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We were watching the Challenger launch in school. I think I was in 2nd or 3rd grade at the time. And yeah, horrified is a pretty good word for our reactions.
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quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: I learned my colors from Cyndi Lauper's hair in different videos. Seriously. When I was 18 months old. I LOVED Cyndi Lauper. When I wanted to hear "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", I said, "Fun!", and "She-Bop" was "Bop!"
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I had Spiderman underoos. I would try to wear them on Sundays whenever possible, because going to church meant wearing a button-up shirt. Because if you're going to change into your secret identity, you have to do it with a shirt that unbuttons in the front.
quote:Ooh...I remember seeing that happen. I was five, and very disgruntled that Muppet Babies was being interrupted - until it happened, that is. Then I was horrified.
I was three. We watched it in my preschool. I remember it like it was, well, not yesterday, but I remember it very clearly.
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Yep, same here. Even have the original seasons on DVD. The movie twice over (VHS and DVD. VHS will never come out of the plastic). I remember rollerskating to M.J. and Poison. I still listen to that music (not Poison, but 80's music).
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I was reviewing my high school yearbook this morning, and was shocked at all the big hair (on the girls) and mullets (on the guys). Of course, back then, I had never heard the term mullet.
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quote: Yep, same here. Even have the original seasons on DVD. The movie twice over (VHS and DVD. VHS will never come out of the plastic).
I was so excited when the DVD seasons came out! All I had was the Heros/Villains DVDs, and suddenly all of my favorite episodes were available!
I must admit that I'm really too young for early Transformers, and I never saw the later seasons. I got the tapes from the local video place, and watched them over and over.
quote:I was reviewing my high school yearbook this morning, and was shocked at all the big hair (on the girls)
I WANTED "beautiful" big hair, but it was almost impossible for me to achieve, because I don't have the right texture hair. The individual strands are thin and delicate, so it goes flat if I put much hair spray on it, looks dirty if I put much mousse on it, and splits at the ends if I get a perm.
*spent years 1983-1990 with terrible hair*
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But, really, for those of us alive and in charge of our own hair during that time, who didn't? My very worst hair year? 1989. Boy howdy, was that bad.
I remember most of the 80s fairly well. I was in school when Cyndi Lauper was popular. In fact, I was Cyndi Lauper one year for Halloween. The following year, I was Laura Ingalls Wilder. I was a girl of varied tastes.
I watched the Challenger launch in school, as well. I was in the second grade.
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I remember almost all of that stuff and more. I remember Pinwheel and all the great early Nickelodeon programs like Belle and Sebastian and David the Gnome. Loved me some Transformers and GI Joe. I wanted to be Jem when I grew up and even dressed up as her once for Halloween. (Note to self, never wear jelly shoes ever again.)
I remember the Challenger Disaster. We got to watch it on tv at my grade school. I remember all of us being very shocked and the teacher shutting off the tv hurriedly. We all went to lunch that day very confused.
Overall, the 80's were a very fun decade for me, but the time before puberty often is.
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My hair in the last couple years of the 80s is probably best described as a fluffy q-tip. >_<
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OH! I'd totally forgotten about that one. I remember now, because there was a girl named Isabel, and my father and younger brother, being funny, started calling all the characters Isa-whatever. Sebastian was Isaboy, Belle was Isadog, there was a grandfather who became Isagramps. Good times.
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Even though I was born in 1980, I paid attention to very little of the pop culture of the 80's. Looking back, I'm really glad that I was so oblivious. 80's hair *shudder*
I do remember David the Gnome. That was a great show. I actually managed to find the first episode online back when I had high speed internet. I just wish I had found more; I would love for my daughter to watch shows like that when she's older.
KQ, I was born on the 29th. I think I remember so much of the 80s because I have older brothers and a less than vigilant mother. I was all over MTV and HBO at the age of five. I love the 80s. *nostalgic sniff*
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Well I guess I didn't really grow up in the 80s since I was born in 87, but I still watched a lot of those good cartoons. I loved the original transformers, and did any of you ever watch Captain Planet or Dark Wing Duck? (I don't know if they started in the 80s or not) How come they don't make good cartoons like those anymore? *sigh*
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I watched both Captain Planet and Dark Wing Duck. Launch Pad McQuack was the ultimate comic relief as a kid.
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I was born in 88' but the photo's of my parents are very funny. My mom's hair had to be award winning BIG and definitely "BULLET PROOF"! I will have to print this thead out for her she will enjoy it.
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I had jelly shoes! My mom said they were impractical but my sisters thought they were adorable. And bought me some. And I watched 3-2-1 Contact. And the Electric Co. And Sesame Street-- I remember when we saw Snuffy the first time!
quote: I think I remember so much of the 80s because I have older brothers and a less than vigilant mother.
I hear that! My sisters were 9 1/2 and 12 1/2 when I was born. I used to watch them get dressed every morning, and they used to help get me ready sometimes. I remember my sister (who has TONS of hair like mine) crimping and teasing it every morning. Everyone envied her her big floofy crimped side ponytail. Gosh, I wish big hair hadn't gone out before it was my turn.
One day when my brother was two, they got him dressed for preschool. In a far-too-big-for-him Metallica t-shirt, black jeans, his little boots, and they spiked his hair into a mohawk with their uber-strong gel and colored the tips blue with some wash-out dye that my sister had from Halloween. Then they put eyeliner on him (would have used blush, too, but he was always naturally pale with very pink cheeks.) He then marched proudly out to go to preschool and my mom cracked up. She thought it was so funny, and he was so happy, she took him like that. The preschool teacher loved it, too, took a picture and posted it for the rest of the year. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Thats adorable Kq. I had neon green Converse all stars, in a teeny size, I was probably 2. I don't remember any other weird clothes, well stirrup pants, but I think that was the 90s, oh and sweat dresses, ack. Stirrup Pants with a Sweat dress and Converse Hight tops, and naturally wavy blonde hair! I shouldn't admit to this.
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Pshaw, 3-2-1 Contact was so annoying. Square 1 was so much better. Unfortunately, on our tv station at least, Square 1 was only on half the year, with Reading Rainbow being on the other half. Reading Rainbow was ok, but how could it compete with Mathnet?
quote:Originally posted by Yozhik: I remember watching the Challenger launch in ninth grade science class after lunch.
ET was the first PG movie I was allowed to watch.
I also watched Challenger launch after lunch in science class. O_O I remember the big deal about getting to go watch ET.
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For my list of all things of the 80s I remember/watched/wore/listened to, please consult I Love the 80s part 1, part deux, and 3D. Everything from 86 and up, I remember and everything from 86 and down I learned about post-86. *born in 83*
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quote: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Jelly shoes!!! I'd blocked that particular memory....
Oh, wow, I'd forgotten about these too...I remember being really jealous of my older sisters because they had jelly shoes. I thought they were the coolest.
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It depends on whether you define "80s child" as "born in the 1980s" or "was an adolescent in the 1980s." In the former sense I was an 80s child; in the latter I was firmly a 90s child (born 1981).
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Despite my late birth, I was more a child of the 60's than the 80's, culturally speaking. I had a turn-table and I only listened to records that my dad had given me: The Beatles, Peter and Gordan, The Monkees. My dad loves old movies; I think I saw more movies when I was a kid that were from the 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's than the other two decades.
So my childhood was a bit strange, but I liked it.
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FG, you wanna be really scared? If I'm the right age to be your kid, that means that Ems is the right age to be your grandkid.
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I refused to ever wear jellies because if you wore them, you weren't allowed on the jungle gym at recess. And there's no way I was staying off that jungle gym.
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I never actually saw the Mighty Orbots. However, I had a roommate in college who had watched them as a kid and loved it. One day he was very excited to have suddenly remembered the name of his favorite Orbot. He was asleep on the couch and suddenly sat bolt-upright shouting:
"Bort! He was blue! He could transform! BORT WAS A LEG!"
Which is a fairly odd thing to hear your roommate burst out with when you had no idea of the context.
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I was sick the day of the Challenger disaster.On the way back from the doctor's office we heard what happened on the radio. I was in 5th grade and it was my uncle's birthday (January 28th). I know about all of the things mentioned as I grew up in the 80's, I loved Gummi Bears, Pound Puppies, et al. I even had a cabbage patch kid.... do you remember Garbage Pail Kids?
I'm a little older than some of you...and in 1989 I started High School.... born in '75......
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Born in '82. I thought Transformers were the coolest thing in the history of the world. I still tend linger around the toy section in Walmart to see if they have anything cool. I'm kind of sad that my younger brother is now too old for them; they made great birthday and Christmas presents.
I have a roommate now who's 18 and he makes me and my other roommate feel really old. We were talking about the original Atari system and playing games on Commodore, and he said "What's that?"
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yep, I get that from my youngest sister. She's mostly out of it anyway, being that she is so shy and all.
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"Gummi Bears! Bouncing here and there and everywhere! High Adventures that's beyond compare! They are the Gummi Bears!" Posts: 1417 | Registered: Aug 1999
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