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Hey all you intelligent Jatraqueros:

If you could describe the best of the 80s in a sentence, what would your sentence be? Would it be a movie quote? A song lyric? Something from politics?

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CStroman
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Radical!

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Dagonee
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Screws fall out all the time, sir - it's an imperfect world.

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Sara Sasse
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Not so much the best of the 80's, but:

Our hair was as big as our shoulderpads.

[I like the shorter and sweeter ones above, though.]

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Here's one from what was quite possibly the best movie ever made--Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

"How could I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this?"

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Defenestraitor
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Gordon Gecko:

"Greed is good."

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Lost Ashes
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How about:

"We tried the best we could, but eventually, it became, yanno, annoying."

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Farmgirl
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The 80's are kind of a blur for me...

but I could probably describe the 70's.....

FG

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Surely you remember something from that whole decade, Farmgirl! [Smile]

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Jonathan Howard
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I was born in 1990, but my brother would say:

"Heavy metal/Metallica."

Jonny

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Farmgirl
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avr -- that would be my constant "pregnant or nursing" decade, for me......

[Big Grin]

Farmgirl

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Zalmoxis
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I don't recall.

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Lost Ashes
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How about:

We tried to save the world, but got sooo caught up in hairspray.

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Tammy
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Like, gag me with a spoon.

[ October 25, 2004, 05:21 PM: Message edited by: Tammy ]

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Chaeron
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I ran.

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Chaeron
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Zalmoxis wins.

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Dan_raven
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Most accurate description,

Ten years between 1980 and 1990

or

Those years between Iranian Hostage taking and Gulf War Invasion.

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So far, Lost Ashes has the best quotes.

[Big Grin]

I'm looking for positive lines, believe it or not. Some seed ideas for a promotional piece I have to write. I have The 80's Game on my desk, but the trivia in there tends to be way too trivial. I'm just wondering how to encapsulate the 80s in a sentence and keep it positive.

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quote:
that would be my constant "pregnant or nursing" decade, for me......

Ditto me... I was a baby factory during the 80's and completely oblivious to most of the fads and fashions. I didn't even have a TV for most of the decade.

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punwit
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*In best Ahnold voice* "I'll be back"

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Paul Goldner
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We have to go back, to the future!

Video killed the radio star

Luke, I am your father

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Boon
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Valley Girl

I mean, like, totally tubular, dude! Awesome! Fer sher!

edit for broken link

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punwit
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Where's the beef?

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Lost Ashes
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The 1980s:

When no government could help, Bob Geldoff got a little help from all of his friends.

[ October 25, 2004, 06:07 PM: Message edited by: Lost Ashes ]

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punwit
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As spoken by Ronald Reagan,

"Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

[ October 25, 2004, 06:12 PM: Message edited by: punwit ]

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Boris
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"I was born on January 29, 1980" nuff said [Smile]

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Some good stuff so far.

Thank you, Paul, for reminding me of Back to the Future.

Lost Ashes, where are you getting those?

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punwit
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More Reagan on the crew of the Challenger,

"We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God."

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Punwit, that quote is the headline on the second page of my baby book. I was released from the hospital on January 26th 1986, the day challenger exploded, born six days earlier.

So my one sentence description of the eighties would be

"goo goo ga ga" though I was a pretty literate baby, so more likely "goo shakespear, ga television"

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Lost Ashes
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Ummm, sitting here at work.

I used to write a lot of headlines in my previous career.

I'm really starting to miss it.

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Lost Ashes
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How about:

The 1980s: When we took to the streets out of greed and out of need.

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Elizabeth
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Moral majority.

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TomDavidson
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To me, the '80s were the decade in which style finally became substance.

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mackillian
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1-9-80

Goonies never say die.

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Telperion the Silver
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Go, Mighty Orbots!

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Carrie
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Oh dear God.

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Elizabeth
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Luke and Laura.

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Dagonee
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"Eye of Thunderra give me sight beyond sight."

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Vote Dukakis in '88!

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Book
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Flipping burgers.

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poor old michael

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Elizabeth
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Jerry Garcia almost died, then went on to play some of the best parts of his career before his death in 1995.

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How about just one word:

Excessive.

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Elizabeth
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Nintendo came out in the 80's, I believe.

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Vadon
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Pink, Lots and lots of pink... *shudders.*

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8-6-7-5-3-0-9

[Shout] Bang your head...

Gotta pocket full of quarters and I'm headin to the arcade...( Pac-Man Fever )

Autobots! Transform!

Yo! Joe!

Who you gonna call?

[Smurf's Theme] Tra-la-lah-la-lah-la..lah-la-la-la-la.

[In my best Ricardo Montalban imitation] "Rich Corinthian Leather..."

Relax.

Jams. Chams. And Star Wars Pillow Shams. (These are a few of my favorite things)

Lazertag. Rubiks Cube. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

Wondertwin powers unite!

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Walk like an Egyptian.

That's where we wanna go, way down to Kokomo.

Is this burning an eternal flame?

Tell me all your secrets and I'll tell you most of mine.

We all fall down like toy soldiers.

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I was born in 1985, lived in Maryland for 10 months, went to Japan, and didn't come back till 1990. I truly did not experience the 80's in any way like most of you did. The 80's in my perspective was Nintendo, and Tokyo modeling jobs.

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Shigosei
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The best of the 80's:

Shigosei!

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Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

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