Post #129951 by cybertiki on Thu, Dec 9, 2004 8:11 AM

Greetings all. I'm celebrating XMas (and pissed off at my company again), so I've been drinking since 9:00AM. It's only Gluhwein, but I've gradually been adding rum to the pot, and I've already gone thru about two bottles of red wine and about a quarter bottle of rum, so I'm hoping this makes sense. I'm still typing about 50 wpm so I guess I'm OK.

I posted a response to the "As a kid, how did you imagine yourself as an adult?" question, which I need not repeat here, ( https://tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=12212&forum=6&start=30 ), and it sort of brought me around to something I'm curious about from other TC'ers.

I know that some of us are baby boomers who lived thru the Cold War, and I'm wondering if anyone else besides myself has any reminiscences (