From: hansencarlaa@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Who cut the Cheese?  the 70's file
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:48:47 CDT
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

remember these great 70's stuff. . .


round transistor radios--of various colors (mine was blue blue)


Big Track--the space age utility vehicle circa 1978.  It was programmable 
to move in all four directions and had a phaser on the front that went-=-
PEW-PEW-PEW-PEW-PEW!  It cost 50 some bucks and for 30 more you could buy a 
utility wagon that would yawn and dump out yer tinkertoys.  But it didn't 
work so I> didn't find out if it really worked like in the commmercial.

tetherball--a friend of mine lost his thumb

electric football--you'd put all the little players on it just in order, 
then plug it in and watch 'em vibrate

electric hockey and baseball--double ditto

"no duh"--the univeral reply to anything!!!

Marathon candy bars--you'd freeze 'em and then break 'em on the kitchen 
counter, but I never did, I'd just eat the whole thing whole

Light Brite--concensus here.  All present at this terminal say, "only the 
cool kids had those.<<'  none of our mothers let us have them.  I didn't 
even get a goddam mister Potatohead.  Darren Jansen had one, and taunted me 
with it.

Tuesday Taylor--a barbie doll whose scalp turned so she could be a blonde 
or a brunette.

Garanimals--I still never matched

Battlestar Galactica--cool show, Steven Speilberg ripped it off
anyone remember the episode where Apollo got stranded on a deserted planet 
with a Cylon and they hated each other and then they experienced cultural 
understanding and loved each other?  And then the Cylon ran out of juice or 
something and keeled over and I just cried.  Seriously, I was sad for 2 or 
3 days.

Laffalympics--I hated it


"Who cut the cheese?"--nuff said

Remember 'Bosom Buddies' before Tom Hanks got funny? (or was that the 80's)
  How about 'Family'--
Buddy was my idol.  

Starsky tennis shoes and Starsky Hot Wheels--Hutch was a loser, but he 
could sing, god could he sing!  Everyone in the highschool painted their 
Dodge Dart with a white stripe

The Saturday night lineup--Lawrence Welk, Emergency, Love Boat and Fantasy 
Island, bedtime (Igot to stay up later on Sat. night)

The Bionic Family--dadadadada. . .scroin...dadadadadada

This is going too far. . .but we're having too much fun. . .

Skatebirds--I used to wait months for the new Saturday morning lineup in 
September.  I saw an article in the Waterloo Courier about these zany birds 
on roller skates and I just couldn't wait to see them!  A goddam let-down.  
After waiting all summer, I only watched one episode.

Satin jackets--powder blue or pink, you'd tie it around your waist if you 
didn't wanna carry it

the comb in your back pocket--WOW!

Toughskins

K.C. and the Sunshine Band--That's the way, Uh-huh, Uh-huh
Bay City Rollers--the drummer was real cute

Music shows--The Captain and Teneille, Donny and Marie (I'm a little bit 
country) Sonny and Cher, Tony Orlando and Dawn (I could never understand 
that Dawn was 2 people)

Macho, Macho Man!! And that's when I still thought gay meant happy!

Freezing Kool-Aid in ice trays--my mom made us stop when one spilled all 
over the kitchen

Freakies cereal--you got magnets in the box

"Lolly, lolly, lolly get your adverbs here!"  always on after Kookla, Fran 
& Ollie.


I loved the Price is Right, Match Game, 

The Man From Atlantis and The Incredible Hulk ( the music at the end of 
that show was so sad)

The Land of the Lost--AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!Splash!  Chaka 
and the Sleestaks, eh?

weebles wobble but they won't fall down

Green Machines!  Better than big wheels.  Too bad I lived on a farm.  Mom 
said, "You'll chew up the wheels on the gravel"  I'm still gonna buy one 
someday...reinforce it or somethin'

In Search of...with Leonard Nimoy.  OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Slime just wasn't the same after they added the worms and eyeballs.

Mr. Goodbody (annoying as hell even today) on Cap'n Kangaroo

Fluoride rinses at 4th grade assemblys.  And they told you to brush up and 
down until they realized it atrophied your gums and made your teeth fall 
out.  The next year, they said "No!  We mean side-to-side!"  By then my 
were scabbed beyond recognition.  Fascists.
--oh and the red icky pills to see where your plaque was.

The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.  I wanted to be one until I became a jr. 
feminist.

every little perverted boy wanted to be a Playboy photographer.  Brant 
Bodecker did when we shared a bus seat and now he's on heroin.

Playing doctor--never gets old

The Sweathogs!  Mr. Kotteeeeeeeeer! Ooooooh! oooooh!

"What's Happening", "Good Times", and that show set in Portland, Oregon 
starring the McClain guy with the babe daughters.  And angst.

Should we quit now?

O.K.

Oh yeah, Magic Shell.  Used to put it on my thumb when mom forgot the ice-
cream.

"We need more Calgon!  Ancient Chinese secret, huuuuuuh?"

 Creepy Crawlers!

Y-ties!

Purple Cows--grape Kool-aid and milk.  Who's goddam idea was that anyway?  
Yuck!

Thanks.  Done.  Thanks for stickin' through.  Great to be old enough to be 
nostalgic and have hip pointers, but shouldn't the pimples be gone by now??
??