Posted on 12/03/2017 9:59:14 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain
"It's Christmas at Ground Zero, there's music in the air. The sleigh bells are ringing and the carollers are singing while the air raid sirens blare."
A bit of Yuletide cheer as we prepare for the fat man (no not Santa!)
I only wish they didn’t put the short clip of Reagan in the video.
Well, it was made in 1986.
The video is from the Eighties. And Reagan is an icon of the Cold War era. It’s not a bad inclusion at all. Rather humorous actually.
For later
I love Weird Al
My whole life (listened to Dr Demento as a child)
LOL! I had forgotten about that one.
And the quote is perfect, in context.
"Well, the big day is only a few hours away now. I'm sure you're all looking forward to it as much as we are."
LOVED it!
Weird Al, NFL coach and broadcaster John Madden, MLB
Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith, wife murderer Scott Peterson,
MMA legend Chuck Liddell, and yours truly all have one
thing in common....we all graduated from Cal Poly, SLO.
GO MUSTANGS!
I still do :-). Special Xmas from the original XM is my fav, sadly now only via recordings.
This song is hilarious.
True, but there were a lot of anti-nuke songs (99 Luftballoons, anyone?), that basically were trying to convince us, that Reagan was going to get us Nuked.
I used to listen to Dr Demento on the AM radio station from Chicago. At night the signal would skip just right and I could get him perfectly.
I remember when Christmas At Ground Zero came out and one day I found a Dr Demento Christmas CD while wandering a mall and this song was on it. It is now part of my Christmas song line up.
I was TDY to Vandenberg AFB for five months and I had three of my best friends from ROTC there. I was married (wife was stationed in DC) but they would drag me up to SLO to those dance clubs and try to pick up the college girls. I would sit at the table and drink beer all night. We also liked to eat at McClintocks (sp?).
Your spelling is correct. McClintocks is good.
Central Coasters love their Santa Maria Style BBQ,
particularly tri-tip and/or ribs. The ‘secret’ isn’t
the tri-tip cut....it’s cooking over red oak which
is really Coastal Live Oak. No sauce...just garlic
salt & pepper.
Sounds like you might have spent beer time at
The Graduate.
That sounds real familiar. This was back in 1985 so I may be wrong. One place, IIRC, was sort of in an industrial area and the tables were just picnic tables lined up with a big screen that showed bits of movies and videos. The other was on the side of a mountain and two walls looked out over the landscape and ocean. I heard it burned down in one of the wildfires.
Well, the Graduate was kind of a warehouse type building
with oversized picnic tables. The bar was super long.
It was on the south side of town not real far from the
airport. They may have gone thru a name change or two.
I moved back to the northern Mother Lode by 1980. Still
have friends their. I think small college towns are so
much more fun than larger commuter school atmospheres.
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