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• ‘Sprockets’ with Mike Myers as Dieter

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• Did you watch Live Aid concert (in person or on TV) when it aired 1985? What performance was the most memorable for you?

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• I ate a lot of these when I was a kid

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• Gordon Jump (1932-2003). This man ran a radio station in Cincinnati before becoming a Maytag repairman.

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• Did you watch Eddie Murphy’s “Delirious” (1983) back in the day? Favourite parts or quotes?

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• Seemed like every kid had the same striped rubber ball

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• There was that brief period in the early 1980s when knickerbockers were back in fashion.

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• Count Floyd (Joe Flaherty), host of ‘Monster Chiller Horror Theatre’ on SCTV, 1980s. ARRROOOOOO

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• Married GenXers: what was your “wedding song”?

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• Al Jaffee’s MAD Fold-ins

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• What was the deal with ‘Funky Winkerbean’? I often saw this comic strip in the newspaper but I could never figure out what it was all about. Sometimes it seemed kind of funny, and other times it seemed serious.

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• What is your favourite Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson?

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• “Back in black, I hit the sack, I’ve been too long, I’m glad to be back…” AC/DC’s ‘Back In Black’ (1980). Absolutely killer album.

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• My family used to play Mastermind a lot back in the 70s and 80s. I’m sure my parents liked it mainly because it was quiet and didn’t require batteries.

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• “What’s-a matter you? / Hey! Gotta no respect / What-a you think you do? / Why you look-a so sad? / It’s-a not so bad / It’s-a nice-a place…”, Joe Dolce, ‘Shaddap You Face’, 1981

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• “Alligator pie, alligator pie, if I don’t get some I think I’m gonna die…” ‘Alligator Pie’ by Dennis Lee, first published in 1974

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• The original mobile phone

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• “To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before”, Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson, 1984. One of the more unusual pairings in recorded music history. This wasn’t released as a novelty song, by the way.

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• Do you recall Whitman Big Little Books with the Flip-It cartoons in the upper right hand corner? (Link to video in comments)

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• The oversized plastic baseball bat and ball

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• Thanks to Def Leppard, sleeveless Union Jack t-shirts were a hot item for half a minute in the early 80s.

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• It falls down, it stands up. It falls down, it stands up. The simple pleasure of playing with a push/thumb puppet.

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• One of the little cartoons that would play during the intermission at the drive-in.

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• Anyone else have a Garfield ‘I Hate Mondays’ poster?

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• I hated when this happened

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• The side eye that melted my heart in 1986

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• “Jenny, Jenny, who can I turn to…”, Tommy Tutone, ‘867-5309/Jenny’, 1981

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• Acid wash denim clothing was a big thing for awhile in the 1980s. I hear it’s making a comeback.

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• My first celebrity crush: Suzy Quatro as ‘Leather Tuscadero’ on Happy Days. She was about 15 years older than me IRL but I didn’t care. Who was your celebrity first crush?

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• Thoughts on ‘Reservoir Dogs’ (1992)? I know I can’t hear the song ‘Stuck In the Middle With You’ without thinking about the torture scene.

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• The show wasn’t over until the frisbee dog barked.

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• Were you a waitress in a cocktail bar in the early 1980s? If so, this song is for you. The Human League, ‘Don’t You Want Me Baby’, 1981

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• Looney Tunes toothpaste. Made getting ready for bed fun, sort of.

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• “You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you…”, Human League, ‘Don’t You Want Me Baby’, 1981

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• “I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, that much is true, but even then I knew I’d find a much better place, either with or without you…”. Human League, “Don’t You Want Me Baby”, 1981

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• “Where’s your other hand?” Steve Martin and John Candy had such great comic chemistry in ‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles’, 1987

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• “If you’ll be my bodyguard, I can be your long lost pal; I can call you Betty, and Betty when you call me…” Paul Simon, 1986

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• “Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health…” Life of Brian, 1979

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• “In 1930, the Republican controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the…” Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986

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• Anyone else have a Fisher-Price Movie Viewer? I had the cartridge for Disney’s “Lonesome Ghosts”. Hours of entertainment.

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• "Cathy" by Cathy Guisewite. A funny look at life as a single modern woman. My gf (now wife) was a big fan back in the 80s.

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• Super Grover

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• Why listen to a Walkman when you can lug around a heavy portable stereo and share your music with everyone?

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• You can’t start a fire, you can’t start a fire without a spark, this gun’s for hire…

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• Take on me, take me on

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• I’m doin’ all right, gettin’ good grades, the future’s so bright…

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• SNL’s ‘Massive Head Wound Harry’

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• The Smurfs on TV and a bowl of my favourite cereal. Life was good.

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• Did you read Robert Persia’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”? What did you think of it? What parts, if any, stuck with you?

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• Belinda Carlisle, 1987. Heaven Is A Place On Earth.

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