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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

81 posted on 05/31/2005 7:50:46 AM PDT by martin_fierro (Proud RUB)
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To: pissant
VEGA, I believe.

No, I meant Vegas. Plural.

It just wasn't my Vega that was bad. ALL Vegas were bad. Every last one of them. (Mine just happened to be worse than most of them.)

To this day, my brother will say, "Hey, you remember that POS Vega hatchback my brother used to have in med school where the paint had peeled off down to the primer and he would paint it over with Rust-o-leum? And how he always had to have plastic milk bottles filled with water in the back because there was no way to keep the radiator from leaking? And how it blew an engine twice and how it........"

Money was really tight for me back then. When the Vega died for the last time in my senior year, I spent several months taking the city bus to the hospital.

82 posted on 05/31/2005 7:50:50 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: pissant

Sure. Do you do windows? ;-)


83 posted on 05/31/2005 7:51:16 AM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (Welcome to the Hotel Free Republic-You can check out any time you like but you can never leave)
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To: NRA1995

Disco music replaced live music. It remains a problem to this day.

There is a split between popular "production" music with a lot of flash (and drugs) and the live experience.

Whether it is cocaine and disco or ecstasy and house music, it is all drugs and bad beats. There is no heart.


84 posted on 05/31/2005 7:51:18 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: SilentServiceCPOWife

I'm just going to guess it's because the 22-year-old model is a family member of yours. No need to affirm if you don't want to.


85 posted on 05/31/2005 7:51:26 AM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife
Worst ever:
86 posted on 05/31/2005 7:51:32 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (chance is the “magic wand to make not only rabbits but entire universes appear out of nothing.”)
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To: pissant

So YOU were the one I skated with! ;)


87 posted on 05/31/2005 7:51:39 AM PDT by Millee (So you're a feminist......isn't that cute??)
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To: martin_fierro
My, but weren't you super-fly.

Classic male beauty is hard to define.

88 posted on 05/31/2005 7:51:51 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife
Worthless macrame art. Oh lovely. I do remember some useful macrame!
89 posted on 05/31/2005 7:52:33 AM PDT by pissant (Ruby Red)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

90 posted on 05/31/2005 7:52:44 AM PDT by martin_fierro (Proud RUB)
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To: pissant

LOL! Oh yeah. Not much has changed in that regard. You gotta love that they are still as flat as a pancake.


91 posted on 05/31/2005 7:52:47 AM PDT by conservativebabe
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To: pissant
There was a song called Chevy Van. Had to be the world's cheesiest song!

I remember the song! It was pretty bad.

92 posted on 05/31/2005 7:52:55 AM PDT by SIDENET ("Some people are desperate for whatever they're desperate for," - Bubba Fink)
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To: pissant
Bad: jumpsuited fat Elvis


93 posted on 05/31/2005 7:53:16 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

Don't speak ill of the BeeGees. Falsetto turns me on.


94 posted on 05/31/2005 7:53:22 AM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (Welcome to the Hotel Free Republic-You can check out any time you like but you can never leave)
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To: NRA1995

You can have it. Disco is dead. Scooby lives on!


95 posted on 05/31/2005 7:53:30 AM PDT by pissant (Ruby Red)
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To: peacebaby

I'm with ya on the doobies and peasant blouses (the sheerer versions). ;o)


96 posted on 05/31/2005 7:54:26 AM PDT by pissant (Ruby Red)
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To: pissant

I was listening to one of those "History of Rock and Roll" things on the radio over the weekend and heard several songs that reminded me just how bad some of the bad music from the 70's was:

"I am Woman"

"Having My Baby"

"Never Been To Me"

ugh!


97 posted on 05/31/2005 7:54:28 AM PDT by day10 (Rules cannot substitute for character.)
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To: Sybeck1

I never thought I'd see the day that Disco and Jimmy Carter would make a comeback.


98 posted on 05/31/2005 7:54:38 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: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

There were some good muscle cars still being built. Not many though!


99 posted on 05/31/2005 7:55:01 AM PDT by pissant (Ruby Red)
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To: pissant

100 posted on 05/31/2005 7:55:35 AM PDT by conservativebabe
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