> > > The Reader Poll seems to be suggesting that the 1970 and 1980 were the least popular decades. Did somebody have a miserable child hood? Reading backwards (sort of), the poll suggests that the 1950's were the most popular. Or least disliked, if that makes sense. It was the period of the Korean War, the military draft, McCarthyism, the cold war, Jim Crow, the Berlin wall, polio epidemics and poodle skirts. What could be worse than that? Maybe most of the people who responded to the poll weren't born yet.
> > > How"1933 was grand"ard
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> > Well Howard, let me tell you that nothing happenned in the 80s. Nothing. The only good thing to come out of the 80s was me.
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> > Finchplucker #12
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> Correction. I bought my 1980 Subaru. Best thing that ever happened to me, transportation wise. It lasted longer than the payments! We drove that little car for 17 years. It got 33 miles per gallon on a bad day. It was immune to crosswinds and you couldn't make it hydroplane. It laughed at snow (didn't have 4WD) and didn't overheat in 100 degree weather, even in a New Orleans traffic jam. It never had an alignment job and the tires lasted for years. It conked out a couple of times in it's old age, but I always got it running and it came home under it's own power. The most expensive part I ever put on it was a water pump. It was never towed. I never added oil between changes. It never dripped on the driveway. At 182,000 miles, I sold it to a lady who drove the hound out of it for two more years. Other than that, I agree that the 1980's were a flop.
> Howard

Total flop?! What about the B-52's? The Simpsons? Back To The Future? Cable TV? Satellite TV? Me?

-Dr. Morris Cecil "The 1910's were my vote" Glalet, Th.D.
Fri 7 Dec A.D. 2000