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Subject: If you could go back in time...
and change one thing from the 80s, what would it be? And don't say nothing, you're just being boring and getting out of it easy!
I would try to make sure Duran Duran stayed together and didn't break up in different directions... and keep Square Pegs and Wiz Kids from getting cancled! Oh, and I'd definately try and prevent the popularity of the Smurfs!
Subject: Re: If you could go back in time...
could do without the whole valley girl thing. most definitely would have kept "Family Ties" on the air but without all the episodes dealing with social issues.
Subject: Re: If you could go back in time...
If I could change anything from the 80's, I would say that, even tho this may seem silly, I would make sure that I was my age now in the 80's so I could really experience the 80's to the fullest..however, if I have to change something that happened, I would make sure that Culture Club didn't break up and that INXS ruled the radio stations!! BUT, THE MAIN THING WOULD BE: MTV would continue to play videos and not have come up with the big idea of having lots of shows that took over 'Music' television!
Subject: Re: If you could go back in time...
I'd:
1. Keep the cartoon Dungeons and Dragons alive. 2. Squash My Little Pony 3. Buy all the Sade paraphanalia I can find 4. Spend less time wondering if it was better for me to use hair mousse, hair gel or hairspray; lipstick, coloured lipgloss or lip liner; Blue eyshadow or Frosted Blue Eyeshadow 5. Bypass the Flashdance torn sweatshirt thing 6. Have not shaved the back of my head 7. Stay away from costume jewellry (ie. neon pink dangly earrings, Wham! fashion) 8. Video tape all the cool cartoons and every episode of The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and Hollywood Squares
> and change one thing from the 80s, what would it be? And don't say
> nothing, you're just being boring and getting out of it easy!
> I would try to make sure Duran Duran stayed together and didn't break up
> in different directions... and keep Square Pegs and Wiz Kids from getting
> cancled! Oh, and I'd definately try and prevent the popularity of the
> Smurfs!
Subject: Re: If you could go back in time...
> and change one thing from the 80s, what would it be?
I'd reuse all of the time we sat around figuring out how to get to Ground Zero when the Soviets dropped the bomb. Man - we were ultra-paranoid about that, weren't we?
Subject: Re: If you could go back in time...
Keep Prince from diverting into the bad music he has made for about the last ten years (at least since Sign O' The Times) and keep making some of the good Minneapolis funk sound. Stop some of those one hit wonders from breaking up as soon as they had made one good song because their heads got too big (at least be a two hit wonder). I will keep out of politics so that rancor does not resume, though I would have some views there. As far as TV, keep Spenser For Hire from getting cancelled (weak but that was all that popped into my head).
> and change one thing from the 80s, what would it be? And don't say
> nothing, you're just being boring and getting out of it easy!
> I would try to make sure Duran Duran stayed together and didn't break up
> in different directions... and keep Square Pegs and Wiz Kids from getting
> cancled! Oh, and I'd definately try and prevent the popularity of the
> Smurfs!