# If you survived the 80's... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-survived-the-80s/744404 "2016-01-27T19:48:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-survived-the-80s/744404/21 "2016-01-30T23:59:44Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Yeah, the linked vid is pretty much a cavalcade of everything terrible in the 80’s. Folks, if it’s in that song, I’d avoid it if I were you. Fightin’ words! That song mentions ALF!!! I graduated college in 1980, and spent the decade enjoying my new-found disposable income and complete lack of responsibility. I \ the Eighties!! ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-survived-the-80s/744404/22 "2016-01-31T00:04:19Z")
By the bye, if you enjoyed the song in the OP, here is another version of it, dedicated to Barney Fife… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/k5KikCieJlw/hqdefault.jpg "We Love Barney Fife") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5KikCieJlw) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-survived-the-80s/744404/23 "2016-01-31T00:04:32Z")
That video is grody! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-survived-the-80s/744404/24 "2016-01-31T17:22:17Z")
Incidentally, Lite-Brite and the Chipmunks go back far earlier than the 1980s, though the latter may spark 1980s memories because of the _Alvin and the Chipmunks_ cartoon, 1983-90. It was not the first such adaptation. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-survived-the-80s/744404/25 "2016-01-31T17:24:12Z")
[quote=“Tim\_R.Mortiss, post:22, topic:744404”] By the bye, if you enjoyed the song in the OP, here is another version of it, dedicated to Barney Fife… [/QUOTE] That was pretty cute. Sound could use some improvement but a long time Barney fan I approve of that message. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-survived-the-80s/744404/26 "2016-02-01T05:14:35Z")
Who was in the 80’s from who one needed surviving, Madonna? Michael Milken? ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-survived-the-80s/744404/27 "2016-02-01T18:16:28Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > No, no, you got it wrong. The 80s were an embarrassment, the 00s were a bland empty decade. The 90s were MY teenage years, and therefore the best. > 🙂 Sorry, but I was a teenager in the 90s and spent the whole decade cursing my luck. The 80’s were clearly superior to the 90s. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-survived-the-80s/744404/28 "2016-02-01T18:19:14Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > Who was in the 80’s from who one needed surviving, Madonna? Michael Milken? Are you the guy at the party who hears a joke about Ben Franklin and Obama and has to point out to everyone that the two didn’t live at the same time? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-survived-the-80s/744404/29 "2016-02-01T18:43:20Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Yeah, the linked vid is pretty much a cavalcade of everything terrible in the 80’s. Folks, if it’s in that song, I’d avoid it if I were you. You dissing PeeWee? Them’s fighting words! Everything else in the video - yeah - pretty much crap. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-survived-the-80s/744404/30 "2016-02-01T23:36:13Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Are you the guy at the party who hears a joke about Ben Franklin and Obama and has to point out to everyone that the two didn’t live at the same time? Didn’t they? :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-survived-the-80s/744404.md?page=1)