Up & Coming Weekly

July 26, 2011

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laid back attitude Serious Food A Little Island Atmosphere in the Heart of Haymount! • Sunday Funday - the perfect pit stop on your way back from the beach! Bloody Mary bar, Peel-n-Eat Shrimp Special and $10 buckets of Corona. • Tuesdays - Enjoy an icy cold beer. All domestic bottles just $2. • Wine Down Wednesdays - $2 off all glasses of wine. Happy Hump Day! • Thursdays - $5 Margarita’s & Martinis to cool you down. Tuesday thru Friday enjoy 1/2 price appetizers from 4-6. Kick back with a cold one and listen to the area’s best live music! Thursday, Friday & Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons. Serving Lunch and Dinner, Tuesday - Sunday from 11:30 (Closed Monday) 1217 Hay Street • Fayetteville • 485-4777 www.lat35fay.com The Late Great 1968 by PITT DICKEY I graduated from 71st High School on the day in 1968 that Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. 1968 was one of those hinge years when huge amounts of poo was launched into the fan. I was reminded of 1968 while in a fl ea market. Sitting on a dusty counter was a January 1969 issue of Life magazine which recounted the mad cap antics of 1968. What is so rare as a day in 1968? Let us count the ways. If you were inclined to shake a stick at world events, 1968 featured more happenings than at which you could shake that stick. 1968 makes 2011 look like cold oat meal. We learned that in the future all assassins would have three names. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan killed Bobby Kennedy. James Earl Ray killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The next time we lose someone famous to a nut with a gun, watch the media observe the three name rule. Our most recent nut with a gun, Jared Lee Loughner shot Congresswoman Gabby Gifford and the three name rule came into play. Let’s ponder some of the world events that went down in 1968. Czechoslovakians got uppity with the USSR and declared a bit of freedom. The commies in the USSR weren’t having any of this. A whiff of Iron Curtain freedom smelled like a rat to the Kremlin. The Russkis sent in troops and canceled the Czech’s rebellion with the old iron boot to the face technique. Students went gonzo all over the world. They rioted in Paris, Berlin and New York. Charles DeGaulle’s picture showed a tired old man during the student strikes. Columbia University students took over the university president’s offi ce and smoked his cigars. The USS Pueblo led by Lloyd Butcher got captured by the North Koreans who whupped up on our guys during their captivity. In Vietnam, the Tet offensive exploded and Walter Cronkite declared the Whether you are looking for someone to help an aging parent a few hours a week, or need more comprehensive assistance, Home Instead Senior Care® can help. • Companionship • Medication Reminders • Meal Preparation • Light Housekeeping • Shopping & Errands • Personal Care Call for a free, no-obligation appointment: 910.484.7200 homeinstead.com Each Home Instead Senior Care® is independently owned and operated. franchise of ce © 2010 Home Instead, Inc. 8 UCW JULY 27 - AUGUST 2, 2011 Vietnam War lost. We had 550,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam in 1968. Fourteen thousand and fi ve-hundred of our soldiers would die there that year. It was an election year. The Democrats had riots in the streets in Chicago courtesy of the hippies, yippies and Mayor Daley. In the midst of the tear gas swirling in the streets and Grant Park, the happy warrior Hubert Humphrey was nominated to run against the all new improved Richard Nixon. A Nixon billboard read, “This time, vote like your whole world depended on it.” The Trickster promised a secret plan to end the Vietnam War, which turned out not to work quite as well as promised. Tiny Tim was popular. O.J. Simpson graduated from the University of Southern California with a bright professional football career and a lousy criminal career in front of him. Jackie Kennedy married the richest toad in the world, Aristotle Onassis. Speaking of toads, Life had a great ad for a product called Derma-Soft. The ad’s headline read, Tortured nine years by two corns and a wart and “now they are gone” writes a happy user. Oh the humanity. If only Happy User had discovered Derma-Soft in 1959. Even back then Madison Avenue was inventing diseases for the drug companies to cure. My favorite ad promised a cure for “housewife headache.” The copy read: “When boredom and emotional fatigue bring on ‘housewife headache’. Making beds, getting meals, acting as the family chauffeur — having to do the same dull, tiresome work day after day is a mild form of torture. These boring but necessary tasks can bring on nervous tension and what is now known as “housewife headache.” The ad is enough to nudge you into a soupcon of suicidal ideation. The next time you see an ad promising to cure Social Anxiety Disorder, remember that fake disease is brought to you by the same smarmy dudes who invented housewife headache. The cigarette ads were great. Lark cigarettes had a gas trap fi lter because “about 90 percent of cigarette smoke is gas. Only a fraction is actually tar and nicotine.” Tareyton smokers would rather fi ght than switch reports a guy with a black eye. A cowboy yet to develop Stage 4 lung cancer sits heroically by a chuck wagon and invites you to “come to where the fl avor is. Come to Marlboro country.” A major babe in a green bikini hanging out in a jungle asks us to “come to the coolest part of the forest. Pall Mall Menthol 100s. Extra long on both ends.” What could possibly be better than a cigarette that is extra long on both ends? Maybe only 1968, a year that was extra long on both ends. PITT DICKEY, Contributing Writer. COMMENTS? editor@upandcomingweekly.com WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM

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