Let's be 1978

I am also Maximilian Schell's eggs

I’m 19 days old and still in an incubator.

I was just born..

You gurls are too young to play.

I was conceived in September.

Oh, God - I'm now the oldest person left standing on the DL

Well then you're all about 40 and eldergays. But yeah still too young to play

I'm 18 years old, suffering from another bout of episodic insomnia. It's 3:30 am. I'm listening to the local FM station's late-night album rock to keep me company; and this lovely, tiny little muse's incredibly soulful voice catches my attention, my heart, my soul -

Valerie Carter, "Wild Child," 1978

I'm a lovely day.

I'm bringing homemade sugar cookies for my kindergarten class to share on my birthday.

I'm the man with the child in his eyes.

[quote]I'm bringing homemade sugar cookies for my kindergarten class to share on my birthday.

A doll!

Remember me?

I'm a 7 year-old in a heaven of so many snow days, with friends sledding down everything we could, including the mountains of plowed snow up at the school.

I'm a 'Hot Child in the City' at 12 years old

Valerie Carter died of complications of a meth addiction. James Taylor had bailed her out of a Florida rehab facility the year before she had died.

Damn, the girl (then 22 yrs) could sing -

I'm a typical hairy 1978 Playgirl centerfold.

I’m Bucky Fucking Dent

I'm jerking off to you.

My 12 year old self was also in love with Andy Gibb

[quote]I'm a 7 year-old in a heaven of so many snow days, with friends sledding down everything we could, including the mountains of plowed snow up at the school.

I wasn't even in the USA and I remember that snowy winter. It was all over the news in England.

Fade Away and Radiate

I am...VIVA.

Best year of my life. Started college and still had hair, hope and a great ass - none of which remains.

Pump It Up

I am the gay disco scene !!!!!!

I am Bloomingdale's and I was a very big deal in '78.

(Even The Queen asked to see me when she came to New York).

Take Me to the River

I'm the bar where Mr. Dah-dah-dah-daddah-DAHHHHHH went when he wanted to get laid. (Why waste time at 162 Spring Street?)

I'm the 1978 Oscars for the 1977 films.

I am After Dark Magazine !!!!!!

I was nominated for my first Academy Award (best supporting actress) for this film

[quote]I'm the bar where Mr. Dah-dah-dah-daddah-DAHHHHHH went when he wanted to get laid. (Why waste time at 162 Spring Street?)

& I'm the song that was playing...

Drug Stabbing Time

Oh, well, oh, well, I feel so good today.

Can’t Stand Losing You

"The Buddy Holly Story"

Try to remember to say "I am"

It's not too hard.

that is HOT r17, I loved the long feathered hair and hairy chests in the late 70's. That is my type exactly, most of my boyfriends have looked like that.

I am David.

I am speedos.

I was your coat check girl at a popular Long Island Gay disco

I am the Penis Promenade at the intersection of Ocean Park Boulevard and the Pacific Ocean.

I am the most overrated overexposed film of 1978

1978 saw my 1st concert - Jackson Browne. He awesome. His opening act was Karla Bonoff who was boring.

I’m the latest Gordon Merrick. My pages are stuck together.

[quote]that is HOT [R17], I loved the long feathered hair and hairy chests in the late 70's. That is my type exactly, most of my boyfriends have looked like that.

I'm posting for this for R39

NSFW

1/2 a WW for r45.

I'm a native New Yorker.

I love New York.

"Trouble in the heartland..."

How’m I doin?

I'm Charlie's Angels Hideaway House

I’m a man-perm.

I was in 7th grade. I wanna go back - with the knowledge I have now. I really miss the music and atmosphere.

we're the most intriguing people of 1978

I'm your Tonka couple's robot. I clean and cook and fix the vehicles.

I'm John Wayne Gacy's house. The don't start digging until December.

I was two years out of college, living in my first apartment, and hitting the bars hard. Oh God, disco music to the hilt.

I'm exposed brick walls inside your home

I'm Kristy McNichol telling People magazine that I am so totally in love with Donny Osmond!

I'm here. You don't know it yet, but you will, you will....

Oh, shut up, R62 - horrid post....horrid, horrid...

I’m 18 and going to the discos every weekend. A brief time to be free sexually, before the plague hit.

I'm the world's first supermodel!

Who the hell are you, R65?

I'm a legend, surviving the winter of '78 in something most becoming.

I'm Jamie Lee Curtis, future Scream Queen

R56 dayum only in the 70s could Travolta ever have been a heartthrob. What a weird looking dude he’s always been.

I'm Studio 54. I'm in my prime in '78

[quote]I'm the world's first supermodel!

Said no one ever!

I'm a US congressman who's going out to some religious compound out in Guyana. I expect to be back home shortly.

[quote]Jean Shrimpton

I thought of her too.

I had a promising campaign, but lost big-time.

Here we go again with An Unmarried Woman and the flawed Lina Wertmuller film.

[quote][bold]The Greatest Year: 1978 - There was nowhere to go but up.[/bold] There was a glorious defiance to it all: New York at its most New York.

[quote]We all tend to think of the golden age as the twenty years or so just after the Second World War, when New York really was both the cultural capital of the world and a great middle-class town. Yet those years were maybe not so great if you were, say, female, black, Hispanic, gay, lesbian, or anything much but a straight white guy. Columbia still had quotas restricting the number of Jews admitted, and Mario Cuomo couldn’t get a job at a white-shoe law firm. So … how about 1977? Well, maybe the blackout riot and the Son of Sam make that a polemic too far. [bold]But let’s say 1978, then. Seriously.[/bold]

I'm NOT Nancy Spungen

I'm Studio 54 and this guy's cellophane dress.

A ridiculously off, 2015 idea of a "70s fashion shoot".

I'm 1978 - Why do people find it so hard to recreate me?

whether you like it or not, I belong here.

I was going to be Bo and Luke Duke, but my bulges don’t appear until January 1979.

[quote]Here we go again with An Unmarried Woman and the flawed Lina Wertmuller film.

Some things about DataLounge aren't going to go away.

Some things about DataLounge aren't going to go away # 2

I'm the best teaser poster ever.

I'm wondering what r83 is from?

Does anybody else want to answer, R85?

Looking for Mr Goodbar

I graduated High School back in 1978. I was only 16, and incredibly horny, and got my first full-time job at 16, working in a greenhouse. I cruised relentlessly, but couldn't find any takers until I was 17. Please, no pedo alerts. I was very much the aggressor. Cruising around in my VW Rabbit, blasting Donna Summer and hoping someone would let me suck their dick.

R83 seems to be from 'Looking for Mister Goodbar' (according to Google search).

I'm sporty

I’m the Star Wars Early Bird Action Figure Certificate. Fill me ou and you’ll get the figures between February and June. Except for the Jawa. They're getting redesigned and you’re going to go insane waiting for it.

I'm luxury.

I love NY

Most my of shirts, and all of my school pants were made of ass-flattering QIANA!

I'm ready to take a chance again...

Which LI disco R42????????

I'm the 1978 version

I'm Reese's Pieces, I came out in 1978

I'm a Pepper.

I'm the Susan B. Anthony Dollar. When someone tries to buy lunch with me at a McDonald's in Chicago the manager will explain that we only accept American money here."

I'm McDonald's in 1978.

I'm also this guy's pretty spectacular buns in tight 70s pants - click on pic to see

r94 One of my favorite movies. Thanks.

I'm the escaped Prisoner "Emergency lock your doors and windows alert" issued as breaking news - when Ted Bundy got lose in Colorado by crawling through an HVAC opening at the Court House.

That Dr. Pepper commercial is SOOOO good and I love the jingle.

R104, do you remember Jesse Eisenberg’s nude Dr. Pepper commercial?

R94 and R102: I’m Kojak bang-bang.

I'm Mork from Ork!

I'm your Saturday night fun show!

I'm hopelessly devoted to you

Just born here also.

An Unmarried Woman was a stupid movie. I didn't get it. Why didn't she just marry Alan Bates?

I am the coldest winter ever to hit NY in my lifetime. The snow piled up over my head for weeks. We walked through tunnels of snow and ice.

The future was bright

I'm Richard Dawson and I've "stopped participating" on Match Game. A few more weeks before I tell Gene, Brett and Charles they can stick it in their BLANKs.

Summer of 78, lunch at the McDonald's across from work, Big Mac, Large Fries, Medium Coke: $2.10 including tax.

I'm questionable fashion.

Can anyone explain the shape of the blue line around the Love Boat title? See r108?

I’m an orange leisure suit. Someone told a young man from Minnesota I’d be just the thing to take to Harvard.

I'm a 1978 Station Wagon.

I'm Mr. Nude USA

#2 .

I'm a Zionist Hoodlum

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Based on photo at R120, it was fixed.

We're the cast, crew, and producers of "The Turning Point", arriving in Hollywood to pick up ALL the Oscars (yes, even Leslie Browne's)!

Are we done with '78?

I'm James at 15, becoming James at 16 by losing my virginity. I'll lose my TV show at the end of the season.

We're Sisley Jeans!

[quote] I'm Jill Clayburgh throwing up on a SoHo Street corner.

That corner is Spring & West Broadway.

A whole thread dedicated to that moment.

Every time I read that thread, r129, I can't believe how many An Unmarried Woman queens there are, and that they're all gay men, and not one of them is me, because the thread ended in 2011, and I did not discover DL until 2013.

I learned how to make Erica's famous eggs with hot sauce from that thread.

R131 must have met someone he really liked.

[quote]Every time I read that thread, [R129], I can't believe how many An Unmarried Woman queens there are, and that they're all gay men, and not one of them is me

We're a very special sub-tribe.

Along with the Goodbar and Julia queens.

[quote][R131] must have met someone he really liked.

SHAKE it!

[quote]Every time I read that thread, [R129], I can't believe how many An Unmarried Woman queens there are, and that they're all gay men, and not one of them is me, because the thread ended in 2011, and I did not discover DL until 2013.

I first discovered DL in 2007 and there was a massive 70s movie thread with all these films being discussed in great detail. [bold]I couldn't believe my eyes.[/bold] That was it. I never left.

R133 I get Goodbar obviously but why are there so many Julia queens on here? It seems like kind of a 70s Version of a frau movie no (it was one of my mother’s favorites; she’s 75 now).

I would not have made Julia eggs with hot sauce. I liked Goodbar a bit more.

[quote]I would not have made Julia eggs with hot sauce.

No, Lillian bought eggs for Maximilian see R2.

[quote]but why are there so many Julia queens on here?

What's the expression? If you need to have this explained....

Anyway...that there are Julia trolls makes perfect sense to me. It's as camp as Christmas.

Christmas? Camp?

I'm down from Hotchkiss for a game at the Yale Bowl with my alcoholic Aunt and Uncle. Its a dreary day, I want it to be summer again, and I do NOT want to go college in New Haven are you crazy!

I only like Julia for the Oscar drama of Vanessa accepting and then Paddy Chayefsky putting her in her place. Bitch slaps!!!

oh and of course it is M's first film

I'm from one of the albums Dah-dah-dah-daddah-DAHHHHHH would listen to when he came home from seeing An Unmarried Woman.

I am the can of Crisco on the nightstand. I will be responsible for many diagnoses of colorectal cancer in the next 20 years

Gurl I just finished flight attendant school for Air Canada !!!!

I’m myself, turning one year old.

I'm the contents of Faye Dunaway's purse

I'm Brooke Shields, bursting on the scene as Susan Sarandon's daughter in PRETTY BABY.

The New York Times says I am "either an extremely subtle actrss, or cannot act at all."

[quote]I’m myself, turning one year old.

A little doll, I'll bet.

r150 i’m a budding bear these days.

I'm Marie France Pisier, shoving a wire hanger up myself in the soapy potboiler [italic] The Other Side of Midnight.

Stardom was not to be mine.

I started my first NYC publishing job, at a salary of $9700/year.

I'm next year...

I'm an unfortunate fondness for polyester.

R147 , you're a gay zygote

I need no introduction...

I'm 18. I should know the score by now. #NativeNewYorker

I'm Le Freak

I'm Mr. Blue Sky.

I never let her slip away.

I am Halston I-12 and Z -14 cologne , I was heavly used by gay men as part of getting ready to hit the bars

I'm gay bathhouses, soon to plumet

We loved going to Club Milwaukee !!!! Don't tell Lavern and Shirley

I'm the new phone book and the end of old telephone EXchange numbers in NYC.

I'm your Mayor, Ed Koch

Fiorucci!

I'm Alexander, the Other Side of Dawn

I'm the Grease soundtrack double album. My accompanying movie is still the talk of the town 40 years later, and my songs are still sung at karaokes nationwide.

I’m Totally Hot.

[quote]Fiorucci!

I'm Fiorucci in NYC

I'm Burger King on East 57th St....between Madison and Park, unbelievably.

I'm a folkloric fiesta in Central Park.

I'm a nude sunbather at the piers in the West Village.

I'm Cue Magazine.

He’s cute r174

I'm Mary Louise Streep, in my first major screen role.

I look like Mamie Gummer.

We are castro clones.

We're crepes!

I'm that nice guy offering hitchhikers a lift.

We're Annie Potts and Mark Hamill in "Corvette Summer." We'll never look this cute again.

I'm Christopher Reeve as SUPERMAN!

I’m Andy Gibb’s perfect hairy chest.

I'm Tuesday Weld in a little black dress, not knocking myself out for the Oscars. I hope to win for LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR.

Tuesday Weld must holds the record for turning down the most hit movies...[italic] Bonnie and Clyde, Lolita, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, True Grit, Cactus Flower, The Stepford Wives... [/italic]

A strong actress who never really got it together.

I'm Roy Cohn. I'm powerful, well-connected, and I strike fear in anybody who dares to cross me. I hate women, other Jews, and f*gg*ts. I'll easily live at least another thirty years, and die a rich and happy man, taking all my secrets with me.

I’m Jessica Tate, found guilty of killing Peter Campbell.

R185 she’s awful in that movie. They were really looking for nominees that year.

R179,pssst I so miss the Magic Pan. I caught the tail end of that. I think it was on 57th.

Anyway...so I’m a TAB. No explanation needed.

I'm Janice Dickinson, back when I was looking normal.

I can almost see the AIDS in every one of the guys in R178. What a horrible time.

Seven years old, playing double dutch and hopscotch. Because that's how we rolled.

I was still hangin' in there

I'm Grand Central Terminal. Thanks, JBKO! --the future

Hart Bochner was a GQ coverboy in Aug 1978

Still rolling in the millions I bilked out of guys who died on me - -

I'm the KISS Solo albums

I'm Laura Mars' crazy Jockey hat (Come on, chin-strap!)

R198 whatever happened to Ultima II?? That was huge in the late 70s and 80s! It was actually the first brand of makeup I had ever heard of because my mom wore it all the time. She probably got it at Bloomingdales ... which was like no other store in the world.

My aunt was actually the head buyer for Joan & David around that time (80-81, I think).

I'm Maureen Stapleton chewing a steak in Interiors.

At the New York Film Critics Awards in January 1978 to receive our awards for Annie Hall & 3 Women.

[quote]We're crepes!

and we are sausages

WE ARE THE LIZ & RICHARD OF 1978

I am Adam's Apple.

I am Dustin on Fifth.

This is what I looked like in '78.

I am West Broadway

I am the blizzard of '78.

Oh, shit! WHERE MY CHILDREN AT?

I'm The Charmin - DON'T squeeze me!

I am Farrah Hair

I'm a VHS "home video recorder". I cost A LOT of money.

I'm a pay phone. I'm everywhere!

I just turned 21 and can FINALLY order a Manhattan at the bar!

I am the fondue pot accidentally knocked off the counter onto the avocado colored shag carpeting.

1978 blizzard stories from Ohio:

[quote]One very clear memory is Jeff Heitz on the air for days in the same white cable knit sweater. I think he was trapped here at the station.

Was Jeff hot?

I'm the Jordache Look.

Did you know there was a vocal to the Unmarried Woman themesong?

[quote]Did you know there was a vocal to the Unmarried Woman themesong?

Yes, it's terrible.

They never used it - but stuck it on the album all the same.

I'm Bernice, and I haven't left the house for a few years since I heard the scream on that Ohio Players song Love Rollercoaster.

They killed a girl on that record, you know.

I'm the yellow phone still attached to the wall in the kitchen - but I now have buttons!

and talking of phones.

Look how slick!

>>

[quote]I just turned 21 and can FINALLY order a Manhattan at the bar!

In Manhattan, of course, I've been able to order a Manhattan since I turned 18.

I'm pretending that it's 1978, and I'm straight.

I'm the not very nice ass on that guy - actually, I've changed my mind, I'm the mural.

This looks more like the blizzard I remember in NY in 1978. It stayed so cold that winter, the snow was up above our heads. We walked through tunnels of it for what seemed like a month.

I don't remember where I left my clothes.

I'm The Ramrod.

r228 ^ "There will be no laughing! NO LAUGHING!"

I am the micro speedos of St. Tropez, '78

I should never have worn micro speedos in St. Tropez in 1978

I'm a clearer version of the micro-speedo pic @ R230

We are fa-mi-lee!

I look butch in speedos.

R225 - The Board of Directors at Chase.

Oh, enough with the fucking speedos, already.

I'm the corner of 53rd and Third, where strapping young men go to make a few bucks when they're broke.

I'm Stevie Nicks and I'm at the top of the fucking world!

I'm "Sara". Stevie recorded her first demo of me in Dallas in July 1978.

[quote]I'm the corner of 53rd and Third, where strapping young men go to make a few bucks when they're broke.

& sometimes get killed in the process >

R201 R203 damn she really knew how to make herself look unattractive when she wanted to. Fuck she looks better now.

I´m HOT TRUCKIN' (1978)

I'm the Gay Bob doll!

^Get two of me, even!

I'm the '78 Sears Wish Book. gaylings all wanted a part of me.

I'm now the Montgomery Ward Christmas catalog.

I'm the Little Golden Books set that all the kids had 1 or 2 of back then.

We were easy to find in '78 unlike today.

Coke or Pepsi?

I'm the Legion Of Doom that debuted in the the fall of '78.

Surprisingly, I'm more female friendly that my Super Friends counterpart due to the fact that attempts to add Lois Lane or Black Canary on a regular basis both failed miserably.

Take that sanctimonious do-gooders!!!

I don't like Mondays.

I'm the "Close Adventures of the Third Kind" typeface.

I'm Spider-Woman, Marvel's best chance for ongoing female magazine to rival Wonder Woman.

Comic book writers would later take away my name & costume to give it to some lamebrain in the 80's even though I would star in my own cartoon in '79.

That's gratitude for ya.

It would be some time before I made my return but after all you can't keep a good woman down.

I'm a freshman in high school furiously jerking off multiple times a day to all the naked jocks in the locker room.

I'm Mystique who would make my grand entrance in an issue of my arch enemy Ms. Marvel.

Nobody back in '78 would dare dream that I would appear in a major motion picture before the likes of the Invisable Girl, Wasp, Scarlet Witch, Black Widow, Valkyrie, Spider-Woman or my arch rival but I pulled it off bitches!

I had to trade my iconic outfit for a slutty blue scale body suit but that's the Weinstein era folks!

We are Devo.

I'm Killer Frost who debuted this year & would become the arch villainess of my enemy FIrestorm (of JLA & Super Friends fame).

Writers would later kill me off in 80's as many female characters would have to endure & then they would make 2 more lame versions of me.

The worst sin against me is that a namesake of mine would join the JLA as a crimefighter!!! Yes a League member with the word "Killer" in the alias. How inspiring to the kids!

Can you think of anything worse besides the actress on Flash who is using my name?

OP, Jill has just found out that the Lina Wertmuller film was flawed.

I'm the Pro Wrestling babies that were born in this year.

Sheamus, CM Punk, Ezekiel Jackson, Austin Aries & Maria Menounos were all my descendants.

I am 59 , in 1978 I was 20 and hot , what the fuck happened

I'm the first successful all girl group to write & play their own instruments which led to a #1 debut album.

We formed this year as a punk band but would later morph into a pop band.

I'm the graduating Class of '78 (the rich & famous edition).

Some of my alumni are Michael Stipe, Howie Long, Oliver Platt, Kevin Anderson, Michael Hutchence, Greg Louganis, Marty Jannetty, Kerry Von Erich, James Spader, Dorothy Stratten, Richard Ramirez, Adam Clayton, Kelly Le Brock, Annabella Sciorra, Nena, Marcus Allen, Jennifer Grey, Hugo Weaving, Brad Garrett, Valerie Bertinelli, Michael Lohan, Elena Kagan, Amy Steel, Bono, Dr, Death Steve Williams, Yazz, John Billingsley, Jeffrey Dahmer, Linden Ashby, Chris Elliot, Mick Hucknall, Thomas Hayden Church, Erin Brockovich, John Elway, Sid "Vicious" Eudy, Barry Williams, Jane Lynch, Kim Alexis, Mark Burnett & Anne-Marie Johnson.

What a offbeat bunch that make up the Class of 1978!!

I am me, and I am hot shit!

I am Julia Phillips!

I'm Gary Coleman. Just by tweaking a line of dialogue, I'm going to end up keeping NBC afloat for a few years while ruining my life in the long run.

I'm Cheryl Tiegs, ready to pick up where Farrah left off.

Modesty is overrated.

I'm Kim Basinger, still stuck in occassional TV guest spots and shampoo commercials.

I'm the perm and roller skates on the sleeve of Linda Ronstadt's Living in the USA album

I'm the meangurl DLer who, strangely, hasn't arrived yet to sneer at us for being stuck in and obsessed with the '70s and how he isn't stuck in and obsessed with the '90s!

I'm the best alien invasion game ever Space Invaders!

Now I'm Atari's Super Breakout!

I'm Magnavox's Odyssey2 Home Console.

I'm the Quiz Wiz. I'll have the questions, you give me your answer either A, B, C, or D.

Hope your batteries are fully charged or you'll get wrong answers from me & look stupid in the classroom in front of all your friends.

I'm this year's Guinness Book Of World Records (the COLOSSAL edition). As George Takei would say "Oh My!"

I had both R275 and R276. They were awesome. Wikipedia tells me the Speak & Spell was also introduced in 1978.

I'm Bea Arthur channelling Brecht & Weill on the Star Wars Holiday Special

I'm Fangface.

Best werewolf evah!

I'm Cinnamon Life cereal.

Hey He likes it! He likes It! Atta boy Mikie!

Now I'm Frosted Mini Wheats.

R264 how is it that Barry Williams graduated inn1978? He was born in 1954.

I just saw The Police at CBGB!

R283. It's Barry WIlliams the blond wrestler, not the Brady kid actor.

Now where was I? Oh yes, I'm the Bran Chex cereal that debuted this year.

Whoops! The place I got it from called him Barry Williams but his name is Barry WIndham (of Dusty R. fame).

Sorry 4 the confusion.

[quote]Who the hell are you, [R65]?

That's Janice Dickinson before all the horrid plastic surgery and fake boobs.

R214 In 1978 the drinking age was 18.

I am Broadway. I am dead except for the already 3 years old Chorus Line. There's also Grease but that's the work of a mortician.

I am Side Four of Donna Summer's Live and More LP.

I’m VPL; many budding adolescents would stuff themselves with toilet paper so they could compete with me.

I'm Merlin... I was fun for about 15 minutes

I’m the All-Male Burlesk at the Gaiety Theater on 46th and Broadway

Here’s my ad that ran on the Sunday New York Times

I’m the king of the diet drinks

I’m the song that always got played at the end of the night at discos. I still re-surface to perform said duty every now and then, especially at weddings and bar mitzvahs

I’m a 6 year old leaving my mom’s funeral saying, “I want my mom” to a cousin.

Mine died the year before, r297. I was older, though, already out of the house.

I’m sorry, R298.

I'm ABC, and "We're The One" you can turn to, with a stranglehold on primetime success (Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Charlie's Angels, Barney Miller, What's Happenin', and Eight is Enough).

Next year we'll be "Still the One"!

I’m getting ready to graduate.

40th reunion is in about three weeks but I’m not going.

I'm a geeky high school freshman, trying to "Get Off." To Foxy

I'm Roman Polanksi, fleeing to France after having sex with a 13-year old girl.

I was busy captaining the NBC team in Battle of the Network Stars. And while everyone thought I was leering at Charlene Tilton's bazooms on CBS, I was trying to catch a glimpse of Richard Hatch's speedo-clad buns on ABC.

I'm the bullet that paralyzed Larry Flynt.

I'm 34-year old Stockard Channing, playing an 18-year old whore in "Grease."

I´m the only female president of the academy making an appeaerance at the 1978 opening.

Crawford gets 30 seconds in the in memoriam segment.... Bitch better has a soundproof casket-so she won´t hear me dancing on her grave!

I am starting my 32 year job... now retired.

Hello. I am Keith Moon.

Good Bye.

I'm a chicken hawks dream. I'm the curious jailbait who snuck in Studio 54, poking and puking the night away. Sniff sniff. Boogey Oogie oogie

I'm the Buford Files.

Buford was a lazy bloodhound with siblings Woody & younger sis Cindy Mae solving mysteries in the Fenokee swamps.

For some reason I like him more than Scooby-Doo as a kid. Maybe because he was pink LOL.

I'm the Galloping Ghost a.k.a. Nugget Nose who helps out 2 teenage girls Wendy & Rita (not to be confused with Wendy & Lisa).

As a kid, I always thought the girls were into each other on the show.

I'm Yogi's Space Race.

A reworking of the Wacky Races show that featured Penelope Pitstop & the Anthill gang.

Further evidence that Hanna-Barbera could hardly come up with an original idea to save their lives.

I'm Card Sharks, the game show that debuted on April 24 of this year & required a giant deck of cards to play.

I end up having 4 different hosts over my tv run but none were better than my original 6'4" hunky host Jim Perry.

I am Cecile, ice champion a la Francaise, quietly going bonkers at watching zis Lexie girl do zees stoopid TV show.

I'm the AZUMA listings in the 1977-78 Manhattan Phone Book.

I'm nesting hampers from AZUMA.

R114 thank you for that!! Jim Perry is the most underrated host of all time! And he was smart too!!

FYI supposedly DL fave Markie Post was one of the card turners.

Markie Post always looked like a call girl who stumbled onto a set.

I’m the naive gay college freshman in the fall of ‘78 who got invited to a big Hollywood producer’s birthday party at the Dakota by a hot shot who used to visit my tourist attraction home town and invite me to sexy parties there.

Upon coming on to the other hot young chickens at the New York party I was instructed “no sweet cakes, he’s the one we’re all supposed to be servicing (pointing at the old producer).” Everybody was very nice but when they announced we were going to Studio 54, I feared I’d be staying up all night and miss a Shakespeare paper deadline. When I told them so, I was escorted to Port Authority by a caravan of four limousines, on their way to 54, Liza, Halston, et al.

Knowing what I know now, I would have totally ditched the Shakespeare paper. My school was generous with extensions after all.

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From the article @ r321:

[quote]1978 was the year that the world's quality of life peaked, after which it has gradually deteriorated ever since.

I know it was my favorite year, and that much of life has gotten worse with each successive year.

I'm my own 13 year old self's insatiable love for John Travolta, but sadly as a woman I think you guys stood more of a chance.

I'm the photo of soon to be 91 year old Rosalynn Carter with the serial killer clown John Wayne Gacy in May '78.

Doesn't she look happy to see him?

I am a fern bar.

I am Patty Duke, still trying to live down my nervous breakdown on live TV at the 1970 Emmys.

At least I'm in THE SWARM this year...

I'm America 2Night, the continuation of Fernwood 2Night. I'm a damn funny show that will sadly become forgotten.

I am Pink Champale

I'm the Superman vs. Muhammad Ali fight.

I had everyone who was anyone in the audience that year = Batman, President Carter & a bunch of Hollywood celebs.

Sorry Ronald Reagan & Madonna but you weren't in vogue during the late 70's.

I'm Mattel's "Tiny Baby ROSEBUD" Doll.

Please no jokes about me folks.

I've had it bad enough as it is.

I'm the new 1971 thread - please visit me >>

R324, "Billy will be sleeping in the Van Buren bedroom. For an extra $300, take out Miss Lillian."

I'm Bambi Woods, bursting onto the X-rated movie scene as the star of "Debbie Does Dallas." I'll make "Debbie Does Dallas II" in 1979, then disappear off the face of the earth.

I’m Anita Bryant. Now that I’ve successfully suppressed you gay cretins, my political and singing career is going to skyrocket. SKYROCKET I SAY!

I'm A Taste of Honey, boogey oogey oogey-ing on your AM radio.

I'm La Merm, planning my upcoming disco album.

DL - I want to thank you for being a friend!

(Actually this is probably the DL theme tune)

I'm the year of the three Popes.

Paul VI

John Paul I

John Paul II

I'm Jimmy Carter. Never has a president been so bullied as Anita Bryant did me.

We are the hot stars of the Golden Age of Porn and our hot lean, muscular bodies: Paul Thomas, Eric Edwards, Blair Harris, Mike Ranger, John Leslie, Kevin James (below), David Morris, et. al. Porn stars will never look as good again.

I'm 8 year old me, sitting in a movie theater watching Grease with my mom, wondering why this old lady is pretending to be the same age as my babysitter.

You made me laugh, R341.

I'm Leonard Nimoy.... 1978 was a busy year for me! I was still doing "In Search Of..." and I starred in the remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". My training as emotionless Spock served me well for this role.

I'm the "D.C. Implosion".

20 titles abruptly cancelled for a variety of reasons with another 11 to follow before the year was out.

It wasn't D.C. Comics finest year to say the least..

In Aquaman #62 (with the series just 1 more issue away from cancellation) the story had his & Mera's only child die at the hands of his arch rival Black Manta.

I wasn't even a teenager when I read the story & couldn't believe that he wasn't coming back in some way.

After saddling him with that stupid "spend only 1 hour away from water or you'll die" limitation, this was clearly the second worst decision for the characters.

As one might imagine after the loss of a child. the Aqua-family was never the same again. The character for me was never quite enjoyable to read again.

Of all their ret-cons D.C. ever did, the "1 hour out of water" time limit & the kid's death should have been at the top of any list (with Aquagirl Tula's death close behind).

Everyone still mad at me for the whole Lindsey Buckingham thing a few months ago? Before I did duets with Don Henley and Tom Petty, I did this with Kenny Loggins.

I'm Machine Man #1.

If there was ever a Jack Kirby creation that should be made into a kiddie feature film, it's this one.

Who's this freak going on about fucking comics - is anyone the least bit interested?

I'm Devil Dinosaur #1.

I'm curious what some director like George Lucas could do with such a crazy concept as this one.

[quote]I'm Devil Dinosaur #1.

Go away - no one gives a shit, you retard.

R350 Comics were more popular back in '78 (& now) compared to some of your "popular" contributions on here like "Zionist hoodlums" & "Erica's eggs with hot sauce" that you posted above.

Also this thread isn't going to get anywhere near 600 posts without some help from the comic book industry anyhow so go fuck off 'cause no one cares about your out of the mainstream posts anyhow.

Here's why R350 doesn't like people to bring up 1978 comic books to him.

Here's his drunk ass needing help from the Cosby kids to sneak up on his then boyfriend Fat Albert.

Talk about embarrassing!

R340, is the other party a woman?

Comic book guy, comic books are SO EXCITING, why do you want to hide them here? They are rather deserving of a thread of their own, which would be very popular, I am sure.

R354 NY snowstorm guy, NY snowstorms stories are SO EXCITING, why do you want to hide them here? They are rather deserving of a thread of their own which would be very popular I'm sure. After all more people buy & read about NY snowstorms a month than say comic book characters. (see two can play your dumb game).

This thread is about 1978 people, places & things.

The last time I checked 1978 comic books fit at least 1 of the above criteria.

Every post on here isn't going to be liked/admired or appreciated by 100% of the readers.

GET OVER IT MARYS!!!

[quote]Also this thread isn't going to get anywhere near 600 posts without some help from the comic book industry anyhow so go fuck off 'cause no one cares about your out of the mainstream posts anyhow.

OMG! She's going to keep posting until she gets to 600.

R356 DUMBASS!

Plenty of people are on here posting.

I've probably posted about the same as you overall.

Get over it.

Fuck comic books and anyone who still read them in 1978.

[quote]Comics were more popular back in '78 (& now) compared to some of your "popular" contributions on here like "Zionist hoodlums" & "Erica's eggs with hot sauce" that you posted above.

We are homosexuals...and many of us are homosexuals of the 1970s and those references mean something to people here. I'm sure they produced many a wry knowing smile.

I'm the performance art piece done for the opening of the DeKooning exhibit at my university. It involved wrapping my fellow students in yards of colorful satin and arranging their bodies draped over each other. No one could see, and I made sure to make the most homophobic classmates put in the most "compromising" positions. Got a A for that class.

R358 Just so you know, studies show people who read comic books have moms who live longer.

If only you had a time machine & a local comic shop then we wouldn't have to have read about yours going belly up & stinking up this thread (another POPULAR post of yours I'm sure).

My comic book shop going belly up? What are you on?

Meanwhile, with all this craziness going on, people have probably missed R360's thoughtful and witty DeKooning post. What a waste!

I'm NBC... we got Bette Davis to star in this for a steal!

It actually looks quite good, R364...PLUS the young Rosanna Arquette and the guy playing her cute brother.

I was working next to my boss' office where he was meeting with his buddy-Dianne Feinstein's uncle.

A moment later I heard a ruckus on the shop floor..the City Hall shootings had made the news. The foreman was telling everyone to keep quiet..Mr. J. made a quick exit out the front door without a word..

R362 I'm obviously on your dead mother's grave since that morbid post is what you wanted to share with this rather positive thread.

Now that your question has been answered, what drugs are you taking that make you start attacking folks on an innocent thread like this & calling someone the awful R word?

I am Vidal Sassoon , I was able to get people to think they needed 3 hair products not just 2. I made millions

I'm Diiana Ross' undearm sweat stain in the Brand New Day number in The Wiz.

I am comic books. I am only read by masturbating Jewish boys who will grow up to be Hollywood moguls, still pulling pud and forcing comic book movies on the general public.

I'm your sweet Lord and I really want you to see me, too.

Sorry, but I’m with R355, and I despise comic books. That doesn't mean they don’t belong on this thread because someone else doesn’t like them.

Now, back to the topic!

sorry, wrong thread.

I'm Mercury.

[quote]I'm Diiana Ross' undearm sweat stain in the Brand New Day number in The Wiz.

How did we forget The Wiz? DL is so peculiar recently.

I'm going to ease on down the road.

(God, I've never seen this clip before, though I've loved the song since...1978...I had the single - point is, boy, it's badly filmed and UNspectacular - no wonder the film was a flop)

and I'm another 1978 movie musical travesty.

I am one of the nineteen people who actually liked the Sgt Pepper's remake. In my defense, I was 9 years old, and liked anything with music, flashy colors, and I had an early crush on Barry Gibb.

I liked it so much, I remember collecting the trading cards. I am now wondering when my mother trashed those.

How funny, R377! LOL

did they come with Bubble Gum?

I'm Guy and life is everything.

(I'm also me and I thought all these years he was saying life is a "definite" thing...and, no, it never made sense)

Why is some miserable queen attacking comic books?

Yes! They did come with bubble gum! But I was never a big fan of gum, even to this day.

And if you flipped the cards over, you could put them together to create a giant picture/poster from the movie, which meant I needed every single card.

I'm going out on a limb, but I think this was the only movie to star both George Burns and Aerosmith.

I'm luck and with a little of me... we can work this whole damn thing out.

I'm Paul's album "London Town" and physical proof that his steep decline has well and truly begun.

I'm Chris Evert, and I was still the best women's tennis player in the world, thanks to Martina tipping the scales at about two hundred.

Before social media and tons of paparazzi, I could whore around and score lotsa dick without the public finding out.

And if you think my hairdo is questionable now, wait until I get my perm in the 80s.

I'm Alicia Bridges and I love the nightlife!

I'm winding my way down to Baker Street...I used to think it was so easy, but I'm trying now...one more year and then I'll be happy but I'm trying, I'm cryin' now.

I am a college junior, wondering what the fuck I'll do after college.

I'm Elizabeth Taylor. My stand in and I seem to be caught in Frau Central.

I'm a 14 geek on Summer vacation with an embarrassing woody in a crowded Kenosha theater transfixed upon a never before heard of Warren Beatty starring in Heaven Can Wait. The bucket of popcorn in my lap sprung a hole.

Well, at least I was nominated...

I'm the PR/advertising team at General Motors, trying to think of a way to foist our newly downsized and butt ugly midsized cars to the public...

R391: NO you WEREN'T, Judy you cunt.

Crisco caused butt cancer? gross detail of our sexual history.

I'm The Eddie Capra Mysteries

I lasted only 13 episodes in the fall of '78 season.

I'm NBC's jingle for the fall season, promoting 9 shows that will all be canceled by December.

I'm still grieving the loss of Elvis. It doesn't seem like it has been a year. Gone too soon. Crying as I type.

I'm the hair queen of Port-d'Espagne, Trinidad-Tobago. I meet a hot man from Brooklyn NY and follow him up there. I buy three brownstones in Park Slope for a song. 30 years later I return to Trinidad-Tobago a multi-millionairess.

[quote]I'm still grieving the loss of Elvis. It doesn't seem like it has been a year. Gone too soon. Crying as I type.

That's odd - I just saw some graffiti half an hour ago that says he's alive.

Just like this >

I'm Farrah Fawcett and I left "Charlie's Angels" in 1977, after just 1 season. Here I am making the first of 6 guest appearances (November 1978).

I'm Gloria Gaynor's #1 smash hit "I Will Survive". I was released in October 1978, but I didn't reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 until March 1979.

I’m Farrah Fawcett’s failing career

Farrah did okay for herself.

I’m Three’s Company and this is going to be my breakout year. At this rate, I don’t see me EVER getting canceled.

We are the greatest rock band that ever lived.

I’m a white girl from South Africa’s apartheid system, getting crowned by the outgoing queen, a black girl from Trinidad Tobago.

We're the cast of Welcome Back, Kotter, carrying on despite Travolta and Kaplan having more or less left the show.

I'm the trailer

I'm Vivian Vance, partially paralyzed.from a stroke.

I'll die next year...no more shilling Maxwel House instant coffee for me, Ma!

I'm Joan Rivers face.

Sure I never looked good but if my mistress keeps it up it's going to be the death of her.

Hard to believe she was only turning 45 this year.

From the looks of her, she could pass for someone 20 years older.

I'm another 1978 commercial break.

R411 Was that Iman in that commercial?

I am Miss Angie Dickinson, and I drink Martini & Rossi.

R413 "Yeaaaah…"

I’m the audience at the Miss Fire Island 1978 Pageant, pornstaches galore.

I’m dyslexia, still unattended and untreated in 1978, so here’s my link.

614r, pots esaelp. oD ti won.

DYSLEXICS UNTIE!!

yes, looks like her R412

I'm the '78 U.S. midterm elections.

The Dems lost 3 Senate seats & 15 House seats.

The Repubs picked up 6 Governors mansions (future President Bill Clinton won in Arkansas).

Future Texas Governor & U.S. President G.W. Bush ran & lost in a Tx. House seat race. The only time Texas was smart about dealing with his incompetent ass.

"Take This Job & Shove It" by Johnny Paycheck was the 1st number 1 country song of 1978.

"It Only Hurts For A Little While" by Margo Smith was the number 1 when half of '78 was over (7-1-78).

"The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers was the last number 1 country song for 1978.

I'm the "Rivers Of Babylon" by Boney M which became a huge hit across Europe & is still 1 of the top 10 best selling songs in the U.K.

I just heard it for the first time today. As for it's monster success? Go figure.

I'm a soap fan HOOKED on my favorite show - Another World! I can't believe I'm so on Rachel's side -- it wasn't that long ago that she was making Alice's life miserable!

But now I feel badly for her because of all of Iris' machinations!

Still, I was channel surfing over to General Hospital during a commercial and came across this really cute blond hunk with his shirt off; he has great pecs. His girlfriend is this pretty girl named Laura. The other characters seem interesting too. I probably won't switch over from AW, but....I might.

i'm at the counter in Bloomingdale's and all you bitches are clawing your way to me

I had them fleeing for the exits in Timbuktu

Actually, I am from 1978, too. And who's gonna get you laid, baby?

[quote]Actually, I am from 1978, too. And who's gonna get you laid, baby?

Yes, but not as chic as I am.

Hi - I'm Margaux!

I'm THAT NEW YORK DAZZLE issue of GQ.

moi aussi R431

I am R431 's little sister, trying to ignore the fact she somehow doesnt grasp that she's falling out of her dress.

I'm 9 years old and enduring my stepmother's explanation of why she's divorcing my drunken, philandering dad. She keeps awkwardly assuring me that the divorce doesn't mean I won't get to see my dad, whom I barely see anyway, because he rarely comes home. I am more traumatized by the news that he isn't taking me with him than by the divorce itself. I wish she'd leave, so I can go back to playing with my Matchbox cars and Little Professor that were purchased for me from the Sears Christmas Catalog.

I'm Suzy CHAPSTICK.

I am Crisco.

I am Kay Lenz, Morgans Fairchild and Brittany, Shelley Winters and Mia Farrow's little sister in THE INITIATION OF SARAH.

Has no one mentioned ME?!

R439 Why don't you tell us just who the Hell you are & then we'll see if we give a damn about ya.

Hi fellas! I’m called the Son of Sam, but I was also called the .44 Caliber Killer, so you pick your choice.

I wish my neighbor’s dog would stop talking long enough for me to type this damn post.

I’m off to jail for a VERY long time.

[quote[R439] Why don't you tell us just who the Hell you are & then we'll see if we give a damn about ya.

I think "we" know.

[quote]R440 Why don't you tell us just who the Hell you are, R439, & then we'll see if we give a damn about ya.

You. Are. DESPICABLE!

Hauling her over the coals like some picked-up repug! Or one of those gay-for-pays, out to give the big shots a nice night at Studio 54!! Is that what you think of her?? LAURA MARS may as well have [italic]"PROPERTY OF 1978]"[/italic] tattooed on her backside! Dammit, DataLounge is HER PLACE.

I'm Babs, scoffing at Faye's performance in "Eyes of Laura Mars." Jon Peters offered me that part, you know. But it was beneath my serious thespian aspirations.

It's extraordinary on a gay site that Laura Mars has taken this long to feature. In fact, I count her second the Jill Clayburgh.

Actually, I think I thought Laura Mars was 1979.

I'm also those stupid useless scarves we wore back then - just hanging there.

I'm René in drag.

I'm crazy eyes of Laura Mars

Me too

Wow, the drugs really did not do Faye any favors.

This is her 10 years before R449:

There's already been a "Let's Be Laura Mars" thread

R451 wtf she’s almost 40 there and still looks gorgeous. Just not 25 anymore.

[quote]It's extraordinary on a gay site that Laura Mars has taken this long to feature. In fact, I count her second to Jill Clayburgh. Actually, I think I thought Laura Mars was 1979.

Nah. It was yet another movie that wasn't quite as good as An Unmarried Woman in the summer of '78.

I'm a 16 year old trying to figure out if I'm gay or whether or not I'm just longing for some kind of male influence in my life since my dad died when I was super young.

2018: I'm 56, trying to figure out why I still want a male influence in my life.

R455 dong

R456 I wish it were that easy.

I'm Lulu AND Michelle We're not home, so go to hell But if you're not a horny creep Leave your name and number after the beep

The husband in An UnMarried Women was a dick. But he was good looking.

I'm the most popular book of 1978 = Stephen King's "The Stand"

I'm now the 4th most popular book of '78 also written by Mr. Stephen King = "Night Shift"

And finally I'm now the 2nd most popular book of '78 = "The World According To Garp" (the other top 10 books are rather forgettable)

I'm Bianca at 54. I'm like totally out of it.

[quote]The husband in An UnMarried Women was a dick. But he was good looking.

Yes. Hawt.

I'm him.

I'm the Micronauts.

A Japanese toy line from the early 70's made into a decent Marvel comic book promotional item.

It's only a matter of time I end up on your movie screens or tv screens. So many plans to implement us into the general public. Something soon will stick.

I'm another Playgirl Centrefold from 1978 and I embody the gay male look of 1978 - even though they photographed me looking longingly at a photo of a gurl.

You'll have to click on this pic to see me in all my naked glory.

I'm an 8 Track player for your car.

R467, while you sound like shit, I don’t think anything can ever match your convenience for having an entire album playable in your car! Can’t see it happening. Nope. Nuh-uh.

Overwrite much, r468?

Nah, not usually, R469. I’m usually pretty succinct with what I need to say. You know, they say brevity is the soul of wit, so I, ya know, try to keep it brief. Sometimes I can keep it brief, but there are other times where I just find I need more words to say what I really want to say. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to it, though, which I find odd. Do you find it odd that...oh, wait. You might have meant that sarcastically.

R123 his poppers tshirt though!

464- If this was 1978 I would do you in a second. Unfortunately this is not 1978. You're 80 years old now. That's quite a bit out of my age range.

He looks OK in old age. Very American.

He was in a film with Julie Christie a few years ago.

Haha Michael Murphy was such the WASPY dick husband of the late 70s.

I'm the 99th biggest pop hit of '78 = "Hollywood Nights" by Bob Seger

I'm the 100th biggest pop hit of the year = "Deacon Blues by Steely Dan

I'm the 97th biggest pop hit of '78 = ABBA's "The Name Of The Game"

I'm the 98th hit of the year = Rita Coolidge's "We're All Alone"

I'm now the 96th biggest pop hit of '78 = "Ebony Eyes" by Bob Welch

I'm Linda Ronstadt's "It's So Easy" which was released in '77 but became the 90th biggest pop hit of '78.

I'm now Odyssey's "Native New Yorker" which was also released in '77 but became the 91st biggest pop hit of 1978.

Here it is....

I'm "Flashlight"by Parliament = The 92nd biggest hit.

I'm now the 93rd hit of '78 = Boston's "Don't Look Back"

I'm ELO's "Turn To Stone" = the 94th biggest hit of '78.

I'm the 95th biggest '78 hit = Eruption's "I Can't Stand The Rain"

I am now annoyed.

Hate it when one single person discovers a thread late in the game and drives us crazy with the same drivel.

[quote]Hate it when one single person discovers a thread late in the game and drives us crazy with the same drivel.

Me too.

I'm the choreographer that taught Rita Coolidge how to shimmy during her "You" video. She really gets down at 1:45.

I’m Air India. I started off the year by killing 213 people.

I’m Roman Polanski, on my way to France after skipping bail.

I’m Karl Wallendaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah...

I'm Crystal Gayle, and Rita Coolidge wishes she had my hair. Bitch, please.

I’m PSA Flight 182. There are multiple pictures of me with the remains of a little private plane stuck to my wing as I crash into San Diego

R491 I love the way she loses her smile and briefly glares at the camera at about 1:54. It's like she's saying, "I can't believe you made me take that huge step onto the riser in my heels!"

[quote]I’m Roman Polanski, on my way to France after skipping bail.

and I'm the photo he had taken by a Paris newspaper sitting in a Paris café reading a Paris journal, just to show the world that he had escaped to Paris.

and I'm another 1978 photo of Roman taken in his Paris hideout in 1978 - looking butch.

I'm the very '70s bamboo chairs and tropical potted plants.

I'm from a 1978 issue of House & Garden. Notice the lime green accent (very late 70s and very DL) and ferns.

r498 r500 Is that location what is meant by "fern bar"?

Thank you, r501. Particularly for using "lime green" correctly. Those cushions actually are the color of lime.

More lime green (sort of) from 1978- when DL introduced it, I knew it reminded me of something, somewhere, long ago.

I mostly get "yellow" from that picture, R504.

OMG! Lime was clearly the color of the year.

Maybe you see yellow in the pic @ R506 too, R505.

A very limey looking cover.

No, R507, I see the VERY green floor r506. Plus all those plants. I'm not counting plants, though, in any pics.

Lime walls.

[quote]I'm not counting plants, though, in any pics.

Start counting, R509

Lime in the bathroom, even.

Here's a 1978 MG Midget in Lime Green. Yet who has ever seen a lime that's exactly this color? Lime is a much more accurate descriptor of R510's walls.

That's fluorescent lime, R513. Probably re-sprayed in the 80s.

The original pic.

Who the hell thought THIS MESS was worthy of the cover?

OK, now we have a Lime Troll to join Laura Mars, Pip Chart Queen. and DC Comics

Pop

[quote]The original pic.

That wasn't the original color

[quote]That wasn't the original color

What was?

R517, you should see my contributions in the "Chartreuse" thread.

[quote]OK, now we have a Lime Troll

I'm the OP - that gives me a green card to post as much as a like, without being called a troll - on top of that I'm making an amusing, interesting and relevant point...showing various interiors of the day.

[quote]OK, now we have a Lime Troll to join Laura Mars

Laura Mars is GAY ICONIC. Its multi-posting by [bold]several people[/bold] was totally appropriate here on the DL considering how loved it is and how it was (shamefully) forgotten until so late in the game.

[quote]and DC Comics

He was a retarded (& somewhat witty) nutcase. I will not be lumped in with him - hence my lengthy and defensive post.

[quote]What was?

God knows. Not THAT.

If it’s June 1978, then I am about five weeks old, four and a half pounds, and sill basking in the glow of an incubator.

Bless your sweet soul, R524 - and probably a major dollface to boot.

[quote]I'm the OP - that gives me a green card to post as much as a like, without being called a troll -

If you say so...

[quote]I’m making an amusing, interesting, and relevant point

If you say so...

[quote]Laura Mars is GAY ICONIC

If you say so...

In 1978, Metlox introduced the Colorstax line of dinnerware. What we are calling Lime Green in this thread was close to what they called Fern Green. It had concentric rings, like Fiesta.

It also came in Forest Green.

There were these nifty Colorstax corn holders, too. Love that Fern Green.

R527 - r529 is not the OP, btw. I have the 1978 card instead of the green card (loved that, btw, OP) to post interesting stuff from 1978.

[quote]I'm a typical hairy 1978 Playgirl centerfold.

Sadly, those days are gone forever. Now, we have to be reduced to looking at shaved tattoo men.

I'm on my way to be becoming a star - hence this photo on Vogue.

We're "black models" - people are talking about us.

I know I’m going to hell for this, but I busted out laughing so hard at R494.

Fuckin hilarious. Good show, old man.

Here are a few more subtle fashionable items of '78

Marroon V neck - very chic.

I know this is plum, but you get the picture

& green loden coats - for men and women

I'm some of the guys born in '78 = James Franco, Josh Dallas, Jensen Ackles, Jason Biggs, Josh Harnett, Justin Long, James Corden, Joshua Jackson, John Legend, Kenan Thompson, Kobe Bryant, Kyle Howard, Duncan James, David Krumholtz, AJ McLean, Ashton Kutcher, Adam Samberg, Bill Hader, Ben McKenzie, Robin Lord Taylor, Eddie Cahill, Ian Somerhalder, Manu Intraymi, Nate Silver, Shane West, Topher Grace, Tim Hasselbeck, Usher & last but certainly not least Garfield (The Cat).

I'm now some of the girls born in '78 = A.J. Cook, Brooke Burns, Danai Gurira, Erica Durance, Erin Andrews, Ginnifer Goodwin, January Jones, Karina Smirnoff, Katie Holmes, Kimberly Locke, Linda Park, Michelle Rodriguez, Nelly Furtado, Nicolle Tom, Nikki Cox, Stana Katic, Zoe Saldana & the Mowry twins.

I'm YSL

I am a papasan chair.

Students get stoned in me. Women and men with huge pubic bushes re-enact The Joy of Sex on me.

I'm the disastrous fifth season of Rhoda.

The writers made Rhoda fat again, and she got a frizzy poodle perm.

CBS yanked me off the schedule after 13 weeks. I came in 95th place out of 114 shows for the season.

I am the premiere of a five-part CBS miniseries, "Dallas."

I'm probably the most major TV event of '78.

People sneer at me in retrospect but I was actually rather good with an excellent cast.

and these two especially, stole the show.

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Talking of powerful, how about ME?

I;m the crappiest most overrated film of '78

I am bright eyes.

I am the most hilarious, most popular message posted under Bright Eyes

[quote]Rayla Kame -1 year ago-I want this played at my funeral

Oh, dear - these YouTube comments are sometimes too much

[quote]Robert Perreaul- 2 years ago- One of my all time favorite songs. It reminds me of my son Matt who died at the age of seven over twenty five years ago. He had "bright eyes".

I am one of the ghastliest pop songs of all time and became the greatest selling pop singles in the history of British singles to date (1978)

oops sorry, wrong year

We're a couple of the Aggies from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

I'm the third year of the reign of Emperor Bokassa I ruling the Central African Empire. (Later, in 1979, it reverted to its previous name, Central African Republic.)

I am Jovan’s Musk for Men. I’ll be irrelevant in 1981.

I’m rob foresta in 30 years I’ll be a big dicked gay porn star.

I'm Michael Biehn's ass, showcased in the Cathy Lee Crosby vehicle Coach.

I am "MacArthur Park," Donna Summer's first #1 hit.

I'm AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'

I'm a Bentwood rocker, which enjoyed a revival in the late 1970's for some reason.

I live in Bay City and my name is Sven!

And I'm the baddest bad-ass villain soaps are ever going to see -- and that includes Stefano DiMera, Mikkos Cassadine, Tad Channing, Emma Donovan, and Sheila Carter!

I'm Bjorn Borg, and I had more groupies than Mick Jagger. Of course, I was 30 times more handsome than Mick.

I'm the cast of As The World Turns (Kim & Barbara in the photo aren't lesbians but they have been known to give off that vibe)

I'm Andrea McArdle and I'm totally going to make a successful Broadway to Hollywood leap.

I'm still the same...

I'm me and I'm starting to get muddled with all these 70s threads - I don't know if it's 1971, 78 0r 75.

After having my first ejaculatory orgasm at the age of 11 in 1971, I decided I wanted to suck penis. That happened a few weeks after graduation from HS in 1978. I saw some ad for a bathhouse in Blueboy on LaSalle St in Chicago. I went in and finally did it. I was underwhelmed, and didn’t indulge until almost a year later. Then, I became one mutherfucking sex fiend. I’m glad I cooled it off after hearing about AIDS in 1984.

I'm R567 and I'm under the false impression that people will be interested in the minutiae of my dreary sex life.

I’m r568 and I never had a sex life. Unless you count the time I blew Timmy in 5th grade. Now I troll the bookstores in my 70’s to relive that scenario.

I'm saddo, R569 - my sex life consisted of masturbation and anonymous blow jobs in gay bathhouses.

You probably mean the Bijou Cinema on Wells.

I danced and danced to MacArthur's park at the hotel disco in Port Aransas, Texas. But that was 1979.

I’m lead paint. Anybody buying a unit built before 1978 has to get a pamphlet issued by the EPA explaining the dangers I represent, and that their property may contain me.

We're ABBA and we are at the very height of our imperial phase.

Boy this thread sure slowed down to a snail's pace.

Here's our gay icon the Pink Panther in his own MONTHLY comic book (some bigger companies didn't have that going on back in '78).

This October cover (just in time for Halloween) has his significant other as a painter of a rainbow with Pink hitting his target with more attitude than anyone on RuPaul's Drag Race.

[quote]Boy this thread sure slowed down to a snail's pace.

It's been going for almost 4 weeks! 1/12 of 1978 itself....plus it had to compete with more recent 1971 and now 1975.

[quote]I danced and danced to MacArthur's park at the hotel disco in Port Aransas, Texas. But that was 1979.

I remember I used to transfer all my singles onto cassette (a lengthy but pleasurable process). I remember playing MacArthur's Park in my mother's new VW Rabbit and it exploding through the speakers as we drove along...it starts slow and suddenly she shrieks "Ah -haaaa" (Donna, not my mother) - that part.

[quote]Boy this thread sure slowed down to a snail's pace.

[quote]It's been going for almost 4 weeks! 1/12 of 1978 itself....plus it had to compete with more recent 1971 and now 1975.

And we're now up to r578, FFS.

1978 was the golden age of Playgirl, before they hit the back alleys of Prague. It is possible that some effort actually went into that publication back then. And it had halfway reputable advertisers.

[quote]1978 was the golden age of Playgirl, before they hit the back alleys of Prague.

The early '80s were my "golden age of Playgirl," and I don't remember a lot of Praguedong. I'm sure there was some, but I wouldn't have characterized it that way.

[quote]The early '80s were my "golden age of Playgirl,"

No! They were already starting to get man-perms, shaving their body hair and getting oiled up and shiny.

76-78 were the best years.

Actually, r581, it turns out my favorite is from 1978, Howie Gordon.

I clicked r582 too soon.

My next favorite, Brian Buzzini, didn't appear until 1986.

I liked this guy from my cherished Best of...1978

click for full reveal

and this guy from 1976

I liked Beau Lawrence r584, too. But the moustached men only rarely appealed to me. They all seemed so old. (I was in my 20s during the '70s.)

[quote]I liked Beau Lawrence [R584], too. But the moustached men only rarely appealed to me. They all seemed so old. (I was in my 20s during the '70s.)

I was 11 when I saw my first issue. In fact, it may have been the very first issue. My aunt bought a copy for my mother as a "joke". Didn't even know how to jerk off yet....but I sure liked looking at it.

It had this guy...eating a watermelon.

[quote]it starts slow and suddenly she shrieks "Ah -haaaa" [bold](Donna, not my mother)[/bold] - that part.

That commentary was hilarious.

I am memories of 1978.

Who was Bill Boggs exactly? I had a childhood friend who was a kid in the biz who made some sort of appearance with him, but what was exactly his claim to fame?

R587 That's me, Christopher George, star of the Rat Patrol and many, many episodes of The Love Boat and Fantasy Island. I'm also married to TV actress Linda Day George.

I will be dead from a heart attack in 8 years.

I'm 12 years old and by the spring of 1978 I realize I'm gay.

R591 Oops! Make that 5 years. I'll be dead in 5 years. It's 1978, not 1975.

Well, you're dead so we forgive you, Christopher...and sometimes it's easy to get confused which year it is on DL these days.

We're laughing on set.

I'm Alan and I became a surprise sex symbol in '78.

This thread, like all good things, is coming to its end...much like 1978 itself, it couldn't go on forever.

Thank you for remembering me!

Actually, r595, "on set" would have been 1977.

You're right, R601 - but a 1978 movie, none the less.

Let's end this thread with a smile.

and a kiss...