I once worked with a woman who had a placard that said a cluttered desk as a sign of a cluttered mind. Always admonishing her employees to be neater. So I had a plaque made that said if a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind what is an empty desk, a sign of?
I remember being late for a holiday party because of a very similar situation. My wife apologized to her sister for our being late by saying, “Something unexpectedly came up that we had to deal with.” Nearly bit my tongue trying not to laugh.
I had a history class in the late 70s and someone was decrying movies like these as disrespectful. I argued that most of the classic war and war humor movies involved veterans who served in those wars. They were producers, directors, actors. They weren’t trying to make war seem fun. They were trying to work off some of the psychological stress of a horrible era of their lives. As for TV war humor, go to IMDB an read the trivia about Hogan’s Heroes. One of the actors was actually in a concentration camp. Werner Kempler’s family fled the Nazis. He agreed to do the show as along as the Germans never came out ahead at the end of an episode.
I recall in the late 70s some girls were wearing dresses so short they wore coordinating underwear. Or was that just a product of my middle school dreams?
But I’m sure someone still got a bonus for the idea.