I was 5 in 1980 and I am watching the VH-1 overplayed "I love the 80s" but i swear I see this stuff and it makes me depressed-I so yearn to be back in the early 80s again--no cares in the world, space invaders, "V" the mini-series, birth of the 1st commercial Madonna album, E.T., Pac-Man, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Thompson twins, Duran Duran, Flashdance, Facts of Life, MTV with NINA BLACKWOOD AND ALAN HUNTER!! I could go on and on...I miss those days and want to be a child again...

You and I are cut out of the same mold.
[This message was edited Sat Jan 17 16:42:20 PST 2004 by LittlePill]

i love the 80's.

life was so simple then.

i was -1 in 1980

i was 5 in 1986 and yes, i do miss it, especially the skinheads that used to chase me after school with hockey-sticks no one can be as racist as them now-a-days. no one i tell you

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.


Always look forward, don't look back. Otherwise, you'll get sooo depressed.

i was born in 1980, so i only remember stuff from '85 till the end of the decade...and from what i do remember, the '80s fuckin rocked!

Yep, those were the days...

If I went back in time as the person I am today I´m not sure if I would fit in in the 80´s anymore though. Í don´t wear white jeans or pink t-shirts, I don´t think Reagan´s and Gorbatjov´s friendship is the best thing that´s happened in world politics, I can now solve Rubick´s cube instead of take out my aggression on it and take it apart with a knife, I now feel like puking when I see American "high school sex comedies" and I don´t think the world would perish if Michael jackson never made an album again.

But it was all good back then.

Level 42
Depeche Mode
Prince
Hall & Oates
Moonlighting
...
[This message was edited Sat Jan 17 16:56:19 PST 2004 by jn2]

Vibrator said:

hehehe, reagan (or as my mom called him, "ronald mcdonald") and gorbachev...i remember seein those guys on the news and thinkin that somebody spilled somethin on gorbachev's head, i didn't know it was a birthmark.

jn2 said:

"Private Eyes! they're Watching You! Private EYYYES!"

Hey, you still are that child man! Go play!

jem

cable boxes with the million buttons

mr. t cereal

candy kitchen

friday night videos

"i've fallen, and i can't get up!"

cabbage patch kids

the tracey ullman show

Reply to 'Calling all children of the 80s!'

Yeah, what ya have in mind?

oOoOJulyOoOo said:

Oh, and the 80's were alot of fun...

[i] where's the beef [i/]

and the mcD's song

how the heck does that thing go again

someone has to remember the words

who knows a song calls The First Picture Of You by a british band The Lotus Eaters ? an 80s indie pop masterpiece
New Order for Bizarre Love Triangle
Crowded House Don't Dream It's Over
Danny Wilson's Mary's Prayer
LA Law (first David E Kelley's serie)
The Band Aid concert with the 4TIYE video
Different Stroke ..

jn2 said:

Plus subyduby was just a twinkle in her father's eye.

lilJ said:

Big Mac, Fillet-o-fish
Quarter pounder, french fries
icy coke, thick shake
Sundays and apple pies


I think...

What about

My mother your mother
lived across the street
1819 Aligator street

Not last night but the night before
24 robbers came knocking at my door

purplegypsy said:

I wear my sunglasses at night


I saw Return of the Jedi 6 times in the theaters! I kept telling everyone, "this is a great movie, you should see it. Wanna see it? I'll go with you!" I had a MAJOR crush on Luke Skywalker.

I was all into He-Man and She-Ra too.

I had colecovision, with the atari attachment. I had the E.T. game, Ms Pac Man, The Smurfs and Mousetrap.

VinaBlue said:

I love all this reminiscing! She-ra rocked!


Cabbage Patch kids
That really awful john travolta - olivia newton john movie "Two of a kind"

the sequel to "Saturday night fever" - STAYIN' ALIVE- SOOO BAD-and sly stallone directed it!!!

golden girls

card sharks

tic tac dough hosted by wink martindale

thompson twins

KARATE KID-bananarama-Cruel summer--BILLY ZABKA beating RALPH MACCHIO up...


risky business

revenge of the nerds




shouls i keep going?

Everybody getting shot in 1981 . . . Eddie Murphy: Delirious . . . One-Hit Wonders . . . The Thriller video . . . Motown 25 . . . Raiders of the Lost Ark . . . Star Wars Eps V and VI at the old theatre . . . The Cosby Show . . . A Different World . . . my discovery of house music . . . MTV . . . The Breakfast Club . . . School Daze
. . . high school football . . . friendship bracelets . . . Panama Jack baseball shirts . . . fat laces
. . . The Police . . . Iran-Contra hearings . . . Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys . . . "La-di-da-di" . . . Public Enemy
. . . LL Cool J . . . Atlantic Starr at house parties . . . first slow dance . . . premium gas at .88/gallon . . . falling in love and staying there for 15 years . . . and, finally --

becoming a Prince fan, playing his records for hours on end, staying up all night trying to record videos, going to see all the movies, and thinking he was the only cat in the world who "understood."

just a few of my favorite 80's memories . . .
[This message was edited Sat Jan 17 19:39:53 PST 2004 by namepeace]

mo' of my '80s memories:

-- my cousin bein on the duane & floppy show (local kid's program that came on live every saturday in my hometown) for her birthday

-- my knight rider t-shirt that i wore on my 5th birthday

-- watchin remington steele every friday night

-- thundercats are on the move, thundercats are loossse...

-- seein the original version of 2 live crew's "me so horny" video (lotsa thongs )

-- micky d's servin their burgers in styrofoam containers

-- watchin the space shuttle explosion on teevee in my school library

-- baby jessica gettin trapped in that well

-- chernobyl

-- my mom's "tina turner" wig (and how deathly afraid of it i was )

-- in living color

I LOVE these thread!

• President Benjamin Hayes signs the Chinese Exclusion Treaty.
  
  
• Kansas Governor John St. John forces through prohibition legislation, making Kansas the first state in the nation to "go dry."
  
  
• Sitting Bull returns from Canada with a small band of followers to surrend er to General Alfred Terry.
  
  
• Tombstone, Arizona, Deputy Marshall Wyatt Earp and his brothers gun down the Clantons in a showdown at the O.K. Corral.
  
  
• Texas purchases The Alamo from the Catholic Church to preserve it as an historic shrine. [Editorial comment from 2the9s: Oh dear.]
  
  
• A fare war between competing rail lines and the inducements of eager land speculators bring newcomers to Los Angeles by the trainload; 120,000 arrive in 1887, drawn by the promise of pure air, warm sunshine and prosperity. Within a few years, the city is transformed and the Californios who have lived there for more than a century are suddenly regarded as strangers in their own land.
  
  

Those were the days my friend!

Oh wait. You mean the 1980s?

2the9s said:

drunk