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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2005 21:45:27 GMT -4
... Dana Carvey was still singing about chopping broccoli-ee.
... Vince Neil was thin and wore leather pants (oh, wait, he still wears leather pants).
... if you were lucky enough to own a computer, and actually have games for it, they were written in DOS and were completely in text. No pictures - not even crappy Atari-like graphics.
... speaking of Atari, Frogger, Pac-Man and Asteroids were new, and you could hang out all day at the local arcade and play for $.25 a game. Pac-Man even had a tabletop version.
... people fought to the death over Cabbage Patch Kids.
... anti-gravity pens and George Michael's ass were all the rage.
... McDonald's food was still served in Styrofoam containers.
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tinyshoes
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Post by tinyshoes on Mar 20, 2005 23:53:30 GMT -4
. . . Alanis Morrisette was on You Can't do that on Television
. . . nobody wanted straight flat hair
. . . if you were cool, you had three pairs of shoelaces on your LA Gear hi-tops (bonus points for wearing three pairs of slouch socks)
. . . Bobby Brown wasn't yet a crackhead
. . . neither was Whitney
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schmoosie
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Post by schmoosie on Mar 20, 2005 23:57:17 GMT -4
Nickolodeon shut off at 8pm (and the Disney Channel too), and it had no commercials. When Nick at Night came along, they would play old black and white movies after midnight. Nickolodeon was also represented by a big silver ball and they had little short films on all the time, like The Magic Hands and Slim Goodbody. Plus they had cool shows like You Cant Do That On Television.
Showtime had short films too. My sister and I used to excercise to the Aerobisize shorts.
Our biggest fear was the Soviet Union starting a Nuclear war.
There were drive in movies, and people would hide their friends in the trunk to get in cheaper.
ETA: Please don't hate me, I can't figure out how to spell aerobisize...aerobicize?
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Maddiemoo
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Post by Maddiemoo on Mar 21, 2005 1:19:21 GMT -4
I'm sure I'm showing my (lack of) age here, but woah! Really? REALLY?! 90 bucks for a tape? And people would pay that? Cuh-razy.
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tmi
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Post by tmi on Mar 21, 2005 2:42:09 GMT -4
I'm sure I'm showing my (lack of) age here, but woah! Really? REALLY?! 90 bucks for a tape? And people would pay that? Cuh-razy. people? bought? videos? I'm really showing my age here, but in my day, no one I knew really collected them-- it seemed kinda silly, b/c you could RENT them, and they were freakin' 90 bucks (yep, that WAS normal, amd nope, that was not a DVD boxed set, and you could not watch it on your laptop). And when I went to college the whole option went away-- we settled for hazy Letterman and SNL on the common room TVs And man, Erol's kinda rocked. $1.99 for a night o' fun with a bunch of friends. (the years when microwave popcorn took off). Hey, anyone else remember when your movie ticket cost less than five bucks? (nobody faint at feeling old, OR upset at the impossible prospect, ok?)
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schmoosie
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Post by schmoosie on Mar 21, 2005 8:45:20 GMT -4
I remember when movies were $3 bucks to get in.
I also remember renting a VCR, you had to have a credit card so you could put down a huge deposit before the first time you rented. We would rent a VCR and 20 movies at a time...and you could only keep it all for ONE day.
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snacktastic
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Post by snacktastic on Mar 21, 2005 8:58:25 GMT -4
I remember when videos were 90 dollars. I also remember when my Grandparents bought a laser disc player and had a few discs, but you couldn't rent them and they were over 100 dollars a pop.
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roxpopuli
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Post by roxpopuli on Mar 21, 2005 11:51:37 GMT -4
...dinosaurs ruled the earth. I win!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2005 14:09:39 GMT -4
Rox, you're talking about Reagan, right?
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tmi
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Post by tmi on Mar 21, 2005 14:26:43 GMT -4
Rox, you're talking about Reagan, right? Sorry to go all old place for a minute but-- BWAH!
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