It was a year that strode boldly into the stall of human events and took a wide stance astride the porcelain bowl of history.
It was year in which roughly 17,000 leading presidential contenders, plus of course Dennis Kucinich, held roughly 63,000 debates, during which they spewed out roughly 153 trillion words; and yet the only truly memorable phrase emitted in any political context was ``Don't tase me, Bro!''
It was a year filled with bizarre, insane, destructive behavior, an alarming amount of which involved astronauts.
Ah yes. In the immortal words of that long gone and lamented British teevee show (paraphrased), "2007... That Was the Year That Was."
(Apropos of nothing...I think the Wiki has this one wrong. I watched TW3 every frickin' week while I was in Britain during the early 80s. Or maybe I just thought I did...)
2007 was indeed a strange year...I have a feeling 2008 is going to be a bell weather year, and I'm not sure we won't see some radical happenings...not all for the good. But time will tell.
ReplyDeleteOn your closing statement; maybe we're just getting into our salad days. I can remember a "This was the week that was" but I just can't tell you why or what it was. I'm going to go back to cutting out my paper dolls now.
ReplyDeleteThank you - I needed the laugh!
ReplyDeleteThis is just funny (sad and true)
Buck, "That Was The Week That Was", was absolutely a creature of the early 1960s... it ran on BBC for two seasons only. An American version of it ran in the mid-60s and featured songs written by a young lyricist named Tom Lehrer :-).
ReplyDeleteI'd bet good money that what you were watching in the UK in the 1980s was Not The Nine O'Clock News.