Showing posts with label #tbt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #tbt. Show all posts

Thursday, February 5, 2015

#tbt: DID YOU KNOW WHO THIS GUY WAS BACK IN THE 80s?


Earlier this year, there was quite a bit of over-exaggerated anger aimed at the younger generation, especially fans of Kanye West, because they supposedly did know who Paul McCartney was. West and McCartney recorded a song together called "Only One." If you are to believe articles circulating on social media, Kanye West fans thought McCartney was a unknown artist that Kanye discovered. There have even been "screen captures" showing "trending Tweets" by Kanye's fans circulating on Facebook, usually accompanied by condescending, head-shaking, hand-ringing comments from Generation X/Generation Jones people, who believe that the younger generation is screwed up and not wonderful, model teenagers "like we were." Several of my former classmates were among the "horrified" adults critical the "modern youth."

First off, I call BS on "screen captures" of those "trending Tweets." Any time I see a post of a screen capture of Tweets or Facebook post I'm a little suspect. Also these "Tweets" didn't sound like or look like a young persons Tweets or text. Young people know how to text and Tweet in a language older people don't know. Second, my classmates have no business slamming Kanye West fans, who were willing to greet Sir Paul with open arms, because they harassed and ridiculed me for like Paul McCartney and the Beatles in junior high. At my school, the guys liked Hank Jr. and the girls liked Barry Manilow. Because of my choice of music, I was bullied by the guys and refused romantic relationships with the girls. Now, they are acting like Paul McCartney was one of their favorite performers. Thy name is hypocrisy.

Let me give a shout out to Pam at Go Retro! She took the high road on this subject in a fun post filled with facts about Paul McCartney. She observed that every generation is oblivious to the previous generations music.
  
Of course, it is up to me, Desdinova to throw this back in my generation's face. Mwu-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Okay, 80s kids, tell me, who is the guy in these photos?



DID YOU KNOW WHO HE WAS WHEN YOU HEARD HIS NAME DROPPED IN 80S SONGS BY VAN MORRISON, BILLY JOEL, BILLY IDOL AND DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS? Did you recognize him, when he appeared in the videos of Billy Idol and Dexy's Midnight Runners? WELL, DID YOU, YA LITTLE 80's PUNKS?





I may give you the answer or I might not. I may let you live with the fact that you chastised and criticized the young Kanye West fans because they didn't Paul McCartney, yet you did know who this man with a hearing aid was when you were in junior high and high school?  You are just like Principal Dick Vernon in The Breakfast Club. How do you live with yourself?

BTW: For the answer to the identity of this singer is, click on this link.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

#THROWBACK THURSDAY - SUPER 8 MONSTER MOVIES


I always wanted a movie projector, so I could get these Super 8 monster movies and watch them. They were sold locally at K-Mart and in the back of Famous Monsters, Creepy, Vampirella and Eerie magazines. They were severely edited versions of the original and even had different titles. Here is a photo of some boxes I found on Pinterest.

#THROWBACK THURSDAY - HALLOWEEN COSTUMES & MASK

HAPPY CLOWN
FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER
THE HULK
MISS KITTY
GRANNY CLAMPETT
SAMANTHA
HERMAN MUNSTER
A BEATLE
UNDERDOG
BATMAN
THE SHADOW
BART SIMPSON
BARNABAS COLLINS


Wednesday, October 1, 2014

A SCARY #THROWBACK THURSDAY

A #throwbackthursday featuring scary, monster people.

LON CHANEY
LON CHANEY Jr (His hair was perfect)
BELA LUGOSI
BORIS KARLOFF
VINCENT PRICE
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
ROD SERLING (with his parents)
STEVEN KING
COFFIN JOE
JONATHAN FRID/BARNABAS COLLINS
ALICE COOPER
OZZY OSBOURNE

Thursday, September 25, 2014

GEORGE LINDSEY'S STEAKHOUSE & DOG N SUDS AD FROM 1971

For a #THROWBACKTHURSDAY. An ad for George Lindsey's Steakhouse and Dog N Suds in the Springfield Daily News. Oddly enough, the George Lindsey's Steakhouse is still in business in Springfield, MO, only it is just called George's Restaurant now.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

HOW IS THIS FOR A #THROWBACK THURSDAY?

Many people on Facebook have a photo for Throwback Thursday or #throwbackthursday. I found some photos on Pinterest recently that I decided would be fun for a #throwbackthursday feature for this blog. Remember when you were a kid thinking that older people "were never young"? Well, here are some #throwbackthursday photos of some familiar older ladies of TV "back in the day."

MRS. C

MAUDE

MAMA CARLSON

ENDORA


JESSICA FLETCHER

GRANDMAMA ADDAMS

JULIA CHILD

DR. JULIA HOFFMAN

GRANNY CLAMPETT

AUNT BEA

MAW MAW THOMPSON

JUDGE JUDY
COUSIN MINNIE PEARL

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