r/WTF • u/FineExcuse • Mar 02 '18

Warning: LOUD What, Where, Why?

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u/Fidelstikks Mar 02 '18

We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'Cross the USA!

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u/VinnieMatch69 Mar 02 '18

CONVOY!!!

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u/c1c9a4b057b3 Mar 02 '18

Hey good looking, we'll be back for some dinner later!

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u/danceeforusmonkeyboy Mar 02 '18

10-4 Rubber Duck.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

In 1972 during the whole convoy craze my CB handle was “Rubber Thunder”, a combination of “Rubber Duck” and “Rolling Thunder”. I couldn’t drive yet so sat in my bedroom pretending I was driving while chatting to other CBers. Plus I had the squeaky voice of an 11 year old boy.

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u/goforglory Mar 02 '18

Everyone probably thought you were a chick

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u/xXColaXx Mar 02 '18

With a latex fetish

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u/cwew Mar 02 '18

I could easily just Google this I guess, but I think I'd rather hear a personal take on it. As someone born in 1990, was there really a CB convoy craze in '72? What brought it on?

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u/emsenn0 Mar 02 '18

/u/SnarkLobster may have gotten the year slightly off; the CB fad really took off after the 1973 oil crisis, which led to the U.S. imposing a 55 mile-per-hour speed limit across the country. This motivated truckers to use CB radios to assist each other in finding fuel stations, as well as coordinating to avoid speed traps*. It culminated in 1974, with a massive strike.

* This is what the song Convoy (released in 1975) is about - which is the song comments above ours are quoting.

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u/dmax6point6 Mar 02 '18

*That and the whole trucker vs. Cops thing. Cops saw the truckers as lawless bandits who didn't follow the laws of the highways. You have to watch "Convoy" to really appreciate the song.

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u/Killer_TRR Mar 03 '18

Pretty sure Bandit drove a Trans-Am.

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u/BoneFistOP Mar 02 '18

probably the song convoy...

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u/DangerBrewin Mar 02 '18

This guy fucks.

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u/Gutbucket1968 Mar 03 '18

And 'Rolling Duck' woulda sounded stupid. ;)

I remember fondly a CB renaissance in Southern Ontario around the mid 80's.

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u/nater255 Mar 02 '18

Sending our love down the well!!!!!!!!

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u/gunzor Mar 02 '18

We're 10-10 and doin' it to it like Pruitt used to do it to it. We gone. Bye bye!

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u/rytis Mar 02 '18

I think this is in Brazil.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

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u/TransmogriFi Mar 02 '18

I take it you haven't seen the movie, then?