Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1975 (idea)@Everything2.com

O.J. Simpson is not remembered for his football or acting careers as much as for his sensational murder and wrongful death trials.
People are wearing bell bottoms again, despite everyone's best efforts.
We think the pop culture of your time is unintentionally hilarious.
Salsa is outselling ketchup.
People have taken to driving short steel spikes through different parts of their bodies--not just their ears--as a fashion statement, and in many cases it looks surprisingly good.
Riding a motorcycle has become a respectable pastime for middle-aged men.
The Space Age miscarried, however:
You can sit in front of a cheap, powerful computer in your own bedroom and gain access to a generous percentage of the world's cumulative knowledge and learning. Or, if that's not your speed, you can use the same system to look at pictures of naked people.
Many young people have had many casual sexual experiences, but have never had sex without a condom.
There is going to be peace and war and prosperity and poverty and unity and mutual distrust and charity and greed in 2001; in this way, it'll be more like 1975 or 2027 than not.

The condom is the glass slipper of our generation	I'd love to go back to the late 80's and tell them about our time	Debbie Does Dallas	Sex with your best friend
Larry Ellison	Yipl	Cryptic Manor	Andy Warhol
futon	Rosie O'Donnell	A Brief History of Electronic Music	Stairway to Heaven
RC5	Shine on You Crazy Diamond	Sears Tower	We don't need no education
The Wretched Spearsean Army of Idiocy	Interstate '76	Douglas Coupland	The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter	Oracle	Bedtime for Bonzo	Victory Garden

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