What 70s pop culture phenomenon was most embarrassing?

[yurbud]

bell bottoms

avocado green and harvest gold as standard colors on appliances and fluorescent green and international orange as standared car colors even on Porshes.


Happy Days after the first two seasons when it devolved to a string of catchphrases repeated over and over again (the writing on that show is the best argument against doing drugs).


pet rocks


disco

Every male required to have hair cover half his ear and touch his collar, including President Jimmy Carter.

polyester leisure suits (I got hot just walking around in one, how the hell did the Six Million Dollar Man RUN 60 mph in one?)

vans converted into rolling boink-mobiles with gaudy murals and bumperstickers that said 'Don't come knocking when the van is rocking.'


straight guys wearing shorts that barely covered their ass

sideburns and mustaches

carb loading

[DrDan]

1. orange shag carpet

bee gees

white suits ala John Travolta

shirts open to navel

[Patiod]

55. My parents won't rip the green shag carpet out of my bro's room

They're going to be selling the house, and I told them "nothing says 'this house is old and needs re-habbing' more than electric green shag carpeting. Get rid of it!"

[Monk06]

106. I'm with you there Patiod. Don't change that what requires rechangin'!!

Don't send good money after bad. Take the
cash an run for your life !!!

Avocado indoor/outdoor is the other guy's
problem.

Today the trailer park, tomorrow the world!!!

[Haole Girl]

62. Remember the rug rake?

It was one of my chores, when I was little, to "rake the carpet." The goal, if I remember, was to make the shag carpet stand up, between vacuuming. What a joke that was!

[yurbud]

64. that sounds like something from Mad magazine

[Joe Fields]

2. Baggies and platform shoes for guys.

White patent leather shoes, too. Shag haircuts for guys.

[yurbud]

5. male & female fashion got uncomfortably close for awhile like Leif Garret

Who I thought was a chick even after people told me he was a guy.

[Katina]

3. Gloria Vanderbilt jeans with silk blouses

big hair, long nails and 4 inch heels. What were we thinking?

[yurbud]

4. long nails are WORSE today. I've seen court clerks with nails longer

than their fingers. I don't know how they type, let alone avoid rolling over on them in their sleep and stabbing themselves to death.

[Katina]

72. mine were pretty long

and I did budgets. I could use a calculator faster than most people could type. The trick is, you use the pads of your fingers, not the finger tips. :D

[yurbud]

73. what would happen if the inside of your nose itched?

Would you have a friend pick it or use the nail?

[Katina]

74. do you really need an answer to that one?

think about it! :7

[yurbud]

75. you're right. That's what they made pencils for.

[Lasher]

143. You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but...

you can't pick your friend's nose.

[B3Nut]

159. Or alternately,

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends off under the sofa.

:D

(courtesy of my dad...)

Todd in Beerbratistan

[yurbud]

165. keep your friends close and your boogers closer

[RebelOne]

145. I still buy Gloria Vanderbilt jeans.

They are the only ones that fit me decently.

[yurbud]

6. I forgot one: Chachi.

I'd like to say series TV never sunk that low again, but there's always Mr. Belvedere and Alf, who hit the bottom of the sitcom barrel and then started digging.

[nickshepDEM]

78. Well I dont remember the 70's because I was born in the 80's...

BUT I do remember this, ALF ROCKS!

[Redneck Socialist]

97. I LOVED ALF!

Mmmmmm, cats!

[johnnie]

103. That show cracked me up

I don't know why people rag on it all the time. It was so bizarre it was funny.

[spacelady]

117. Just couldn't get past that dick nose. n/t

[Lasher]

144. Didn't Joe Lieberman play the part of Willie Tanner?

http://manifoldreality.org/archives/2004_02_04_23_30.phtml

[Dervill Crow]

173. Oh my goodness, that's why Lieberman looked so familiar!

On edit - it's amazing. He even sounds like Willie. I played those clips for my husband (who is completely apolitical), and he said maybe Alf should run for president.

[Dervill Crow]

174. I love to laugh, and Alf was laugh-out-loud funny.

I loved Bob Newhart, too, but his show was more of a giggle.

[NewWaveChick1981]

7. Afros on non-African American males.

:yoiks:

[yurbud]

14. the modern equivalent: dreds or cornrows on anglos.

[NewWaveChick1981]

16. Yeesh! I know.

:yoiks:

[yurbud]

20. I don't know what it is about trans-ethnic hair, but it doesn't work

Like Asians, medium to dark Latinas, and black women who dye their hair blonde. It almost never looks good, and I would find them attractive with their natural color. I saw Alfre Woodard with her hair dyed blonde at the grocery store once, and she looked like she was going through chemo.

It's like Frank Lloyd Wright said: never try to make something look like what it isn't. Don't make vinyl look like wood or plastics like bricks. Figure out what's inherently attractive about what it is.

[NewWaveChick1981]

26. Gotta agree with that.

:hi: :)

[CrushTheDLC]

54. My 5th grade teacher had a bigger afro than all of the Jackson 5 combined!

And as far as I know he was all caucasian.

[Joe Fields]

59. Thanks for reminding me I had one!

[yurbud]

60. gotta photo of that cracker bro?

[Joe Fields]

93. you'll have to wait for that one. just got a printer w/scanner today.

should have it up and running tomorrow.

[hyphenate]

147. I answered before

I read all the replies. This was my choice, too. Even my brother had a perm!

[last_texas_dem]

8. Hey, I wish some of these were still around

I wasn't born until the mid-eighties, so perhaps I wouldn't be so nostalgic if I'd actually lived through the seventies, but I like some of those styles. Like long hair and facial hair on guys; I always think it's cool if it seem to be semi-making a comeback, and I'm guilty of the sideburns/hair touching collar myself. (Not the mustache, though...) Also, I was pretty bummed out when my family's late-seventies-era harvest gold refrigerator finally bit the dust a few years back; I knew we wouldn't be able to find a replacement in as interesting of a color. And I'm totally cool with the fluorescent green cars; that's actually one of my favorite colors! I really dunno, but the styles of the seventies just seem so much more interesting than the blandness that has been the general rule in the last decade and a half. (I might have a bit more trouble defending the eighties, though!)

[Z_I_Peevey]

29. Gotta agree with you there...

I've always kept a fondness for men with longer hair. Men were prettier back then.

[Haole Girl]

67. Plus, we could see their legs...

...like this guy (remember?):



Remember when people didn't have to look like Olympic athletes to look beautiful?

[ForrestGump]

87. I used to live in those kinds of shorts

and all through much of the '80s (until I met the person who'd be my wife, for a while, and she marched me in to the store to get socks) I wore my running shoes and sneakers with no socks.

Magnum was cool. :D

[Haole Girl]

90. Yes he was...

*sigh*

[MorningGlow]

81. Oh! That explains it!

Thanks for the insight into the twentysomething mind of today. I work at a college, and when I see you young whippersnappers wearing the same crap we wore in the '70s and calling it cool, I just boggle. Like polyester gauchos. WTF???? They were ugly then and they're ugly now--and yet all these young chicas strut around in them as if they were the be-all and end-all of fashion. Erf.

[martymar64]

9. Clackers (you know what I'm talking about!)

Two heavy plexi or glass balls on string.
Those things were dangerous! I got many a lump on my head from those bastards!

[Zomby Woof]

11. I had those!

I know exactly what you are talking about... mine were a harvest gold color (I am not making this up! LOL).

[spacelady]

12. Still got mine! red ones n/t

[CottonBear]

47. I had those! They banned them at elementary school! LOL! n/t

[driver8]

99. I've still got my clackers AND my lawn jarts!!

What's a small impaling among friends?

[Cruzan]

10. Actually, I kind of liked the green, gold, and orange

Seeing those colors always gives me a warm feeling of nostalgia.

[yurbud]

13. It's a good thing those stewardesses didn't work on camel caravans

then it would be 'hump Laura,' which is only slightly more obvious.

[Cruzan]

24. Oh, I forgot about PSA

But Southwest had the hottest stewardess uniforms.

[yurbud]

65. coffee, tea, or camel toe?

[Nevernose]

114. Was Southwest still Texas Air then?

My memories of the 70s are vague -- and, sadly, not to drug abuse or old age, but to the fact that I barely remember any of them.

And we wonder why Southwest is still the only consistently profitable American airline?

[Cruzan]

150. You may be thinking of Air Southwest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines#History

Texas Air was an airline holding company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Air

BTW, here are a couple of more Southwest ads:

http://www.southwest.com/multimedia/hotpants.mpg
http://www.southwest.com/multimedia/PLANEOVR.MPG

[yurbud]

15. women with saggy boobs going braless even at work

I remember later episodes of Mary Tyler Moore when her breasts were just barely above her belt. If the show had been on a couple more years, she would have been tripping over them the way Dick Van Dyke did the ottoman.

[Monk06]

107. Carly Simon. End of argument.

[yurbud]

17. these are practically war crimes: Vega and Pinto

My parents had a Pinto, and the backseat was cramped even for an eight year old. It was essentially a paded seat cushion on the floor, so my knees were up in my eyes, and even though it was a wagon, it only had two doors, and the back windows didn't rool down. When I was old enough to drive it myself, the handle came off when I closed the door too hard.

[brentspeak]

49. And Pacers

[yurbud]

61. Is that Bert Convy in the ad? Pacers were a step up from the Pinto

[PretzelzRule]

138. OMG! The "Pregnant Toad" Car!

I'd forgotten all about those...

[Patiod]

58. You forgot Gremlins

My friend had one that didn't have "reverse". Made for some interesting parking decisions...

[yurbud]

66. I didn't realize until years later they just chopped the back end off a

regular car to make it a compact.

[LibDemAlways]

128. My husband made the mistake of purchasing a 73 Gremlin.

Total POS. After a year and a half and less than 20K miles, the transmission and engine both started to go to hell. He couldn't get rid of it fast enough.

[johnnie]

18. A few

Thousands of people with this tattooed on their arm:



The CB craze. Breaker breaker 1-9, this here is Fast Jack, you got your ears on good buddy come on back.

The Gong show

Farah Hair

And in 1976 when the whole friggin' country was painted red white and blue. Even fire hydrants. :eyes:

[yurbud]

22. Yeah, R. Crumb was neutered through overuse of his blandest work

[Monk06]

80. johnnie, you should rename yourself; Cruel Reminder .....Shudder !!!!

[johnnie]

94. Lol

Yeah, I had a hard time writing that.

[Monk06]

102. And you forgot to mention guys disco dancinig to Bowie's ''Fame"

thinking it was a hetero pick up song.

"Triple shuddler"

French Cut Jeans and Platform shoes, God's
way of telling you that you are a demented
prick and you will never get to do a three
way with Sylvia Kristel no matter how hard
you try.

Been there done it all. Laugh Clown Laugh

[spacelady]

101. I' ve still got my Farrah Hair and My '68 Buick Riviera.

Oh well, I still have standards also. Like honoring the Constitution & upholding the Bill of Rights.


On edit: Forgot to be embarrassed.

[Monk06]

108. That makes me horny. Ya wanna go campin?

Juss kiddin

:hi:

[spacelady]

115. Oh sure, now that you've had a chance to think about it. :)

[iamjoy]

116. Breaker 1-9 For a 10-46!

If you know what that means, you're an old geek!

[Blue_Tires]

177. what is that, anyways?

[DrDan]

19. mutton chops

earth shoes

Neil Diamond

[Dervill Crow]

104. Oh, man. I wear Earth shoes.

:blush:

[yurbud]

164. the ones that are taller in front than back?

[Dervill Crow]

169. These . . .

Yep, they're taller in the front. These are a bit more stylish than the ones I wore in high school.

[yurbud]

171. I remember the very rough suede ones that looked like cavemen would

wear them.

[Dervill Crow]

172. Yup, I wore those with my jeans and faux suede jacket with the fringe.

Any hippie-ish clothing had to be paid for with my allowance, so at least no animals were harmed in the creation of my wardrobe. I wore pleather mini-skirts before pleather was a word.

There is not much about that decade that ISN'T embarrassing.

[Fenris]

21. The fact that you could turn on your television and see *anyone*

break into song.

[johnnie]

30. Or any singers break into TV

[idgiehkt]

23. straight guys wearing shorts that barely covered their ass

the rednecks I used to work with call those "nutcutters".

[Kat45]

112. Sometimes when a guy wearing them was sitting down,

you could see his nuts.

[CottonBear]

126. That's how I saw nuts for the 1st time: Cancun, 1976, boat to Isla Mujeres

Family vacation, I was 14 years old...saw a guy and girl on the ferry, Guy with nutcutter jean shorts, eyefull for young teenage prep school girl... :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
:blush:

[Arugula Latte]

124. This video, while not from the 70s, has some wonderful nutcutters:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pHWh0H8eIhc

Steve Carell -- :rofl:

[LaPera]

25. Disco clothes!-------------and Idiot guys with "big" hair!

[underpants]

27. (one for our nothern friends) Bad Hockey Hair!

Bad white guy perms

[Taverner]

28. EST and Lifespring

No going to the bathroom all day while you better yourself by a mix of gestalt and preacher tent revivalism.

no thanks.

[OzarkDem]

175. All those self-help books

Transactional Analysis
When I Say No I Feel Guilty
Primal Screaming


Pop psychology was unfathomable to me. I was a psych major in college, and none of the pop stuff connected. I tried, I really did, but I couldn't get past the first couple of chapters of most of those books, let alone attend any seminars.

[wildhorses]

31. white belts, gauchos...YUCK

:puke:

[Monk06]

82. White belts and matching shoes. AKA the full Nanaimo where I live !!!!

[querelle]

32. David Cassidy

nuff said........

Q

[Skittles]

153. that poor thang was a rock 'n roller at heart

but he sure did capitalize on the fluff stuff. :(

[graywarrior]

33. This one...

Every male required to have hair cover half his ear and touch his collar, including President Jimmy Carter.:puke:

[yurbud]

63. Cosmo actually said women should stay away from guys with

very short hair unless they were in the military.

Today, you can have hair down to your ass or none at all, and people don't think it reflects on your worth as a person--unless it's a mullet.

[Monk06]

88. The Mullet, signifier of the serial killer.......Trailer trash ..

Meets David Bowie ............ Ugh

[begin_within]

34. rap sessions

[begin_within]

36. Macrame belts

[yurbud]

68. and hats, and vests, and plant hangers, and hats made with macrame and

beer cans...


This is a surprisingly well done example:



More typical:

[ForrestGump]

89. Hey! I wear macramé belts!

Admittedly, only as part of some of the Elvis stagewear...but, still...

And the traditional Chinese belt (with long tassles) I wore with my kung fu uniform at my most recent school looks pretty much like a black macramé belt, except it's not macramé.

[begin_within]

133. Well, as long as the macrame belt is a natural jute color, and not a

purple yarn one like I made, then I guess it's OK.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

35. What's wrong with custom vans?

I'm doing my part to start a custom van come-back.

[yurbud]

70. they are in very bad taste. That's why you should give me one for free.

[LaPera]

37. Pres. Ford (another unelected repub Prez) in his avocado leisure suit,

and then proceeded falling down the stairs in it.

I believe he was available for kids parties!

[yurbud]

71. all that falling down saved his life in two assassination attempts

If they had been successful, Rockefeller would have been president, which would have been the ultimate example of cutting out the middle man.

[meegbear]

38. Variety shows ...

anyone with one hit song or schtick got a show.

Donny and Marie
Sonny (sans Cher)
Sheilds and Yarnell
The Starland Vocal Band

[martymar64]

56. Can't forget the Hudson Brothers!

What a show!

[spacelady]

129. Don't forget that Kate Hudson was produced from that scenario.

[Sanity Claws]

39. Osmond Brothers

They had a few hits. They tried to be a white version of the Jacksons.

[begin_within]

40. Wood paneling + shag carpet + TV on the floor + "Mexican pizza"

[yurbud]

69. paneling! that was bad. didn't it start in the 60s?

[begin_within]

76. You're right, along with white formica tabletops with blue and gold stars.

[yurbud]

85. the bathroom in my apartment is still done with pink tiles which has to

be 70s or earlier.

[MorningGlow]

83. We're renovating our house

And a few archaeological layers down, in the KITCHEN, mind, we discovered burnt orange paint on the exterior of the cabinets (interiors were harvest gold and burgundy); brown, orange, red, and yellow FLOWERED carpet; and orange, yellow, and white FLOWERED wallpaper. Sometime later they apparently covered the wallpaper with walnut paneling (pressboard, of course)--not much of an improvement. Yeech.

[iamjoy]

118. Daisy Pattern Formica Countertops

in my kitchen. I so want to remodel it. And our harvest gold stove which still works (sort of) and is only 27" wide, not the standard 30"

[OzarkDem]

176. We have the signs of the zodiac on ours

Its one of those glass cutting boards embedded in the countertop. We're getting ready to renovate, too and I feel like I should give it to a museum or something. Our house was built in 1973 and has mostly been updated, just one bedroom left with burnt orange (not shag) carpeting and its scheduled to be replaced in a week or so.

In our old neighborhood, nearly all the houses had avocado or harvest gold kitchens, with a couple that were turquoise and pink from the 1950's.

[noonwitch]

41. Our green paisley-print kitchen carpet

When I was 10, I thought it was cool. After a couple of years of it, my mom was going nuts (not that it's a far ride for her).

[calico1]

42. Polyester!

I don't meant the kind that is used today. I mean that thick, god awful polyester from back then that was kind of thick and spongy.

And as a result, the god awful pantsuits women wore or the leisure suit the men wore out of that hideous material! :wow:

[hyphenate]

148. You know

they found out a lot of the material they used in those women's pantsuits were either flammable or emitted a poisonous odor if burned. I can't remember which, but it might have been both. Thank god, we don't have to put up with them anymore, but they at least managed to give women a transition period in order to be able to wear pants at most business jobs.

[begin_within]

43. The phrases "Keep on' Truckin'" and "I know where you're coming from."

[begin_within]

44. Women with gigantic sunglasses a la Audrey Hepburn or Jacqueline Onassis

[ForrestGump]

91. I agree. They tend to look better on men, anyway...

:D

[hunter]

45. My running shorts.

There wasn't much to them, and sometimes that was all I wore.

[ForrestGump]

92. My most revealing were a pair of pale blue Adidas running shorts

They were basically flaps of nylon sewn to a waistband and sewn togetehr at the croth...the sides didn't really have a seam, and if you tucked the side flaps in a bit it looked like a loincloth.

The last time I went running in something like those without wearing underwear was the time I spent ten miles in agony, bouncing along unrestrained, because I couldn't believe it wouldn't get better and I refused to turn around. Ouch.

[hunter]

110. I'd often swim in the cold, cold ocean first.

:blush:

[midnight armadillo]

46. KISS

Granted, I was only born in 1975, but c'mon folks, KISS?!?

[brentspeak]

48. I kind of with we were still back in the 70's

Even though I was just a child back then, my impression of things was that things in the U.S. were much more pleasant and less complicated for the majority of people.

[CottonBear]

51. No internet, no PCs, no cell phones, no faxes, no VCRs, no Ipods...

Life was simpler then. Much simpler. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

I love the music: Top 40 radio, great rock music,R&B , soul, fun disco-dance music and hot reggae tunes including the great Bob Marley. I loved American Bandstand, Soul Train and the Midnight Special. SNL was great and had incredible musical guests too!

[querelle]

79. I Liked It When...........

.........You actually had to go out to meet people rather than have inane conversations on-line with people across the country that you never met.

Q

[CottonBear]

105. LOL! n/t

[yurbud]

84. and when you saw people at school or work the next day...

EVERYBODY had watched the same shows you had.

[CottonBear]

127. For sure! We all watched the same shows!

There were only three network channels, PBS and a few UHF channels!

[CottonBear]

50. Too tight (and unflattering) Jordache jeans.

I was very thin and still, I could barely get into my pair! :( What was I thinking?

[auburngrad82]

52. My mother would say my Disco Sucks t-shirt

Especially after the "s" in Disco fell off...



Liberal bumper stickers

[CrushTheDLC]

53. Top 5 biggest embarrassments of the 1970's

1) Watergate

2) Disco

3) Steely Dan

4) Donny & Marie

5) Polyester

[spacelady]

123. What's wrong with Steely Dan? Cuervo Gold & Fine Columbian

Makes tonight a wonderful thing.

[martymar64]

57. Lids

I always hated that term.

[begin_within]

77. Mood rings

[MorningGlow]

86. T-shirts you could decorate yourself

Go to a store like Champion and choose an iron-on decal, like a unicorn or a cartoon monster truck or Charlie's Angels. (I had the Hardy Boys--so sue me.) Or put your own saying on it--how much was it per letter? 10 cents?

[yurbud]

95. Champion? Are you from Grant's Pass?

[MorningGlow]

111. Nope

Upstate NY here. :hi:

[yurbud]

113. Early in the 70s, there was only one store that did that in Oregon

In Grants Pass.

[hyphenate]

149. I remember those

I had one that said

Henry John
Deutschendorf, Jr.

on it. Not too many got it, though.


(John Denver's real name)

[yurbud]

96. I can't believe I forgot NAGAHYDE! Looks like leather, but lasts

a billionth as long.

[begin_within]

131. It makes a cool farting sound if you rub your thumb on it the right way.

[sarge43]

98. It has to be pet rocks

People actually bought the things. :wow:

[Homer Wells]

100. Flo constantly yelling

KISS MY GRITS!!!!!!!!!!:silly:
and perhaps grossly high Platform Shoes ( I knew a girl who almost broke her leg falling off a pair of those)

[yurbud]

121. kiss my grits, up your nose with a rubber hose, sit on it...

all evidence of what can happen when writers do way too many drugs.

[Strawman]

109. The White Sox late-70's uniforms

[begin_within]

136. Looks like the girls' field hocky uniforms at my high school

[bumblebee1]

139. I remember those uniforms.

They look like your local softball team. Looking at the photo again, put in shin guards and remove the ballcaps, those could have been soccer uniforms.

The Pittsburgh Pirates had three different uniforms. Out of those three uniforms came nine different combinations for different days of the week.

[Cruzan]

151. I thought the cap itself was way cool

I've even used to have one.

[borlis]

119. How about tucking your pants into your boots. Toe socks too

I hated toe socks. :puke:

[yurbud]

122. toe socks?

[hippywife]

154. Pic

[yurbud]

162. oh yeah. In case you forget we're descended from monkeys.

[iamjoy]

120. Roller Disco (nt)

[Mendocino]

125. The Captain and Tenille...YEECH

and don't forget...Billy Beer...WIN buttons...Paul Mcartneys solo career...Welcome Back Kotter...when R&B and soul turned into disco

Smokey and the Bandit flicks...The John Denver Look (bangs, big round glasses, flannel shirts, down vests, and hiking boots)...streaking...

CHiPS... "I'm With Stupid" t-shirts...the songs "All By Myself' and "Feelings"...coke spoons on a chain, worn around the neck...

Disaster movies...Sergeant Pepper film (starring Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees)...50's nostalgia... Joe Cocker singing "You are so Beautiful"

Bye Bye catch ya on the flip flop!

[ForrestGump]

141. You're bringing back some good memories

I liked the '70s. But I was a kid, so maybe I just liked my kidhood,.

Didn't like that there was no alternative to flares, though (got caught in my bike chain and I was an uber-outdoors kid and flares aren't practical for real bushbashing) -- though I was considerably less happy when the '80s hit and there was suddenly no alternative to narrow, stovepipe or pegged pants -- and even at the age of ten I could not believe people would willingly don some of the platform shoes of the mid-'70s. :o

"Convoy," "Disco Duck," and "Kung Fu Fighting" are still songs I love, dammit. :D

[LibDemAlways]

130. Why hasn't anyone mentioned waterbeds? The waterbed and

the bean bag...must have 70's furnishings.

[begin_within]

135. I got a waterbed in 1976 and I still use it.

Several new mattresses over the years, but the frame is the same.

[begin_within]

132. "Today is the First Day of The Rest of Your Life"

and that other little poster that all the girls P.E. teachers had in their offices:

"I Like You... You're Different"

and the poster of the poor cat hanging from a bar, like he's doing a chin-up:

"Hang In There, Baby"

[leftofthedial]

134. disco

everything else was cool

[begin_within]

137. Guys getting perms ONLY for their high school yearbook photo.

[PretzelzRule]

140. The roach clips with beads and feathers

that the girls wore in their hair

[Dervill Crow]

170. Oh, no! - I bought those for my daughters' hair.

I didn't know those were roach clips. :blush:

[texanwitch]

142. Remember the Bicentenial Fire Hydrants painted red, white and blue.

There is one down the street from me, the paint job still looks good.

[hyphenate]

146. Men with afros

Even my brother had a perm and an afro, a white kid with blond hair.

[Cruzan]

152. Farrah Fawcett posters

Had to have one.

[begin_within]

155. Puka shell neckalces. On guys.

[begin_within]

156. Buying a Crock Pot, then never using it, even once.

[yurbud]

166. my mom used one. Throw meat, potatoes, carrots in in AM, by dinner...

you have a meal that you don't even have to chew.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

157. Afros on dorky white people.

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158. Mason Reese and Rodney Allen Rippy

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160. "It tastes just like a borgashmorg!"

Mason Reese was my hero for just that one word- borgashmorg!

He even kinda looked like Danny Partridge on acid. Danny Bonaduce was cool to me back then 'cuz he played bass, was left-handed, loved Jethro Tull and was born on my birthday. And he always smart-mouthed their manager, Mr. Kincaid (cuz he was always trying to jump his moms bone, surely, er- i mean Shirley. besides ALL band managers are fucking low-life scum, anyway and deserve it!). Bonaduce may or may not be an ass-hole in real-life, but Danny Partridge was cool.

... pardon my tangent.

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161. When I was eleven, I wanted to be Danny Bonaduce. Nowadays, well...

[yurbud]

163. the decade of the ugly red head kid. How did Rodney Allen Rippy

get famous anyway?

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168. By doing commercials for "Jack in the Box," a fast-food chain in southern

California. I think he does a radio show in L.A. from time to time now.

[yurbud]

167. I forgot another important one: UFOs

Speilberg made Close Encounters after the it had been floating around in pop culture for a while with movies like Chariots of the Gods.

My local TV station started to show reruns of Lost in Space, and to promote, they strung lights on plane that flashed to look like a UFO and had it fly all over town for a couple of days.


I think I have a picture of myself in a UFO t shirt.

[struggle4progress]

178. Streaking. Conservatives who denied ever voting for Nixon.