Re-Education Camp Cafe: Flashback 1983 Edition

First a news flashback, then trailers from 1983 (second one: Doctor Detroit), then TV shows that debuted in 1983, followed by three videos compiling videos that ran in 1983.

Finally, the top 30 songs of 1983.

Recap of 1983.

Did you see the Burger King commercial at 2:40?

Recognize the girl?

Recognize the boy?

I'm not sure that all the dates here are right. The boy in that commercial would be in a major movie this very year. (Hint: Private school, hot mom. More than a hint: here.)

Yet he was also shooting Burger King commercials, just months before?

The girl, meanwhile, would be in one of the biggest movies of the following year. She must have been shooting it while this ad was airing.

Movie trailers from 1983.

I forgot that 1983 was the "Battle of Bonds," with Sean Connery coming back to do a non-canon remake of Thunderball, as well as Roger Moore starring in the main Bond franchise's Octopussy. The trailer they use for Never Say Never Again must be a fan-made one, a fake trailer, because it features the James Bond Theme. This production was not allowed to use any of the material from the EON main franchise, especially the theme.

And I've really got to see Brainstorm one of these days. That's a movie I've sort of slightly wanted to see since it was out in theaters. But I never wanted quite enough to actually watch it, even when it was on HBO literally every six hours.

I just saw The Dead Zone for the first time this month. That was released in 1983 too, apparently. It was... boring. It really didn't do much besides present the bare bones of a very basic what-if-you-could-see-the-future premise.

New TV shows of 1983.

TV commercials from 1983, here,
and here,
and here.

Top 30 songs of 1983.

Depressing bonus: Compare 1983 with today.

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— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 8, 2021

Posted by: Ace at 07:26 PM

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1 Yeah

Posted by: Rando East Texas Poster at February 08, 2021 07:26 PM (QgW45)

2 I was 14 then

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 08, 2021 07:27 PM (h1jJh)

3 Graduated from U in 83. Long time ago

Posted by: Rando East Texas Poster at February 08, 2021 07:27 PM (QgW45)

4 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 08, 2021 07:29 PM (arJlL)

5 5th grade, 1983 was great. I watched the V mini series today, which debuted in 1983. Jane Badler, whoa.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 08, 2021 07:30 PM (DjiZK)

6 I was 14 then
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 08, 2021 07:27 PM

12, here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 08, 2021 07:31 PM (rBtIz)

7 Pixy really doesn't like all of these embedded videos, does it?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet sponsors White Man: Threat or Menace? This Year Only! at February 08, 2021 07:31 PM (eh7WV)

8 You all can just get right off my lawn!

Posted by: Tami at February 08, 2021 07:31 PM (cF8AT)

9 Also university graduate in 83.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 07:32 PM (eoQWY)

10 Graduated HS in 83! Michael Jackson made awesome videos...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 08, 2021 07:32 PM (pcsoT)

11 I was 14 then
Posted by: Lemmiwinks

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So was I.

Dad retired after 22 years in the Navy, and we moved to Nanakuli.

Not a fun time.

Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 07:33 PM (U2EjU)

12 1983. And Ronald Reagan would make Mondale his little bitch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 08, 2021 07:33 PM (lmikk)

13 Andrew McCarthy and Elizabeth Shue

Posted by: MJ at February 08, 2021 07:33 PM (gAMkn)

14 Does anyone else think it's a massive pile of bullshit that a vaccine could only give a person immunity for a few months?

Are there any other vaccines that only last that long?

The flu vaccine is only good for a year because a very different mutation of the flu will inflict the nation next year. By the time the flu mutation you were vaccinated against comes back around, it's been several years since your body last saw it.

I could understand it if the virus were rapidly mutating, but so far, the mutations have been really slow.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 08, 2021 07:34 PM (UW2ZS)

15 Andrew McCarthy and Elizebeth Shue

Posted by: Swingin' for the downs at February 08, 2021 07:34 PM (VbCZe)

16 I like Cobra Kai. There is a lot of good stuff there, but it does get a bit teen angsty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 08, 2021 07:34 PM (lmikk)

17 Tami, my lawn too! In '83 I had been in Texas long enough to get provisional status.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 07:34 PM (hqvzN)

18 Dang. Doin' stuff, and just missed the last non-cafe post du jour.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 08, 2021 07:34 PM (OTzUX)

19 Elizabeth Shue and some dude

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 08, 2021 07:35 PM (h1jJh)

20 Good Monday evening, horde.

I just read that post about Heffernan. Dear sweet Jesus, peoples are crazy.

Posted by: April at February 08, 2021 07:35 PM (OX9vb)

21 You all can just get right off my lawn!
Posted by: Tami

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Heh.

I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that I'm a grandma.

Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 07:35 PM (U2EjU)

22 I was at an all boys prep school. We could smoke cigarettes with parental permission, and there was lots of weed.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at February 08, 2021 07:35 PM (4vNgL)

23 Are those CDC ppl real? That guy at the podium looks like the type of guy you avoid in the grocery store.

Posted by: EveR at February 08, 2021 07:36 PM (R0z7P)

24 I was a junior in high school in 1983. All girls Catholic prep. Plaid skirts and knee high socks and saddle shoes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 08, 2021 07:36 PM (nNDdd)

25 Wow, the eighties make fifties kitsch look luxurious.

Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at February 08, 2021 07:36 PM (WEBkv)

26 Kate Jackson, yum. Ex-girlfriend was a dead ringer for her.
"We had one thing in common, we were good in bed ..."

Posted by: ShainS at February 08, 2021 07:36 PM (WqPYg)

27 1983 was also when The A Team debuted. Stephen J. Cannell was force back then.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 08, 2021 07:36 PM (DjiZK)

28 Dad retired after 22 years in the Navy, and we moved to Nanakuli.

Not a fun time.
Posted by: SMH

Is there a "Welcome to Nanakuli, NO FUN ALLOWED !"

Sign ?

Posted by: JT at February 08, 2021 07:36 PM (arJlL)

29 I could understand it if the virus were rapidly mutating, but so far, the mutations have been really slow.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 08, 2021 07:34 PM (UW2ZS)

I make this same point all the time. It makes no sense to talk about "immunity" and "vaccination" in such fleeting senses. There is a reason that we have not, heretofore, "vaccinated" for common cold viruses. Because people would call bullshit at the inception. And yet, 40-60 million people, I'd estimate, are convinced that China virus is gonna kill you dead.

Posted by: 4 at February 08, 2021 07:37 PM (KnJdm)

30 I was a junior in high school in 1983. All girls Catholic prep. Plaid skirts and knee high socks and saddle shoes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 08, 2021 07:36 PM (nNDdd)
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Go on ...
;-)

Posted by: ShainS at February 08, 2021 07:37 PM (WqPYg)

31 Any ads for that nice game, E.T. on the 2600?

Posted by: Broseidon at February 08, 2021 07:37 PM (icI8A)

32 1983... Out of college, out of work, out of money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 07:37 PM (3H9h1)

33 Wait a min.

If you guys are all 29, you would have been ... um ... er ... uh ... really young in 1983.

Posted by: MJ at February 08, 2021 07:37 PM (gAMkn)

34 17 Tami, my lawn too! In '83 I had been in Texas long enough to get provisional status.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 07:34 PM (hqvzN)

Ha!

I had been married for 4 years.

Posted by: Tami at February 08, 2021 07:37 PM (cF8AT)

35 1983-I had two kids and a third on the way.

Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at February 08, 2021 07:37 PM (WEBkv)

36 Please have 1983 Teri Copley dusted off, bathed and brought to my tent. I was nine in 1983 and didn't have a tent yet.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 08, 2021 07:37 PM (Wm5SB)

37 SMH, those are some lucky Granbabies. I hope you have written down your story for them.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 07:38 PM (hqvzN)

38 Huh

Rock and Rule

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 08, 2021 07:38 PM (2C1sr)

39 83 was the year I met my husband. I loved the 80's.

Posted by: Jaimo at February 08, 2021 07:38 PM (NXGjq)

40 I was a junior in high school in 1983. All girls Catholic prep. Plaid skirts and knee high socks and saddle shoes.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 08, 2021 07:36 PM (nNDdd)

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I was a freshman in high school, uniform was jams, bathing suit under a t-shirt and flip flops.

Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 07:38 PM (U2EjU)

41 I had a corded phone in my car in the mid eighties

my first bill had over $500 dollars of roaming charges

Posted by: REDACTED at February 08, 2021 07:38 PM (zZxh0)

42 I was -4. I'll leave out some Metamucil for all you fossils

Posted by: Broseidon at February 08, 2021 07:38 PM (icI8A)

43 I was a junior in high school in 1983. All girls Catholic prep. Plaid skirts and knee high socks and saddle shoes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 08, 2021 07:36 PM (nNDdd)

Don't forget the extra-curriculars part.

Posted by: 4 at February 08, 2021 07:38 PM (KnJdm)

44 27 1983 was also when The A Team debuted. Stephen J. Cannell was force back then.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 08, 2021 07:36 PM (DjiZK)

tinyurl.com/2tcqv2zk

Ahhh, you can almost close your eyes and be there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 08, 2021 07:38 PM (lmikk)

45 Trying to get in and that's a lot of videos to load

Posted by: Skip at February 08, 2021 07:39 PM (Cxk7w)

46 It's an ongoing story, Ben Had, lol.

Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 07:39 PM (U2EjU)

47 I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that I'm a grandma.
Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 07:35 PM (U2EjU)

I hear ya!

Posted by: Tami at February 08, 2021 07:39 PM (cF8AT)

48 Nurse, your a pup, darlin

Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 07:39 PM (hqvzN)

49 '83? Grinding along in college, hit the finish line in '85.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at February 08, 2021 07:39 PM (ZSK0i)

50 How about that, I was 29 in 83 too!

Posted by: dartist at February 08, 2021 07:39 PM (+ya+t)

51 I remember going to a Burger King with my uncle after we saw Return of the Jedi in the theater. He bought me one of those commemorative Return of the Jedi glass. I eventually did get the entire set.

I don't know what happened to those glasses. I'll assume they were broken, one by one, by my younger siblings and consequently swept into the dustbin of history.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 08, 2021 07:39 PM (ch6++)

52 I had a corded phone in my car in the mid eighties

my first bill had over $500 dollars of roaming charges
Posted by: REDACTED

How long was the cord ?

Posted by: JT at February 08, 2021 07:40 PM (arJlL)

53 Nurse ratched, I was a junior too. My school uniform probably wasn't nearly as cute -- tight jeans with ripped-out knees and a Led Zeppelin t-shirt.

Posted by: Pastafarian at February 08, 2021 07:40 PM (sgHEm)

54 I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that I'm a grandma.
Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 07:35 PM (U2EjU)

I hear ya!
Posted by: Tami at February 08, 2021 07:39 PM (cF8AT)

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I've got a grandson with a learners permit.

Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at February 08, 2021 07:40 PM (WEBkv)

55 You know sometimes I think ace isn't really 29....

Well, *almost* 29

Posted by: Broseidon at February 08, 2021 07:41 PM (icI8A)

56 You say 1983 and the first thing that pops into my head is Def Leppard Pyromania.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 08, 2021 07:41 PM (xPl2J)

57 Wow. I just skimmed through that "new shows of 1983" video, and it just killed a lot of my 80s nostalgia.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 08, 2021 07:41 PM (UW2ZS)

58 I'd been married for 6 years in 1983! My lawn-get off it!

Posted by: Toni at February 08, 2021 07:42 PM (/c+mq)

59 Nice to see some yunguns here. My first daughter was2 in 83.

Posted by: Infidel at February 08, 2021 07:42 PM (JKh2y)

60 >5th grade, 1983 was great. I watched the V mini series today, which debuted in 1983. Jane Badler, whoa.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 08, 2021 07:30 PM (DjiZK)

That show freaked me the hell out when I first saw it!

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 08, 2021 07:42 PM (DXFDM)

61 Wow. I just skimmed through that "new shows of 1983" video, and it just killed a lot of my 80s nostalgia.
Posted by: bonhomme

Like one of my e-mails ?

Posted by: JT at February 08, 2021 07:42 PM (arJlL)

62 'Dead Zone' I liked because of Cronenberg more than King.

Same with 'The Shining' and Kubrick.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 07:42 PM (vuisn)

63 Nice to see some yunguns here. My first daughter was2 in 83.
Posted by: Infidel at February 08, 2021 07:42 PM (JKh2y)

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Mine wasn't until 1989.

She loves being an 80s baby, lol.

Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 07:43 PM (U2EjU)

64 what's so great about 1983?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 08, 2021 07:43 PM (nUhF0)

65 I don't know what happened to those glasses. I'll assume they were broken, one by one, by my younger siblings and consequently swept into the dustbin of history.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle

I have 1 left.

Posted by: Infidel at February 08, 2021 07:43 PM (JKh2y)

66 what's so great about 1983?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 08, 2021 07:43 PM (nUhF0)
Coming of age in the 70s.

Posted by: 4 at February 08, 2021 07:44 PM (KnJdm)

67 31 Any ads for that nice game, E.T. on the 2600?
Posted by: Broseidon at February 08, 2021 07:37 PM (icI8A)

My brother and I got that for Christmas that year.

How times have changed.

Posted by: Bete at February 08, 2021 07:44 PM (Ojki1)

68 1983. After decade of working construction by day and playing rock in biker bars from NY to FL at night, I went back to school for degree in electronic tech.

I know I lost 10 years of wealth opportunity, but hell, the life was worth it.

Posted by: BluesFish at February 08, 2021 07:44 PM (WQZ1O)

69 Mine wasn't until 1989.

She loves being an 80s baby, lol.
Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 07:43 PM (U2EjU)

whippersnappers!

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 07:44 PM (eoQWY)

70 > Like one of my e-mails ?

It was a throwaway joke. You are starting to remind me of Moo Moo. That prick never could let anything go.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 08, 2021 07:44 PM (UW2ZS)

71 38 Huh

Rock and Rule
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 08, 2021 07:38 PM (2C1sr)

I had never heard of it, and given the prices on Amazon I won't be seeing it any time soon either.

Posted by: Bete at February 08, 2021 07:45 PM (Ojki1)

72 Did I say I'm Here?
I was pregnant in 1983. That child now has children.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 08, 2021 07:45 PM (sd8p8)

73 Bete: That sounds like a terrible Christmas.

Posted by: Broseidon at February 08, 2021 07:45 PM (icI8A)

74 Catholic high school grad in 83. started undergrad in Detroit that fall. The nation was realizing what a horrible mistake it had made with Jimmah Carter.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 08, 2021 07:45 PM (euEBG)

75 >I make this same point all the time. It makes no sense to talk about "immunity" and "vaccination" in such fleeting senses. There is a reason that we have not, heretofore, "vaccinated" for common cold viruses. Because people would call bullshit at the inception. And yet, 40-60 million people, I'd estimate, are convinced that China virus is gonna kill you dead.
Posted by: 4 at February 08, 2021 07:37 PM (KnJdm)

How about how the common, well-known definition of herd immunity just happened to change in 2020 to little fanfare and for absolutely no reason at all. What, you don't hate Science, do you?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 08, 2021 07:45 PM (DXFDM)

76 Why was 1983 picked for the thread?

Posted by: m at February 08, 2021 07:46 PM (GbBW+)

77 Doctor Detroit - where a white WASP professor saves Fran Drescher by becoming a good pimp and goes to a pimp convention to fight evil pimps and...uh yeah. Anyway, just watch it!

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 08, 2021 07:46 PM (HmZuC)

78 Wish I knew then what I know now!

Posted by: Infidel at February 08, 2021 07:46 PM (JKh2y)

79

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will quarantine for 14 days after a member of his security detail tested positive for Covid-19, department chief of staff Laura Schiller said in a statement.

Schiller's statement says the agent has been in "close contact" (nudge nudge, wink wink) with Buttigieg as recently as Monday morning.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 08, 2021 07:46 PM (63Dwl)

80 Hip deep in high school.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 08, 2021 07:46 PM (KAi1n)

81 1983....the year our son was born. We were married eleven years by that time and in our house for nearly nine years. We were ready. Time sure has flown.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 08, 2021 07:46 PM (zkS5c)

82 Broseidon,

1983 gave us Cat's Eye, Aura Battler Dunbine, Orguss, Genesis Climber Mospeada, Crusher Joe, and a few others.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 08, 2021 07:46 PM (2C1sr)

83 I had a 3 year old and a 5 year old. It's all blurrrrrrry.

Posted by: Marybel at February 08, 2021 07:47 PM (FLTj7)

84 How times have changed.

Posted by: Bete at February 08, 2021 07:44 PM (Ojki1)

Now you can get all those games and more on an emulator, run on a Raspberry Pi about the size of a pack of smokes and stored on an SD card the size of your thumb nail.

Posted by: 4 at February 08, 2021 07:47 PM (KnJdm)

85 Summer of 1983 was the year I blew all my lawn mowing money on Ral Partha D and D lead figurines. Parents weren't happy, but it was worth it.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 08, 2021 07:47 PM (DjiZK)

86 1983: Saw Def Leppard *open* for Billy Squier.
They pretty much blew him away.

I think I was most weirded out by the pregnant chick next to me smoking a joint.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 07:47 PM (vuisn)

87 Doctor Detroit was a vile piece of crap. I remember the theater audience reaction when it was over.

Posted by: gp Sets In Motion Various Apparatuses at February 08, 2021 07:47 PM (qpX6U)

88 For all the great memories of 79, 83 is a bur and don't remember hardly anything.

Posted by: Skip at February 08, 2021 07:47 PM (Cxk7w)

89 I was in first grade in 1983.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 08, 2021 07:47 PM (UW2ZS)

90
Started my postdoc in England.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 08, 2021 07:47 PM (mht8P)

91 I was busting my ass in the gym and traveling all over the country with my teammates. We did very well. And it was fun!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 08, 2021 07:47 PM (nNDdd)

92 Coat and tie. I took Latin. Our hockey rink was an open ended barn with chain link fencing in the corners.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at February 08, 2021 07:47 PM (4vNgL)

93 Where's this Michele Bachmann picture everyone else is talking about?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 07:47 PM (y7DUB)

94 >>>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will quarantine for 14 days after a member of his security detail tested positive for Covid-19, department chief of staff Laura Schiller said in a statement.

The gerbil is expected to make a full recovery.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 08, 2021 07:48 PM (HmZuC)

95 {{{Ben Had}}}

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at February 08, 2021 07:48 PM (TdMsT)

96 Got part way through the 1983 TV show video and stumbled over "After Mash".

Well, if you think there's a lot of crap being made for TV now, things haven't changed a bit.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at February 08, 2021 07:48 PM (ZSK0i)

97 SMH, one of the most treasured things I have is a cousin researched my family coming to America, being indentured servants and how they built a life, and she wrote it all down for us.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 07:48 PM (Nxm4Y)

98 Does anyone else think it's a massive pile of bullshit that a vaccine could only give a person immunity for a few months?

Are there any other vaccines that only last that long?

The flu vaccine is only good for a year because a very different mutation of the flu will inflict the nation next year. By the time the flu mutation you were vaccinated against comes back around, it's been several years since your body last saw it.

I could understand it if the virus were rapidly mutating, but so far, the mutations have been really slow.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 08, 2021 07:34 PM (UW2ZS)

It all depends on what you mean by "vaccine", "immunity" and "months"

Science!

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 07:48 PM (eoQWY)

99 Like one of my e-mails ?

It was a throwaway joke. You are starting to remind me of Moo Moo. That prick never could let anything go.
Posted by: bonhomme

CONGRATULATIONS !

Your crabby ass just got let go !

Posted by: JT at February 08, 2021 07:48 PM (arJlL)

100 In 1983, I was in the middle of a 10 year mid life crisis

I was 32 going on 60

Posted by: REDACTED at February 08, 2021 07:49 PM (zZxh0)

101 1983 was the year my mom passed away
I was a brat who never truly appreciated her when she was alive

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 08, 2021 07:49 PM (nUhF0)

102 Spent most of the 80's overseas and never watched much TV.

I remember watching one of the Reagan v. Mondale debates in Panama but nothing else stands out.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 08, 2021 07:49 PM (R/m4+)

103 Where's this Michele Bachmann picture everyone else is talking about?
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt

The barrel.

Posted by: JT at February 08, 2021 07:50 PM (arJlL)

104 80 Hip deep in high school.
Posted by: SFGoth at Febru

Fist bump

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 08, 2021 07:50 PM (MYL08)

105 When I was working at BK as a young idiot, it was the in middle of their cross-promotions with all of the "collectible" Disney movie glasses. Fess up, who still has those tucked away somewhere, waiting to make bank?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 08, 2021 07:50 PM (DXFDM)

106 We all thought 1983 was a stupid time to be alive. How wrong we were.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 08, 2021 07:51 PM (QYoFn)

107 Elisabeth Shue will never not be fine as fuck.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at February 08, 2021 07:51 PM (AJg+R)

108 Suburban housewife, with a six and four year old and #3 on the way.
I remember asking my OB if I should be worried about AIDS.
"Nah", he said.
Four years later, when #4 was on the way, it was latex gloves everywhere.

Posted by: Sal at February 08, 2021 07:51 PM (KTdeA)

109 > I remember watching one of the Reagan v. Mondale debates in Panama but nothing else stands out.

Did you have massive, dark tinted glasses, a Panama hat, and a breezy button-down shirt? That's how I picture everyone in Central America.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 08, 2021 07:51 PM (UW2ZS)

110 Freshman year in college.
Good times.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at February 08, 2021 07:51 PM (jWe5r)

111 73 Bete: That sounds like a terrible Christmas.
Posted by: Broseidon at February 08, 2021 07:45 PM (icI8A)

I still have the game, which is more than I can say for most of the stuff I got that year.

Posted by: Bete at February 08, 2021 07:51 PM (Ojki1)

112 Spent most of the 80's overseas and never watched much TV.

I remember watching one of the Reagan v. Mondale debates in Panama but nothing else stands out.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

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By the time I entered HS in 1983, I had withdrawn from watching TV for the most part, except for MTV.

By 1987, when I graduated and went into the Army, TV didn't hold much appeal.

Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 07:51 PM (U2EjU)

113 Father Hate died in 1981. Ready or not, I was the oldest male in the family.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 07:51 PM (y7DUB)

114 > I remember watching one of the Reagan v. Mondale debates in Panama but nothing else stands out.

Did you have massive, dark tinted glasses, a Panama hat, and a breezy button-down shirt? That's how I picture everyone in Central America.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 08, 2021 07:51 PM (UW2ZS)

"Cooola Nut.... UNCola Nut!!"

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 07:52 PM (eoQWY)

115 1983. It started by wrecking the family car, and then my "best friend" stole the girl I was after. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln.....

Posted by: Mookie at February 08, 2021 07:52 PM (u+Y3T)

116 >Schiller's statement says the agent has been in "close contact" (nudge nudge, wink wink) with Buttigieg as recently as Monday morning.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 08, 2021 07:46 PM (63Dwl)

Uh...is this your first time hearing about Buttigieg?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 08, 2021 07:52 PM (DXFDM)

117 I think it was 1983 that I first met the future Mrs Eez;
don't remember much else, it was all bullshit ...
like 2021, except 2021 is like thousands of times worse.

Posted by: sock_rat_darmok at February 08, 2021 07:53 PM (PpU3N)

118 Did you have massive, dark tinted glasses, a Panama hat, and a breezy button-down shirt? That's how I picture everyone in Central America.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 08, 2021 07:51 PM (UW2ZS)

That's a common misconception. Would you happen to have some Chianti and do you have dinner plans?

Posted by: Hannibal Lecter at February 08, 2021 07:53 PM (PiwSw)

119 1983 was the beginning of probably the most peaceful period of my life. I call it my earth mother years. I had kids, a garden, dogs, a house on a pond on 4 acres in the country and no job except Mom.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 08, 2021 07:53 PM (sd8p8)

120 The screen shot of the burger ad looks like a pile of dog poo on a burger. Which, depending on the chain, may be accurate.

Posted by: Mookie at February 08, 2021 07:53 PM (u+Y3T)

121 Elisabeth Shue will never not be fine as fuck.
Posted by: Lamont Cranston at February 08, 2021 07:51 PM (AJg+R)

This is a perceptive statement with bonus points for correct spelling.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 07:54 PM (y7DUB)

122 > "Cooola Nut.... UNCola Nut!!"

https://youtu.be/AXmc7DG4uu8

Posted by: bonhomme at February 08, 2021 07:54 PM (UW2ZS)

123
By the time I entered HS in 1983, I had withdrawn from watching TV for the most part, except for MTV.

By 1987, when I graduated and went into the Army, TV didn't hold much appeal.
Posted by: SMH at February

You remember the good dance jams. You were DJ'ing one night here and every song you played, I thought I love that song.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 08, 2021 07:54 PM (MYL08)

124 In 1983, I went to DC on a field trip. Over by the Lincoln Memorial, I saw Mr. T as he were filming 'DC Cab'. Bill Maher was in that too, and played, get this, an unfunny, sanctimonious asshole.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 08, 2021 07:55 PM (HmZuC)

125 Pretty sure I was copping my first feels in 1983, without consent forms in triplicate, masks, hand sanitizer, or 6 foot long poles.

Posted by: 4 at February 08, 2021 07:55 PM (KnJdm)

126 The gerbil is expected to make a full recovery.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 08, 2021 07:48 PM (HmZuC)

Push on, Lemmiwinks, with all of your might!

Past the Sparrow Prince...freedom from the ass of doom is the freedom you will win!

Posted by: Thrawn at February 08, 2021 07:55 PM (AUfiu)

127 >Uh...is this your first time hearing about Buttigieg?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 08, 2021 07:52 PM (DXFDM)

Oh nvm, I thought it said Schiller was the one in close contact. Reading is fundamental.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 08, 2021 07:55 PM (DXFDM)

128 > Elisabeth Shue will never not be fine as fuck.

Elisabeth Shue in Adventures in Babysitting. Young bonhomme was definitely in love.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 08, 2021 07:55 PM (UW2ZS)

129 Started the junior year sequence in EE and took the intermediate level classical physics sequence. It was a busy year for me, so I don't remember much from that era.

Posted by: Blor Utar, from Zimtok-5 at February 08, 2021 07:55 PM (xxG/v)

130 Damn, progs aren't happy about anything, are they? CS Lewis was right!

Posted by: Unkaren at February 08, 2021 07:56 PM (vGJY7)

131 What was so great about 1983?

Despite the best efforts of the Left to promote panic, fun was ascendant.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet sponsors White Man: Threat or Menace? This Year Only! at February 08, 2021 07:56 PM (eh7WV)

132 resetting nic, and wishing the Horde a very good night !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 08, 2021 07:56 PM (PpU3N)

133 > Would you happen to have some Chianti and do you have dinner plans?

*Claps hands over skull.*

YES! I am indisposed.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 08, 2021 07:56 PM (UW2ZS)

134 119 1983 was the beginning of probably the most peaceful period of my life. I call it my earth mother years. I had kids, a garden, dogs, a house on a pond on 4 acres in the country and no job except Mom.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 08, 2021 07:53 PM (sd8p

I was a young mom. We had just built a house. I loved my husband and family. I had everything in 1983.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at February 08, 2021 07:56 PM (TdMsT)

135 Where's this Michele Bachmann picture everyone else is talking about?
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On Fox with Mark Steyn

Posted by: dartist at February 08, 2021 07:57 PM (+ya+t)

136 You remember the good dance jams. You were DJ'ing one night here and every song you played, I thought I love that song.
Posted by: CaliGirl

---

lol

90% of what I listen to is 70s-90s, with an emphasis on the late 80s New Jack Swing era, when I lost my mind as a late teen/early 20s soldier stationed in Hawaii.

Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 07:57 PM (U2EjU)

137 Elisabeth Shue will never not be fine as fuck.

Elisabeth Shue in Adventures in Babysitting. Young bonhomme was definitely in love.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 08, 2021 07:55 PM (UW2ZS)

a Fine movie. I lived in Chicago and used to drive around looking at locations - needless to say there were some odd routes taken, and I never did find Thor's Garage on Lower Wacker.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 07:58 PM (eoQWY)

138 {{ladyl}}
Sigh.....

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 08, 2021 07:58 PM (sd8p8)

139 CaliGirl, we would love to have you come in Oct and let SMH DJ for you in person. We have a good dance floor.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 07:58 PM (PLXL0)

140 128 > Elisabeth Shue will never not be fine as fuck.

Elisabeth Shue in Adventures in Babysitting. Young bonhomme was definitely in love.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 08, 2021 07:55 PM (UW2ZS)

That was also the time Vincent D'Onofrio was the thinnest he will ever be in teh movies.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 08, 2021 07:58 PM (AUfiu)

141 > Despite the best efforts of the Left to promote panic

Ronnie Raygun is going to start a nuclear war!

Posted by: The left in 1983 at February 08, 2021 07:58 PM (UW2ZS)

142 Doctor Detroit was rough but the opening credits were awesome...

We had some walk at work that we were supposed to do so I signed up and sent that out as a "hidden video" of me in training for the walk and got quite a reaction.

Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at February 08, 2021 07:59 PM (IIOyJ)

143 > That was also the time Vincent D'Onofrio was the thinnest he will ever be in teh movies.

You spreadin' rumors about me, kid?

Posted by: Thor at February 08, 2021 07:59 PM (UW2ZS)

144 I watched Manimal in my youth.

And what could Elizabeth Shue have possibly been working on around that time? Hmmm...

Speaking of, I have been rather impressed with Cobra Kai rounding up the actors from the Karate Kid. I rather enjoyed Daniel's trip to Okinawa.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 07:59 PM (CAJOC)

145 Did you have massive, dark tinted glasses, a Panama hat, and a breezy button-down shirt? That's how I picture everyone in Central America.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 08, 2021 07:51 PM (UW2ZS)

Ummmmmmm.....No. But you'll see those types down there out and about.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 08, 2021 08:00 PM (R/m4+)

146 {{{Sharon}}}

Yeah...

I'm incredibly fortunate, but I would go back to that time in a heartbeat.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at February 08, 2021 08:00 PM (TdMsT)

147 That was also the time Vincent D'Onofrio was the thinnest he will ever be in teh movies.

You spreadin' rumors about me, kid?
Posted by: Thor at February 08, 2021 07:59 PM (UW2ZS)

Thor! O mighty god of thunder!!

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:00 PM (eoQWY)

148 120 The screen shot of the burger ad looks like a pile of

It's a Heinz commercial ... yes, I clicked to find out, ... now whenever I see John Kerry ...

Posted by: Midnight Oil at February 08, 2021 08:00 PM (AHq56)

149 Ronnie Raygun is going to start a nuclear war!

Imagine if we would have had the internet and twitter mobs back then. Any doubt Sir Ronald would have been one term? "We begin bombing in 5 minutes" - they would have impeached him today.

Posted by: Mookie at February 08, 2021 08:00 PM (u+Y3T)

150 I lived in Chicago and used to drive around looking at locations - needless to say there were some odd routes taken, and I never did find Thor's Garage on Lower Wacker.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 07:58 PM (eoQWY)

Was that a real club where Albert Collins was playing and they couldn't leave the stage until they sang the blues?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 08:00 PM (y7DUB)

151 "The Day After" was Designated Buzzkill.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 08:00 PM (vuisn)

152 On Fox with Mark Steyn

Posted by: dartist at February 08, 2021 07:57 PM (+ya+t)

Would that be the video two threads back that Fox pulled for copyright grounds?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at February 08, 2021 08:00 PM (ZSK0i)

153 Ladies, when I scrub my balls with Irish Spring, they're just one whistle away from being extra, extra clean. And virile!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 08, 2021 08:01 PM (03n3v)

154 1983 is for fags

Posted by: confederatefifth at February 08, 2021 08:01 PM (4Jold)

155 Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 07:48 PM (Nxm4Y)

You are Irish?

Posted by: clutch at February 08, 2021 08:01 PM (9UmRs)

156 1984 was where it was at

Posted by: confederatefifth at February 08, 2021 08:01 PM (4Jold)

157 90% of what I listen to is 70s-90s, with an emphasis on the late 80s New Jack Swing era, when I lost my mind as a late teen/early 20s soldier stationed in Hawaii.
Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 07:57

I listen to Spotify and I usually listen to the same decades. I just never had some of those songs play. I will remember New Jack swing.
Usually at our parties I'm in charge of the music and trying to get everyone to agree on a station is tough. The girls all love the funky dance music and the guys hate it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 08, 2021 08:01 PM (MYL08)

158 Yeah, that Heffernan woman.

One of my sil's is a proto-Biden Wine Mom, but when she and my brother bought our son a case of liquid nourishment when he was sick, I assumed their motivation was that they loved him and we were grateful.

Posted by: Sal at February 08, 2021 08:01 PM (KTdeA)

159 1983 is when NATO conducted the Able Archer exercise that freaked the Soviets and almost escalated to war.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 08, 2021 08:02 PM (xPl2J)

160 Was that a real club where Albert Collins was playing and they couldn't leave the stage until they sang the blues?
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 08:00 PM (y7DUB)

Well there are clubs like that, but as I recall they aren't anywhere near the places the kids were running around. Those places are pretty depopulated at night that close to downtown. The highrise they went to kept spinning to face the action too so you could recognize it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:03 PM (eoQWY)

161 In 1983 we took a high school field trip to the nuclear reactor at Georgia Tech. Afterwards we went to The Varsity for lunch.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 08:03 PM (vuisn)

162
g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 08, 2021 08:03 PM (d7tvG)

163 clutch, Nope, Italian as the day is long.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 08:03 PM (PLXL0)

164 OT, liberal SiL gave me shit for not rushing out to get vaccinated.

I said "my body, my choice."

I think that's the first time I ever saw her speechless.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 08, 2021 08:03 PM (wGxSf)

165 139 CaliGirl, we would love to have you come in Oct and let SMH DJ for you in person. We have a good dance floor.
Posted by: Ben Had at February

We would love it, last year I told my husband and he thought it would be fun. My husband was busy that month. We have to plan for him to get away.

He's really nice, he's the introvert and I'm the extrovert.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 08, 2021 08:03 PM (MYL08)

166 1983 is when NATO conducted the Able Archer exercise that freaked the Soviets and almost escalated to war.
Posted by: Mark1971

that was back when the world made sense was ordered

Posted by: confederatefifth at February 08, 2021 08:04 PM (4Jold)

167 All this nostalgia is making me melancholy.
BBL

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 08, 2021 08:04 PM (sd8p8)

168 Friend's 1983 Firebird with a 4 speed. We thought it was hot shit back then, but in reality it was a joke. I think it spent about as much time at the dealer with clutch issues as it did on the road.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 08:05 PM (3H9h1)

169 In 1983 I was in college. Learning a ton. Surrounded by lots of smart people.

Getting laid a lot.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 08, 2021 08:05 PM (Jn4GT)

170 And I miss the 80s.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 08, 2021 08:05 PM (wGxSf)

171 Would that be the video two threads back that Fox pulled for copyright grounds?
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Not sure about that. I saw her interviewed by Steyn in the last Fox segment.

Posted by: dartist at February 08, 2021 08:05 PM (+ya+t)

172 >>>Imagine if we would have had the internet and twitter mobs back then. Any doubt Sir Ronald would have been one term? "We begin bombing in 5 minutes" - they would have impeached him today.

They did then, too. During Iran/Contra, all they needed was a certain Marine colonel to play along...

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 08, 2021 08:05 PM (HmZuC)

173 I said "my body, my choice."

I think that's the first time I ever saw her speechless.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 08, 2021 08:03 PM (wGxSf)

Well-played.

Posted by: 4 at February 08, 2021 08:05 PM (KnJdm)

174 it is weird how thinking about their past gives some the urge to feed canteloupe to their dogs.

Posted by: confederatefifth at February 08, 2021 08:05 PM (4Jold)

175 Brainstorm is a damn good flick. Probably holds up rather well today. Has some of the earliest examples of CGI if I recall.

Posted by: McLurkerson at February 08, 2021 08:05 PM (8Xolh)

176 161 In 1983 we took a high school field trip to the nuclear reactor at Georgia Tech. Afterwards we went to The Varsity for lunch.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at Febru

Are California kids the only ones that had senior ditch day and get to go to Disneyland?

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 08, 2021 08:06 PM (MYL08)

177 OT, liberal SiL gave me shit for not rushing out to get vaccinated.

I said "my body, my choice."

I think that's the first time I ever saw her speechless.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 08, 2021 08:03 PM (wGxSf)

Love it.

Posted by: Pres elect LA Sue at February 08, 2021 08:06 PM (Ed8Zd)

178 Brainstorm is a damn good flick. Probably holds up rather well today. Has some of the earliest examples of CGI if I recall.
Posted by: McLurkerson at February 08, 2021 08:05 PM (8Xolh)

TRON was in 1982.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:07 PM (eoQWY)

179
COVID-19 (The "Chinese Communist Party Virus that Escaped from a Level 4 Bio -containment Lab Run in Typical Careless Slovenly Chinese Fashion in the Course of Dangerous Illegal Function-Added Experiments Funded in the Sly with NIH Money by Anthony Fauci") is claimed to mutate in an extraordinary fashion: new mutations are more debilitating and lethal, not less like they would normally be. The virus in fact mutates to have whatever properties the Deep State needs it to have. This is quite a discovery.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 08, 2021 08:07 PM (fD5yj)

180 Watched most of tv shows, don't remember hardly any

Posted by: Skip at February 08, 2021 08:07 PM (Cxk7w)

181 Wow! '83.... Finished boot camp, A school and went to Pendleton. The 80s were definitely good times for me.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2021 08:07 PM (5XK0y)

182 it is weird how thinking about their past gives some the urge to feed canteloupe to their dogs.
Posted by: confederatefifth at February 08, 2021 08:05 PM (4Jold)

hopefully they like it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:07 PM (eoQWY)

183 CaliGirl, lets see if we can get it on your calendar now. You both would feel right at home.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 08:07 PM (PLXL0)

184 Well there are clubs like that, but as I recall they aren't anywhere near the places the kids were running around.

Yeah, I've been to the Wise Fool's Pub around then and it was in a lot different area.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 08:08 PM (y7DUB)

185 He's really nice, he's the introvert and I'm the extrovert.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 08, 2021 08:03 PM

It's actually very easy to tell the introverts from the extraverts at the TxMoMe. The introverts look at their cowboy boots while talking to you, while the extraverts look at yours.

Don't ask about the folks who, um, visit the horse trailer.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 08, 2021 08:08 PM (DMUuz)

186 CDC: 'Just Because You Got The Vaccine Doesn't Mean You Should Go Outside Or Ever Experience Joy Again'

****

There's a no-shit article on NPR that asks "Grandma Received Her COVID Vaccine. Is it safe for us to visit her now that she has gotten the vaccine against becoming infected and dying because of the COVIDs?"

I'll let you guess the answer.

Hint: "Vaccine against COVID to make it safe for people to visit other people" is a distraction from the answer

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 08, 2021 08:08 PM (Kt1w/)

187 31 Any ads for that nice game, E.T. on the 2600?
Posted by: Broseidon at February 08, 2021 07:37 PM (icI8A)

---------------------------------

Somewhere in my mom's house is the Atari cartridge for ET. I thought I had it (I've got a bunch of old Atari cartridges, along with a Sears knock-off of the console), but didn't find it when I checked. I need to get down to my mom's for a week or so, and just go through stuff.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 08:08 PM (CAJOC)

188 LOL Duncanthrax.

How's Ace?

Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 08:09 PM (U2EjU)

189 We had a ditch day in our Wisconsin school, we skipped class and went to a lake and drank until we couldn't speak.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 08, 2021 08:09 PM (qH6FZ)

190 #170: In the early 1980's I was young, thin, fit, and getting laid.

The early 1980's were awesome. And the music was pretty good.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet sponsors White Man: Threat or Menace? This Year Only! at February 08, 2021 08:09 PM (eh7WV)

191 Orioles won world series. Cal Ripken's rookie year.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at February 08, 2021 08:09 PM (8HvsU)

192 Spring 1983 was the last year we had the NHL in Denver until 1996. My sister worked for United Bank, who had a box and rinkside seats. No one went to the games, so I got to go to many for free. I also got to see the pitiable Colorado (Hockey) Rockies beat Wayne Gretzky and the Oilers. And then the season ended, they moved to Jersey where they remain.

Posted by: Mookie at February 08, 2021 08:09 PM (u+Y3T)

193 The year I graduated high school and immediately did the next best thing to running away and joining the circus. I started following the Grateful Dead on tour for a couple years. I kinda miss those days.

Posted by: Tennessee Jed at February 08, 2021 08:09 PM (3aLWR)

194 new mutations are more debilitating and lethal, not less like they would normally be.

****

And the more asymptomatic you are the more likely you are to transmit the deadliest variations to other people who also won't exhibit symptoms.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 08, 2021 08:09 PM (Kt1w/)

195 181 Wow! '83.... Finished boot camp, A school and went to Pendleton. The 80s were definitely good times for me.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at Fe

What is A school?

My Uncle was at Pendleton right after Korea and I think my Dad may have been there as well. He did boot camp on the East Coast? He's passed away and I wish I would have written everything down.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 08, 2021 08:09 PM (MYL08)

196 In 1983 we had been married for 3 years.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at February 08, 2021 08:10 PM (SRRAx)

197

Imagine if we would have had the internet and twitter mobs back then. Any doubt Sir Ronald would have been one term? "We begin bombing in 5 minutes" - they would have impeached him today.
Posted by: Mookie

They may yet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 08, 2021 08:10 PM (63Dwl)

198 How can you remember 1983 and not recall Bill Cosby: Himself !!

Posted by: andycanuck at February 08, 2021 08:10 PM (d6he9)

199 Duncanthrax, we made special provisions for Sharon last year. 2, count them 2, porta potties!

Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 08:10 PM (PLXL0)

200 189 We had a ditch day in our Wisconsin school, we skipped class and went to a lake and drank until we couldn't speak.
Posted by: lowandslow at Febru

We went to the beach. The Disneyland trip was on a bus with the school.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 08, 2021 08:11 PM (MYL08)

201 bonhomme,

COVID-19 is all B.S., all the time.

Fauci has begun floating the trial balloon that herd immunity equals vaccinated kids.

And the WHO pulled their web page about herd immunity and replaced it with one where herd immunity hinges on...you guessed it, vaccination.

Some very creepy people are determined to ram needles into most to all people on the planet.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 08, 2021 08:11 PM (wpBwb)

202 Nerdy me had perfect high school attendance.
Except for sneaking away through the woods during Mandatory Pep Rallies. Never caught.
Cuz fuck that shit.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 08:11 PM (vuisn)

203 And the more asymptomatic you are the more likely
you are to transmit the deadliest variations to other people who also
won't exhibit symptoms.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 08, 2021 08:09 PM (Kt1w/)

And the closer you are to danger, the farther you are from harm.

Posted by: Pippin at February 08, 2021 08:12 PM (KnJdm)

204 In 1983 Fauci was getting ready to start in his current position.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 08, 2021 08:12 PM (Kt1w/)

205 Teresa, sending you a huge hug.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 08:12 PM (PLXL0)

206 In 1983 I was transferred from one location to another and promoted to District Manager. Two more transfers and promotions later I tangled with the wrong guy, and by 1988 I was driving an 18 wheel truck to meet diminished needs. Made a comeback of sorts but it was difficult.

Posted by: Javems at February 08, 2021 08:12 PM (8SSHh)

207 I miss 1983. In 1983 I was dating Brad Pitt's sister. No shit.

Talk about an unfavorable comparison to my present lot in life.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 08, 2021 08:12 PM (CWMF2)

208 I miss 1983. In 1983 I was dating Brad Pitt's sister. No shit.

Posted by: F

his identical twin sister, right?

Posted by: confederatefifth at February 08, 2021 08:14 PM (4Jold)

209 1983 also featured the release of Iron Maiden's best album, "Piece of Mind". https://bit.ly/3tEp3vr

Posted by: Mookie at February 08, 2021 08:14 PM (u+Y3T)

210 Reagan was president.

Posted by: runner at February 08, 2021 08:14 PM (zr5Kq)

211 121 Elisabeth Shue will never not be fine as fuck.
Posted by: Lamont Cranston at February 08, 2021 07:51 PM (AJg+R)

This is a perceptive statement with bonus points for correct spelling.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 07:54 PM (y7DUB)

I may or may not have spent many private moments Googling her.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at February 08, 2021 08:14 PM (CHAQU)

212 Surprising amount of those top 30 songs still get played on the radio pretty often. Africa was covered and was a big hit with the kids in the last year or so.

Posted by: Dominion at February 08, 2021 08:14 PM (r+sAi)

213 I've got the 2600 ET game cart AND the manual. Also a console and a bunch of games. It worked last time I hooked it up maybe 10 years ago.

Posted by: f'd at February 08, 2021 08:14 PM (xeuGa)

214 1983 I was still living in California. Escaped three years later.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at February 08, 2021 08:14 PM (SchxB)

215
And the more asymptomatic you are the more likely you are to transmit the deadliest variations to other people who also won't exhibit symptoms.
Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 08, 2021 08:09 PM (Kt1w/)

----

We could all be dead and not know it, like in the movies.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 08, 2021 08:14 PM (fD5yj)

216 >>>Some very creepy people are determined to ram needles into most to all people on the planet.

Posted by: callsign claymore<
>Have you had your anal probe yet, comrade?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 08, 2021 08:14 PM (03n3v)

217 " ... Some very creepy people are determined to ram needles into most to all people on the planet.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 08, 2021 08:11 PM (wpBwb) "

"you have to get the injection to find out what's in it"
- Obergruppenfuhrer Pelosi

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 08, 2021 08:14 PM (PpU3N)

218 Well there are clubs like that, but as I recall they aren't anywhere near the places the kids were running around.

Yeah, I've been to the Wise Fool's Pub around then and it was in a lot different area.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 08:08 PM (y7DUB)

I was a grad student at University of Chicago at the time, and they show up at a big party there - which there arent any, really and it is 55 blocks south of the bus station they are going to and the El they take and have the gang fight on is many, many blocks inland at that point. The tower they hide in is right on the lake, about where the river hits the lake. They did have to get a ride from the nice guy to get from U of C to lower Wacker where Thor had his garage, but it is almost impossible to get onto that street from the South by the lake - it follows the river across the north side of downtown and west side of downtown and is underground.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:15 PM (eoQWY)

219 Hoo boy, 1983.
Think Andrew McCarthy is now writing travel books.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 08, 2021 08:15 PM (bDqIh)

220 207 I miss 1983. In 1983 I was dating Brad Pitt's sister. No shit.

Talk about an unfavorable comparison to my present lot in life.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at Febru

you have to know my friend if you lived in MO at the time and you didn't date her in college someplace. My friend was the brothers age and they grew up together. Doug? Is the brothers name. My friend is the same age as him. My friend told me he used to spend the night at his house and the parents are really nice, conservative people.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 08, 2021 08:15 PM (MYL08)

221 There is a new study at the innocence project suggesting that Ted Bundy was not so much a violnt murder as he was a covid superspreader. they are reinvestigating his vics to verify that it was covid, not bundy.

Posted by: confederatefifth at February 08, 2021 08:16 PM (4Jold)

222 Nerdy me had perfect high school attendance.
Except for sneaking away through the woods during Mandatory Pep Rallies. Never caught.
Cuz fuck that shit.

I never went to a pep rally. Not even sure if my high school had them.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at February 08, 2021 08:16 PM (SchxB)

223 In 1983 Fauci was getting ready to start in his current position.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 08, 2021 08:12 PM (Kt1w/)

The Brain-Dead Thing at 1600 was already a 10 year Senator in '83. He was known as 'The Senator from MBNA'.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 08, 2021 08:16 PM (F0YaR)

224 Billy Goat Tavern was a great place for lunch on lower Wacker in Chicago. Good chance of running into grouchy Mike Royko having a beer.

Posted by: dartist at February 08, 2021 08:16 PM (+ya+t)

225 1980s were childrearing years for us. Didn't get out a lot.

Only part of the posted vids I watched so far was the Brainstorm trailer. I could see watching it if I was stuck in a motel with nothing but cable and it came on... unless it had too many commercial interruptions. I've developed a serious allergic response to too many commercial interruptions.

Posted by: mindful webworker
cleek thees, seenyour
at February 08, 2021 08:16 PM (TFV0D)

226 Surprising amount of those top 30 songs still get played on the radio pretty often. Africa was covered and was a big hit with the kids in the last year or so.
Posted by: Dominion at February 08, 2021 08:14 PM (r+sAi)

Toto's Africa drove me insane that year. On long drives to school with AM radio, it was on about every 5 minutes. I decided to get tape players to escape.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:16 PM (eoQWY)

227 205 Teresa, sending you a huge hug.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 08:12 PM (PLXL0)

Right back at ya, sweetie!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at February 08, 2021 08:16 PM (SRRAx)

228 Posted by: Mookie at February 08, 2021 08:09 PM (u+Y3T)

Don Cherry was the coach, right?

Posted by: clutch at February 08, 2021 08:16 PM (9UmRs)

229 LOL Duncanthrax.

How's Ace?
Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 08:09 PM

At the moment, she's sitting at my feet, vigorously washing her face, after nibbling a some morsels from my dinner. She continues her reign of the household. I've never known a cat with this much personality. Fortunately, it's all sweet.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 08, 2021 08:16 PM (DMUuz)

230 >>TRON was in 1982.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:07 PM (eoQWY)

The TRON video game was still the shit in '83.

Don't remember the "Discs of Tron" sequel game though.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 08:16 PM (vuisn)

231 Mookie,

Man, what an album. "Where Eagles Dare" alone got serious play time in my car.

I've written some of my best copy to "Flight of Icarus."

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 08, 2021 08:17 PM (wpBwb)

232 In 1983 I had to move to the real world because I graduated college. The transition was difficult because most of my friends were on the 6 year plan instead of the 4 year plan to get a degree.

Bastards. I should have listen to them.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at February 08, 2021 08:17 PM (2DOZq)

233 Irish Spring: "Manly, yes, but I like to screw!"

Posted by: andycanuck at February 08, 2021 08:17 PM (d6he9)

234 SMH, you lost your mind?

Posted by: SFGoth at February 08, 2021 08:17 PM (KAi1n)

235 >>They say that everything under the sun is part of God's plan. Damn if I can figure out what it is at the moment.

Ha! No, she is younger than him. We'd known each other since kindergarten and she mercy dated me a bit during my first year of high school. Nice girl. If I'd only known ...

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 08, 2021 08:17 PM (CWMF2)

236 At a SB party last night, one neighbor wore a mask when she wasn't eating. She was the only one. But she didn't seem bothered when she asked me to hand her a spoon. SMH.

Posted by: Swingin' for the downs at February 08, 2021 08:17 PM (VbCZe)

237 1983... I was in 8th-9th grade. Good times!

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 08, 2021 08:18 PM (UUBmN)

238 Billy Goat Tavern was a great place for lunch on lower Wacker in Chicago. Good chance of running into grouchy Mike Royko having a beer.
Posted by: dartist at February 08, 2021 08:16 PM (+ya+t)

It isn't on Lower Wacker, its on Michigan, under the raised street there. It was a nice place.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:18 PM (eoQWY)

239 Ah. 1983. MCRD San Diego. A few weeks later, called into the DI hooch and was handed a certified letter which contained divorce lawsuit papers. Great times, great times.

Posted by: AJ Duie at February 08, 2021 08:18 PM (/M1Av)

240 1983...we were in alliance with Eastasia and at war with Eurasia. Official history may say othewise, but I remember.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at February 08, 2021 08:18 PM (8HvsU)

241 207 I miss 1983. In 1983 I was dating Brad Pitt's sister. No shit.

Talk about an unfavorable comparison to my present lot in life.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 08, 2021 08:12 PM (CWMF2)

I used to carouse with Peri Gilpin about that time

nice kid, nice family

Posted by: REDACTED at February 08, 2021 08:19 PM (zZxh0)

242 1983
We went to see "War Games" at the mall when I was about 8 months pregnant. The adrenaline rush made the baby go nuts and I was worn out by the end of the movie.
When we left the theater, we turned in the wrong direction, and by the time we realized it, it was easier to walk all the way around the mall to get to the car.
Hadn't thought about that in years.
Oh, yeah. And this was in July. In Texas.

Posted by: Sal at February 08, 2021 08:19 PM (KTdeA)

243 lin-duh, your a pup too!

Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 08:19 PM (PLXL0)

244 SMH, you lost your mind?
Posted by: SFGoth

---

I joined the Army in 1987 to get away from Hawaii and my folks.

I got sent to Schofield Barracks, HI in 1988.

From that point on, my goal was to get kicked out by any means necessary.

I succeeded, unfortunately.

Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 08:19 PM (U2EjU)

245 Why does every person confirmed for Chairman Xiden make me think they are probably there to destroy anything they can?

Posted by: Skip at February 08, 2021 08:19 PM (Cxk7w)

246 Ahh, yes, the heady days of the 6-year plan. When optimism ruled the roost and put a spring in our step.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 08, 2021 08:19 PM (KAi1n)

247 Toto's Africa drove me insane that year. On long drives to school with AM radio, it was on about every 5 minutes. I decided to get tape players to escape.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:16 PM (eoQWY)

----------------------------

Escape? The Pina Colada song?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 08:20 PM (CAJOC)

248 In 1983 Joe Biden was talking all about packing the Supreme Court. He was against in those days.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 08, 2021 08:20 PM (KRxpN)

249 1983, I was still mourning the cancellation of POLICE SQUAD.

Posted by: Citizen sans nation at February 08, 2021 08:20 PM (ldmQR)

250 Posted by: CaliGirl at February 08, 2021 08:09 PM (MYL0

'A' school is the primary MOS school for the job they assign you. For me, it was Aviation Electrician in Millington, TN.

True story... I graduated top Marine in my class and filled out my wish list, asking for F4s (Phantoms. A real mans aircraft if ever one was made) at Iwakuni Bay in Japan. They gave me H1s (snakes and hueys) at Pendleton. Worked out for me though, as I met my wife after I came back from a WestPac and we've been married ever since.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2021 08:20 PM (5XK0y)

251 Wow, it turns out I can still reproduce the songs and game sounds of Tron in my head.

Doo doo do do doo doo do do
(puhka puhka)
(that last part is where you're shooting through the rotating shield to enter the whatever)

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 08, 2021 08:20 PM (Kt1w/)

252 Where Eagles Dare alone got serious play time in my car

I was poor. It got play on my Walkman riding my bike LOL.

Posted by: Mookie at February 08, 2021 08:20 PM (u+Y3T)

253 lin-duh 27-4,

Where'd you wind up for high school? I went to Holmes

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 08, 2021 08:21 PM (wpBwb)

254 1983 was also Strange Brew, hosers!

Posted by: andycanuck at February 08, 2021 08:21 PM (d6he9)

255 1983 - working for Western Electric. Remember them?

iirc, they required each of us to take six weeks of education a year - usually lead by the geeks from Bell Labs.

Good stuff.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 08, 2021 08:22 PM (Rvt88)

256 It isn't on Lower Wacker, its on Michigan, under the raised street there. It was a nice place.

I stand corrected. Everything down there was Lower Wacker to me.

Posted by: dartist at February 08, 2021 08:22 PM (+ya+t)

257 I remember 1983. A better world....except for handguns.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 08, 2021 08:22 PM (uxJPn)

258 One of my first dates with the future Mrs Eez wound up at the Billy Goat.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 08, 2021 08:22 PM (PpU3N)

259 In 1983 Joe Biden was talking all about packing the Supreme Court. He was against in those days.

***

That was only five or so years after he'd publicly supported segregation and also publicly said something about not wanting his children to grow up in the racial jungle.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 08, 2021 08:23 PM (Kt1w/)

260 Let's not forget 'Stroker Ace.'

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 08:23 PM (vuisn)

261 The vaccine isn't a vaccine.

Which is presumably why it doesn't give you much in the way of resistance.
The bigger question though then is why? Because India already seems to have herd immunity which means the rest of the world is about to get it anyway.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 08, 2021 08:23 PM (qlFIA)

262 1983 was also the year I got hit by a car, come to think of it

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 08, 2021 08:23 PM (nUhF0)

263 254 1983 was also Strange Brew, hosers!
Posted by: andycanuck at February 08, 2021 08:21 PM (d6he9)

-----------------------------

That was one of the trailers in the video. Saw Dave Thomas in something recently (forget what), and that reminded me of Strange Brew.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 08:23 PM (CAJOC)

264 Off stupid voting machine sock.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 08, 2021 08:23 PM (r+sAi)

265 Posted by: AJ Duie at February 08, 2021 08:18 PM (/M1Av)

Seriously! Platoon 1035, 17 June '83.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2021 08:23 PM (5XK0y)

266 Evening, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2021 08:23 PM (mzC78)

267 Toto's Africa drove me insane that year. On long drives to school with AM radio, it was on about every 5 minutes. I decided to get tape players to escape.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:16 PM (eoQWY)

----------------------------

Escape? The Pina Colada song?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 08:20 PM (CAJOC)

Don't think I was doing as much driving then -- when I was younger another decent enough album that drove me mad from overexposure was Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life" album songs whenever that came out.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:23 PM (eoQWY)

268 Duncanthrax, we made special provisions for Sharon last year. 2, count them 2, porta potties!
Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 08:10 PM

Kids these days, with their modern luxuries.

There should be a bronze marker, reading: "The fabled TxMoMe Horse Trailer was parked here, where ..."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 08, 2021 08:24 PM (DMUuz)

269 24 I was a junior in high school in 1983. All girls Catholic prep. Plaid skirts and knee high socks and saddle shoes.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 08, 2021 07:36 PM (nNDdd)

Late arrival tonight...

Bless you Nurse, I'm sure you were fetching!

But I have to insist on: PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

As demanded by the AOSHQ Style Guide...

Posted by: browndog at February 08, 2021 08:24 PM (BgMrQ)

270
The Brain-Dead Thing at 1600 was already a 10 year Senator in '83. He was known as 'The Senator from MBNA'.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 08, 2021 08:16 PM (F0YaR)

Look fat, I never played ladie's bastketball - all man, right here, chump! I'll take you outside and show you who's a lady, man!

Posted by: I'm Joe Biden? at February 08, 2021 08:24 PM (Izzlo)

271 If pressed I might consider 1983 near the peak of humanity in the US.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 08, 2021 08:24 PM (r+sAi)

272 Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2021 08:23 PM

Plt 2131
Grad 9 Mar 84

Posted by: AJ Duie at February 08, 2021 08:24 PM (/M1Av)

273 I had been married 10 years and had a nine yr old daughter in 1983.
The 80's are kind of a blur to me..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 08, 2021 08:25 PM (CjFDo)

274 It isn't on Lower Wacker, its on Michigan, under the raised street there. It was a nice place.

I stand corrected. Everything down there was Lower Wacker to me.
Posted by: dartist at February 08, 2021 08:22 PM (+ya+t)

That whole area was raised (not razed) in the 19th century to get it out of the mud. They literally put the hotels on jacks and winched them up the 10-15 feet or so to the new road level.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:25 PM (eoQWY)

275 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 08:25 PM (Zz0t1)

276 Thank heaven for little girls!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at February 08, 2021 08:26 PM (qlFIA)

277 1983, my last year in the shithole state of Illinois.

Praise GOD for relocating my father's job to Texas.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 08:26 PM (Zz0t1)

278 260 Let's not forget 'Stroker Ace.'
Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 08:23 PM (vuisn)

Oh shit, did he get caught on a zoom call too?

Posted by: Jeff Toobin at February 08, 2021 08:26 PM (Izzlo)

279 41 I had a corded phone in my car in the mid eighties

my first bill had over $500 dollars of roaming charges

Posted by: REDACTED at February 08, 2021 07:38 PM (zZxh0)

Long-distance phone charges could break your monthly budget before you knew it. Night and weekend long-distance rates were the only "deal" available, IIRC.

Posted by: Gref at February 08, 2021 08:26 PM (AMIL/)

280 1983 wasnt so great for me; not horrible, just a bit tough. But... 1985!! That was THE year.

Posted by: Pres elect LA Sue at February 08, 2021 08:26 PM (Ed8Zd)

281 The vaccine isn't a vaccine.

Which is presumably why it doesn't give you much in the way of resistance.
The
bigger question though then is why? Because India already seems to have
herd immunity which means the rest of the world is about to get it
anyway.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 08, 2021 08:23 PM (qlFIA)
I'd like to know why India has herd immunity, which is either caused by cases or "vaccinations" that actually work to cause immunity. Given their population, I would expect cases would be a bloodbath, given how deadly the China virus is. Do they have some naturally occurring immunity to China virus?

Posted by: 4 at February 08, 2021 08:26 PM (KnJdm)

282 Nope, can't thing of anything for 1983. Sure I worked a lot overnight which might have a lot to do with it.

Posted by: Skip at February 08, 2021 08:27 PM (Cxk7w)

283 I watched Class not long ago and was shocked how ugly 1983 fashion was. It was still kinda 70s looking. 1984 is when the 80s became the 80s as far as trends and fashion went.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 08, 2021 08:27 PM (Cv0O5)

284 In 1983 I made the very tragic mistake of contemplating marriage with my first wife.

That was what we call a "poor decision."

*rubs forehead in attempt to calm down

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 08:27 PM (3H9h1)

285 Mookie,

Maiden is still on my short list of go-to metal. What other band takes history or literature and turns it into epic headbanging?

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 08, 2021 08:28 PM (wpBwb)

286 1983 was a premium year for movies. If it was just Vacation , Bad Boys and Valley Girl it would have been a premium year. I think Scarface was 1983.

And Dead Zone is still awesome. The missiles are flying !!

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at February 08, 2021 08:28 PM (2DOZq)

287 I'd have been in 4th/5th grade in 83. Learning how to play the French horn.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 08:28 PM (CAJOC)

288
There should be a bronze marker, reading: "The fabled TxMoMe Horse Trailer was parked here, where ..."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 08, 2021 08:24 PM

"when you gotta piss like a race horse..."

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 08, 2021 08:29 PM (d7tvG)

289 *dojang master, glaring*
Bif! You're moving too slow! Are you getting chunky?

*me, sweating profusely*
Uhh, maybe ten lbs, mam.

*dojang master, laughing evilly while Smash snickers*
Oh, we are gonna take care of that.

Posted by: BifBewalski - MoJo got his a$$ kicked at February 08, 2021 08:29 PM (VcFUs)

290 24 I was a junior in high school in 1983. All girls Catholic prep. Plaid skirts and knee high socks and saddle shoes.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 08, 2021 07:36 PM (nNDdd)

Kennedy?

Posted by: Pres elect LA Sue at February 08, 2021 08:29 PM (Ed8Zd)

291 Moved to Germany as a brat. Here, everything changed.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 08, 2021 08:29 PM (olbr4)

292 Blood tests in India show 50% of the population, at least in the poorer sections of the cities, have had Wuhan Flu.

So why relatively few deaths? Resistance? Maybe. Or more likely they have fewer 80+ obese people to get killed by Wuhan flu.
Apparently it is really easy to get HCQ in India as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 08, 2021 08:29 PM (qlFIA)

293 1983 also had Ric Flair at the height of his powers. https://bit.ly/3aLGx0u

Posted by: Mookie at February 08, 2021 08:29 PM (u+Y3T)

294 I think I bought my first VCR in '83. Maybe it was in'82. VHS, not BetaMax.

Posted by: Gref at February 08, 2021 08:29 PM (AMIL/)

295 Posted by: AJ Duie at February 08, 2021 08:24 PM (/M1Av)

Have you ever been back there? I was there about 8 years ago to see my oldest boy graduate. It was exactly as I remembered it.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2021 08:30 PM (5XK0y)

296 Sponge, we are a better place for you being here. That is true of all the Texas Horde, even if you aren't here at the moment.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 08:30 PM (PLXL0)

297 "Complete the sequence, Mr. President."

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 08:31 PM (vuisn)

298 1983 was also the year I got hit by a car, come to think of it
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 08, 2021 08:23 PM (nUhF0)

Cars were heavier in 1983 too.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at February 08, 2021 08:31 PM (2DOZq)

299 When I got my first smartphone, I got Android rather than iPhone because I felt that Apple was locking down the phone platform too much. That decision hasn't aged well.

This news story makes me realize that Google is worse than Apple. So much worse.

Quote: "I absolutely have not done anything to violate your terms of service, so I can take this no other way than you deciding to burn this bridge. Consider it burned."

https://bit.ly/2LAt8zO

Posted by: mr_jack at February 08, 2021 08:31 PM (M59SC)

300 Blood tests in India show 50% of the population, at least in the poorer sections of the cities, have had Wuhan Flu.

So why relatively few deaths? Resistance? Maybe. Or more likely they have fewer 80+ obese people to get killed by Wuhan flu.
Apparently it is really easy to get HCQ in India as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 08, 2021 08:29 PM (qlFIA)

I would think that they have fewer reasons to exaggerate the risk, lesser hygiene, and more reason to allow access to commonly available medicines, so that makes sense.

Posted by: 4 at February 08, 2021 08:32 PM (KnJdm)

301 1983 was the year I discovered Dungeons & Dragons. I guess that's how I ended up being evil. Should have heeded Jack Chicks' dire warnings.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 08, 2021 08:32 PM (H5knJ)

302 Blood tests in India show 50% of the population, at least in the poorer sections of the cities, have had Wuhan Flu.

So why relatively few deaths? Resistance? Maybe. Or more likely they have fewer 80+ obese people to get killed by Wuhan flu.
Apparently it is really easy to get HCQ in India as well.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 08, 2021 08:29 PM (qlFIA)

Perhaps their governors don't get up and strangle the elderly there, which might explain it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:32 PM (eoQWY)

303 1983.
Cellular radio telephone.
A fad that will never last.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 08, 2021 08:32 PM (sy5kK)

304 Good news! CNN'S Randi Kaye bragged about turning in non-maskers in Tampa.

So brave! Go home to rat-infested NYC.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at February 08, 2021 08:33 PM (ptqGC)

305 'Evenin' everyone. Had to get early start so missed JJ's MR, got home late so missed everything else, as well. Too intimidated by the manymanymany posts to catch up but seems like everyone made it through another weird day.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 08, 2021 08:33 PM (99Nt9)

306 So why relatively few deaths? Resistance? Maybe. Or more likely they have fewer 80+ obese people to get killed by Wuhan flu.
Apparently it is really easy to get HCQ in India as well.

Government there has put together a pill kit. You think you got COVID you get a pill kit. Take the pills as directed and your chances of dying supposedly go way down.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at February 08, 2021 08:33 PM (SchxB)

307 Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2021 08:30 PM

Negative. I'd love to go back......

Sugar sammiches

Posted by: AJ Duie at February 08, 2021 08:33 PM (/M1Av)

308 1983.
Now those laserdisks.
Yeah, we will all be using them someday.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 08, 2021 08:33 PM (sy5kK)

309 That whole area was raised (not razed) in the 19th century to get it out
of the mud. They literally put the hotels on jacks and winched them up
the 10-15 feet or so to the new road level.

My grandfather had a 3 flat on Loomis around 18th. No inside plumbing so he tapped into the plumbing they layed down before raising the street for a toilet. Street is above the basement door. There's a Polish name for it, something like Joe Posabican is what they called it.

Posted by: dartist at February 08, 2021 08:34 PM (+ya+t)

310 bear with asymmetrical balls,

Jack Chick let me down, man.

I've been a Catholic for 16 years now. And I still haven't gotten my Jesuit secret decoder ring in the mail.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 08, 2021 08:34 PM (wpBwb)

311 301 1983 was the year I discovered Dungeons & Dragons. I guess that's how I ended up being evil. Should have heeded Jack Chicks' dire warnings.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 08, 2021 08:32 PM (H5knJ)

---------------------

The video of his D&D tract is unintentionally hilarious. I recommend the Jontron review of it

https://youtu.be/subQrEPKytA

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 08:34 PM (CAJOC)

312 Sponge, we are a better place for you being here. That is true of all the Texas Horde, even if you aren't here at the moment.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 08:30 PM (PLXL0)

Awwwwwww.....

*blush*

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 08:35 PM (Zz0t1)

313 So why relatively few deaths? Resistance? Maybe. Or more likely they have fewer 80+ obese people to get killed by Wuhan flu.
Apparently it is really easy to get HCQ in India as well.

Government there has put together a pill kit. You think you got COVID you get a pill kit. Take the pills as directed and your chances of dying supposedly go way down.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at February 08, 2021 08:33 PM (SchxB)

Our government knew the same thing, but they decided to hide the pills and badmouth the treatment instead.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:35 PM (eoQWY)

314 Hornady 9mm, limit 2x 25ct for $32 (!), at Fin Feather Fur:
https://is.gd/9hxqy0

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 08, 2021 08:35 PM (TK8Ry)

315 279 41 I had a corded phone in my car in the mid eighties

my first bill had over $500 dollars of roaming charges

Posted by: REDACTED at February 08, 2021 07:38 PM (zZxh0)

Long-distance phone charges could break your monthly budget before you knew it. Night and weekend long-distance rates were the only "deal" available, IIRC.
Posted by: Gref at February 08, 2021 08:26 PM (AMIL/)

I now have an 8 dollar a month clam shell

got a lot smarter or less dumb, depending on your viewpoint

Posted by: REDACTED at February 08, 2021 08:35 PM (zZxh0)

316 Literally started the year by dating she who would become my X1 three years later; followed her to her church which led to me accepting Christ; followed her to my freshman year at Wayland Baptist after taking a two-year break after HS graduation (which was followed by a four-year break due to a move and marriage.)

Saw most of those flicks at the time; liked most of them, too, though the toy muppet movie that was RoTJ cemented my opinion that there is in fact only one Star Wars movie.

Posted by: goozer at February 08, 2021 08:35 PM (PwwcI)

317 310 bear with asymmetrical balls,

Jack Chick let me down, man.

I've been a Catholic for 16 years now. And I still haven't gotten my Jesuit secret decoder ring in the mail.
Posted by: callsign claymore at February 08, 2021 08:34 PM (wpBwb)

------------------------

It just tells you to be sure to drink your Ovaltine.

Posted by: Ralphie at February 08, 2021 08:35 PM (CAJOC)

318 At the moment, she's sitting at my feet, vigorously washing her face, after nibbling a some morsels from my dinner. She continues her reign of the household. I've never known a cat with this much personality. Fortunately, it's all sweet.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
----
My daughter still thinks we should have taken her...lol!

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 08, 2021 08:36 PM (UUBmN)

319 I've been briefly in and out lately. I hope I'm not missing hordlings needing help and prayers.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at February 08, 2021 08:36 PM (ptqGC)

320 Our government knew the same thing, but they decided to hide the pills and badmouth the treatment instead.

Not enough graft in the pills.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at February 08, 2021 08:36 PM (SchxB)

321 1983.
Cellular radio telephone.
A fad that will never last.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 08, 2021 08:32 PM (sy5kK)

You'll NEVER need more than 640K of RAM!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 08:37 PM (Zz0t1)

322 You'll NEVER need more than 640K of RAM!!!

I never have. My computer is a different story.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at February 08, 2021 08:38 PM (SchxB)

323 Indias deep state didnt need to oust a president, hence few deaths.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 08, 2021 08:38 PM (Cv0O5)

324 Cellular radio telephone.
A fad that will never last.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 08, 2021 08:32 PM (sy5kK)

You'll NEVER need more than 640K of RAM!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 08:37 PM (Zz0t1)

Sure you will, for your Terminate and Stay Resident suite of programs, jostling in the upper RAM fighting to the death for keystrokes.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:38 PM (eoQWY)

325 So why relatively few deaths? Resistance? Maybe. Or more likely they have fewer 80+ obese people to get killed by Wuhan flu.
Apparently it is really easy to get HCQ in India as well.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 08, 2021 08:29 PM (qlFIA)

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From what I've read, malaria is an issue in India, so not surprised HCQ would be readily available.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 08:40 PM (CAJOC)

326 Where'd you wind up for high school? I went to Holmes
Posted by: callsign claymore
X----
We moved and I wound up at Judson.

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 08, 2021 08:40 PM (UUBmN)

327 I remember us following the downing of Flight 007 at work as it was happening.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 08, 2021 08:40 PM (Dc2NZ)

328 '83 was when Smash & I got married.

Posted by: BifBewalski - been married for a bit at February 08, 2021 08:40 PM (VcFUs)

329
Sure you will, for your Terminate and Stay Resident suite of programs, jostling in the upper RAM fighting to the death for keystrokes.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 08, 2021 08:38 PM (eoQWY)

I remember when you had to put a command in the autoexec.bat file so on bootup, it loaded the app that allowed actually USING the upper RAM registers. Then you could load programs in expanded memory.

Ahhhh, the good ole' days.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 08:40 PM (Zz0t1)

330 I've been a Catholic for 16 years now. And I still haven't gotten my Jesuit secret decoder ring in the mail.
Posted by: callsign claymore

"L I G H T M O R E C A N D L E S!"

Posted by: Tonypete at February 08, 2021 08:41 PM (Rvt88)

331 Motorola StarTac flip phone

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 08:41 PM (3H9h1)

332 I've been a Catholic for 16 years now. And I still haven't gotten my Jesuit secret decoder ring in the mail.
Maybe you should sign up for Catholic Prime?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 08, 2021 08:42 PM (qlFIA)

333 I remember when you had to put a command in the autoexec.bat file so on bootup, it loaded the app that allowed actually USING the upper RAM registers. Then you could load programs in expanded memory.

Ahhhh, the good ole' days.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 08:40 PM (Zz0t1)

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I remember Trumpet Winsock for connecting to the fledgling internet

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 08:42 PM (CAJOC)

334 Jane, you be missin prayers sent to you that your ankle finally heals.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 08:42 PM (PLXL0)

335 Too intimidated by the manymanymany posts to catch up but seems like everyone made it through another weird day.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 08, 2021 08:33 PM (99Nt9)

Do like the rest of us. Skip the content and go right to the end of comments and work backward.

Posted by: 4 at February 08, 2021 08:42 PM (KnJdm)

336 Too intimidated by the manymanymany posts to catch up but seems like everyone made it through another weird day.

Posted by: Russkilitlover
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What happened today?

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 08, 2021 08:44 PM (UUBmN)

337 Motorola StarTac flip phone
Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 08:41 PM (3H9h1)

I had the V60 flip phone. That thing was AWESOME. It had the best speakerphone ever, was mostly bullet proof and I could text like a mad man on it with out looking at it.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 08:44 PM (Zz0t1)

338 335 Too intimidated by the manymanymany posts to catch up but seems like everyone made it through another weird day.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 08, 2021 08:33 PM (99Nt9)

Do like the rest of us. Skip the content and go right to the end of comments and work backward.
Posted by: 4 at February 08, 2021 08:42 PM (KnJdm)

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Or, just dive in, and let the current carry you. We're talking 80's, mostly.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 08:44 PM (CAJOC)

339 What happened today?
Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 08, 2021 08:44 PM (UUBmN)

Another day with pretender in chief.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 08, 2021 08:45 PM (99Nt9)

340 >>327 I remember us following the downing of Flight 007 at work as it was happening.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 08, 2021 08:40 PM (Dc2NZ)

I lived in Larry McDonald's district at he time.
There's still a stretch of I-75 named in his honor.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 08:45 PM (vuisn)

341 LOL Cabbage Patch Kids. My roommate's Marine boyfriend braved the angry mob to get her one. It was brutal.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 08, 2021 08:46 PM (Dc2NZ)

342 1983. I think by the end of '83 there were more video tape rental places than gas stations. Learning that the movie you wanted to watch was only on the format your player wasn't for, at all the rental places in your area, was agony.

Posted by: Gref at February 08, 2021 08:46 PM (AMIL/)

343 Wow, Mark Gastineau and his mother, Lou. She was a beautiful lady. Mark has 2 sisters who are also very besutiful. He's kind of taken a turn.....sad.

Posted by: Red Enchilada at February 08, 2021 08:46 PM (UsdBV)

344 SoCal in the 80s... I'd do it again.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2021 08:46 PM (5XK0y)

345 Truth is being destroyed left and right. What is really annoying is that they don't even feel like they have to hide it anymore.

Josh Caplan
@joshdcaplan�42m
DEADLINE: Nielsen has unprecedented delay on Super Bowl ratings

Posted by: BetaCuck4Life at February 08, 2021 08:46 PM (FBrfY)

346 I was 15. Simply wanted to be a rock star. I still want to be a rock star. Iron Maiden is a top 5 for me. Just finished Adrian's book.

Posted by: TwentytwoLR at February 08, 2021 08:47 PM (Gb+CU)

347 Bay in Japan. They gave me H1s (snakes and hueys) at Pendleton. Worked out for me though, as I met my wife after I came back from a WestPac and we've been married ever since.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarh

Thank you and it was meant to be.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 08, 2021 08:47 PM (MYL08)

348
Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 08, 2021 08:33 PM (99Nt9)
Do like the rest of us. Skip the content and go right to the end of comments and work backward.
Posted by: 4 at February 08, 2021 08:42 PM (KnJdm)
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Or, just dive in, and let the current carry you. We're talking 80's, mostly.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 08:44 PM (CAJOC)

Nothing happened. Biden shit his pants, GOPe rolled over and spread their ass cheeks. Another day ending in Y.

Posted by: BifBewalski - standard day at the HQ at February 08, 2021 08:47 PM (VcFUs)

349 Too intimidated by the manymanymany posts to catch up but seems like everyone made it through another weird day.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 08, 2021 08:33 PM (99Nt9)

Do like the rest of us. Skip the content and go right to the end of comments and work backward.
Posted by: 4

This is no social crisis
Just another tricky day
For you
Fellah

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....Outlaw in America at February 08, 2021 08:48 PM (tjZg/)

350 Trying to view ASCII "adult images" was about as blinding as trying to view Cinemax through all that static.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 08:48 PM (vuisn)

351 342 1983. I think by the end of '83 there were more video tape rental places than gas stations. Learning that the movie you wanted to watch was only on the format your player wasn't for, at all the rental places in your area, was agony.
Posted by: Gref at February 08, 2021 08:46 PM (AMIL/)

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My mom's cousin owned a video store. We got free rentals.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 08:48 PM (CAJOC)

352 Nothing happened. Biden shit his pants, GOPe rolled over and spread their ass cheeks. Another day ending in Y.
Posted by: BifBewalski - standard day at the HQ

I believe some neverTrumpers also neverTrumped.

Posted by: mikeski at February 08, 2021 08:49 PM (P1f+c)

353 lin-duh 27-4,

Judson! Well, there goes being friends

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 08, 2021 08:50 PM (wpBwb)

354 350 Trying to view ASCII "adult images" was about as blinding as trying to view Cinemax through all that static.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 08:48 PM (vuisn)

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I will confess to having downloaded a naughty image or two back in the day. Took minutes to download, and had to have interpreter software on the computer to put it together.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 08:50 PM (CAJOC)

355 Was it "Sudden Impact" that was the sooper Nazi one that made liberal critics lose their shit?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 08, 2021 08:51 PM (Dc2NZ)

356
Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 08, 2021 08:33 PM (99Nt9)
Do like the rest of us. Skip the content and go right to the end of comments and work backward.
Posted by: 4 at February 08, 2021 08:42 PM (KnJdm)
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Or, just dive in, and let the current carry you. We're talking 80's, mostly.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 08:44 PM (CAJOC)

Oh, and we're posting that's a terribke thing to say when we agree to something now.

Posted by: BifBewalski - ^^^^THIS^^^^ at February 08, 2021 08:51 PM (VcFUs)

357 Posted by: CaliGirl at February 08, 2021 08:47 PM (MYL0

Yes maam. I believe it was. I look at her now and still see that smokin hawt girl with the big hair in the black one piece at Moonlight Beach. ;-)

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2021 08:51 PM (5XK0y)

358 KumHola ran up and down the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial over he weekend. And the MSM wet itself praising her for being so fit.

Lookout toned armed Moochelle, we have a new rock star in town.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 08, 2021 08:51 PM (Cv0O5)

359 Damn I just saw that Houston may get some snow next Monday. I thought we were through with winter.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at February 08, 2021 08:52 PM (2DOZq)

360 Somewhere in my mom's house is the Atari cartridge for ET. I thought I had it (I've got a bunch of old Atari cartridges, along with a Sears knock-off of the console), but didn't find it when I checked. I need to get down to my mom's for a week or so, and just go through stuff.
Posted by: No One of Consequence

I think I bought an Atari 800 in 1983, or something like that.
And I actually still have the Atari 800 down in the basement.
Shibumi and I both accumulate a lot of ....stuff.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....Outlaw in America at February 08, 2021 08:52 PM (tjZg/)

361 1983 - Reagan was President, married 2 years and living in Dana Pt., Calif, parents still alive, wonderful job, bought condo with ONLY 15% interest rate, and still believed that America was a representative republic. Ah, goooooood times.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 08, 2021 08:52 PM (99Nt9)

362 DEADLINE: Nielsen has unprecedented delay on Super Bowl ratings
Posted by: BetaCuck4Life at February 08, 2021 08:46 PM (FBrfY)

They have to make 3 more runs through the Dominion machines.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2021 08:53 PM (mzC78)

363 SoooperBowl ratings will be the best ever. Everyone in America watched. And if you say otherwise you are a conspiracy theorist.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 08, 2021 08:54 PM (Cv0O5)

364 Judson! Well, there goes being friends
Posted by: callsign claymore
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If we had stayed put it would have been Holmes...
Judson wound up being the better school at the time. But those round buildings at Holmes...what were they thinking???

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 08, 2021 08:54 PM (UUBmN)

365 I think I bought an Atari 800 in 1983, or something like that.
And I actually still have the Atari 800 down in the basement.
Shibumi and I both accumulate a lot of ....stuff.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....Outlaw in America at February 08, 2021 08:52 PM (tjZg/)

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First console we ever had was an RCA Studio II. No controllers, just number pads. No graphics any more advanced than pong. And yet we loved it. Pretty sure my mom still has it (she's on the spectrum between packrat and hoarder)

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 08:55 PM (CAJOC)

366 Ha! That's what that's about! I was confuzled.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 08, 2021 08:55 PM (99Nt9)

367 OK, may have missed it, but no Beirut Lebanon stuff in the 1983 reprise?

They mentioned Grenada? WTF?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 08, 2021 08:56 PM (oHd/0)

368 Mario Bro's came out in '83. Sally Ride went into space on the Shuttle.

ARPANET changed to IP Protocol... and we all know where THAT went.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 08:56 PM (3H9h1)

369 Maybe the Mask Nazis will finally go away when Creepy Joe breaks down and snorts some females' hair...

Joe Biden Creeps on a Nurse, Repeatedly Asks Her if She Is a Freshman in College (VIDEO)
https://t.co/AbuXP2tAh2?amp=1

Posted by: BetaCuck4Life at February 08, 2021 08:56 PM (FBrfY)

370 1983- my last year as a single woman.Married Michael the next year.
Was on the road every three weeks doing PR at department stores (remember them?) for AT&T. I loved it; I got to visit other cities and stay in nice hotels. I scored three free roundtrip flights to Hawaii for two on all the miles. I grew up in a cold flat tenement on New York City's Lower East Side. When I walked into my room at the Beverly Hills Hotel and saw the TV and the phone in the marble bathroom, the first thing I did was call my parents...from the bathroom. With the TV on.

Posted by: Dr. Vivi-Not my POTUS, FLOTUS, SCOTUS, FBI... at February 08, 2021 08:56 PM (USW1s)

371 Didn't Vanessa Williams win the Miss America pageant and then immediately had nudes released in the skin mags?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 08:59 PM (rdbLX)

372 I pretty much missed 1983.

From May to Dec I was deployed on the USS Iwo Jima, mostly off of Lebanon.

So we had a couple hours a night of sanitized TV. No new music. No internet. Only news we got was sanitized shit from Armed Forces Network, or when we could get the BBC.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 08, 2021 09:00 PM (oHd/0)

373 Oh don't get me started on the 80's. Or redheads.

Or redheads from the 80's.

Posted by: ... at February 08, 2021 09:00 PM (jBRLB)

374 371 Didn't Vanessa Williams win the Miss America pageant and then immediately had nudes released in the skin mags?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 08:59 PM (rdbLX)

She has some of the sexiest eyes I have ever seen on a woman.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 08, 2021 09:00 PM (lmikk)

375 367 OK, may have missed it, but no Beirut Lebanon stuff in the 1983 reprise?

They mentioned Grenada? WTF?
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 08, 2021 08:56 PM (oHd/0)
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Right?

I remember concrete barriers and better security at work after that.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 08, 2021 09:00 PM (Dc2NZ)

376 First console we ever had was an RCA Studio II. No controllers, just number pads. No graphics any more advanced than pong. And yet we loved it. Pretty sure my mom still has it (she's on the spectrum between packrat and hoarder)

Fairchild Channel F. Which is funny 'cause Mama Basura worked on the Atari 2600 assembly line.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at February 08, 2021 09:00 PM (SchxB)

377 I loved the '80s. 83 was a great year.

Posted by: Minuteman at February 08, 2021 09:00 PM (bnpEs)

378 373 Oh don't get me started on the 80's. Or redheads.

Or redheads from the 80's.
Posted by: ... at February 08, 2021 09:00 PM (jBRLB)

Note: he does not mention redheads IN their 80s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 08, 2021 09:00 PM (lmikk)

379 Our twins were a year old. Took my first teaching job. Drove a very used Toyota Celica. CompuServe and AOL were top dogs in online services. I had a CPM 80 pc. We all lived in a third floor two bedroom dump, it's only saving grace was it was directly across the street from a Church's Fried Chicken.

Posted by: ProfShade - Ashli Babbit report? at February 08, 2021 09:00 PM (CVPGI)

380 DEADLINE: Nielsen has unprecedented delay on Super Bowl ratings
Posted by: BetaCuck4Life at February 08, 2021 08:46 PM (FBrfY)

There must be a flood in Georgia.

Posted by: ... at February 08, 2021 09:01 PM (jBRLB)

381 Didn't Vanessa Williams win the Miss America pageant and then immediately had nudes released in the skin mags?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 08:59 PM (rdbLX)

Well, pr0nhub had not been invented, yet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2021 09:01 PM (mzC78)

382 1983- Working in Grand Junction getting ready to recall USN.

Posted by: Eromero at February 08, 2021 09:01 PM (em79L)

383 After 6 crummy years, my life began anew at 32 in 1983. I'd spent a year organizing a union, a year trying to negotiate a first contract, a year on strike, a year unemployed, 2 miserable years as p.r. head of a police union and a year at a bankrupt weekly newspaper ("Wait till Monday to cash Friday's paycheck") before landing my dream job at a daily. The only joy in those years came with the birth of my oldest daughter.
The new job saved our marriage, and we raised a beautiful family. We didn't really get out of the hole until 1990, but 1983 was the seminal year in my life.

Posted by: Outside Adjitator at February 08, 2021 09:01 PM (NvFiZ)

384 There must be a flood in Georgia.
Posted by: ...

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heh

Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 09:01 PM (U2EjU)

385 381 Didn't Vanessa Williams win the Miss America pageant and then immediately had nudes released in the skin mags?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 08:59 PM (rdbLX)

Well, pr0nhub had not been invented, yet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2021 09:01 PM (mzC7

I think they took her crown away if I'm not mistaken.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 09:02 PM (rdbLX)

386 Note: he does not mention redheads IN their 80s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 08, 2021 09:00 PM (lmikk)

There was a time when I dug mega-leftard Susan Sarandon. She's close enough.

Although I think she said something mildly unwoke early last year and no one's heard from her since.

Posted by: ... at February 08, 2021 09:02 PM (jBRLB)

387 On this day in 1983 I turned 21.

I'm pretty sure I got shit faced.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 09:02 PM (3H9h1)

388 1983. Not many memories I can tie to that year. I was a person of single-digit age.

Living in a tiny town with no theater, so even the movies don't line up... those I would have seen years later on VHS, or maybe laserdisc.

Posted by: mikeski at February 08, 2021 09:02 PM (P1f+c)

389 I think they took her crown away if I'm not mistaken.

Yep.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at February 08, 2021 09:03 PM (SchxB)

390 I think they took her crown away if I'm not mistaken.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 09:02 PM (rdbLX)

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Yep.

Wild, huh?

Fortunately, she could sing and act.

Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 09:03 PM (U2EjU)

391 I was married in '83. Still am to the same gorgeous woman.

Posted by: ilrndude at February 08, 2021 09:03 PM (QDt9e)

392 On this day in 1983 I turned 21.

I'm pretty sure I got shit faced.

Happy birthday!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at February 08, 2021 09:03 PM (SchxB)

393 374 371 Didn't Vanessa Williams win the Miss America pageant and then immediately had nudes released in the skin mags?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 08:59 PM (rdbLX)

I thought that was Serena

Posted by: REDACTED at February 08, 2021 09:03 PM (zZxh0)

394 In 83-84, we used to work all night then go to the gym and then get breakfast and sleep on the beach. Wake up, go take a shower, and show up for work to start the routine again. I lived on Coronas and carne asada burritos from Robertos.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2021 09:03 PM (5XK0y)

395
DEADLINE: Nielsen has unprecedented delay on Super Bowl ratings
Posted by: BetaCuck4Life

There must be a flood in Georgia.
Posted by: ...

The urinal floweth over.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 08, 2021 09:04 PM (63Dwl)

396 DEADLINE: Nielsen has unprecedented delay on Super Bowl ratings
Posted by: BetaCuck4Life at February 08, 2021 08:46 PM (FBrfY)

There must be a flood in Georgia.
Posted by: ...

A flood...locusts! A friend came in from out of town!

Posted by: Miklos, the neglected third Blues Brother at February 08, 2021 09:04 PM (QzkSJ)

397 Didn't Vanessa Williams win the Miss America pageant and then immediately had nudes released in the skin mags?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

The picture that went around most was called the Vanessa Blowup Doll. It was a lesbo session.

Posted by: MarkY at February 08, 2021 09:04 PM (HYQne)

398 > Didn't Vanessa Williams win the Miss America pageant and then immediately had nudes released in the skin mags?

Penthouse? IIRC

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 09:05 PM (3H9h1)

399 DEADLINE: Nielsen has unprecedented delay on Super Bowl ratings
Posted by: BetaCuck4Life at February 08, 2021 08:46 PM (FBrfY)

There must be a flood in Georgia.
Posted by: ...

A flood...locusts! A friend came in from out of town!
Posted by: Miklos
----
Go home, we're done for he night...

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 08, 2021 09:05 PM (UUBmN)

400 I hope their ratings are the worst ever. If people keep showing up to be insulted, then there's no helping people at this point.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 09:05 PM (rdbLX)

401 I thought that was Serena
Posted by: REDACTED

I wonder if she smokes dope.

Because that would be "Her Serena Highness"

Posted by: Miklos, distaff Hapsburg at February 08, 2021 09:06 PM (QzkSJ)

402 Married and had our first son

Posted by: gdoubleu at February 08, 2021 09:06 PM (lMsxO)

403 1983 I had a TI99/4a with a 13" B&W tv for monitor and a cassette tape hard drive.

Posted by: x4 at February 08, 2021 09:07 PM (oA+QO)

404 4th grade

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 08, 2021 09:07 PM (0lLZI)

405 it's interesting to learn what fellow Morons were doing in 1983. We've got a nice age range thing going on, which is nice.

Posted by: Dr. Vivi-Not my POTUS, FLOTUS, SCOTUS, FBI... at February 08, 2021 09:07 PM (USW1s)

406 I hope their ratings are the worst ever. If people keep showing up to be insulted, then there's no helping people at this point.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 09:05 PM (rdbLX)

They are going to claim 200 viewers for every little hole-in-the-wall bar that had it on one screen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2021 09:08 PM (mzC78)

407 385 381 Didn't Vanessa Williams win the Miss America pageant and then immediately had nudes released in the skin mags?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 08:59 PM (rdbLX)

The pics were from several years earlier, but ol' Bob Guccione decided to capitalize on the moment. She was not cool with it, if I recall.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 09:08 PM (vuisn)

408 https://t.co/zpxaO2sUFE?amp=1
A convoy of the US-led Coalition forces on Saturday entered Syria and headed to its bases in northeast of the country, a monitor revealed.

Citing its local activists, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that nearly 50 military vehicles and trucks carrying military and logistical equipment, entered Syria through the border crossing of al-Walid.

The convoy was relocated from the Kurdistan Region, SOHR noted, adding that it "headed to the bases of the International Coalition in the countryside of Hasakah."

According to the Britain-based monitoring group, "this is the ninth Coalition convoy to enter Syria since the beginning of 2021."

Posted by: BetaCuck4Life at February 08, 2021 09:08 PM (FBrfY)

409 378 373 Oh don't get me started on the 80's. Or redheads.
Or redheads from the 80's.
Posted by: ... at February 08, 2021 09:00 PM (jBRLB)
Note: he does not mention redheads IN their 80s.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 08, 2021 09:00 PM (lmikk)

That's because an 80nyear old red head's drapes don't match the well worn carpet.

Posted by: BifBewalski - oh my at February 08, 2021 09:09 PM (VcFUs)

410 1983 I was working in downtown Chicago at a package design studio. Caught the end of the old timers that took 1 1/2 hour lunches and had a wet bar in the studio. Each drawing board had a window next to it that sucked the smoke from your cig out. Hated the brutal deadlines but really loved downtown. All gone now.

Posted by: dartist at February 08, 2021 09:09 PM (+ya+t)

411 I wonder if she smokes dope.

Because that would be "Her Serena Highness"
Posted by: Miklos, distaff Hapsburg at February 08, 2021 09:06 PM (QzkSJ)

King Bong

Posted by: REDACTED at February 08, 2021 09:09 PM (zZxh0)

412 According to the Britain-based monitoring group, "this is the ninth Coalition convoy to enter Syria since the beginning of 2021."
Posted by: BetaCuck4Life

Need a lot of trucks to carry that much cash...

Posted by: MarkY at February 08, 2021 09:09 PM (HYQne)

413 >>On this day in 1983 I turned 21.

I'm pretty sure I got shit faced.
Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 09:02 PM (3H9h1)

Happy Birthday!

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 08, 2021 09:10 PM (CWMF2)

414 Dr, ViVi, AoS is the repository of all accumulated knowledge.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 08, 2021 09:10 PM (PLXL0)

415 403 1983 I had a TI99/4a with a 13" B&W tv for monitor and a cassette tape hard drive.
Posted by: x4 at February 08, 2021 09:07 PM (oA+QO)

---------------------------

Had one of those, too (several at one point, as some store was closing them out, so my dad got a bunch real cheap). Had the 5 1/4 drive, that was about the size of a modern midsize computer tower. Also had a speech synthesizer, so yes, we made the computer curse.

My brother used to get the computer magazines that would have pages and pages of BASIC code that you could type in, and, if you made no mistakes, you'd have a new game to play.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 09:10 PM (CAJOC)

416 Natalie Wood died and that's puts a pall on the entire year.

Esp. because of rumors about her death.

Posted by: jakee308.com at February 08, 2021 09:10 PM (aH4R4)

417 They are going to claim 200 viewers for every little hole-in-the-wall bar that had it on one screen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2021 09:08 PM (mzC7

Look there's a lot of people getting together these days. It's just a fact.

Posted by: ... at February 08, 2021 09:10 PM (jBRLB)

418 On this day in 1983 I turned 21.

I'm pretty sure I got shit faced.
Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 09:02 PM (3H9h1)

Happy. Birthday, ya baby!!

Posted by: Pres elect LA Sue at February 08, 2021 09:11 PM (Ed8Zd)

419 Hi pixy

Posted by: Hillary at February 08, 2021 09:11 PM (feuFI)

420 On this date in 1983 I was a couple months old.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 08, 2021 09:11 PM (n8BQZ)

421 Didn't Vanessa Williams win the Miss America pageant and then immediately had nudes released in the skin mags?
Posted by: AlaBAMA
She has some of the sexiest eyes I have ever seen on a woman.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

It wasn't just her appearing nude that did her in. I think the other woman getting busy with her from behind had something to do with it.

Butt I could be wrong.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 08, 2021 09:12 PM (Rvt88)

422 Married. Wife was pregnant with our second son.
Switched jobs.
Switched entire industry!
But Reagan had us pumped for the future!

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:12 PM (HYQne)

423 On this day in 1983 I turned 21.

I'm pretty sure I got shit faced.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I think I got shit faced on this day in 1983.

Pretty sure, 'cause 1983

Posted by: Oh the days of Miklosian Youth at February 08, 2021 09:12 PM (QzkSJ)

424 In 1983 I had no job, but I had a Studebaker Avanti with a four-speed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2021 09:12 PM (mzC78)

425 406; correct. And they'll add 10 or 20 more per household to allow for undocumented immigrants who live in group houses. And people who steal cable. And people who walk by a bar that has a TV visible from the sidewalk.

Posted by: Dr. Vivi-Not my POTUS, FLOTUS, SCOTUS, FBI... at February 08, 2021 09:12 PM (USW1s)

426 >On this day in 1983 I turned 21.

I'm pretty sure I got shit faced.
Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 09:02 PM (3H9h1)

Happy Birthday, fellow Aquarian. Mine was yesterday.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 08, 2021 09:12 PM (0lLZI)

427 Monty Python Meaning of Life was definitely 1983. Saw it twice that year.

Posted by: Rex B at February 08, 2021 09:13 PM (feuFI)

428 On this day in 1983 I turned 21.

I'm pretty sure I got shit faced.
Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 09:02 PM (3H9h1)

---

I turned 21 in late 1989.

Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 09:13 PM (U2EjU)

429 In 1983 I was moving from Anchorage, Alaska to Boston, Massachusetts. No company assistance, did it all ourselves. Ended up using the US mail to send 84 boxes of our belongings to my parents place where we picked them up once we were settled. Got out of Alaska exactly 7 days before the oil boom turned into the oil bust and everything collapsed economically up there.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at February 08, 2021 09:13 PM (K/vUT)

430 In 1983, Plugs McFingerSniffer voted to tax social security.

Cause, asshole.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 09:13 PM (rdbLX)

431 Natalie Wood died and that's puts a pall on the entire year.

Esp. because of rumors about her death.
Posted by: jakee308.com

I heard she didn't have a shower on the boat.

But why?

Posted by: Oh the days of Miklosian 1983 jokes at February 08, 2021 09:14 PM (QzkSJ)

432 In '83, MTV didnt have commercials. Or shows. Just videos.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2021 09:14 PM (5XK0y)

433 On this day in 1983 I turned 21.

I'm pretty sure I got shit faced.

I was 38. Shut up.

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 08, 2021 09:14 PM (nxdel)

434 I was 14 in 1983. Just some kid living in Pennsyltucky.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 08, 2021 09:15 PM (M0Ul9)

435 424 In 1983 I had no job, but I had a Studebaker Avanti with a four-speed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2021 09:12 PM (mzC7

One of those autos that are loved or hated, vehemently.

Me, I think they're sharp!

Posted by: browndog at February 08, 2021 09:15 PM (BgMrQ)

436 Super Bowl LIV had the highest ratings EVAR!

If you don't believe us you're a Domestic Violent Extremist!!!

Posted by: Nielsen at February 08, 2021 09:15 PM (TK8Ry)

437 And there were a dozen people at the SB party, we even watched some of the game, between beers, food, and catching up stories. So I guess there's a dozen more "viewers" for you, Nielsen.

But that halftime show?
What a waste of time.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 08, 2021 09:15 PM (sy5kK)

438 Natalie Wood died and that's puts a pall on the entire year.

What kind of wood don't float?
That was a 1983 joke...

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:15 PM (HYQne)

439 Keep those convoys rolling into Syria. Boy, if we could get into a hot little war there, we might even kill a few Rooskies, and that cushy job I have lined up with Raytheon should be good for a hiring bonus.

Posted by: Paper clip counting Maj General in the Pentagon cheap seats at February 08, 2021 09:15 PM (I58tH)

440 Natalie Wood died and that's puts a pall on the entire year.

Esp. because of rumors about her death.
Posted by: jakee308.com

Robert Wagner didn't ever convince me nothing nefarious was going on there.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 08, 2021 09:15 PM (Rvt88)

441 Thanks for all the fish.... er B-day wishes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 09:15 PM (3H9h1)

442 Chris Bing @Bing_Chris
5h
According to a press conference today: Hackers broke into a water treatment facility in Florida, gained access to a internal ICS platform, changed chemical levels, making the water unsafe to consume

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 08, 2021 09:15 PM (jOcSX)

443 I turned 21 in 1966 when I was 15

by 1983, I was an old man

worn fucking out

Posted by: REDACTED at February 08, 2021 09:16 PM (zZxh0)

444 In 1983 I had no job, but I had a Studebaker Avanti with a four-speed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Well, that was some hot shit, right there.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....Outlaw in America at February 08, 2021 09:16 PM (tjZg/)

445 Never mind I can't do math to save my fucking soul.

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 08, 2021 09:16 PM (nxdel)

446 On Wednesday I hit 55.

In 1983 I was a junior in high school. Had good friends, but I always hated school. Passionately.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at February 08, 2021 09:16 PM (x8Wzq)

447 Had a sort of a thing with a Serene Highness once. Guess it was former, she got the title through a marriage to a European guy she'd divorced a few years prior. She was fairly serene, but a bit kooky.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 08, 2021 09:17 PM (OTzUX)

448 In 1983 I had no job, but I had a Studebaker Avanti with a four-speed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2021 09:12 PM (mzC7

One of those autos that are loved or hated, vehemently.

Me, I think they're sharp!
Posted by: browndog at February 08, 2021 09:15 PM (BgMrQ)

I agree.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 09:17 PM (y7DUB)

449 Ahhh the year of Mishdogs birth. A truly glorious year.

Posted by: Mishdog at February 08, 2021 09:17 PM (2+xtq)

450 What's the only wood that doesn't float?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, yukking it up in `83 at February 08, 2021 09:17 PM (sy5kK)

451 High school senior in 83

Posted by: RJD at February 08, 2021 09:17 PM (ucNdt)

452 433 On this day in 1983 I turned 21.

I'm pretty sure I got shit faced.

I was 38. Shut up.
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 08, 2021 09:14 PM (nxdel

Gets out calculator...

Carry the seven...divide by two...multiply by pi...

You're 29?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 09:17 PM (rdbLX)

453 Graduated high school in 1983.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at February 08, 2021 09:17 PM (qDSku)

454 > 433 On this day in 1983 I turned 21.
I'm pretty sure I got shit faced.

I was 38. Shut up.

But did you get shit faced?

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 09:17 PM (3H9h1)

455 was it a halftime show? or a half talent show?

I watched a Dr. Pol marathon instead. Yes, I preferred watching veterinarians stick their arms up to their elbows in cow's assholes rather than the Stupor Bowl.

Posted by: Dr. Vivi-Not my POTUS, FLOTUS, SCOTUS, FBI... at February 08, 2021 09:17 PM (USW1s)

456 I remember Streaking being more of a 70s phenomenon.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 08, 2021 09:18 PM (3aLWR)

457 YouTube suggested this to me: Tales from the Far Side II:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsLY5RNL3is

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 08, 2021 09:18 PM (Dc2NZ)

458 1983. I think my parents got me a Commodore 64 that year. A pretty solid PC if I recall.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 08, 2021 09:18 PM (M0Ul9)

459 In 1983 I had no job, but I had a Studebaker Avanti with a four-speed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The car was perfect, other than some minor stains on the back seat.

Posted by: Miklosian Guessifications LLC at February 08, 2021 09:18 PM (QzkSJ)

460 What's the only wood that doesn't float?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, yukking it up in `83

Do try to keep up!
Heh

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:18 PM (HYQne)

461 I remember Streaking being more of a 70s phenomenon.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

It was big spring of '74.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 08, 2021 09:18 PM (Rvt88)

462 1983? I was in fourth grade I think. Life was kinda shit.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:18 PM (nakwk)

463 We killed a lot of Rooskies in Syria under Trump, and rightly so (dumbasses ignored repeated clear warnings, and F'dAFO). Shootin' war has been ongoing, we're not doing much of the shootin', and won't be.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 08, 2021 09:19 PM (OTzUX)

464 Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 09:17 PM (rdbLX)

I told you I suck at math dammit!! And yes I was actually 29. My youngest daughter was born in 1984 and I was 30.

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 08, 2021 09:20 PM (nxdel)

465 Well, I was working and had a job and shit like that in 1983. Had a crummy two bedroom apartment that I lived in and commuted downtown to work for Roxanne Pharmaceuticals.
Roxanne....
You don't have to turn on the redlight
Roxanne...
You don't have to sell your body to the night.

Christ on a cracker, when did I get so old?

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....Outlaw in America at February 08, 2021 09:20 PM (tjZg/)

466 What's the only wood that doesn't float?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, yukking it up in `83 at February 08, 2021 09:17 PM (sy5kK)

Balsa?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 08, 2021 09:20 PM (0lLZI)

467 Philly just logged in its 7th homicide of the day.

Seven.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:20 PM (bkUtD)

468 466 What's the only wood that doesn't float?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, yukking it up in `83 at February 08, 2021 09:17 PM (sy5kK)

Balsa?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 08, 2021 09:20 PM (0lLZI)

Morning.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:20 PM (nakwk)

469 I remember Streaking being more of a 70s phenomenon.

Yup. Jewell will enjoy this. A fellow named John was the first streaker in Lee's Summit, Mo. 1975.
We may or may not have been related.
Pool Hall to the Dairy Queen. Don't think either are there anymore.

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:20 PM (HYQne)

470 Great new video just dropped showcasing a list of "100 films to see for their cinematography"

It's really well put together and hard to turn off once you start it:

tinyurl.com/2ytsbezl

Posted by: ... at February 08, 2021 09:21 PM (jBRLB)

471 460 What's the only wood that doesn't float?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, yukking it up in `83

Do try to keep up!
Heh
Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:18 PM (HYQne)

I missed your post, sorry, was watching that reel of '83 TV show hits. Or lack thereof.
When the big hits were Webster and Scarecrow and Mrs Miller, it was a sad year indeed.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, yukking it up in `83 at February 08, 2021 09:21 PM (sy5kK)

472 464 Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 09:17 PM (rdbLX)

I told you I suck at math dammit!! And yes I was actually 29. My youngest daughter was born in 1984 and I was 30.
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 08, 2021 09:20 PM (nxdel

Is it weird that I guessed how old you were better than you?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 09:21 PM (rdbLX)

473 But did you get shit faced?

I don't remember so.. yes.

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 08, 2021 09:21 PM (nxdel)

474 83 I had a chevy nova with 8 track highway call

Posted by: vizzy at February 08, 2021 09:22 PM (R/9t3)

475 Wyatt - does anyone in Phila, anyone, actually care about any of this, other than those directly affected? Or is it just a microcosm of the country - things worsening in every way, and nobody ever, ever pushes back or even shows any dissatisfaction?

Posted by: rhomboid at February 08, 2021 09:22 PM (OTzUX)

476 Philly just logged in its 7th homicide of the day.

Seven.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:20 PM (bkUt

Over-achievers!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2021 09:22 PM (mzC78)

477
Philly just logged in its 7th homicide of the day.

Seven.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:20 PM (bkUtD)

_________

And this is the quiet season, right?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 08, 2021 09:22 PM (mht8P)

478 Is it weird that I guessed how old you were better than you?

Yes, that's actually really weird.

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 08, 2021 09:22 PM (nxdel)

479 On this day in 1983 I turned 21.

I'm pretty sure I got shit faced.
Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 09:02 PM (3H9h1)

---

I was barely 24.

Posted by: Pres elect LA Sue at February 08, 2021 09:22 PM (Ed8Zd)

480 467 Philly just logged in its 7th homicide of the day.

Seven.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:20 PM (bkUtD)

And Phillie still has 2 and a half hours to go!

Do I smell a record Monday????

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, yukking it up in `83 at February 08, 2021 09:22 PM (sy5kK)

481 According to a press conference today: Hackers broke into a water treatment facility in Florida, gained access to a internal ICS platform, changed chemical levels, making the water unsafe to consume

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 08, 2021 09:15 PM (jOcSX)

Wow. I swear I thought this was going to say:

According to a press conference today: Hackers broke into a water treatment facility in Florida, gained access to a internal ICS platform, changed chemical levels, and delayed the ratings for the Sucker Bowl.

Posted by: ... at February 08, 2021 09:22 PM (jBRLB)

482 Philly just logged in its 7th homicide of the day.

Seven.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL

Yay! We've opened our borders and the Drug Cartels are here. Little did I know, there were 20 shootings in Columbus over the weekend. Don't know how many were killed.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....Outlaw in America at February 08, 2021 09:23 PM (tjZg/)

483 Damn. '74. Tonypete was right, of course.
Everyone was doing it.

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:23 PM (HYQne)

484 And this is the quiet season, right?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 08, 2021 09:22 PM (mht8P)

Wabbit season.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:23 PM (nakwk)

485 433 On this day in 1983 I turned 21.

I'm pretty sure I got shit faced.

I was 38. Shut up.
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 08, 2021 09:14 PM (nxdel)

Darling--you were 28.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at February 08, 2021 09:23 PM (TdMsT)

486 "You'll NEVER need more than 640K of RAM!!!"

40MB of hard drive is over kill man. ... That was my family advisor on my first computer in ~1991. It still is pretty amazing how much could fit on 40MB ... all the excel files one could imagine ... now 40mb is three or four decent jpgs.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 08, 2021 09:23 PM (Cus5s)

487 I had the spectrum of experience in the 80s. From virginal Catholic school girl to a little less uppity college kid. By the end of the 80s I was tending bar in downtown seattle and witnessing the arrival of grunge.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 08, 2021 09:23 PM (U2p+3)

488 484 And this is the quiet season, right?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 08, 2021 09:22 PM (mht8P)

Wabbit season.
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:23 PM (nakwk)

-------------------

Duck season.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 09:23 PM (CAJOC)

489 460 What's the only wood that doesn't float?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, yukking it up in `83

lignum Vitae

Posted by: REDACTED at February 08, 2021 09:23 PM (zZxh0)

490 And they'll add 10 or 20 more per household to allow for undocumented immigrants who live in group houses. And people who steal cable. And people who walk by a bar that has a TV visible from the sidewalk.

Posted by: Dr. Vivi-Not my POTUS, FLOTUS, SCOTUS, FBI... at February 08, 2021 09:12 PM (USW1s)

They will "estimate" the tens of millions of "streamers" and add that in.

Posted by: ... at February 08, 2021 09:24 PM (jBRLB)

491 Well, TBH... we're all 29 or younger. Or celebrating an anniversary of being 29.

YMMV

I can say I've lived through some very interesting times. I don't plan on checking out soon (*says quick prayer) and look forward to taking on the leftists with wit, intelligence and superior firepower.

Mostly firepower.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 09:24 PM (3H9h1)

492 Dawg, it's rare I'm on the same hour as most discussions, so don't take it to heart. Just had to gloat. Not willowed for once.

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:24 PM (HYQne)

493 474 83 I had a chevy nova with 8 track highway call
Posted by: vizzy at February 08, 2021 09:22 PM (R/9t3)

In 1980 I had a Plymouth Roadrunner with strips, stick shift and nothing but muscle under the hood. In '83 I had a new daughter and a Mazda GLC. Amazing how fast things changed.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at February 08, 2021 09:24 PM (K/vUT)

494 In 1983 I was n-n-n-n nineteen!
Oh, and Paul H-H-H-H Hardcastle did that Nineteen song 2 years later.

Posted by: Rex B at February 08, 2021 09:24 PM (feuFI)

495 478 Is it weird that I guessed how old you were better than you?

Yes, that's actually really weird.
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 08, 2021 09:22 PM (nxdel)

Lol. I was just riffing on the we're all 29 joke.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 09:25 PM (rdbLX)

496 Duck season.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 09:23 PM (CAJOC)

And if you hear gunfire in Philly, you had damn well better, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2021 09:25 PM (mzC78)

497 Personnel at CA's super-dooper high tech C19 testing lab video'd ..... sleeping, watching videos on their phones. Test samples found in rest rooms.

Is there a single thing happening that doesn't confirm a near free-fall of the US into has-been, corrupt, degraded status?

Posted by: rhomboid at February 08, 2021 09:25 PM (OTzUX)

498 475 Wyatt - does anyone in Phila, anyone, actually care about any of this, other than those directly affected? Or is it just a microcosm of the country - things worsening in every way, and nobody ever, ever pushes back or even shows any dissatisfaction?
Posted by: rhomboid at February 08, 2021 09:22 PM (OTzUX)

Oh great, rhomboid, getting all introspective and analytical on us.

Here's a Saturday Night Special and a Moltov cocktail - join the fun!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, looking for some Philadelphia Freedom at February 08, 2021 09:25 PM (sy5kK)

499 By the end of the 80s I was tending bar in downtown seattle and witnessing the arrival of grunge.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Kid, they got shots for that now.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....Outlaw in America at February 08, 2021 09:25 PM (tjZg/)

500 In 1983 I had no job, but I had a Studebaker Avanti with a four-speed.

I had a job but I also had a 76 Vega GT. Sold it and bought a motorcycle when i got to Pendleton.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2021 09:25 PM (5XK0y)

501 Philly just logged in its 7th homicide of the day.

Seems like it's getting worse all over and no one in gov't seems to care.

Posted by: dartist at February 08, 2021 09:25 PM (+ya+t)

502 Nurse R.
I bet it was at Doc Maynards.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 08, 2021 09:25 PM (axyOa)

503 Now do 1987 or 1990....

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 08, 2021 09:26 PM (UUBmN)

504 Loved BK back in the early 80s. Existed on their classic chicken sandwiches and iced tea when I wasnt eating onboard ship (Navy days), they used to be great. How all these franchises (McD, Wendy's, etc) screwed up basic, well-established food is stunningly stupid. Always trying to keep up with what they think is more healthy "demand". Nope.

Posted by: Cringe Biscuit at February 08, 2021 09:26 PM (1p6AI)

505 486 "You'll NEVER need more than 640K of RAM!!!"

40MB of hard drive is over kill man. ... That was my family advisor on my first computer in ~1991. It still is pretty amazing how much could fit on 40MB ... all the excel files one could imagine ... now 40mb is three or four decent jpgs.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 08, 2021 09:23 PM (Cus5s)

--------------------

I had a 286 with a 40 mb hard drive. Came with 1 MB of ram, expandable to 4. I bought a 2400 baud modem. Plugged into the wall, as in the modem itself was one big wall-wart.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 09:26 PM (CAJOC)

506 492 Dawg, it's rare I'm on the same hour as most discussions, so don't take it to heart. Just had to gloat. Not willowed for once.
Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:24 PM (HYQne)

Heh.
Somedays around here, my middle name is Willow.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, looking for some Philadelphia Freedom at February 08, 2021 09:27 PM (sy5kK)

507 502 Nurse R.
I bet it was at Doc Maynards.
Posted by: Diogenes

The Old Timers and the J&M

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 08, 2021 09:27 PM (U2p+3)

508 Now do 1987 or 1990....
Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 08, 2021 09:26 PM (UUBmN)

---

Oh yeah, 1987.

I was eighteen and looking forward to "adultin".

Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 09:27 PM (U2EjU)

509
Personnel at CA's super-dooper high tech C19 testing lab video'd ..... sleeping, watching videos on their phones. Test samples found in rest rooms.

__________

Know what will solve this? Higher taxes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 08, 2021 09:27 PM (mht8P)

510 lignum Vitae
Posted by: REDACTED at February 08, 2021 09:23 PM (zZxh0)

I have a nice chunk of that stuff, a section of log about 2 feet long and eight inches in diameter. Been in the family for circa a hundred years.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2021 09:27 PM (mzC78)

511 461 I remember Streaking being more of a 70s phenomenon.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

It was big spring of '74.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 08, 2021 09:18 PM (Rvt8

Most people ran, slightly embarrassed.

A classmate in college strolled...yes strolled through the cafeteria buck naked, blowing a whistle. And yes, it was freshman year '74.

Outstanding sense of self!

Posted by: browndog at February 08, 2021 09:27 PM (BgMrQ)

512 *throws Molotov cocktail*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 08, 2021 09:28 PM (0lLZI)

513 The Trash-80 100's had a built-in modem, which was cool in the age of BBS's.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 09:28 PM (vuisn)

514 508: Same here.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (M0Ul9)

515 Do the orderlies at Shady Acres know y'all are up past bedtime?

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (nakwk)

516 The Old Timers and the J&M
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 08, 2021 09:27 PM (U2p+3)

Awww
Never made it to that one.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (axyOa)

517 499 By the end of the 80s I was tending bar in downtown seattle and witnessing the arrival of grunge.

Posted by: nurse ratched

......

I nearly joined you.

I was headed for Western Culinary Institute in Portland in 1991 until my financing fell through.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (6EOYF)

518 lol Insom

Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (U2EjU)

519 512 *throws Molotov cocktail*
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 08, 2021 09:28 PM (0lLZI

Great. Now there is gin everywhere.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (rdbLX)

520 504 Loved BK back in the early 80s. Existed on their classic chicken sandwiches and iced tea when I wasnt eating onboard ship (Navy days), they used to be great. How all these franchises (McD, Wendy's, etc) screwed up basic, well-established food is stunningly stupid. Always trying to keep up with what they think is more healthy "demand". Nope.
Posted by: Cringe Biscuit at February 08, 2021 09:26 PM (1p6AI)

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Back when I was in college, I used to walk to KFC every weekend. It got to the point where the workers noticed if I missed a week. They had the best chicken sandwich and fries. The fries were like McD's fries, but battered.

Now it all sucks.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (CAJOC)

521 Not now, nurse -- Matlock's on!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (Dc2NZ)

522 >>>Wyatt - does anyone in Phila, anyone, actually care about any of this, other than those directly affected? Or is it just a microcosm of the country - things worsening in every way, and nobody ever, ever pushes back or even shows any dissatisfaction?
Posted by: rhomboid

A little of both. I've been on the job for 26 years and I do not remember a day where we had seven homicides in one day. And we still have three hours left.

And yes, this is the quiet season - streets still have snow on them - and they are still shooting each other.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:30 PM (bkUtD)

523 1983. I was a junior in college.
I had a huge crush on Kristy McNichol.
My childhood dog died at 15.
I saw The Police in concert. The Fixx opened for them.
My Orioles won the World Series.
I took my first trip to NYC. It was a big, dirty place. It got much nicer during my next trips in the 90,s when Giuliani ran the place.

Posted by: Mike at February 08, 2021 09:30 PM (HN3GS)

524 Do the orderlies at Shady Acres know y'all are up past bedtime?
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman

Nah, they're smoking reefer in the dining room

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:30 PM (HYQne)

525 Not now, nurse -- Matlock's on!
Posted by: All Hail Eris

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Golden Girls FTW!

Posted by: SMH at February 08, 2021 09:30 PM (U2EjU)

526 I also had a 77 aqua blue camaro with black louvers
which were stolen at live aid rfk stadium

Posted by: vizzy at February 08, 2021 09:30 PM (R/9t3)

527 515 Do the orderlies at Shady Acres know y'all are up past bedtime?
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (nakwk)

LOLGF, Insom!

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at February 08, 2021 09:30 PM (TdMsT)

528 I had a 286 with a 40 mb hard drive. Came with 1 MB of ram, expandable to 4. I bought a 2400 baud modem. Plugged into the wall, as in the modem itself was one big wall-wart.
Posted by: No One of Consequence

In the late '70s, when the IBM engineer brought in an additional 1MB of internal storage for the S/370, he walked down the hallway like he was bringing a magnificent gift to the King of the realm. It was about the size of a shoebox and we mere peasants stood aside, bowed and averted our gaze.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 08, 2021 09:30 PM (Rvt88)

529 A classmate in college strolled...yes strolled through the cafeteria buck naked, blowing a whistle. And yes, it was freshman year '74.

Outstanding sense of self!
Posted by: browndog

Hmmmm.....1974. Yeah, I was a freshman in college that fall. So many high hopes crushed into little bitty pieces.
Never streaked, though. That was weird, streaking that is.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....Outlaw in America at February 08, 2021 09:30 PM (tjZg/)

530 I think 2020 had the record increase in homicides in history, since detailed stats have been kept. That, or close to all-time record increase. Note that violent crime and homicides have been in a long decline up until last year.

I'm sure mass releases of dangerous criminal convicts, and wholesale mau-mauing and handcuffing of police, along with open incitement of mob violence, had nothing to do with it.

But America seems pretty good with it.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 08, 2021 09:30 PM (OTzUX)

531 AlaBAMA.. I know but I really was 29! lol!

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 08, 2021 09:31 PM (nxdel)

532 527 515 Do the orderlies at Shady Acres know y'all are up past bedtime?
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (nakwk)

LOLGF, Insom!
Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at February 08, 2021 09:30 PM (TdMsT)

Laugh out loud, good friend!

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:32 PM (nakwk)

533 502 Nurse R.
I bet it was at Doc Maynards.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 08, 2021 09:25 PM (axyOa)

Little Bunny Fru Fru.

In a Cabin in the Woods.

I was usually in the balcony.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 08, 2021 09:32 PM (sy5kK)

534 497 Personnel at CA's super-dooper high tech C19 testing lab video'd ..... sleeping, watching videos on their phones. Test samples found in rest rooms.

Is there a single thing happening that doesn't confirm a near free-fall of the US into has-been, corrupt, degraded status?

At work, the supervisor was strutting around saying "Help is on the Way!" in regards to Corona Virus. You see, we now have real Leadership in the WH and the Dems run Capitol Hill. He's a Dem Cultist. It's fascinating to watch a fairly smart guy believe what he does. Self delusion is powerful.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 08, 2021 09:32 PM (M0Ul9)

535 >>>Seems like it's getting worse all over and no one in gov't seems to care.
Posted by: dartist

Correct. Neither the city, the politicians or the department could dare less.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:32 PM (bkUtD)

536 >>515 Do the orderlies at Shady Acres know y'all are up past bedtime?
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (nakwk)

Yes. They're about to hand out the onions for our belts.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 08, 2021 09:32 PM (CWMF2)

537 Now do 1987 or 1990....

Oh God my head hurts.

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 08, 2021 09:32 PM (nxdel)

538
Back when I was in college, I used to walk to KFC every weekend. It got to the point where the workers noticed if I missed a week. They had the best chicken sandwich and fries. The fries were like McD's fries, but battered.

Now it all sucks.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (CAJOC)

____________

KFC is a model of what happens when a revered brand built up by someone falls in the hands of some soulless conglomerate that only cares about meeting analyst expectations for the next quarter.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 08, 2021 09:32 PM (mht8P)

539 Hmmmm.....1974. Yeah, I was a freshman in college that fall. So many high hopes crushed into little bitty pieces.
Never streaked, though. That was weird, streaking that is.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....Outlaw in America at February 08, 2021 09:30 PM (tjZg/)

High hopes getting crushed to little bitty pieces is pretty ordinary.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:32 PM (nakwk)

540 531 AlaBAMA.. I know but I really was 29! lol!
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 08, 2021 09:31 PM (nxdel

Fortuitous turn of events. My favorite kind.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 09:32 PM (rdbLX)

541 515 Do the orderlies at Shady Acres know y'all are up past bedtime?
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (nakwk)

Our lawn.

Posted by: BifBewalski - get hence at February 08, 2021 09:32 PM (VcFUs)

542 I remember Streaking being more of a 70s phenomenon.

Posted by: G'rump928(c)

It was big spring of '74.
Yup. I was in the cafeteria, which had a full glass wall overlooking a dorm about 200 yards away. As I was starting to eat, out poured a group of guys in Nixon masks who ran between the buildings, into the cafeteria, and out.

The cafeteria ladies were not amused.

Posted by: pep at February 08, 2021 09:32 PM (v16oJ)

543 Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman

BTW, has anyone mentioned we don't like you walking on the FRIGGIN lawn?

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:33 PM (HYQne)

544 Philly just logged in its 7th homicide of the day.

Seems like it's getting worse all over and no one in gov't seems to care.
Posted by: dartist at February 08,

Perfect setting for the emergence of new God Fathers.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 08, 2021 09:33 PM (axyOa)

545 Day late and a Bif short...

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:34 PM (HYQne)

546 Laugh out loud, good friend!
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:32 PM (nakwk)

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at February 08, 2021 09:34 PM (TdMsT)

547 >>>Yay! We've opened our borders and the Drug Cartels are here. Little did I know, there were 20 shootings in Columbus over the weekend. Don't know how many were killed.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.

Philly approached 2,000 shootings last year. They may have gone over. My division had the most shootings in 2020, but think we were second in murders.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:34 PM (bkUtD)

548
And yes, this is the quiet season - streets still have snow on them - and they are still shooting each other.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:30 PM (bkUtD)

_________

I'm sure your hard-nosed DA will be prosecuting these criminals with vigor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 08, 2021 09:34 PM (mht8P)

549 Philly approached 2,000 shootings last year. They may have gone over. My division had the most shootings in 2020, but think we were second in murders.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL

Open up the range for public practice?

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:35 PM (HYQne)

550 What's the only wood that doesn't float?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, yukking it up in `83 at \\

Morning.
Posted by: Insomniac

You People.

Posted by: Miklosian Gratifications SA de CV at February 08, 2021 09:35 PM (QzkSJ)

551 Yup. I was in the cafeteria, which had a full glass wall overlooking a dorm about 200 yards away. As I was starting to eat, out poured a group of guys in Nixon masks who ran between the buildings, into the cafeteria, and out.

The cafeteria ladies were not amused.
Posted by: pep at February 08, 2021 09:32 PM (v16oJ)
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Yates? Dupont?

Posted by: bluebell at February 08, 2021 09:35 PM (/669Q)

552 Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:30 PM (bkUtD)

The snow shoveling shooting was Philly all the way. The couple basically dared the guy to shoot them. It's like they were in Veterans Stadium heckling the refs.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at February 08, 2021 09:35 PM (2DOZq)

553 >>>'m sure your hard-nosed DA will be prosecuting these criminals with vigor.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! We can't even get an hour's overtime to continue an investigation. When the shift is over, we have to pass it off.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:36 PM (bkUtD)

554 545 Day late and a Bif short...
Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:34 PM (HYQne)

Just as long as I'm not late for dinner.

Posted by: BifBewalski - stuck in second gear at February 08, 2021 09:36 PM (VcFUs)

555 But America seems pretty good with it.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 08, 2021 09:30 PM (OTzUX)

If it's any consolation don't forget there's no one to tell us what America likes and doesn't like anymore.

And they delete anyone who even comes close to the wrong side of the *first* rail.

Posted by: ... at February 08, 2021 09:36 PM (jBRLB)

556 OK. Gotta get back to work for awhile. Trying to climb out of a pretty big hole. (Cue the Sandra Fluke/I'll drive us out of here jokes)

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:36 PM (nakwk)

557
Hmmmm.....1974. Yeah, I was a freshman in college that fall. So many high hopes crushed into little bitty pieces.

________

*fistbump*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 08, 2021 09:36 PM (mht8P)

558 Philly just logged in its 7th homicide of the day.

Seven.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:20 PM (bkUt

Wow. That's a lot of new Dem voters, and they'll vote for the next 100 years.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 08, 2021 09:36 PM (F0YaR)

559 I've heard old UGA alumni reminisce about (supposedly) the world's biggest streak across Sanford Bridge through north campus in 1974.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 09:36 PM (vuisn)

560 >>> 538
.....
KFC is a model of what happens when a revered brand built up by someone falls in the hands of some soulless conglomerate that only cares about meeting analyst expectations for the next quarter.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 08, 2021 09:32 PM (mht8P)

I wonder how these "analysts" really come up with their expectations. I'm sure I can find articles on the intertubes describing how they *say* they do it, but I'm thinking chicken entrails or such like.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 08, 2021 09:37 PM (TK8Ry)

561 >>>The snow shoveling shooting was Philly all the way. The couple basically dared the guy to shoot them.

This isn't the 80;s where people would fistfight and go on their merry way. EVERYTHING is settle by gunfire anymore, which is why we had 499* homicides last year.

*We actually logged 504, but whatever.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:37 PM (bkUtD)

562 Houston's shootings and murders are out of control. Definitely need more police and less Dems running things.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at February 08, 2021 09:37 PM (2DOZq)

563 Biden needs massive crime spike to justify his new crime bill and gun seizures.

The more crime the better.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 08, 2021 09:37 PM (rdbLX)

564 Had a '72 4-door Dodge Coronet ugly green exterior with uglier green interior my dad drove from MI to San Diego for my graduation from bootcamp - just turned 18. He spent the first two days complaining about the tickets he got along the way from the noise of the cherry bomb "mufflers" I installed before leaving for CA. Whoops - sorry dad.

Posted by: Cringe Biscuit at February 08, 2021 09:37 PM (1p6AI)

565 early 80s, I was coming out of my decade of "spiritual awareness" where I shut out a lot of "the world" and concentrated on saving the world, or at least becoming "spiritually awakened" or some such. In some ways it is good to ignore the world .. but it makes more sense to be spiritual sure, but that means being in tune with the evils of the world. ... Like we the "Truly Awake" here at AoS are ... aware, but not deceived ... we know what BS the Woke frauds spew, but are not partakers. or something ...

Posted by: illiniwek at February 08, 2021 09:37 PM (Cus5s)

566 Day late and a Bif short...
Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:34 PM (HYQne)

Just as long as I'm not late for dinner.
Posted by: BifBewalski - stuck in second gear at February 08, 2021 09:36 PM (VcFUs)

But you are now the official HQs Special Weapons Officer.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 08, 2021 09:37 PM (axyOa)

567 Yup. I was in the cafeteria, which had a full glass wall overlooking a dorm about 200 yards away. As I was starting to eat, out poured a group of guys in Nixon masks who ran between the buildings, into the cafeteria, and out.

The cafeteria ladies were not amused.

They probably voted for McGovern.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at February 08, 2021 09:38 PM (SchxB)

568 Wyatt,
Why am I not surprised about Philly?

Posted by: Mpfs, Downtrodden Piglet From Animal Farm at February 08, 2021 09:38 PM (79p/O)

569 I'm sure I can find articles on the intertubes describing how they *say* they do it, but I'm thinking chicken entrails or such like.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 08, 2021 09:37 PM (TK8Ry)

Well in all fairness that seems appropriate for KFC.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at February 08, 2021 09:38 PM (K/vUT)

570 Tampa mayor sorta in revolt against DeSantis, idiotically says poh-leece will track down maskless fans from Stupor Bowl celebration.

Unbelievable.

Anyway, I think DeSantis specifically denied local govts. authority to pull delusional North Korean crap like this.

Maybe a smack-down on the way. DeSantis is good, but about 400 of him, and a different national population, might be needed for real improvement.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 08, 2021 09:38 PM (OTzUX)

571
Philly approached 2,000 shootings last year. They may have gone over. My division had the most shootings in 2020, but think we were second in murders.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:34 PM (bkUtD)

At this point you can only laugh or cry. Philadelphia, the Chicago of the eastern time zone. Or is that Baltimore?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 08, 2021 09:38 PM (sy5kK)

572 >>>Wyatt,
Why am I not surprised about Philly?
Posted by: Mpfs, Downtrodden Piglet From Animal Farm

The city is dying, literally and figuratively. It gives me no pleasure to say that because of all the history here. The Founders would be appalled.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:39 PM (bkUtD)

573 333 I remember when you had to put a command in the autoexec.bat file so on bootup, it loaded the app that allowed actually USING the upper RAM registers. Then you could load programs in expanded memory.

Ahhhh, the good ole' days.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 08, 2021 08:40 PM (Zz0t1)

EMM386.

I can *almost* still do all that shit.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at February 08, 2021 09:39 PM (fpng3)

574 I wonder how these "analysts" really come up with their expectations. I'm sure I can find articles on the intertubes describing how they *say* they do it, but I'm thinking chicken entrails or such like.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

No chickens were harmed in the making up of these prognostications.

Posted by: Miklos, Ethical Haruspex/Analyst at February 08, 2021 09:39 PM (QzkSJ)

575
But you are now the official HQs Special Weapons Officer.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 08, 2021 09:37 PM (axyOa)

Just as long as Lieutenant Cupcake is pulling duty with.

Posted by: BifBewalski - looks longingly at the limited area at February 08, 2021 09:40 PM (VcFUs)

576 I became a father for the first time 01/05/1983.

That year was a bit of a strain.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 08, 2021 09:40 PM (3aLWR)

577 The cafeteria ladies were not amused.
Posted by: pep

But we were aroused.

Posted by: The cafeteria ladies at February 08, 2021 09:40 PM (P1f+c)

578 Do the orderlies at Shady Acres know y'all are up past bedtime?

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (nakwk)

That's a terrible thing to say.

Posted by: ... at February 08, 2021 09:40 PM (jBRLB)

579 >>>At this point you can only laugh or cry. Philadelphia, the Chicago of the eastern time zone. Or is that Baltimore?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

Baltimore is bad, but Philly is larger. I stopped caring about the homicides years ago. It only bothers me when some innocent person gets caught up in the turf wars.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:40 PM (bkUtD)

580 I hear ya Wyatt.
It's a damn shame. I used to go to Philly all the time when I was young. Remember the concerts at the Spectrum?

Posted by: Mpfs, Downtrodden Piglet From Animal Farm at February 08, 2021 09:41 PM (79p/O)

581 Tampa mayor sorta in revolt against DeSantis, idiotically says poh-leece will track down maskless fans from Stupor Bowl celebration.
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But not illegals, murderers, rapists, pedos.....

Posted by: ... at February 08, 2021 09:41 PM (jBRLB)

582 >>>It's a damn shame. I used to go to Philly all the time when I was young. Remember the concerts at the Spectrum?
Posted by: Mpfs, Downtrodden Piglet From Animal Farm

Saw so many concerts there. Good times. My kids love the Art Museum, but there is so much trash always walking around.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp: F The NFL at February 08, 2021 09:42 PM (bkUtD)

583 Welcome to Iramexizuela

fornia

Posted by: ... at February 08, 2021 09:42 PM (jBRLB)

584 I saw the same thing happen to Haagen-Dazs ice cream. It was a family owned business and they really cared about the product - I did PR for the brand when the Mattus family owned it. Then Pillsbury bought it...and eventually the quality declined.

Posted by: Dr. Vivi-Not my POTUS, FLOTUS, SCOTUS, FBI... at February 08, 2021 09:42 PM (USW1s)

585 574 I wonder how these "analysts" really come up with their expectations. I'm sure I can find articles on the intertubes describing how they *say* they do it, but I'm thinking chicken entrails or such like.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

No chickens were harmed in the making up of these prognostications.
Posted by: Miklos, Ethical Haruspex/Analyst at February 08, 2021 09:39 PM (QzkSJ)

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These days, I'm not convinced any chickens are harmed in the making of anything KFC is serving.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 09:43 PM (CAJOC)

586 Philly approached 2,000 shootings last year. They may have gone over. My
division had the most shootings in 2020, but think we were second in
murders.
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I wonder what they'll do when you guys retire or get out when you can without replacements. National Guard? I don't think social workers will last too long.

Posted by: dartist at February 08, 2021 09:43 PM (+ya+t)

587 The inside of that 3-story heart was graffitied as far back as the 70's -- would hate to see it now.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 09:43 PM (vuisn)

588 I saw so many concerts there even though I'm 2 hours north. The Who, Boston, The Band, Peter Frampton, Genesis, etc. Smoked a lot of weed too!

Posted by: Mpfs, Downtrodden Piglet From Animal Farm at February 08, 2021 09:43 PM (79p/O)

589 I just got an alert from the DoD telling me not to report to work tomorrow because of inclement weather until 0900hrs.

I've been retired since last June.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 08, 2021 09:43 PM (3H9h1)

590 The Fresh Prince had to move away from Philly because of gang violence. That was 1990.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at February 08, 2021 09:44 PM (2DOZq)

591 We joke about the march through the campi by the commies, but we tend to ignore the Food Science majors.
Where the heck did all the fast food joints get the idea that everything had to have sugar in it?
Can't buy a Sonic fried anything without it being too sweet!
Sweet tea? Give you diabetes at most fast food joints. Read labels of sausage. Dextrose? Why?

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:44 PM (HYQne)

592 578 Do the orderlies at Shady Acres know y'all are up past bedtime?

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (nakwk)

That's a terrible thing to say.
Posted by: ... at February 08, 2021 09:40 PM (jBRLB)

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It's not like they'll remember it in the morning.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 09:45 PM (CAJOC)

593 MkY,
This is why I still cook and bake at home.

Posted by: Mpfs, Downtrodden Piglet From Animal Farm at February 08, 2021 09:45 PM (79p/O)

594 Some confusion in Mexico, over policy changing on accepting migrants back from US while their ridiculous "asylum" claims are adjudicated. Mexico City says no change, but one state - Chihuaha probably, as the worst situation is in El Paso - might have changed policy on its own.

All kind of academic, with the collapse of governance in the US, er, I mean, the historic "election". And Mexico is going to suffer from this, not gain - an orderly and effective border hurts the cartels and helps the govt. (yes the distinction can be without a difference sometimes, but generally still true).

Posted by: rhomboid at February 08, 2021 09:45 PM (OTzUX)

595 KFC is a model of what happens when a revered brand built up by someone falls in the hands of some soulless conglomerate that only cares about meeting analyst expectations for the next quarter.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 08, 2021 09:32 PM (mht8P)

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Same thing happened to Scientology.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 08, 2021 09:45 PM (fLVm1)

596 U of Mich has its "naked mile" event every year (at least up to '95 year I last attended). Sanctioned streaking sounded fun but turned out be odd. So many streakers that at certain points, the bottleneck in and out of the libraries had you standing there next to fully clothed onlooking friends and other acquaintances feeling I'm, chilly.

Posted by: Cringe Biscuit at February 08, 2021 09:45 PM (1p6AI)

597 I wonder what they'll do when you guys retire or get out when you can without replacements. National Guard? I don't think social workers will last too long.
Posted by: dartist at February 08, 2021 09:43 PM (+ya+t)

The "Escape from New York" solution. First Rollerball this AM, now this. Why are all the dystopian movies of my youth becoming current events?

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at February 08, 2021 09:45 PM (K/vUT)

598 589 I just got an alert from the DoD telling me not to report to work tomorrow because of inclement weather until 0900hrs.

I've been retired since last June.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Just going to be rain here in Babylon on the Potomac.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 08, 2021 09:45 PM (M0Ul9)

599 the two nice things about the snow in NYC is that it hides the garbage on the street and it prevents the nightly demonstrations (with drumbeats and chanting) outside Gracie Mansion every night around 7:30.

Posted by: Dr. Vivi-Not my POTUS, FLOTUS, SCOTUS, FBI... at February 08, 2021 09:46 PM (USW1s)

600 Mpfs, Downtrodden Piglet From Animal Farm

We "make meat" at home now too.

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:46 PM (HYQne)

601 with chrome spoked wheels and good year tires

Posted by: vizzy at February 08, 2021 09:46 PM (R/9t3)

602 597 I wonder what they'll do when you guys retire or get out when you can without replacements. National Guard? I don't think social workers will last too long.
Posted by: dartist at February 08, 2021 09:43 PM (+ya+t)

The "Escape from New York" solution. First Rollerball this AM, now this. Why are all the dystopian movies of my youth becoming current events?
Posted by: moon_over_vermont

All the Dystopian books are coming to pass to.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 08, 2021 09:47 PM (M0Ul9)

603 >>584 I saw the same thing happen to Haagen-Dazs ice cream. It was a family owned business and they really cared about the product - I did PR for the brand when the Mattus family owned it. Then Pillsbury bought it...and eventually the quality declined.
Posted by: Dr. Vivi-Not my POTUS, FLOTUS, SCOTUS, FBI... at February 08, 2021 09:42 PM (USW1s)

In 1983 I was working at "The Haag" outside of ATL.
Lot of celebs would come in -- Dr. Ruth, Isaac Hayes, various Falcons.
Do you remember that weird Mattus "slide show" that franchisees were forced to watch?
"Me and Reuben..."

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 08, 2021 09:47 PM (vuisn)

604 Same thing happened to Scientology.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Jeez. I'm still laughing.

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:47 PM (HYQne)

605 nurse ratched,

Seattle is a cool town, especially during that 3 week period in the summer when the big orange ball in the sky comes out and burns away the slate grey.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 08, 2021 09:47 PM (wpBwb)

606 FFS even the Arbor Day Foundation is woke-signaling now... they have a Statement about sumdood's (presumably their founder) RAYCISS remarks.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 08, 2021 09:48 PM (TK8Ry)

607 U of Mich has its "naked mile" event every year (at least up to '95 year I last attended). Sanctioned streaking sounded fun but turned out be odd.

Hmm

In Hungary, the students of the Technical University push a railway car from one end of the country to the other.

Small country, but still

Posted by: Miklos, seeing differences at February 08, 2021 09:48 PM (QzkSJ)

608 Even my GP is trying to go off the grid. He won't be able to totally do it but he is trying his best. That says something.

Posted by: Mpfs, Downtrodden Piglet From Animal Farm at February 08, 2021 09:49 PM (79p/O)

609 Arbor Day Foundation

All seriousness aside... that org. has been on the real arborists shit-list for about 10-12 years.
"Any organization that is not conservative in it's...."

They actually killed the world's largest American chestnut on the estate of J. Sterling Morton to save a few bucks running a new water line.

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:50 PM (HYQne)

610 Just as long as Lieutenant Cupcake is pulling duty with.
Posted by: BifBewalski - looks longingly at the limited area at February 08, 2021 09:40 PM

Something will get pulled.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 08, 2021 09:50 PM (axyOa)

611 Philly approached 2,000 shootings last year. They may have gone over. My division had the most shootings in 2020, but think we were second in murders.

.....

I had no idea there were that many white supremacists in Philadelphia.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 08, 2021 09:52 PM (6U5M6)

612 In Hungary, the students of the Technical University push a railway car from one end of the country to the other.

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They know about locomotives, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 08, 2021 09:52 PM (fLVm1)

613 I had no idea there were that many white supremacists in Philadelphia.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Who can't hit their target...

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:52 PM (HYQne)

614 609 Arbor Day Foundation

All seriousness aside... that org. has been on the real arborists shit-list for about 10-12 years.
"Any organization that is not conservative in it's...."

They actually killed the world's largest American chestnut on the estate of J. Sterling Morton to save a few bucks running a new water line.
Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:50 PM (HYQne)

Da Fuq???

Burn those shits on the downfall from that Chestnut...

That is just stone cold stupid!

Posted by: browndog at February 08, 2021 09:53 PM (BgMrQ)

615 592 578 Do the orderlies at Shady Acres know y'all are up past bedtime?

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 08, 2021 09:29 PM (nakwk)

That's a terrible thing to say.
Posted by: ... at February 08, 2021 09:40 PM (jBRLB)

It's not like they'll remember it in the morning.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 09:45 PM (CAJOC)

Not even 7 oclock here yet.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 08, 2021 09:53 PM (oHd/0)

616
Yates? Dupont?
Pritchard. I can't remember the name of the cafeteria. I transferred after that year.

Posted by: pep at February 08, 2021 09:53 PM (v16oJ)

617 I had no idea there were that many white supremacists in Philadelphia.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

The bombing starts in five minutes.

Get a MOVE on

Posted by: Mayor Wilson Goode at February 08, 2021 09:53 PM (QzkSJ)

618 The way I see it, I might be last over here, but maybe I can get in line for 1st upstairs...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 08, 2021 09:53 PM (PoqRU)

619 browndog
The Nebraska Forest Service (yeah, I know) even severed all relations with them. Used to be THE go-to place for national meetings for tree related anything.

Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:55 PM (HYQne)

620 617

Golf clap.

Posted by: Mpfs, Downtrodden Piglet From Animal Farm at February 08, 2021 09:56 PM (79p/O)

621 ccording to a press conference today: Hackers broke into a water
treatment facility in Florida, gained access to a internal ICS platform,
changed chemical levels, making the water unsafe to consume.

We fucked up so we're blaming the hackers

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 08, 2021 09:56 PM (h1jJh)

622 Pritchard. I can't remember the name of the cafeteria. I transferred after that year.
Posted by: pep at February 08, 2021 09:53 PM (v16oJ)
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At that time I think there was only one cafeteria. I'm trying to remember Pritchard. I'm not succeeding. I always lived on Old Campus.

Posted by: bluebell at February 08, 2021 09:57 PM (/669Q)

623 615

It's not like they'll remember it in the morning.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 09:45 PM (CAJOC)

Not even 7 oclock here yet.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 08, 2021 09:53 PM (oHd/0)

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So dinner was three hours ago, and they should be getting ready to turn in.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 08, 2021 10:00 PM (CAJOC)

624 619 browndog
The Nebraska Forest Service (yeah, I know) even severed all relations with them. Used to be THE go-to place for national meetings for tree related anything.
Posted by: MkY at February 08, 2021 09:55 PM (HYQne)

I'm still shaking my head over the brazenness...

Posted by: browndog at February 08, 2021 10:00 PM (BgMrQ)

625 In Hungary, the students of the Technical University push a railway car from one end of the country to the other.

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They know about locomotives, right?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 08, 2021 09:52 PM (fLVm1)

Final project.

Posted by: runner at February 08, 2021 10:23 PM (zr5Kq)

626 >>I had no idea there were that many white supremacists in Philadelphia.

The City of Brotherly Love, Indeed.

Posted by: garrett at February 08, 2021 10:23 PM (UqCz5)

627 1983: back when Michael Jackson was still black.

I think it was also the being of the fall of civilization based on some of these music videos - no wonder I listened to country music!

Posted by: Deplorably Bonnie Blue says TRUMP WON at February 08, 2021 10:52 PM (BNMel)

628 Barkeep!
Another round over here.
No, no, don't worry, that's just Miklos.
He gets like that sometimes.
He'll be alright in a little while...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 09, 2021 12:52 AM (PoqRU)

629 OMG, but "journalism" was possibly more pathetic in 1983 than it is today. We just didn't realize it!!!

Posted by: deadrody at February 09, 2021 08:58 AM (V9901)

630 Also, Andrew McCarthy and Elizabeth Shue playing teenage Burger King workers were 21 and 20 years old. She would star in Karate Kid a year later and he would be part of the St Elmos Fire cast two years later.

Posted by: deadrody at February 09, 2021 09:01 AM (V9901)

631 They filmed Brainstorm on the Duke campus while I was there, I got a glimpse of Natalie Wood from afar when she was getting lunch at the chuckwagon or whatever you call it.

Posted by: Daniel McGurn at February 09, 2021 07:45 PM (F5SI2)

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