BUY WAR BONGS
Was there ever a better time in our history than the Vietnam war in the 40′s? The way we all pulled together for the war effort, rationing TV dinners and only driving the VW Bus when we had to? And who doesn’t remember hearing Jimi Hendrix play the National Anthem on the Jack Benny show?
It’s like Tom Brokaw said, we really were the grooviest generation.
Something tells me you can do better. Post your 1940′s Vietnam war propaganda posters in this thread.
THERE ARE PRIZES
EDIT: Mike on Facebook just came up with such a good joke that I had to change the title of this post.
August 19, 2011 at 12:37 pm
That was my favorite, most romantic period, right after the Battle of 1812 last year.
August 19, 2011 at 12:47 pm
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August 19, 2011 at 12:50 pm
“The Past” is one blobby, amorphous concept. It is impossible to distinguish between one historical period and another, unless you could figure out a way of dividing chunks of time up into easily organized, sortable pieces, and lay them in a linear formation so you could determine which events occured before and after other events.
But that is just a pipe dream, so forget about it.
August 19, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Like all the furniture from yore at Pottery Barn.
August 19, 2011 at 2:35 pm
“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint – it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff.”
August 19, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Ah, the days of yore… Such a wonderful time. Almost as good as yesteryear. I think that yesteryear is my favorite time period!
August 19, 2011 at 3:57 pm
Steampunk Octopus, thanks to you I won’t be blinking at all tonight, though I will be going through my DVD collection looking for hidden messages.
August 19, 2011 at 12:50 pm
“The Past” is one blobby, amorphous concept. It is impossible to distinguish between one historical period and another, unless you could figure out a way of dividing chunks of time up into easily organized, sortable pieces, and lay them in a linear formation so you could determine which events occured before and after other events.
But that is just a pipe dream, so forget about it.
August 19, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Balls. Why did this happen.
August 19, 2011 at 12:55 pm
The future you had already posted, but the historical you didn’t know it yet.
August 19, 2011 at 1:00 pm
That makes sense. I just ran into myself on the way to the restroom and we both agreed to coordinate better on the future posts of yesteryear.
August 19, 2011 at 1:14 pm
WE’RE IN NOW NOW.
August 19, 2011 at 2:35 pm
BB I love you – this was the first thing that popped into my head!
August 19, 2011 at 7:08 pm
You forgot it… so were destined to repeat it?
August 19, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Last year?? I could have sworn it was coming up next year.. *totes corn-fused, now*
August 19, 2011 at 1:17 pm
We’re both right.
August 19, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Other important events from the 196040s:
-Jack Kennedy does Marilyn in a PT Boat
-Senator Paul McCartney leads a witch hunt to remove walruses from government
-Confussion reigns at a protest over Henry Fonda’s support for Taiwain when the hippies wearing army jackets are mistaken for soldiers and the soldiers wearing army jackets are mistaken for hippies; the crowd decides the only thing left to do is levitate the half-built pentagon
-D-Day is postponed due to a problematic star chart and a bad case of the munchies
-The A-Bomb is dropped from a hangglider on the VW microbus factory
-Sgt. Pepper aand Audie Murphy assist Che Guevera in his efforts to free Vietnamese prisoners being held in Bangladesh; concert ensues
August 19, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Yes. That is why that famous song was written, to help the people express their feelings about these troublesome times.
“Come on people now, smile on your brother on the Chattanooga choo-choo for a sentimental journey right now.”
August 19, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Oh man, Monkey. McCarthy/McCartney parallel. I love you.
August 19, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Wait – Vietnam was right after the Hobo period? When did Germany bomb Pearl Harbor then?
August 19, 2011 at 2:17 pm
That was during prohibition – they heard we had schnitzel there and they just got all antsy in the hosen. President Rosenfeld was so moved, he rose up out of his Iron Lung and declared, “We have nothing to fear but radiation-mutated dinosaurs which have been destroying Tokyo for generations!”
There was widespread panic, but it was a prosperous time for the weapons industry.
August 19, 2011 at 2:33 pm
All I remember is being trapped behind enemy lines with nothing but my platform shoes, an empty bong and an 8-track of Convoy by C W McCall. Oh the horror, the horror…
August 19, 2011 at 2:38 pm
I nominate “antsy in the hosen” for phrase of the day.
August 19, 2011 at 3:35 pm
I remember the book depository where they crowned the king of Cuba…
August 19, 2011 at 3:54 pm
@notcrafty – I’ll second that!
August 19, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Rev, you need to write a history textbook. I would so read that!
August 19, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Screw that stoner jam band wannabe crap. They had the real Grateful Dead back in WWII.
August 19, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Fluffermom – I may just have to. I seem to be the only one who is remembering correctly, and I don’t want to be doomed to repeat it. Especially the darker times in our nation’s history, like the Cuban Sandwich Crisis.
August 19, 2011 at 5:38 pm
“and those dirty hippies”
August 19, 2011 at 6:26 pm
The Pentagon was built in record time because the building previously on the site, the Heptagon, was levitated by hippies.
August 19, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Totally canceling my date tonight to work on this!
August 19, 2011 at 12:40 pm
If I were your date, I would approve of this message.
August 19, 2011 at 12:44 pm
This should *be* your date!
August 19, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Totally making this my wedding theme. It will be so cute!
August 19, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Hopefully, Regretsy doesn’t get wind of it and shit all over your love.
August 19, 2011 at 6:20 pm
took me a minute to get this, I blame the vodka/meds.
August 19, 2011 at 12:41 pm
They’re rationing pot? Does that mean I can keep my okra?
August 19, 2011 at 3:41 pm
No. Okra is now the government cheese of pot. It’s like pot with vitamins and shit.
August 19, 2011 at 4:15 pm
I love that those are okra leave in the picture, not cannabis. Or so I have been told.
August 19, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Let us all come together, light candles, and mourn the state of our educational system in America.
August 19, 2011 at 12:50 pm
I am already weeping in my drink.
August 19, 2011 at 1:15 pm
I think you mean Amaerika.
August 19, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Amaerika.. Wasn’t that one of the chicks on Maury yesterday?
August 19, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Hold on, let me find it on a map.
…
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CURSE YOU, PUBLIC SCHOOL!
August 19, 2011 at 1:20 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
August 19, 2011 at 1:23 pm
I’m giving you an A, because the boost to your self-esteem will help you actualize.
August 19, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Gnometess, I keep watching that video to see if she’s actually trying to make a point.
August 19, 2011 at 12:43 pm
If she’d said Korea, we could have had a real M*A*S*H-up.
August 19, 2011 at 1:05 pm
I hear suicide is painless. Now if you’ll excuse me, Jamie Farr needs to borrow a dress.
August 19, 2011 at 12:43 pm
For the sake of ALL THE FUCKS.
August 19, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Jesus! Don’t use all your fucks at once. You don’t want to run out…or hurt yourself for using them all at once.
August 19, 2011 at 12:58 pm
I’m never gonna need my fucks again. I’m too worried about accidently fucking someone this. dumb.
August 19, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Hey, you could give some of your fucks to the less fortunate. AKA people like me who’s husband doesn’t put out enough. I’ll take all y’alls extra fucks. I can see it now…I’ll have so many fucks I’ll just put them on the bed, throw them up in the air and roll around in them. I’ll be like “How ya like me now, how ya like me now? Look how many fucks I have!”.
August 19, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Please note: I will be holding a mass giveaway of my fucks. Come round to my house in about- 20 minutes. Join the line.
August 19, 2011 at 2:38 pm
In negative 20 minutes? I will be/was there!
August 19, 2011 at 2:41 pm
I’m the seventh one from the door Anninyn, you’ll spot me easy – I have on my 1940′s Vietnam field jacket.
August 19, 2011 at 2:52 pm
It’s a miracle! Fucks for everyone! No one shall go without.
August 19, 2011 at 5:18 pm
jeez stabby, i thought I was the only one with a low sex drive hubs. Can we split Annilyns fucks and distribute them generously between Towel Mike and Dancing Dror?
August 19, 2011 at 6:24 pm
How many fucks could a fucker fuck if a fucker could fuck fuckers?
August 19, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Your selflessness is appreciated by those of us who can’t give a fuck.
August 19, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Lord knows, my give-a-fuck has been broken for years.
August 19, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Was your give-a-fuck a Hitachi? I understand they are XLNT!!
August 19, 2011 at 12:43 pm
I am laughing and crying at the same time.
My father said I was a smart child – now I knows I was as I so clearly remember the Vietnam War and yet I was born in 1948. I is genius.
August 19, 2011 at 12:44 pm
FINALLY, SOMETHING I CAN THEME MY WEDDING AFTER.
August 19, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Not only did she make the error, she repeated and restated it.
I guess saying the wrong thing many times still only counts as one derp unless and until you are corrected.
August 19, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Hey, works for Sarah Palin. *shrug*
August 19, 2011 at 4:30 pm
I’m equally stunned that she somehow managed to spell ‘epaulette’ correctly…
August 19, 2011 at 12:45 pm
This is obviously from a parallel universe when the Viatnam was WAS in the 1940′s. DUH!
August 19, 2011 at 12:47 pm
*war
August 19, 2011 at 4:17 pm
I love that you corrected “was” but not “Viatnam”.
August 19, 2011 at 4:27 pm
I’m cool like that
August 19, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Am I the only one here who would possibly wear this jacket? If the seller wasn’t so damn stupid…
August 19, 2011 at 12:47 pm
It’s a nice looking jacket. I’d wear it too!
August 19, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Too often, fashion history is marred by the ignorant.
August 19, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Go ahead get the jacket, the stupid is not included…
August 19, 2011 at 12:46 pm
I weep.
August 19, 2011 at 12:46 pm
If I had any photoshop skills at all, I would make a poster of Rosie the Riveter smoking a joint. But I would no doubt do a terrible job and one of you talented fat jealous losers would show me up.
August 19, 2011 at 12:47 pm
That was my first thought, too. Alas, I have no Photoshop program, let alone skills.
August 19, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Let’s wear twin jackets and commiserate about not being able to bring our artistic vision to life.
August 19, 2011 at 12:50 pm
We just can’t make it happen in our artistic ability.
August 19, 2011 at 12:52 pm
I guess we’ll just have to console ourselves by making fun of shitty crafts and people who don’t know any history.
August 19, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Also, I think we should get prizes just for having a good idea.
August 19, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Definately! Cause if I had any artistic skill, or a copy of photoshop I would edit this poster
to include tons of pot leaves and a statement like
‘keep our populace mellow, maaan’. Oh, and a spliff in her hand.
August 19, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Okay I found this shitty Photoshop knockoff online and I spent HOURS making this, I will have you know. Not really, but whatever. And it’s not a joint, it’s a bong, but it’s a patriotic bong.
August 19, 2011 at 1:51 pm
You’re my new hero, happy penguins.
August 19, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Oh balls the link quit working. Trying again:
August 19, 2011 at 2:04 pm
(Psst, honey, the bong goes in your mouth, not your ear. Don’t worry, you can do it.)
August 19, 2011 at 12:49 pm
I’d do her playing guitar a la Hendrix but I can barely manage MS Paint.
August 19, 2011 at 1:04 pm
I bet a lot of hippies would do her playing guitar.
August 19, 2011 at 1:10 pm
On the principle that if you can think of it, someone on the internet has done it by now, I did an image search for “Rosie the Riveter smoking. A little surprised by how few relevant hits there were, in truth. (Most were the original Rosie poster or people in Rosie costumes – not smoking.) This came up second.
August 19, 2011 at 1:12 pm
Er, flubbed the link. Didn’t mean to have an uncredited hotlink. Here’s the source.
August 19, 2011 at 1:19 pm
This disturbs me. On the toilet? Why? And why couldn’t she be bothered to hike up her skirt so it’s not on the bathroom floor?
August 21, 2011 at 1:15 pm
She probably WAS holding her skirt up, but then her boot started to fly away, and she had to drop the skirt to catch the boot.
August 19, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Disturbing, but sort of hot. In a Tank Girl sort of way, because a fictional dystopia might as well be history, right? I mean it *was* set during the Vietnam war.
August 19, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Oh my god, my first thought when seeing that picture was “Tank Girl”, too.
August 19, 2011 at 5:49 pm
This must have been done in the 1970′s note the platform shoes
August 19, 2011 at 7:15 pm
I don’t think they’re platform shoes. I think they’re sponges and she’s going to clean the floor with them.
August 19, 2011 at 12:50 pm
One of my friends was dating a guy (now her ex-husband) who was a complete idiot. The rest of us made fun of him mercilessly for all the stupid things he said. Finally, she asked us to please stop making fun of him because it hurt his feelings and he really was a nice guy and yadda, blah, blah, blah.
So we were hanging out and he mentioned that his grandfather fought in the Vietnam War during the ’40s. I turned to my friend and said, “Tell him to stop making it so easy.” Then another friend and I went outside for a smoke and laugh.
The point of this story? I cannot believe that there are TWO idiots in the world who think Vietnam happened in the 1940s!
August 19, 2011 at 12:59 pm
We had an intern who thought Pearl Harbor was in Japan and we bombed it. Thankfully the movie Pearl Harbor came out and she realized her mistake.
She told me, “My sister said I shouldn’t tell people that.”
“You’re sister’s right.”
August 19, 2011 at 1:05 pm
When I was little I thought that since South Africa was in, well, Africa, that Apartheid was maintained by a black ruling class over immigrant whites.
August 19, 2011 at 1:33 pm
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August 19, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Maple’s point was the SECOND half of that statement, AoJ
August 19, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Yeah? Well…West Virginia isn’t in the West! You can’t explain that!
August 19, 2011 at 2:07 pm
it’s west of Virginia.
This does not explain why South Brunswick is west of New Brunswick, or East Brunswick is south of South Brunswick, or why there isn’t a “Brunswick” and only a “New Brunswick”
And now my head hurts.
August 19, 2011 at 2:10 pm
For a while in the early eighties I was convinced that Iran was in Central America and for some reason they were at war with the “Contras.” Granted, I was eight, and I didn’t have an etsy account.
August 19, 2011 at 2:10 pm
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August 19, 2011 at 2:15 pm
West, TX is not in west Texas. and it’s east of Eastland.
August 19, 2011 at 2:22 pm
And now to really blow your mind… to get to Canada from Detroit you go almost due south.
August 19, 2011 at 2:25 pm
@PBCGE — West Virginia is also north and east of Virginia. But I see your point. Now let’s go get a few drinks and sort out this Brunswick thing.
August 19, 2011 at 2:45 pm
We had to convince people (roleplaying in Deadwood in Second Life) that just because it was South Dakota, that didn’t mean we were in the South. They would question why the sim would have loads of snow in the winter months.
Happened frequently.
August 19, 2011 at 2:50 pm
@Steampunk O, yes, WV is North of Virginia, but unless you live in Big Stone Gap, VA, West Virginia is WEST of Virginia.
The Brunswick thing is simple. All the “old” (or “Olde”) anythings are in the Olde Worlde! We are in the Newe Worlde! It’s only been discovered for a couple hundred years, right?
August 19, 2011 at 3:36 pm
South Beloit, Illinois is the northernmost town in Illinois.
I mean, you know, just adding to the list here.
August 19, 2011 at 5:51 pm
South Bend, Indiana is actually in the northernmost part of indiana. I’m sorry, I’m boring.
August 19, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Wait… What about her sister????
August 19, 2011 at 2:40 pm
When I saw a news story about soldiers during the Gulf War, I couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that they were chewing gum in the footage. My parents had to explain how they got gum into a war zone.
That’s all I got.
August 19, 2011 at 3:45 pm
I remember thinking the Gulf War took place in the Gulf of Mexico. Yup.
August 19, 2011 at 4:07 pm
my friend grew up in a town near Hartford, CT, also near a town called Lebanon (as there is a Lebanon in pretty much every state). she told me when she was little and hearing about the war in Lebanon on the radio, she’d get really spooked whenever they had to drive by there and would watch the forests to see the troops in battle, in the forests of Connecticut.
August 19, 2011 at 12:54 pm
this person apparently learned history at the same school ‘quilt lady’ learned geography.
we MUST find this school and nuke it.
August 19, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Actually the US Army was in a Vietnam War in the 1940s, on the Vietnamese side against France. It was only later, when it was north versus south that the groovy generation was sent in.
I looked up the patch on the shoulder to get the dates.
August 19, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Yes, but THE Vietnam War is something different.
August 19, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Really? Because I’m finding info that points to this patch being from the ’60s or ’70s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Vietnam
http://www.skytroopers.org/usasg.htm
August 19, 2011 at 1:20 pm
According to what I found the patch wasn’t approved until 10 Feb 1966.
August 19, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Oh yeah, and U.S. troops were fighting the Japanese who were using Vietnam as a base for their operations in China.
August 19, 2011 at 1:20 pm
But when you say “Vietnam War”, most people automatically think to the later war.
August 19, 2011 at 5:51 pm
If you really want to get technical, the “Vietnam War” wasn’t even a real “War”. Just a “conflict” where thousands of men were lucky lotto winners to go over and fight for no reason other than to defend the “domino theory” which is that if one nation falls under communist control, all the others in the region would fall as well. Longest. Run on. Sentence. Ever. THANKS! I’ll be here all week.
August 19, 2011 at 6:12 pm
To be even more technical, it was officially called a ‘Police Action’.
August 19, 2011 at 1:43 pm
So is anyone else starting to question the date of the jacket as well?
August 19, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Most likely that activity was considered part of World War II (around 1945) and then later the First Indochina war. They all have names so when someone says “the Viet Nam war” they are referring to a specific time period.
August 19, 2011 at 3:49 pm
Whatever we were doing in Vietnam in the 40′s, the WAC’s weren’t there. There was a little representation in Seoul in 1952. But it was not the Vietnam War. That was always a controversial title. Whatever it was, our involvement in it out in the open didn’t start til the mid 50′s and even then it was not a war.
Whatever -seems clear that the text was wrong somewhere. Maybe she’ll correct what she’s saying and we’ll know when the original owner of this jacket was in the military.
http://www.armywomen.org/wacHistory.shtml
August 19, 2011 at 12:56 pm
The hanger looks like something from the 1940s.
August 19, 2011 at 12:59 pm
August 19, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Damn, I could have used that for my lsd presentation. I have links to trippy youtube videos from military experiments.
August 19, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Wait… was the Vietnam war the one where Gandhi freed the Hebrews from Napoleon? All I know about history is that the 1940′s were a strenuous and confusing time, what with Andrew Sisters being charged with the Watergate scandal and all.
August 19, 2011 at 1:40 pm
genious!
August 19, 2011 at 12:59 pm
And it’s 1, 2, 3, what are we fighting for?
Dont ask me I don’t give a damn, we’re all off to French Indochina…
August 19, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Time travelling motherfucker :O
August 19, 2011 at 1:02 pm
I’m at work with limited resources, but I will do my best.
Then I will go home, eat 5-7 Ocean Margarita jelly shots and try some more. After that, I will pop a Vicodin, try some more and probably pass out while masturbating.
August 19, 2011 at 1:35 pm
I hate when that happens. I wake up with my hand all pruney.
August 19, 2011 at 2:18 pm
500 web points for making ocean margarita jelly shots. YUMM-OH.
August 19, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Bronc? Bronc? Can we get a ruling here? How about adding “Yummo” to your forbidden words list?
Sorry Hellbound, it just grates my nerves. It’s from Racheal Ray, right? I see it every freakin day on my Facebook from boring ass people who like to post about what they’re making for supper.
August 19, 2011 at 1:03 pm
When my Mom died in 1995, at the age of 75, I had to place the obituary in the paper. When I told the lady at the paper that my Mom was a Pharmacist’s Mate in the WAVES, she said, “What’s that?”
Me: “The WAVES were the women in the Navy during the war, ‘Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service’.
“Reporter”: “So she was in World War I.”
Me: “No, she was only 75. I just told you her age and that she was born in 1920, after WWI was over. She would have to bo over 100 to have served in WWI.”
“Reporter”:”Oh. When did WWI end?”
Me: “Do you have a reserch department at your paper?”
That afternoon, my Dad sat down and wrote his own obituary, in case the same nitwit was still working obits when he died.
August 19, 2011 at 1:07 pm
*research*, damnit!
August 19, 2011 at 3:00 pm
If it makes you feel any better (and it probably won’t), the obits at the paper where I used to work were all handled in the advertising department, not by reporters. So you were talking to an ad department clerk. I hope.
August 19, 2011 at 3:24 pm
When I worked in newspapers, we’d occasionally get a rookie (reporter, intern, ad clerk) taking obits over the phone and writing up those huuuuge funerals that Catholics have. As in: “A massive Christian burial will take place Saturday … .”
When I was little I had a friend who thought all middle-aged people were born in the Middle Ages. Math is haarrddd….
August 19, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Reminds me of when my Grandma died, they royally screwed up her obituary (which was submitted all typed up and legible, so no excuses). They mixed up her living children and her deceased son-in-law and daughter-in-law, so the deceased in-laws were listed as her only living children, and her actual children (all living) were listed as in-laws and deceased; and also screwed up how many grandchildren and great-grandchildren she had (they listed 3 grandchildren…she has around 40). When we sent in a correction, it came out even worse. All the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren were deceased, and the two deceased in-laws were once again resurrected. We gave up after that.
August 19, 2011 at 1:03 pm
August 19, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Three horny disembodied heads arrive on the island of one-legged blondes… Hijinks ensue. Starring Betty Grable’s stocking and Clark Gable’s wig stand.
August 19, 2011 at 1:45 pm
I think the designer was thinking of these guys:
August 19, 2011 at 2:03 pm
I went to school with Moe’s grandson.
Useless trivia – that’s not Jack. They trademarked the name, then Jack left, then they did the cartoon. And no, it’s not Shemp.
August 19, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Then it must be Curly Joe!
August 19, 2011 at 1:08 pm
Totally reminds me of the time last year when I visited a Buddhist temple in Shanghai with some college kids. The temple has photos of famous visitors on its walls, and one girl looked at a large photo and exclaimed, “Oh, look! Nancy Reagan!”
“That’s Princess Di,” said a moderately older member of our group.
“One of them,” said the girl, waving her hand dismissively.
August 19, 2011 at 1:09 pm
I remember wearing this jacket in the 40′s during the Vietnam War. I think. You know, I’m getting up there, my memories are somewhat foggy. But I did find a photo she could use, showing me modeling the jacket at the end of the war.
August 19, 2011 at 1:11 pm
August 19, 2011 at 1:31 pm
Is he really going back to sea or is Robin just planning on creating his own puddle right there?
August 19, 2011 at 1:31 pm
If you don’t win a prize, then I don’t want to live in this world anymore.
August 19, 2011 at 1:41 pm
oh, damn, I think I just peed myself
August 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm
I honestly had a dream like this once.
August 19, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Sea! C..?
C for Catwoman!
August 19, 2011 at 3:18 pm
Yes, yes! I love the “logic” of that thinking! The 60s were a simpler time.
August 19, 2011 at 1:12 pm
August 19, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Bronc? That you?
Damn, you don’t look your age…either 90 *OR* 60.
August 19, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Almost fell out of my chair laughing at the wavy navy bit. Now everytime a friend is high, I’ll have to say, “Mary… did you join the wavy navy?”
August 19, 2011 at 1:12 pm
I have one!! Just too retarded to upload it… any help would be appreciated.
August 19, 2011 at 1:25 pm
August 19, 2011 at 1:27 pm
i tried to write the html for you but I made a broken image instead. use the text below but remove all the spaces.
August 19, 2011 at 1:27 pm
And that does not work either. Google img src.
August 19, 2011 at 1:32 pm
thanks for your generosity, unfortunately your english comes out all jibberishy – I just don’t speak intranet! The photoshop part worked out fine though. Will spend some time with Aunty Google and try not to embarrass myself with too many multiple posting attempts.
August 19, 2011 at 1:26 pm
August 19, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Jane Fonda would be proud
August 19, 2011 at 3:26 pm
Worth the wait!
August 19, 2011 at 11:07 pm
thanks sister.
August 19, 2011 at 1:12 pm
Next question: “adorned with…various military patches”. Does anybody see more than the one patch? Either I can’t count or I don’t know what various means.
August 19, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Various meaning you can have mutiple military patches adorn said jacket. But you have to provide them yourself.
August 19, 2011 at 1:12 pm
August 19, 2011 at 1:29 pm
This made me snort really hard and hurt my nostril, and I also sounded like less of a lady, which is fuckin’ inconceivable. Well done.
August 19, 2011 at 6:17 pm
This is the little-known reason that Hermann Goering gave up driving.
August 19, 2011 at 1:13 pm
August 19, 2011 at 1:39 pm
FOR FUCKS SAKE. IT WORKED IN FUCKING PREVIEW.
This computer is a SHITMONKEY today.
I am officially throwing a strop. Hmp.
August 19, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Anninyn,
How are your comments staying at the bottom? That’s pretty awesome. Although I sense you may not think so, based on your comments.
August 19, 2011 at 2:02 pm
And it got fixed. Nevermind!
August 19, 2011 at 2:04 pm
So it’s not fixed then. Because my reply to my own comment and the comment that was a reply to Anninyn aren’t appearing as replies.
Right then. I’ll just leave this bit alone, I think.
*sweeping comments under the rug and walking away*
August 19, 2011 at 7:25 pm
I think the smoke has gotten to you.
August 19, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Snnnnrrrrl grrr fuck this pc and all who rode in it nreeeeeeeAAAAAAAAARRRRRGH!
I don’t know why nothing I do works tonight!
It’s Gremlins. It’s those wankerish, shitcocking, fucksocking Gremlins, and that’s that.
August 19, 2011 at 7:33 pm
I am having the EXACT same problem tonight….fucking GREMLINS!!!!!
August 19, 2011 at 7:35 pm
THIS comment was supposed to be for Anninyn!!! Can’t someone do something about the Gremlins?!?!?! (Rhetorical….I know there’s no cure for them.)
August 19, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Comment of the day.
August 19, 2011 at 9:22 pm
Wow, that posted in the wrong place. Like a swing dancer at a love-in.
August 19, 2011 at 3:10 pm
this so needs to be a t-shirt…
August 19, 2011 at 1:14 pm
A picture of Winston at Woodstock.
August 19, 2011 at 1:17 pm
Go directly to Hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
(worth it!)
August 19, 2011 at 6:36 pm
I don’t get it? Is Rosie a thalidomide baby??
August 19, 2011 at 1:18 pm
OH DANG. somebody beat me to it.
August 19, 2011 at 1:31 pm
I made one too. Enjoy my utterly unoriginal offering.
August 19, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Oh, but it worked down here! This plus the fact our internet and TV will be cut off monday makes me rage.
RAAAAAGE
August 19, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Lemme go put on the new-agey whale songs.
…deeeeeeep breaaaaaath…
August 19, 2011 at 1:59 pm
shit… that was a response to Anninyn’s raging. Sorry: Keep Calm and Turn On, Tune IN, And Drop Out.
August 19, 2011 at 3:33 pm
And putting it up wasn’t worth the irritation I suffered.
I would kick things around my house, but I’m not wearing shoes and my things are heavy.
August 19, 2011 at 4:31 pm
NOoooooo! How will you see Regretsy!?
August 19, 2011 at 3:11 pm
and this needs to be a shirt as well…
August 19, 2011 at 5:12 pm
Id buy that! Tie-dye though.
August 19, 2011 at 1:23 pm
August 19, 2011 at 1:25 pm
First quick attempt:
August 19, 2011 at 1:25 pm
For your viewing pleasure…
August 19, 2011 at 1:35 pm
LOL beat ya to it!
GMTA
August 19, 2011 at 2:34 pm
April, I think your Halloween costume’s been taken care of!
August 21, 2011 at 1:09 am
Well… I’m glad my Photoshop fuckery was well-received, considering I had to do that in a rush before work.
Bwahahaha!
(Also, I think that’s a good look for her. More flip-flops on heads! More mustaches! Yes!)
August 19, 2011 at 1:26 pm
August 19, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Fuck it’s the best I could do while sober, at work:
From Club Fuckery 4 Lyfe
August 19, 2011 at 7:25 pm
I love how his expression ends up looking more stoned and less fierce this way.
August 19, 2011 at 1:32 pm
August 19, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Make love not war!
August 19, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Damn, I almost missed that.
August 19, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Win!
August 19, 2011 at 4:46 pm
This one is the best!
August 19, 2011 at 1:34 pm
August 19, 2011 at 1:34 pm
Here’s another crack at it:
August 19, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Brilliant!
August 19, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Thank you!
August 19, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Im reminded of the guy in Apocolypse now- “Who’s in charge here?”
August 19, 2011 at 1:36 pm
August 19, 2011 at 2:18 pm
“Tommorrow never happens, man. It’s all the same fucking day, man!”
August 19, 2011 at 5:30 pm
it is alarming how much Janis Joplin looks like Ozzy.
August 19, 2011 at 7:11 pm
I thought it also looked like a hippy Edie Brickell from Edie Brickell & New Bohemians.
August 19, 2011 at 1:38 pm
My uncle was in the vietnam war. Mom said he came back a completely different person.
The family still doesn’t know what happened to his neighbor. He had found out that the neighbor had molested his son (my oldest cousin).
August 19, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Wait…I just noticed- womans. Those womans of the 40s going to ‘Nam.
August 19, 2011 at 2:54 pm
And to top that, I realized that means only only one woman went to Vietnam.
August 19, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Is anyone else reminded of “Kelly’s Heroes”?
August 19, 2011 at 1:40 pm
August 19, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Hey man, the Soviets were, like, our allies in Vietnam, right? It’s like Lenin said, “I am the Walrus”.
August 19, 2011 at 1:41 pm
A testament to the American education system. May the Gods help us when people like this are in charge. We’re doomed.
August 19, 2011 at 1:42 pm
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August 19, 2011 at 1:45 pm
August 19, 2011 at 1:49 pm
And the listing is down, folks! The listing is down!
August 19, 2011 at 1:49 pm
And its gone… perhaps she’s taken it to have it dry cleaned.
August 19, 2011 at 1:51 pm
The War effort has taken its toll on the internet.
August 19, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Here’s my attempt:
August 19, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Listing’s gone already? Where’s the fun in that?
August 19, 2011 at 1:55 pm
August 19, 2011 at 1:57 pm
This is excellent and has my vote!
August 19, 2011 at 1:56 pm
August 19, 2011 at 1:56 pm
August 19, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Patti Boyd was not a dirty hippie!
August 19, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Grace Slick, I’d believe, but not poor sweet Patti!
August 19, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Hitler was from Vietnam, right. Say “NO” to prohibition!
August 19, 2011 at 2:03 pm
I searched through posters, saw the new title, and was struck by brilliance.
August 19, 2011 at 2:05 pm
August 19, 2011 at 2:06 pm
damnit! I messed up
August 19, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Oh April I will love you forever for mentioning The Jack Benny Program. I have a wee bit of an obsession. I own all of the surviving radio episodes as well at the tv show radio was so much better because of fucking PHIL HARRIS). If you reference The Fred Allen Show, I may very well have to paint you a picture with my own menstrual blood. Fibber McGee and Molly will get you one with feces.
August 19, 2011 at 2:31 pm
@Ziegfeldgirl — You are aware of who her father is, right? Look up Paul Winchell, then get busy on those paintings. We wanna see ‘em!
August 19, 2011 at 2:11 pm
August 19, 2011 at 3:04 pm
This makes me ridiculously happy.
August 19, 2011 at 2:12 pm
August 19, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Yeah, I know all about putting the sandal on the head of the poster lady, and giving her a mustache…No time for that right now.
August 19, 2011 at 2:34 pm
August 19, 2011 at 2:39 pm
You’ve really raised the bar with your magnificent use of goatse here, BGS.
August 19, 2011 at 2:13 pm
How about this one:
August 19, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Crap I accidentally thumbs downed this!! I meant up!
August 19, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Dont worry, you can just go back to like 5 minutes ago and fix it. Just dont lose your sports almanac…
August 19, 2011 at 9:27 pm
You just need more jiggawatts…or vodka, either one works
August 19, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Here’s a 1950′s Vietnam jacket
http://www.etsy.com/listing/77497688/vintage-50s-army-jacket-pants?ref=sr_gallery_14&ga_search_submit=&ga_search_query=vietnam+jacket&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_ship_to=US&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_spelling_corrected=vietnam+acket&ga_search_type=all&ga_facet=
August 19, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Is there anything in that store that doesn’t begin with the word “vintage”?
August 19, 2011 at 2:21 pm
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August 19, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Sorry if this is a double post, computer is being wonky probably because of the wine I spilled on the keyboard. Or because of the wine I spilled in my mouth.
August 19, 2011 at 2:23 pm
I can remember when we were all having coffee outside of the OR tent…
August 19, 2011 at 3:19 pm
I just watched this episode while photoshopping. lol
August 19, 2011 at 3:38 pm
I love the spatter void on the guys shirt.
August 19, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Of course in the time it took me to do this, like 20 in a similar vein popped up…
August 19, 2011 at 2:32 pm
August 19, 2011 at 2:48 pm
I really should’ve known better than attempting humor in German. It rarely works.
August 19, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Its kinda sorta ironic I guess
August 19, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Totenkopf is German for “Death’s Head”.
I should really stick to dick and poop jokes.
August 20, 2011 at 1:25 am
ich verstehe nicht… leider.
busserl
TC
August 19, 2011 at 9:28 pm
I liked it!
August 19, 2011 at 3:18 pm
The song came out just after the Vietnam War ended, but at least it’s the right decade.
August 19, 2011 at 3:52 pm
That song is going to be stuck in my head all day.
August 19, 2011 at 2:34 pm
August 19, 2011 at 8:20 pm
When this first came into view I could’ve sworn it moved. I watched for way longer than I should have to see if it would move again. Turns out it’s not a gif….and I’m a little high on my migraine meds.
August 19, 2011 at 9:52 pm
Me too. Working on these was the only thing that kept me from puking from a migraine. I had ingested too much caffeine to lie down!
August 19, 2011 at 2:35 pm
How can anyone forget this classic slogan?
That boat sure looks like a doob to me… too subtle?
August 19, 2011 at 2:35 pm
I didn’t make this one, but I think it worth it sharing.
August 19, 2011 at 2:38 pm
August 19, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Dang! This one doesn’t even need Photoshop:
August 19, 2011 at 2:51 pm
This seems relevant http://pictureisunrelated.memebase.com/2011/08/19/wtf-photos-videos-it-will-relax-you-immediately/
August 19, 2011 at 2:54 pm
August 19, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Pole smoking, not jusy for hippies.
August 19, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Ahhh you beat me to it! I literally had this image opened in photoshop, ready to bongify. Damn.
August 19, 2011 at 2:59 pm
August 19, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Yup. Hippies taking baths is extraordinary. Getting them to use soap is another.
August 19, 2011 at 3:07 pm
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August 19, 2011 at 6:21 pm
This is pretty solid. XD
August 19, 2011 at 9:30 pm
I definitely like this one the bets, along with the Robin one. I first laughed, then was awestruck by the beauty of it!
August 19, 2011 at 9:54 pm
Really like this one…
August 20, 2011 at 1:28 am
LOVE IT…
but excuse me while I eat this fry
August 19, 2011 at 3:15 pm
August 19, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Loved giving them dirty hippie dreads.
August 19, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Didn’t those two attack Neo?
August 19, 2011 at 10:54 pm
“Didn’t those two attack Neo” made me lol harder than anything posted on here so far–thanks, Stevedave. XD
August 20, 2011 at 1:30 am
me too!
August 19, 2011 at 3:46 pm
I saw this poster online and would have hippie-ized it if I had more time and/or better photoshop skills
But you did a much better job than I would have
August 19, 2011 at 4:08 pm
Rations of pot will go further… while rations of food take a plummet due to munchies
August 19, 2011 at 3:18 pm
August 19, 2011 at 3:26 pm
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August 19, 2011 at 6:19 pm
(Psssst – it’s “Abbie” Hoffman.)
August 19, 2011 at 9:57 pm
Well, crap…
August 19, 2011 at 3:31 pm
throwin my hippie hat into the ring!
August 19, 2011 at 3:33 pm
August 19, 2011 at 3:34 pm
August 19, 2011 at 3:35 pm
John and Yoko, true patriots
August 19, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Why can’t I post any more comments suddenly? (this is a test, actually)
August 19, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t the buttons on that jacket on the wrong side to be a woman’s jacket?
August 19, 2011 at 5:16 pm
They’re on the correct side for a women’s jacket. It looks odd because you expect it to be buttoned, but it’s not.
August 19, 2011 at 3:44 pm
August 19, 2011 at 3:45 pm
okay, I’m unimaginative, but I tried. most of these are really astoundingly good. you are a talented bunch.
August 19, 2011 at 3:47 pm
I wish I had a witty historical comment to make. Truth be told I was so stoned in high school that I would totally believe that the vietnam war happened whenever you said it was.
August 19, 2011 at 3:53 pm
August 19, 2011 at 3:57 pm
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August 19, 2011 at 3:59 pm
August 19, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Okra Farmers made a killing during the Vietnam war
August 19, 2011 at 3:59 pm
August 19, 2011 at 4:08 pm
Awesome poster but that image is from the First Vietnam War, 1914-1918.
August 19, 2011 at 4:12 pm
both were pretty groovy
August 20, 2011 at 1:33 am
Yes, the suffragette movement in Alabama got really heavy man.
August 19, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Sorry…replacing other photo…I cut off some of my wording.
August 19, 2011 at 4:23 pm
August 19, 2011 at 8:59 pm
PLEASE WIN. Please, please win.
August 19, 2011 at 9:33 pm
This is hilarious
August 19, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Right now, on Etsy’s front page
August 19, 2011 at 4:29 pm
http://www.etsy.com/listing/79972057/nuts-bolts-and-washers?ref=fp_treasury_10 dammit, html didn’t work.
August 19, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Now I dont have to drive all the way to Home Depot!
August 19, 2011 at 6:34 pm
I’m curious to know how a newish gas pump handle is ‘steampunk’. No, really, HOW is that steampunk?!?
August 20, 2011 at 11:52 am
Oh, man – this is so depressing. And definitely NOT groovy.
August 19, 2011 at 9:10 pm
I had to stop looking at this shit because it made me start yelling with anger and my sweetie’s trying to sleep. OOOh, the mysterious canisters! That once held FILMSTRIPS, you idiot!
August 19, 2011 at 4:29 pm
From the Why We Fight series
August 19, 2011 at 4:36 pm
August 19, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Genius!
August 19, 2011 at 4:39 pm
I think the poster is pretty self-explanatory.
August 19, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Bravo! Johnny!
August 19, 2011 at 4:41 pm
August 19, 2011 at 4:49 pm
I’m so mentally fucked out from booze and Vicodin, I can only remember the Untwitter War of 2011. And even that shit’s hazy as fuck.
August 19, 2011 at 4:50 pm
This post brought this to mind for me.
Stewie Griffin: “So Jillian, what are your views regarding homeland security? Do you think we should support what the President is doing?”
Jillian: “Well, I just think for starters, that sometimes the government has things they can’t tell us and, truthishly, we should just accept that.”
August 19, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Beloit is in Wisconsin, though. So there’s that.
August 19, 2011 at 4:56 pm
August 19, 2011 at 5:09 pm
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August 19, 2011 at 5:34 pm
August 19, 2011 at 5:35 pm
August 19, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Another quickie using Paint. Shit, by the time I get to a well-equipped computer, what will there be left to say? All you fat jealous losers are so fucking creative…..
August 19, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Dammit, why didn’t the link work?
August 19, 2011 at 5:43 pm
I remember Woodstock, back in 1949….
August 19, 2011 at 5:43 pm
August 19, 2011 at 5:44 pm
OK one more then I’m going to dinner:
August 19, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Please, be gentle…this is my first time attempting photo fuckery!
August 19, 2011 at 5:58 pm
I looked at the husband and said, let’s see if you catch this, cause you’re smart, so you should.
And didn’t get past the title of the listing before he was off the couch going ‘Wha…?!?’
Then we proceeded to order replacement parts for our brains which broke reading the copy on that now deleted listing.
August 19, 2011 at 6:01 pm
August 19, 2011 at 6:02 pm
August 19, 2011 at 6:05 pm
August 19, 2011 at 6:11 pm
‘Scuse the interruption, but I have a question. I have an image, but I don’t have any fancy graphic s/w. I made it in PowerPoint and converted it to jpg, but it still has the giant white outline. Does anyone know of a way to crop pictures using the crappy basic tools that MS Office has?
August 19, 2011 at 6:14 pm
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August 19, 2011 at 6:15 pm
August 19, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Here’s another : )
August 19, 2011 at 6:21 pm
And another…
August 19, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Last one of my shitty pics, I promise : ) I’m just wayyyy too easily amused1
August 19, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Because it ain’t Vaginaland, and we hate feminists!
August 19, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Let’s try it again!
August 19, 2011 at 7:11 pm
love the subtle bloodshot eyes
August 19, 2011 at 6:28 pm
August 19, 2011 at 6:29 pm
August 19, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Is that a screen grab from the Charlie Chaplin film “The Great Dictator?” You win all my thumbs for the Charlie Chaplin/Charlie Chan/Adolf Hitler mashup. That’s inspired.
August 19, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Sure is! Couldn’t resist.
August 19, 2011 at 6:30 pm
August 19, 2011 at 6:39 pm
August 19, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Well, hell, I can’t figure out how to edit this thing with the lousy tools I have. So, apologies ahead of time if I hog bandwidth, or annoy people with extraneous white space. I just wanted to share in the fuckery.
August 19, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Holy shit, why did I miss this hilarity for Daggerfall?
August 19, 2011 at 7:05 pm
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August 20, 2011 at 6:31 am
DR JONES! DR JONES!
August 19, 2011 at 7:27 pm
This seller’s ignorance makes me want to rip their head off and shit down their leg.
August 19, 2011 at 7:28 pm
WTF? This post should have appeared *after* #149.
August 19, 2011 at 7:29 pm
August 19, 2011 at 7:31 pm
August 19, 2011 at 7:36 pm
August 19, 2011 at 7:41 pm
these comments are going all over the place….my last picture should have been #151 instead it was pushed up to 145?
August 19, 2011 at 7:50 pm
August 19, 2011 at 7:57 pm
How did she spell “epaulettes” correctly and misspell “buttons?”
August 19, 2011 at 7:59 pm
I know there were already some Keep Calm parodies but I couldn’t resist.
August 19, 2011 at 8:02 pm
August 19, 2011 at 8:06 pm
August 19, 2011 at 8:16 pm
August 19, 2011 at 8:37 pm
August 19, 2011 at 9:08 pm
Why wont my computer let me post one D:<?!?!?!?
August 19, 2011 at 9:32 pm
August 19, 2011 at 9:50 pm
The Greatest Generation…of Stoners.
August 20, 2011 at 11:53 am
this is my first time here- how do I post my image?
August 20, 2011 at 1:48 pm
I’m new here- how do I submit my image?
August 22, 2011 at 7:03 am
That war… wasn’t that when we beat the Axis Powers by giving them bad weed?
August 22, 2011 at 7:04 am
…I’m so glad grandpa doesn’t have internet… >_>;