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Subject: 1985
On April 5, 1985 a young boy by the name of William Jonathan May was born in Pikeville Methodist Hospital. He was a good kid then in late 2001 he discovered Amiright and he became .....................................................................
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Ghetto John!!!
Sorry its the only thing i could think of when it comes to the 1980's
Subject: Re: 1985
Rock on, John. You're still at that age where it's socially acceptable for you to hit on the Olsen Twins. My time is over, but you still have time...act now! Make us proud! ;D
Subject: Re: 1985
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Rock on, John. You're still at that age where it's socially acceptable for you to hit on the Olsen Twins. My time is over, but you still have time...act now! Make us proud! ;D
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hey, those Olsen twins will be of legal age in the not too distant future.. so there's still hope!
http://olsentwins.syndk8.net/
be careful at that site.. looks like there's some fairly nasty stuff linked to from it..
Subject: Re: 1985
LOL...Come on guys the olsen twins? :) ;D i cant stop laughing now
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They are getting better, the looked like little monkeys when they were younger. :P
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hey, those Olsen twins will be of legal age in the not too distant future.. so there's still hope!
http://olsentwins.syndk8.net/
be careful at that site.. looks like there's some fairly nasty stuff linked to from it..
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Subject: Re: 1985
hi i am jonathan carlos rowed i was born on april 1985 and i want every thing to do with the eightes i was born in the eightes and i love it
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you were born in april too huh? mmmm that could be WEIRD! :)
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sorry i had to bring this topic back to the first page
Subject: Re: 1985
Well, I wrote a list of stuff on the 1980 post, and now I'll try to give you some things about 1985.
The year I totally lost interest in WWF wrestling and started loving NWA wrestling
The year I became a "Guiding Light" fan (That is, until 1987, when it stopped being interesting to me. Come to think of it, the same thing happened with my NWA wrestling watching.)
"Alice", "The Jeffersons", and "Dukes of Hazzard" were cancelled
"I Want to Know What Love Is" was the 1st new rock song I heard that year.
Standup comedy started taking off as it hasn't done before.
Whitney Houston was a new name on the scene
"Jem" and "She-ra" began
The slew of game shows such as "Headline Chasers", the new "Nighttime Price is Right" with Tom Kennedy, "New Newlywed Game", new "Break the Bank" with Gene Rayburn - gosh, it's starting to amaze me how much of these shows were new versions of older shows. Also, the year "Tic Tac Dough" went to heck because Wink Martindale left (to host "Headline Chasers"). The year Johnny Olsen died.
The year Ricky Nelson was killed in a plane crash.
Casio and Yamaha keyboards were starting to get better than they have been in the past
"Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling" cartoon show
The "Space Shuttle" pinball machine came along with its revolutionary-at-the-time "million point bonus". (Nowadays, multi-million point scores are commonplace in pinball machines, which makes this not such a big deal anymore).
Those are some of the things I can think of about 1985 right now.
Subject: Re: 1985
In 1985 I discovered a mix show on the radio called HOT MIX - I was intrigued by the extended/alternate versions of songs they played, and this was the first time I recall hearing songs "beatmixed" together. That summer I bought my first 12-inch single at musicland, Paul Hardcastle's "19." At this point I was making my own remixes of singles on cassette using my somewhat-skilled tape edit techniques. Later that year I rigged a turntable and tape deck to my boom box and taught myself how to beat mix by letting a song on tape run and dropping the needle on a record. I didn't get my first mixer (Radio Shack) until '87 and by that time my skills had greatly improved...
Oh yeah, my parents' divorce was final in 1985 and my mom moved us into another home which was closer to the jr. high school I was going to (which I hated; didn't like some of my fellow students who were mean to me) yet I had to be bussed to the other jr. high in the district (which I liked because I was an upperclassman and no one messed with me).
Subject: Re: 1985
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"Alice", "The Jeffersons", and "Dukes of Hazzard" were cancelled
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Do you mean that the network syndication of these shows was cancelled? Surely the production of these shows was cancelled well before 1985, huh? Or is my memory fried from too much "Joust" in the 80s? :)
Subject: Re: 1985
my mind doesnt remember the year of 1985, or the 80's but ive been watching that vh1 I LOVE THE 80's thing and it was pretty cool.
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Ahh...1985! One of my favorite years and, for me, the last 'honest-to-goodness' year of the 80's. Things started to get serious after that.
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is that why my serious music is so .....serious ::)
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It's hard to remember 1985 but I think I remember watching
Hulk Hogan's Rock N' Wrestling.And I was listening to WPLJ(New York)The first radio station I enjoyed listening to.Now,they're mostly alternative rock.
howard :)
Subject: Re: 1985
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Do you mean that the network syndication of these shows was cancelled? Surely the production of these shows was cancelled well before 1985, huh? Or is my memory fried from too much "Joust" in the 80s? :)
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Believe it or not, all 3 of those shows hung on that long.
Subject: Re: 1985
i think its cool and not in a scarcastic way , but i think its cool that i started a topic about my b-day and it turned into television LOL ;D
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Ahhhh - the year 1985 - the year I was parolled...I mean graduated from high school ;D, my baby brother was born, lost my virginity (later to marry this beautiful woman, have three beautiful kids and still married to this day), and parents divorced :-/. Man had to do some fast growing up so now I'm trying to some of those years back. ;)
Subject: Re: 1985
On August 7, 1985 a young boy was born in Auckland Hospital. He was a good kid. He was smart etc.
But now... hes lazy, and comes on here alot
That kid... was me 8)
Thats all I can remember from 1985
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That's before my time... just!
Subject: Re: 1985
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On August 7, 1985 a young boy was born in Auckland Hospital. He was a good kid. He was smart etc.
But now... hes lazy, and comes on here alot
That kid... was me 8)
Thats all I can remember from 1985
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oh wow im older then someone!
Subject: Re: 1985
In 1985 I turned 9, but that doesn't matter.
I remember a tv-serie called Hollywood beat.
There were two detectives and the Tune was awesome!
If only I could get it somewhere.
Subject: Re: 1985
www.carriegunn.com/maxcoke4.jpg
Weren't we listening to Maxheadroom (network 23) promoting New Coke or something like that?? lol I actually LOVED the stuff!! :D
Subject: Re: 1985
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www.carriegunn.com/maxcoke4.jpg
Weren't we listening to Maxheadroom (network 23) promoting New Coke or something like that?? lol I actually LOVED the stuff!! :D
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I remember Max Headroom.Do you remember a show that was
about him? I don't know.You might be too young to remember
this one.I think it was 1986.
howard :)
Subject: Re: 1985
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That summer I bought my first 12-inch single at musicland, Paul Hardcastle's "19."
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I was amazed when I found out that Paul Hardcastle had done "19". I downloaded that song about a year ago because I remembered hearing it like 20 years ago. I didn't know who did it then but I thought it was a cool song.
I didn't get into Paul Hardcastle until just the last few years when I heard some cool stuff off of "Hardcastle II" and bought the CD.
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lol TOO YOUNG? I am nearly 31!
Subject: Re: 1985
:-* 1985 was a good year. I cut my hair for the first time, and began high school that fall. It's one of my favorite years of the decade.
Subject: Re: 1985
1985 was a pretty good year too, but the small changes within the decade leading to the last half/end were already visible. :-/ The first I noticed was the parting of ways for the original line-up of Duran Duran.
The music was very much kick@ss until the end of 1989. It's just that I remember how the "New Romantic" genre, awesomely great in the first half of the decade, was beginning to fade into the "Alternative" and "New Age" realm.
1984 was the best year in the 1980's, in my opinion :)
You could have Duran Duran, Human League, The Thompson Twins, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister and Van Halen (David Lee Roth) on the same playlist!!! :D
Subject: Re: 1985
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You could have Duran Duran, Human League, The Thompson Twins, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister and Van Halen (David Lee Roth) on the same playlist!!! :D
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The mid-80's were a time when different types of music were on the same chart. From Quiet Riot and Bryan Adams to Lionel Richie and Atlantic Starr. You couldn't beat the variety back then
One thing I forgot - Burger King's "Herb" :o
Subject: Re: 1985
I remember 1985 was the year that all the young girls were
imitating Madonna.bracelets,big earrings,big makeup,big hair,sunglasses,short-shorts."Like A Virgin and Borderline"were
played on the radio.
howard
Subject: Re: 1985
Quoting:One thing I forgot - Burger King's "Herb" :o
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Please refresh my memory about this. I vaguely remember the name, but that's about it. :)
Subject: Re: 1985
Burger King had an ongoing promotion of "Where's Herb?". They kept mentioning him in their commercials, until they finally revealed him.
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I vaguely remeber the "Where's Herb" marketing strategy, I'm sure someone must have lost a big account over that one, very stupid and I know of one that got excited about it. If I remember correctly Herb ended up being some middle aged dork.
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Burger King had an ongoing promotion of "Where's Herb?". They kept mentioning him in their commercials, until they finally revealed him.
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Subject: Re: 1985
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I vaguely remeber the "Where's Herb" marketing strategy, I'm sure someone must have lost a big account over that one, very stupid and I know of one that got excited about it. If I remember correctly Herb ended up being some middle aged dork.
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Now I'm starting to remember the promotion. Was this the lead-up to that "grown-up" burger they came out with? I forget what it was called, but it was supposed to appeal to an older, more health-conscious (??) fast-food customer.
Subject: Re: 1985
Was that a MacDonalds thing? In mid 90s that had an "adult" burger marketing campaign that was offensive, it featured angy children upset that there parents were now coming to McDonalds and it's not a kids place anymore. Because I went to a McDonalds before the adult burger does that make me childish? McDonalds has had many failed marketing plans. Remeber McDLT, keep the hot side hot, cool side cool? Shaker Salad? Dumb all the way around. :(
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Now I'm starting to remember the promotion. Was this the lead-up to that "grown-up" burger they came out with? I forget what it was called, but it was supposed to appeal to an older, more health-conscious (??) fast-food customer.
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Subject: Re: 1985
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Was that a MacDonalds thing? In mid 90s that had an "adult" burger marketing campaign that was offensive, it featured angy children upset that there parents were now coming to McDonalds and it's not a kids place anymore. Because I went to a McDonalds before the adult burger does that make me childish? McDonalds has had many failed marketing plans. Remeber McDLT, keep the hot side hot, cool side cool? Shaker Salad? Dumb all the way around. :(
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Now that stuff there was McDonald's, but Herb was Burger King.
Subject: Re: 1985
I DO remember something about a sandwich geared to adults! Was it the McLean Deluxe??????? I think it was!!!!!
The McDlt. Ahhh...that HUGE foam container it came in with the cold stuff on one side and the hot on the other! lol That was actually a pretty good burger! :)
Subject: Re: 1985
Whoever came up with an Adult Burger was a
dummy! Adult Burger,My foot.please,spare me! >:(
howard
Subject: Re: 1985
They were trying to appeal to adults by making something with less fat....thus, the McLean! PRetty good marketting if you ask me. Adults spend the money...not the kids.
Subject: Re: 1985
Did I neglect to mention 'twas the year that Back to the Future came out? :D