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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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KEYWORDS: genx; goodbyecommies
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To: wagglebee

Growing Pains? I never heard of it!


661 posted on 06/06/2005 3:59:51 PM PDT by pissant (will a Sleep Number bed prevent morning stiffness?)
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To: Dashing Dasher
I would stick a crumpled up condom wrapper in their bag.

So that was YOU! My wife just about killed me!

662 posted on 06/06/2005 4:02:07 PM PDT by My2Cents
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To: Dashing Dasher
- nothing is better than sex. How about sex with chocolate cheesecake ???

'nuff said. Let's let - nothing is better than sex. be the last word.... or else I'll get tossed like the Sunday paper..

663 posted on 06/06/2005 4:02:34 PM PDT by dfwddr
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To: All

The 80s

How about Devo....

Whip it, whip it good

- Devo


664 posted on 06/06/2005 4:02:40 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Magnums for everyone..........)
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To: My2Cents

Most of the wives know me and would probably assume it was me.

and hopefully laugh it off....


665 posted on 06/06/2005 4:03:40 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Magnums for everyone..........)
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To: Dashing Dasher

Pop Culture in the 1980's

What were the 80s? . . . Bueller? . . . Anyone? Well, you are truly a child of the 80s if any of the following statements are true for you:

You know what leg warmers are; You know who Mr. T is; You remember when Atari was a state of the art video game system; You used to be able to breakdance (or wished you could); The phrases "bright light" and "phone home" actually mean something to you; You had a BMX bike.

The 80s was a decade where young folk wore fluorescent, neon clothing and business folk wore double-breasted suits with shoulder pads and believed "Greed Is Good" . . . and when Prince sang about partying "like it's 1999" it seemed so far away!

Dallas and Dynasty ruled the airwaves, Transformers were more than meets the eye, leggings under a short skirt was considered a stylish look, Michael Jackson was still black and 'by the power of Greyskull you HAD the power!'

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher promoted a 'return to Victorian values' in Britain, which was matched by a new conservatism in the USA under Ronald Reagan, who was voted in as president and served the maximum eight-year term in office.

AIDS was introduced to the public as a sexually transmitted disease of potentially plague proportions that would put paid to the trendy permissiveness of the Sixties and Seventies.

Meanwhile at home and in the playground, people were struggling to master Rubik's Cube - the biggest craze of the early part of the decade, a block of movable coloured squares named after its Hungarian inventor, Erno Rubik.

Video games were the hottest new innovation as video arcade game machines began to replace pinball machines in amusement arcades across the Western world with Pac Man and Space Invaders leading the pack.

Sophisticated equipment for leisure and pleasure became increasingly affordable as incredible advances in technology continued, and the Eighties soon also became the decade of gadgets - From digital watches to cappuccino machines to cellular phones to computers (Even though a Commodore 64 was the pinnacle of computing excellence).

In 1984, Yuppies appeared on the scene. An acronym for Young Urban professionals, it became synonymous with upward mobility, greed, and selfishness. But then the 80s was the decade of Self; self-improvement, self motivation, self-help manuals.

1987 introduced two new words to the English language - glasnost (openness) and perestroika (reconstruction) as the West fell in love with Mikhail Gorbachev - The first cuddly, user-friendly Soviet leader, who talked of the East and West becoming good neighbours . . . which we finally did as the decade ended with Europe's biggest ever street party as the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 and East met West for the first time since 1961.


666 posted on 06/06/2005 4:05:36 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Magnums for everyone..........)
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To: Dashing Dasher

I never like that song...
I think cuz it always reminded of me of my father running down the street after me with his belt when i did something bad....which unfortunately was quite often LOL


667 posted on 06/06/2005 4:07:05 PM PDT by motormouth
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To: Dashing Dasher
Oh man, they sounded like such great dogs!

My Ursa is a total goofball, she's convinced that she still weighs twelve lbs. She sleeps on the bed (she's spoiled!) and her favorite way to get my goat is to 'attack' the dining room carpet. I don't know how she figured it out, but she learned that if she bit one loop and pulled, she could unravel an entire length of my berber carpet.

If she REALLY wants mommy's attention, she starts nipping at the carpet and play-bowing. Absolute SPAZ.

When you get the chance, post pics of them. They sound like they were great pups.

668 posted on 06/06/2005 4:09:36 PM PDT by RepoGirl (You can ban my rottweiler when you can pry her from my cold dead hands...)
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To: Dashing Dasher

Just remember, AIDS is not a homosexual disease!


669 posted on 06/06/2005 4:11:46 PM PDT by pissant (will a Sleep Number bed prevent morning stiffness?)
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To: RepoGirl

Abby would do the classic Rottie lean and then slowly but surely get into your lap. She weighed about 125#s and loved to cuddle.

Precious slept in bed with me - at the foot of the bed mostly. I always felt safe with her around.

I'll look for pix and scan them.

Thanks. Scratch Ursa's head for me. Excellent name for a Rottie also!

;-)


670 posted on 06/06/2005 4:11:55 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Magnums for everyone..........)
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To: pissant

Are you sure? I thought only faggots got it... and very unlucky heteros that were in the wrong place at the wrong time.


671 posted on 06/06/2005 4:12:45 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Magnums for everyone..........)
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To: Dashing Dasher

That's what the homo lobby keeps braying on about. It must be true. ;o)


672 posted on 06/06/2005 4:13:49 PM PDT by pissant (will a Sleep Number bed prevent morning stiffness?)
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To: pissant

I won't believe it unless I see it on CBS News.

/sarc


673 posted on 06/06/2005 4:14:57 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Magnums for everyone..........)
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To: Dashing Dasher

Speaking of CBS, Didn't Dan start in Cronkites chair in the early 1980s? I don't know which turd stinks more!


674 posted on 06/06/2005 4:16:14 PM PDT by pissant (will a Sleep Number bed prevent morning stiffness?)
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To: pissant

We forgot DeLorean!

675 posted on 06/06/2005 4:17:38 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Magnums for everyone..........)
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To: Dashing Dasher

And the ample stashes of Cocain! Yipee!


676 posted on 06/06/2005 4:20:03 PM PDT by pissant (will a Sleep Number bed prevent morning stiffness?)
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To: EX52D

ping for later read (88)


677 posted on 06/06/2005 4:30:35 PM PDT by WireAndWood (But first, the tranya. I hope that you relish it as much as I.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
What about "Bette Davis Eyes"? I loved that. I was entering my 30's in the 80's. Great time! I graduated from nursing school! The best thing I ever did except get married and have 3 daughters, which I did in 1967 and 1968 and during the beginning of the 70's. (Child bride and all that. ;) )
678 posted on 06/06/2005 4:31:41 PM PDT by Goodgirlinred ( GoodGirlInRed Four More Years!!!!!)
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To: Dashing Dasher
The last guy that said something like that to us ended up on the side of the road in nothing but his boxers and socks.

Was that the tough guy that cried like a little girl when we were finished with him?

Keep it up....

Now Dasher, that was just cruel. You know about pissant's "disability". You shouldn't make unreasonable demands of him. ;-)

679 posted on 06/06/2005 4:32:50 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

I can't wait to see that picture! :-)


680 posted on 06/06/2005 4:33:33 PM PDT by SilentServiceCPOWife (We are merely players, performers & portrayers, each another's audience outside the gilded cage)
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