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| 80's Songs, Videos, And Movies: Remember These? |
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Matthew W. Grant |
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It was the decade of decadence. It was about glitz and glamour as well as baubles, bangles, and beads.
Elizabeth Taylor dropped in for Luke and Laura's wedding. Lady Diana Spencer joined the Royal Family. Nighttime soaps like Falcon Crest and Knots Landing ruled television. President Ronald Reagan ruled the United States. Kevin Bacon danced his way across the screen in Footloose. Michael Milliken was the Junk Bond King. Cyndi Lauper showed her True Colors.
What decade was it?
We can only be talking about that terrific time period – the excellent eighties.
Here are twenty-one ways for you to verify that you're a part of (or belong in) the 1980's.
1. Breakdancing on the sidewalk looked like fun. Now it just looks like you might break something.
2. You know that Molly Ringwald was an original cast member on Facts of Life. (Now you're singing both of the show's theme songs.)
3. You remember paying by the minute for long distance telephone service and you can still hear the tune from the phone company commercial when they encouraged you to "reach out – reach out and touch someone."
4. You had at least one of the following: a My Little Pony, My Little Buddy, a Missing Link puzzle, or something with a Pac-Man logo on it.
5. You first heard about the Human Genome Project in the science newsletter your teacher would pass out on Friday afternoons. You also remember how this was supposed to lead to the eradication of disease.
6. You remember the day that thousands of radio stations across the world played "We Are The World" at the exact same time. (Now, you're singing it!)
7. You call CD's records or albums and you still have a diamond needle record player. You also know what a Cassingle is. Bonus points if you still have one.
8. You know who Oliver North is and why he was in the news.
9. Someone on your street or neighborhood sent all the money he or she had to a phony televangelist.
10. You hung out with your friends at the mall, especially in the video arcade where you exchanged those hard-earned quarters for tokens.
11. You remember when Reagan met Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland for a summit.
12. You and your friends made fun of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady. (The fictional woman was named Mrs. Fletcher and the product was the LifeCall emergency service.)|You and your friends made fun of the "Where's the beef?" commercials for Wendy's starring Clara Peller.}}}
13. You inserted "like" liberally and unnecessarily throughout your sentences. Like so, "Like, that was, like, the hardest test we ever had. So after class, I was all like asking the teacher and she was like it wouldn't have been hard if you had studied. Then I was like is that like wicked rude or what?"
14. You know there was only one way Dorothy on the Golden Girls could make Sophia behave. She simply said, "Shady Pines, Ma, Shady Pines."
15. You've actually tasted New Coke. Extra points if you wrote to Coca-Cola and insisted they bring back the original formula.
16. You remember a time before cable television and satellite channels.
17. You know what a snap bracelet is and how one works.
18. You were inspired by Sally Ride, the first female astronaut.
19. Renting horror movie sequels about Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Michael Myers took up a lot of your time.
20. If someone says, "I don’t know," you automatically cringe expecting the green slime to mysteriously fall from the ceiling.
21. You wore out your thumbs playing video games on any or all of the following consoles: Atari, Intellivision, Sega, Nintendo, and Coleco.
Want to relive more from the decade of Valley Girls and Back To The Future Movies? Check out writer Matthew W. Grant's extensive 1980's Trivialist at (http://www.comprehensiveadvice.com/80s.html). |
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