What Was I Thinking When I....?

Subject: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Peter T.
Date: 22 Jul 02 - 06:28 PM

Big Mick has admitted to a political indiscretion in a different thread, but brought up the familiar feeling of looking back and thinking -- What was I thinking? We have had a similar thread before, but it is always fun.

I admit here to two of these that I have not admitted in public before:

(1) In 1960, in a school debate in the U.S. I took Richard Nixon as my candidate. What was I thinking?

(2) I once bought a Nancy Sinatra album. I think it was the pink one with her in a bikini on it. That is the only reason I can think that I did it.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Jeri
Date: 22 Jul 02 - 06:52 PM

Peter, maybe the world isn't ready for this. I once voted for...um...I was too young to vote for Nixon and I wouldn't have anyway. I voted for...er, another guy. Nobody really needs to know that, though.

I once bought a Pet Shop Boys CD. I don't know why I did it. You think I ought to put it in the auction?

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Amos
Date: 22 Jul 02 - 09:03 PM

PT:

Mebbe you just got bemused by "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"? :>)

A

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Jul 02 - 09:09 PM

I've got a memory of pulling down an election poster in some election when I was very young. It was a long word and it began with C. It might have been Conservative, or it might have been Communist. One of them anyway. Same difference, as they say.

Mind you, that's not really embarrassing at all. Unlike...no I'll not up for it yet anyway.

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Jul 02 - 09:20 PM

Danged, the "True Confessions" sign is all lit up... So what better time to just unload all this stuff I've been carrying around for, ohhh, a long time.

1. Okay, first of all I did inhale and I think I had sex with that woman. (Hey, that's a better satrt that some folks that come to mind...)

2. I have been known to think to myself, "What if Dylan could actually sing? (That one was real tough...)

3. Yeah, the Nancy Sinatra album was the "pink" album but it didn't quite rival the Beatles "white" album.

4. Also in my collection of albums one might and probably will still find the likes of the Animals, the Monkeys, the Zombies, the Troggs and a bunch of other "the" bands that by today's standards,... ahhhhhh, really stink.

5. Okay, I wasn't really up for this one but, hey! Yeah, I might have told Jimmy Clark that I got to 1st base with Nina Williams back when I was 12 or so, but... (take a deep breath, Bobert...) but... but... I struck out. There, I said it...

But, hey, I never voted fir a Republican!!!

Impeach Nixon!!!!!

Bobert

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Jul 02 - 11:26 PM

I once owned the Tiny Tim/Tiptoe Through the Tulips album, but I didn't buy it.........I am still in possession of Dylan's "Self Portrait"..........really bad stuff as far as I am concerned. You want it, LH?

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 12:51 AM

I had my hair permed when I was 14. Supposed to be a light, shaggy style, it turned out like the proverbial poodle. Despite assurances that it looked lovely and would drop, it never did either and I hated it.

I cut it out as soon as was humanly possible without actually shaving my head and never let another human being near my head with scissors or setting lotion again.

LTS

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 12:55 AM

I bought the Aquarium CD with the "Barbie" song on it, after hearing my daughter's copy and I still put it on to clean house to...ya just can't sit still when it is on....Come on, Babrie, let's go Barbie, uh-huh-uh-uh....

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 01:56 AM

What were YOU thinking

when

you forgot the B.S. in front of this thread?

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 02:58 AM

I once 'phoned one of those numbers that promised a fabulous prize but only wanted me to buy a mobile 'phone.I once thought voting Labour was a great idea but I saw no alternative.

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Mudlark
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 03:03 AM

I not only bought the Tiny Tim album, I still have it somewhere...and wouldn't part with it on a bet, just in case I want to hear "The Viper" again someday....

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 03:32 AM

Liz - I had one of those perms too. well half a one. my mum did a home perm on me & only half "took".

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: greg stephens
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 05:31 AM

I got a bad egg once and persuaded someone else to throw it in Benny Goodman's desk at school(not the famous clarinettist, just a boy ). And I have an Edmundo Ros record I rather like. And once I told a girl( no I think I'll save that one).

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 06:57 AM

Kat, I too have 'that' Aqua CD and I think I was about 14 or 15 when I got it. I have to say that I don't listen to it anymore. On the list of embarrassing CD/tapes I have own at some point in my life, 2 Jason Donovan albums and a VERY EARLY Kylie Minogue tape, her recent stuff is much better.

cat

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Mr Red
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 07:32 AM

bought 2 copies of the Sun well I was on page 3, so I have an excuse.
so what was I thinking when they took the picture? not a lot I was in character.
for our US cousins - no it's not a newspaper, think Rupert Murdock, think comic think entertainment, but don't think!

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Allan Dennehy
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 09:23 AM

I bought a Jimmy Mc Carthy CD. He's the guy who has written loads of good songs for Christy Moore and Mary Black. Trouble is that as a singer he is absolutely shite! I didnt even play it to the end before I found my air pistol.................

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: SharonA
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 09:45 AM

I went through my collection of old LP's last weekend, and I said "What was I thinking?" to myself quite a lot! (Two copies of Allan Sherman's "My Son the Folk Singer"... Three copies of his "My Son the Celebrity"? Why??? *G*)

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 09:53 AM

What was I thinking of when I married my first wife/husband? Most of us have asked that question of ourselves. Thank God I married my second wife. :-)

Jerry

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: GUEST,fred
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 10:03 AM

If I owned the Tiny Tim album I'd claim it was for it's historical interest as a re-hit of Nick Lucas's earlier Tiptoe hit. I'd try to find the Lucas album, to cover myself. Nick popularised the use of flatpicks on guitars. I never voted republican but came close to voting for Dole--I felt his pain, and I was pissed at how Clinton threw very good cabinet people overboard at the slightest media fuss. Still think it was spineless. I own 3 ukuleles. I once coaxed someone to tell an embarrassing story by saying I'd top it, then I backed out. I had a much more embarrassing story, but a crowd had gathered, and I still can't do it. MY WIFE'S FAVORITE STORY: When I was fifteen and had a job, I bought myself a pair of shoes. Thicksoled sandals. Later the day I bought them I met an attractive girl, considerably older, and wound up at her apartment. As the day wore on, her friends stopped in, and I found myself sitting on a couch, looking at my feet, stonedly wondering What was I thinking? I discreetly slipped them off and tucked them under the couch. I forgot them and went home barefoot, never to return.

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Ringer
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 10:23 AM

Well, Bobert, in my collection of albums one might and probably will still find the likes of the Animals, the Monkeys, the Zombies, the Troggs and a bunch of other "the" bands that by today's standards,... ahhhhhh, really stand up well against today's crap.

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 12:40 PM

Hey, I have a few Kingston Trio albums, and even a couple of Cumberland Three albums. I learned The Escape Of Old John Web from a Kingston Trio album and still sing it. I also had Jimmie Rogers first album... Couldn't listen to it now, if I had kept it. But, none of us are finished products. The question is, did something stupid lead you to something better?

Jerry

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 01:35 PM

Dinna fash yersel' about the Nancy Sinatra thing. I still melt when she sings the bridge on "Summer Wine". There! I said it! So there!

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 03:45 PM

I voted Republican once, Christie Whitman for governor. You have to live in New Jersey to understand why that's wrong.

I also own the Singing Nun CD. I really like "Dominique". The rest of the CD explains why she was a one-hit wonder.

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 04:09 PM

There have been occasions when I have actually written and posted a reply to a nameless GUEST.

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: greg stephens
Date: 23 Jul 02 - 04:44 PM

Ah, but have you posted AS a nameless GUEST?

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Kaleea
Date: 24 Jul 02 - 02:45 AM

Speaking of Tiny Tim, I once (on a dare from another teen friend) wrote a "fan" letter to Tiny Tim, asking for an autographed photo. I got one. When it came in the mail, I put it on the wall of my bedroom and my friends & I practiced tossing darts at it. It looked like it was really signed--you could see the indention of the inkpen on the backside of the 8 x 10 black & white glossy--(sorry, no circles & arrows)--possibly signed by an assistant to the secretary for the record company. What d'ya spose it'd be worth on ebay now? Don't tell me, I don't want to know! But if you want it, it's at the bottom of a mid-western dump somewhere.

Subject: RE: What Was I Thinking When I....?
From: Mr Red
Date: 24 Jul 02 - 08:32 AM

McGrath of Harlow
shame on you. Think lampoon next time. write out three hundred posts "I must not..................."