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06-29-2007, 09:32 AM
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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
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06-29-2007, 09:57 AM
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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. :-)
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06-29-2007, 10:10 AM
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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.
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06-29-2007, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by summer_gphib
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. :-) |
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....
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06-29-2007, 10:35 AM
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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!
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06-29-2007, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by BetteDavisEyes
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!
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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.
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06-29-2007, 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
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.
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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)
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06-29-2007, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
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.
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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!
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06-29-2007, 10:40 AM
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[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.
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07-01-2007, 11:13 PM
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Class of '83 here, so we're talking high school/college/early career time of life:
Fashion: Flashdance sweatshirts (that we actually cut ourselves, NOT bought that way) Calvin Klein, Gloria Vanderbilt and Jordache jeans, monogrammed sweaters, man shirts (ie. dress shirts, ties, vests)
Entertainment: Prince, Queen, REO Speedwagon, Michael Jackson, Rick James, Fleetwood Mac, Genesis and Phil Collins and all derivatives of same (Peter Gabriel, etc)
Politics: Iran hostages, Shah of Iran is ousted, Libya crisis, The Headlee Amendment (which made it IMPOSSIBLE for me to get financial aid or loans), Nicaragua
Pop Culture Sayings: It was Killer, It was THE BOMB, Ohmigod! Like, Gag me with a spoon! Totally! Gross! Grody!
Science: ?????????
Toys: Atari, pick your own path type games on the Commodore 64... I was kind of old for toys by 1980
Fad: Spandex, roach clip hair decorations, big curly hair, tight jeans, leg warmers, Chia Pets
Sports: 1984 Detroit Tigers (nothing else matters in the 80's.. seriously)
School: High School, College... we had open lunch in high school, actually got to leave at lunch time and everybody hung out at the fast food joints in the area
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07-02-2007, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by AGDee
Class of '83 here, so we're talking high school/college/early career time of life:
Fashion: Flashdance sweatshirts (that we actually cut ourselves, NOT bought that way) Calvin Klein, Gloria Vanderbilt and Jordache jeans, monogrammed sweaters, man shirts (ie. dress shirts, ties, vests)
Entertainment: Prince, Queen, REO Speedwagon, Michael Jackson, Rick James, Fleetwood Mac, Genesis and Phil Collins and all derivatives of same (Peter Gabriel, etc)
Politics: Iran hostages, Shah of Iran is ousted, Libya crisis, The Headlee Amendment (which made it IMPOSSIBLE for me to get financial aid or loans), Nicaragua
Pop Culture Sayings: It was Killer, It was THE BOMB, Ohmigod! Like, Gag me with a spoon! Totally! Gross! Grody!
Science: ?????????
Toys: Atari, pick your own path type games on the Commodore 64... I was kind of old for toys by 1980
Fad: Spandex, roach clip hair decorations, big curly hair, tight jeans, leg warmers, Chia Pets
Sports: 1984 Detroit Tigers (nothing else matters in the 80's.. seriously)
School: High School, College... we had open lunch in high school, actually got to leave at lunch time and everybody hung out at the fast food joints in the area
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80's science related news...
Electron mircoscopes invented, Challenger disaster, nuclear holocaust was fore front
More stuff.....
Ocean Pacific, Karate Kid and the best stalker flick at the time...Fatal Attraction
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07-02-2007, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
80's science related news...
Electron mircoscopes invented, Challenger disaster, nuclear holocaust was fore front
More stuff.....
Ocean Pacific, Karate Kid and the best stalker flick at the time...Fatal Attraction
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Thanks. I was thinking 3 Mile Island but looked it up and found it was 1979. But, Chernobyl was in '86. I do remember the Challenger disaster.
I guess we could add AIDS to that list. It was named in '82 or '83. Not too many good science things, were there?
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07-05-2007, 02:27 PM
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Thanks. I was thinking 3 Mile Island but looked it up and found it was 1979. But, Chernobyl was in '86. I do remember the Challenger disaster.
I guess we could add AIDS to that list. It was named in '82 or '83. Not too many good science things, were there?
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Grrr....my little pony and smurfs...
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07-05-2007, 02:56 PM
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entertainment: cable, Michael Jackson, the Corey's, the Brat Pack, Genesis, the Police, Hall & Oates, Phoebe Cates, , Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon, Dukes of Hazzard (Daisy Duke,) Hee Haw. Hee Haw had a million Daisy Dukes. and corny jokes.
fashion: mullets, jerry curls, rat tails, Converse, acid wash, bedazzled jean jackets, girls teasing their bangs to the brink (with forks,)
sports: Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Andre Agassi, John McEnroe, the Tigers, da Bears, the Cubbies, the Andre Dawson, Roger Clemens, Greg Maddux, Walter Payton, Ditka
cocaine.
Caddyshack. "you know, i've often dreamed of becoming a golf club."
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