Posted on 07/06/2007 7:58:22 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
Ah...back in the day.....
For me, it's flashing back to the 80's (my favorite decade)....
| 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.
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.
It was also, IMO, the last decade to have decent music.
Hell I even remember some of the 60s!!!!!
I had Swatches too! But I always got the smooth, suave conservative 1s. Not the garrish things.
My clothes were more garrish. I still wanted everything to go together, so the Swatch had to match everything and be conservative. ;-)
Hee hee!
I was VERY big on Forenza (going to The Limited).
Also had Outback Red.
You forgot I.O.U.
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Hahah - you got both of mine: Ocean Pacific and the Izods with the gator.
My niece and nephew thought Personal Jesus was absolute musical genius beyond comprehension until I sat down and picked up the main lick and chords almost immediately. Less compelling when an old man can play along.
Still, a good tune. Reach out and touch faith!
Yep, Just the thing to perk up a pair!!
Yes, I do, but then - not everyone actually dressed the stereotype way.
Just like these days everyone talks about “big hair” and “mullets” (terms that didn’t exist then), but that is rather foreign to me.
Only trailer-park girls had “big hair” (more like poofed-up Farrah Fawcet); alot of girls had short-medium hair, and it was all done up in wild ways. It was very cool. Instead of the BORING flat hair part-down-middle we’ve had to endure for 15 years now. My own hair was SPIKED (why doesn’t anyone point out THAT most iconic part of the “punk” period?).
Boys - I almost never saw “mullets”. Most boys had short-cropped hair, buzzes and crew cuts, often spiked. Again, more likely the trailer-park boys would have mullets.
People had interesting clothes but it wasn’t really like the really wacky Cindy and Madonna stuff. Not around here, anyway!
My main thing - it was FUN! Thank God I came of age in an interesting, happy era, rather than the “depressed-look” drippy era strangely combined with sexual overtones (low-risers, bellies showing, words on butts)!
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My father had one of those.
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