uncle phil

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rmarshall

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mixedmedia

How about feather roach clips?

We used to win these at the county fair. I had a pink one attached to my rearview mirror for a couple of years in the early '80s.

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dlish

i had a crush on punky...

then again i had a crush on a lot of tv girls

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uncle phil

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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.

Grasshopper Green

Re: mixedmedia's spirograph:

I wanted to get my son a spirograph for Christmas, I loved mine when I was a kid. It was so cheaply made, I passed. I was disappointed

I almost forgot the most important weapon in any 80's girl's arsenal:

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dlish

i wanted this car when i was a kid..i also wanted to be david hassellhoff

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bagatelle

I tried to imitate Kim Wilde in her hair style.

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Leto

I had many a crush as well... Leading the pack were:

Lori Partridge:



and Jan Brady:

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fill23ca

My two brothers and I would play the Amiga500 for hours and hours. Our favourite was Earl Weaver Baseball. It drove us nuts because anytime we played the all-star level Earl would always have a rally in the ninth to beat any of us. Drove us crazy.

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zenda

At school, just as we entered the 6th form, the rules changed, to let 6th formers choose their clothes. Afgan coats were forbidden, but those ADIDAS Sports bags usually had one in them, waiting until the school day finished and we'd go to the forbidden coffe bars.


These were allowed

And my goodness, I can still remember the feeling of "Now we are in the space age!"

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Bonkai

Goosebumps Books


Skifree


Bush


Puff Daddy

dlish

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Leto

I remember those coats. Why would they be banned? They seemed very practical to me.

As for the digital watch (something Douglas Adams was keenly fascinated with) your post reminded me of the one or two kids who managed to get a CALCULATOR digital watch:




and as for calculators, these came out in my grade 12 yr, and of course were banned from exams & tests. The Texas Instruments TI-59:




You could select a program card and slide it into the side for specific functions as well.

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You held my hand and we walked home the long way
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jewels

Talk about early technology! I remember this ...


Time Sinclair

followed by this:

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Baraka_Guru

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noodle

Trapper Keepers were banned at my school because the velcro noises were "distracting".

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