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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: alnick
At least you had a Duster. It could have been worse...you could have had a Dodge Aspen instead.

:-)

1,781 posted on 06/02/2005 2:49:31 AM PDT by SIDENET ("Some people are desperate for whatever they're desperate for," - Bubba Fink)
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To: USMMA_83

I'm ashamed to say I know this, but the show (both the pilot and the series) was called "Salvage 1". Andy Griffith was in it.


1,782 posted on 06/02/2005 2:54:18 AM PDT by SIDENET ("Some people are desperate for whatever they're desperate for," - Bubba Fink)
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To: SIDENET

Salvage 1...oh man! LOL! I still remember the whole family watching the show and wondering...what is Andy G., doing in the dumpster! Sad to say, we watched the whole show and might have even enjoyed it...kinda like watching a wreck.


1,783 posted on 06/02/2005 3:13:34 AM PDT by USMMA_83 (Tantra is my fetish ;))
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To: USMMA_83

My whole family sat and watched the pilot episode/made-for-TV movie. I remember that the thing was promoted like crazy. What were we thinking?


1,784 posted on 06/02/2005 3:24:18 AM PDT by SIDENET ("Some people are desperate for whatever they're desperate for," - Bubba Fink)
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To: SIDENET

Wasn't this the time the Space Shuttle had just done the test landing (taken off from the back of a 747). The US was going to dominate space with a whole fleet of space shuttles, and here comes a show that tells the whole world that our garbage pickers can build a space ship with garbage cans. It was the whole feel good factor...I can't even write this stuff without laughing at myself....


1,785 posted on 06/02/2005 3:42:58 AM PDT by USMMA_83 (Tantra is my fetish ;))
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To: weegee
First time I've sniped a thread.

Keep on doing it. I want this thread to reach 1970. I'm going to add pictures when I have an opportunity.

1,786 posted on 06/02/2005 5:55:38 AM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (A round of ruby red Sharpies for everyone, barkeep.)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife

1,787 posted on 06/02/2005 5:58:45 AM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (A round of ruby red Sharpies for everyone, barkeep.)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife; weegee

1,788 posted on 06/02/2005 6:05:09 AM PDT by pissant (Darn Sharpies)
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To: alnick

"Muskrat Love" had already gotten lots of mention so I ignored it....give me "Close The Door" by Teddy Pendergrass any day or "Natural Man" by Lou Rawls


1,789 posted on 06/02/2005 6:06:39 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Support your local Minutemen)
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To: USMMA_83

I don't think the Doobie's music has held up well over time.


1,790 posted on 06/02/2005 6:06:47 AM PDT by pissant (Darn Sharpies)
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To: pissant

Good morning. :-)

My ex wanted to be Bruce Lee. And he mourned for a week when Brandon Lee was killed.


1,791 posted on 06/02/2005 6:07:27 AM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (A round of ruby red Sharpies for everyone, barkeep.)
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To: NRA1995; SilentServiceCPOWife; weegee
we can't forget these lovely gals...
1,792 posted on 06/02/2005 6:08:27 AM PDT by pissant (Darn Sharpies)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife

Top o' the morn to you, too!

Bruce Lee was one of my idols as a kid. Until I finally realized that the fighting in his movies was SO phony!

After that, I went back to Sean Connery & John Wayne!


1,793 posted on 06/02/2005 6:10:20 AM PDT by pissant (Darn Sharpies)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife

OMG, Mood Rings. LOL!


1,794 posted on 06/02/2005 6:10:43 AM PDT by pissant (Darn Sharpies)
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To: pissant

Ah, yes. Who could forget the Shlemiel, Shlemazel, Hassenfeffer Incorporated girls?


1,795 posted on 06/02/2005 6:11:31 AM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (A round of ruby red Sharpies for everyone, barkeep.)
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To: pissant

Did you see the one with Kareem Abdul Jabbar? The fight between he and Bruce Lee was hysterical.


1,796 posted on 06/02/2005 6:13:11 AM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (A round of ruby red Sharpies for everyone, barkeep.)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife

And Schotz beer


1,797 posted on 06/02/2005 6:13:50 AM PDT by pissant (Darn Sharpies)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife

Yes, it was in Game of Death, I believe. And I think Bruce died before they finished the film.


1,798 posted on 06/02/2005 6:14:35 AM PDT by pissant (Darn Sharpies)
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To: pissant

My ex said that they used cardboard mannequins of Bruce Lee to finish that movie.


1,799 posted on 06/02/2005 6:15:59 AM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (A round of ruby red Sharpies for everyone, barkeep.)
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To: pissant
Or their buddies....


1,800 posted on 06/02/2005 6:16:34 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Support your local Minutemen)
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