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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:03 PM
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The more things change, the more they stay the same: Billy Jack was set in...
Prescott, Arizona.

How long ago was that?

Has anything at all changed in the meantime?

I mean for the better, not the worse.
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mrcheerful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:08 PM
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1. Dude there are still conservatives down south that still think theis is 1865 and that the civil war
wasn't won by the north, what Lee signed was a cease fire order until the south could regroup and continue on with winning the war. There lies the problem with conservatives, they are 200 years behind the rest of the country.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:12 PM
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5. Believe me, I know, I live in the deep south..
I'm totally surrounded by these creeps..
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knowbody0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:08 PM
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2. I was thinking the same thing today
the same, if not worse.
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:09 PM
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3. Solid.
Recommended.
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laughingliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:10 PM
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4. K & R nt
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U4ikLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:15 PM
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6. Oh shit, now you have that song going in my head.
Love the movie though. Gotta put it into my Netflix queue.
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corpseratemedia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:18 PM
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7. go ahead and hate your neighbor..hee hee
sorry don't you hate it when they get stuck in that loop


personally I couldn't imagine that things and frankly people in power would (again) get this bad
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:21 PM
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9. Ah, thanks....

You helped me get rid of Billy Jean.

I remember now....

Subtitled for the folks old enough to remember:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qswm7lHp7oY
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corpseratemedia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:33 PM
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11. lol I think we just switched
x(
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:34 PM
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12. It's like conservation of mass

Mine had to go somewhere. Just watch the youtube, it'll fix you right up.
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:35 PM
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13. My fourth-grade teacher taught us that song.
God, it was great for many of us to be a kid in the 1970s.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:37 PM
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14. Yep...


All of those idealistic young education majors inspired to change the world were turned loose on us for a while there...
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:45 PM
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15. They were the best. I'm 38, and I have regular dreams about my grade school because I loved it so.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:48 PM
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16. Lol... Methinks we went to the same school...

Maybe in different places.
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:52 PM
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18. Mr. Brickbat and I did, three states away from each other.
We often have long conversations about the excellent public education we both got in very different places, and how different it is now...sigh.

It's not that hard to do it right!
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:19 PM
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8. What's worse than that...

Is not remembering that theme, but getting stuck on Billy Jean instead. Complete with visions of a crotch-grabbing sequined white glove.
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:25 PM
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10. I went to college in Prescott in 88-91
I didn't come across to many rednecks during my time there.Lots of hippys though.The founder of EarthFirst lived there.
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frustrated_lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:49 PM
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17. One tin soldier rides away...
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frustrated_lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 08:58 PM
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19. For old timers, here's the clip
Edited on Fri Jun-04-10 09:04 PM by frustrated_lefty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRnra0KRnDk

on edit: I cried my eyes out when first seeing it in the mid 70s. And I lament how little we have learned. :(
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eilen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 09:49 PM
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20. I just watched that on Netflix last week!
Edited on Fri Jun-04-10 09:50 PM by eilen
It's on "instant play".

I was struck by the Breck hair and the juxtaposition of the small town redneck violent meanness and the hippie dippie passive resistance. Also the cynicism by the young pregnant lady who spoke about being sexually exploited by a consciousness raising guru.
We were grooving on the striped pants.
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Cybergata Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 10:08 PM
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21. Most of it was filmed in New Mexico, near Santa Fe.
I went to high school with all the extras who played teens in the school. It was filmed there the summer of 1969 or 1970. It was so long ago I barely remember any name except for one of the guys I had a major crush on.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-04-10 10:20 PM
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22. when that film was made prescott was a hippie town. because of the school.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_College
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