A year in review
For Girlie on the Edge‘s Six Sentence Stories for July 18, 2021.
PROMPT WORD: SHIFT
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The year was 1971.
Someone named D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane and parachuted with $200,000 in ransom money somewhere over southwestern Washington state never to be found.
Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida.
With the world reeling amid violence in Vietnam, Northern Ireland, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Pakistan – hell, why write a list rather than just saying with violence raging pretty much anyplace in the world you can think of, John Lennon released the song Imagine.
One of the greatest blaxploitation movies in the history of the genre, a movie about a black private detective who was said to be “Hotter than Bond, cooler than Bullitt” titled “Shift”, was released to rave reviews.
EDIT: I’ve just received word that the movie was titled “Shaft”, not “Shift”; and I also learned that I don’t have a seventh sentence in which to tell you that the theme song from the movie, “Theme from Shift Shaft” received an Academy Award for best original song for writer and performer Gandolf “Gandy” Fitch.
‘I just received word….’ cracked me up. Do you remember ‘Night Shift’ with Michael Keaton? Hilarious. That is ‘Shift,’ for real. 🤣
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I remember the movie and Fonzie was in it as well. I don’t remember much about the story though.
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Fonzie and Michael Keaton were the perfect foil for each other. City morgue at night…. 😨
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And don’t forget Shelley Long, who played a whore, Clint Howard, who left his bear behind, and Kevin Costner as Frat Boy #1!
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So many great people, right?! Such a funny movie.
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I might need to watch it again!
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LOL. 😀
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Smiles and laughs are great. Thank you Susan!
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What a difference a letter makes to history. 😉
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Who would have known? Apparently a book about a magician living in the American south suffered from a single typo and Gone with the Wand never reached it’s full potential. Such is life…
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🙂
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I read Shaft when I saw Shift anyway. Nice way to get the prompt word in.
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Thanks Frank!
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Nicely done, Michael 😀
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Thank you, Keeper of the Six!
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Hah! Your shifting of vowels is something my buddy Clark @Wakefield Doctrine would do in a heartbeat! Nice job!
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There’s nothing more fun than playing with words. Thanks Dyanne!
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LOL indeed…good six.
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Thanks UP!
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Great fun, Michael! I adore that theme song. 🙂
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It’s a great song, isn’t it? I’ve always been an Isaac Hayes fan.
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Not seen either film – I’ll add them to the Film Friday list – 😆
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You won’t be disappointed!
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Clever and funny, Michael
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Thanks C.E.
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Excellent line about the seventh sentences, but, dude! that’s why god invented semicolons!
fun, Wayback Six
deformative years, they were, I’ll have you know
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Deformative, yes. At least the ones I can remember!
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Ha, good one, Michael 🙂 A typo causing havoc again, like in the book The Lion, the Watch and the Wardrobe.
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