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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: pissant
How about Shaft & the Mod Squad!

"Shaft" is an excellent example of a director getting the most "Bang for the Buck!", pissant. No big names. No budget to speak of. Shot on location. What is considered by many to be the first "Anti-Blaxploitation" film made. Which did well enough at the box-office to generate two lesser sequels.

"The Mod Squad" was mediocre episodic television. Though I thought Tige Andrews was great as Captain Greer!

Jack.

681 posted on 05/31/2005 10:49:06 AM PDT by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Disemboweler of the WFTD Thread)
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To: Jack Deth
"The films of the 1970s were then and are now some of the finest and most diverse vehicles for acting and telling a story well."

And then there were the "documentaries":


682 posted on 05/31/2005 10:49:09 AM 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: pissant
Yes, my role is quality control tester! ;o)

We've all become aware of the quality of your control.

683 posted on 05/31/2005 10:49:24 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: peacebaby
Speaking of which, ANYONE REMEMBER JANICE IAN? -------------------------------------------------------- I learned the truth at Seventeen, that love was meant for beauty queens.

BTW: I'll see your Janis Ian and raise you a Maria Muldaur.

684 posted on 05/31/2005 10:49:33 AM PDT by Clemenza (Vader 2008: In your heart, you know he's right)
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To: pissant
How about Jimmy Buffet's "why don't We Get Drunk and Screw"

I won't tell if you don't.

685 posted on 05/31/2005 10:49:36 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: peacebaby

Don't like Chick music. A couple of Joni Mitchell tunes are OK, thought it shames me to say so!


686 posted on 05/31/2005 10:49:37 AM PDT by pissant (Ruby Red)
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To: peacebaby

"Society's Child" was '67; in the 70's she did a very vapid song called "At Seventeen"


687 posted on 05/31/2005 10:50:09 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Support your local Minutemen)
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To: Clemenza

ROFL.


688 posted on 05/31/2005 10:50:10 AM PDT by pissant (Ruby Red)
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To: peacebaby

At seventeen.....

Janis Ian...


I LEARNED THE TRUTH AT SEVENTEEN
THAT LOVE WAS MEANT FOR BEAUTY QUEENS
AND HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS WITH CLEAR SKINNED SMILES
WHO MARRIED YOUNG AND THEN RETIRED
THE VALENTINES I NEVER KNEW
THE FRIDAY NIGHT CHARADES OF YOUTH
WERE SPENT ON ONE MORE BEAUTIFUL
AT SEVENTEEN I LEARNED THE TRUTH :snip:


689 posted on 05/31/2005 10:50:23 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
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To: peacebaby; pissant; Miss Behave; teenyelliott; cyborg

"Skyrockets in flight!
Afternoon deli-ee-ight!


A-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Afternoon Delight!"




[ V O M I T ]



I mean, the Starlite Vocal Band was a choral group. I always wondered if it was one giant afternoon delight, or what the hell? One afternoon the whole group decided to get naked and sloppy, and then stuck around to sing about it? In three-part harmony?

That ain't right.


690 posted on 05/31/2005 10:51:07 AM PDT by Petronski (A champion of dance, my moves will put you in a trance, and I never leave the disco alone.)
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To: peacebaby

I learned the truth at seventeen,

That love was made for beauty queens...


691 posted on 05/31/2005 10:51:10 AM PDT by pissant (Ruby Red)
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To: peacebaby

... "Whiiitte Biirrrdddd In a Golden Cage"....


692 posted on 05/31/2005 10:51:12 AM PDT by Alia
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To: RightOnline; t_skoz

"...yet there is huge catalog of terrific material untapped by these formulaic morons."

Said about the second generation of oldies (post-Woodstock up to MTV) but just as true of 50s-60s oldies and modern music.


693 posted on 05/31/2005 10:51:17 AM 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: Clemenza

MARIA MULDAUR

Midnight at the Oasis!


694 posted on 05/31/2005 10:51:54 AM PDT by peacebaby (This is the way to peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.)
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To: Jack Deth

Both better than the Courtship of Eddie's father or Room 222, though!


695 posted on 05/31/2005 10:52:00 AM PDT by pissant (Ruby Red)
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To: Dashing Dasher

As I said in a previous post, vapid.....


696 posted on 05/31/2005 10:52:04 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Support your local Minutemen)
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To: conservativebabe
The year I got married at bike week, we went to the Boot Hill Saloon, and it was raining like crazy. We were all out back under the pavilion. There must have been 500 people under there trying to stay semi dry. That song played and everyone was singing it. 500 drunken bikers singing David Allen Coe in the rain was awesome.
697 posted on 05/31/2005 10:52:29 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: peacebaby

correction: minnie rippiton, or something like that.


698 posted on 05/31/2005 10:52:47 AM PDT by peacebaby (This is the way to peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.)
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To: pissant

The BeeGees were better in their 1960s era. So I hear. I've heard one or two songs, not enough to make me seek it out but good enough that it beats anything they did in the 70s.


699 posted on 05/31/2005 10:52:48 AM 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: Clemenza

I'm trying not to picture you and your dad tooling around in the Riviera, your dad singing along with the tape deck about gettin' laid...


700 posted on 05/31/2005 10:52:53 AM PDT by Petronski (A champion of dance, my moves will put you in a trance, and I never leave the disco alone.)
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