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80’s Flashback—A Look at the Decade of the X Generation. By: Mr. Kingsbury. Top News Stories of the 80’s. You Know You Grew Up In The 80's If... 1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE". 2. You watched the Pound Puppies.
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80’s Flashback—A Look at the Decade of the X Generation By: Mr. Kingsbury
Top News Stories of the 80’s You Know You Grew Up In The 80's If... 1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE". 2. You watched the Pound Puppies. 3. You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Belair " ...and can do the "Carlton". 4. Girls wore biker shorts under their skirts and felt stylishly sexy. 5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own. 6. You owned those lil' Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls. 7. "WOAH " comes from Joey on Blossom.8. Two words: Hammer Pants. 10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars... and "spokey-dokes" or playing cards on your spokes for that incredible sound effect. 15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
Drug Abuse—Just Say No Memories and Markers of the 80’s Pegged Jeans, leg warmers, fluorescent colors and big hair The Rubik’s Cube The Microwave The Desktop Computer MTV, Break Dancing, Michael Jackson and Heavy Metal Valley Girls (Talk), Madonna, Cindy Lauper and the emergance of the Independent Woman
Citations Picture of Leg Warmers on Page 2--http://www.dees-fancydress.co.uk/catalog/images/leg-warmers.jpg Information on Fads of the 80’s Page 2--www.davesdaily.com/funpages/grewup1980s_01-05.htm Picture of Rubik’s Cube Page 3--http://youthcounselling.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/rubiks-cube.jpg Picture of TRS Computer Page 3--http://www.earlyxer.com/Content/At-School/School-Equipment/Other.aspx