All of these wonderful memories. Someone mentioned DISCO DUCK.... I was lucky enough (or unlucky enough) to be nicknamed "The Duck" in highschool. Disco was the thing, and all those Friday nights at the teen dance clubs. Oh man... Don't forget the carpenters pants, the lowcut slouch boots. The black Tshirts the so called cool guys wanted to be wearing. Oh yeah, the other car hot then, the Chevette. everyone had one. My sister took her rubic's cube apart with a screwdriver too. My favorite Muppet, the Swedish Chef (borgie borgie) Thanks everyone for the happy reminder of the eighties. My kids laugh when I turn on VH1 classics and dance with the mop.

Trival Pursuit, Devo, zany zapper sunglasses, MC Hammer, Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man would be cute. Someone had mentioned a pac man cake, that sounded so cool.

You guys are cracking me up & making me miss my 10 foot bangs. I used to be able to go to 6 flags ride a roller coaster & get off & they would spring right back into place. I was supposed to marry boy George tear.I am so jealous what a fun cake. Will have to use these ideas for my bestfriends next bday. Another key figure you are forgetting the Smurfs. I forget was Alf around back then or was that early 90's?

Oh my gosh, you all make me feel so old! I still consider 80's music "that new fangled stuff!" And you're tellin' me it's "retro"???

I never thought I would be laughing so hard at what I wore. This thread is hillarious. Let's not forget Rick James......"Super Freak" MC Hammer "Hammer time" worn the no crotch pants. I think he was late 80's. The Karrs, Lionel Richey, Kool and the Gang, Sugar hill, Royals Royce. I remember the devil record scare. Playing certain records backwards you were suppose to hear evil messages. I could never hear a thing but I gained a ton of albums that the dorm girls threw out. I still have them too.

You know your getting old when your son/daughter says "hey, mom listen to this new group" and you know every word adding "they are not new, that's my era" and your child replies, "they're that old?".

Out of the mouthes of babes.

Tacky Capezio shoes
Aqua net hairspray for the BIG hair
Debbie Gibson
What was that famous dog at the time? I think it had to do with an ad for beer or something???

ShyannAutumn -

Here's a quick story - just happened a couple of months ago.

Recently there has been a desire to remake the song Tainted Love, originally done by UK artists Soft Cell, which just happens to be one of my all-time faves.

In the car one day, my 26 year old son was taken aback when I started singing to a song on his XM. Suddenly, I hear "My Mom listens to Manson!". He was on the phone with friends of his, telling them that I was singing along to the Manson version of this 20+ year old tune.

I laughed so hard I cried. I did not tell him about the older version until a few days later, because it was so much fun to know that he thought I was the coolest mom ever.

Has anyone mentioned Billy Idol yet? How about the Brat Pack, and all those wonderful Molly Ringwald movies? Rocky, Rambo, Clash of the Titans, Conan the Barbarian, Porky's, Revenge of the Nerds, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, and of course, E.T., all came to life on the Silver Screen.

Theresa

That dog was Spuds MacKenzie, for Budweiser Beer.

Theresa

LOL Theresa, a moment of glory. You have one up on them. I love seeing their faces when you know the song. With that said I have to admit I remember saying the same things to my mother.

Right now I have my 14 year old daughter hung up on the Eagles and Styx. I think I've hear "Renegade" at least 100 times this week. She also likes Prince, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that she she doesn't find "little Nikki" hehe

Aw, heck, y'all are babies!

I was an adult with 1 son, 5 step-children, and 7 God-children!

But I learned how to slam-dance!

Hey, we forgot about Betty Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes!

Theresa

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I am still laughing so hard I can not concentrate. I know what you mean.Me & my sister would be in the bathroom with the mirror laying down on the counter. We would look down at it & have a pick & pull our bangs straight out & then blow it so all the hairspray would dry faster. I swear our bangs were probaly 4 inches tall at least.

When my brides are looking at some of the pics of cakes I made in the 80's .... fountains, 4 stairs, HUGE things .... I tell them: "you can tell those are from the 80's. It was the era of extravagance: big houses, big cars, BIG HAIR and big cakes!"

I love this thread, brings back great memories!!! Thank you!

Playingwithsugar - I had a similar experience with my 10 yr old son this week. He was playing the newer version of "Cat's In The Cradle", very rock version, & I was singing all the words. He said, "you know that song, it's by _______(whoever)"? I said, "No, it's by Harry Chapin, _____ just copied it, because it's a great song!"

I graduated HS in 1981, so I was an adult, too, in the '80's. College, parties, slam dancing (I got a black eye, once!), CHIPPENDALE'S Dancers (hmm - maybe the '80's weren't soooo bad? ) I married late, so the whole decade was pretty much wasted...

OOOO OOOOO OOOOO.....I LOVE SIXTEEN CANDLES!!!!

"Dong, where is my automobile?'

"AUTOMOBIIILLLEEE!!!"

And parachute pants. And who remembers hypercolor shirts. I was a Jr. Higher in the late 80's, so I was totally guilty of aqua netting my hair then holding it out and up while I "set" my height and width with the hair dryer. Oh, and the Coreys...everyone had their favorite......Oh yeah...GOONIES NEVER SAY DIE!!!! Chunk do the truffle shuffle! YAY...I LOVE THE 80's!!!

Besides the Big Hair, do ya'll remember the colored streaks in the hair? I still see some punk rockers (retro kids?!) with them and I laugh because my friends and I used to use blush to get that fushia-purple streak in our hair!

I even dressed up like Boy George for a high school Halloween Party once. It was pretty cool when I met a friend who sort of looked like she was dressed as Billy Idol!

We used all the different bright colors of mascara to put colored stripes in our hair!

I can't believe I admited the bangs were that way. I am just waiting for the day my daughter sees those pictures & says oh my gosh Mom what were you thinking?

Oh my I am LOL literaly and my 2 1/2 year old is crawling on top of me trying to saiying" Mama, I want to see the funny guy tooo", all he can see that is funny are the avatars and the emoticons on the monitor! .

I better go... Please continue to add to this topic it's hillarious!

Goodnight!

"Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline."

Theresa

do the words.....bus stop, hustle, rollerskating..........starwars the empire strikes back.......... return of the jedi..........star trek (good ol' captian kirk)...........calculators with those glowy red numbers that were as big as kleenex boxes...........carl sagan.............carly simon...........the "boss"............john lennon..........yoko..........fast times at ridgemont high.............saturday night live with john belushi.....gilda radner............queen with freddy mercury...............the wall by pink floyd...........mutten sleeves you know those huge, big poofie things, omg who could ever forget shoulderpads............ya'll had to look like a football player on roids to be cool............etc.etc.etc...........omg who could ever forget "the mullet" ya know business in front party in the back.......sheesh what were we thinkin?????

I don't think that we were thinking Chaptlps. Wow, I forgot about the mullet thanks for the laughs.

I love your signature - "You'll get over it, Grandma Did!" - it's great!

Good Luck.

Umm....I live in Alabama....somebody needs to send out the memo to a large portion of the population that the mullet should have died with the 80s.......

The think that sticks out the most for me from the 80's is MTV that changed music the way we knew it.

How cool to have the Spaceman from MTV

Hey this is off track but for all you old timers, do you remember the song by the Archies, Chic a Boom.

I was singing it to my Grandson and my Daughter ask what kind of song is that. I didn't even realize what I was singing. I have tried to look on the inter-net to prove to my daughter there was a song, I didn't make it up. No luck.

Playingwithsugar, we need to start a thread from the 60's

Spoolies (cullers shaped like champaign glasses)
Psssssst (you sprayed it on your hair between washes, yes girls we didn't wash our hair everyday). And we went out in public with big, huge culers in our hair and a scarf wrapped aroung.
Pearl shampoo really had a pearl in it (fake)
Sake-a-pudding (you put the powder, milk in the container shake it and you had pudding)
I owned an origianl Barbie
You can take Salem out of the country, but you can't take the country out of Salem (I miss those cigerette commercials).
My roller skates had a key I wore around my neck on a string.
Shig Dig - Hullabalo (sp)
Dime stores were things were really a dime.
We wore knee socks with our shorts (don't know why)
I owned a candy striped dress and white go go boots and a mod hat. I thought I was really Groovy.

Oh, I need to stop that is a different thread.