# Say something that is true to a person in 1985 that will make you sound like a crazy person **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 20, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283 "2022-07-20T20:59:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/81 "2022-07-21T05:41:28Z")
> [@Bayarea4](#): > > Al Franken was elected to the U.S. Senate. They’re living in a time where Ronald Reagan was president, so hardly a surprise. And George Murphy was a senator - listen to Tom Lehrer. Mine is that many people on the street are walking around talking to themselves, and it is perfectly normal. When I was a messenger in New York in 1969 I saw people do this all the time, but they were all meshuggah. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/82 "2022-07-21T05:49:09Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > At best they’d probably get that “show” referred to some kind of TV show, and “Squid Game” is its title. “Oh! Is it a remake of _Jaws_ only it can grab you?” > [@susan](#): > > Dr. Who is also female. _007_ is also female. And black. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/83 "2022-07-21T05:57:22Z")
The President of the United States is an out of touch old man with possible dementia. The Democrats have control of the Presidency, Congress and the Senate and are still completely incapable of effectively governing. The Republican Party is against poor people and minorities. ---
**Author:** ![Esprise\_Me](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprise_me/32/2947_2.png) [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/84 "2022-07-21T06:10:34Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > We had a Black president. > > We have a Black, Asian _female_ vice-president. I was only a toddler in 1985, but had I been sentient, I would have been deeply disappointed at how long it took and is taking. I guess my thing to say might be “yeah, still no woman presidents.” ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/85 "2022-07-21T06:45:28Z")
The Berlin Wall will come down and the Soviet Union will fall. In most places in the U.S. you can walk around with a gun and it’s not illegal. The speed limit is as high as 85. That geeky guy on the HBO Young Comedians Show will have the greatest television sitcom in history. We know who Deep Throat was, but not who was on the grassy knoll or what happened to D.B. Cooper. Jimmy Carter still lives. Star Wars isn’t going away. Ever! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/86 "2022-07-21T07:20:09Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > The President of the United States is an out of touch old man with possible dementia. You think someone in 1985 would think that sounds crazy? ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/87 "2022-07-21T07:31:29Z")
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**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/88 "2022-07-21T07:39:59Z")
The 45th President of the U.S. has had three wives, cheated on each with the one before and paid off a porn star and a Playboy model to cover up his affairs with them. He’s been accused of sexual assault by numerous women and boasted that women let him grab them by the pussy. This man is now practically worshiped by tens of millions of Christians who want him to be president again. You might have heard of him - Donald Trump. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/89 "2022-07-21T08:06:16Z")
There are more guns in the U.S. than people. And mass shootings are a near-daily event. Pro football players are chastised for making homophobic remarks. There are people with penises who are not male, and people with vaginas who are not female. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/90 "2022-07-21T08:15:41Z")
People routinely walk around department stores and supermarkets with handguns prominently displayed. On some occasions, they will also carry rifles. Law enforcement is generally okay with this. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/91 "2022-07-21T08:53:50Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > Miller is owned by the English Naah, that one is back to [American(/Canadian)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molson_Coors) control. Before then, it was owned by [the South Africans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABMiller), not the English (despite where the HQ was). ---
**Author:** ![CardboardBoxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardboardboxx/32/7079_2.png) [@CardboardBoxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CardboardBoxx)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/92 "2022-07-21T08:57:19Z")
Is that a bird, is it a plane, no it’s a WHOOOSH ---
**Author:** ![CardboardBoxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardboardboxx/32/7079_2.png) [@CardboardBoxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CardboardBoxx)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/93 "2022-07-21T09:01:30Z")
The national winner of an NCAA division 1 women’s event is a genetic male. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/94 "2022-07-21T09:14:30Z")
Turns out William Bruce Jenner, the “world’s greatest athlete” (one of several, anyway), is a woman. She will feature as a Playgirl cover model. And she marries into a family best known for enormous secondary sexual attributes which has and spends too much money both in real life and on TV. Now let me tell about this thing called GoogleMaps, it’s quite interesting: look… ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/95 "2022-07-21T09:21:24Z")
Sure, CDs might seem like the future right now, but in a few decades everyone’s gonna be buying records again. Also, pro wrestling is fake, but we’re gonna make a version of it that’s real, but the fake version will still be more popular. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/96 "2022-07-21T11:36:59Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > They’re living in a time where Ronald Reagan was president, so hardly a surprise. And George Murphy was a senator - listen to Tom Lehrer. How about: Sonny Bono gets elected to the House and later dies in a skiing accident? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/97 "2022-07-21T11:46:28Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > How about: Sonny Bono gets elected to the House and later dies in a skiing accident? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zyuFnL5JcEw/maxresdefault.jpg "Simpsons - 23 Year Coma/Sonny & Cher Gag") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyuFnL5JcEw) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/98 "2022-07-21T11:52:12Z")
There are devices in cars and that everyone carries around that you can tell where you want to go. In a matter of seconds it will produce a map for you, written directions and will tell you when you need to turn. You can see a street view picture of any house or business from many angles. You can also see an overhead view. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/99 "2022-07-21T12:39:58Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > When people hear the name Cyndi Lauper, they think of psoriasis.” Wait…what? As nobody else has commented, apparently I’ve missed something pop cultural. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283/100 "2022-07-21T12:43:29Z")
She’s a spokesperson for a drug company making a psoriasis medication and has appeared in their TV ad(s). > **[Novartis, Cyndi Lauper shine a light on psoriasis challenges in the workplace](https://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/four-years-and-counting-novartis-cosentyx-for-psoriasis-and-spokescelebrity-cyndi-lauper)** > > Singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper first joined Novartis’ Cosentyx team as a spokesperson more than four years ago, and the two are still churning out initiatives. | Singer songwriter Cyndi Lauper first joined Novartis’ Cosentyx team as a spokesperson... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-that-is-true-to-a-person-in-1985-that-will-make-you-sound-like-a-crazy-person/968283.md?page=6)