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You Are Bert
Extremely serious and a little eccentric, people find you loveable - even if you don't love them!
You are usually feeling: Logical - you rarely let your emotions rule you
You are famous for: Being smart, a total neat freak, and maybe just a little evil
How you life your life: With passion, even if your odd passions (like bottle caps and pigeons) are baffling to others The Sesame Street Personality Quiz
1970s Culture Quiz
Were you born before Michael Jackson's first plastic surgery?: Yep
Who was your first major crush?: Donny Osmond
Do you think Lee Majors ever got to be worth $6 million?: Doubt it. "The $6 Million Man" was never in re-runs long enough
What was the first 8-track you owned?: The Beach Boys, "Endless Summer"
What was your favorite band/singer from the 70s?: Elton John
What/who was the worst band/singer from the 70s?: Leo Sayer
Did you look forward to slow dancing to "Stairway to Heaven" at your school dances?: Sure did!
What is your favorite TV show of the 70s?: "The Brady Bunch"
What was your favorite movie of the 70s?: "The Goodbye Girl"
Did you ever macrame anything?: Lots of stuff!
Did you ever smoke pot while you macramed?: Nope
Did you ever wear bell bottoms?: Yep, polyester ones from Kmart
Did you ever wear platform shoes?: No, I was too young
Did you ever wear Earth shoes?: Yep
Did you have a mood ring?: Yep
Did you own a lesiure suit?: Nope
Did you break out in a rash from wearing your leisure suit?: N/A
Did you own a pet rock?: Yep
Did you or anyone in your family ever own an AMC Pacer or Gremlin?: Nope. Most of the people in my family worked for "Ford's" or "Dodge's"
How many families in your neighborhood owned a Dodge Dart?: Most of them
Who did you vote for in 1976, Carter or Ford?: Too young to vote then, but I favored Carter
During the 70s, did you have avocado green or harvest gold appliances in your kitchen?: Nope, because white never went out of style, according to my mom
Were tacos considered ethnic food by your family during the 1970s?: Yep, and it ws considered a special treat and was only served when company came over.
Did you go to the roller rink every weekend in the 1970s?: Yep
What were you doing when you first heard Elvis died?: Riding back home from the roller rink
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Every decade had its share of fads that rightfully stayed in their decades, and we've got some of the best ... or worst ... of the 70s. For next week, share your favorite products of the 70s you loved, miss, or glad that have been replaced on the comments section of my page by 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, June 16.ABSURDITIES OF THE 70S Earth shoes, courtesy of CindyLuv Sea monkey necklace, lizzie soprano Platform shoes, courtesy of CindyLuv Plaid bell bottoms, courtesy of CindyLuv One-piece flannel zip-up pj's, courtesy of JLynnD Pet rock, courtesy of Lucy in the Sky Leisure suit, courtesy of Tr@cy Intellivision, courtesy of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Candy cigarettes, courtesy of John 8 track player, courtesy of CindyLuv

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Music:

Everything is Beautiful, Ray Stevens Rolling Stones, Brown Sugar (1971) My Love, Paul McCartney & Wings (1973) Band on the Run, Paul McCartney & Wings Thank God I'm a Country Boy, John Denver Love Hangover, Diana Ross (1976) I'm Your Boogie Man, KC and the Sunshine Band (1977) You're the One That I Want, John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John Reunited, Peaches & Herb (1979)No. 1 Hits This Week in: 1970: Everything Is Beautiful, Ray Stevens -– 1971: Brown Sugar, The Rolling Stones -- 1972: The Candy Man, Sammy Davis Jr. -– 1973: My Love, Paul McCartney & Wings -– 1974: Band On The Run, Paul McCartney & Wings -– 1975: Thank God I'm A Country Boy, John Denver -– 1976: Love Hangover, Diana Ross -- 1977: I'm Your Boogie Man, KC and the Sunshine Band –- 1978: You're The One That I Want, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John -– 1979: Reunited, Peaches & Herb10 CC, AC/DC, Morris Albert, Allman Brothers Band, Herb Alpert, America, Paul Anka, Brian Auger, Average White Band, Badfinger, Burt Bacharach, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Joan Baez, Bobby Bare, Bay City Rollers, Edward Bear, The Bee Gees, Barbi Benton, Black Oak Arkansas, Black Sabbath, Blondie, Blood Sweat & Tears, Bobby Bloom, Debby Boone, Boston, David Bowie, Bonnie Bramlett, Bread, Brewer & Shipley, Brownsville Station, Jerry Butler, Paul Butterfield, Glen Campbell, Canned Heat, The Carpenters, Chairmen of the Board, Cheap Trick, Chicago, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Cliff, Climax Blues Band, Chi Coltrane, Rita Coolidge, Elvis Costello, Jim Croce, CSN&Y, Mac Davis, Skeeter Davis, Desmond Decker, Deep Purple, John Denver, Rick Derringer, Neil Diamond, Dobie Gray, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, Dr. John, The Doobie Brothers, Dave Edmunds, The Eagles, Earth Wind & Fire, Electric Light Orchestra, David Essex, Marianne Faithfull, Mimi Fariña, Jose Feliciano, Fleetwood Mac, Focus, Foghat, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Jerry Garcia, Andy Gibb, Steve Goodman, Grand Funk Railroad, The Grass Roots, The Grateful Dead, Al Green, The Guess Who, Gunhill Road, Merle Haggard, Tom T. Hall, Hall & Oates, Edwin Hawkins Singers, Herman’s Hermits, The Hollies, Honey Cone, Humble Pie, Terry Jacks, The Jackson 5, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Waylon Jennings, Jethro Tull, Billy Joel, Elton John, George Jones, Tom Jones, KC and the Sunshine Band, Kansas, Doug Kershaw, KISS, King Crimson, King Harvest, Carole King, Robert Klein, The Knack, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Leo Kottke, Kris Kristofferson, Patti LaBelle, Alvin Lee, Led Zeppelin, Linda Gail Lewis, Liberace, Gordon Lightfoot, Loggins and Messina, Loretta Lynn, Malo, Melissa Manchester, Henry Mancini, Barbara Mandrell, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Johnny Mathis, Curtis Mayfield, John Mayall, Maureen McGovern, Roger McGuinn, Don McLean, Lee Michaels, Steve Miller Band, Joni Mitchell, Moody Blues, Mott the Hoople, Anne Murray, Johnny Nash, New York Dolls, Wayne Newton, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Peter Noone, The O'Jays, Danny O'Keefe, Tony Orlando & Dawn, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Dolly Parton, Billy Paul, Johnny Paycheck, Freda Payne, The Pointer Sisters, Iggy Pop, Billy Preston, Wilson Pickett, Charlie Pride, Procol Harum, REO Speedwagon, The Ramones, Rare Earth, The Raspberries, Lou Rawls, Charlie Rich, Smokey Robinson, Johnny Rodriguez, Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, The Rolling Stones, Linda Ronstadt, Todd Rundgren, Leo Sayer, Savoy Brown, Earl Scruggs, Seals and Crofts, Sha Na Na, Lakshmi Shankar, Ravi Shankar, Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Skylark, Slade, Sly & the Family Stone, Patti Smith, Chris Smither, Jimmie Spheeris, The Spinners, Spooky Tooth, The Staple Singers, Starland Vocal Band, Edwin Starr, The Statler Brothers, Steeleye Span, Steely Dan, Steppenwolf, Cat Stevens, B.W. Stevenson, Stories, Styx, Donna Summer, T Rex, Taj Mahal, Johnnie Taylor, Livingston Taylor, Ten Years After, Three Dog Night, Tower of Power, The Troggs, Robin Trower, Tanya Tucker, UFO, Uriah Heep, Joe Walsh, Dionne Warwick, Eric Weissberg, Frank Welker, The Who, Paul Williams, Edgar Winter Group, Johnny Winter, Wishbone Ash, Bobby Womack, Tammy Wynette, Yes, Frank Zappa

Movies:

Jesus Christ Superstar (Yvonne Elliman Singing "I Don't Know How to Love Him")10, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Alien, The Amityville Horror, And Justice for All, Annie Hall, The Bad News Bears, Ben, Benji, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Coma, Deliverance, Dirty Harry, Earthquake, The Exorcist, Eyes of Laura Mars, The Godfather, The Goodbye Girl, Jaws, King Kong, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Lifeguard, Lipstick, Love Story, Magic, Oh, God, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Promise, Rocky, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Star Wars, The Sting, The Towering Inferno, The Trial of Billy Jack, An Unmarried Woman, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Young Frankenstein, Saturday Night Fever, Play Misty for Me, Dirty Harry, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Chinatown, Walk Proud, Bless the Beasts and the Children, The Other Side of the Mountain, Tommy, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Ice Castles, What's up Doc?, The Champ, Carrie, The Way We Were, Foul Play, Planet of the Apes, The Warriors, Escape From New York, Wizards, Jesus Christ Superstar, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Hindenburg, Midway, Black Sunday, 1941, Superman, Jaws 2, Mahattan, Duel, Death Wish, Midnight Express, The Rose, Animal House, American Graffiti, Serpico, The Sting, The Towering Inferno, Saturday Night Fever, Paper Moon, A Clockwork Orange, Close Encounters, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Up in Smoke, Being There, Easy Rider, Airport, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Godfather Part II, Logan's Run, Soylent Green, Star Trek, At the Earth's Core, The Andromeda Strain, Animal House, Blazing Saddles, Rock n Roll High School, The Whole Buffalo, Silver Streak, Nickelodeon, Apocalypse Now, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Poseidon Adventure, Halloween, Hair.

Television:

Fernwood 2Nite Ginsu Knife commercial20/20, Adam-12, Alice, Banacek, Baretta, Barnaby Jones, Rita Bell's Prize Movie, The Bionic Woman, The Brady Bunch, Bridget Loves Bernie, The Carol Burnett Show, Captain Kangaroo, Charlie's Angels, Chico & the Man, CHiPs, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Dallas, The Dating Game, The Dukes of Hazard, Eight is Enough, Emergency!, Family, Family Affair, Fantasy Island, Fernwood 2Nite, The Gong Show, Good Times, Grizzly Adams, Gunsmoke, Happy Days, Hart to Hart, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Hawaii Five-0, Hee Haw, Hollywood Squares, Hong Kong Fooey, Hot L Baltimore, Ironside, James at 15, The Jeffersons, Trapper John MD, Josie & the Pussycats, Kojak, Kung Fu, Land of the Lost, Laverne and Shirley, Little House on the Prairie, The Love Boat, Make Me Laugh, Mannix, M*A*S*H*, Perry Mason, Maude, Medical Center, McMillan and Wife, The Midnight Special, Barney Miller, Mr. Dressup, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mork & Mindy, The Bob Newhart Show, The Newlywed Game, Nightline, One Day at a Time, The Paper Chase, The Partridge Family, The Pink Panther Show, Police Woman, The Price is Right, H.R. Pufnstuf, Quincy ME, Rhoda, The Rockford Files, The Rookies, Room 222, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Saturday Night Live, Serpico, Sesame Street, Schoolhouse Rock, Scooby Doo, Shaft, The Six Million Dollar Man, Soap, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, Starsky and Hutch, The Streets of San Francisco, S.W.A.T., Taxi, That's Incredible, That's My Mama, Three's Company, Underdog, Vega$, WKRP in Cincinnati, Wait til Your Father Gets Home, The Waltons, Welcome Back Kotter, What's Happening!, The Flip Wilson Show, Wonder Woman

Books:

I still have my collection of July Blume books I'm hoping to pass on to my daughter ... Wait! I don't have a daughter! Well, maybe I can get some money off of them on eBay; Johnathan Livingston Seagull, Love Story, Roots

Heroes:

Dan Akroyd, Muhammad Ali, Jim Belushi, David Brenner, Carol Burnett, George Burns, George Carlin, Cheech & Chong, Jane Curtin, Bill Cosby, Rodney Dangerfield, Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, The Ghoul, Murray Langston (AKA The Unknown Comic), Vicki Lawrence, Paul Lynde, Steve Martin, Martin Mull, Bill Murray, Joe Namath, Richard Pryor, Gilda Radner, Jonathan Winters

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