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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #240 on: August 13, 2005, 12:47:19 pm »
194 - WHAM! What a good idea.
Now in a tasty new flavour.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #241 on: August 13, 2005, 03:54:44 pm »
195. All the girls thought George Michael was hot (and straight)

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #242 on: August 13, 2005, 05:47:19 pm »
196 - You know what Oliver Wendall Jones' hobby is.
197 - You still expected decent movies out of Mickey Rourke.
198 - You found a washed Gummi Bear in your pocket
199 - You had three girls in your class dressed like Pat Benetar.
200 - You wore glazier's glasses
201 - You owned a "French Foreign Legion" cap
202 - In fact, most of your clothes came from Merry-Go-Round
203 - VH1 played videos that sucked, and MTV played videos that ruled. (Now, neither one plays videos.)
204 - Saturday Night Live was consistanly funny.
205 - Late Night was Dave Letterman. Leno was a guest on Carson, which you didn't watch because Dave ruled.
206 - Hacking your way into Cinemax so you could watch a cheesy skin flick.
207 - Crockett and Tubbs were the two coolest people in the universe.
208 - There were only four kinds of drugs -- pot, cocaine, nicotine and alcohol
209 - You could turn on the local news, and actually expect to see 30 minutes of news.
210 - Kids were constantly falling down wells.
211 - Every year saw a new "Nuclear Holocaust Made-For-TV miniseries."




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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #243 on: August 13, 2005, 07:55:01 pm »
210 - Kids were constantly falling down wells.

Dude that one was hilarious

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #244 on: August 15, 2005, 09:20:01 am »
196 - You know what Oliver Wendall Jones' hobby is.

Hacker - Part time genetic engineer.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #245 on: August 16, 2005, 12:22:23 pm »
207 - Crockett and Tubbs were the two coolest people in the universe.


they were pretty cool, but he-man is the Master Of The Universe

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #246 on: August 16, 2005, 12:24:48 pm »
Which I JUST found out that they've both posed nude in Playboy magazine...

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #247 on: August 16, 2005, 12:33:16 pm »


Letterman was on AFTER Carson, on the same channel.

Yep, I used to watch both. This was back when I could still stay up that late. :)

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #248 on: August 16, 2005, 12:36:17 pm »
212 - You owned a real Swatch Watch with the jelly band and the Swatch Watch protector which went across the face. (each sold seperately)  ;D

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #249 on: August 16, 2005, 12:41:21 pm »
212 - You owned a real Swatch Watch with the jelly band and the Swatch Watch protector which went across the face. (each sold seperately)

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #250 on: August 16, 2005, 12:44:31 pm »

We made fun of the kids with those watches.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #251 on: August 16, 2005, 12:52:20 pm »
Nobody wore one Swatch. You had to wear at least three or you weren't doing it right.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #252 on: August 16, 2005, 12:55:41 pm »

What a brilliant ad campaign... $3 plastic watches that lasted about two weeks selling for $50 each and everybody had to have five of them.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #253 on: August 16, 2005, 01:09:12 pm »
don't worry Chad there's still hope for you........

ebay

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #254 on: August 16, 2005, 01:17:40 pm »


Letterman was on AFTER Carson, on the same channel.

Yep, I used to watch both. This was back when I could still stay up that late. :)

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Ever heard of TiVo?  You can still see it all and be in bed by eight.  :)

I tape Conan, Jay, and Dave with my Dual-tuner DVR. Then I FF through looking for the bits I like, skipping the boring interviews. All in the evening.


TiVo Kicks ASS. 

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #255 on: August 16, 2005, 01:21:44 pm »
you can't TiVo in the 80's..........

we're lucky to get the VCR to stop flashing 12:00

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #256 on: August 16, 2005, 01:23:29 pm »
Heard of TiVo? Sure. Own one? Nope.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #257 on: August 16, 2005, 01:24:34 pm »

Yeah, why the hell didn't you have Tivo in 1985?!

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #258 on: August 16, 2005, 01:38:39 pm »
Honda made it easy

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #259 on: August 16, 2005, 01:42:26 pm »

When you bought two Tiffany cassettes from a clearance bin at the mall, put plastic tape over the write tabs, recorded 2 Live Crew and NWA onto them, and then removed the plastic tape.

My mother thought I was a huge, huge Tiffany fan.  I don't know if I could name two of her songs.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #260 on: August 16, 2005, 01:46:58 pm »
"Real People" really were "That(s) Incredible" and "We believed it...(or not)"

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #261 on: August 16, 2005, 01:49:36 pm »

Ripley's Believe It Or Not is on again and making new episodes, has been for a few years.  Dean Cain host(ed?) it.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #262 on: August 18, 2005, 01:08:47 am »
213 - You Knew Ray Parker JR Sang 'Ghosbuster's

214 - Cindy Lauper was 'in'

215 - Michael Jackson was black

216 - Guns n Roses ruled the world

217 - Poofy hair was in

218 - you couldnt count to 218
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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #263 on: August 18, 2005, 09:39:07 am »
213 - You Knew Ray Parker JR Sang 'Ghosbuster's

We sang that in 3rd grade chorus.



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214 - Cindy Lauper was 'in'

I still want to get into Cyndi Lauper.


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216 - Guns n Roses ruled the world

Guns n Roses still rules the world.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #264 on: August 18, 2005, 11:34:59 am »

216 - Guns n Roses ruled the world

Guns n Roses still rules the world.

They just changed their name to Velvet Revolver and got rid of that self centered egotistical singer....

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #265 on: August 18, 2005, 11:49:12 am »

They just changed their name to Velvet Revolver and got rid of that self centered egotistical singer....

...too bad the new singer is so terrible, I cannot listen to Velvet Revolver.  The lyrics are nonsensical, you can't understand him anyway, and his voice is burned out and crappy.  It's like they recorded him yelling gibberish alone, and then just mixed it with the instrument tracks later.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #266 on: August 18, 2005, 12:06:59 pm »
I think they should've either used the guy Slash used for his Snakepit C.D's (Eric Dover) or had Duff sing and also brought back Izzy....




I have Duff's solo C.D. "Believe In Me" and I think it's awesome....

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #267 on: August 18, 2005, 12:35:51 pm »
They should have snagged the guy who went to Audioslave before he went to Audioslave.

Eh, bring back Axl, so what if he looks like Sam Kinison now.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #268 on: August 18, 2005, 12:43:28 pm »
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Eh, bring back Axl, so what if he looks like Sam Kinison now.

Does he? I haven't seen him in ages.

However I do admit to having seen G'nR not once, not twice, but three times in concert.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #269 on: August 18, 2005, 12:45:48 pm »

I saw them once.  I won some front row seats from a radio station to their tour with Faith No More and Metallica.  I couldn't hear for about two months afterwards.

Axl sounded like crap in person.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #270 on: August 18, 2005, 12:48:03 pm »

219)  You fantasized about Leia Thompson in 1950s attire instead of Carrie Fisher in a gold bikini.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #271 on: August 18, 2005, 12:56:35 pm »

I saw them once.  I won some front row seats from a radio station to their tour with Faith No More and Metallica.  I couldn't hear for about two months afterwards.

Axl sounded like crap in person.

I saw that tour. It was in Texas Stadium (where the Dallas Cowboys play) when I saw them. Axl actually did pretty well at that one. It was James Hefield who tanked the night I saw them.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #272 on: August 18, 2005, 01:01:41 pm »

I don't like Metallica anyway, so I didn't care if they sounded good.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #273 on: August 19, 2005, 10:47:50 pm »
192 - You can remember George Clooney when he played in the Original E/R TV series (just in case you forgot... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086704/

he use to be on Roesane

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #274 on: August 20, 2005, 10:04:26 am »

He was on almost every TV show at one point or another.  That guy got more chances than anyone you can think of to be a star and it took him like 40.  He was always on things like The Facts of Life, Hunter, The Golden Girls, etc.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #275 on: August 20, 2005, 10:14:28 am »

Debbie Gibson was in Playboy?! 

There goes my weekend.

Wow, the photographers at Playboy are good.  Somehow they've made her look better than she did when she was 17.  That's some magic. 

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #276 on: August 20, 2005, 02:25:34 pm »
I think Tiffany's got her beat, hands down .....
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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #277 on: August 20, 2005, 03:46:20 pm »
I wouldn't turn either one of them down  ;D