We forgot DeLorean!
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:
Growing Pains? I never heard of it!
So that was YOU! My wife just about killed me!
'nuff said. Let's let - nothing is better than sex. be the last word.... or else I'll get tossed like the Sunday paper..
The 80s
How about Devo....
Whip it, whip it good
- Devo
Most of the wives know me and would probably assume it was me.
and hopefully laugh it off....
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.
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
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.
Just remember, AIDS is not a homosexual disease!
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!
;-)
Are you sure? I thought only faggots got it... and very unlucky heteros that were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
That's what the homo lobby keeps braying on about. It must be true. ;o)
I won't believe it unless I see it on CBS News.
/sarc
Speaking of CBS, Didn't Dan start in Cronkites chair in the early 1980s? I don't know which turd stinks more!
We forgot DeLorean!
And the ample stashes of Cocain! Yipee!
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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. ;-)
I can't wait to see that picture! :-)
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