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THE BEST AND WORST OF THE 1980s (vanity)
Pissant/SSCPOW Research Center | 6/6/05 | SilentServiceCPOWife & Pissant

Posted on 06/06/2005 10:03:49 AM PDT by pissant

After receiving numerous complaints that the 1970s sucked and were not worthy of a vanity thread, here at the Pissant/CPOWife Research Center we've decided to select a decade that had more worthwhile activities to ponder. Though many positive events developed during the 1980s, there were plenty of stink-bombs as well. To further our research, we encourage everyone to participate in this scientific survey.

Without further ado, the Best and Worst of the 1980s:


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To: SilentServiceCPOWife
Did you really see it 57 times?

Yep! and I have all the ticket stubs to prove it!

}^)

321 posted on 06/06/2005 11:52:51 AM PDT by The SISU kid (Defiantly coloring outside the lines since 1964)
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To: Dashing Dasher

I don't remember Jon Erik Hexum. I do remember hearing the story about the actor killed by a blank.

Too bad....He was a HUNK!


322 posted on 06/06/2005 11:53:30 AM PDT by colorcountry (To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. ....Barry Goldwater)
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To: dfwgator

Telegraph Road, great song. I could listen to Mark play the guitar all day.


323 posted on 06/06/2005 11:53:31 AM PDT by EX52D
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To: Argh; pissant

Yeah, he's like that! LOL


324 posted on 06/06/2005 11:53:37 AM PDT by raivyn (I don't know what you just said, but you special!)
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To: dfwgator
Telegraph Road is one of my all-time faves, especially the live version on Alchemy.

It's always struck me as odd that when people list the greatest guitar players of all time that Mark Knopfler is often ignored. I'm no guitar expert, but I love the way he plays.

325 posted on 06/06/2005 11:54:24 AM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (We are merely players, performers & portrayers, each another's audience outside the gilded cage)
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To: pissant

Best of the 1980s: "Mister Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!"

Worst of the 1980s: The Democrats aiding and abetting the Soviet Union's strategic goals, and the fact that we didn't send them off to detention camps.


326 posted on 06/06/2005 11:55:09 AM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse
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To: peacebaby

327 posted on 06/06/2005 11:56:00 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: The SISU kid

Did you know that Jennifer Beals did a series for Showtime called "The L Word"? I bet you can guess what the "L" stands for. :-)


328 posted on 06/06/2005 11:56:15 AM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (We are merely players, performers & portrayers, each another's audience outside the gilded cage)
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To: colorcountry

Very sad....

Stupid sad...


329 posted on 06/06/2005 11:56:23 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Magnums for everyone..........)
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To: raivyn
What about the song puttin on the ritz!?!!?

Wasn't that by Taco? I think I had it on tape... can't remember the name of the album, though.... it was a lot of covers of old songs... "Singin' in the Rain" was on it too....

330 posted on 06/06/2005 11:57:21 AM PDT by GraceCoolidge
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To: Chi-townChief

REM peaked in 1985, everything after "Fables" was purely to make money.


331 posted on 06/06/2005 11:57:43 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: raivyn; Dashing Dasher

Oh and I love the THORNBIRDS! great movie I forgot her name but she was in another film one with Jeff Bridges...
Rachel somebody!


332 posted on 06/06/2005 11:59:37 AM PDT by missyme (Tell it like it is!)
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To: dfwgator
Phoebe Cates in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."

That was the only worthwhile thing Pheobe Cates ever did.

How about "Porky's?"

333 posted on 06/06/2005 11:59:42 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: windcliff

U2?! LOL!


334 posted on 06/06/2005 12:00:27 PM PDT by stylecouncilor
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To: missyme

Rachel Ward


335 posted on 06/06/2005 12:00:53 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Magnums for everyone..........)
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To: wagglebee
REM peaked in 1985, everything after "Fables" was purely to make money.

REM played here when I was in college. At the time, their female fans had no idea that Michael Stipe was gay so they threw panties and bras at him while he was singing. He got so po'd he said that he'd never play here again and I'm pretty certain that they never have.

What a shame. /s

336 posted on 06/06/2005 12:03:40 PM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (We are merely players, performers & portrayers, each another's audience outside the gilded cage)
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To: pissant; SilentServiceCPOWife
Hey I just realized something....I bring the idea up and I'm not even mentioned in the opening credits???

What gives???

8^(

Link to post #2234 70's Thread

337 posted on 06/06/2005 12:04:43 PM PDT by The SISU kid (Defiantly coloring outside the lines since 1964)
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338 posted on 06/06/2005 12:04:58 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: The SISU kid; pissant

That was an unfortunate oversight on pissant's part. He's easily confused and rather forgetful at times. It must be his age. ;-)


339 posted on 06/06/2005 12:06:17 PM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (We are merely players, performers & portrayers, each another's audience outside the gilded cage)
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To: The SISU kid; pissant; All

The Pissant/SSCPOW Research Center would like to thank the SISU Kid without whom none of this would have been possible.


340 posted on 06/06/2005 12:10:03 PM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (We are merely players, performers & portrayers, each another's audience outside the gilded cage)
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