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Time to reach into your grab bag of 70s nostalgia with a fab new concept in MC. Get from Fingerbobs to Slade without passing blaxploitation or The Winter of Discontent. Punk Scores double but has nothing to do with the Mystery winning move.
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Peters and Lee
Benny from Crossroads.
Hence Benny from Abba.
Benny! Benny! Benny! Benny and The Jets!
more tooth-rot : Imps, Tacks (very similar), rainbow crystals, pink panther bars and those pink waffle-shaped chewy spearmint things between two sheets of greaseproof paper...
[Tooth-rot] Mojos! Cinnamon flavoured tic-tacs, and those Fry's choclate bars with the multi-coloured, multi-flavoured soft fondant centers.
Pink Panther Pink Chocolate Bars (And still available in Norwich as late as 1991, by the way)
Dad's Army & M*A*S*H each lasting longer than the wars they portrayed.
[Puckoon] Because they lasted just one hour a week... :oP
The Liver Birds Ye dancin'? invoked.
Leading to the usual companion move of Butterflies.
Pen] Ya askin'? Mrs Slocombe's Pussy. Donna Summer - feeling Lurveeee. Oooooh!
Green Shield Stamps! Sandwich Toaster, anyone?
In which case, I'll have a Three Day Week.
Darn it, rab, that forces me into a Hard Day's Night - at home, of course, in Abbey Road!
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt! Hard Day's Night was 1964.

What ever happened to
Marathon Bars
Smiths Crisps
Opal Fruits
Rowntrees Fruit Gums...?
Marathon Bars became 'Snickers' in about 1990
Smiths Crisps are still available
Opal Fruits became Starburst in about 2001
and Rowntrees Fruit Gums are still available

all of which forces me to Shop at a FineFare Supermarket, using a checkout till with mechanical buttons and a totalling button that goes KERRRR-CHINNNNG! and opens the cash drawer (where there is a compartment for half-pence pieces).

Arkwright's till with it's mousetrap like One Pound Note clip, in Open All Hours. [pen] that compartment would have originally been for tanners.
Pen] Marathon bars and Opal Friuts were launched in the 70s. Smiths Crisps have been bought up by Walkers (have you bought a pack of salt'n'shake recently). They, like Rowntrees Fruit Gums were at the top of their popularity in the 70's. Well, with me anyway. Rowntrees are now a sub-division of (yah-spit) Nestle.
If you are going for FineFare - I shall retailate with Key Markets. Nah nah!
Issac Hayes - Hyberbolicsyllabicsesquidalymistic
Which window will it be today? - The Arched window! Fade out to chocolate factory production line/ Jean Tinguely kinetic sculpture.
[BtD] I consider myself trounced by your last move - this is one of the most one-upmanshippish games in the Morniverse! I move paper mice and bearded presenters...Fingerbobs!
Magpie... sing alon now...

One For Sorrow,
Two For Joy,
Three for a Girl and
Four for a boy,
Five for Silver,
Six for Gold,
Seven is a secret never to be told,
Eight's a wish and
Nine's a kiss,
Ten is a bird that you must not miss

Flowery Twats, er, I think I meant Fawlty Towers.
Corny jokes to the fore! It's Rentaghost.
I reckon it's about time for a Rock Against Racism concert.
Last of the Summer Wine with the original trio of Peter Sallis as Norman Clegg, The late Bill Owen as Compo Simmonite and the very late Michael Bates as Cyril Blamire. Started 4th January 1973 latest series is currently running each Sunday on BBC1, that's the 24th Series.
[Puckoon] Yes, you really would have thought they'd have put it to bed by now, wouldn't you. Meanwhile Dad's Army.
Steptoe & Son, or its American cousin, Sanford & Son
Bzzzt! I don't think either of the last two moves really qualifies. I mean, yes, they were on in the seventies, but by that token you might as well claim, say, The Bible as a 70s book.

Pending adjudication on that, I'll go for Ken Russell's Tommy.

[matt] I kind of see your point, but do you really mean we have to abandon things that were created in the 70's but are still around? And was the bible written in the 70's? I think we should be told.
I'm sure someone's translation was written in the 1970s. Anyhoo...toning it down with Billy Joel's Piano Man.
Blowping BJPM with Up Town Top Rankin' Ting!
Is Kraftwerk authentically 70's enough?
[rab] No, I mean we have to abandon things that were created before the 70s -- the 60s in the case of Steptoe and Dad's Army. Although both shows continued to be made in the 70s, there's nothing really 70s about them, to me anyway. Others clearly disagree. I shouldn't think there'll be much argument about on Bolan's TV show Marc, though.
[matt] Ah, understand now.
if not Dad's Army try M*A*S*H there's the 1970 Film followed by the TV series, 11 in all. If you like that sort of thing you can get the first three TV series on DVD (Region 1 only though).
Richard Baker News Broadcasts [Matt] How about Dad's Army and Steptoe and Son in colour? That makes it distinctly 1970s.
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