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

Can I just say...MULLET!!

Sorry - I hope no-one else has said it...

Mullets, Rats-tails and tight shorts...all still worn by the German football squad, all no longer cool!

American Psycho

The Great Spacecoaster, E.T., Chuck Taylors, Floresent colors, Atari, Etch-A-Sketch, Hair bands (Motley crue, Slaughter, Poison etc.).

BTW Boston was a band but they were late seventies.

Oh the memories

...except the 80's never really ended - they just hibernatet during the drab 90's and are coming back with a vengeance in the new millenium, pink lacoste poloshirts and all!

Magazines with computer program listings in them, which you bought, took home, and laboriously typed in yourself.
Marvellous.

And you never knew whether they didn't work because you typed them in wrong, or because the programs were rubbish.

It usually turned out to be a combination of both.

Speak-N-Spells,
Avoid the Noid,
fliped-up collars on your Izod polo shirt,
spiked hair,
don't worry, be happy,
girls wearing leg-warmers,
members only jackets,

Dr. Martens, Madness and David Bowie in one week in 1983 he had 10 albums in the top 100 a feat only surpassed by Elvis. I can't think of anything else I was only born in 1984 so everything is kinda a blur but I do remember a lot of very scary punks walking round my area.

The Mini-Pops, Cyndi Lauper, Molly Ringwald and the Brat Pack- they made the best movies. If anyone wants to experience a bit of nostalgia- they should try to get their hands on "These are the quotes from my favorite 80s movies" by the Bouncing Souls. sooooooo goooooood.

The ubiquitous Dirk Benedict (where he now?); Star Fleet (remember Shiro Hagen, Barry Hercules, Dai-X etc?); the Commodore Amiga as a viable format; The Secret of Monkey Island (Lucasfilm's greatest moment since ESB); Arnie saying 'I'll be back' in every movie he ever made (and the viewing public thinking it was still cool); Rutger Hauer's career; Rutger Hauer's waistline; Judge Dredd (because it was pre-Stallone); Cabbage Patch Kids...no, wait, they were NEVER cool; Liverpool FC; the list goes on and on...

My Vic 20
A-ha
Kate Bush (Still cool...)
Flecked trousers (I was never allowed them)
Thin red leather ties (my brother had one)
Pixie boots
Ra-ra skirts
Grey wallpaper with red, white and black zig-zags
Solar powered calculators (so high-tech)
One day-glo pink sock, one day-glo green one (inside out)
Grey slip-on shoes with white socks
A wedge (I wandered round with a girl's one for months, apparently...)
Pretty in Pink (Duckie...my hero, and Mollie Ringwald...whatever happened to her...?)
In fact, all John Hughes films pre-Macaulay Culkin

*SIGH*

I'm going to go now, and hide under my cabin bed to drool over Morten Harket...

Cars designed with not a curve on them - TR7, Lambourghini Countach, Fiat X-19 etc.

leg warmers ... FAME .... need i say more ?

Has anyone mentioned SodaStreams yet?

Selling American weaponry to countries that hate us.

I think that's still going on.

Yeah. Some fads just won't die.

Sodastreams! I was jealous of my _grandmother_ because she had a soda stream! Jealous of your grandmother. There's eighties greed if ever I heard it...

and FAME!

I'm not sure if I wanted to be Bruno or 'ave 'im...

"Here's where you start paying...in sweat.."

*Nerdy air-guitars in a convoluted Performing Arts/Irene Cara's band fantasy...*