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What were you doing in 1985? Good or bad times?


I didn't exist then, so I can't give an opinion.

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I wasn't born yet, either.

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I was born that year, so I got nothing.

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It was my final year of primary school I was 12. Music and films were fun. I was just starting to realise there was music outside of top 40 and was gravitating towards hard rock and metal.

Good times.

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I bet you were a big Guns 'N Roses and Motley Crue fan back then.

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Crüe yes wouldn't hear about Gunners till 1988.

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I was battling a mindflayer and trying to close the door to the upside down.

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I was in Business School at The University of Toronto. Back to the Future and The Breakfast Club were the big movies. The hit songs were Money For Nothing and Take On Me.

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Anyone here was a big "Golden Girls" fan back in the day? I love that show. I bet it was popular back then.

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It was insanely popular. I watched an awards show one night where that show just cleaned up.

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Yeah, it was groundbreaking for its time. Nothing like it before that.

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I used to watch it with my grandma all the time. We still love it.

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My favourite was Bea Arthur. She was great. Did you know she was actually older than the actress who played her mother?

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Bea Arthur was a marine during WWII, which she denied.

http://thesmokinggun.com/sites/default/files/assets/beaarthurportrait.jpg

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Yes. She was also younger than Betty White.

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a year younger. imagine that.

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I was mourning the death of the one and only true Van Halen.

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I was in my 4th year in the Marines, realizing I did not want to re-enlist even though they offered me around $15,000 to do so. So not a particularly great time or that reason. A highlight was seeing the Grateful Dead 4/13/85 at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, a stone's throw from our base. Both venue and base (MCAS El Toro) are gone.

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