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fat_chris
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 Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:32 pm Post subject: Why the 80s sucked... |
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Perhaps this'll serve as a distraction from the ongoing love fest in the "Native Speaker" post.
The '80s sucked!
Any reasons why?
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fat_chris
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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I'll start.
Why did the '80s suck?
Because of:
Top Gun
Patrick Swayze
Poison
Skid Row
Warrant
Bon Jovi
Could never "solve" Rubik's Cube
Mullets
The Cosby Show
Debbie Gibson
Menudo
New Kids on the Block
Bananarama
Chia Pets
Hypercolor T-shirts
All those thing sucked!
Bitter? Naw. Just tellin' it like it is.
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khmerhit
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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Personally, I liked the 80s. There was a hellofalot going on, and Ive been reading about it. Takes me back.
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Thomas Edison given patent for the wireless induction telegraph
1885 Trains are delivering newspapers daily
1885 U.S. Post Office offers special delivery
1886 May 4, Haymarket Square labor riot in Chicago, Illionois
1886 The Haymarket Affair (bombin) occurs in Chicago during a labor rally. Eight people die and seventy-six are wounded when a bomb explodes at a labor rally, and police open fire on the crowd
1886 A pharmacist creates Coca-Cola as a "headache tonic"
1886 Daimler invents internal combustion engine
1886 Mergenthaler constructs a linotype machine for setting type
1887 Anne Sullivan arrives in Tuscumbia on a day in March to tutor young Helen Keller
1887 Montgomery Ward mails out a 540-page catalog
1887 Alexander Graham Bell invents the disc record with Tainter
1887 Woods invents the Railroad Telegraph
1887 The first story containing Sherlock Holmes is published
1888 Chicago attorney Melville W. Fuller (1833-1910) is na |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:41 pm Post subject: Time warp |
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Dear fat_chris,
The '80s? I must have missed that decade. How'd that happen? OK, now I remember - I was in Saudi Arabia for most of it.
Regards,
John |
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khmerhit
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, Top Gun didnt suck!! Top gun was awesome! Remember Kelly McGillis???!!
And what's wrong with stove-pipe trousers, huh?
Mullets. OK, you've got a point. And don't forget stone-washed jeans.
I could go on.
Not as bad as now, though. Shudder. I mean, puke or what? |
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fat_chris
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| khmerhit wrote: |
Personally, I liked the 80s. There was a hellofalot going on, and Ive been reading about it. Takes me back.
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Thomas Edison given patent for the wireless induction telegraph
1885 Trains are delivering newspapers daily
1885 U.S. Post Office offers special delivery
1886 May 4, Haymarket Square labor riot in Chicago, Illinois
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Dang Khmer! If you're thinking of those '80s, then you're about as old as scot47. You two were blazing the TEFL trail way back in the day, but I guess back then it wasn't called TEFLing, it was called colonialization.
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fat_chris
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:54 pm Post subject: Let's do the time warp again |
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Dear fat_chris,
The '80s? I must have missed that decade. How'd that happen? OK, now I remember - I was in Saudi Arabia for most of it.
Regards,
John |
Dear John,
I personally prefer writing it as the 80's, but for your sake, I have constructed this post in your honor and shall refer to that decade in this post as the '80s.
P.S. It is only a matter of time before you and I tangle in an epic '80s vs. 80's bout. I shall gather my resources for reference in due time. However, now is not the time and place for this. The point of this post is to help you recover from your Saudi Amnesia during the Reagan era (wait, maybe it's better that you lived in a void during that time). 
Sincerely,
fat_c
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fat_chris
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:00 pm Post subject: Flop Gun |
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| Hey, Top Gun didnt suck!! Top gun was awesome! Remember Kelly McGillis???!! |
Top Gun was awful. Pure cheese, as in cheddar. That movie was just one bad musical ("take a ride into the danger zone") with airplanes.
Kelly McGillis was a hottie. Indeed. However, I don't remember her because she wasn't really in anything other than TG, no? |
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fat_chris
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:15 pm Post subject: Pictures of Lily |
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If capergirl's next avatar were a picture of Kelly McGillis, ca. TG era, then many people here would be very very happy.
Why is Kelly McGillis practically the only woman of the '80s whom I can recall without big frozen fur '80s hair? |
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Shaman
Joined: 06 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:09 am Post subject: |
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Ah, the '80s. Bullet belts, bandanas and mesh galore.
I was one of those mulleted millions. Although it was technically called 'hockey hair' back then. I much prefer the shorn style I sport today.
Metal was my genre of choice in that bygone era. Sadly, I must admit to having some LPs (  ) of hairspray spandex bands - none by Warrant though.
Worst of all, at the early part of the decade, the Toronto Maple Leafs really sucked.
So, nostalgia can only reach so far for me. 
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ls650
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Location: British Columbia
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:48 am Post subject: |
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I liked the 80s.  |
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ChicagoCubMike
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:18 am Post subject: |
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Go-Go's.
Go-Go's.
Go-Go's.
Go-Go's.
Go-Go's.
Go-Go's.
Go-Go's.
Go-Go's.
And that's why the 80s ruled  |
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fat_chris
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:22 am Post subject: |
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We got the beat
we got the beat
we got the beat
YEAH, we got the beat.
[I associate that song with a very groovy movie: "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"--that was Sean Penn?!?]
Vacation, all I ever wanted
vacation have to get away...
I may have to concede on that point, ChicagoCubMike.
I thought you would have said the '80s were good because of the Hawk, Mr. Dawson. |
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fat_chris
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:23 am Post subject: |
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Wait a minute ChicagoCubMike,
Go-Go's: are you talking about the girl band or the sleazy bars that you went to back in the day? |
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ChicagoCubMike
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:29 am Post subject: |
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Totally the group, Go-Go's.
They did the song Speeding for Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I can't explain the way I feel, each time I get behind the wheel......... |
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