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Friendly sitcom nods past '80s (LONGING FOR THE LOST LIBERAL GOLDEN AGE)
Chicago Sun-Times ^
| November 2, 2005
| DOUG ELFMAN TELEVISION CRITIC
Posted on 11/02/2005 10:33:42 AM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief
The late '70s was about mellowing out, getting laid and watching "MASH" and good movies.I remember the late '70's being about gas lines, stagflation and 444 days of us doing nothing while the Islamonazis paraded our Tehran embassy staff in front of the world media as hostages.
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posted on
11/02/2005 11:11:56 AM PST
by
CFC__VRWC
("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
To: RockinRight
mmm....laura prepon....tall, redhead, likes guns.
didn't like it when she died her hair blonde, though.
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posted on
11/02/2005 11:12:26 AM PST
by
flashbunny
(Anybody want to trade Alito back in for Miers?)
To: Maceman
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that this writer was either not alive, or too young to understand what was going on, during the wretched Carter adminisration. Obviously. If they'd been old enough to pay a mortgage or drive, they'd remember.
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posted on
11/02/2005 11:12:46 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Now that taglines are cool, I refuse to have one.)
To: Huck
The 70s had better movies and dirtier magazines. The 80s had a better economy and better hygeine. Its a draw as far as music is concerned.
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posted on
11/02/2005 11:13:06 AM PST
by
Clemenza
(In League with the Freemasons, The Bilderbergers, and the Learned Elders of Zion)
To: Chi-townChief
No matter what is said Laura Pepron is seriously HOT. Flaming, roaring bonfire HOT.
To: Chi-townChief
Guilty as charged. I HAD a bitchin' Honda Prelude!
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posted on
11/02/2005 11:13:38 AM PST
by
subterfuge
(Obama, mo mama...er Osama-La bamba, uh, bama...banana rama...URP!---Ted Kennedy)
To: Chi-townChief
That show is still on? I thought those were re-runs. Those "kids" must be in their 30's by now.
To: Alex Murphy; flashbunny
Red also had another family in the early 1960s. When he refused to let his Gay son persue a career in acting and continue hanging with his pals in the Dead Poets Society, the son took Red Foreman's gun and offed himself.
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posted on
11/02/2005 11:14:48 AM PST
by
Clemenza
(In League with the Freemasons, The Bilderbergers, and the Learned Elders of Zion)
To: cloud8
Where was this guy? The 80s were about President Reagan and winning the Cold War and emerging from the Carter malaise and the bitter national split of the 60s. The 80s were about optimism and the return of the American Spirit, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.Which is exactly why the left and the media want to brand the '80's as the "Decade of Greed", or pretend the decade never happened.
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posted on
11/02/2005 11:15:10 AM PST
by
CFC__VRWC
("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
To: The KG9 Kid
Oddly enough, commie CNN rat Jeff Greenfield used to write for the 'Poon.
To: Owl_Eagle; All
Also in the 80's that is when the PC movement began..
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posted on
11/02/2005 11:15:48 AM PST
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
To: BenLurkin
Watching Jimmy Carter on the Today show the morning I was reminded how bad things really were back then. There was a "shortage" of everything. Then the disaster in the desert with the rescue attempt. I thought it was over for America. Jimmy Carter has nothing to say. He was an idiot then and he's actually worse now. He needs to depart the scene.
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posted on
11/02/2005 11:16:16 AM PST
by
sangoo
To: Clemenza
wow, that was him?
Red has always been a hard assed dad!
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posted on
11/02/2005 11:16:41 AM PST
by
flashbunny
(Anybody want to trade Alito back in for Miers?)
To: CFC__VRWC
"I remember the late '70's being about gas lines, stagflation and 444 days of us doing nothing while the Islamonazis paraded our Tehran embassy staff in front of the world media as hostages" Don't forget the "malaise" Carter put the country through either.
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posted on
11/02/2005 11:17:55 AM PST
by
subterfuge
(Obama, mo mama...er Osama-La bamba, uh, bama...banana rama...URP!---Ted Kennedy)
To: flashbunny; All
The show is kinda like MASH... It has been 1979 for a long time.
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posted on
11/02/2005 11:18:11 AM PST
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
To: flashbunny
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posted on
11/02/2005 11:19:28 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(It’s likely for a Conservative to be a Republican, but not always the other way around)
To: justshutupandtakeit
Yup...got that right.
She's a gun girl too!! Hot and can use a gun! What I wouldn't do for one chance...
I better shut up while I can!
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posted on
11/02/2005 11:20:53 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(It’s likely for a Conservative to be a Republican, but not always the other way around)
To: Chi-townChief
To: Chi-townChief
I'll take the 80's, thanks. The decade of Reagan was a high point in my life and something I'll always remember fondly.
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posted on
11/02/2005 11:25:14 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
To: The KG9 Kid
I can thank the '70s and P.J. O'Rourke for that. We'll never see the likes of National Lampoon again.
That brings back memories, and you are absolutely right about the Lampoon. GREAT, all time funny satire.
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