Kids didn't wear hats or caps in my elementary school, and if they wore beanies, they sure didn't wear each other's. We kids just didn't get those kinds of things. We seriously never even heard of them.
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For real! Yet, South Park routinely takes jabs at the right-wing all the time and they only get mild complaints, probably because it's a cartoon. If it were live, they would certainly get protested and boycotted. but, would it matter? TLC is bringing back The Duggars, and they are still showing Duck Dynasty.
Back in the mid-90s, CBS had a sitcom starring Sherman Hemsley that lasted for about three episodes. He played a modern-day Black Archie Bunker who was understated, but worse than his old george Jefferson character. The show wasn't protested, there was just no interest in that type of character by that time.
That's too bad because it is the funniest movie that I've seen. With that being said, Fox's 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' go at least as far as 'Blazing Saddles' with being offensive and intentionally politically incorrect. They don't have the vulgarity of the movie, but they also push boundaries that most aren't aware of because they don't watch cartoons.
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I see that you like Country music. I HATE [[commercial) country music [[non-country folk or Blue Grass music); which is one reason why I didn't stay in Canada with my uncle and aunt, to continue my hockey career, when my parents moved to Chicago during my first year of Juniors. :D
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You must be a fair amount younger than I.
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To me, Anne Murray is more of a Pop singer than a "C&W" singer, and Gordon Lightfoot is a Folk singer more than a "C&W" singer. I can't stand Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and the like. I like some of Johnny Cash and Roy Clark's songs, and not others. I like Flat & Scruggs, The Stanley Brothers and a lot of Blue Grass. But I absolutely hate most of the commercial C&W from the 1960s to now.
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Did you watch The "Red Green Show"? Over the past 20 years, since my hair started turning gray, I've often been accused of being him [[but I'm a lot taller, and much better-looking! ;)
I I agree. In fact, I don't even classify Gordon Lightfoot as anything close to country.
I like country up to about the mid-70s when it just got silly, with titles that were three miles long, about drinking, novelty songs, and the like. It was a time when the obnoxious rednecks came out of hiding. I could stand it a little better towards the end of the 70s, the stuff that went pop, but now it's either bad pop for young women, or overwrought patriotic crap. There's even "hick-hop", that means mixing country with rap.Quote:
I can't stand Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and the like. I like some of Johnny Cash and Roy Clark's songs, and not others. I like Flat & Scruggs, The Stanley Brothers and a lot of Blue Grass. But I absolutely hate most of the commercial C&W from the 1960s to now.
Country music was a small niche in the late '70s and almost a dormant format as far as Pop was concerned. In my opinion, Kenny and Dolly all but stuck a fork in it with some of the monstrosities they released separately and collaboratively back then. But then, "Urban Cowboy" came out and it wound up being huge. That movie absolutely saved country music by making it hip for city kids to go to country discotheques. I knew a girl who was transformed in the wake of it. She was always a little shy and countryish [[she was a Native American and caught between several worlds), but she got her identity from that story and that soundtrack and she never looked back again.
I was in college at the time, in Colorado. I bought me a pair of expensive cowboy boots, put on Eddie Rabbitt and I was happy for that moment in time. LOL! One of my most favorite Country songs......
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I am not going to turn this into a Country Music thread but Crystal Gayle's "Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue" was an excellent record.
I like all types of music and tend to favor songs that are true to genre over those that seem to be over produced and created with an eye on crossing over. With that said, I remember taking 10-hour trips from Ohio to Tidewater Virginia and listening to old Patsy Cline and Wiilie Nelson songs [[from before they were bold enough to put drums in the arrangements). Those songs still sound great to me.
Does anybody remember road trips before cars had [[in order) 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, MP3 players, or satellite radio? You were at the mercy of whatever low watt station your radio managed to pick up for 30 miles or so before you had to search for another one.
How many of you remember when cigarettes had coupons in the pack that could be redeemed for things like fishing rod and reels? LOL! How about the S&H Green stamps your mom would get with every grocery purchase that were put in a book and once you've collected a specific number she would redeem them for all sorts of mundane merchandise, but mostly kitchen appliances?
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Ha! Ha! -THEY'RE the reason I left Winnipeg and moved to Chicago!!! :D:D:D
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That's all we heard driving through Western Canada.
I remember those. I also remember the local version, 'Buckeye Stamps', that were sold at my second place of employment Big Bear Stores in Ohio. I struggled to get to work one day during a near blizzard and was one of only four or five people to show up. I was mad at myself for trying to even get there [[friggin' trooper, that one was back then) until some bearded, vaguely familiar guy came through my line. I rang up a few things for him and offered him his Buckeye stamps and he smiled at me as he gave them to the person in line behind him. 'I won't be needing them', he said laughing before he walked into the wasteland.
When he left, my bagger said 'You know who that was, don't you?'
It was Judd Hirsch from 'Taxi', who was in town filming a movie with Nick Nolte and Ralph Macchio called 'Teachers'. So, for my dedication, I was rewarded with a brush with greatness. LOL.
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Jerry that is great story!
I remember when stations looked like this:
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Hah! I remember when the gas station attendant would clean your window while the tank was being filled. Dude normally was smoking and had a dirty rag hanging out of his back pocket... They didn't even care much if they went over by a quarter or so.
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Yes, I remember all that. And, gasoline was around that much pr\er gallon, or even less, when I was young.
I am sure you guys remember this.....................
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Hah!. well, by the time I remembered gas stations, my parents had divorced, but. no they didn't do prizes at the Standard gas station. They didn't wear white clothes, either. But they did oil changes, brakes, shocks, tire rotations, and other engine work. And, they cleaned your windows and checked your oil.
I remember in the late 70s when they first started having the customer pump their own gas. I hated it on one hand because I was the one who had to get out and do it, and I hated having to pull down the license plate to get to the gas tank. And we had a locking gas cap which was a bitch to remove. On the other hand, I liked it because, even as a kid, I never trusted the attendant to fill up the tank because I felt he could manipulate the price in the pump.