h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, I'm not too sure about the generation delineations and the relevance pertaining to when who was born and the fashions that surrounded them. Are we products of our surroundings or just caught in it like the way you get your sleeve in the car door when you're not paying attention?I remember things and colors, never names or figures so I have these fashion flashbacks to certain times and fads of certain decades. I remember the horrid orange of the '70's.The ghastly green (which I noticed came back 3 years ago).Then the disco crap that women were foisting on society because they couldn't go for Van Halen who were in the "Running with the devil" period of slash guitar music.Oh, that's the other part this researcher remembers, the music.But back to colors - the '80's color was mauve.Not a bad color and not a bad shade of it came into vogue either.I mean,Don Johnson was wearing pastels for Herman's sake.The Miami thing was catching on and hell, lime green was almost in (almost).But today , look, it's almost 2,000 and we still have mauve.Of course, we went through that period where Vince Gill and what's his name the country star were the big items in music.Well, not any more, not now that we have the off-key waif sound from Jewel and others on the radio.Not now that we have the Teletubbies turning our children into mindless blobs of goo.(The British gave us Teletubbies - mind you , the American purple dinosaur is a Harvard scholar by comparison).So, just what the hell is happening to people that they want to get on their computers and escape so much of this "fashion" crap? Who knows? Who cares? I'm logging on to Spinner.com to listen to the "Living la vida loca channel".