[Somewhat OT] Mention of D&D on VH1's "I Love the 80s"

[Drawmack]

I remember the 80's. I also remember having 70's day at school every year during spirit week. During 70's day be characterized the 70's and people who remember the 70's know they were not really like that. Now the same thing is happening to the 80's. You're getting old, suck it up and deal with it.

 

[jasper]

I wasn't really "around" during the 80s, but something compels me to say that Grand-Theft Auto: Vice City and other things are compeling people to think the 80s were cool all of a sudden... Why, one of my friends was jammin' to Vanilla Ice down the stairs at school last semester in his faded blue suit, because it was funny. I think the 80s will be remembered by the youth that I am among as an era of humor and more humor.

hey steak boy.It is a normal reaction.
In the 70's we had american graffii, and Happy days.
There about a 20 year cycle where the current generation remembers their parents cool generation stuff.

 

[Henry]

Being a child of the 80's, I HAD to comment:

Think about it, we had:

- Madonna 'striking a pose'

Which I loved as a kid. I didn't DO it, but I had fun watching the girls who did.

- Our favorite game almost went belly-up

According to Gary, sales figures TRIPLED from 1981 to 1984.

- Punk Rock and Pop Rocks

Billy Idol, the biggest punk rocker of all, is a music icon today.

- Too many Tupperware Parties

I have a theory that the explosion of the Tupperware party was a very strange, yet lucrative, form of female empowerment. The 80's was by far the biggest decade for consumerism.

- New Coke

You win this one. I have no defense.

- 'I'm too sexy for my shirt...'

by far.... I loved this song.

- Michael Jackson changed before our eyes

Sorta - the worst changes didn't occur until the late 1980's to the early 1990's.

I have some more for you, all I consider good:

• Hair Bands (Guns 'n Roses original lineup and AC/DC (not a hair band) defined my late high school and early college music tastes.
• Rubiks Cube (the most insane puzzle ever invented)
• The Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon!!!!!!
• The Macintosh Computer, which set a new standard in Personal Computing

You have to take the good and the bad!
I have several more, but they are politically and religiously inappropriate for this board - but one thing that CAN'T be said about the 1980's was that little change occurred. In many ways, the 1980's was the most momentous decade for change since the 1960's!

 

[Henry]

...It is a normal reaction.
In the 70's we had american graffii, and Happy days.
There about a 20 year cycle where the current generation remembers their parents cool generation stuff. [/B]

Truth - and I could tell both musically and culturally that 1980's fad nostalgia has been slowly building since late 2000.

Heck, I remember back in 1987 one of my science teachers telling me that some of the sweaters that the girls in class were wearing were DIRECT knock-offs of styles that their MOTHERS (Which she taught!) wore back in the 1960's!

 

[Tom Cashel]

You forgot the comment, "People go see that Lord of the Rings movie...what's so wrong with D&D?"

I thought it was pretty damn funny. People with bad glasses and horrible teeth talking about how it's like they're a GOD when they DM.

And did you catch that room with about twenty people all playing? Holy cats!

 

[Hawkeye]

80's

The "I am too sexy for this shirt." is from the 90's, not the 80's.

Hawkeye

 

[MThibault]

I could have sworn that this post was eaten when I hit enter. See below for the final version.

Cheers.

 

[caudor]

Being a child of the 80's, I HAD to comment:
Madona 'Striking a pose'

Which I loved as a kid. I didn't DO it, but I had fun watching the girls who did.

HeHe .. we know you really didn't actually DO it, not even when you were at home alone (being a child of the 80's and all) listening to your favorite Madonna tunes. Yep, no sir ... noooo way

ROFL .. I do believe you, however; that is the still funniest disclamer I've seen yet! How many Madonna fans out there did dare to 'strike a pose'? Be honest, we won't tease you...hehe.

Best Regards!

 

[KnowTheToe]

Re: 80's

The "I am too sexy for this shirt." is from the 90's, not the 80's.

Hawkeye

Thank you, I was going to point this out, but wanted to wait until I read all of the posts.

Also, do you really think the 90's were any less self centered or that commercialism was less than in the 80s. If anything I think it has grown. In the 80's everyone wanted to own a BMW or other Luxery car. In the 90's many many poeple actually did. It is not people's fault, but people now in their forties and younger have been brainwashed by commericals since infancy. We (at least Americans) are all programmed into buying and the importance of materialistic property from a young young age. It is truely sad. I hate it and am as effected as anyone else.

 

[Voneth]

1980s as "classic" music! It was only yesterday, you wippersnapper!

Then again I am reminded of when I was a City Hall reporter three years ago and this woman came up to me and said, "You have to tell those fool City Commissioners that are wasting my tax dollars taking time to make the Post Office a historical landmark. It's not historic, I remember when that thing was built!!"

The Post Office was opened in 1923.

The woman was just past her 90th birthday.