Remembering the 80's

RainbowNtheWaterfall

:laugh: Wow!....fun stroll down memory lane...and i just played the mash game ):laugh:

Anna_Banana

BOB FM just played "Can't Touch This" Go Hammer, Go Hammer. lol. It's so funny everytime I hear it I see him doing that dance:laugh:

I don't know the name of the song, but I just get a kick out of it. The one about the mom stuck in the '80's That's me. I wanted to shack it on WhiteSnakes car.:blushing:
" Springstien, Madonna, way before Nirvana, there was U-2 and Blondie and Music still on MTV. Her two kids, in high school, they tell her that she's uncool, but she's still preoccupied with 1985. "

chrissyh

Can't forget JJ......GOOD TIMES!!

The Jeffersons

Happy Days and what was the Happy days spin off with Erin Moran and Scott Baio

Anna_Banana

Dynomite!

Joni loves Chachi (sp) Scott Baio was so cute. REmember Charles in Charge?

We use to watch Benson with Misty Gold

chrissyh

Good ones! Boy Janet Jacket (Penny) sure grew up!!

Scott Baio was a hotty - I also loved kirk cameron Family TIes!--seems like the Olson Twins (MICHELLE) would be in the 80s click but they are still on daily! And for some reason I can't remember the name of the show.....DJ, joey, the Twin boys, Danny Tanner...

Anna_Banana

Good ones! Boy Janet Jacket (Penny) sure grew up!!

Scott Baio was a hotty - I also loved kirk cameron Family TIes!--seems like the Olson Twins (MICHELLE) would be in the 80s click but they are still on daily! And for some reason I can't remember the name of the show.....DJ, joey, the Twin boys, Danny Tanner...

Full house. The twins were really big in the 90's after they started doing movies. My girls really liked them for a while.

Fitness_Chick

:laugh: Wow!....fun stroll down memory lane...and i just played the mash game ):laugh:

blah....you're too funny....:bigsmile: I'll have to do that just for fun to say I did!!:laugh:

Fitness_Chick

I loved this post. I actually found a site that lets you do the MASH game...http://www.mashgame.com/

and thanks SO MUCH for sharing it with us folks that have no clue on that....lol

I check it out to bookmark it in my spare time away from the gym and MFP...oh wait....there's no spare time left!:huh: :noway: :bigsmile:

Fitness_Chick

Okay, I was born in '79! So, the New Kids on the Block just got back together and I totally went to the concert about 3 weeks ago! It was awsome! What does that make me?? Should I have just admitted that? :huh:

It means you are a strong, confident woman who doesn't care what all the HATERS out there are saying. Us NKOTB fans gotta stick together. lol :flowerforyou:


Sincerely,
Mrs Wahlberg

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Does hubby know this?

Yes, Donnie knows.

Mir, you crack me up with your crush....I think it's so cute:flowerforyou: .... um, "Mrs. Wahlgerg" I mean...:blushing:

MellowGa

Valley Girl, the best movie of all time

xFunctionalStrengthx

Author unknown:

I am a child of the eighties. That is what I prefer to be called. When I got home from school, I played with my Atari 2600. I spent hours playing Pitfall or Combat or Breakout or Dodge'em Cars or Frogger. I never did beat Asteroids. Then I watched "Scooby Doo." Daphne was a Goddess, and I thought Shaggy was smoking something synthetic in the back of their psychedelic van. I hated Scrappy.

I would sleep over at friends' houses on the weekends. We played army with G.I. Joe figures, and I set up galactic wars between Autobots and Decepticons. We stayed up half the night throwing marshmallows and Velveeta at one another. We never beat the Rubik's Cube.

I got up on Saturday mornings at 6 a.m. to watch bad Hanna-Barbera cartoons like "The Snorks," "Jabberjaw," "Captain Caveman," and "Space Ghost." In between, I would watch "School House Rock." ("Conjunction junction, what's your function?")

On weeknights, Daisy Duke was my future wife. I was going to own the General Lee and shoot dynamite arrows out the back. Why did they weld the doors shut? At the movies, the Nerds got Revenge on the Alpha Betas by teaming up with the Omega Mus. I watched Indiana Jones save the Ark of the Covenant, and wondered what Yoda meant when he said, "No, there
is another."

Ronald Reagan was cool. Gorbachev was the guy who built a McDonalds in Moscow. My family took summer vacations to the Gulf of Mexico and collected "Muppet Movie" glasses along the way. (We had the whole set.) My brother and I fought in the back seat. At the hotel, we found creative uses for Connect Four pieces like throwing them in that big air conditioning unit.

I listened to John COUGAR Mellencamp sing about Little Pink Houses for Jack and Diane. I was bewildered by Boy George and the colors of his dreams, red, gold, and green. MTV played videos. Nickelodeon played "You Can't Do That on Television" and "Dangermouse." Cor! HBO showed Mike Tyson pummel everybody except Robin Givens, the bad actress from "Head of the Class" who took all Mike's cash flow.

I drank Dr. Pepper. "I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper, wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?" Shasta was for losers. TAB was a laboratory accident. Capri Sun was a social statement. Orange juice wasn't just for breakfast anymore, and bacon had to move over for something meatier.

My mom put a thousand Little Debbie Snack Cakes in my Charlie Brown lunch box and filled my Snoopy Thermos with grape Kool-Aid. I would never eat the snack cakes, though. Did anyone? I got two thousand cheese and cracker snack packs, and I ate those.

I went to school and had recess. I went to the same classes every day. Some weird guy from the eighth grade always won the science fair with the working hydroelectric plant that leaked on my project about music and plants. They just loved Beethoven.

Field day was bigger than Christmas, but it always managed to rain just enough to make everybody miserable before they fell over in the three-legged race. Where did all those pantyhose come from? "Deck the Halls with Gasoline, fa la la la la la la la la," was just a song. Burping was cool. Rubber band fights were cooler. A substitute teacher was a babysitter/marked woman. Nobody deserved that.

I went to Cub Scouts. I got my arrow-of-light, but never managed to win the Pinewood Derby. I got almost every skill award but don't remember ever doing anything.

The world stopped when the Challenger exploded.

Did a teacher come in and tell your class?

Half of your friends' parents got divorced.

People did not just say no to drugs.

AIDS started, but you knew more people who had a grandparent die from cancer.

Somebody in your school died before they graduated.

When you put all this stuff together, you have my childhood. If this stuff sounds familiar, then I bet you are one, too.

We are children of the eighties. That is what I prefer "they" call it.

madwells1

Jelly shoes. What were we thinking!

beagletracks

1981?

That’s me in the (pink) roller disco shirt.

cbl40

Love this!

beagletracks

1986?

At my great grandma’s house.

beagletracks

beagletracks

My cousin on my right, little sister on my left, half sister in my lap.

xFunctionalStrengthx

Hairstyle and hat, very much of the 80's. Don't recall who kind of started the look though.