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    Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends

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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    03/29/09

    In reply to Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends
    Nobody made a "Braveheart" joke?
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    Image of zyodei zyodei
    03/29/09

    In reply to Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends
    Holy shit...this show is the first time I ever became aware of LSD in my life. I watched it on Nick at Nite when I was 7 in my grandparents house. I've always wanted to watch it again, I remembered it ever since. Thanks Jalopnik!
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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    03/29/09

    @zyodei: I vividly remember seeing this EXACT episode when I was the same age on Nick at Nite, and like you, it's stuck with me ever since.
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    Image of RegalRegalia RegalRegalia
    03/28/09

    In reply to Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends
    no one involved in the show had ever tripped, had they?
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/29/09

    @RegalRegalia: Nah, but they were probably having 3-Martini lunches. And of course smoking cigarettes like crazy.
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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    03/29/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: Stop watching MAD MEN.


    That, or you sir, are quite old.

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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    03/28/09

    In reply to Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends
    Wow, Murilee... I am more than a little frightened by how the weekender Jalop Commentariot are reacting to your delightful posts this weekend... Has the concept of irony and its execution been completely erased as a result of the recent elections? Why on earth are stories of bygone Soviet/Eastern Block motoring and motorsports inciting "the locals" to gather in groups with pitch forks and torches in hand?


    Granted, most of our regulars can appreciate history for what it is in the current context, but those who are expressing a need to hunt for the "red scourge" are about twenty years too late. These weekend editorial choices fit under a neat-o concept they teach in college nowadays: I-R-O-N-Y

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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    03/28/09

    @Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing:

    Oh, and I include the anti-establishment Corvair Monza DOTS and the Groovalicious Purple Princess of Peace art car as being part-and-parcel of the aforementioned Ironic Weelend. Relax, people.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    03/29/09

    @Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: I haven't seen more than the usual number of complainers this weekend.
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    Image of Jonny Lieberman Jonny Lieberman
    03/28/09

    In reply to Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends
    Whoa, whoa, waho


    LSD and downers can kill?


    This news. The new news kind of news.


    Also -- Chief Parker ftw

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    Image of LJSearles LJSearles
    03/28/09

    In reply to Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends
    Wait, a '67 Fairlane isn't a full sized sedan? since when?
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    03/28/09

    @LJSearles: Fairlane was a midsize.
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    Image of LJSearles LJSearles
    03/28/09

    @Murilee Martin: What was fullsize then?
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    03/29/09

    @LJSearles: Custom/Glaxie/LTD and Ranch Wagon/Country Sedan/Country Squire for wagons.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/29/09

    @LJSearles: Well, in the context of your question 1967. If you remove the '67 from the question the answer is either 1958 (the last year that it was a trim level on the full sized Ford) or 1962 (the year that it debuted as a model in its own right, slotted in size between the Galaxie and Falcon).
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    03/29/09

    @Mike the Dog will work for a Preview Button!: I really should have guessed that it had been answered already.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/28/09

    In reply to Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends
    I would like to state for the record that I can never, ever saw acid on a sugar cube.

    The only people who had sugar cubes in their pockets were on their way to a stable.

    Anyone else? Anyone?
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    03/28/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: Polio vaccine used to come on sugar cubes, too.
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    Image of Jonny Lieberman Jonny Lieberman
    03/28/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: Sugar cubes, Honey comb Serial, cookies, crackers, candy...


    Novaload -- not druggie enough

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/28/09

    @Jonny Lieberman: Dudes, I was going down the drug corridor before you whipeprsnappers were born. Sugar cubes melt. Have an orange barrel or another tab or an eyedropper or a little powder or some blotter or a spansule!

    Next you'll be telling me you have flashbacks. If only!


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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    03/28/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: Lemmee see if I can get this right...


    That's FAR OUT man!!

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/29/09

    @DoctorNine: I'm just saying the sugar cube route was quickly replaced by others. And, as Hunter S. Thompson said, LSD turned out to be the Studebaker of the drug market. So the handful of sugar cubes in the blue faced boy's jeans was as phony--in '68--as the rest of the drug scene as portrayed by Sgt. Friday.


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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    03/29/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: Really, polio vaccine was put on sugar cubes in the 50s. I betcha the initial LSD-on-cubes period of the mid-60s was inspired by folks who remembered Polio Treats™ or whatever they were called.
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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    03/29/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee:


    I need to read more Hunter S. Thompson. Like so many, he was both a raving psychotic and a fucking genius.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/29/09

    @Murilee Martin: I wasn't disputing the polio part--I knew about that--even had to take it--the idea being kids would eat anything, including a live and potentially crippling or lethal virus--if it came on a lump of sugar.

    Ah, good times.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/29/09

    @Pleco, king of the junkyard: Start with "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" --easy, breezy, gutsplittingly funny but loaded with insight.
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    Image of Uncle Bo Uncle Bo
    03/28/09

    In reply to Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends
    I smell a patented Murilee Martin TV cop car poll, coming soon to a Jalopnik Retro Network station near you.
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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    03/29/09

    @Uncle Bo, averting foreclosure: I, uh, would vote in favor of voting on that?
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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    03/28/09

    In reply to Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends
    OHHHHH.... so THATS why American's switched over to HFCS. all makes sense now... a bunch of kids all hopped up on pure Cuban white.


    i guess that was the real reason for the Cuban Missile Crisis, damn Fidel trying to get innocent American youth hooked on sugar. Commie scum...


    well, thank god for there was LSD to fill the void!

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    Image of Triborough Triborough
    03/28/09

    In reply to Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends
    No love for the Mopar and AMC versions of Adam-12?
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    03/29/09

    @Triborough: Dragnet is a great show- but by the '60s, I think they'd gotten just a tad overwrought; I much prefer Adam 12. Maybe it has something to do with Reed and Malloy being patrol cops instead of detectives, and dealing mostly with more-or-less "average" people, I dunno.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/28/09

    In reply to Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends
    It must be this LSD stuff I keep hearing about.


    Evil disbelievers!!!

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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    03/28/09

    @f*cking engineerd: "..Evil disbelievers!!!"


    He was only being taxonomically specific.

    They actually were disbelievers, you know.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/28/09

    In reply to Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends
    That was the best of the best. The straights trying to scare everyone with the horrors of drug use!

    I did notice the "Ted Neely 5" on the marquee on the strip, and Ted of course went on to be in Jesus Christ Superstar. Small world.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    03/28/09

    In reply to Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends
    According to sources on the Internet, LSD did not become illegal until 1968, so these beat cops were driving a beater. Dig it?
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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    03/28/09

    In reply to Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends
    After my days in the police academy and being subjected to Joe Friday's speech about being a cop and there being no thanks for it etc etc constantly, if I never see another episode of dragnet, it'll be too soon.


    At the same time, I really feel sad that TV shows aren't this well written anymore.

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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    03/28/09

    In reply to Fairlane-Driving Cops Take No Guff From Gibberish-Ass Hippie Dope Fiends
    Damn hippies.
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