Let's pretend it's 1975

[XemaSab]

and spend the day making dated, crusty cultural references! :bounce:

[zanne]

1. I was about to post something 75'ish when I realized...

I don't remember the way I used to talk! Augh!

[Callalily]

2. Maybe this will help!

http://www.inthe70s.com/generated/terms.shtml

I think the word cool is the only slang word that has lasted the test of time.

[zanne]

3. That, and "dude". nt

[zanne]

4. Here's one.

I'm tired. I think I'll "hit the rack".

[rug]

5. Right on, take Saigon!

Oh, wait, they did. In 1975.

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. I think that was the last time I used the word "groovy".

:rofl: My family moved from Atlanta to NC in June 1975, and it was a traumatic year for me. I do remember, thanks to Happy Days, that one of the big expressions used by my classmates in NC that fall was "sit on it and rotate." :P

[martymar64]

20. I still use Groovy!

It just kind of fits sometimes. When people give me shit about it, I swing my clackers at them!

[NewWaveChick1981]

24. LOL!

:rofl: My husband uses "groovy" here and there... and it always takes me back. :P Nothing wrong with it at all---I just haven't used it since the mid-70s...

[Writer]

22. You know? It's funny...

I was BORN in Atlanta in June 1975.

[NewWaveChick1981]

26. Wow! That's wild!

:hi: I was born in Atlanta in 1963, and my dad's job transferred him to NC in 1975. My siblings and I were totally opposed to leaving, but we went anyway. :cry: I go back to Atlanta whenever I can. :D

[mzteris]

7. the young ones will think

we're being "grodie to the max".

[eyesroll]

8. Waaah! Waaah! Waaaaah!

(That's all I was doing in '75. I wasn't doing anything except kicking my mom's ribs and making her pee a lot at this time in '75, actually.)

[leeroysphitz]

23. I still do that.

[DBoon]

9. "I'm so glad they stopped the draft"

followed by "Hey guys, that asshole Nixon just resigned!"

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Hey, let's grow our sideburns like ignorant fucking pigs and not bathe

and then put on striped shirts, stuff a pepperoni in our plaid pants with white belt and giant buckle and expose the disgusting, sweat-filled hair of our chests while we comb back our greasy, cigarette-smoke-scented hair and then go drink cheap booze, acting cool as hell, and have random sex with multiple unknown partners who likely have at least one STD and also haven't bathed in days.

[mitchum]

14. True, but I will still take the hedonism of the 70s over...

the materialism and consumption of the 80s and subsequent decades.

That twit Tom Wolfe was wrong. The 70s was not the "Me Decade" In my experience, it was the "Me And You And You and You Decade"

[speedoo]

30. You forgot the multiple gold necklaces with huge medallions..

or whatever those things were.

[Rabrrrrrr]

37. Oh, yes - I did! I was picturing them, but then left them out of the post.

Argh!

:grr:

[TheMightyFavog]

11. How 'bout dem Flyers?

End of Line.

[mitchum]

12. No need to hang around here...let's book

[calico1]

13. I saw some really cool

platform shoes I want to buy. They are sooo flattering to the legs, don't you think? :rofl:

[begin_within]

15. Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

[fudge stripe cookays]

34. Remember...

"Keep thinking those good THWOUGHTS."

[Not_Giving_Up]

16. I was three...

I don't remember much.

[swag]

17. I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.

[martymar64]

21. This just in . . .

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!

[mzteris]

38. Jane. . .

you ignorant s--t.

[greendog]

18. Can we listen to Dylan's new album?

'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud
I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

And if I pass this way again, you can rest assured
I'll always do my best for her, on that I give my word
In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are fighting to be warm.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Not a word was spoke between us, there was little risk involved
Everything up to that point had been left unresolved.
Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail,
Poisoned in the bushes an' blown out on the trail,
Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Suddenly I turned around and she was standin' there
With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair.
She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Now there's a wall between us, somethin' there's been lost
I took too much for granted, got my signals crossed.
Just to think that it all began on a long-forgotten morn.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Well, the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount
But nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that counts
And the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

I've heard newborn babies wailin' like a mournin' dove
And old men with broken teeth stranded without love.
Do I understand your question, man, is it hopeless and forlorn?
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes
I bargained for salvation an' they gave me a lethal dose.
I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Well, I'm livin' in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line
Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine.
If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

[martymar64]

19. Wanna buy a lid?

It's some bitchin' Colombian gold!!!

Let's get high, put on a WIN button and go walking in our Earth Shoes!

[LeftyMom]

25. I don't exist yet!

:woohoo:

[astonamous]

27. 1975 - I was 14

I remember spending one long day laying out on the roof of my girlfriend's house. We got fried to a crisp. We went out later that night to see the movie TOMMY. Growing up in a small town meant that we just met our dates in front of the movie house. I don't remember the movie as much as I do the pain of trying to sit there on my blistered butt.

I remember JAWS. It made me immediately afraid to swim in the local lakes. I even became afraid of swimming at the city pool after dark without the lights on. We didn't break in, someone had a key...

I remember there was some great music on the radio. John Denver, Bob Dylan and Average White Band. I think Bowie had a hit that year too...FAME.

I didn't watch much TV even back then so I don't remember what shows were popular.

Trudy
www.richardpryor.com
www.pryorsplanet.com

[mitchum]

28. Trudy, I'm the same age and neither I or my friends watched much...

television back in the 70s. It just wasn't a very popular thing for teenagers to do (there was so much more stuff to get into)

[astonamous]

32. It's true...

We were too young for some of it but tried like hell to participate.

Trudy
www.pryorsplanet.com

[CTyankee]

29. I was drinking Sangria made with 7 Up

and I think I got my first crock pot for xmas from my mother in law. It was Harvest Gold with some flower/veggie motif. My kitchen was in Avocado Green. We had a VW Squareback (I think that was its name, it was a boxy car). I wore platform shoes with my bell bottom jeans and peasant blouse. Wow. Them were the days.

[Roon]

31. Come over for a fondue eom

[Zhade]

33. "Ga ga goo goo"

(See, I was born in June of '75...)

[fudge stripe cookays]

35. Thank GOD.

Watergate is over, the pasty-faced white men are OFF the TV, and cartoons are back ON!

[catmandu57]

36. It's too far away

Though it was my favorite year, some of you guys are close but off the mark. I do remember get two man, talking about the yellow micro dot acid, we always started with two.

[peacefreak]

39. Do not lead.

I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

[NoPasaran]

40. Have you guys been following the Church Committee?

Thank goodness they're reining in the CIA! The days that wars could be fouaght in secret are finally over!

[Neoma]

41. Oh..

I wasn't even born by then, hell..I wasn't even conceived.

[qwertyMike]

42. 1st Divorce

(We're still friends by the way)

Mike

[HughBeaumont]

43. Good. I'm six. My only responsibility is 1st grade and recess.

Since it's Saturday, the Holy Triumverate of Bugs Bunny/Road Runner, Pink Panther and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids are on, along with a heaping bowl of Frosted Flakes. We might go to the Eastwood Mall today, where I'll be listening to "Wildfire" by Michael Martin Murphy or Pilot's "Magic" on WHOT. Then it's to the park until night time.

1975 kicked ass. I went to Florida that year.

[MrScorpio]

44. My first year of high school

Nice bell bottoms

[Arugula Latte]

45. Wacky Packs are sooo boss!

Donny Osmond is still a total FOX!

And my big sis just got the latest K-Tel record ... Oooga Chugga! :woohoo:

[ForrestGump]

46. Helicopters being ditched off Vietnam and Big Jim

Among many other things I recall as if it was yesterday. It was a great year (we spent a month overseas, too) and it's perhaps impossible to figure whether most of that was because I was still a kid.

[Tikki]

47. My youngest was born on the same night that...

Saturday Night Live debuted in 1975......and I missed that show that night.


Tikki