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Subject: Anyone know what you call
From: GUEST,Blind desert Pete
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 03:17 PM

The mirror ball things that we now call "disco balls"I know ive seen them long befor there were discos. I just know some catter will know the answer tx P.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: Kim C
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 03:23 PM

I just always called it a disco ball...

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: MMario
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 03:26 PM

aside from "tacky and tasteless" I don't recall calling them anything prior to the disco craze - but you are right, they were around.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 03:29 PM

They were around in the fifties, long before disco. Similar to "gazing balls" in Victorian gardens.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: Troll
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 03:40 PM

In the 50's, we called 'em "mirror balls". As I recall we had two at my Sr. Prom. going in opposite directions. Vertigo city!

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: Allan C.
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 03:42 PM

I knew them as "party balls" until the disco scare.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: Bernard
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 03:52 PM

I believe in mirrorballs... (where are you from, you sexy thing?!)!!

Call a spade a spade, and a mirrorball a mirrorball. At least, in the trade that's what we've always called 'em...

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: Burke
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 06:19 PM

Mirror ball is all I've ever heard 'em called.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: mousethief
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 06:57 PM

Thanks, Bern. I hadn't thought about that song for nearly 20 years.

I've never had mirror balls, but then again I've never polished them.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 07:01 PM

ooo sparkly

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: Sarah2
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 07:46 PM

Me mum says she can't recall, but she remembers them from her college days -- that'd be the mid-'30s. So they've been around a while.

Sarah

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 10:38 PM

Well, I guess we settled THAT! LOL! (Allan C.--around here a party ball is a spherical keg of beer....)

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: GUEST,jacky
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 10:54 PM

I dunno, i always had fits and convulsions when i looked at one,cant really remember them,too busy blacking out.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: GUEST,Boris Romanov
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 11:00 PM

We invented them to brainwash all you western capitalists and put them in your "dancing halls".Long live the revolution and keep looking into the sparkly lights.From Boris Romanov,(K.G.B. Headquarters,whats left of it)

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: GUEST,Mr Plain and Mr Obvious
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 11:06 PM

A sphere,constructed of pliable material with a layer of adhesive to which small pieces of mirror should be attached.Thats what we used to call them in the good ol days.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: GUEST,Joanne
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 11:11 PM

I thought it described a medical condition caused from the constant friction of tight underpants putting a shine on things

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: ddw
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 11:16 PM

I always heard them referred to as "glitter balls" — and it was rarely said with any affection.

david

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: Sarah2
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 11:21 PM

David,

Asked me mum -- she says that's it! Back in Chicago in the roarin' days, anyway.

Sarah

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 11:46 PM

Dunno. Dont speck we had em at the Red Dog Saloon

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 12:45 AM

If you Click here you can trip the light fantastic, just like Travolta....sorta...

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: Noreen
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 09:04 AM

Brill site, kat! *LOL*

Noreen
aseventiesgirl...

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: GUEST,Bald Eagle
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 09:12 AM

What is "disco"?

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: Homeless
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 09:41 AM

Not quite John Travolta, but it brings back the ambiance of the disco days. Go here then click the link to "Alien Song"

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: NightWing
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 10:48 AM

Katlaughing, you are one sick puppy!!!

... Thousands of dollars was poured into research to digitize human memory. The SPS cult figureheads figured that the memories of the Seventies were so great, that they needed to be shared with the future world. Tragically, several young SPS members who believed so strongly in their Society's message died in the experiments to transfer brain memories onto a 5 inch floppy disk. These brave people underwent brain surgery to put live electrical conduits directly into their brain. The doctors working struggled to find a safe voltage, as volunteer after volunteer died before their very eyes.

... Over fifteen of our fellow SPS members have died at the hands of our memory experiments in the past three and a half years. People always ask me, 'Don, is it worth it? Is it worth that some of us should perish so the Seventies will live forever?'. My answer has been, and always will be, a resounding 'Yes!'

Donald Brucker, President of the Seventies Preservation Society, Speech March 29, 1984.

sizzle

BB,
NightWing

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: Kim C
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 05:23 PM

I really like Sarah McLachlan's Mirrorball album...

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone know what you call
From: GUEST,folkcensor
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 05:31 PM

I thought that was Neil Young.