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.
“Oh! Is it a remake of Jaws only it can grab you?”
007 is also female. And black.
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.
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.”
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!
You think someone in 1985 would think that sounds crazy?
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.
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.
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.
Naah, that one is back to American(/Canadian) control.
Before then, it was owned by the South Africans, not the English (despite where the HQ was).
Is that a bird, is it a plane, no it’s a WHOOOSH
The national winner of an NCAA division 1 women’s event is a genetic male.
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…
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.
How about: Sonny Bono gets elected to the House and later dies in a skiing accident?
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.
Wait…what? As nobody else has commented, apparently I’ve missed something pop cultural.
She’s a spokesperson for a drug company making a psoriasis medication and has appeared in their TV ad(s).