I met Dave Prowse at a sci-fi/horror con once. He was very friendly and talkative. Truth is, after a few minutes, I ran out of things to talk about with him and didn’t know how to gracefully disengage. Goes to show, you never know what you’ll get on any given day.
It’s well-known that he has severe arthritis, and a bad back. I didn’t recognize him because I was looking for the really tall guy, and instead he was about my size (I’m a little under 6’3"). I was told his arthritis and back problems were the cause of his ‘shrinkage’. I could see where chronic pain could cause chronic crankies.
O’Rourke came just short of endorsing Clinton himself! His essay in that same issue was entitled “Pulling the Donkey Lever.” Bush’s core constituency was muy pissed about his having raised taxes that term.
And Thompson freaked Clinton out by presenting him with a saxophone reed of uncertain origin at that meeting.
Actually, the number system was in place long before the 70s. It sort of faded away with, well, I don’t know what. Named (Big Mac Meals? Kids Meal?) meals?
It was even in some (IIRC) 50s, 60s movie/song/book/dunnowhat.
ETA: Uh…how did this end up that I am reading/posting this today without a new post before mine??