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Heh, I remember Nixon getting on the helicoptor when he resigned as President. I knew it was related to something called "Watergate" that was bad. I recall I figured it was a defective dam, and wasn't sure what the president had to do with it

My mother makes a dessert called "Watergate Salad" (I'm pretty sure the name predates the scandal, but people are strange sometimes) which is what I always think of (to the point of I even remember the taste) whenever Watergate is mentioned. Pistachio pudding with cool whip, marshmallows, pineapples and walnuts. Yum.

My mother makes a dessert called "Watergate Salad" (I'm pretty sure the name predates the scandal, but people are strange sometimes) which is what I always think of (to the point of I even remember the taste) whenever Watergate is mentioned. Pistachio pudding with cool whip, marshmallows, pineapples and walnuts. Yum.

There oughta be bugs in there somewhere.

There oughta be bugs in there somewhere.

They're not listed in the recipe, but it's a traditional summer BBQ food, eaten outside, so sometimes it happens.

I remember Nixon getting on the helicoptor when he resigned as President.

That's my first news event memory.

And I think Watergate salad is so named because it was on the menu at the Watergate Hotel.

Similar to the Waldorf salad?

I remember the Watergate trial. It was confusing, and I think it may have interferred with broadcasts of Wonderdog, so Nixon was in my bad books from the age of 4 on.

I started using Calli[grafiti] online when I started putting porny stories up. It's not that I worried about my folks finding them. I didn't even really worry about getting fired. I mostly pictured my then Editor-in-Chief accidently reading my slash and blushing himself to death. Or killing himself with a fork over my comma splices. Either way, badness.

Speaking of Watergate and Nixon, I watched "The Pentagon Papers", an FX original, yesterday. James Spader as Daniel Ellsberg cracked me up. I worked with Daniel for a few years and seeing James doing a sexay scene in Saigon made me do the williedance. But it was interesting to see the multi-layers of conspiracy in our 'transparent' government of the people. [mirthless chuckle] DE has some stories to tell, I can tell ya...the flick did not capture his pugnacious spirit at all!

I remember the Watergate trial. It was confusing, and I think it may have interferred with broadcasts of Wonderdog, so Nixon was in my bad books from the age of 4 on.

Do you mean "Underdog" or was this something else? I loved the former as a kid.

Speed of lightning, roar of thunder! Fighting all who rob or plunder!

[googles both]

Huh. You're right, it is "Underdog". I've been thinking of it as "Wonderdog" for 34 years.

I think I'll eventually figure out a way to blame Nixon for that, too.