favourite 80's fads

POSTED BY: boris
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 18:04
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BORIS

Saturday, July 10, 2010 1:39 PM

I loved clicka clackas: two hard resin balls on rope you put a ring with the rope and balls hanging off it on your finger, held your hand side ways and you'd get them moving like a pendulum and build up momentum.then you'd make them hit each other loudly and for as long as possible. I could do it for ages. I was fscinated in the noise and the movement. I also liked pop-a-lots they were little foam cylinders you would squeeze between thumb and forefinger til they popped and flew in every direction. and i liked those little furry worm things you could get from 10 cent machines.

ASORTAFAIRYTALE

Saturday, July 10, 2010 5:58 PM

Pet rocks.
Or wait, was that the seventies? As it turns out I didn't live through either decade. :/
I do wish that I hadn't missed the 80s though, they had some great stuff.

FREMDFIRMA

Saturday, July 10, 2010 9:24 PM

HAIR BANDS!

I used to watch these guys down at Hammerjacks when they were still called The Generators, damn shame they got shafted into oblivion by Atlantic - that's part of why I despite the RIAA so much.

But there's just something about hair bands that's made of win, from the soft, inspiring White Lion, all the way down to the brutality of Twisted Sister.

-Frem

AURAPTOR

Saturday, July 10, 2010 11:39 PM

Rockers in suits and ties....

CHRISISALL

Saturday, July 10, 2010 11:48 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by boris:
I loved clicka clackas: two hard resin balls on rope you put a ring with the rope and balls hanging off it on your finger, held your hand side ways and you'd get them moving like a pendulum and build up momentum.then you'd make them hit each other loudly and for as long as possible.

Gang members also discovered they were cheap & effective weapons- that's why they disappeared. But yeah, cool.

The laughing Chrisisall

BORIS

Sunday, July 11, 2010 12:34 AM

are you for real? gang members using my favourite toy to maim? geez! thats just wrong.

KIRKULES

Sunday, July 11, 2010 12:39 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Gang members also discovered they were cheap & effective weapons- that's why they disappeared. But yeah, cool.

I never Clacked anyone else, but I did Clacked myself in the head a few times.

CHRISISALL

Sunday, July 11, 2010 12:46 AM

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Originally posted by Kirkules:
Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Gang members also discovered they were cheap & effective weapons- that's why they disappeared. But yeah, cool.

I never Clacked anyone else, but I did Clacked myself in the head a few times.

Once that was discovered, it was cheap bolos or attenuated nunchaku.
Something like that could never be put on the market today.

My 80's fad was stuffed mogwai (Gremlins).

The laughing Chrisisall

KWICKO

Sunday, July 11, 2010 2:14 AM

My 80's fad was electric guitars. Old Stratocasters, a couple Telecasters, a few Les Pauls, a lefty Gibson SG, a sweet little Melody Maker, a Carvin 12-string electric, a BC Rich Bich 10-string, a few Explorers and a Flying V, and a sweet Ibanez Iceman, along with one of my favorites, a Gibson ES-335 archtop. Never got my hands on a Gretsch or Rickenbacker, though, nor a National... :(

If I could have just one of them back now, it would be my second Stratocaster, a '72 simple black body/white pickguard with a very fast maple fretboard instead of the more common rosewood. Loved that axe, and it was the last one to go when it was time to "grow up".

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GWEK

Sunday, July 11, 2010 12:44 PM

I think clackers being banned due to gang violence is an urban legend. They WERE banned by the government at one point--but it was the FDA because the materials were unsafe.

Also, technically a 1970s (if not 1960s) fad. I think the version with stiff plastic (kerbangers?) was the version that was introduced/more popular in the 1980s.

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