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» Nuclear replied on Fri Feb 1, 2002 @ 7:16pm. Posted in Why do you suck.
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^^^ thinks that he is king shit and is right...
» Nuclear replied on Fri Feb 1, 2002 @ 12:58am. Posted in Why do you suck.
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^^^ likes a man!
» Nuclear replied on Fri Feb 1, 2002 @ 12:57am. Posted in Why do you rock....
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^^^ who stole the cookies from the cookie jar... damn it was anna!
» Nuclear replied on Fri Feb 1, 2002 @ 12:56am. Posted in Passage.2.
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Definately... I need to figure a way to make some cash cause I'm so broke!
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 31, 2002 @ 10:06pm. Posted in Passage.2.
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Anyone who is going look for me since I'll be there in shining colors and hopfully dancing my ass off... VJ's rock sometimes so I hope this will be something I will remember for a time to come. It's always nice trying something new!
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 31, 2002 @ 10:04pm. Posted in Why do you suck.
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^^^ thinks that masterbation is a sport which he excells at...
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 31, 2002 @ 10:03pm. Posted in neverending story: phase 2.
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meanwhile on the starship enterprise captain picard was really frustrated cause he hasn't had sex in years. Jesus christ, he thought to himself. There so many gurls but I can't get any of them because I need to play role of the captain... In any other cercumstances I would have every girl giving me head in my office... So then he thought of a plan which included...
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 31, 2002 @ 10:01pm. Posted in Why do you rock....
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^^^ is too sexy for my shirt, to sexy for my shirt, too sexy it hurts!!!
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 31, 2002 @ 7:30pm. Posted in Why do you suck.
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^^^^ would know cause she likes to undress anything that moves...
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 31, 2002 @ 10:47am. Posted in neverending story: phase 2.
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...opened a can of coke and drank it... damn that was good he said with a sarcastic smile. Now it's time for me to take over the world.

Out of nowhere Julias (an ape from mars) opened a small portal next to Phillipe (another ape) and they suddenly appeared next to this wierd guy...
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 31, 2002 @ 9:33am. Posted in Luna, dans seulement 3 jours:).
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The world beat center... Damn I'm lost, I don't know of many other locations downtown...
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 31, 2002 @ 9:32am. Posted in Why do you suck.
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^^^^ will get his ass wooped next time he shows his face in public!
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 31, 2002 @ 1:05am. Posted in Luna, dans seulement 3 jours:).
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The it's definately at the place Cloud 4 was at... They were looking for someone to use that location for another party... Who knows I like to guess things!
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 31, 2002 @ 12:50am. Posted in Why do you suck.
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^^^^ thinks that dick is better than pussy...
» Nuclear replied on Wed Jan 30, 2002 @ 11:28pm. Posted in Why do you suck.
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^^^^^ has a small penis for his height...
» Nuclear replied on Wed Jan 30, 2002 @ 10:58pm. Posted in Why do you rock....
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^^^ is horny for me!
» Nuclear replied on Mon Jan 28, 2002 @ 11:40pm. Posted in Make Believe.
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Url:
[ www.rave.ca ]

Uk Hardcore:
Sharkey (UK)
Anabolic Frolic
D-Minus
Frisky
Psyklone & Tyco
Silver1 & Virus
Trance & Uk Hardhouse:
Elixir & Spice
Subsonic Chronic
Twitch & Satory
MCs:
E-By-Gum
Kwik
Gobstopper
» Nuclear replied on Mon Jan 28, 2002 @ 12:41pm. Posted in Make Believe.
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Who is willing to spend 130$ (inc ticket) to take a bus to Toronto for Make Believe on Feb 16th.

100$ - bus ticket
30$ - rave ticket
20$ - hostle (optional, if leaving early)

There is a good chance me and lune31 will be going so whoever would like to experiance the tornoto scene with us is welcome to come!
» Nuclear replied on Tue Jan 22, 2002 @ 8:23am. Posted in Why do you rock....
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^^^ enjoys pussy!
» Nuclear replied on Mon Jan 21, 2002 @ 11:31pm. Posted in Why do you rock....
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^^^ considers getting drunk high class!
» Nuclear replied on Mon Jan 21, 2002 @ 9:04pm. Posted in Why do you rock....
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^^^ likes to eat meat...
» Nuclear replied on Mon Jan 21, 2002 @ 3:47pm. Posted in Why do you rock....
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^^^ Can't decide which girl to go out with!
» Nuclear replied on Mon Jan 21, 2002 @ 3:46pm. Posted in Hardcore Meltdown!.
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99$ for a bus... We are going on friday at 7:30pm, sleeping over somewhere and then exploring the city all day saturday until the party... I'll have lots of PCP with me!
» Nuclear replied on Mon Jan 21, 2002 @ 3:45pm. Posted in Astro 2.
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For that kind of lineup the ticket prices are really cheap. There is a killer amount of out of towners. I mean the lineup beats the lineup for elevation and the ticket prices are less than 1/2 the price. It does not cost pennies to put on a party and fly in people from out of town! Your getting this at a supurb price!
» Nuclear replied on Sun Jan 20, 2002 @ 1:11pm. Posted in **** AmalgaNation - March 2nd 2002 ***.
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I'll be there for sure. Therry, I personally this party will be more original and interesting with different music than most of the parties out there. Why goto parties with the same dj's over and over again, that's one of the problems with the montreal scene is we have different groups of people and they always want the EXACT same things every weekend. How many people do you know who goto electro, hip hop, jungle, hardcore parties... None... We choose one style and that's the only thing we goto! Try something different!
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 17, 2002 @ 8:20am. Posted in So What?! did you think about the partay.
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Maybe I was too tiered to notice... I slept a lot and maybe I was dreaming the music instead of really listening to it so then that's my problem...
» Nuclear replied on Tue Jan 15, 2002 @ 4:36pm. Posted in how to......
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Yah I was thinking the exact same thing... maybe it's a fish that was in water but now the water evaporated and it's no longer a living fish...
» Nuclear replied on Mon Jan 14, 2002 @ 6:33pm. Posted in So What?! did you think about the partay.
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I slept the whole hting basically... Bad Company played commercial crap although it was good I can open up any inet radio and hear that stuff... The smaller room was a waste of space and it was way too hot and I was totally sober also so no reason for me to be hot...
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 10, 2002 @ 11:33pm. Posted in Why do you rock....
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^^^ is a booty gurl and will be playing monopoly with me soon!
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 10, 2002 @ 2:09am. Posted in Some 80s Stuff.
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I didn't write any of this stuff just posted it cause I found it while looking for a Heithcliff video...
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 10, 2002 @ 1:56am. Posted in Some 80s Stuff.
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This is a collection of things from the 80s. I just went around to different 80s web sites and picked out certain words that made me think back to my childhood. I've also added words that just came to me on their own. They're in no particular order, just the order I happened to find them in. Maybe some time in the future I'll write more about one of these topics; maybe they'll inspire me to write more about my youth. For whatever purpose, here they are:

-- Molly Ringwald
-- Ferris Buller's Day Off
-- Indiana Jones
-- E.T.
-- Police Academy
-- Ernest Saves Christmas
-- Ernest Goes to Camp
-- Garfield
-- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
-- The Breakfast Club
-- Tremors
-- Spaceballs
-- Mighty Mouse
-- Scooby Doo
-- Heithcliff
-- Smurfs
-- Snorks
-- Pac-man
-- Shirt Tales
-- Alvin and the Chipmunks
-- Berenstain Bears
-- Muppet Babies
-- Get Along Gang
-- Wuzzles
-- Punky Brewster
-- The Gummy Bears
-- Care Bears
-- Ghostbusters
-- Pee-Wee's Playhouse
-- Kissyfur
-- Pound Puppies
-- Hello Kitty
-- Fraggle Rock
-- Alf
-- California Raisins
-- Cabbage Patch Kids
-- Garbage Pail Kids
-- Card Sharks
-- Classic Concentration
-- Couch Potatoes
-- The New Dating Game
-- Double Dare
-- Nickelodeon
-- You Can't Do That On Television
-- The Family Feud
-- High Rollers
-- Hollywood Squares
-- Hot Potato
-- The $100,000 Pyramid
-- Jeopardy
-- The Joker's Wild
-- Let's Make A Deal
-- The Newleywed Game
-- Press Your Luck
-- "Big Money, No Whammies, STOP!"
-- The Price is Right
-- Remote Control
-- Scrabble
-- The New Tic Tac Dough
-- Wheel of Fortune
-- Win, Lose, or Draw
-- Ducktales
-- Glo-Worms
-- LightBrite
-- My Little Pony
-- Pogo Balls
-- Skip-It
-- Gem and the Holograms
-- Inspector Gadget
-- The Jetsons
-- Rainbow Brite
-- She-Ra
-- He-Man
-- Transformers
-- CBS Storybreak
-- Dungeons and Dragons
-- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
-- The Jeffersons
-- Laverne and Shirley
-- Three's Company
-- Too Close for Comfort
-- Dynasty
-- The Facts of Life
-- Magnum P.I.
-- Knot's Landing
-- Diff'rent Strokes
-- Benson
-- Bosom Buddies
-- Dallas
-- Falcon Crest
-- The Love Boat
-- Newhart
-- Alice
-- Family Ties
-- Simon and Simon
-- Fame
-- Cheers
-- Taxi
-- Knight Rider
-- Silver Spoons
-- Gimme A Break
-- Trapper John, M.D.
-- Cagney and Lacey
-- Hart to Hart
-- The Fall Guy
-- Murder, She Wrote
-- Scarecrow and Mrs. King
-- Kate and Allie
-- The A-Team
-- Charles in Charge
-- Highway to Heaven
-- Who's the Boss
-- The Cosby Show
-- Night Court
-- Webster
-- Miami Vice
-- McGyver
-- Growing Pains
-- Moonlighting
-- Mr. Belvedere
-- Spenser: For Hire
-- The Golden Girls
-- 227
-- My Sister Sam
-- Designing Women
-- Perfect Strangers
-- Head of the Class
-- Amen
-- Married...With Children
-- The Tracey Ullman Show
-- My Two Dads
-- A Different World
-- Full House
-- Max Headroom
-- Beauty and the Beast
-- Rags to Riches
-- Mission Impossible
-- America's Most Wanted
-- Murphy Brown
-- The Hogan Family
-- Roseanne
-- In the Heat of the Night
-- The Wonder Years
-- China Beach
-- Unsolved Mysteries
-- Dear John...
-- Just the Ten of Us
-- Empty Nest
-- Totally Hidden Video
-- Sister Kate
-- Major Dad
-- 21 Jumpstreet
-- Rescue 911
-- Doogie Howser, M.D.
-- Family Matters
-- leg warmers
-- jelly bracelets
-- Ocean Pacific
-- Body Glove
-- Don't Worry, Be Happy
-- Swatch
-- jean skirts and jackets
-- tight jeans
-- doubling socks
-- jellies
-- sleeve off the shoulder
-- blue eye shadow
-- banana clips
-- side ponytails
-- crimping
-- LA Gear
-- BK
-- "Walk the Dinosaur"
-- Moonwalk
-- Bonkers
-- Melody Pops
-- Pop Rocks
-- Nerds
-- Runts
-- Snoopy Sno-Kone Maker
-- Lincoln Logs
-- Viewmaster
-- Rubik's Cube
-- Big Wheels
-- scooters
-- MouseTrap
-- Operation
-- Cooties
-- Smooshies
-- Furever Friends
-- Pocket Rocker
-- Popples
-- MicroMachines
-- Shrinky Dinks
-- Sit n' Spin
-- MagnaDoodles
-- Etch-a-sketch
-- Sweet Secrets
-- Teddy Ruxpin
-- Leisure Suit Larry
-- Oregon Trail
-- Bed Bugs
-- Baby Surprise
-- Barbie and the Rockers
-- Capsela Building Sets
-- Choose Your Own Adventure Books
-- Easy Bake Oven
-- Fairy Tail Birds
-- Fashion Plates
-- Fashion Star Filies
-- Fisher Price Video Cams
-- Flower Making Basket
-- Get in Shape Girl
-- Hit Stix
-- Instant Grow Sponges
-- Keepers
-- Kid Sister
-- Mad Libs
-- Mad Balls
-- Mad Scientist
-- Make-It Bake-It
-- Monster in my Pocket
-- Mr. Gameshow
-- Penny Racers
-- Pig Pong
-- Poochie
-- scratch and sniff stickers
-- Sea Wees
-- Slip 'n Slide
-- snap bracelets
-- Strawberry Shortcake
-- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
-- Trapper Keeper
-- Watchables
-- Weeble
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 10, 2002 @ 1:48am. Posted in Some 80s Stuff.
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I'll start at the beginning. I was born November 12, 1979. I've lived in the same house all my life, as far as I can remember anyway. I never bothered asking. My first earliest memory is of being in the Montgomery Wards in the West Shore Plaza. My parents wouldn't buy me some toy I wanted and I got upset. I ran to the front of the store to the display and ran through it. My parents got very mad at me. I didn't get the toy. I don't recall having very many playmates, seeing as how I stayed with my grandmother all day. But I enjoyed it. I'd watch tv and color and draw and paint. I was always doing something artistic back then. I went to preschool for a few times, but I hated it so I dropped out. My grandmother and I would walk to the Plaza sometimes, get lunch there, buy me some new books, get me some new things from the crafts store. Or we'd walk to Pizza Hut (before it closed like 10 years later :( ). When I started kingergarten, I went in the mornings. My grandmother would watch me afterwards. I'd always eat a peanut butter sandwich and fritos for lunch while watching game shows on TV. My grandmother and I loved game shows. During first grade I'd go over to my friend Gina's house after school. Actually, she was my best friend. She lived behind me about 3 houses down. After school during 2nd to 5th grade I'd go to my friend Kristin's house after school. Her and I were ok friends. I don't remember why I started going over there. I think my grandmother knew her mom or something. I usually enjoyed myself over there. Oh yeah. After first grade Gina's grandmother transfered her to a Christian school. That's why I didn't go to her house after school anymore. During second grade I believe my best friend's were Amanda and Kristin. In kindergarten it was Mandy. First grade it was Gina. In 3rd and 4th it was Jessica. Those were some of my happiest times. Her and I were always together. We spent the night as each other's houses almost every weekend. We'd go roller-skating almost every Saturday afternoon. We both loved Baby-Sitters Club books, Paula Abdul, Koosh Balls, and various other things. But she moved a 1/2 hour away the summer before 5th grade. That's a very long distance when you're that young. We grew apart.

I just wrote two letters to Brad, about my past which I'll include part of in here, right here:

[First Letter] I can honestly say I miss my town.I grew up there. I love it there. Jeff always made fun of it for being a small town, but it wasn't. It was a suburb of Harrisburg. We had malls, like 2 within a 5 min range. and about 4 more w/i an 1/2 hr range. We had all the major restaurants, although some were about 20 min away and a few you had to go over to Harrisburg for, but that's just like a 15 min drive. I love my town. There's highways running around and through it, but most roads are just like one lane ones. Well 2 counting the other lane. I like that. I hate major roads. So I would usually go the back way to places to avoid the high way. Specially w/ 83 and the construction on there. karim didn't like my town either. But we had 2 skating rinks (roller) nearby, about 3 ice skating rinks, like 5 bowling alleys, several pool halls but most closed, bout 4 movie theatres, and Hershey Park is just 20 min away.There's some crime, more in the recent years. but no murders. I was just thinking about today being Friday. Fridays have meant so many different things to me over the years, depending on my bf/friend situation. When I was in about 5th grade, every Fri was grocery night for my parents. They'd pick me up McDonald's, I'd eat it at home while they went out to eat and to the store. Most of my life, if I have been home on Fri nights I've watched TGIF even though the shows changed over the years. There;s always been at least one I like though in the line up. I loved Full House :) and now it's Sabrina and Boy Meets World that I like. and I liked Clueless when it was on. aAnd several others that I don't remember. When I was in late middle school, early high school Dani or Erin and I would go roller skatingFridays. Or Saturdays, They switched, sometimes both. When I was dating some guys, we'd go to the movies or something Fri. When I was dating Mike, him and I would go skating Fri and Sat usually. Him and I were amoung the very best sk8ers there. Or him and I would go to the movies or the mall. Later on bowling. In the past year or so, I've gone bowling some Fri nights w/ whoever. Mike, Karim, Dani, etc. I've worked many Fri nights in my life, esp at the sk8ing rink. Mall closed at 9, so that wasn't that bad working weekend nights there. But the rink closed at like 1030 or 11, depending on the season. Many Fri nights have been spent on IRC too. Some over the summer were spent partying. Others were spent over the years spending nights at my friend's house.

[Second Letter] Hi. Cartoons :) I used to always watch Garfield. and Inspecter Gadget. and Scooby. and Heithcliff. :) I never really watched after school ones, cept for Heithcliff. I used to love Nickelodeon. I LOVED You Can't Do That On Television. And I'd watch Double Dare and their other game shows. And some of their cartoons. :) Even though I cant go trick or treating, I still love Halloween. I handed out candy the past 3 yrs. I think I did last year anyway. The year I was a freshman I rigged up this ghost that you could drop down in front of our porch door when someone walked up. And every year I TOTALLY decorate the porch. I miss doing that. Hehe parents had to do it this year. Our porch is enclosed, which is cool. I'd put in my black light and put in my scary music tape and then take out my 3 blow up skeletons (mom dad and kid) and dress them up in my clothes :) And I had this loooong blond wig I'd put on them. And I'd take my mom's old wigs too. And my hats. Hehee. One I had dressed up in my cowgirl gear last year. My red hat and boots and my fringy skirt and shirt. And I'd put those fake cobwebs all around and other things. Put signs up outside on the door. I didn't have the ghost the last 2 years b/c we had redone our porch and I dont think there was anyway to do it. But that year, the kids weren't really scared but one mom SCREAMED when it dropped down in front of her. Hehehhehe. It was so funny. I'd dress up in costumes too :) One year, maybe when I was in 10th grade? Dani and I made men. Someone in her family had gotten hay from somewhere. So we took our clothes and stuffed them w/ hay :) Hehe. Then we put the men out in front of our houses. It was kewl. I forget what we did for heads. Maybe they were headless. I remember hanging mine from my tree for Halloween. Like it was in a noose heheh. And I'd hang these ghosts I made on the trees by the porch. We'd have other things on our porch too. We'd put Halloween lights up around the porch. We have boxes of Halloween decorations because I was so obsessed with it as a kid. I'd make my parents decorate the whole house. I swear, it was more decorated at Halloween than Christmas I think. I used to make my parents decorate for everything. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentines Day, Easter :) Yeah sometimes I miss trick or treating. It was such a great thing for a kid. The last year I went I was umm. 12? 13? It was w/ Erin. I was a hippie :) heheh I thinkI'm short enough that if I went trick or treating, they'd think I was a kid. Just a tall kid :) Maybe next year I'll take Zach around. I'm sure he feels slowed down by his sister. That is, if I'm at home. Which seems to be a possiblity. If I don't decide what I want. Back home, I went on hayrides the past few years. I didn't get to up here. But, I somehow don't think it would really be the same. You know, for some reason when I think of Halloween when I was a kid, I think of this one time, I don't know how old I was, but I remember sitting in my living room before it was time, reading Kid City and eating Mcdonalds. I loved that magazine. It was the November issue and had a turkey on the cover. I don't know why I remember that. It just stuck in my mind for some reason.

Another of the good part of my childhood was going to Myrtle Beach SC. I LOVED Myrtle. You could say I was obsessed with it. We went down there every year since I was born until I was in 7th grade. The summer after 6th grade was the last year we went. That was the year we took Gina with us. When we first started going, we'd stay in our motor home at a camp ground. That was fun. Then we started staying in condos, which was great of course. I believe I've played every miniature golf course they had down there. I loved and still do love minature golf, even though I'm not nearly as good now as I was then. My favorite course was Wacky Golf. During the year I would look at these Guide to the Strand books we got while down there the summer before and I would make lists of what I wanted to do, and things I wanted to bring. I would do this like during the winter. On the way down there we'd always stop at South of the Border. I thought that place was really cool too, being the kid I was. At Myrtle Beach is where I first became interested in Spuds Mackenzie. I forget how exactly, but someone bought me a small Spuds dog while I was down there. I also got a shirt with Spud on it. I'd sit in the camper drawing Spuds on a surf board :) I had this sunglasses thing, the thing you hook on both of the ear pieces and its a rope sort of. It was purple. I put it around Spud's neck as a leash. I have a picture of me in the motor home with Spuds and a can of beer :) Later on, I got two more Spud dogs. I still like him, but haven't seen anything with him on in years.
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 10, 2002 @ 1:47am. Posted in Some 80s Stuff.
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Don't call me "Generation X," call me a child of the eighties by Bryant Adkins published in The Reflector January 20, 1995

I am a child of the eighties. That is what I prefer to be called. The nineties can do without me. Grunge isn't here to stay, fashion is fickle and "Generation X" is a myth created by some over-40 writer trying to figure out why people wear flannel in the summer.

When I got home from school, I played with my Atari 2600. I spent hours playing Pitfall or Combat or Breakout or Dodge'em Cars or Frogger. I never did beat Asteroids. Then I watched "Scooby Doo." Daphne was a Goddess, and I thought Shaggy was smoking something synthetic in the back of their psychedelic van. I hated Scrappy.

I would sleep over at friends' houses on the weekends. We played army with G.I. Joe figures, and I set up galactic wars between Autobots and Decepticons. We stayed up half the night throwing marshmallows and Velveeta at one another. We never beat the Rubik's Cube.

I got up on Saturday mornings at 6 a.m. to watch bad Hanna-Barbera cartoons like "The Snorks," "Jabberjaw," "Captain Caveman," and "Space Ghost." In between I would watch "School House Rock." ("Conjunction junction, what's your function?")

On weeknights Daisy Duke was my future wife. I was going to own the General Lee and shoot dynamite arrows out the back. Why did they weld the doors shut? At the movies the Nerds got Revenge on the Alpha Betas by teaming up with the Omega Mus. I watched Indiana Jones save the Ark of the Covenant, and wondered what Yoda meant when he said, "No, there is another."

Ronald Reagan was cool. Gorbachev was the guy who built a McDonalds in Moscow. My family took summer vacations to the Gulf of Mexico and collected "Muppet Movie" glasses along the way. (We had the whole set.) My brother and I fought in the back seat. At the hotel we found creative uses for Connect Four pieces like throwing them in that big air conditioning unit.

I listened to John COUGAR Mellencamp sing about Little Pink Houses for Jack and Diane. I was bewildered by Boy George and the colors of his dreams, red, gold, and green. MTV played videos. Nickelodeon played "You Can't Do That on Television" and "Dangermouse." Cor! HBO showed Mike Tyson pummel everybody except Robin Givens, the bad actress from "Head of the Class" who took all Mike's cashflow.

I drank Dr. Pepper. "I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper, wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?" Shasta was for losers. TAB was a laboratory accident. Capri Sun was a social statement. Orange juice wasn't just for breakfast anymore, and bacon had to move over for something meatier.

My mom put a thousand Little Debbie Snack Cakes in my Charlie Brown lunch box, and filled my Snoopy Thermos with grape Kool-Aid. I would never eat the snack cakes, though. Did anyone? I got two thousand cheese and cracker snack packs, and I ate those.

I went to school and had recess. I went to the same classes everyday. Some weird guy from the eighth grade always won the science fair with the working hydro-electric plant that leaked on my project about music and plants. They just loved Beethoven.

Field day was bigger than Christmas, but it always managed to rain just enough to make everybody miserable before they fell over in the three-legged race. Where did all those panty hose come from? "Deck the Halls with Gasoline, fa la la la la la la la la," was just a song. Burping was cool. Rubber band fights were cooler. A substitute teacher was a baby sitter/marked woman. Nobody deserved that.

I went to Cub Scouts. I got my arrow-of-light, but never managed to win the Pinewood Derby. I got almost every skill award but don't remember ever doing anything.

The world stopped when the Challenger exploded.

Did a teacher come in and tell your class?

Half of your friends' parents got divorced.

People did not just say no to drugs.

AIDS started, but you knew more people who had a grandparent die from cancer.

Somebody in your school died before they graduated.

When you put all this stuff together, you have my childhood. If this stuff sounds familiar, then I bet you are one, too. We are children of the eighties. That is what I prefer "they" call it.

We are the children of the Eighties. We are not the first "lost generation" nor today's lost generation; in fact, we think we know just where we stand - or are discovering it as we speak. We are the ones who played with Lego Building Blocks when they were just building blocks and gave Malibu Barbie crewcuts with safety scissors that never really cut. We collected Garbage Pail Kids and Cabbage Patch Kids and My Little Ponies and Hot Wheels and He-Man action figures and thought She-Ra looked just a little bit like I would when I was a woman. Big Wheels and bicycles with streamers were the way to go, and sidewalk chalk was all you needed to build a city. Imagination was the key. It made the Ewoh treehouse big enough for you to be Luke and the kitchen table and an old sheet dark enough to be a tent in the forest. Your world was the backyard and it was all you needed. With your pink portable tape player, Debbie Gibson sang back up to you and everyone wanted a skirt like the Material Girl and a glove like Michael Jackson's. Today, we are the ones who sing along with Bruce Stringsteen and The Bangles perfectly and have no idea why. We recite lines with the Ghostbusters and still look to The Goonies for a great adventure. We flip through T.V. stations and stop at The A Team and Knight Rider and Fame and laugh with The Cosby Show and Family Ties and Punky Brewster and what you talkin' 'bout Willis? We hold strong affections for The Muppets and The Gummy Bears and why did they take the Smurfs off the air? After school specials were only about cigarettes and step-families, the Pokka Dot Door was nothing like Barney, and aren't the Power Rangers just Voltron reincarnated? We are the ones who still read Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, the Bobbsey Twins, Beverly Clearly and Judy Blume, Richard Scary and the Electric Company. Friendship bracelets were ties you couldn't break and friendship pins went on shoes - preferably hightop Velcro Reebox - and pegged jeans were in, as were Units belts and layered socks and jean jackets and jams and charm necklaces and side pony tails and just tails. Rave was a girl's best friend; braces with colored rubberbands made you cool. The backdoor was always open and Mom served only red Kool-Aid to the neighborhood kids- never drank New Coke. Entertainment was cheap and lasted for hours. All you needed to be a princess was high heels and an apron; the Sit'n'Spin always made you dizzy but never made you stop; Pogoballs were dangerous weapons and Chinese Jump Ropes never failed to trip someone. In your Underoos you were Wonder Woman or Spider Man or R2D2 and in your treehouse you were king.

In the Eighties, nothing was wrong. Did you know the president was shot? Star Wars was not only a movie. Did you ever play in a bomb shelter? Did you see the Challenger explode or feed the homeless man? We forgot Vietnam and watched Tiananman's Square on CNN and bought pieces of the Berlin Wall at the store. AIDS was not the number one killer in the United States. We didn't start the fire, Billy Joel. In the Eighties, we redefined the American Dream, and those years defined us. We are the generation in between strife and facing strife and not turning our backs. The Eighties may have made us idealistic, but it's that idealism that will push us and be passed on to our children - the first children of the twenty-first century. Never forget: We are the children of the Eighties.
» Nuclear replied on Thu Jan 10, 2002 @ 1:46am. Posted in Some 80s Stuff.
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An 80s Childhood: If you weren't there, you won't understand People who weren’t children of the 80s don't quite remember eating fruit rolls, drinking Capri Sun, and playing handball (with a giant red ball) during school "recess" time. They don't remember to looking forward every Saturday night to seeing their two favorite shows -- "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Silver Spoons" on back-to-back. They never had the experience of being a kid during a time when hanging out in arcades was cool -- not just a pastime for nerdy geeks. They didn't experiece the pre-teen and adolescent thrill of seeing movies like "Back to the Future" and "Ghostbusters" first run in the theater. Many never even knew what "You Can't do That on Television" was, never heard a Twisted Sister song, never break-danced , and never picked up a Rubiks cube

The 1980s was also the decade of the most advancement in home entertainment technology. In 1984 alone, the amount of personal computers in U.S. homes tripled. The early '80s saw the sharp rise in popularity (and number) of coin-op video games, along with the boom of Atari and its various competitors for the home video game market. VCRs were commonplace in most households by 1985. Technology found its place in Hollywood, as well, with many movies and TV shows in the mid '80s having at least one or two scenes involving arcades or computers. Several movies, such as "War Games", "Real Genius", and "Prime Risk", were expressly about the quick expansion of '80s technology.
» Nuclear replied on Wed Jan 9, 2002 @ 10:53pm. Posted in Hardcore Meltdown!.
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You been saying they would sell out for the past 3 weeks!
» Nuclear replied on Wed Jan 9, 2002 @ 12:31pm. Posted in Hardcore Meltdown!.
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Pat, Natacha and I are going... We all have to go together or we will be screwed since I have the tickets on my credit card ;).
» Nuclear replied on Wed Jan 9, 2002 @ 12:51am. Posted in Why do you rock....
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^^^^ would like to suck my dick but is afraid to come after it!
» Nuclear replied on Tue Jan 8, 2002 @ 5:46pm. Posted in Why do you rock....
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^^^ never thinks about sex (so she claims)...
» Nuclear replied on Mon Jan 7, 2002 @ 12:37am. Posted in Why do you rock....
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^^^ sings like a midget gurl...
» Nuclear replied on Sun Jan 6, 2002 @ 10:51pm. Posted in Why do you rock....
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^^^ Likes to eat children!
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