Speaking of Willie Nelson, I remember the first US presidential election I was old enough to take interest in was 1976, when I was ten years old. Back in those days the national party conventions were considered to be more important than they were now, and all three networks covered them live. So the family was sitting down at the TV watching the first night of the Democratic convention, and Willie Nelson came out to sing the national anthem at the opening ceremony. Willie came out with his acoustic guitar and absolutely massacred the song, getting all the words wrong and leaving out a verse and just way out of tune. I'd never seen Willie Nelson before, and I asked my mom, "Is that guy drunk or something?" and she said, "I think he's been smoking marijuana."

Willie, of course, is notorious for his consumption of the weed, as is celebrated in many Texas outlaw country songs about being Texas country outlaws.

Here's a really vulgar joke I heard for the first time at about age 13. Don't scroll down and read it, I beg you.

This woman walks into a tattoo parlor, and she tells the tattoo guy, "I'm a big Beatles fan, and I want John Lennon's face tattooed on my right inner thigh, and Paul McCartney's face tattooed on my left inner thigh." This isn't the weirdest request that the tattoo guy has ever had, and so he gets to work. When he finishes, he hands her a mirror so she can admire his handiwork, and she says, "That's awful! Those don't either one look like John Lennon and Paul McCartney. I'm not going to pay you." The tattoo guy says, "Come on, look. I'll go out and get the first person I see, and we'll let him decide whether they look like John Lennon and Paul McCartney or not." The woman agrees, and the tattoo guy goes out in the street, which is not in the most residentially desirable part of town. The first person he sees is a bum hanging off a lamppost with a bottle of Thunderbird in his hand. and so he brings the bum inside. He shows the bum the tattoos, and says, "Now, do they look like John Lennon and Paul McCartney or not?" The bum tries to focus his glassy eyes, and says, "Well, I dunno about the guy on the left and the guy on the right, but the guy in the middle sure looks like Willie Nelson!"

Also going around at that time was the story that so-and-so (with us it was Rod Stewart, but I've heard other people tell versions with David Bowie or Elton John) had been rushed to the hospital and had to have his stomach pumped because it was full of male ejaculate fluid. I guess this must have been right after "Do You Think I'm Sexy?" came out in about 1977.