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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
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: genx; losers
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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)
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.)
To: pissant
1,203
posted on
05/31/2005 3:06:11 PM PDT
by
carolinacrazy
(What?!...That could never happen in a.... world.)
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...)
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)
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
To: Blue Scourge
Born in 1981...missed it by a couple of years...not really sorry either.
You didn't miss anything, Blue.
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)
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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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.)
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)
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)
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.)
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)
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.)
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
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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)
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...)
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.
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)
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)
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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