All Things 80's...

[DesertPirate]

Trombonus... Dude. Look man, I graduated high school the year they were introduced. Transformers was behind me, man. I was totally into the first wave of Star Wars Toys and 12" GI Joes and Steve Austin....but that was the 1970's, not the '80s.

While you were thinking about Megatron I was only thinking about sex, drugs and rock & Roll. Pretty much in that order.

Uh Bel, 12" GI Joes were in the 60'S

When the transformers came out I had been married a year
You puppies!

 

[Selena_Kitt]

How about a list of everything mentioned thus far

$1.00 gallon of gas
acid washed jeans
AIDS
Air Supply
airheads
Alf
And net T-shirts.
Atari 2600
awesome!
Babylon Five
Basic Instinct
Becoming a Star Trek TNG fan
Being educated about classic rock...thank God for that...
Berlin Wall comes down
Better Off Dead
BIG hair...unless it was brushing the roof of your car, it wasn't big enough.
Bill Blass
birth of the real art of Djing
Black Monday
Bottle tokes
Break Dancing
breakdance
Breakfast Club
Cabbage Patch Dolls
Cabbage Patch Dolls
Calvin Kleins
Calvin Klien
Care Bears
Challenger space shuttle
Charles Barkley
Cheers
Chernobyl
Chubbles God I loved this toy
Cindi Lauper
Clear Sodas
Cocaine
Cola Wars including New Coke vs. Coke Classic
Cosby Show
Cosmic
Countdown on Sundays
Creepy Crawlers!
crimped hair
Culture Club
Def Leppard
Dirty Dancing
Don Johnson was the Alpha Male.
Duran Duran
Dynasty
Eat my shorts!
Esprit
ET
Facts of Life
Fame
Family Ties
Farm Aid
Flashdance
Fraggle Rock
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
funny fashions all around!
Funny haircuts
funny suits
garbage pail kid stickers
Ghostbusters
GI Joe the movie
Girl bands like "The Bangles" (Susanna Hoffs is still cute)
Glam Rock
Glass Tiger
Going Live
graffiti that was ART
Gremlins
Gummi Bears
Hair
Hair Bands (Platinum Blonde, Ratt, Van Halen)
Having a rat tail
heat change t-shirts
High-top sneakers
Hill Street Blues
Hiphop
Home alone
Huey Lewis and the News
huge eyebrows
Iran Hostage Crisis
Iran/Contra
Jane Fonda's workout videos
Jellies
Jelly bracelets
Jimmy Z
Joe Montana and Jerry Rice were the top QB/WR tandem
John Matuzak (Raiders)
Karate Kid (Wax On, Wax Off)
Karl Malone
Ked's
Knight Rider (who didn't want that car, huh?)
L.A. Gear (had me a pair of black and white high tops with neon pink laces )
Lady Hawke
Large earrings
Larry Bird
Leg Warmers
Live Aid
Long hair on men
Luke and Laura's Wedding (General Hospital)
Magic Johnson
Married…With Children
Men in Tights
Miami Vice
Michael Jordan
Mini Skirts
Molly Ringwald
Monchichi
Moon boots
Moonlighting (Bruce Willis & Cybil Shepard)
Mortal Kombat
Mr. T (The A-Team)
Mt. St. Helens
MTV
Music Videos
my little pony w/translucent wings that flapped
New Coke
Night Court
Ninja Gaiden
Ninjas
One Crazy Summer
Osh Kosh Dungarees
Pac-Man
paisley prints
Paisleys
Parachute Pants
Patrick Ewing
Penis breath.
Pepsi Free (Remember that?)
permed hair
Phil Collins
pink lip gloss
Pitfall
polka dots
Polo
Post-It
preppies
Prince
puffy stickers
Ramones
Read my lips, NO NEW TAXES. - George H.W. Bush
Revenge of the Nerds
Romancing the Stone
Ronald Reagan.
Rubik's Cube
Samantha Fox, Ginger Lynn and Vanity.
satin duster coats
Scottie Pippin
Scratch n sniff stickers
Scratching
Scrunch socks
Scrunchies
Seeing Porkys 2 at the Drive In in a Datsun 120Y
Sesame Street
Sixteen Candles
Slap bracelets
Smurfs
snap bracelets
Spandex
Spiked Hair
Spuds Mackenzie
STNG
Street Fighter
Super Mario Bros.
Superman (Christopher Reeves)
Suspenders with jeans.
Swatch
sweater worn over the shoulder look
t-shirt rings
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Terminator
Tesla
The A-Team
The Alex P. Keaton look
the B-52s
The Brat Pack
The Eagles went to the Superbowl with Ron "Jaws" Jaworski
The Eurythmics
The first Star Trek movies
the Go-Gos
The Goonies
The MASH movie ending an era.
The murders of George Moscone and Harvey Milk
the rise of the MetroSexual,
The Simpsons (on the Tracey Ullman Show)
The War on Drugs
Thriller
Thundercats
Tiffany
Tight-rolling the cuffs of jeans
TO-tally
Top Gun
Trans-Ams
Transformers
Trapper Keepers
Trivial Pursuit
trolls
tubular!
Twisted Sister
Urban Cowboy
Valentino jeans! LOL
Valley Girl
valley girl talk
VCR's
VH-1
Vidal Sassoon
Walkmans
War of the Roses
Watching Dean Lukin win gold at the 84 LA Games
We Are the World (Ethiopia famine relief)
Where's the beef?
Whitesnake
Who shot JR?
Zeltser Seltser(sp?)

WOW. That just made MY life easier! Thanks! (And that AV is delish...)


Hey, Trom... we were just waiting for you, dearest. Didn't want to steal your Optimus Prime Thunder!

 

[bb_peaks]

WOW. That just made MY life easier! Thanks! (And that AV is delish...)

Thank you. I need to get a new one done and show off the piercings.

 

[rengadeirishman]

i feel so young and ignorant.

 

[nautilus1]

i was gonna say slap braclets to begin....but michchick ruined that for me!

but to counter her:

garbage pail kids
the electronic simon game
contra
the rush of lazer tag
TACO - puttin on the ritz

L.A. Gear lights!....duh (also british knights)

hypercolor shirts
go ninja go go ninja go - vanilla ice (via tmnt)
one strap overalls
larry bird
the childhood of me
cable t.v. (i think...tho am prolly wrong)
the conclusion of the legitimate star wars
the princess bride.....

also the massacre of july when star trek, princess bride and star wars fans collided in a bloody onslaught of nerd tribe and goof war.

that channel 99 of scrambled cable porn goodness
laughing at al gore as he helped pioneer this very net chat board
less than zero
....also super models

and now I'M beginning to ramble

oh yeah....
benny hinn and jaysus khriste

p.s.
sorry if i spelled benny's name wrong. it was a long time ago and i've done lots of drugs since then, i'm sure HE'LL forgive me.

sincerely-
john connor

 

[nautilus1]

i also wish to take nothing away from bb_peaks

his list is truly comprehensive and well thought out.
and i am just drunk.
i applaud.

but surely we cant forget about:
ryan, ken......nor chun li
the watchmen
the other relevant comics

the true birth of solid snake
mario and luigi
most of the collective imagination of my junior high school

pipe dreams

tom selleck
guile
china (tho that may come back to haunt us)
myst (sorta)
text based adventure games actually

remember that comp game where you were that little dude trying to score with big breasted ladies and it was even creepier than it sounds because you were literally doing fat lines of coke off your nintendo power glove so you could say it wasn't technically cheating???

oh yeah.....the nintendo power glove.
and every final fantasy that really mattered.........if you never got laid.

and chinese food.....are you really still eating that shit?

 

[OhMissScarlett]

i feel so young and ignorant.

It's okay, you'll remember the 90's, which I really can't because I was too fucking drunk....

 

[Wildcard Ky]

Rambo

How in the hell did this thread make it to 5 pages and no one mentioned THE TERMINATOR???

How in the hell can you mention the 80's and not talk about Izod, button down collars and sock ties?

 

[gabriel117]

Ah the 80s. Great decade. Source of some great quotes:

"Go ahead, make my day." Dirty Harry in Sudden Impact
"Drop that zero and make with the hero" Vanilla Ice
"I have sinned against You, my Lord." Jimmy Swaggart
"I pity the fool" Mr. T

and, my favorite:

"If it weren't for pickpockets I'd have no sex life at all" Rodney Dangerfield

 

[slyc_willie]

Rambo

How in the hell did this thread make it to 5 pages and no one mentioned THE TERMINATOR???

How in the hell can you mention the 80's and not talk about Izod, button down collars and sock ties?

Terminator was mentioned, I believe.

But I don't think Commando was.

"Remember when I told you I was going to kill you last, Sully?"

"That's right, Matrix, you did."

"I lied."