http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1229657/posts
The excerpt is from a web site called 'InThe80s' which is an 80s nostalgia site. I thought some of the posts on this particular page were pretty amusing, and I know some of you FReepers would be willing to share similar stories and anecdotes. This 80s site doesn't get many posts, and I would prefer to discuss such things with fellow conservatives, as other 80s sites always end up trashing Ronald Reagan, which always ticks me off.
Given that the New Year is upon us, it is as good a time as any to discuss the passage of time and how one's youth just doesn't seem that long ago (or maybe it does!). This discussion is open to anyone, btw; not just us 80s people.
I know you guys frown on vanities; I just thought a diversion from the more serious and sad events of this past week might be welcome. I also hope I posted this correctly.
Thanks.
I still have the LP single. From the first press run.
BTW, welcome to FR.
Let me be the first to comment.
The one that got me was the second remark that mentions that awful song "Do They Know It's Christmas". That is exactly 20 years old this month. On the Cashbox top 100 chart for '84, it shows it debuted on 12/22/84. Yikes!!!!!
I'm so old that I remember when Dick Clark looked exactly the way he does now.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1229657/posts
An eighties nostalgia site?
I was born in the thirties-------enough said!
Hooray for the 80s! Let me get my leg-warmers out.
But how long has it been since "Hands across America"? I cannot even remember what that was supposed to raise our consciousness about, it obviously didn't work.
Bump
I give the same answer as I did years ago, hell no, they where musslemen communists and animists.
BTW that famine was man made by the government trying to bring the animists under control.
One of my friends is a grandfather and he's younger than I am. Granted he was a young father but it's odd that my wife is only about 6 years older than his daughter.
I'm in the process of teaching his youngest daughter to drive a stick shift because her dad can't cope with it.
Ah the eighties.
The good old days when Micheal Jackson was a black male.
I seem to remember that when they first started to talk about Generation X that those born in 1964 were included among the 'X'ers'. When did 1964 get moved into the 'Boomers'? I distinctly remember thinking that I was on the cusp of being a boomer, but just made it into the X'er category (quite frankly, I coudn't have cared less).
1) I was at a yard sale last summer and heard some guy explaining to a ten-year-old kid what a record player did.
2) I was watching And Justice For All... (1979) a few weeks ago and realized that a twenty-year-old might not even realize that the scene with Dominic Chianese's character talking on his car phone was supposed to show that he was rich.
3) I was observing ballot counting at my county elections office and one of the workers was talking about her grandchild. I thought, "She can't be a grandmother; she's only about my age." Then it hit me....
In the 80's, I had the worst fashion sense.
Leg warmers. Ski pants. Power-shoulders. Urgh!
The decade that fashion forgot!
"Ok seeing Cheers, Threes company, Cosby, Full House and Roseanne on Nick at Night!! They are now considered "modern classics!" Man I grew up with those shows, I feel so old! (1984)"
This post strikes home too. I remember Nick being strictly 50s/60s and some 70s shows not that long ago.
Does anyone know how to wordwarp that site? The sentences just run off the screen which makes it unreadable.
Hitting F11 and setting my browser to the smallest font doesn't work
"When Prince released "1999" it seemed sooooo far away. I remember thinking I'd be OLD in 1999 - I'd be 28! Well, 1999 was 5 years ago! So, everyone, PARTY LIKE IT'S 2016!"
Another one......