Are we going through the 70's again?

[Colin]

http://www.usenet.com.au/about/images/smiley.jpg

Is it just me, or are we re-living the 70's all over again? We have:

-an unpopular war
-high gas prices
-fears of a recession
-environmentalists running amok
-factories shutting down or moving overseas

All we need now is for Disco to come back and I'll go into hiding for 5 years!

[Eragon]

If I recall (I'm only 39 after all):

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[Colin]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[Eragon]

Then again, the 70s weren't that bad. After all, he came out then:

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[Colin]

This also came out in the 70's. Too bad about Brad Delp

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002572.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[Eragon]

Let's not forget these choppers:

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[acosmichippo]

oh god... you know what that means.


























next we'll have to re-live the 80's. kill me now.

[ColsTiger]

I'm sorry but the 70's were terrible for product quality. If you didn't know it, by '75 most American made cars were hunks of junk. Of the 175 years they've been building Martin guitars, the models made during the 70s continue to be some of the worst when it comes to resale value. Quality and workmanship were both down. Guitars were overbuilt so they had very little movement on the soundboard. I don't know whether they were all enjoying the mind-altering substances that were so prevalent at the time, but something was definitely causing it.

[chcorey52]

I never lived in the seventies but all I know is amazing music came from that time so I wouldnt be complaining.

[ColsTiger]

I never lived in the seventies but all I know is amazing music came from that time so I wouldnt be complaining.

You would if you had to drive a Pinto, Vega, Chevette, Matador, or Pacer.:foot:

[Eragon]

You would if you had to drive a Pinto, Vega, Chevette, Matador, or Pacer.:foot:

Don't forget the Gremlin, Renault or AMC in general.

[ColsTiger]

The Renault Le Car was a hunk of junk.

[Eragon]

Hmmm. Where oh where did AMC go? :wink:

[ColsTiger]

The same place as International.

[chcorey52]

Haha good point but I cand even drive yet......10 more months for that..

[bry279]

Ahh but the music..

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l218/bry279/stevie_pics/fm_rumours.jpg

[Eragon]

And the accomplishments:

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[chcorey52]

Ahh but the music..

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l218/bry279/stevie_pics/fm_rumours.jpg
I love fleetwood mac..

[Eragon]

And the deja vu:

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[acosmichippo]

i would totally drive a VW van.

but only it it had shag carpeting in the back.

[Eragon]

i would totally drive a VW van.

but only it it had shag carpeting in the back.

Your vehicle, Madame:


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[bry279]

and lest we forget...the start of Apple

http://www.pure-mirage.com/images/Gallery_Images/Maya/images/3d_Apple_Logo_102.jpg

"Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL, LSE:0HDZ, FWB:APC), formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and closely related software products. Established in Cupertino, California on April 1, 1976, Apple develops, sells, and supports a series of personal computers, portable media players, mobile phones, computer software, and computer hardware and hardware accessories."

[acosmichippo]

v-dub in da house.

[IphoneTony]

This is a perfect topic to get everyone from EIC to get into a big circle and just SMOKE... (70'S SHOW) :)

[Colin]

I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mOEU87SBTU)

[Hayesimus]

Sweet! Disco! yay.

[Eragon]

"Macho, Macho, Man. I want to be a Macho man."

[Hayesimus]

"You're so vain... I bet you think this song is about you, DON'T you, DON'T you...."

[Eragon]

Has anyone ever been able to find out who Carly Simon was referring to in that song????

[Hayesimus]

it was me. i mean. it probably was. i'm pretty sure that song was about me

[Colin]

Has anyone ever been able to find out who Carly Simon was referring to in that song????

The most prevalent rumor is that it's about Warren Beatty. I know that Neil Diamonds "Sweet Caroline" is for Caroline Kennedy.

[ColsTiger]

The most prevalent rumor is that it's about Warren Beatty. I know that Neil Diamonds "Sweet Caroline" is for Caroline Kennedy.

Not Warren Beatty; it was James Taylor that she was in love with.

[Colin]

If you trust Wiki:

Subject of the song

Despite these guesses and many interviews (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interview) asking whom it was, to this day Carly Simon has never publicly acknowledged in full whom the song is about. She commented in an interview that it was about "many vain men I've known in my life."
In a 1989 interview, Simon acknowledged that the song is a little bit about Beatty but said that the subject of the song is a composite of three men from her L.A. days. [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_So_Vain#cite_note-0)

...........Shortly before the writing of the song, Simon was married to James Taylor. She later admitted that he was not the subject of the song.

[Eragon]

I don't know. I kind of life Hayes' answer. :smile:

[ColsTiger]

Yeah well I didn't look it up on wiki. Thanks for the tip.

[kokogirl]

it was me. i mean. it probably was. i'm pretty sure that song was about me

lol. funny

[Colin]

Yeah well I didn't look it up on wiki. Thanks for the tip.

On the plus side, Hayes probably had to Wiki Carly Simon.:tounge:

[Hayesimus]

BULLL CRAP! Carly Simon's You're so vain is one of my all time faves! ANd it has been in a couple movies. DICK and How to lose a guy in 10 days are just a couple examples. :P

[Colin]

BULLL CRAP! Carly Simon's You're so vain is one of my all time faves!

Ha ha, just making sure you were paying attention!

Hey, we had one of these when they first came out
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Super_Pong.JPG

[Hayesimus]

i didn't even know what an atari was until 2000. lol someone mentioned it and I was like,"Atari? Is that a nintendo game?" lol

[Eragon]

Ha ha, just making sure you were paying attention!

Hey, we had one of these when they first came out
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Super_Pong.JPG

Wait a minute. The Atari I remember looked like this:

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My Atari came out in 1977. When did yours come out? Looks like it still has vacuum tubes. :smile:

[Colin]

Uh yeah, we had that Atari too. The original pong came out around '73 and that's about when we got one.

[Eragon]

Uh yeah, we had that Atari too. The original pong came out around '73 and that's about when we got one.

My bad. I was only 5. At that age, I was still playing with:

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Recognize him?

[Eragon]

What were your favorite Atari games:

I liked Space Invaders, Missile Command, and Phoenix.

[Colin]

My bad. I was only 5. At that age, I was still playing with:

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Recognize him?

Gi Joe? I remember playing with this
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41vsbP5wk1L._AA280_.jpg

On the Atari, I used to play a lot of space invaders. So much that I'd see them marching across my eyelids when I slept. I also like the driving games, obviously setting the stage for the future car obsession.

[Eragon]

Evil Knieval was one of my favorite toys. Do you remember this one:

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[Hayesimus]

hungry hungry hippos! Sorry that's prob got nothing to do with the 70's but I felt like adding that anyway. :p

[Eragon]

I remember that one. How about Mouse Trap?

[Hayesimus]

i was too little to enjoy mouse trap. it was too complicated for me :S lol

[Colin]

Oh man this really makes you feel great and a bit melancholy at the same time. I love Boston and as you might know, Brad Delp the lead singer for most of the albums took his own life last year.

The last song he recorded is finished and can be downloaded on iTunes and Discark. You can listen to the full song here http://www.myspace.com/delpgoudreau

I love that classic Boston sound but it makes me sad to think that we'll never hear it quite like this again. :embarrassed:

[Eragon]

While thinking about past artists, I am reminded of the story of the Carpenters and Karen's tragic death.

For those too young to remember them, here is a wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carpenters

[coasts]

What were your favorite Atari games:

I liked Space Invaders, Missile Command, and Phoenix.

river raid, pitfall, kaboom, mousetrap...hmmm, it seems so long ago.

i was so young then. by the 80's i looked like this:

http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/collection/articlepics/appleiie/classroom.jpg

[Eragon]

That is a great photo. I remember having IIes in my computer lab classes as well. Me, I was a II+ man. :smile:

I got my II+ on December 5, 1981. Funny, how some things stick with you. High school computer classes, at that time, had not fully integrated PCs. Instead, you had classes where you had to deal with these:

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You would code an entire program, run it on the main frame and hope like hell you didn't have any bugs.

[bry279]

First computer was a Tandy..shiver
http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/reach/435/tandy1000tx.jpg
Those 5" floppies

Loved this show..
http://www.halwer7.lu/fotorating/thumb/six_million_dollar_man.jpg
and the Bionic Woman too!

[Eragon]

TRS-80 Models I, II, III were very popular. The Model I was nice because it used an 8" disc as opposed to the 5 1/4 used everywhere else. For those not familiar, here is what it looked like:

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[Eragon]

First computer was a Tandy..shiver
http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/reach/435/tandy1000tx.jpg
Those 5" floppies

Loved this show..
http://www.halwer7.lu/fotorating/thumb/six_million_dollar_man.jpg
and the Bionic Woman too!

Another driver for me. Bionic technology. Little nuclear batteries, here and there...

[acosmichippo]

TRS-80 Models I, II, III were very popular. The Model I was nice because it used an 8" disc as opposed to the 5 1/4 used everywhere else. For those not familiar, here is what it looked like:

http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum/attachments/off-topic/2827d1208030731-are-we-going-through-the-70-s-again-trs80_2.jpg

**queue john williams soudtrack**





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**queue monkeys throwing rocks**

[Colin]

Ha Ha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jsgrEcNbHg