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Tell me that man's beard is not full of Cheetos dust. That is an early 1970s Bill Clinton in his Yale days, with Hillary. Only I'm 99 percent sure that nobody called him "Bill" back then. No, a guy like that would have a nickname like "Meat" or "Boner" or "The Dude." Seriously, tell me you can find any difference between the future president in the above photo and Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski.
Both of them look like the kind of man who would interrupt a night of desperate last-minute cramming with "Dude, put down the book, I just had the best idea. It's gonna make us all rich, man. Now, just hear me out, OK? What if you could make a taco shell out of Doritos?"
http://www.cracked.com/blog/14-photographs-that-shatter-your-image-famous-people/
no_hypocrisy
(46,250 posts)YellowRubberDuckie
(19,736 posts)I freaking love that picture!
RandySF
(59,531 posts)yellowcanine
(35,703 posts)President Bill Clinton reportedly owned a 1970 El Camino at one time. Speaking to a group of GM employees, Clinton joked, "It had astro-turf in the back. I don't want to tell you what the astro-turf was for.".
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)yellowcanine
(35,703 posts)Who knew that Mr. Rogers had attitude?
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Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)There's something else going on there. That's funny, but I have to believe this is cluelessness and not attitude.
ETA: OK, read the article and then went to YouTube. It's just a kid's song.
But that totally rocks. WE'LL DO IT LIVE.
yellowcanine
(35,703 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)Sure, Mott the Hoople's version of David Bowie's "All the Young Dudes" appeared in 1972; but I still don't remember "dude" as a term of address. It was "man."
Everyone looked like that in the late 1960s and early 1970s. And then anyone outside the backwaters stopped looking like that. This picture of Clinton is totally normal for the times.
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)All of my friends had long hair and about half of them had beards, too.
wyldwolf
(43,870 posts)EFerrari
(163,986 posts)but I meant shells that you fill at home.
wyldwolf
(43,870 posts)... still, I remember having Tacos for my school lunch in 1973-74 in Macon, GA.
Old El Paso began mass-producing their products in 1969-1970.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)Has had them almost continuously since his Mom stood up for his right to have long hair in 1967 when the school authorities tried to make him get it cut. He has been short haired and clean shaven on two occasions since then - when he went to court and when he was looking for a job.
But then we're both just old hippie wanna-bes.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)than the one of Willard in his white slacks protesting for the VN war while skipping out of the draft to go and pester French people.
RandySF
(59,531 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Amazing that he is a ginger!!
Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)Uh. No.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)I saw him 3 times live in 1992 when he was running for President the first time.
He is a force of nature.
He has absolutely blinding charisma.
He turned me into a blithering idiot while he was speaking...he could have been reading the phonebook for all I cared. All I could do was go blub blub blah...couldn't think, just wanted to follow him around like a few million other women did.
You would think I had been hit in the head with a 2 x 4. I saw exactly why women chase him and felt it myself.
i've never seen anyone else with that much charisma, and I've seen a lot of musical performers and speakers in my life.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)I was about 10 rows away from him and it just washed over the crowd. The only other politician I have ever seen w/ that much charisma was - don't tell anyone I said this - reagan. I kicked myself in the ass for actually feeling nice toward him.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)for Big Dawg in '92 and he said exactly the same thing. He said Clinton absolutely filled every room he entered with sheer, almost physically tangible magnetism and could make every person he shook hands with feel like they were the only person in the world he cared about. It's a gift.
Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)during his first run for President. Up close and personal. I agree that he has charisma. I didn't want to fuck him, though, I just wanted him to run the country. Besides, any potential sexual in interest in him was shot down when I read about him inserting a cigar into Monica Lewinsky's vagina.
Jeff Bridges. Handsome AND a class act.
pnwest
(3,266 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)DevonRex
(22,541 posts)And I'd always take Jeff Bridges over Bill Clinton, but Clinton had charisma even back in college. Anyone who can't see that in the college photo needs to look a wee bit closer.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)fact that he became a murderous dictator kind of ruins it.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)enough
(13,266 posts)educated, smart, ambitious, optimistic young people of that generation. If anything, they were on the conservative end of the looks spectrum of the time. Nothing far out or outrageous at all.
Nice to see that youthful smile back on Hilary's face these days.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)cast in "The Paper Chase".
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)I could totally see him as a beatnik. A coffee house, a guitar, a bevy of Mary Travers surrounding him.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)He reminded me of some of those cute SDS guys I knew in college.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)would I have imagined those were the same man.
RZM
(8,556 posts)One is his pockmarked face, which was a consequence of his contracting of smallpox as a child. The other was his somewhat deformed arm (I forget which - I think the left), which resulted from a carriage accident that also occurred in his childhood.
So that picture is perhaps a bit flattering.
Iris
(15,676 posts)but the Michael Jordan pics? Hilarious!
trumad
(41,692 posts)Eminem
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bigtree
(86,013 posts)what was your question/point again?
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Pants. Not Shorts. Lol.
"Seriously, tell me you can find any difference between the future president in the above photo and Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski."
I was (actually, legally still am) married to a Big Lebowski. Not only did he wear the same clothes and have the attitude (sans hair and beard), he looked like Jeff Bridges. Other actors have mistaken him for Bridges in the past, waving at him in passing, calling him Jeff. I thought he looked more like Nick Nolte (Pre drunken stupors/arrests.) Of course, I had to look at his face every day and got to hate him pretty well, so that may have something to do with it. Now he just looks like a big ugly dog.