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captain queeg

(10,100 posts)
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 09:04 PM Mar 2022

Remember that old TV spot in the 70s, a couple old white guys duking it out in the ring?

It asked the question if war should be decided by those who started them. Then, as now, politicians wage war using their country’s youth. Some things never change.

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Remember that old TV spot in the 70s, a couple old white guys duking it out in the ring? (Original Post) captain queeg Mar 2022 OP
Frankie Goes to Hollywood: "Two Tribes" . . . Journeyman Mar 2022 #1
I don't remember this version. captain queeg Mar 2022 #4
He turned out to be Italian lame54 Mar 2022 #5
Well, that one was mid-'80s. keep_left Mar 2022 #6
I'm old, too. I remember it well. PJMcK Mar 2022 #2
Not really sure. Certainly could have been the 60s. captain queeg Mar 2022 #3

captain queeg

(10,100 posts)
4. I don't remember this version.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 11:06 PM
Mar 2022

Of course it was a long time ago but I remember a short TV spot, akin the Native American looking down at the garbage with a tear in his eye.

keep_left

(1,780 posts)
6. Well, that one was mid-'80s.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 11:24 PM
Mar 2022

And there were like three million remixes of that FGTH song as well, and two different videos, I think! Anyway, that's a great one nonetheless. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

PJMcK

(21,998 posts)
2. I'm old, too. I remember it well.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 10:38 PM
Mar 2022

It was a powerful condemnation of war, specifically the Vietnam War.

Was it the 1970s or could it have been earlier, say, the late 1960s?



captain queeg

(10,100 posts)
3. Not really sure. Certainly could have been the 60s.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 11:01 PM
Mar 2022

I tend to think anything I remember must have been at least the 70s but that’s not true. I was alive all thru the 60s though admit-ably I was too young to remember the first part of that decade. Now that I think About it I wonder who produced it and paid for the air time?

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