Best and Worst of the 1970s (vanity)

pea brain | 5/31/05 | Pissant & SilentServiceCPOWife

[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

[Dashing Dasher]

Emma Thompson - I looked it up....

[peacebaby]

you're kidding? The Friends soundtrack and Friends movie are so obscure, but I loved both the soundtrack and the movie. Still do.

[pissant]

Ah yes, I remeber now. I still prefer a good pair of 501s on a gals butt though. Then and now!

[Dashing Dasher]

Emma is MUCH better looking than Metcalf!

[GraceCoolidge]

Yes, but see posts... I looked it up first! Pardon my gloat but since I can't ever make the top ten on DUmmie Funnies, I have to enjoy what I can....

[Cecily]

I had the aforesaid thick green shag carpet, with big green and yellow flowers on wallpaper. Plus wicker furniture (bed headboard, side table, and chair) painted yellow.

[Dashing Dasher]

I'll let you borrow Pissant, if you want!!!

[tertiary01]

I learned how to make "perfect crepes" from the Galloping Gourmet.

[Logic n' Reason]

Best:

Those delicious flowing wrap-around dresses!

Women who had the physical atributes to do them justice!

Hot Pants!

Quality disco music...with lots of wimmen dancin' in them sexy wrap-around dresses!

The Love Boat (early episodes only.

Farah Fawcett

Worst

John Travolta

Inflation

Women without the physical attributes to do them justice

coulots/pedalpushers (actually this is a timeless worst)

The Love Boat (late series episodes

[weegee]

Did he run out into a bullfighting ring???

[Veto!]

Has anyone mentioned the yearlong Bi-Centennial celebration? People were coming from all over the world to help the USA celebrate our 200th birthday in 1976. The US media was NOT taking swipes at it as the leftist media would today. I was writing for ten magazines at the time and churned out dozens of bicentennial stories. They couldn't get enough.

[peacebaby]

501s button up.

[bootless]

James Lileks got it down the best: See his book "Interior Desecrations" - might be some content on his website.

Patchouli. (ick)
Blue eye shadow.(ick)
Cat Stevens (ugh)
Jethro Tull (YESS!)
Metallic wallpaper. (argh)

[Dashing Dasher]

Wimbledon...

I guess the red table cloth was handy.

[Alkhin]

No no no - the VERY WORST 70s movie was :

Ralph Bakshi

I was born in 1967, but I remember the 70s QUITE well. Dad bought a diesle station wagon in the late 70s so we could take our annual family trips around the nation...we laughed at the people in the gas lines as we went by. I ABHORRED bell bottoms. My mom had an orange kitchen well into the 80s. I celebrated the Bicentennial by performing in a ballet recital covering the historical events of our country. H & R HuffinPuff was SATAN to me!! LOL But I loved Speed Racer, and listened to Neil Diamond endlessly (no, dont ask me why). My brother worshipped KISS, which I also thought was SATAN (at the time. Now I just laugh at them)

and I can't believe none of you have talked about the Christian folk guitar choirs that sprung up everywhere. John Denver was our Fearless Leader's hero. He played a MEAN twelve string as well.

The BEST TV Special in the 70s????

Why, the Rankin-Bass production of "The Hobbit" of course!!

My uncle gave me the gift box set of the LP version of the show, and I plum wore that thing out. I still have it, albeit in a very tattered state now. But that thing was 'precious' to me. Bilbo will always sound like Orson Bean to me.

[pissant]

And they button down!

[pissant]

I'm trying to think of the wrap dresses you refer to. I'm at a loss.

[pissant]

Yes. We saw the Bicentennial train when it came to Washington!

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

"I'm just imagining Pat Morita running around with a big ol' Tito Jackson do..."

Working at Arnolds, serving fries to Ritchie, Potsie and Ralph with that Afro, ROTFLMAO>

[colorcountry]

I shouldn't tell you this buttttt....I also had a pair of pants that zipped all the way through the crotch....the boys thought they were cool....I thought they were scary (zippers and crotches don't pair up well) and uncomfortable.

Maybe that's why I still wear 501 botton flys.