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[BiscuitHammer]

In my recently published chapters, I have referenced early edition D&D, the Bay City Rollers, Fritz the Cat, and Pinky Tuscadero from Happy Days.

And my readers are going berserk, loving it and thanking me for such welcome trips down memory lane.

I guess I'm old. Lol.

 

[vanmyers86]

In my recently published chapters, I have referenced early edition D&D, the Bay City Rollers, Fritz the Cat, and Pinky Tuscadero from Happy Days.

And my readers are going berserk, loving it and thanking me for such welcome trips down memory lane.

I guess I'm old. Lol.

Congrats! And get in line.

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

In every story I write I include Easter Eggs like this. In one I will be submitting soon the main character is molded after an actress on TWD and even her name is taken from that show.

There are several other references to TWD and The Office as well. I even have a reference to one of two of my other stories as well.

I'm always disappointed no one comments on them. Sometimes they are subtle and esoteric, other times they're in your face.

 

[SimonDoom]

Fritz the Cat! Love that. I haven't heard about Fritz the Cat in years.

I'm still working on a way to incorporate D&D into a story. I've got an idea but it's slow in the developing.

Some other things one could incorporate in a story along these lines: feathered hair parted in the middle, thick handled comb planted permanently in the back pocket, Angel Flight disco pants, pet rocks (I had one), 8 track tapes, Charlie's Angels (who's your favorite angel? mine was Jaclyn Smith), My Sharona, Space Invaders, roller skating, shag rugs and avocado-colored refrigerators.

 

[jaF0]

Charlie's Angels (who's your favorite angel? mine was Jaclyn Smith),

Tiffany Welles (Shelley Hack)

http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/breast/photos/shelleyhack.jpg

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

In my recently published chapters, I have referenced early edition D&D, the Bay City Rollers, Fritz the Cat, and Pinky Tuscadero from Happy Days.

And my readers are going berserk, loving it and thanking me for such welcome trips down memory lane.

I guess I'm old. Lol.

I found a Bay City Rollers album in hubby's vinyl collection and I razzed him for having teenybopper tripe sung by 70's fashion-victims in among all his John Coltrane and Chick Corea albums, until I found his cousin Mary's name all over the record inner and realized she'd left it in her uncle's collection which became Will's collection so I gave him a pass. I listened to it, not bad, not bad at all. I don't remember 'Rollermania', the only song I recognized was 'Bye Bye Baby' because it was a cover of a song by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons'. I was only about 6 when they disappeared, but I'll probably buy their greatest hits cd.

Suzi Quatro (she's Susie Q now on BBC Radio 2 playing soft rock and easy listening) as Leather Tuscadero in Happy Days was always fun. Happy Days is on pretty much permanent rerun on some of the English channels here (along with MASH, Rin Tin Tin, The Love Boat, Gilligan's Island, and occasionally McHale's Navy) Will thinks she was big in the 70's in England, he was just a kid then, too, so his memories of the 70's are kind of jumbled.

*Just looked up the Bay City Rollers on Amazon, there they are; dayyum, those clothes, those teeth...*

 

[ElectricBlue]

Some other things one could incorporate in a story along these lines: feathered hair parted in the middle, thick handled comb planted permanently in the back pocket, Angel Flight disco pants, pet rocks (I had one), 8 track tapes, Charlie's Angels (who's your favorite angel? mine was Jaclyn Smith), My Sharona, Space Invaders, roller skating, shag rugs and avocado-colored refrigerators.

You know, Simon, I never quite pictured you as a hair parted in the middle kind of a guy.

"It's true," said Suzie. "But he's not told you about his Grease poster, where he cut out his prom photo and stuck it over John Travolta."

"Just so long as he's respectful towards Olivia," EB replied. "She's as much Australian royalty as La Divine Minogue."

"I know! Those gold hot pants!" Suzie felt inspired, and went upstairs.

 

[SimonDoom]

You know, Simon, I never quite pictured you as a hair parted in the middle kind of a guy.

"It's true," said Suzie. "But he's not told you about his Grease poster, where he cut out his prom photo and stuck it over John Travolta."

"Just so long as he's respectful towards Olivia," EB replied. "She's as much Australian royalty as La Divine Minogue."

"I know! Those gold hot pants!" Suzie felt inspired, and went upstairs.

You pictured right. I never parted my hair in the middle and I never wore a comb in my back pocket, but for a while, it seemed like everyone else did. I never got a perm for my hair, either, but that was really common as well.

I did wear bell-bottom corduroy pants and terry cloth shirts. I could rebel, up to a point, but I didn't want to be ostracized.

I also had that poster of Cheryl Tiegs in a pink bikini on my bedroom wall until my punk brother lewdly defaced it.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I like to slip pop culture Easter eggs into my stories as well.

Only, they are usually from this century.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

I also had that poster of Cheryl Tiegs in a pink bikini on my bedroom wall until my punk brother lewdly defaced it.

Wuzzat the one of her pulling on the side of the bikini bottom and smiling dazzlingly?

Or was that Heather Thomas?

I remember Cursor dragging a digital heart around it in the intro to the show Automan. Jayzoz, that was a bad show...

... good thing I'm not planning on referencing it in any of my flashbacks... >.>

 

[AlexBailey]

I heard someone on news radio talking about how it was time to go home for the day by saying, "...sliding down the dinosaur's tail."

The radio station got flooded with calls and messages about the 'Flintstones' reference.

 

[SimonDoom]

Wuzzat the one of her pulling on the side of the bikini bottom and smiling dazzlingly?

Oh, yes.

And then my asshole brother . . .

 

[BiscuitHammer]

Oh, yes.

And then my asshole brother . . .

Hopefully you got it unstuck from the wall excessively...

 

[ElectricBlue]

Hopefully you got it unstuck from the wall excessively...

All depends what he stuck it to the wall with, in the first place.

But Simon with a punk brother? These revelations, they keep on coming!

"You're going to ignore the bit where he says he never parted his hair in the middle and no comb in the back pocket, aren't you, EB?"

"Can't razz there, Suzie, coz this old swimmer boy hippy had the long blond hair, the black velvet flares and Indian muslin shirts. The late seventies, what can I say?"

Carry on .

 

[jaF0]

Hopefully you got it unstuck from the wall excessively...

Excessively?

Or successfully?


And, the poster, or the brother?

 

[BiscuitHammer]

Excessively?

Or successfully?


And, the poster, or the brother?

I meant successfully.

Edited the comment.

Derp.

 

[gunhilltrain]

In my recently published chapters, I have referenced early edition D&D, the Bay City Rollers, Fritz the Cat, and Pinky Tuscadero from Happy Days.

And my readers are going berserk, loving it and thanking me for such welcome trips down memory lane.

I guess I'm old. Lol.

Fritz the Cat - yeah, I've got some R. Crumb references. Remember the incestous Joe Blow and his family?

You've got to be careful about anachronisms seeping in. I want to use something and - oops, it wasn't out yet.

Some notable 1970s movies I've got: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Michael Cimino's first directing effort), Dog Day Afternoon and Young Frankenstein.

I seem to have a Steve Winwood thing: for the 1970s, The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (specifically the title track, not the whole album) and for the 1980s, Night Train from the Arc of A Diver album. For the first one, in particular, the characters can't figure out what the song is about.

 

[SisterJezabel]

I put references in and had someone pick up on one of them. Often they are rather obscure and only other Aussies would recognise them. I usually try and throw in an Easter egg for my partner- names of characters are sometimes influenced by people we may have worked with or know of. Other times characters are based on people but named differently. Of course any reference to any person living o dead is purely coincidental...

 

[PennameWombat]

Fritz the Cat! Love that. I haven't heard about Fritz the Cat in years.

I'm still working on a way to incorporate D&D into a story. I've got an idea but it's slow in the developing.

Some other things one could incorporate in a story along these lines: feathered hair parted in the middle, thick handled comb planted permanently in the back pocket, Angel Flight disco pants, pet rocks (I had one), 8 track tapes, Charlie's Angels (who's your favorite angel? mine was Jaclyn Smith), My Sharona, Space Invaders, roller skating, shag rugs and avocado-colored refrigerators.

I’ve used D&D references as a running thread across many of my Mel’s Universe stories. Mel herself gets the idea to be “Devil Girl” due to being referred to as a ‘succubus’ per the D&D monster. Two Geek Pride characters bond as an MF couple when they discover their mutual love of D&D and go into some detail about their respective characters and play together.

The concept was also important in another universe but there I renamed it “Wizards & Wyverns” because I wanted to make some changes for how it affected my techno-mogul’s life.

Feathered hair parted in the middle, shag rugs and 8-tracks, yes. Disco, only in total and complete derision and as little as possible

My upcoming Summer Lovin entry uses the second weekend of the original release of ‘Animal House’ (1978) as a key event for my lead couple.

But as a rule, what relatively few comments I get, mention of my various culture references hasn’t even been brought up. Even when they cover 21st-century references, e.g., I name-dropped “The Expanse”, “Hunger Games,” “Battle Royale,” and other current SF&F in a story set in 2018-2019, as well as some other references. Good scores (has an ‘H’) but no comments on those.

 

[Handley_Page]

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I also had that poster of Cheryl Tiegs in a pink bikini on my bedroom wall until my punk brother lewdly defaced it.

You mean this one?

 

[PennameWombat]

I put references in and had someone pick up on one of them. Often they are rather obscure and only other Aussies would recognise them. I usually try and throw in an Easter egg for my partner- names of characters are sometimes influenced by people we may have worked with or know of. Other times characters are based on people but named differently. Of course any reference to any person living o dead is purely coincidental...

I’m still waiting if anyone’s going to comment on (positively or negatively) when I have a character mention to his girlfriend “to my dad they’ll always be Wests Magpies, not Wests Tigers.” (She’s an Eels fan.) Or the fact that in the story they actually defeat Melbourne Storm in a match I mean, it doesn’t get much less realistic than that!

And seeing stylish and not-so-stylish patrons in Newtown coffee shops

Drop bears have made an appearance in another story... Haven’t found the right time for a bunyip reference though.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Cars are fun too. Remember when most people in the U.S. owned American ones and they were often pretty big, if not huge? What cars characters own and how they react to them can be interesting.

I have a girl who proves her coolness by buying a 1970 Mustang convertible. It's used, but so what? Her boyfriend wants to borrow it, but she doesn't think he's a competent driver.

I have girls who impress their boyfriends by having cars with generous back seats. Initially the guys are uncomfortable about not providing the rides themselves, but then they recognize a good thing when they see it. Two I can recall are a 1966 Buick Skylark and a full-sized 1967 Oldsmobile.

One poor guy has his date laugh at him because he has a used 1975 Austin Marina. He bought it because it was so cheap.

 

[Rustyoznail]

I had one character drive a 64 Plymouth Fury, and a reader thanked me for getting the details correct.

Another story called up a Morris Minor panel van, which made Oggbashan happy.

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

Cars are fun too. Remember when most people in the U.S. owned American ones and they were often pretty big, if not huge? What cars characters own and how they react to them can be interesting.

One poor guy has his date laugh at him because he has a used 1975 Austin Marina. He bought it because it was so cheap.

Hubby's gagging at the thought of an Austin Marina; I saw a picture, I'd laugh at a guy who showed up in one of those buckets. Will made me laugh when he noted how some iconic 70's cars, like the Triumph Stag, Jensen Interceptor, Jaguar XJS, Opel GT are charismatic, and the Marina earned its place in history for being truly char-isn't-matic...

 

[BiscuitHammer]

The Pinky Tusacdero remark mentioned in the first post happens in a flashback to 1987 when four friends are trying to figure out who drives somewhere with whom. Karen offers to take one of them in her Quattro and both Mona and Janet yelp 'NOT IT!' and touch their noses, leaving Lisa to drive with Karen.

Lisa: 'W-wait! What?! Not fair! Why do I have to drive with Pinky Tuscadero?!"

The other in-joke there was the type of car Karen drives- if you remember Happy Days, Pinky Tuscadero had a little sister named Leather.

And Leather Tuscadero was played by Suzi Quatro. See what I did there?

I need coffee...