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Best and Worst of the 1970s (vanity)
pea brain | 5/31/05 | Pissant & SilentServiceCPOWife

Posted on 05/31/2005 7:26:28 AM PDT by pissant

The 1970s were a time of some serious changes in our society and culture. Some good, most bad. Here at the Pissant Reasearch Center, we've compiled the Top 5 lists of the good and bad which that forgetful decade foisted upon us.

TOP 5 BAD THINGS FROM THE 1970s

5. Polyester suits

4. Detroits Automobiles

3. Jane Fonda

2. Disco

1. Jimmy Carter

TOP 5 GOOD THINGS FROM THE 1970s (this is tough)

5. Scooby Doo

4. Dorothy Hammill

3. Monday Night Football team (Cossell, Meridith, Gifford)

2. John Paul II

1. Count Chocula & Frankenberry


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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick; Dashing Dasher; pissant
You are talking to a man, to them there is NEVER too much head.

p.s. My wife always says, "Less hair, More hear"

}^)

1,201 posted on 05/31/2005 3:03:53 PM PDT by The SISU kid (Defiantly coloring outside the lines since 1964)
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To: Petronski; teenyelliott; cyborg
I smell what you're steppin in, but, it's better than breaking up like a douche....another odor in the night.
1,202 posted on 05/31/2005 3:05:42 PM PDT by carolinacrazy (What?!...That could never happen in a.... world.)
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To: pissant

Wham was prettier.


1,203 posted on 05/31/2005 3:06:11 PM PDT by carolinacrazy (What?!...That could never happen in a.... world.)
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To: pissant
DO I EVER!!!! In fact, GM has re-released Quisp. I buy it at the local gourmet foods market here in Orlando. It is full of the wonderful sugary deliciousness that I remember as a wee little kid.

Does anyone remember the Pink panther cereal?

1,204 posted on 05/31/2005 3:09:18 PM PDT by RepoGirl (You can ban my rottweiler when you can pry her from my cold dead hands...)
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To: BureaucratusMaximus

Except you had to wear your Sunday best on Saturday to go to Sears in Connecticut because of the blue laws!


1,205 posted on 05/31/2005 3:13:21 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: Dashing Dasher
LOL !!!! My first car ( that I bought ) Was a 72 RS == Orange w/ pin-striping. The girls just loved that car !!!!

Unfortunate ending though, it sank in a lake.... loooong story LOL

1,206 posted on 05/31/2005 3:13:53 PM PDT by dfwddr
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To: Blue Scourge
Born in 1981...missed it by a couple of years...not really sorry either.

You didn't miss anything, Blue.
1,207 posted on 05/31/2005 3:17:52 PM PDT by clyde asbury (Exhuming McCarthy)
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To: clyde asbury
I always wondered why Ace decided to pose like he was "riding" his guitar on the Alive cover. Its something I forgot to ask him when I met him a few years back.
1,208 posted on 05/31/2005 3:17:57 PM PDT by Clemenza (Vader 2008: In your heart, you know he's right)
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To: pissant
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Carter vs. Clinton

  • Jimmy Carter had a nicer wife,
  • A smarter baby brother,
  • A less frightening mom,
  • And a...No, we can't bring ourselves to make fun of the first daughter, especially since some of us have been going through an awkward adolescent stage for nearly four decades. But we can say: "Darn it, Hillary, quit fussing with your hair and do something about Chelsea's."
  • And, speaking of coiffures, Jimmy Carter never in his life got a haircut that cost more than $2.50, if appearances are anything to go by.
  • Carter had governed a more important state.
  • Carter had once held a job.
  • He came from a more cosmopolitan hometown,
  • And had a more charismatic vice president.
  • It took Carter months to wreck the economy.
  • It took Carter weeks to become a national laughingstock.
  • Carter committed adultery only in his heart.
  • And, if we know anything about female tastes, Carter was telling the truth about that.
  • As for military record, Carter was, comparatively speaking, a regular Audie Murphy.
  • They were on drugs during the Carter administration--they had an excuse.
  • We were on drugs during the Carter administration--we had an excuse.
  • Carter looked--think back carefully, we promise we're telling the truth about this--less foolish in his jogging outfit.
  • Jogging actually worked for Carter. Say what you want against the man, he's no double-butt.
  • Carter passed out while jogging and the nation was safe for a moment.

    Compare and Contrast
    Carter Administration Clinton Administration
    Pardoning Draft Dodgers Draft Dodgers
    Women integrated into the military Men dressed like women integrated into the military
    Return of canal to Panama Return of Haitians to Haiti
    Bail-out of Chrysler Corp. Jobs in the White House travel office for hick cousins from Arkansas
    Creation of Departments of Energy and Education Can't find enough gay disabled women of color to head Departments he's got already
    President successfully treated for hemorrhoids Hillary still heading health-care reform panel
    Russians in Afghanistan Brit Hume in White House press corps
    Jody Powell with feet on desk George Stephanopoulos with feet not quite touching floor
    Kidding Mexicans about Montezuma's revenge Kidding Mexicans about NAFTA
    Boycott of Moscow Olympics Not seeing much of the Bloodworth-Thomasons lately
    Hostage rescue attempt in Iran Trying to get Zoe Baird confirmed at Justice
    Mount St. Helens Air Force General Harold Campbell
    Peace between Israel and Egypt Peace between the FBI and IRS
    Elvis dead Barbra Streisand all too lively
    SALT II U2
    Three Mile Island Sam Nunn
    Admiral Hyman Rickover The Tidybowl Man
    Wimping out in the face of the second most powerful military force in the world Wimping out in the face of Slobodan Milosevic
    Gas shortage Gassiest administration since who knows when
    Mariel Boatlift Which one is she? Does Hillary know about this one?
    Proposition 13 (Fill in your own Clinton libido joke here)
  • Carter was a good man to have on board when your canoe was attacked by a swimming rabbit.
  • Carter hardly ever hugged or kissed anyone in public except Leonid Brezhnev.
  • The FBI didn't kill anybody at Jonestown.
  • Bert Lance could make a bigger splash doing a cannonball into the Camp David pool than Webb Hubbell.
  • Hamilton Jordan could beat Mack McLarty at arm wrestling.
  • Plus Jordan could get into Studio 54.
  • Joseph Califano was prettier than Donna Shalala.
  • And he opposed abortion (though maybe he hadn't met Donna yet).
  • Warren Christopher was young and full of pep during the Carter administration.
  • And Warren Christopher's initials look funnier on a brief case than Cyrus Vance's did.
  • Zbigniew Brzezinski is worth more points in a Scrabble game than Anthony Lake.
  • Jimmy Carter didn't play any Fleetwood Mac songs on the campaign trail,
  • Or any Judy Collins records at home,
  • Or any saxophones anywhere.

    The Undead
    Carter Administration Clinton Administration
    Miss Lillian VAT
  • No one can say a word against a Carter Supreme Court appointee.
  • Carter did not use Bloomsbury, Mayfair, Pall Mall, Hackney, Notting Hill, Shoreditch, or any other London neighborhood as the name of his child.
  • One thing about Carter-era inflation, the money may have been worthless but at least we had some.

    Endangered Species
    Carter Administration Clinton Administration
    The Snail Darter The DLC
  • Jimmy Carter's nervous smirk was less demanding of a punch in the snoot, even if it did present a larger target.

    Major Foreign Policy Questions
    Carter Administration Clinton Administration
    Should Red China have a seat in the UN? Is Macedonia what Macedonia is supposed to be called?
    Does Nicaragua have strategic importance? Is it "Ukraine" or "The Ukraine" ?
    What type of relationship with Israel best serves America's interests? If those guys are so Jewish, how come they aren't on the staff of Tikkun?
    Is it time for America to relinquish its global leadership role? Should Chelsea go to Japan with Bill and Hillary?
    Would economic sanctions on South Africa be effective? How about economic sanctions on white males right here in the USA?
    Should we sell wheat to Russia? Let's just give them a bunch of money.
    Is deployment of the neutron bomb immoral? Does appointing Jean Kennedy Smith ambassador to Ireland put the Kennedys in their place or what?

    Language Which The President Would Not Shut Up In
    Carter Clinton
    Spanish English
  • Navy football team can whip Oxford's.

    World View
    What Ideas Loom Inside Their Respective Thick Skulls?
    Carter Clinton
    Human rights Partnership role for the First Lady
    Moral equivalent of war Partnership role for the First Lady
    National malaise More mayonnaise
    Diminished expectations David Gergen
  • Carter did not, as part of focusing on his agenda, address himself as "Stupid." He let us do that for him.
  • Carter wore real blue jeans and not the Levi's 550 roomy-in-the-buns kind.

    Compare and Contrast II
    Carter Administration Clinton Administration
    Mork and Mindy Mary Matalin and James Carville
    Laverne and Shirley Cokie Roberts and Anna Quindlen
    The Dukes of Hazard Various half brothers
    Three's Company Gennifer Flowers
    Happy Days 1980-1992
    The Incredible Hulk and Wonder Woman Marriage seems stable for the moment, but super powers are fading
    WKRP NPR
    Star Wars Base closings
    Annie Hall Anita Hill
    Grease Mousse
    Saturday Night Fever Saturday night working late at the OEOB
    The Goodbye Girl Kimba Wood
    Midnight Express Bus trips
    La Cage Aux Folles The Marines
    All the President's Men Home Alone II
    Abbie Hoffman Socks the cat
  • Carter's poll ratings were higher (in Iraq).
  • Carter walked the whole inaugural parade route.
  • Carter saved America from a plague of Misha the Bear Olympic mascot toys.
  • Has Bill Clinton helped the Shah of Iran get medical treatment?
  • Carter spent his time doing things like figuring out the White House tennis court playing schedule--the man knew his intellectual limitations.
  • Carter had enough clout to get Lani Guinier appointed to the Justice Department (and anyone who gets shot down for holding Menckenish views about the excesses of democracy had to be some kind of friend of ours even if she doesn't know it).
  • Carter let the Soviets have Angola, Ethiopia, and South Yemen. And, in retrospect, the Soviets deserved no better.
  • Carter wasn't a throwback to the Carter Era.
  • And let us not forget that Jimmy Carter gave us one thing Bill Clinton can never possibly give us--Ronald Reagan.
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1,209 posted on 05/31/2005 3:27:33 PM PDT by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: dfwddr

I love stories that end with... "and it sunk in a lake".

You tell me yours - and I'll tell you mine.

;-)


1,210 posted on 05/31/2005 3:27:56 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (May 31, 1678, Tax protester, Lady Godiva, rode naked through Coventry)
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To: RepoGirl

Kaboom is STILL available in select markets. Quentin Tarantino featured it to good use in Kill Bill Vol. 1.


1,211 posted on 05/31/2005 3:37:12 PM PDT by weegee ("Do you want them to write a piece about how great the military is?" Elizabeth Bumiller - NY Times)
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To: Dashing Dasher

What? Someone complainng about the size of the engine?

1,212 posted on 05/31/2005 3:39:19 PM PDT by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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If Wonder Woman married Howard Hughes and then got re-married to Henry Kissinger, she'd be Wonder Hughes Kissinger now.

If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.

Yep.


1,213 posted on 05/31/2005 3:39:52 PM PDT by weegee ("Do you want them to write a piece about how great the military is?" Elizabeth Bumiller - NY Times)
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To: Oberon

I will listen to Hotel California every day until I die. It was the best thing to come out of the seventies. Along with Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Supertramp.

The worst thing to come out of the seventies. Gay rights, women's lib, ABBA (and every other lame disco), Polyester anything.


1,214 posted on 05/31/2005 3:41:55 PM PDT by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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To: pissant

by far the worst thing of the 1970s was the emergence of the boomer generation into american politics:

john kerry
ted kennedy
jane fonda
bill and hillary clinton
barbara streisland

et al


1,215 posted on 05/31/2005 3:44:19 PM PDT by ken21 (if you didn't see it on tv, then it didn't happen. /s)
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To: weegee

I'm actually not familiar with Kaboom. What was it?


1,216 posted on 05/31/2005 3:46:36 PM PDT by RepoGirl (You can ban my rottweiler when you can pry her from my cold dead hands...)
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To: Clemenza
I always wondered why Ace decided to pose like he was "riding" his guitar on the Alive cover.

It always looked like a strut across the stage to me. Kiss was a big hit in our class.

Love your tagline.
1,217 posted on 05/31/2005 3:47:15 PM PDT by clyde asbury (Exhuming McCarthy)
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To: RaceBannon

Braggin' about the size of the engine...


1,218 posted on 05/31/2005 3:59:16 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (May 31, 1678, Tax protester, Lady Godiva, rode naked through Coventry)
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To: Oberon

The virtual beer makes me thirsty for the real McCoy


1,219 posted on 05/31/2005 4:00:41 PM PDT by pissant (Ruby Red)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick; Dashing Dasher

Don't worry about the mods spanking you, you and Dasher are both in line for ME, dammit!


1,220 posted on 05/31/2005 4:01:33 PM PDT by pissant (Ruby Red)
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