How did I not know this!???!! Thread

The first time some of us may have heard the Pointer Sisters.

 

I was blown away to learn the Pointer Sisters won a grammy for a country song.

 

Didn’t even have to hit “play” to have that ear worm pop into my head. Twelve!!

 

also sang on we are the world,

 

I only today learned — from the 400 pound teenager in the window seat — that Southwest Airlines offers large passengers a second boarding pass for a companion “COS.”

What’s a COS you may ask? Customer of Silence - a fake seat filler.

 

The Hit Parade podcast on Slate had a really good episode about them. I saw them in AC in the summer of 1992 — let’s just say that it looked like there was a lot of Colombia’s finest ingested backstage based on the performance.

 

Lots of references to Bolivian marching powder on the threads. If I ever had a consistent source, I would be dead. A great high.

I used to gobble up trucker fake speed pills, so take it for what it is worth.

 

White crosses were the bomb. The meth heads had to fuck it all up for the rest of us.

 

My dad was part of a City of Oakland presentation of the key to the city for them back in the 80s. Yeah, he said they could have been called the "Doobie Sisters" haha. Great group.

 

The ones I remember had a bee or a horse on the package.

 

Mini thins are what we called them. They’d make your sack shrivel up, and either make it so you could not piss or make you piss all the time. Coke was a much better time.

 

I used to self-medicate my ADHD with these during my community college years.