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Some things make a lot of sense in the present, but a few years later leave you wondering how they were EVER cool. Readers submitted these funnies from the 80's in a recent survey:

  1. Lawn Darts: A toy that can puncture a kid's skullif that's not funny, then I don't know anything. That would never fly today - Can you say "helmet required" kiddies?
  2. Acid Rain: I know this is a serious issue, but I can't help but thinking the threat was overhyped. I grew up thinking that acid rain was melting cars in Los Angeles.
  3. Mr. T Welding: This happened at least once in every A-Team episode. Yet another way to show off his biceps.
  4. Teddy Ruxpin: Creepy, animatronic stuffed bear that was a toy contemporary of the creepy, non-animatronic My Buddy Doll.
  5. The Fat Boys: The Fat Boy's debut album depicted the three members of the group eating ice cream, soda, hamburgers, and pizza, and on top of the pizza was a smaller version of the trio wearing prison stripes. In other words, it doesn't make a lick of sense.
  6. Following Someone From the Front: MacGyver performed this move. I believe a handheld mirror was involved. Brilliant!
  7. Epilady Epliator: Electrical device employing a coil spring to mechanically grab and remove hair by the root. In other words, ouch.
  8. Mr. Miyaga's Healing Touch: Deep tissue damage is no match for a clap of the hands and some determined rubbing from an elderly Asian man.
  9. Rat Tails: Not long ago a guy with a braided rat tail sported this dated look, and I had to wonder if the name alone didn't give away it's lack of appeal as a fashion statement.


-- Edited by garougal at 14:53, 2007-09-24

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I remember most of those- I HATE rat tails!

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Haha! Yes, rat tails were questionable at best. I think I hated the Epilady more than anything else, though. I tried it once...NEVER again. no.gif

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I never tried the Epilady. But I agree, I also hated rattails!

My family still plays lawn darts at their family picnic every year. They call it Danger Jarts!

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Me too on the Epilady! OUCH! A man had to have made that!evileye

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I still remember my dad buying us some lawn darts at a rummage sale when I was about 6. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

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I remember them, too. It was amazing there were no injuries with how we played that game!

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In later years you know they made them safer....yeah they took the pointy end off of them and put the 10 lb weight thing on the end. Kathunk!!!

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Wre still have the steel lawn javelin version at my parents' home. laughing.gif

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I loved lawn darts!

I liked rat tails back in the day. However my brother-in-law has one today. But he often doesn't braid it. bleh

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Ahh yes......the upperclass mullet. nod.gif

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Always hated rat tails.  They're like mullets.  Look, either do it or don't.

Sorry NKOTB.  Sorry Taylor.  biggrin

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Teddy Ruxpin was downright creepy.

Just reading "acid rain" reminds me of RUSH, so that's cool, considering. 
"There's no swimming in the heavy water or singing in the acid rain
Red alert - Red alert!"

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I remember all of those except for lawn darts...they never made it to Australia I guess! 

I still have my epilady!  I still use it now and again!  I think I got desensitised to it!  smile

And rat tails...bleh  There's one bloke in Weipa that I'm itchin to just pin down and cut the bloody thing off! 

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There's a boy my youngest daughter has gone to school with since Kindergarten, and he's worn a rat tail since he first started school and they are now in the 9th grade. The boy desperately needs to lose the tail !!  Every time I see him I want to snip it off. 

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I had a rat tail in 1984. Braided and Everything.smile

what were we thinking?weirdface

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JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

I had a rat tail in 1984. Braided and Everything.smile

what were we thinking?weirdface


Speak for yourself. wink



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yea yea yea.....you prolly had mall hair. smile

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Complete with wings and a wall of bangs. I could have hurt someone if I turned my head too quickly. rofl.gif

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I proudly sported mall hair! smile

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garougal wrote:

JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

I had a rat tail in 1984. Braided and Everything.smile

what were we thinking?weirdface


Speak for yourself. wink


Yeah, what she said!



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Absolutely - it took a lot of work to get your hair to defy gravity! nod.gif

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and my hair is bone straight- no volume!

I am not sure I would have that kind of patience and dedication today on a daily basis.

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Well, it's also a matter of time availability too. In high school, I had much more time to primp than I do now. These days it's brush and go!

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