My Little Pony, Thundercats, Popples and The Snorks

"Yes! I said the right thing! FINALLY!! ADMIT IT!!!"

Ha ha. Sometimes I think I resemble Angie too much. Any child of the eighties needs to read some As If!. For poops and giggles and nostalgic purposes. Archives aren't completely up yet, so the strips start about halfway through the story. Still full of eighties goodness though.

Ah, the days of scrunchies, GI JOE, and neon striped spandex biking shorts. (And you, you shut up, because you know you had a pair, too.)

I'm really too young to remember much from the Decade of Big Hair (by the end of the 80's I was just barely in elementary school), so my memories are mostly of toys, cartoons and kiddy trends.

Anybody remember those slap-bracelets that were a strip of metal sewn into a piece of fabric? (You know, you straighten it out and slap it onto your wrist and it curls around and forms a bracelet. Yeah, those were banned from my school in Grade 1 because they were "dangerous.") Or reading The Babysitter's Club books back when Claudia's fashion's actually sounded cool? Or sticker collecting, The Smoggies (SUNTOTS!! Eeee!), and My Pet Monster? And last but not least, The Berenstain Bears.

It all seems so cheesy and ridiculous now; I mean, the popularity of neon pink, the frizzled hair, the sheer garishness of 80's society. It'll be funny to see how people decades from now will react to the skanky-chique fashions and tv "dramas" (like the O.C.) of today. Fond amusement? Disgust? Surprise at how little has changed?

A quiz, fitting in with the 80's theme:

discover what candy you are @ quiz me