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Have you noticed how most of Adam's references are so firmly rooted in the 1970's:

El Camino
Wine Coolers
Hobo
Pop Warner football
screwball

—mrboo

Adam and Drew blame everything on the 70's. Even the crucifixion (sp?) of Christ was blamed on the 70's.

—j4k3

How is Hobo from the 70s? I thought it was from the 30s. You know, Great Depression, riding the rails, Hoovervilles, all that shit.

—snuffy

coffee cans filled with cement 70's

—rockollafan

Being ridiculed for wearing "floods" (pant legs that didn't cover the tops of your shoes)...so 70s. Jumbo combs in the back pockets of your corduroy bellbottoms. So fucking 70s.

—sickliedoer

fondue pots

avocado-green appliances

—sphincterboy

Today at 2:02 AM, sphincterboy wrote:
> avocado-green appliances

*I* have an avocado-green range, along with, [cough, cough], matching hood. It blends in nicely with the white Z-Brick kitchen walls and yellow countertop. Black ceramic jars round out the retro kitchen.

Hey, it came with the house, what are you gonna do?

—digger

I have an avocado-green blender. Seventies.

Anyone remember the expression "out of your gourd"? I think it was born and died in that dismal decade.

How about the taunt "Grrrrr!" (accompanied by clawing gesture) to indicate contempt for someone's bogus bravado or unthreatening anger? Or was that just a local thing at my elementary school?

—snuffy

Or the phrase "booking it". Or hand games ("some girls sit like this, some girls sit like this, but the girls that sit like this do this like this"). There's a great zine and book by Ben is Dead that documents all things great about the seventies.

—mrboo

Never heard "booking it" outside the context of a manager booking an act for a venue. What does it mean? Don't remember hand games either.

Orange Julius

Jogging

Puka shell necklaces

—snuffy

Zorries!

—sickliedoer

"Go for it!"

Nerd (Was this word invented by Happy Days?)

—A Boy Named Sioux

No. Googled and found the truth. "Nerd" first appeared in a 1950 Dr. Seuss book. But it didn't acquire its current meaning till 1970, four years before Happy Days aired. The current meaning of the word is still a 70s creation, though. Yessss! (which is an early 80s expression, if I'm not mistaken).

—A Boy Named Sioux

Snuffy -- "Booking it" meant moving really fast -- usually in reference to running, but at times could also be used to describe someone moving fast on a bike or in a car -- The 70's equivalent to "hauling ass".

—steve

Booking it reminds me of...

Keep On Trucking!

That's 70s, no?

—mako

No, not quite. Although the Grateful Dead popularized that slogan in a 1970 song, it was coined by the underground comic artist R. Crumb (subject of a great documentary, btw) in 1965. The term "truckin'" (meaning "stick with it") originated in Harlem in the mid-1920s. But yeah, the slogan was most widely used in the Seventies.

—sickliedoer

Waterbeds.

—snuffy

Quicksand.

—Colin

Quicksand started around the 30s and died out in the early 70s...as a plot convention, at least.

Kung Fu

—snuffy

Impiety

Corrupting the youth of Athens

Drinking hemlock (Wasn't that the stupidest fad? What the fuck were we thinking? Which reminds me: I owe someone some cock time.)

—Socrates

I still use the phrase "booking it"...I don't know why I say "still', being only 18.

—Aj