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Anniboodk
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Sep 13, 2004 - 04:38 PM |
 
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Someone was talking about stonewashed jeans today so I just wanted to take a stroll down memory lane.
This is to all the Children of the 80s out there! (i.e. born bewteen 1976-1986)
You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off".
You can name at least half of the members of the elite BratPack.
You wanted to be a Goonie...Goonies never say die!
You felt ashamed when Rob Lowe got in trouble for sex with minors and videotaping it, because you liked him.
You wore fluorescent, neon clothing.
You Believed that By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power
You remember what skin jeans were (and why everyone shouldn't have worn a pair!)
You owned a pair of Nomads
You thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye.
You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off.
You thought his red leather jacket was cool. You used to wear one woollen glove to school too.
You wore a banana clip at some point during your youth or knew someone who did.
You hold a special place in your heart for Back to the Future.
You remember David Hasselhoff when he wore clothes and talked to his car.
You know where to go if you wanna go where everybody knows your name.
You thought Molly Ringwald was REALLY cool.
You actually thought Dirty Dancing was a REALLY good movie.
When you had fights with your siblings you'd say "Don't make me angry!" then pretend to turn your eyes green.
You have heard of Garbage Pail Kids.
You actually saw Ted Danson as the MacDaddy he played Sam to be.
You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system.
And ping-pong was tops until Donkey-Kong came along, which you thought would never be surpassed.
You own any cassettes.
You own any Tiffany cassettes.
You remember dancing to popsters like Debbie Gibson.
You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living on the moon.
Glow-worms!!!
Poltergeist freaked you out.
You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.
You wore bike shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish, or knew someone who did.
You ever had a Swatch watch.
You used to laugh at a hairy sock called Alf.
You remember that spiky flat-tops were the rave after Top Gun.
You know what a Whammee is.
You had a crush on a "New Kid on the Block"
You knew all the opening monologues to: The A-team, StreetHawk and Airwolf
You remember "where's the beef?"
"Party like it's 1999" seemed soooo far away. |
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SirFiddler
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Joined: Mar 30, 2004
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Sep 13, 2004 - 04:43 PM |
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Garbage Pail Kids ... I loved them  ...heard there will be a comeback !
Go with most of the rest apart from crush on Rob Lowe, wearing short skirts and the likes.... |
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bellabella
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Sep 13, 2004 - 04:53 PM |
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Nice one Anniboodk! Ahh the memories!
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Drizzle
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Sep 13, 2004 - 05:12 PM |
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Sigh - I was born before '76, and being British I cannot relate to some of what Annie posted. But there is one thing, you never see anyone walking about outside on Xmas day wearing a Dr.Spock mask, or riding their new bike. All the kids stay indoors now destroying their eye sight and thumb prints playing computer games, its such a shame. I bet none of them know how to make a decent 'den' or yearn to be a hairdresser after getting a 'girls world'. |
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Madibaman
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Joined: Dec 27, 2003
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Sep 13, 2004 - 05:18 PM |
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*sniff*... Ah the memories... Thanks, anniboodk.
I actually still have cassettes. Not that I have anything to play them with... |
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jenming
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Sep 13, 2004 - 05:24 PM |
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jeezus. so many of these ring true.
"Poltergeist freaked you out. " OUCH!
"You know what a Whammee is. " OUCH!
"You used to laugh at a hairy sock called Alf. " OUCH!!
"You hold a special place in your heart for Back to the Future. " OUCH!!
"You Believed that By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power " OUCH!!!
AND MOST OF ALL............
"You thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye. "
<----- OH, MAN. THAT HURTS! |
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jenming
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Sep 13, 2004 - 05:30 PM |
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| Madibaman wrote: |
*sniff*... Ah the memories... Thanks, anniboodk.
I actually still have cassettes. Not that I have anything to play them with... |
do you have "Mix Tapes"? They actually lasted longer than any other cassetes, 'cause writeable CD's didn't come along for a long time.... |
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Madibaman
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Sep 13, 2004 - 05:37 PM |
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HAHAHAHA... geezes yes but I didn't bring them with me to Shanghai. Bugger.. now I suddenly feel like listening to my tapes of Tears For Fears and Depeche Mode. |
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SirFiddler
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Sep 13, 2004 - 05:47 PM |
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great music back then ! and movies
Flatliners
Lost Boys
Weird Science
Rocky
Indiana Jones
MAD MAX ( anybody seen them around here ? have the third one only ) !!!!!
Jaws
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jenming
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Sep 13, 2004 - 06:16 PM |
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| TheFiddler wrote: |
great music back then ! and movies
MAD MAX ( anybody seen them around here ? have the third one only ) !!!!!
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My favorite was "Beyond thunderdome".
*third* one? what were the first two? or the third one? I can only think of two. "Mad Max", and "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome".
Shanghai is a bit like Bartertown, isn't it? deadly water, throngs in the streets, hot, dirty. But no Tina turner to rule us while wearing chain-mail shoulder pads. Sigh.
"Who rule Bartertown?"
"...MasterBlaster..."
"Louder..."
"MasterBlaster rules Bartertown!" |
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SirFiddler
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Sep 13, 2004 - 06:19 PM |
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Beyond Thunderdome with Tina "Turnon" was the third one.... |
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Madibaman
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Sep 13, 2004 - 06:35 PM |
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"Tina Turnon"??? Ewww... she's like a real life dancing gargoyle with long legs. |
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autorock
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Joined: Dec 15, 2003
Posts: 1300
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Sep 13, 2004 - 06:50 PM |
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god..you guys are OLD!
lol |
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SirFiddler
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Sep 13, 2004 - 08:01 PM |
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| Madibaman wrote: |
| "Tina Turnon"??? Ewww... she's like a real life dancing gargoyle with long legs. |
well back then I wished there was a law that said that all grandmothers in the world have to look like her.... especially mine...
you know that old routine my grandmother used to have ? Whenever I was playing in the sand and got my face dirty she spat in a tissue and tried to clean my face.... would have been much nicer if she would have looked like Tina.... |
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Azrael
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Joined: Aug 13, 2003
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Sep 13, 2004 - 08:51 PM |
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are the sweet innocence of 80s youth........mmmmmmm bring's back a lot of memories... |
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SwedishChef
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Joined: Aug 19, 2004
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Sep 13, 2004 - 09:47 PM |
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You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off".
* ...and hold deep respect for Mr.Miyagi
You Believed that By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power
* Hell, with a green cat like that...I DID have the power!!!
You thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye.
* Especially Autobots...
You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off.
* Yes 
You hold a special place in your heart for Back to the Future.
* Try to teach them Great Balls of Fire and you should too...
You remember David Hasselhoff when he wore clothes and talked to his car.
* LOVE IT...I WANT 'KIT'
You know where to go if you wanna go where everybody knows your name.
One word...Cheers!!!!
You actually thought Dirty Dancing was a REALLY good movie.
* Still is a good movie...
You have heard of Garbage Pail Kids.
* They're somewhere back homein Sweden...still got them
You actually saw Ted Danson as the MacDaddy he played Sam to be.
* Cheers!!!!
You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system.
Sorry, Amiga 500 was way better...
And ping-pong was tops until Donkey-Kong came along, which you thought would never be surpassed.
* Until Donkey Kong 2 came out...
You own any cassettes.
* Again...still have them...
You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living on the moon.
* Aren't we?
Poltergeist freaked you out.
*Not as much as Nightmare on Elm Street
You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.
* Well...and why she is ALWAYS smiling...perhaps there isa connection there
You ever had a Swatch watch.
* Sh1t...I did
You used to laugh at a hairy sock called Alf.
* I still laugh at a hairy sock called Alf...especilly when there are cats around...
You remember that spiky flat-tops were the rave after Top Gun.
* When will we have the TOP GUN night...
You had a crush on a "New Kid on the Block"
* No...but I hated them because all the girls had a crush on them...and not on me
You knew all the opening monologues to: The A-team, StreetHawk and Airwolf
* Hey...don't forget Dallas, Dynasty, Miami Vice and Falcon Crest
Ahhh...the beauties of the 80's...what can I say...they made us into what we are today |
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MaomingMaster
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Sep 13, 2004 - 10:01 PM |
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SwedishChef
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Sep 13, 2004 - 10:11 PM |
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lucar
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Sep 13, 2004 - 10:20 PM |
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The '80s were the '70's conservative backlash. It was no longer about hippy-dippy free to be you and me, suddenly it was all about money and glamour!
People lost interest in hash and pot and moved onto fascinations with white powders. …and don’t forget crack! Good times!!!
Night clubs became harder edged and scarier. Michael Tron had his bar mitzvah at Studio 54. Great party! People started dying of Aids en mass. Almost unbelievable at the time. The Pines…
CD’s came out. VHS completely took over from Betamax. Cordless phones and tone dialing became available. Mobile phones were just walkie-talkies hooked into a phone network and you had to have an operator connect you.
Sharp angles were “in”; clothes, hairdos, cars, architecture. It was all about being sharp and modern. MC Hammer and Arsinio Hall's hair, the Delorean, those freaky shoulder pads.
Long hair and hairy chests were out. That Ken-doll smooth gym-body look was the shiat in the '80's. And the local-news hairdos guys would wear!!!
As much as I enjoyed the ‘80’s, it was really a scary and violent decade in the US. I really had the sense that the world was falling apart at the time.
Oh well…life goes on. Sigh…a tear… |
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SwedishChef
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Sep 13, 2004 - 10:27 PM |
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Well...to me it is still the best decade...maybe because I grew up listening the the things we call old 80's musicnow. I can still remember sitting in front of the radio (MTV had not come to Swedne yet) trying to record the best songs, trying to release the pause button at the right time.
When the CD came out in '86 it was suddenly a completely different sound, clear crisp and ina way ugly. I prefer the scratchy sound of the good old records...they have a fuller sound and that is still the thing. CDs are just too good.
Thank god for the 80's...without it...where would we be? |
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lucar
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Sep 13, 2004 - 10:33 PM |
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| MaomingMaster wrote: |
70's anyone??
<<sniff>> |
Yup. Orange Corvettes, Star Wars, Acid, DMT, Mescaline, Horse, 'Ludes, Schlitz Malt Liquor, Transvestitism, Maharishi Mahesh, Jim Jones, Hari Krishnas in airports, deprogramming, L. Ron Hubbard, Hair, Disco, Funk, Warhol, Sylvester Live at the Elephant Walk.
I still have got a couple of pairs of platform shoes in the archives. I used to actually saunter down Santa Monica BLVD as a pre-preteen in a pair of Gucci platforms (Tri-color of course), Patchwork denim Big Bells and Matching Jacket and get 50 cent beers at my favorite bar/disco while filtering the smog through my Salem Menthols. You'd think that I would have been carded or something. Those were the days... |
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bellabella
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Sep 14, 2004 - 12:44 AM |
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Hello, this is Bella Bella's boyfriend ( I really should get my own nick!)
I loved the eighties and when I think back to them, I get a little sad. It seemed as if everyone was doing really well, going places, living the dream whatever. Ok, so 'everyone' means everyone in the movies or TV shows. But they really pushed the whole yuppie thing so well, it seemed almost desirable. Except I was too young to own my own business or drive even so I feel like I missed out a little.
Now I'm in Shanghai (far from London town) doing what I want, doing something I'm good at and earning good money, hanging out with people who do the same, living well, saving well, living the dream etc etc. And all the local girls wear the same fashions I used to see all those years ago.
Shanghai is the eighties! For me at least.
Final thing - Any UK'ers remember "The Lost Island" australian kids show? I have yet to meet one other person who ever saw it! There once was a wealthy man who had a wonderful idea, to bring children from all places, with all kinds of faces, together into a sailing ship, there were forty boys and girls. Theywould sail the ship around the world so they called it........The United Woooorrrrld! |
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yu888
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Joined: Jan 25, 2003
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Sep 14, 2004 - 03:46 AM |
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Miami Vice jackets, skinny ties...uh boy...showing my age again... |
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yankeelikesnakedarabmen
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Sep 14, 2004 - 04:11 AM |
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And that male nany living with two girls. What's his name again? |
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Annie
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Sep 14, 2004 - 09:38 AM |
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Wow thanks for that list. Anyone remember Rainbow Bright, Care Bears, My Little Pony? Probably just the girls. Anyway LOVE Mad Max movies, such a hot young Mel Gibson. Male nanny living with two girls? Not Tony Danza? |
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