GEEK THURSDAY for Thursday, April 8, 2010

THOSE WACKY, WACKY 70’S

They say if you remember the 60’s then you weren't really there.  They should also say if you remember the 70’s then you should be ashamed.  The 70’s were a decade of disco, flared pants and the leisure suit, surely reasons enough to want to forget.    And of course it is my duty to make you remember, so sit back and relax and enjoy this tribute to the 70’s.

ANCIENT CHINESE SECRET HUH?

Who can forget this commercial and the catch phrase it spawned?  Sure it was a racist stereotype to think that Chinese people own dry cleaners, but this was the 70’s, racist stereotypes were ok back then.    Also notice that this dry cleaners seems to consist of a single washer/dryer.

76 BRADY’S

The 70’s were the decade of the musical/variety show.  Everyone and their brother got a show, including everyone’s favourite merged family.   This clip is from the short lived Brady Bunch Hour, a 1977 show whose sole purpose seemed to be to rape our childhood.

MILKY!

It is my sincere hope that someone was shot for even considering this 70’s toy called Milky the Marvellous Milking Cow.

IT’S LEISURE TIME!

And who can forget the leisure suit.     Well actually a lot of people can, since this fashion statement didn’t make it out of the 70’s.   But look at this guy, doesn’t he look comfortable?  Doesn’t he look stylish?  Doesn’t he look ready to cut a rug at the local disco?  Why I bet mere moments after this picture was taken he had casual, unprotected sex.   Ah the Leisure Suit.  Dead before it’s time.

THEY WROTE A SONG ABOUT WHAT?????

Of course it wouldn’t be the 70’s without a song filled with thinly veiled sexual references.   And there is no better example then Afternoon Delight by the Starland Vocal band, who recorded this tribute to an afternoon quickie.

And there you have it, racism, casual sex, variety shows and the leisure suit.  That is pretty much the 70’s in a nut shell.  And allow me to be the first to say shame on you!  You, as a decade, should be ashamed to have existed.  Why there has never been a time in history so embarrassing as this … until the 80’s come along of course.