THE BEST AND WORST OF THE 1980s (vanity)

Pissant/SSCPOW Research Center | 6/6/05 | SilentServiceCPOWife & Pissant

[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:

[pissant]

I offered concubinage, you turned me down! :(

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

The problem is that the men just can't handle you. It's not you. It's them. :-)

[Blue Scourge]

He-man was cool...but Transformers own.

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

Ooops. Yes, my tagline is new. But I'll want something new tomorrow and you gave me what I needed. ;-)

[pissant]

I was in college. My roommates watched He-man and Thundercats. Zoinks!

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

And now I understand why I didn't get a smiley face in your response. :-)

[pissant]

I take back my "sublime" comment. Dasher being Nature's Vaigra is hard, raw reality! ;o)

[phoenix0468]

Best - Ronald Wilson Reagan

Worst - U.S. Marine's barracks bombing in Beirut
Department Of Defense Commission Report:

At approximately 0622 on Sunday, 23 Oct. 1983, the Battalion Landing Team headquarters building in the Marine Amphibious Unit compound at Beirut International Airport was destroyed by a terrorist bomb. The catastrophic attack took the lives of 241 Marines, sailors and soldiers and wounded more than 100 others. The bombing was carried out by one lone terrorist driving a yellow Mercedes Benz stake-bed truck that accelerated through the public parking lot south of the BLT headquarters building, where it exploded. The truck drove over the barbed and concertina wire obstacle, passed between two Marine guard posts without being engaged by fire, entered an open gate, passed around one sewer pipe barrier and between two others, flattened the Sergeant of the Guard's sandbagged booth at the building's entrance, penetrated the lobby of the building and detonated while the majority of the occupants slept. The force of the explosion [12,000 pounds] ripped the building from its foundation. The building then imploded upon itself. Almost all the occupants were crushed or trapped inside the wreckage.

- Department of Defense Report -






May they rest in peace, and God Bless them.

[wagglebee]

The Playboy pictures are out there on the internet, but the moderators might get a little upset. But if anyone is interested, do a search on "Julie McCullough" in Yahoo or Google images.

[pissant]

We are having trouble connecting today!





Dammit! ;o)

[phoenix0468]

The worst was the Marine Barracks bombing in 1983, by far. 241 Mrines killed, and it took us 20 years to let radical Islam atone for it.

[pissant]

good tip wagglebee. Where are Enterprise and Weegee today?

[pissant]

Excellent. By far the worst. We should have conquered the middle east then and there!

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

I've been up since 4:30 and my blood sugar is a little low. I'm a Type 1 diabetic. That probably has something to do with it.

[pissant]

You need a cocktail. I'd bring you one over if I could! ;o)

[wagglebee]

Not sure.

As long as we're on the 80's there's also Janet Jones. She was in "The Flamingo Kid" and later married Wayne Gretzky, but she also posed for Playboy in either 1986 or 1987.

[pissant]

I'll have to da a google looksee!

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

LOL I'm sleepy enough already.

Speaking of sleep...I think I'm going to go do that right now.

Have a good night. :-)

[wagglebee]

Bombing Tripoli (and "accidentally" damaging the French embassy) in 1968 was pretty damn good!

[pissant]

Pleasant dreams. Catch you later! :o)