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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 05:40 PM
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What was the Best of the '80s?
Joe Montana Best. Quarterback. Ever.
Brothers in Arms Great Album.
The A-Team
Knight Rider I'd kill for a car like KITT, just for the friggin turbo boost so I can jump over old farts driving 35 in a 55 zone.
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 05:44 PM
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1. Bill Buckner!? What else would drive me nuts for all these years?
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jshafted Donating Member (76 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 06:04 PM
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11. Hey Hey
That was all Calvin Schiraldi'sFault Damn Schiraldi
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 06:57 PM
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20. No - HEyHEY is the best thing in the present
:-)
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 05:44 PM
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2. MacGyver, My Little Ponies, Mysterious Cities of Gold, mullets,
Mr. Wizard, The first Fun Fruits, diversity education, big Sunglasses, hightop sneakers, tight jeans-and-baggy-shirts look, the Lethal Weapon trilogy!!

:-)mj
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dawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 06:05 PM
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12. Damn, you sure do like those mullets.
Come down to Georgia. It'd be heaven to you! :P
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 06:06 PM
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13. Naw, I can just hang out at the lesbian bars here.
:P
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dawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 07:18 PM
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22. The fem-mullet ...
a classic.
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 05:47 PM
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3. For got to add.
GI-Joe vs. Cobra (Hell, the dumbest argument I have ever had on the internet was about Which of the Joes were gay. Also, homestarrunner.com has been doing great parodies of GI Joe with their Cheat Commandos cartoons)
He-Man (I HAVE THE POWWWWEERRRRR!)
She-Ra

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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 05:48 PM
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4. Souixsie & The Banshees
Kate Bush
Clan of Xymox
Sisters of Mercy
Cocteau Twins
and alot of other music the masses ignored

The 1980 US Olympic Hockey victory over the far superior USSR team - the greatest upset in all of sport.

Concert tickets were no more than $12 (which was an outrageous price!)
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 06:37 PM
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18. Husker Du
Replacements
Minutemen
Jesus and Mary Chain
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 05:51 PM
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5. re: Knight Rider
Normally I would say: don't remind me (Hasselhoff), but it actually produced one of the funniest German web pages:

Knight Rider: A alcohol driven analysis ;-)
http://www.8ung.at/sprittwoch/sprittforfun/knightrider.html
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PfNJ Donating Member (175 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 05:52 PM
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6. Larry Bird.....
A young Roger Clemens,
Run-DMC,
Bruce.....
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 05:54 PM
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7. My cat Dudley
better known as "the Dud-Bob"

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tcfrogs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 05:59 PM
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8. How about DUDLEY Moore in Arthur?
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 05:59 PM
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9. Best movies (sticking for the most part with Hollywood)
1980:

Coal Miner's Daughter
The Elephant Man
Gallipoli
Ordinary People
Raging Bull
The Stunt Man
Tess

1981:

Arthur
Atlantic City
Body Heat
Chariots of Fire
Fort Apache--The Bronx
The Four Seasons
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Reds

1982:

Diner
Eating Raoul
Gandhi
Moscow on the Hudson
Sophie's Choice
Tootsie
Victor/Victoria

1983:

The Big Chill
Never Cry Wolf
Risky Business
WarGames
The Right Stuff
Tears of Endearment
The Year of Living Dangerously

1984:

Amadeus
Country
Ghostbusters
The Gods Must Be Crazy!
Gremlins
The Karate Kid
The Killing Fields
Nightmare On Elm Street
Romancing the Stone

1985:

Back To The Future
Cocoon
The Color Purple
The Company of Wolves
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Lost In America
Wetherby
Witness

1986:

Blue Velvet
The Fly
Hannah and Her Sisters
Mona Lisa
Platoon
A Room With A View
Salvador
Something Wild
Stand By Me
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

1987:

Broadcast News
Fatal Attraction
Good Morning, Vietnam
Hope and Glory
The Last Emperor
Moonstruck
Robocop
Tin Men
Wall Street

1988:

The Accused
Big
A Cry in the Dark
Dangerous Liaisons
Die Hard
A Fish Called Wanda
Hairspray
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Thin Blue Line
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

1989:

Batman
Born on the Fourth of July
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Do The Right Thing
A Dry, White Season
Fields of Dreams
Parenthood
Sex, Lies, and Videotape



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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 06:02 PM
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10. Friday, April 16, 1982, 3:10 PM CST.
My son was born!!!!!!!!!!

:loveya:
Dad
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 06:32 PM
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17. Awwwwwwwwwww.
That's sweet!
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 06:06 PM
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14. Elvis Costello. The Pretenders.
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PfNJ Donating Member (175 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 06:12 PM
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15. almost forgot.....
Rocky III & the final Rocky, Part IV (Part 5 Never Happened.....)
:mad:
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Maine Mary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 06:19 PM
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16. Jaunuary 1rst 1990
eom. :-)
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 06:54 PM
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19. Roxy Music, REM, Squeeze, English Beat
Peter Gabriel, U2 in ascendency, Prince at his best

Songs like Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart, Again" and Guadalcanal Diary's "Watusi Rodeo"

I was in college and it was fun Fun FUN!

But the president sucked then, too. Reagan. Bleah. He's dead; I won't pretend he wasn't evil.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 07:00 PM
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21. BMX
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name not needed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 07:22 PM
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23. Caddyshack
You're a lot of woman, you know that? Yeah, wanna make 14 dollars the hard way?

This crowd has gone deadly silent, a Cinderella story outta nowhere. Former greenskeeper and now about to become the masters champion.

:)
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