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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.
Sponsored by Pearl and Dean.
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Summer holiday viewing cascade:
Robinson Crusoe
The Singing Ringing Tree
Belle and Sebatian
Why Don't You...
Cloe Ashcroft wearing dungarees and singing 'Jelly on a Plate'...
Worthington E - Double diamond loop
[Saskia] You think you're so smart, but I'm wearing stripy socks and all I will say to you is DORIS! (And Watch Out! There's a Humphrey About!)
Watneys Red Barrel aahhrghhh
How! interesting.
Huggy Bear - avoiding The Hair Bear Bunch.
staying with the animal theme Top Cat
Bachman-Turner Overdrive You ain't seen nothin' yet...b-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen n-n-nothin' yet!
Plastic serrated Woo-woo tubes. Spin 'em round and they go woooo.
Entertaining with 'The Fondue Set' [what ARE those charred black thingies lurking at the bottom of this pan?] but restoring credibility with Curved Air's 'Phantasmagoria' [what ARE those charred black thingies lurking underneath Sonja Kristina's fringe?]
Stealers Wheel Stuck in the middle with you, without any later associated connotations of acts of torture, thankyouverymuch.
(Penelope) Were you a member of the Tufty Club or did you listen to what Charlie Says?
[Sakia] I was in the Tufty club, the Puffin club and I was a Brownie too... Professor Brainstawm Ner-ner ner-ner-ner!
Cheech & Chong - Up in smoke man
"I am not a crook."
10CC, "I'm not in love"
Joan Armatrading - I am not in love, but I'm open to persuasion
pen]Found just the man for you Lord Brett Sinclair.
Inkspot] In that case, Danny is Wilde. Getting my digital calculator out , I see the next move is Clive Sinclair.
Guess I'll have to play Kate Bush on the side of double decker buses. Abba moved from number one.
Meatloaf Let me sleep on it.
Let's go to Abigail's Party for a bit of Demis Roussos
A Multi-Gobble-Choc-Bomb is really rather nice
Topped with choc and sugar balls and strawberry flavoured ice
But a Multi-Gobble-Choc-Bomb has a big surprise
For every Multi-Gobble-Choc-Bomb has a bar of choc inside!
Hey! Crusader, have you any nuts?
I've got mixed nuts and raisins, salted cashews,
I've got my favourite roasted peanuts!
(More, more, more!)I've got three
Bags
Full.
Does this mean that it's time for a Finger of Fudge?
[BtD] Only if you let me play The small piece of cardboard that you used to get in a Bounty Bar.
Space Dust *crackle*
Logically on to Spacehoppers
I know just what you're thinking The Tomorrow People ... such nice children.
Dangerous playground equipment like slides that are over 6 feet high, see-saws that chop fingers off, solid wood swings which bash you in the face. And no protective soft surface to fall on.
Goldfish in Bags.
Umpteen Apollo Missions spawning The Moonwalk
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.
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