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Post by Thomas Powers of Paine on Mar 28, 2010 1:15:26 GMT -5
The '80s were pretty good. They had Sir Phillip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, Miguel de Cervantes, Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, Robert Greene AND the first Welsh Bible.
Wait, what century are we talking about?
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Mar 28, 2010 1:26:04 GMT -5
It was ok. I don't remember the 80's much, my memory really only goes back 1990, when I can start to clearly remember things. I was 7 by 1990.
For instance, I went out with this girl a few times. She was born on April 4th? 1990. The sad thing is, I can remember what I was doing 3 days before. I was at my grandma's house. Playing with my Killer Bees LJN figures on the front step, waiting to go home and watch WrestleMania 6, which I was taping.
The point of this story? I like stories.
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Post by Kris Kobain on Mar 28, 2010 2:54:32 GMT -5
I was born in '84 so I don't have great memories of the '80s. I loved the '90s though and feel the first part was the greatest time in history. The best music, the best tv shows, some of the best movies, some of the best wrestling.
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Post by Orange on Mar 28, 2010 4:16:38 GMT -5
I was born in '84 so I don't have great memories of the '80s. I loved the '90s though and feel the first part was the greatest time in history. The best music, the best tv shows, some of the best movies, some of the best wrestling. Couldn't agree with you more man, nothing can top the early 90's IMO.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Mar 28, 2010 9:03:31 GMT -5
In Re, the Afghan-Soviet War, as was the Iran-Iraq war:
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Post by Brain Of F'n J on Mar 28, 2010 9:18:14 GMT -5
Go watch Hot Tub Time Machine. All your questions will be answered. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2010 9:57:10 GMT -5
Loved the 80's. Yes, I was a kid at the time and everything looks better from a kid's eyes, but whatever. Loved it. The early-90's, right up until about 95 was good too. Then it slowly went into the crapper and hasn't come back (yet).
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Post by wildojinx on Mar 28, 2010 10:05:24 GMT -5
Also, it seems the 80s had more of a "futuristic"-type vibe. Not just the sci-fi films, but also music, music videos, commercials, heck, even news broadcasts seemed more "high-tech".
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Post by jumbotron on Mar 28, 2010 10:05:43 GMT -5
The 80's produced Krull, Dragon's Lair, and the Holy Diver album!
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Post by Milkman Norm on Mar 28, 2010 12:05:26 GMT -5
Luckly we have Vh1 to tell us what was awesome in pop culture without draging in all that nasty reality.
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Post by mattperiolat on Mar 28, 2010 13:19:02 GMT -5
Luckly we have Vh1 to tell us what was awesome in pop culture without draging in all that nasty reality. Well, that's not entirely true. They do touch on things like Reagan and John Paul II getting shot. True, it's a lot of music and pop culture, but some big events do make the cut.
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Post by Parrish on Mar 28, 2010 14:42:21 GMT -5
spent ages 1-9 during the 80's.....
--great horror movies -- great tv shows on Nickelodeon -- ugliest clothes imaginable -- everything was made of neon or denim
Greatest decade ever!!
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Post by briant1 on Mar 28, 2010 14:57:08 GMT -5
Mullets for men and women
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Post by Ultimo Chocula on Mar 28, 2010 17:07:27 GMT -5
As a child of the 80s, here's what I remember, in no particular order: - the outbreak of the AIDS crisis - Michael Jackson's "Thriller" - 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles - Reagan's second term - kick ass weekday cartoon blocks (Go Bots, Transformers, GI Joe, Thundercats, He Man, She-Ra, Robotech) - Super Friends cartoons - Two Star Wars sequels - The Neverending Story - Flight of the Navigator - Challenger disaster - Baby Fae, an infant who survived over a month on a baboon heart - Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, which begat Saturday Night's Main Event and my love of pro wrestling - glasnost and perestrokia - Madonna going nuclear - Chernoybol - The discovery of the wreckage of the Titanic - Mom bringing home our first VCR, followed shortly by the Apple IIe - ET - Voyager II's flyby of Uranus - Hands Across America - Short Circuit - Police Academy - Rocky single handed beating communism and making the world safe for democracy. Twice. Once with fists, the other time with a machine gun. - Conan the Barbarian - The rededication of the Statue of Liberty - The hostages freed from Lebanon - Iran-Contra - A drunk captain causing the largest oil spill in human history - US and Russia working together to save three gray whales trapped in the ice near Alaska - My first Winter Olympics in Calgary, where I learned to love figure skating beyond Ice Capades and how a speed skater could break your heart - Summer Games in Seoul, home of the worst boxing tournament in human history - The fall of the Berlin Wall - Pan Am 103 - The end of the Reagan Era - Realizing just how long a decade was on New Year's Eve 1989 We didn't start the fire...
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Post by Paco on Mar 28, 2010 17:15:39 GMT -5
I was born in '84 so I don't have great memories of the '80s. I loved the '90s though and feel the first part was the greatest time in history. The best music, the best tv shows, some of the best movies, some of the best wrestling. Couldn't agree with you more man, nothing can top the early 90's IMO. Randy the Ram says: "The 90's sucked!"
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Post by Throwback on Mar 28, 2010 17:38:02 GMT -5
I was just about to turn 8 when the 80s ended. So I saw them differently than somebody who was a teen or an adult at the time. But I do have a good memory of what I was around back then. (I moved away in 90. so I just have to think of the memories from that old house and I know it was in the 80s)
I remember bright colors and squggily lines were EVERYWHERE. I remember slime was big seller for kids. it seemed almost every toyline had something involved where you needed slime. He-man had the slime pit, TMNT had ooze, Ghostbusters had eco plasma.
I remember funny sticker/trading cards like wacky packages and garbage pail kids. Almost every kid had at least one stuck to their bike or skateboard (something else that was big in the 80s)
I remember being scared of my big sisters friends who had giant hair. Pictures painted on their face and spikes on their leather coats and bracelets. (they looked like the "punks" from my fav cartoons)
Summertime was always a blast because you could always find a group of kids playing somewhere outside
I don't remember the music that well because I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Where I really enjoyed going to a friends house and having their parents teach me about Motown, Jazz and Blues music. So in the 80s I was listening to guys like Nat King Cole, B.B King, Little Richard and the Jackson 5
The toys seemed out of this world. They were so extravagant and detailed compared to the old toys I got as hand me downs from older family members. I also looked them more than the toys that would come out in the 90s.
I remember I HATED wrestling with a fiery passion. (Because it wasn't like the cartoon) I would fight with my brother every Saturday to watch Looney Toons instead of WWF. That is until I saw a match between the Hart Foundation and Demolition. Then it seemed each week I was seeing someone new I liked while waiting for Bret and Anvil.
I'll wrap it up by saying it was a fun time. But I probably would have had just as much fun if I were a kid in any other decade.
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Post by mattperiolat on Mar 29, 2010 2:41:19 GMT -5
As a child of the 80s, here's what I remember, in no particular order: - the outbreak of the AIDS crisis - Michael Jackson's "Thriller" - 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles - Reagan's second term - kick ass weekday cartoon blocks (Go Bots, Transformers, GI Joe, Thundercats, He Man, She-Ra, Robotech) - Super Friends cartoons - Two Star Wars sequels - The Neverending Story - Flight of the Navigator - Challenger disaster - Baby Fae, an infant who survived over a month on a baboon heart - Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, which begat Saturday Night's Main Event and my love of pro wrestling - glasnost and perestrokia - Madonna going nuclear - Chernoybol - The discovery of the wreckage of the Titanic - Mom bringing home our first VCR, followed shortly by the Apple IIe - ET - Voyager II's flyby of Uranus - Hands Across America - Short Circuit - Police Academy - Rocky single handed beating communism and making the world safe for democracy. Twice. Once with fists, the other time with a machine gun. - Conan the Barbarian - The rededication of the Statue of Liberty - The hostages freed from Lebanon - Iran-Contra - A drunk captain causing the largest oil spill in human history - US and Russia working together to save three gray whales trapped in the ice near Alaska - My first Winter Olympics in Calgary, where I learned to love figure skating beyond Ice Capades and how a speed skater could break your heart - Summer Games in Seoul, home of the worst boxing tournament in human history - The fall of the Berlin Wall - Pan Am 103 - The end of the Reagan Era - Realizing just how long a decade was on New Year's Eve 1989 We didn't start the fire... You are awesome for that. Well played.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Mar 29, 2010 11:40:30 GMT -5
As a child of the 80s, here's what I remember, in no particular order: - the outbreak of the AIDS crisis - Michael Jackson's "Thriller" - 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles - Reagan's second term - kick ass weekday cartoon blocks (Go Bots, Transformers, GI Joe, Thundercats, He Man, She-Ra, Robotech) - Super Friends cartoons - Two Star Wars sequels - The Neverending Story - Flight of the Navigator - Challenger disaster - Baby Fae, an infant who survived over a month on a baboon heart - Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, which begat Saturday Night's Main Event and my love of pro wrestling - glasnost and perestrokia - Madonna going nuclear - Chernoybol - The discovery of the wreckage of the Titanic - Mom bringing home our first VCR, followed shortly by the Apple IIe - ET - Voyager II's flyby of Uranus - Hands Across America - Short Circuit - Police Academy - Rocky single handed beating communism and making the world safe for democracy. Twice. Once with fists, the other time with a machine gun. - Conan the Barbarian - The rededication of the Statue of Liberty - The hostages freed from Lebanon - Iran-Contra - A drunk captain causing the largest oil spill in human history - US and Russia working together to save three gray whales trapped in the ice near Alaska - My first Winter Olympics in Calgary, where I learned to love figure skating beyond Ice Capades and how a speed skater could break your heart - Summer Games in Seoul, home of the worst boxing tournament in human history - The fall of the Berlin Wall - Pan Am 103 - The end of the Reagan Era - Realizing just how long a decade was on New Year's Eve 1989 We didn't start the fire... Beat me to it. I spent ages 5-14 in the 80's. There were quite a few truly awesome things from the 80's. MTV not only started up but it also actually played music all day long. Awesome toys. Transformers, GI Joe, Sectaurs, Masters of the Universe, Star Wars figures, Legos, Construx, Wheeled Warriors, Robo Force (just reminded of last night), etc. Saturday morning cartoons still aired. Awesome daily shows for kids. You Can't Do That on Television, Voltron, Starblazers, amongst others. Springstein was The Boss. Mellencamp for a while was Johnny Cougar. Michael Jackson was not a freak (as far as we knew), Madonna was a tramp, but that was what made her awesome. Boy George was....hell, I have no idea how to explain him.
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Post by darthalexander on Mar 29, 2010 12:48:28 GMT -5
The 80s were alright, but nothing all that great overall (at least in my experience). I absolutely love the music from that decade and whenever I hear something from then I automatically go back to my childhood.
I remember AIDS and the big outbreak of paranoia that came with it: all gays had it of course and it was God's way of punishing us for being so "immoral" and (insert your own reason here).
I had tons of nightmares about a Nuclear Holocaust because everywhere you seemed to turn there was a mention of it. I remember those nightmares vividly.
I went through a lot of hell because I hadn't bought Jackson's Thriller album. You were considered the lowest form of human life if you didn't own it. Everything was MICHAEL IS SO AWESOME!!!!! If you went back in time and mentioned any of the stuff that happened in his later years? You would have been beaten up. If I had said to any of my schoolmates that he was "weird" I would have been beaten up. He was a god and above criticism.
There was a lot of goofy stuff (it seems like it's the last decade to have it - the 70s and 80s just seem "goofy") but most people were ok and had normal clothes and normal hair.
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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Mar 29, 2010 13:04:42 GMT -5
The 80s had AIDS and shit.
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