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Kristie Bentley
January 18, 2008

~~80's MANIA~~

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I was inspired to create this page after I saw CatScraps "6th Grade" layout. So, I went to my grandmother's and discovered a treasure trove of horrible pics.

Hidden journaling is attached to the Bam Pop tag ( on two sheets of paper...LOL!) behind the photo...it says:

" Why was I smiling? Didn't I realize that my green Guess jeans are hideous? They matched the little stripe in my shirt perfectly - that was no accident! And why did my socks have to be a spot on match for the shirt I was wearing and conspicuously peek out from under the tight rolled jeans?

I am a child of the eighties. 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 will Kaleb was playing army with G.I. Joe figures.

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?")

Ronald Reagan was cool. Gorbachev was the guy who built a McDonalds in Moscow. My family collected "Muppet Movie" glasses along the way. (We had the whole set.)

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.

The world stopped when the Challenger exploded.

When you put all this stuff together, you have my childhood."

Thanks for looking!

Kristie


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