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ready2fly
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There was something going around that said you know you're a child of the 80s if this, that, and the other.
One of the things on that list was "You remember when MTV actually played videos."
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I was a child of the 80's and I DO remember when MTV actually played videos. We got cable/MTV in it's second year when they were still doing the "I want my MTV" bit.
*sigh* the good ol' days.
And MAN where was that homework network when I was in Highschool???? I tried cheating once and got busted - BIG TIME!! But, then again... I was nowhere close to being an honor student in highschool.
On a good day, we'd play Paddy-Cake and got to remove our protective helmets.
There was something going around that said you know you're a child of the 80s if this, that, and the other.
One of the things on that list was "You remember when MTV actually played videos."
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I was a child of the 80's and I DO remember when MTV actually played videos. We got cable/MTV in it's second year when they were still doing the "I want my MTV" bit.
*sigh* the good ol' days.
And MAN where was that homework network when I was in Highschool???? I tried cheating once and got busted - BIG TIME!! But, then again... I was nowhere close to being an honor student in highschool.
On a good day, we'd play Paddy-Cake and got to remove our protective helmets.
MissedApproach
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On a good day, we'd play Paddy-Cake and got to remove our protective helmets.
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Ha! They threatened to kick us all out of honors and into that aforementioned class! They ended up giving all of us community service, which was a joke because it didn't have to be verified by anyone. We've all graduated since and the guy who started that forum (our valedictorian) is leaving for MIT soon!
On a good day, we'd play Paddy-Cake and got to remove our protective helmets.
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Ha! They threatened to kick us all out of honors and into that aforementioned class! They ended up giving all of us community service, which was a joke because it didn't have to be verified by anyone. We've all graduated since and the guy who started that forum (our valedictorian) is leaving for MIT soon!
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There was something going around that said you know you're a child of the 80s if this, that, and the other.
One of the things on that list was "You remember when MTV actually played videos."
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You remember when TV stations actually went off the air after playing the national anthem at about midnight or 1am?
There was something going around that said you know you're a child of the 80s if this, that, and the other.
One of the things on that list was "You remember when MTV actually played videos."
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You remember when TV stations actually went off the air after playing the national anthem at about midnight or 1am?
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You remember when TV stations actually went off the air after playing the national anthem at about midnight or 1am?
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I remember back in the San Joaquin valley (California) where on channel 30, at 11pm, they'd say:
"It's 11pm, do you know where your children are?"
I think the stations back then went off the air after Carson -- if anyone remembers who Johnny Carson is!
You remember when TV stations actually went off the air after playing the national anthem at about midnight or 1am?
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I remember back in the San Joaquin valley (California) where on channel 30, at 11pm, they'd say:
"It's 11pm, do you know where your children are?"
I think the stations back then went off the air after Carson -- if anyone remembers who Johnny Carson is!
flyindrumminpilot
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Stifler's hallerious!
I just bought Gladiator on DVD; that guy's the man.
Anyone else think Old School is the greatest movie of all time? Good old Stifler's in that one too.
[/ QUOTE ] Did you hear metallica in that movie? good adition toa good movie...
Stifler's hallerious!
I just bought Gladiator on DVD; that guy's the man.
Anyone else think Old School is the greatest movie of all time? Good old Stifler's in that one too.
[/ QUOTE ] Did you hear metallica in that movie? good adition toa good movie...
naunga
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Okay, you guys jogged my memories and I had to look this up. Call me crazy, but I can relate with ALL of this, and even after reading this a million (and one) times I still get a little choked up.
Cheers.
Naunga
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Don't call me "Generation X," call me a child of the eighties
by Bryant Adkins
published in The Reflector
January 20, 1995
I am a child of the eighties. That is what I prefer to be called. The nineties can do without me. Grunge isn't here to stay, fashion is fickle and "Generation X" is a myth created by some over-40 writer trying to figure out why people wear flannel in the summer.
When I got home from school, I played with my Atari 2600. I spent hours playing Pitfall or Combat or Breakout or Dodge'em Cars or Frogger. I never did beat Asteroids. Then I watched "Scooby Doo." Daphne was a Goddess, and I thought Shaggy was smoking something synthetic in the back of their psychedelic van. I hated Scrappy.
I would sleep over at friends' houses on the weekends. We played army with G.I. Joe figures, and I set up galactic wars between Autobots and Decepticons. We stayed up half the night throwing marshmallows and Velveeta at one another. We never beat the Rubik's Cube.
I got up on Saturday mornings at 6 a.m. to watch bad Hanna-Barbera cartoons like "The Snorks," "Jabberjaw," "Captain Caveman," and "Space Ghost." In between I would watch " School House Rock." ("Conjunction junction, what's your function?")
On weeknights Daisy Duke was my future wife. I was going to own the General Lee and shoot dynamite arrows out the back. Why did they weld the doors shut? At the movies the Nerds got Revenge on the Alpha Betas by teaming up with the Omega Mus. I watched Indiana Jones save the Ark of the Covenant, and wondered what Yoda meant when he said, "No, there is another."
Ronald Reagan was cool. Gorbachev was the guy who built a McDonalds in Moscow. My family took summer vacations to the Gulf of Mexico and collected "Muppet Movie" glasses along the way. (We had the whole set.) My brother and I fought in the back seat. At the hotel we found creative uses for Connect Four pieces like throwing them in that big air conditioning unit.
I listened to John COUGAR Mellencamp sing about Little Pink Houses for Jack and Diane. I was bewildered by Boy George and the colors of his dreams, red, gold, and green. MTV played videos. Nickelodeon played "You Can't Do That on Television" and "Dangermouse." Cor! HBO showed Mike Tyson pummel everybody except Robin Givens, the bad actress from "Head of the Class" who took all Mike's cashflow.
I drank Dr. Pepper. "I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper, wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?" Shasta was for losers. TAB was a laboratory accident. Capri Sun was a social statement. Orange juice wasn't just for breakfast anymore, and bacon had to move over for something meatier.
My mom put a thousand Little Debbie Snack Cakes in my Charlie Brown lunch box, and filled my Snoopy Thermos with grape Kool-Aid. I would never eat the snack cakes, though. Did anyone? I got two thousand cheese and cracker snack packs, and I ate those.
I went to school and had recess. I went to the same classes everyday. Some weird guy from the eighth grade always won the science fair with the working hydro-electric plant that leaked on my project about music and plants. They just loved Beethoven.
Field day was bigger than Christmas, but it always managed to rain just enough to make everybody miserable before they fell over in the three-legged race. Where did all those panty hose come from? "Deck the Halls with Gasoline, fa la la la la la la la la," was just a song. Burping was cool. Rubber band fights were cooler. A substitute teacher was a baby sitter/marked woman. Nobody deserved that.
I went to Cub Scouts. I got my arrow-of-light, but never managed to win the Pinewood Derby. I got almost every skill award but don't remember ever doing anything.
The world stopped when the Challenger exploded.
Did a teacher come in and tell your class?
Half of your friends' parents got divorced.
People did not just say no to drugs.
AIDS started, but you knew more people who had a grandparent die from cancer.
Somebody in your school died before they graduated.
When you put all this stuff together, you have my childhood. If this stuff sounds familiar, then I bet you are one, too. We are children of the eighties. That is what I prefer "they" call it.
Cheers.
Naunga
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Don't call me "Generation X," call me a child of the eighties
by Bryant Adkins
published in The Reflector
January 20, 1995
I am a child of the eighties. That is what I prefer to be called. The nineties can do without me. Grunge isn't here to stay, fashion is fickle and "Generation X" is a myth created by some over-40 writer trying to figure out why people wear flannel in the summer.
When I got home from school, I played with my Atari 2600. I spent hours playing Pitfall or Combat or Breakout or Dodge'em Cars or Frogger. I never did beat Asteroids. Then I watched "Scooby Doo." Daphne was a Goddess, and I thought Shaggy was smoking something synthetic in the back of their psychedelic van. I hated Scrappy.
I would sleep over at friends' houses on the weekends. We played army with G.I. Joe figures, and I set up galactic wars between Autobots and Decepticons. We stayed up half the night throwing marshmallows and Velveeta at one another. We never beat the Rubik's Cube.
I got up on Saturday mornings at 6 a.m. to watch bad Hanna-Barbera cartoons like "The Snorks," "Jabberjaw," "Captain Caveman," and "Space Ghost." In between I would watch " School House Rock." ("Conjunction junction, what's your function?")
On weeknights Daisy Duke was my future wife. I was going to own the General Lee and shoot dynamite arrows out the back. Why did they weld the doors shut? At the movies the Nerds got Revenge on the Alpha Betas by teaming up with the Omega Mus. I watched Indiana Jones save the Ark of the Covenant, and wondered what Yoda meant when he said, "No, there is another."
Ronald Reagan was cool. Gorbachev was the guy who built a McDonalds in Moscow. My family took summer vacations to the Gulf of Mexico and collected "Muppet Movie" glasses along the way. (We had the whole set.) My brother and I fought in the back seat. At the hotel we found creative uses for Connect Four pieces like throwing them in that big air conditioning unit.
I listened to John COUGAR Mellencamp sing about Little Pink Houses for Jack and Diane. I was bewildered by Boy George and the colors of his dreams, red, gold, and green. MTV played videos. Nickelodeon played "You Can't Do That on Television" and "Dangermouse." Cor! HBO showed Mike Tyson pummel everybody except Robin Givens, the bad actress from "Head of the Class" who took all Mike's cashflow.
I drank Dr. Pepper. "I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper, wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?" Shasta was for losers. TAB was a laboratory accident. Capri Sun was a social statement. Orange juice wasn't just for breakfast anymore, and bacon had to move over for something meatier.
My mom put a thousand Little Debbie Snack Cakes in my Charlie Brown lunch box, and filled my Snoopy Thermos with grape Kool-Aid. I would never eat the snack cakes, though. Did anyone? I got two thousand cheese and cracker snack packs, and I ate those.
I went to school and had recess. I went to the same classes everyday. Some weird guy from the eighth grade always won the science fair with the working hydro-electric plant that leaked on my project about music and plants. They just loved Beethoven.
Field day was bigger than Christmas, but it always managed to rain just enough to make everybody miserable before they fell over in the three-legged race. Where did all those panty hose come from? "Deck the Halls with Gasoline, fa la la la la la la la la," was just a song. Burping was cool. Rubber band fights were cooler. A substitute teacher was a baby sitter/marked woman. Nobody deserved that.
I went to Cub Scouts. I got my arrow-of-light, but never managed to win the Pinewood Derby. I got almost every skill award but don't remember ever doing anything.
The world stopped when the Challenger exploded.
Did a teacher come in and tell your class?
Half of your friends' parents got divorced.
People did not just say no to drugs.
AIDS started, but you knew more people who had a grandparent die from cancer.
Somebody in your school died before they graduated.
When you put all this stuff together, you have my childhood. If this stuff sounds familiar, then I bet you are one, too. We are children of the eighties. That is what I prefer "they" call it.
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I think the stations back then went off the air after Carson -- if anyone remembers who Johnny Carson is!
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Is that the guy that suceeded Jack Paar?
I think the stations back then went off the air after Carson -- if anyone remembers who Johnny Carson is!
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Is that the guy that suceeded Jack Paar?
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Gack! Here I thought I was the old fohgie around here!
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I'm too young to have seen Paar. I just knew that one would go over about 90% of the heads on the board. But seriuosly, what ever happened to Carson? Talk about disappearing from the business.
Gack! Here I thought I was the old fohgie around here!
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I'm too young to have seen Paar. I just knew that one would go over about 90% of the heads on the board. But seriuosly, what ever happened to Carson? Talk about disappearing from the business.
ready2fly
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what ever happened to Carson? Talk about disappearing from the business.
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Saw something a few weeks ago regarding exactly that: Carson's "disappearance" from the public eye.
Just the way he wanted it. Apparently, he's doing fine... living a "normal" life.
Man, Tony - you brought up the Coke-a-Cola rugby's and "pegging" the jeans.... JEEZ does that bring back memories.
In high school, we were prone to wearing pastel colored Izods with the collars up with pastel plaid shorts.
Anybody remember O.P. (Ocean Pacific), Genera and Beneton?????
what ever happened to Carson? Talk about disappearing from the business.
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Saw something a few weeks ago regarding exactly that: Carson's "disappearance" from the public eye.
Just the way he wanted it. Apparently, he's doing fine... living a "normal" life.
Man, Tony - you brought up the Coke-a-Cola rugby's and "pegging" the jeans.... JEEZ does that bring back memories.
In high school, we were prone to wearing pastel colored Izods with the collars up with pastel plaid shorts.
Anybody remember O.P. (Ocean Pacific), Genera and Beneton?????
sbe
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Anybody remember O.P. (Ocean Pacific), Genera and Beneton?????
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What about Swatch watches (usually several of them), anything with Guess? imprinted on it, and Esprit? Massive amounts of hairspray, bright blue eyeliner, lots of geometric shapes on everything (including big earrings) and tight-rolled jeans with dress flats. God bless the 80s.
Anybody remember O.P. (Ocean Pacific), Genera and Beneton?????
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What about Swatch watches (usually several of them), anything with Guess? imprinted on it, and Esprit? Massive amounts of hairspray, bright blue eyeliner, lots of geometric shapes on everything (including big earrings) and tight-rolled jeans with dress flats. God bless the 80s.
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Anybody remember O.P. (Ocean Pacific), Genera and Beneton?????
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You can't forget Jamms and fat laces
Anybody remember O.P. (Ocean Pacific), Genera and Beneton?????
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You can't forget Jamms and fat laces
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And don't forget the hockey hair.
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Are you talking about mullets? Go to a University of Florida football game and you will find they are still in style around those parts.
And don't forget the hockey hair.
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Are you talking about mullets? Go to a University of Florida football game and you will find they are still in style around those parts.
That's what I was going to say!
Mullets are still in full-effect in a lot of the nation!
Mullets Galore : Link courtesy of Rants In Your Pants.com
Mullets are still in full-effect in a lot of the nation!
Mullets Galore : Link courtesy of Rants In Your Pants.com
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