1978, Or As The Romans Would Have Said, MCMLXXVIII Was A Great Year

* Gasoline was only 63 cents per gallon.  Even better if you drove a VW.
* Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher were born.  And 'That 70's Show' is in perpetual reruns.
* Charlie Chaplan's coffin was stolen in Switzerland.  To use as a coffee table?
* Dick Smith towed a fake iceberg to Sydney Harbour.  For the ultimate game of Marco Polo.
* Charlie Chaplan's coffin was found 15 km from the cemetary.  Was it on wheels?

* Garfield made his debut.  And cats all over American began eating lasagna.
* Timmy Johnson blew up his sister's Barbie with a cherry bomb in the driveway.  Barbie's an easy target for boys who like to blow things up. 
* U.S. President Jimmy Carter legalized brewing beer at home.  At the request of brother Billy.  Remember him?  He peed on a Secret Service car.
* David Rorvik claimed he cloned a human.  At last!  David has a girlfriend.
* I was driving an 18-wheeler cross country.  Yikes!  What was I thinking?

All Boys Were Cross Dressers

Notice anything strange about this clown?  He is wearing a French Pierrot outfit with a Charlie Chaplin Derby, an umbrella and a depressed Emmett Kelly expression.   A weird comic cross dresser
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Which of course reminds me of men.

Until the late 19th or early 20th Centuries both boys and girls wore dresses.  Some of the little boys were given trousers by age two, but many had to wear their dresses until they were eight years old.

Hence the expression, "You run like a girl."