#I am absolutely FLOORED by the fact that I spelled ventriloquist correctly without having to look it up or use auto-correct

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I swear, the Eighties were MESSED UP!!!

I just found this clip of a hit single that was in the UK pop charts in 1982. A ventriloquist and his puppet green baby duck, wearing a giant nappy (diaper), and singing such plaintive lyrics as “I often pretend my sadness will end but it won’t”. 

Enough people bought this record to make it a big enough hit to feature on Top of the Pops - the music show of the time and had been for decades. Everything stopped for TotP on BBC1 every Thursday evening (most people didn’t have video machines so you couldn’t record what you wanted to watch; you had to be home when it was aired on TV). 

Anyway, take a look at this and marvel at the insanity: X