Intense1

How about:

* Inch Worm

* Lite Brite ("makin' things with lite, what a ? making things with lite brite")

* Operation (what did that kid say when he took out that organ? "Blah, blah, blah"

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(none yet, still thinkin')

Xera

I can't believe I forgot to mention Rainbow Bright, Punky Brewster and ET dolls. I loved Punky Brewster.

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Miss Mango

There is a rusty safety hazard formerly known as our swingset in the back yard.
I had a Strawberry Shortcake board game, and a friends dog ate the Sour Grapes playing piece. I remember being awfully upset about that...

Anyone remember SeaWees? When looking for them (because I couldnt remember the name!), I came across this site. http://dreamfollow.com/lilypad/eighties.html

I remember Serendipity books, too. What about the Sweet Pickles series? (I loved em!)

raeanna74

Clove gum. Been craving it lately and cannot find it anywhere. That or Black Jack gum.

Also, Jelly shoes - fun and cool lookin.
A Chinese jump rope was a blast too.

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"Always learn the rules so that you can break them properly." Dalai Lama
My Karma just ran over your Dogma.

IT2002

Anyone remember the diet candy called AIDS?

How about "Who shot J.R?"

Does anyone else remember going to the movies with Dad and coming home with Mom?

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It doesn't even feel like whatever time it is.

Miss Mango

Naugles (I think that was how it was spelled). It was like a cross between Taco Bell & Del Taco, but better!

Lizra

Oh geez....those nasty carmel squares! They were wrapped in wax paper in that box.... My mom "enjoyed" them....
And "Sucarel" (sp?) those weird tabletop bottles of sugar substitute....they had that pointy top. I have an antique booth.....and I sell the occasional Sucarel bottle if I stumble across one....the shape is so distinctive....brings back memories to lots of people.

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beavstrokinoff

Cuban lunch. I haven't seenone of those for years.

m0rpheus

I just saw one in a used game store the other day...

Who remembers ColecoVision?

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RedCometChar

Yeah, I remember. I was big into He-Man at the time, and I bought the Colecovision game believing it would work on Atari like every other oddball shaped cartridge, only to have it be this tiny little thing. I didn't actually play it for years, ended up giving it to a cousin who had a Colecovision.

I remember the little dial joysticks and the number pads on the controllers, though. The He-Man game even came with a little plastic sheet you could slide into your keypad to customize it.

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Killing that robot makes me want to go home.

Lasereth

I don't know why this thread reminded me of it but does anyone remember the popcorn that was different colors. It was green red and blue I think. This was late 80's possibly early 90s.

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Miss Mango

I was never much of a doll person, but one of the few that I did have was Mrs. Beasley. So ugly!

I had a Lemon Twist ankle toy swingy thing.

I loved to watch HR Pufnstuf, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, the Bugaloos, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, etc. I was a TV junkie.

I still have some of my Charlies Angels trading cards that came with bubble gum. Also, Monkees cards!

One of my favorite possessions was a Magic Window. Man, I loved that thing. I was totally hypnotized by it.

Miss Mango

Dairy Queen Tokens included in the Full Meal Deal so you could buy desert afterwards.

genuinegirly

Those Dairy Queen tokens were great.
What about etch-a-sketch?

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"Sometimes I have to remember that things are brought to me for a reason, either for my own lessons or for the benefit of others." Cynthetiq

"violence is no more or less real than non-violence." roachboy

lotsofmagnets

was just playing with etch-a-sketch over easter in the north of iceland. they are not dead.

this thread made me remember the old hypercolour t-shirts that would eventually turn vomit brown

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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

snowy

I had a pair of hypercolor socks. Those were cool. Not.

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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Crack

do you even listen to yourself talk?

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Crack, you and I are long overdue for a vicious bout of mansex.

~Halx

777

Remember the old names for our stores?

Saveway

Lucky's

Thrifty

Sav-on (And Osco)

And horror movies had these weird monsters, like Hellraiser, Jason, Freddy, and Michael from Halloween. These days, they're mostly seriel killer films, and the monsters that are made aren't milked to death.

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"I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something - or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip."

Roger Zelazny

Dammitall

I remember going to see a double feature of Explorers and Footloose at the drive-in in our Datsun hatchback. I fell asleep five minutes into Footloose.

Anybody else have a subscription to Ranger Rick? Oh, and anybody remember playing Flashlight Tag?

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cdwonderful

it was AYDS and i use to eat em like candy

did anyone have a Major Matt Mason?

Leto

I had a Major Matt Mason, with the Space Sled and Back Pack.

Best damn toy I ever had, even when the wire in the posable arms and legs broke.

better than the Smash Up Derby cars. anybody remember those?

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You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey
And I never saw someone say that before
You held my hand and we walked home the long way
You were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr

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ring

1965
Me holding the 'Hugnik' mouse.
My sister loved that robot, I did too.
I can't remember who made it.
I looked around on the net a bit and couldn't find it.

Terrell

My sister had a couple of cabbage patch kids, as well as a cassette with cabbage patch kids music. I also remember garbage pail kids trading cards (spoof of cabbage patch kids). She had some of those too. I had a Rubiks Cube, as well as Pyramix (sp?).

roachboy

my brother and i were sky king fans when we were little. we could be skydivers off the edge of the couch in the livingroom. it was orange and made of vinyl. sometimes we would take breaks from skydiving to bury general douglas macarthur again, who was apparently quite dead inside one of the orange cushions.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

ring

Oh..yes,
the glorious tunnels we would make,
by draping blankets over all the tv-tray tables,
and chairs in the basement.

Dammitall

Simon, anyone?

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If one million people replaced a two mile car trip once a week with a bike ride, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 50,000 tons per year. If one out of ten car commuters switched to a bike, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 25.4 million tons per year. [2milechallenge.com]

ItWasMe

Oh, yes, simon! I had one of those.

Rubik's cube
Gremlin's
The Wonder Years
Donkey Kong
Boom Boxes
Flash Dance
Knight Rider

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"Ok, no more truth-or-dare until somebody returns my underwear" ~ George Lopez

I bake cookies just so I can lick the bowl. ~ ItWasMe

vanblah

cdwonderful

paddle pool!

uncle phil

water painting the sides of houses...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

cdwonderful

mood rings


hey it does resize your avatar picture.....wheeeeee

NoSoup

Things I miss - Clear Pepsi and Hubba Bubba (I think) Soda. At any rate - it was radioactive pink and tasted just like Bubble Gum.
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Oh! And Hungry Hungry Hippos

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I have an aura of reliability and good judgement.

Just in case you were wondering...

uncle phil

clear pepsi was soo wrong...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Cynosure

If you guys want an amusing and bittersweet trip down memory lane, of what U.S. consumerism life was like, growing up in the mid '70s to late '80s, I highly recommend you getting your hands on a copy of this book...

Retro Hell: Life in the '70s and '80s (from Afros to Zotz)



(The image may be too small for you to make it out, but that's a flaming disco ball. LOL.)

amazon.com: Retro Hell: Life in the '70s and '80S (from Afros to Zotz) - Editors of Ben is Dead Magazine

Although this book is out of print, you can get a used copy in pretty good condition at a reasonable price. I've had my own copy of this book for several years now, and I've perused it many, many times. (Once, while eating a bowl of good ol' Quisp cereal, which I happened upon in a grocery store, a few years ago.)

777

I was talking to this young girl the other day, and she has no idea what a pager was!
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And for those who had a Nintendo growing up, who can remember this song:

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"I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something - or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip."

Roger Zelazny

snowy

Anyone remember Original New York Seltzer? I remembered this today when enjoying a diet Hansen's Black Cherry soda, as the black cherry flavor was my favorite of the Original New York Seltzers. I also really fancied those unique glass bottles they came in. I have fond memories of saving up our seltzer bottles as a kid and turning them in for nickels on a family trip to Oregon (we lived in WA at the time, where there is no bottle bill). Obviously, this is before they started using different barcodes on products for states with deposits, before the machines, back when they still guessed how many bottles you had based on how full the bag was.

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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

newtx

20 inch bike with high rise handle bars,banana seat and of course a racing slick.
western flyer bike from western auto
double your pleasure, double your fun............with _____,_____,_____gum.
Carters little liver pills. ex: He has more money than Carter has little pills.

Leto

double, mint, chewing gum?

How about Certs? "Two, Two, Two mints in One!"


Those bikes with the banana seats and the sissy bars? They were called Mustangs.


Remember Brylcreme? A little dab 'll do you...

And the '70's rejoinder was "the wet head is dead" but what was the product?


Now, I'm wondering if anybody remembers Resdan Dandruff Shampoo? Song went something like: "Resdan, Resdan, Rah Rah Rah, Dandruff, Dandruff, boo, boo, boo..." Showed in the mid '70's. Can't find anything on Utube.

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You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey
And I never saw someone say that before
You held my hand and we walked home the long way
You were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr

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