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gmku 10.21.2008 02:56 PM

Do you miss the Cold War?
 
Things were so simple then. Commies & us. The domino theory. The evil Soviet empire, the good old U.S. of A.

Mass annihilation in global thermonuclear war at the touch of a button.

Sigh...

al shabbray 10.21.2008 02:56 PM

strange times

missing? no

greedrex 10.21.2008 02:57 PM

yes.
I need a world with goodies and baddies.

terriblecanyons 10.21.2008 02:59 PM

Fuck yes I do.

Wait. I wasn't even alive.

gmku 10.21.2008 02:59 PM

Ho Chi Minh.

Viet Cong.

Red China.

Cuban missile crisis.

Lyndon Baines Johnson and thousands of American boys in Vietnam.

Hoo ah!

gmku 10.21.2008 03:07 PM

A movie star was president. An anti-communist former vice-president tours "red" China when he becomes president. A congressman decides to start a red scare, and major entertainment people, writers, and intellectuals get blacklisted and worse.

Oh, those were the days.

davenotdead 10.21.2008 03:09 PM

was it really cold? like, emotionally?

terriblecanyons 10.21.2008 03:09 PM

It was pretty cold physically.

davenotdead 10.21.2008 03:15 PM

you weren't born yet girl. i'm asking the old guyz

davenotdead 10.21.2008 03:15 PM

unless you mean that your mother's placenta was cold temperature-wise, then thats pretty weird. my mom's placenta was like Cabo

SYRFox 10.21.2008 03:16 PM

Ask Pookie

terriblecanyons 10.21.2008 03:17 PM

Ask advice dog!

davenotdead 10.21.2008 03:17 PM

how old is Pookie?

terriblecanyons 10.21.2008 03:18 PM

Older than dookie.

SYRFox 10.21.2008 03:22 PM

Older than cookies

SYRFox 10.21.2008 03:22 PM

Hmm, cookies. I love these.

davenotdead 10.21.2008 03:23 PM

what kind of cookie? i don't even know when chocolate chips were invented...anyone? before or after the Cold War?

SYRFox 10.21.2008 03:24 PM

Cookies were invented by Ho Chi Minh

terriblecanyons 10.21.2008 03:24 PM

Before.

I bet Mohn JcCain is older than chocolate chip cookies.

davenotdead 10.21.2008 03:25 PM

i love the internet

mmm, history

edit---so the answer to my question is 1937. is that older than McCain? gmku, how old is McCain?


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