# Oh my! How times have changed.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-how-times-have-changed/494515>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 27, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-how-times-have-changed/494515 "2009-04-27T16:38:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-how-times-have-changed/494515/1 "2009-04-27T16:38:05Z")

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A friend of mine sent me [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3VbSfQ3nAM) in honor of the passing of Bea Arthur. At first I thought I’d post in the [RIP Bea Arthur](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=515422) thread, but then decided it deserved it’s own.

My, oh my! How times have changed! That Bea & Rock Hudson could sing a jaunty humourous ditty about ‘turning on’ and name check ‘hash’ ‘acid’ ‘poppers’ and other recreationals, all while Hudson had to hide his true sexuality, sure shows that the early 70s was a VERY different world!

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**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-how-times-have-changed/494515/2 "2009-04-27T17:07:09Z")

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Whoa! That was something. Do you know what show it’s from?

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**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-how-times-have-changed/494515/3 "2009-04-27T17:23:16Z")

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That is hilarious. I’ve thought that was from the early-mid seventies, however . . .

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> Whoa! That was something. Do you know what show it’s from?

[Apparently it’s from Bea Arthur’s tv special:](http://www.examiner.com/x-264-Celebrity-News-Examiner~y2009m4d26-Sniff-swig-puff-Bea-Arthur--Rock-Hudson-belt-out-a-show-tune-about-drugs-video)

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> Tony-winner Bea Arthur, . . . joined forces with Oscar-winner Rock Hudson in her 1979 Emmy-nominated TV special

It really is a different world. Bea Arthur had her own tv special?

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**Author:** ![Bamboo\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Bamboo\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bamboo_Boy)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-how-times-have-changed/494515/4 "2009-05-11T11:26:47Z")

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Damn. That was priceless. To think that we are the same nation! How un-neurotic.