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Happy spamiversary! Spam reaches 30 Posted: 2 years ago by Bornbad
That commercial message, sent on 3 May 1978, drew a swift and negative reaction.
Comments: 6 Score: [-] 266 [+].
The Disco-movie of the year 1978 is "THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY' Posted: 2 years ago by mitzuzake
It's a movie full of disco-music, disco-people and disco-stuff. At the disco "The Zoo" is on a Friday-night a dance contest and the Commodores is the great live-act of the evening. Nicole (played by DONNA SUMMER) is a singer trying to break through. At last she get's her chance and sings "Last dance" (this song won the Oscar for best song in a film that year).
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 66 [+].
Former Patriots WR Stingley dies at 55 Posted: 3 years ago by steelshooter
For those that recall, or know NFL history, Darryl Stingley was hit by Jack Tatum during a play in 1978. His neck was broken and he became a quadriplegic. A tragic event that led to many of the rule changes we see in the game today.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 40 [+].
Like looking in a mirror! Posted: 6 months ago by bingo
It appears that the goth girl character EMILY is a pretty hard ripoff of ROSAMOND, a "strange girl" in the 1978 children's book Nate the Great and the Lost.
The amazing part is look who is suing who!
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 188 [+].
Bones found in boarded up house in Baltimore Posted: 2 years ago by kxmk
In the bedroom with a Playboy magazine from 1982 and a calendar on the wall from 1978. Wow!
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 119 [+].
The Rolling Stones Should've Retired in 1978 Posted: 1 year ago by jeffman
One man's opinion on why the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world should've called it a day in 1978.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 142 [+].
Human Rights Watch Founder Blasts Human Rights Watch For Anti-Israel Bias Posted: 1 month ago by 2manyusernames
Robert L. Bernstein, the former president and chief executive of Random House, was the chairman of Human Rights Watch from 1978 to 1998. Here in an op-ed piece he laments the obvious bias against Israel that HRW has long been accused of.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 155 [+].
Bullet Removed After 42 Years Posted: 6 months ago by bingo
65-year-old Hou Guoying recently had a bullet removed that had been lodged in her face for 42 years! She was shot accidently during the Cultural Revolution in China in 1967.
But doctors initially told her that her wound was only superficial, the Chongqing News reported.
Constant headaches and difficulty eating eventually led to an x-ray in 1978 that revealed the bullet.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 35 [+].
Battlestar Galactica episode in 60 seconds Posted: 1 year ago by CylonRobot
An episode from the 1978 Galactica in a minute.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 14 [+].
The night of the dawn of the day of the...candyman? What? Posted: 1 year ago by dougisdumb
So Richard Rubenstein is going to be producing a sequel to the original 1978 Dawn...confusing the holy living hell out of anyone who saw the 2004 remake. Further confusing anyone who saw the "Night" remake staring Tony Todd...who is in this sequel.
I am calling for a Geneva convention on zombie films. We need rules of engagement.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 145 [+].
Maybe an Asteroid Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs Posted: 7 months ago by Bornbad
The suddenness with which so many species vanished after the 65-million-year mark always suggested a single cataclysmic event, and the 1978 discovery of a 112-mi., 65-million-year-old crater off the Yucatán peninsula near the town of Chicxulub seemed to seal the deal.
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 273 [+].
The Jonestown Massacre Posted: 1 year ago by pocksucket
30 years ago, on 18th November 1978, nearly a thousand members of the People's Temple followed the instruction of their leader Jim Jones to drink cyanide in their jungle compound in British Guyana.
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 472 [+].
Return of the ’70s Weirdos Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
That photo of 11 weirdos in '70s clothes you may have seen on the Internet really is the original Microsoft team, snapped Dec. 7, 1978
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 113 [+].
Harvey Milk day to become reality? Posted: 6 months ago by chinook
Today, 22 May, many people celebrate the birthday of Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist who was murdered in San Francisco in November 1978. California legislators are trying to get today officially recognized as "Harvey Milk Day."
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Comments: 5 Score: [-] 604 [+].
VW museum loses historic cars in accident Posted: 3 years ago by beckinacea
NINE irreplaceable historic cars, including the last Beetle built on the Volkswagen SA production line in 1978, were damaged beyond repair after a car carrier transporting them overturned while travelling from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 51 [+].
C'était un rendez-vous (It was an appointment) Posted: 3 years ago by thecritters
On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris...... No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.
Comments: 7 Score: [-] 76 [+].
Read any good books lately? Posted: 3 years ago by Bornbad
Several of the titles were nominees for the Diagram Prize, a distinction awarded since 1978 by a British magazine for the oddest book title of the year.
Comments: 7 Score: [-] -3 [+].
It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Radio Drama) Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
From 1978, the long-out-of-print recording of the radio dramatization of the classic "It's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown"
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 29 [+].
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