Breaker...Breaker...One Nine....Hey Cheese ya got your ears on?
Such as that could be heard heard on the CB radios in old cars cruising through Trent Woods on a summer night. We didn't have cell phones, laptops or Facebook but we had a Social Network. We would jump in the car and fire up a CB radio.
I realized while writing this whole generations reading blogs and using Facebook have never used a CB radio. Most wouldn't even know about CBs if they hadn't seen a rerun of the "Dukes of Hazard". We were networking a couple of years before the beginning of filming of "Moonrunners".(1973) The film was the inspiration for the TV show. The stock car in the movie was named Traveler. (R. E. Lee's Horse) In the show the car was the General Lee. I always thought they must have been watching us to get the ideas for the show. We were up to mischief and trying to outwit Trent Wood's Roscoe P Coltrane.
People developed their own vocabulary to communicate their thoughts via the airwaves. So it is not surprising that we have new words and acronyms that are used on Facebook and in Text messages. So I am LMAO remembering my old "handle" the River Rat.
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