads were all white people, mostly beautiful women, fully dressed and looking like American should still be. I have most of the issues from '59, '60, and '61. I am saving them for my grandchildren, so they can see what they were cheated out of. Also grabbed a can of Campbell's soup, and a few bars of soap. Wish I'd taken more. The place was amazing.
2005-10-05 22:35 | User Profile
LA Refugee,
Yes, It is just so sad what they have done to America. I remember reading an article by a man who joined the Army in the late 40's and left for Asia he came back around 1970. He was wrote about how hart-breaking it was to see what had happeded to America. It is shocking how fast the cultural marxists destroyed our civilization.
[QUOTE=LA Refugee]Last year, I broke down just outside a little town in New Mexico. The main part of the town is now off the beaten path, and all the stores were closed in the early "60's and late '50's. One of the locals there took me for a tour of them, and we stepped right back into the past. One hardware store still had lots of stuff on the shelves, toasters, and small appliances. There were several "brand new" 1960 refridgerators and stoves. Anyway, I found a pile of [I]Good Housekeeping[/I] magazines. The ads were all white people, mostly beautiful women, fully dressed and looking like American should still be. I have most of the issues from '59, '60, and '61. I am saving them for my grandchildren, so they can see what they were cheated out of. Also grabbed a can of Campbell's soup, and a few bars of soap. Wish I'd taken more. The place was amazing.[/QUOTE]
2005-10-05 23:00 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]Kevin_O'Keeffe,
You right about that.
Yes, the first two girls are great looking.
The thing is people in the US are fatter than in 1960. The percentage of the population being overweight has gone up greatly. The girls on that SI cover are not fat. I was on a campus today, I do not know where jay is but I see a lot of young women who are down right fat. But I did see a good number of thin girls too.[/QUOTE]
I love that issue. It is almost as old as me. Those women are healthy looking, not fat or thin. Most women then did not do weights or aerobics. Also most people snacked very little, they got most of their food at meals. And also, The Happy meal-sized hamburger was the only burger Mcdonald's had and portions have supersized ever since. No wonder so many of us are fat.