Stop Dissing the Eighties

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What’s wrong with the 80′s? Everyone makes remarks about the 1980′s, and those remarks either poke fun at the big hair decade or scorn the “greed is good” mentality many had, but, hey! I loved the Eighties.

What Happened in the Eighties

That decade brought us the rise of romance novels, the first Star Wars movies, Alf on TV, the collapse of communism, the birth of the home computer, some of the best music ever (Cyndi Lauper, Hall & Oates, Springsteen, Don Henley, Wham! Blondie, The Cars, Aerosmith–just to name a few), the end of the cold war, Hill Street Blues, Cheers, Cagney and Lacey, MacGuyver, Family Ties, The Weather Channel, CNN, and my kids! *g*

Just think of some of those wonderful songs: Tainted Love by Soft Cell, In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins, Funkytown by Lipps Inc., Billie Jean by Michael Jackson, Love Shack by the B52s, Straight Up by Paula Abdul.

Movies of the Eighties

The 80′s was a great decade for movies: Indiana Jones, Ferris Bueller, Die Hard, The Terminator, Aliens, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, Back to the Future, The Princess Bride, Bill and Ted, Vacation, Caddyshack.

So far, the new millennium has been more perilous than fun. So let’s give the decade of the 80′s a big fat kiss because it was a heck of a lot of fun!

What was your 80′s experience like?

Takeaway Truth

Wishing you lots of fun, happiness, and prosperity in the year coming at us like a rocket ship on rails.