Makes you sad almost... all kids have these days is Power Rangers and Barney..

-used to own a crimping iron


I was a child of the 80's and used to do this. I now teach high school, and my students are doing this again!!!! I show them pictures from my high school yearbook of everyone with crimped hair, and they freak out. They hate it that it isn't new, and that I actually approve of their fad.

I'm not sure about that? I started high school in 1989 and I had a friend who used to love Duck Tales when we were in Junior High, even though she knew she was too old for it....

And besides, MC Hammer, Ninja Turtles etc. yes it may have been early 90's, BUT we were teenagers by then, maybe even late teenagers- thus we were CHILDREN in the 80's. That's what I figured they meant by putting in some of those later things.

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I got this in an email today, and it reminded me of this thread...


THE CLASS OF 2005
>
>Just in case you weren't feeling old enough today, this will certainly change things. Each year the staff at
>Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to
>give the Faculty a sense of the mind-set of
>this year's incoming freshman.
>
>Here is this year's list:
>
>The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1983.
>
>They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and probably did not know he had ever been shot.
>
>They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
>
>There has been only one Pope in their lifetime.
>
>They were 10 when the Soviet Union broke apart and do not remember the Cold War.
>
>They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
>
>Tianamen Square means nothing to them.
>
>Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
>
>Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums! The expression "You sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.
>
>They have never owned a record player.
>
>They have likely never played Pac Man and have never heard of Pong.
>
>They may have never heard of an 8 track. The Compact Disc was introduced when they were 1 year old.
>
>They have always had an answering machine.
>
>Most have never seen a TV set with only 13 channels, nor have they seen a black and white TV. They have always had cable.
>
>There have always been VCRs, but they have no idea what BETA was.
>
>They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
>
>They don't know what a cloth baby diaper is, or know about the "Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up" commercial.
>
>Feeling old yet? There's more:
>
>They were born the year that Walkmen were introduced by Sony.
>
>Roller-skating has always meant inline for them.
>
>Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.
>
>They have no idea when or why Jordache jeans were cool.
>
>Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
>
>They have never seen Larry Bird play.
>
>They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
>
>The Vietnam War is as ancient history to them as WWI, WWII and the Civil War.
>
>They have no idea that Americans were ever held hostage in Iran.
>
>They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.
>
>They don't know who Mork was or where he was from. (The correct answer,
>by the way, is Ork)
>
>They never heard: "Where's the beef? ", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel,"
>or "De plane, de plane! "
>
>They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R. was.
>
>Michael Jackson has always been white.
>
>Kansas, Chicago, Boston, America, and Alabama are places, not bands.
>
>There has always been MTV.
>
>They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
>
>Do you feel old yet? If you do, then pass this on to some other old fogies . . . but don't send it back to me, I feel old enough.
>
>

i was born in 1980 and basically grew up in the 80's. every time i see a 80's list i remember 90% of the stuff. i think it would have been cool as hell to he in high school in the mid 80's, and to be in college late 80's/early 90's.

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this does make me feel old. i remember so much of this stuff...

Does anyone else the cartoon MASK, where the cars turned into planes and helicopters? What a trip.

Care Bear Stare!
 

The cartoon may be coming back. I've seen commercials for the bears on Nickelodian! Woo Hoo :)

I've never pondered why Smurfette was the only girl. I KNOW why she's the only one. She was created by Gargamel. She orginally had black hair but when she "changed to good" her hair turned blonde.

Thunder Thunder Thudercats!!!!!!!!!!

Not only did I have a crimping iron, but I had a crimped PERM.

Before that, I had a triangle perm - the rods were angular. It looked so cool, having zigzags all over! But boy, did that ruin my hair!!! http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies...rri_manthy.gif

I remember the movie "Harry and the Hendersons." My younger sister and I watched that movie all of the time! It was great! We still have the movie somewhere. :D

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ROTFL! We spent years trying to convince ASLFrose that he's not white! Even if we showed her an old picture labeled with his name, she'd insist that it wasn't the same guy.

Years later we found out that the whole time, BlazerCheer and Ballerina believed that he was black but had always thought he was a girl.:(

Tracy's Cool Eighties Experience...

A long spiral perm with poofy bangs that fell just so over my right eye. And the left side sprayed (frozen!) back with Spritz Forte.

Jeans (pinstriped or stonewashed or with a floral pattern) that were so tight around the ankles they were hard to pull on. I STILL practically have to force myself to buy flared pants :(

Beads, lots of 'em

High heeled pumps and ankle socks

Wearing 3 or 4 SwatchWatches at once, complete with Swatch Guards of course!

"Disco bags", small satin drawstring pouches with long cords that were used as purses.

Alligator Shirts

Side ponytails

My ultra-modern graphite tennis racquet (I think they carry them at Target now)

Sweatshirt dresses from Express; worn with big, dangly earrings also from Express

Guess jean jackets festooned with pins of every kind

Cutting off the legs of tights and using them as headbands

Black eyeliner. Lots of it.

"Bubble dresses"

"The Prairie Look" (sadly, I think it's making a comeback)

Mini skirts worn with ankle boots and slouch socks

Jansport backpacks

Freddy Kreuger

Flashdance (the first big movie filmed in my hometown of Pittsburgh. People who lived there were confused by some scenes in the movie..."why are they dancing in the Carnegie museum?" "Why did she take the Incline up Mt. Washington but end up on the South Side?" "How did she learn to weld at such a young age?")

"Forever" by Judy Blume. We thought it was SO racy! I re-read it a few months back and thought, "What a piece of crap!"

That's it for now :)

I know someone mentioned Thundercats somewhere in here?!!! Jeez I loved that show. So many of these things are coming back...they now have Care Bears out at the stores to buy, just like the old ones. I work at an afterschool program at a country club, and these kids have a PS2, PS1 and a Sega Genesis to play with. Guess which one sits untouched? Oh yeah, the Genesis, because they know if they try to play the counselors, we will kick their butts! They have no clue as to what it is, let alone what an Atari is!

I don't even know why they put other cartoons on TV... 80's cartoons were just better than anything they have these days.. Some of the animated violence type stuff like in GI-Joe would probably start a riot somewhere though with its use of guns.

Our toys were better also.. Look at some of these action figures they have these days.. I mean come on.. He-Man, Transformers, GI-Joe stuff, Voltron... It was so much better than Power Rangers.