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I was working part time in a five and dime. My boss was Mr. Magee. He was six foot four and full of muscles and walked like an Egyptian, but I was happy to be stuck with him. One manic Monday, while I was busy working for the weekend, I overheard him make a careless whisper.



He told two of my co-workers, Jack and Diane, that I gave love a bad name.  Well, I got so emotional, baby. I told him to say say say what he wants, but don't play games with my affection. He told me it was hard for him to say he's sorry and not to worry, to be happy. Then he blamed it on the rain. He was so out of touch. It just took my breath away. I couldn't fight this feeling any longer. I asked him "What's love got to do with it?" He told me to get outta his store and his dreams and into my car.



So I figured I might as well jump. I cut footloose, went home and called my girl, Jenny. (You already know the number) She was on the other line with Amanda. They were talking about Mickey and how he was so fine. That blew my mind! Was she really going out with him? I told her that I had just called to say I love her. She told me she had been saving all her love for me, but now she was looking for a new love - hasta la vista, baby. I thought "I can't go for that - no can do! Bring me a higher love!" I called up some of my old west end girls, hoping that one of them would want to get physical all night long (all night). First I called Billie Jean - she told me to beat it. I called Rosanna - her sister Christian blessed the rains down in Africa and then hung up on me. Come on, Eileen! . no answer. Nobody told me there'd be days like these! I was feeling like the owner of a lonely heart.



Then, out of the blue, my best friend's girlfriend (she used to be mine) Roxanne calls. Yes, the real Roxanne. She told me she still hadn't found what she's looking for and that she wanted to take on me. I said "I thought you were Jessie's girl." She said "Don't you want me? You don't have to put on the red light- I'm on my own." What a feeling! I had the eye of the tiger. Who was I f-f-f-foolin? Roxanne drove me crazy like no one else. She's a beauty! She blinded me with science and weird science at that. There was always something there to remind me of her and I just knew that I'd have the time of my life.



I wasn't about to la-di-da-di. I jumped in my little red Corvette and rocked down to Electric Avenue. I got my mind set on her. When I got to her house (in the middle of her street) I ran. I rapped on her front door and to this rapper's delight, I heard a voice say "Who can it be now?" "Here I am, the one that you love", I replied. I let my love open the door and was immediately lost in her eyes. I felt like a virgin touched for the very first time. Well, I felt it was my prerogative to bust a move. I told her "I'll tumble for ya!" as I pinned her on the stairs, hungry like the wolf.



Just then I felt an invisible touch on my shoulder. "Turn around bright eyes!" said a familiar voice. As I did, Jessie hit me with a sledgehammer of an uppercut that spun me right round like a record. He was hangin' tough and continued to roll with it, knocking the wind from beneath my wings - broken wings by this time. He rocked me tonight, for old time's sake, beating me from head to toe, until my true colors were black and blue and blood was spilling from my mouth like red, red wine. "You don't owe me money for nothing!" he snarled. At this point I was livin' on a prayer. I crawled back to my little red Corvette and drove home thinking about how my tainted love had cut like a knife - how it seems that every rose, truly, has its thorn.



No longer do I want to know what love is. Love stinks.

LM*O .......... thanks for the trip down memory lane!  



*SIGH* Too bad my kids have no clue why I'm laughing so hard.

but after I first read this, had ALL of the songs running through my head all day!!!

I have to agree with Winkie (again! this is becoming a trend).  It's the only story I've read that includes a medley in my head!  I want my MTV! (my money for nothin' and my chicks for free)

Radar, this is getting very Twilight Zone!!!

     

 

 

Errr . . . Wink?  What's really in that coffee mug your carrying around?



Where's my Rasberry Beret? You know, like the ones you find in a Secondhand Store?



WhiteSatin        

  Actually, WS, today it's green tea - feeling very ill...



as for the rest of the time, I'm not telling!  

Some time ago I received an e-mail titled something like "You know you grew up in the 80's if..."  It was pretty funny.  



What do you remember about the 80's?

TV shows like: Family Ties, Cosby, Cheers

Big hair - hair jel

acid washed denim

pink t-shirt with white blazer and 3 days of beard growth

punk rock and new wave

safety pins

Cyndi Lauper "Girls just wanna have fun"

Madonna "Like a Virgin", "Desperately Seeking Susan"

underwear as outerwear

Romancing the Stone

Back to the Future

slam dancing

the Fauklands War (all this about sheep?)

Yahoo Serious

Crocodile Dundee (the first time)

Men at Work - from a land down under!

Corey Hart - I wear my sunglasses at night

and...

 . . .

* jelly shoes

* plastic bracelets all up the arm

* Debbie Gibson & Tiffany

* sweatshirts with the sleeves cut off and the neckline off the shoulder

* headbands

* LEGWARMERS!!!

* boomboxes carried on the shoulder (I actually did that)

* breakdancing on cardboard taped to cement driveways

* The Dukes of Hazzard

* Love Boat

* Fantasy Island



and . . .

...Rubik's cube

Madonna-wanna-bees

Sid and Nancy

Deely-boppers

ET phone home

Mad Max, Mad Max II, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome



and...

Star Wars

Return of the Jedi

You took mine Winkie with Dukes of Hazzard (but worth mentioning again)

Secret of My Success

Back to the Future 1&2



and......



 

Bueler .... Bueler .... Bueler

Freddy

Jason

Adventures in Babysitting

"Brains .. brains"

needing a pliers to zip my jeans

the Goody comb in the back pocket

the moonwalk and a single glove



and......

 

Peter Gabriel

 

...

Molly Ringwald

Judd Nelson

Emilio Estevez

Anthony Michael Hall

Ally Sheedy

Yes, it's  The Breakfast Club!



Oooh - almost forgot one:

The Two Coreys!  Haim & Feldman!

 

John Schnieder (Bo Duke)

Randy Travis (Late 80's)

Dallas

Dynasty

(never watched either but my husband was a Dallas addict when I met him!)

Shoulder pads

Dirty Dancing

The artist formerly known as Prince

Chakakahn (sp?)

Sade

Sinead O'Connor

Mystic Pizza

Ah, yes. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who gets that "Good Old Days" feeling when I think of the '80s.



I had the big teased hair style. I wore the plastic bracelets up the arm, the jelly shoes, the tight jeans (had to lay down on the bed to get them on), the shoulder pads, the blazers with T-shirts and jeans, the Madonna hair tie. I still have my Rubic's cube.



Until recently, when I watched the VH1 Behind the Music on Cindy Lauper, I didn't know that "She Bop" was about self pleasuring (to put it nicely). I hope my mom didn't know what it was about because I used to play that song all the time!

<I didn't know that "She Bop" was about self pleasuring (to put it nicely). >



Uhhh...  it is????!!!  Hope my mom didn't know it either!  Now I'm going to have to find it and listen to it with a new perspective!

All I want back is Miami Vice!  Don Johnson still looks good to me!!  Those Phil Collins' songs always bring back memories.....  Remember that song, Electric Blue?  I can't remember who sang it, but I loved that song!



OfficeDuchess (I wanna dance!!) in VA



 

"Psu, Psu, Psudeo!"



BTW, Phil Collins made that word up. It's not an actual word. He just thought it sounded good. And it did sound cool. It used to drive me nuts that I did not know what that word meant. Now I'm relieved to know that I didn't have to know because it doesn't exist. He made the whole thing up. Now that's talent!

"Electric Blue" is by Ice House (Australian) and the lead singer was Iva Davies.  I LOVED that song.  And, tada!  I still, on my left arm, am wearing the FIRST black rubber gasket that I used as a bracelet, when I was 13 years old.  This is 15 years old, as it is, and has NEVER come off my arm, not once since I put it on!  I'm rather proud of that.  As for those song, I must have either replaced my 7" singles (does anyone remember Tote 45?) with either CD's or mp3s from Napster and I have almost ALL of those songs in my possession!

officedutches,



I'll have to agree with you on Don Johnson, I think he looks much better now than he did younger, just me.



Yank,



I remember those 45's I still have a bunch of those at home at my parents house.  Do they still make turntables to play them on?



Good thing I have lots of tapes.



Chris68

When you mentioned Electric Blue, I automatically thought of the Debbie Gibson song by the same name - I'm a pop-chic when it comes to 80s music.  Then of course, I turned to the hair bands - gimme Poison, Warrant, Damn Yankees, Slaughter, Europe, Def Leppard, Firehouse, and all the rest before any other 80s music these days.

If you ever watched the "She-Bop" video, you would have known...



Still have all my old tapes in the basement.  The other day my son was listening to Huey Lewis and the News - "It's Hip to Be Square".  BTW Sesame Street uses that song for a lesson on shapes!

Officeduchess - You're a woman after my own heart!  I still love Don Johnson too - watch Miami Vice re-runs on TNN all the time (and occasionally Dukes of Hazzard re-runs too!)



 

Oh my gawd, the 80's!

I remember Michael Jackson's "Thriller..." & "Billie Jean" and the Moonwalk of course.

Whip It!

Adam Ant (who my locker partner worshiped)

Big hair and hair mousse-hoo boy! Some girls had bangs like the Tower of Babylon

Legwarmers AND footie sox with pom-poms

Everyone singing "We Are The World" (what was that--LiveAid I think?)



What fun!

Does anyone remember .............. GOLD mousse?



Used to leave glitter where ever I laid my head ..... specially on my boyfriend's shoulder.

Oh yeah, I remember the gold mousse - I used to get the reddish stuff, turn my hair burgundy and go with it.  Looked great until I realized that it left marks on my shoulders when it was still wet!    

Remember red and blue colored gel?  To make the little streaks when you gelled you hair all up, stiff-like?  OMG, Stiff Stuff, Hard Hair!  Anyone remember those?  Yes, you can buy separate tuntables, in PC Richard and stores like that.  Um...Debbie Gibson was "Out of the Blue", actually (Napster!).  There's a "Hip to be Square" Barbie with a geometric print dress (I just about peed laughing).  "We are the World" was USA for Africa, Live Aid was the big concert the Sir (Saint) Bob Geldoff organized, about 6 months after the release of Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?"  BTW, the only American band invited to Band Aid (England) was Kool and the Gang (OMG, Celebrate?)



I just scared the bejesus out of myself with the twisted knowledge that I have stored in there from the 80s.  And you know what?  I'm glad they're coming back!

How about spiral perms??  I didn't think I would ever live through the process....



I had to go out last night and buy me a 80's cd, I got so nostalgic.  I scraped up my Bruce Springsteen tape, "Born in the USA" last night, too.  My 3 year old love it!



Ah, memories!



OfficeDuchess

Yankee, I'd like to play a round of 80's edition Trivial Pursuit with you.  I have so much useless knowledge stored in my brain but I think you'd win the prize! (I always get killed in the sports category but the other day my boss was referencing Zola Budd in a conversation.  I remembered that she ran in the 1984 Olympics and not 1980 since the US boycotted the 1980 Olympics and she and the US runner crashed)

Yank, the song I was thinking of was Electric Youth.



When you guys get together for the 80's trivia, count me in!  Let's get in on a chat room and play some night - I love that stuff!

Well, we've got the standard "oldies" radio station in town (50's and 60's), then there's the "all 70's" station, and now we've recently gotten an "all 80's" station.  And then it hit me...



My God, I'm old enough to have my own "nostalgia/generation specific" station.  







 

I'm with you DidFace.  The radio station that I listen to has Saturday Night 70s music and Sunday Night 80s music.  Am I really that old???



The other day, one of the announcers was reading a newspaper article which was saying that all those 80s fashions would be coming back.  Where did I hide my shoulder pads?  Where can I find my husband a skinny leather tie?

You know what's next--That 80's Show!      

I'm pleading the fifth here!



Shannon

CCHS class of '89  

craftygirl,



I'll have to agree with you on the fifth.



LCS

Class of 87

Chris68

I'll split the difference here .......... HHS Class of 88



There is nothing worse then singing along with the radio and having the announcer interupt with a station identification .......... for an OLDIES station.  



Wait ... yes there is ..... when the "hard rock" station now plays "classic rock" ..... and it's the same songs!!

I was unwillingly listening to N'Sync the other day and caught myself sounding exactly like my mom used to when I played my '80s music growing up.



"They just don't make good songs anymore. When I was your age (speaking to my niece), there were great songs!"



You know you're getting older when you start to sound like your mother! EEK!



But it's so true though. The stuff that's popular now is crap. Nothing compared to what I listened to growing up in the '80s.

Forgot about the Eurythmics and Split Enz (How could I?!)

And the movie Gallipoli - The first time I saw Mel Gibson and totally fell for him.  It's those blue eyes!



NHS Class of '83 (Omigawd, am I really that old?!!)

CU Class of '87

Debbie had both "Out of the Blue" and "Electric Youth" and I had the Electric Youth perfume!  THe other day I heard

"Borderline" by Madonna on, get this, the "Jammin' Oldies" station!  Madonna is officially an oldie.  I'm almost nauseous.  Then again, I realized that I was old the day I heard Billy Joel on the radio and turned the volume up to 11 (remember "This is Spinal Tap"?) and I looked to see it was the light station!  Yes, I'm the youngest fogey out there.