Seventies Jokes

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    Q: How many seventies disco dancers does it take to change a lightbulb?
    A: Two. One to boogie up the ladder and one to say "Get daaowwwwn !"

    About four or five years ago I was standing in a ticket line at LAX, and a fellow in a line parallel to mine had a golf bag slung over his shoulder. Since the line was long and airline ticketing is a slow process at best, we struck up a conversation. He brightened when I admired his golf bag, and he proudly stated that he was on the PGA Tour. Then he turned to me and asked the question all golfers ask: "Do you play?"
    I shook my head, "I used to, but I quit because I wasn't very good. I shot consistently in the low seventies."
    There was a long, low in-take of breath, then "The low seventies?"
    "Yes," I admitted.
    "Consistently?" he queried admiringly.
    "Every hole," I confessed.

    In the early seventies, Ed Whitchurch ran "his game", and one of the participants was Eric Sorenson. Eric plays something like a computer. When he games he methodically considers each possibility before choosing his preferred option. If given time, he will invariably pick the optimal solution. It has been known to take weeks. He is otherwise, in all respects, a superior gamer.
    Eric was playing a Paladin in Ed's game. He was on some lord's lands when the following exchange occurred: ED: You see a well groomed garden. In the middle, on a small hill, you see a gazebo.
    ERIC: A gazebo? What color is it?
    ED: (Pause) It's white, Eric.
    ERIC: How far away is it?
    ED: About 50 yards.
    ERIC: How big is it?
    ED: (Pause) It's about 30 ft across, 15 ft high, with a pointed top.
    ERIC: I use my sword to detect good on it.
    ED: It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo.
    ERIC: (Pause) I call out to it.
    ED: It won't answer. It's a gazebo.
    ERIC: (Pause) I more...

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