1. What was your favorite band that was popular in the 1980's? 2. What news stoy or stories do you remember the best? 3. What is your favorite movie from the 1980's? 4. What is your favorite TV show from the 1980's 5. What fashion trend would you MOST like to see return? 6. What fashion trend would you LEAST like to see return? 7. What was your favorite song from the 1980's? 8. What is your faorite commercial or series of commercials from the 1980s? 9. What is your favorite toy that was popular in the 1980's? 10. Who was your favorite world leader in the 1980's? (examples include Reagan, Gorbachev, Ayatollah Humani, Momahar Ghadaffi, Bush, Thatcher, Corasone Aquino, Ferdinand Marcos) 11. Who was your favorite solo musical artist in the 1980's? 12. If you drove a car in the 1980's, what was it, or if you have owned a car built in the 1980's, what kind was/is it? 13. If you attended concerts in the 1980's, what was your favorite show? Answers will be compiled and posted a la Frigga when she does interactive TT. |
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6 comments:
Those questions inspire a lot of memories. The 80s don't seem all that long ago!
I don't think I want any of the fashion trends to come back. Happy TT.
OMG, I'll try to answer to the best of my ability (I should note I'm hopped up on Nyquil at the moment ;)
1. Duran Duran, Def Leopard
2. Iran Contra affair
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. This is my TT this week!
5. Mall bangs (snort!)
6. parachute pants/taffeta anything
7. Way too many favorites to list only one
8. Where's the beef?
9. Star Wars anything
10. none that I can think of
11. Madonna
12. 1st car: 1984 Ford Tempo
13. Only one: Huey Lewis and the News
1. What was your favorite band that was popular in the 1980's?
INXS
2. What news stoy or stories do you remember the best?
The Challenger explosion
3. What is your favorite movie from the 1980's?
Sixteen Candles
4. What is your favorite TV show from the 1980's
Facts of Life
5. What fashion trend would you MOST like to see return?
that would be a BIG NONE!
6. What fashion trend would you LEAST like to see return?
the banana clip
7. What was your favorite song from the 1980's?
If You Leave by OMD
8. What is your faorite commercial or series of commercials from the 1980s?
Where's the Beef?
9. What is your favorite toy that was popular in the 1980's?
Cabbage Patch doll
10. Who was your favorite world leader in the 1980's? (examples include Reagan, Gorbachev, Ayatollah Humani, Momahar Ghadaffi, Bush, Thatcher, Corasone Aquino, Ferdinand Marcos)
Margaret Thatcher
11. Who was your favorite solo musical artist in the 1980's?
Paul Simon
12. If you drove a car in the 1980's, what was it, or if you have owned a car built in the 1980's, what kind was/is it?
1988 Lemans
13. If you attended concerts in the 1980's, what was your favorite show?
never got to any
WhoooHoooo! Great idea for a TT!!
1. Hmmm, the first one I remember was in the 4th grade - NKOTB ;-0
2. The shuttle crash with the female teacher dying - seems how that's what I wanted to do when I was that age it was very scary to me.
3. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
4. Care Bears
5. The outrageous color selections
6. Anything having to do with spandex
7. Music, 80's music, favorite? I think I'm on brain overload... can't. choose. just. one. arg - if you're going to force me to choose then I will say Love Shack. hehe :)
8. I can't remember
9. bicycle. I loved to ride my bike everywhere.
10. Reagan. I know I'm not original, but the more I learn about him, the more I really really admire him.
11. Madonna - oddly enough for the same reason I like my punk rock today ;-)
12. I woulda been in big trouble if I drove a car anytime during that decade :-0
13. Nope. I had absolutely no, none, zero, knowledge that I could actually attend what was called a "concert" other than my sisters flute recital.
Thanks, that was fun! Happy TT :-)
1. First was Duran Duran, then towards the end of the 80's Depeche Mode
2. The Challenger disaster
3. Better Off Dead
4. maybe Family Ties
5. I don't want any fashion for the 80's back.
6. The bright neon colors. *shiver*
7. Material Girl
8. Dunkin Donuts guy
9. Atari
10.Dan Quayle..he was fun to make fun of.
11. Madonna, of course
12. I drove an 82 Ford Tempo (but in 1996)
13. Bad Company/Damn Yankees
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