Flashback Friday: I luv the 80's
 

Ok "Geritol Gen" folks....TGIF and for some of us it's payday too!! WHooo HOOOOooo!!

Let's sit back and remember when we didn't have to worry about rising gas costs, mortgages and getting kids to and from practice:

Pick any catergory or categories and name one thing you remember from life as a kid (or teen) of the 80s

Fashion

Entertainment

Politics

Pop Culture Sayings

Science

Toys

Fad

Sports

School



I will go first

Fashion: The Gawd awful Jheri Curl...I still crack up over Michael Jackson's fire and the line " Follow the Drip"

Sports - Before Manning vs Brady there was Marino vs Montana

Entertainment - Eddie Murphy's Delirious, Beverly Hills Cop...and Stallone vs Schwartzeneggar

Fashion: Stirrup Pants and Spandex Pants! Oh I wore those all the time, with huge oversized tshirts (usually neon colors), big ole scrunch socks, and these funky gold metallic high tops. SOMETIMES a friend of mine and I would switch one shoe, so we would each have one of a different color. We were so cool. ;) I think that was my favorite outfit in the fifth grade. *lol*

Toys: JEM and the Holograms!! I had them all... and I had a whole room (yea being an only child and begging my parents that the extra room should be Barbieville!) that was set up just for Barbie. I built houses for them (besides the orange roofed DreamHouse). I had a mall built out of an old coffee table (that contained my McDonalds, a salon, and a store) and an apartment complex. I was a very creative Barbie girl. :-)

Entertainment: Square Pegs. I was watching reruns on Comcast On Demand. SJP looking like crap is funny. But it's quite apparent, drugs really did kill this show.

U know...before video games...we had such vivid imaginations when we were kids....me and my best friend had all the star wars toys ...whatever he didnt have I had and we supplemented with household furniture....and then GI Joe came (back) along...I was kinda dumbfounded that the small figures had shrunk from the 12 in ones that we used to make hump Barbie and pimp slap Ken with....


PS.....If I still had all my figures now.....siiiiiigh (ebay fodder) however, I still have an mint condition X wing fighter in the box....

Ooh! Fun thread. Here goes.


Entertainment: "Just let your Soul-Glo!" This line, of course, coming from one of my favorite movies EVER, Coming To America. There's nothing like Samuel L. Jackson making a cameo in this movie. LOL!

Fashion: Leg warmers. They were the coolest things ever!

[QUOTE=DaemonSeid;1476679]U know...before video games...we had such vivid imaginations when we were kids....QUOTE]

Before video games?- I remember in the early 80s having a pre-atari game thing. It was cool- you could play "pong" for hours!

I also remember having cable- I think it was called "Cube" or something, but it had this HUGE remote that was hard-wired to your TV. It even had little buttons down the side so you could watch certain TV shows and vote on different things.

And I remember early MTV- with the original VJs.

I obviously spent too much time in front of the TV as a child.

Oh- and I remember having a Strawberry Shortcake doll that was "scented" to smell like strawberry shortcake- it really smelled like cheap perfume- but hey I thought I was cool.

Yep, yep.

Rainbow Brite and Carebears!!

And my mom made us matching NEON outfits and made us wear them. I still hold a grudge about that to this day. Also, I remember layering neon colored slouch socks. I was TEH HOTTNESS.

Then there was the day I took my younger cousin's teddy Ruxpin doll and dropping a Run DMC tape in it....

Ok...folks

Gremlins and....My Buddy (soon to get a bad rap from the Chucky ,Child's Play> movies)

entertainment-NINTENDO! the original clunky grey box, duck hunt was soo fabulous when it came out...

fashion-slap bracelets, mc hammer pants, Hypercolor tshirts, the flat top hair cut eww!, scrunchies on a side ponytail...those were the days!

sayings- i got grounded for saying RAD all the time.

tv- bill and teds excellent adventure, gummi bears

eta: garbage pail kids lol!

I was a little kid and I still remember all that. I was a huge fan of Rainbow Brite.

How about the original Super Mario Bros?

I still love goofy 80s pop!

Gummi Bears
 

My 17 year old daughter LOVED them - and now we have season one on DVD , supposedly for my 4 and 5 year old boys. Riiiiggghhhtttt. . .
I am so sick of that song! Gummi Beaaaaaaarrrrrrrsssss . . .

i wanted a bottle of that gummi berry juice sooo bad...

Granted but when you.....oooohhh.....this isnt the corrupt a wish thread...hehehe

Sayings: Where's the Beef

TV: Miami Vice...who here wore the clothes? shark grey suits and shoes with no socks...lol

and can't forget Knight Rider and V

Shoes: Shellhead (or toe depending how far up north you were) addidas

^^daemon don't start with me lol!!

i should market a liquor under that name! gummi berry flavored and smurfberries...

FYI: In the 1980's, I was neither a kid nor a teen.

Fashion - "Collar up or collar down?"

Entertainment - "A Flock of Seagulls" (see fashion)

Politics - Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's pas de duex

Pop Culture Sayings - "Gag me with a spoon, totally."

Science - They Blinded me with it.

Toys - DeLorean or Lamborghini

Fad - New Coke

Sports - San Francisco 49ers

School - Nancy "Mommie" Regan's "Just Say No" campaign.