Important Administrative Announcement!

[loverlyviolets]

Anyone who doesn't remember the 80's is GROUNDED.

Go to your rooms.

And? You're not allowed to play with my Dukes of Hazzard Wrist Racer.

Comments

[livingasheth.livejournal.com]

Or, um... what about those of us who were graduating from college in the 80's...

I remember 'em, but I sure wasn't paying all that much attention to that stuff.

[thatsamilkshake]

High school class of '91! You're not that much older than me, missy.

But I am not in fact allowed to ground you.

[livingasheth.livejournal.com]

High school class of '83...

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

*tiny voice* My mum is class of '81.

[livingasheth.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm old enough to be your mother. Oh, it's frightening how many people here I could say that about! ;)

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

If it's any help, my SO is sitting here listening to me read comments from this post out loud and saying "Damn you kids! Get off my lawn!" and talking about childhood memories of buying vinyl 45s.

[livingasheth.livejournal.com]

Exactly! First record - yes, vinyl - I bought was a 45 of David Soul singing "Don't Give Up on Us, Baby."

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

SO says "OMG I remember that!"

[livingasheth.livejournal.com]

I can't remember the B-side, though. Wait... might have been either Bird on a Wire or Black Bea Soup.

[livingasheth.livejournal.com]

Bean, Black Bean Soup

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

I'm half waiting for someone to go "Oh, so that's why they called them B-sides?"

And then I will cry.

[livingasheth.livejournal.com]

Me too!

Or for someone to say, 'what's a 45?'

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Nah, 45s were still around in the eighties. I had a Fisher Price record player.

[livingasheth.livejournal.com]

Yes, but are you not grounding a whole bunch of people who don't know the 80's? ;)

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

THEY DON'T COUNT. THEY ARE DEAD TO ME.

[livingasheth.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

I'm IMing someone who's never owned a vinyl record.

[saveyoulater.livejournal.com]

The tan and orange kind? I had one! I stole it back from my brother when I was trying to be an indie kid in high school.

[needsaparrot]

I had 45's! Hell, I learned to read (or at least memorize what various words looked like) from a Wizard of Oz Read-Along Book on 45.

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

I miss the little plastic adapter thingie for the turntable spindle now.