Also, Roseanne Barr looks better now, and maybe even younger, than she did in 1985. That’s very strange. And it doesn’t really look like much plastic surgery, either. Just weight loss and a makeover. Maybe a little tuck around her eyes.
I’m nearly done digitizing 45-8mm films. It’s a box full. They will take up about 1/4 (if that) of a SanDisk that is smaller than a quarter and costs a few bucks. And I can make copies and send them to relatives and they can all play them on their computer when every they want.
Late to the thread, and have not read very far, so forgive if this has already been rehashed to death, but the single craziest concept I might have proposed in 1985 is that the Cold War will be won, Russia will embrace a capitalist structure, and what will emerge from that is an authoritarian system that is even worse and even more dangerous to the U.S. on Stalin’s craziest day.
Blatantly stolen from Brian Fitzpatrick on Mastadon.
The 1985 film Goonies, rated PG and starring Academy Award winner Ke Huy Quan, spends over a minute on a joke about Michelangelo’s David’s genitals.
However in 2023 a middle school principal was fired because a picture of the statue (an undisputed masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture) was shown in an art class.
Truly crazy.
I haven’t been following the thread recently, so apologies if this has been used before. I will periodically say, “Yahoo”, neither sarcastically nor joyously.
In the future no one will remember that Bubble Memories was ever a thing. In 1985 it was a leading edge technology.
You want to say something that would really make you sound like a lunatic in 1985?
“The year is not 1985.”
Maybe the person uses a weird calendar, as some religious groups do?
So, for example, the Jewish or Islamic calendars are ‘weird’ but the Christian calendar isn’t?
They are all weird. I meant that term ironically and in the lightest possible way.
It’s not just religious groups. I was recently learning about coins from various countries and learned that a lot of countries put non-Gregorian dates on their currency. Iran, Thailand, and Japan were a free I learned about, but I’m sure there are many others
I think we should go back to the Revolutionary calendar used briefly in France two centuries ago. Who cares if it only had 360 days so lacked sync. When you think about it, the idea of dividing time up in arbitrary ways is already pretty strange, as is having days named for long forgotten deities. Lousy Smarch weather!
At least one Revolutionary month name persists in relatively common use - the “Thermidor” in “Lobster Thermidor” refers to the month of Thermidor (a summer month obviously)
I just plugged in the toilet, so give it a minute to boot up.
Discourse keeps re-formatting what I type, it’s really annoying.
Poppycock. “Blizzard of Oz” went platinum in 1980. EVERYBODY knew “Crazy Train” and “Mr. Crowley”. He had something like five more platinum albums in the 80’s. The talk shows were all laser focused on “Suicide Solution” and later on his on-stage antics with the live animals.
Don’t touch – Willie
In my 60s I will be a chick magnet.
That would have gotten a good laugh in 1985.
“Hey, you know that irritating comedian that plays that space alien in that nit-wit show spun off from that other nit-wit show where the high school kids are really in their 30s? Name’s Robert Willi-something? Get this: he’ll have a successful movie career, win an Oscar for Best Actor, have a string of critically acclaimed and/or commercially lucrative films under his belt, everybody will love him and when he’s reached the pinnacle, he’ll commit suicide! And no one is really sure why.”