the rubber duck made his last run, clear roads and blue skies
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RIP.
I liked him both as a musician and as an actor (In Blade he is iconic, and he was also great in Convoy back in the day.)
Willie Nelson is now the last of the Highwaymen alive. 
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Iâm not a Country music fan so I knew him only from his acting. He was perfectly cast as âWhistlerâ for the Blade films. RIP.
Janice Joplin had a slew of great songs. Bobby McGee was the best. His writing will be his legacy.
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I was fairly young when I saw Convoy, but I will always remember his wry âquack quack.â
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Raise yur hand if you had a CB radio 
My first car, 1970 sedan, slightly used, had one (being a teenager I just screwed it into the dash, underneath). Took my first solo cross-country road trip at 16 years old - the CB kept me entertained. The truck drivers made fun of my âhandleâ. Still hurts 
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I used it for years to talk to my buddies, before good Internet speeds were a thing.
It was also good fun on vacations, our 2-channel walkie talkies (0.5 watts IIRC) could communicate with the (much more powerful) 40-channel (4 watts) box in the car.
We had at least two antennas for it. One was 2.75 meters, mounted at home. The other one was 60cm or so, with a magnetic foot to put it on the car.
One of my buddies was the king of antennas though, he had a 5.5m one on top of a 3m pole in his garden. My parents didnât allow that so my range was rather poor compared to him. I would have used more power, but German law forbids using more than 4 watts.
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Think it was, is?, the same in the US. Not sure anymore. IIRC, back then, it was a âthingâ to have one that was over-powered - you could tell when someone, usually a trucker, would blast everyone else out. The kerfuffle my dad made over these incidents led me to believe there was a legal limit.
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I never had a real CB radio but I did have a toy one and as a kid I would pretend I was Buford T. Justice. I even had the Southern cop sun glasses!
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You could tell when a trucker had an amplifier because heâd walk all over everyone and it had some sort of reverb or echo sound. One time one of my brothers and I struck up a CB conversation with a female with the handle of âsexy Sueâ or something similar. As we approached a toll plaza, we began looking for each other. By her comments, she was just ahead of us.
My brother began yelling âOh god, there she is! Hide, hide!â I looked a couple of lanes over and there was a ratty old (mid 60s) Bonneville convertible with the top down. That was strange due to the cold temperature. The occupants were two ladies, much older than us. Sexy Sue was about 400 lbs of man lover, wearing a fake fur coat and talking on what looked like a Korean war era Army radio, with a massive long antenna. You know, the ones that have the mic and earpiece built into the radio. She was looking around for us. I couldnât get any lower in my seat because I was driving, but my brother was on the floor. We laughed for a long time once we made our escape.
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Thatâs awesome. Wasnât he in Smokey and the Bandit?
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Correct. Played by the legendary Jackie Gleason! Who would have thought that a New York Jew could play a Southern sheriff so convincingly? Now thatâs acting!
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That was a good one.
B Justice, yeah, think that was the movie. ââŠboy, first thing Iâm gonna do when I get home is punch yo momma in the mouthâ was another line in there I think.
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Sally Field had it all, heart throb and great actress.
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Yes she was indeed quite a looker in that movie and very funny too.
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