80s Flashbacks

[Beth]

Like, I so totally don't know if we have, like, any 80s icons, but I sooo totally fer sure want to know if we do. I really would like to see the totally awesome valley girl stuff and the totally grody to the max stuff like pencil pockets :P.

Anyway, I was talking valley speak tonight and I wondered if we had any 80s smileys?

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Like, forget the 80s! The 90s are where it's at! Like, tcha! *hair flip*

[livius drusus]

Erm... I have no idea how one would represent the 80s in smiley form. What do valley girls look like and what's a pencil pocket? :?

[Beth]

Hehe. I dunno. I meant a pencil pouch. In my sleep deprived post, I flubbed.

Airhead was eighties-speak.
Barfbag was eighties-speak
Boytoy was eighties- speak

I typed in "eat my shorts" and 148 smilies popped up. How many smilies are in the index, anyway?

[Beth]

Like, forget the 80s! The 90s are where it's at! Like, tcha! *hair flip*Hehe. I can only just remember them, but I remember Cindi Lauper, the Valley Girl movie, the Breakfast Club, and Better Off Dead, for example. For some reason I am more fond of the eighties than I am of the nineties. It seems like a golden era to me. I guess I was a responsible adult in the nineties.

[livius drusus]

Hehe. I dunno. I meant a pencil pouch.
Huh. I guess that's what I knew as pencil cases. I liked the Japanese boxie ones.

Airhead was eighties-speak.
Barfbag was eighties-speak
Boytoy was eighties- speak

Okay, but I'm not sure how those would convert into smilies, or at least, how they'd be any different from, say, :ungum: or :vomit:.

I typed in "eat my shorts" and 148 smilies popped up. How many smilies are in the index, anyway?

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[viscousmemories]

[...] totally grody to the max stuff like pencil pockets.
You mean pocket protectors?

http://www.setileague.org/photos/mdse/mdsepoc.jpg

[Beth]

Yup, but we called them pencil pouches when I was in school.

[LadyShea]

Pocket protectors were for nerds.

Lessee, I was the quintessential 80's girl; something really funny was a "total crower" so maybe a smilie with a "total crower" word balloon, maybe one with big hair and lots of black eyeliner?

[viscousmemories]

A total crower? Sounds more like quintessential 80's hillbilly to me.

[LadyShea]

A total crower? Sounds more like quintessential 80's hillbilly to me.

That was from California, surfers no less, the epicenter of 80's slang. You uncool Midwesterner you ;)

[viscousmemories]

I thought valley girls were at the epicenter of 80's slang in California.

[quiet bear]

I wear a pocket protector every day.

[Crumb]

:frink: :larrow: quiet bear

[viscousmemories]

:giggle:

[quiet bear]

Chicks dig it.

*edit* Not really.