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   ejcapulet said, about 1 year ago

   A punk penguin? A punkguin? Sorry, I’m not going for it.

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   Sisyphos said, about 1 year ago

   Opus needs to go home and apply Brylcream (a little dab’ll do ya!).

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   wndrwrthg said, about 1 year ago

   Then he needs to apply a little Hai Karate.

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   Nipponkid said, about 1 year ago

   I had to google that wndrwrthg.
   I was like “WTF? ‘Yes Japanese Martial Arts’…That makes no sense”
   Not a joke. Im being totally serious.

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   Ranma_one_half said, about 1 year ago

   Nipponkid:
   “Hai Karate” was a brand of an aftershave lotion for men. It’s like a cologne. In some places aftershave is called toilet water.
   It’s advertising warned men that they would have to use Karate to fight off the women attracted by its scent.

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   Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

   Ranma - When my parents moved into assisted living last year, I found an unopened bottle of Hai Karate and another of Jade East in my dad’s dresser. I tried to sell them on ebay but nobody even bid.

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   cleokaya said, about 1 year ago

   The Don King of the penquin world.

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   Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

   cleokaya, that is an image that will stay with me all day. With any luck I will not have nightmares about it. Thank you SOOOO much. LOL

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   bburt1957 said, about 1 year ago

   Roger,in the 60’s,my pint of Jade East came hidden by a decorative, plastic Budda.That’s correct,PINT.

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    cleokaya said, about 1 year ago

    Hai Karate, Jade East! You all are stirring up some old corny memories. I loved the commercials, but never could get past the actual smell of the colgne to wear it. It was potent stuff!

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    Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

    Those three words - “decorative”, “plastic” and “buddha” - somehow just don’t seem as though they should be in the same sentence, much less describing the same object. Don’t you just miss the heck out of the 60’s?

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    cleokaya said, about 1 year ago

    Roger, you’re right. The 60’s was my moment. Can you picture, long blond hair with a beaded headband. Stacked orange boots, red-white-blue striped bell bottom jeans, blue t-shirt, topped with red tank top and then finished off with a brown suede sash around my waist. That was me on my way to see The Mother’s of Invention, featuring Flo and Eddie. I was stylin’.

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    Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

    cleokaya, I missed out on all that. I went straight (so to speak) from school uniform in the 60s to USMC uniform in the 70s to black cycle leathers in the 80s to Honolulu-style business casual since 1989.

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    txmystic said, about 1 year ago

    My hair looks like this in the morning. no kidding.

    Roger: What is “Honolulu-style business casual”? Will it work in Texas high-tech?

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    cleokaya said, about 1 year ago

    Well Roger, we reached a similar style in the 80’s. Well…sort of. Comfort is my motto. Baggy shorts and loose fitting colorful shirts…untucked, many with palm fronds and Hawaiian style. I’ve got to say that I love panel 3, complete with the look of hope with a good dose of doubt.

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    robertolopez144 said, about 1 year ago

    another one bits the dust!!! the humanity!

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    Nipponkid said, about 1 year ago

    Txmystic: I think he means he can sometimes wear hawaiian shirts to work. My dad can on casual fridays.

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    Gweedo Murray said, about 1 year ago

    SSNNIIIFFF… cleokaya, all I have “left” of the Mothers is the records since I was only 8 or 9 when that got going. I got the Flo and Eddie records they did with Frank and one of theirs: “Illegal,Immoral, and Fattening”. I saw the post Mothers Frank in ‘79 and then around ‘82 here in Colo. I was more or less a sideways observer in ‘69 via the “Turning Times” store close to my house with all the attendant paraphernalia. I guess the one good thing is I’m a little younger than you guys and didn’t have to sweat the draft. That sounds like a stylin’ outfit. Will you be my girlfriend, girlfriend ?

    Ranma_one_half- that bottle of Hai Karate must be the one I gave my 5th grade teacher at Christmas. I might like to have it back, for old times sake so it can sit unopened on my display shelf. ;-) We had a party afternoon one Friday. I brought In a Gadda Da Vida and like an idiot thought we’d go the whole 17 minutes. I believe Tony Put on some different tunes to keep it movin’.

    I hate the thought that this may go unread at this hour, but what the hell.