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1. Member
   Ed G.

   @EdG

   

   1:49 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

   Titus Techera:

   Ed G.:

   Titus Techera:Hot for teacher is better than Hello. Also, less creepy…

   Don’t hate on Lionel Ritchie even if VH is obviously better in every way (whether with Dave or Sammy). Lionel was smooth and talented.

   Also, he made a video about sorta kinda stalking a blind chick?

   That’s romance, not stalking. Don’t be bogus.

2. Member
   Titus Techera

   @TitusTechera

   1:50 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

   Ed G.:

   Titus Techera:

   Ed G.:

   Titus Techera:Hot for teacher is better than Hello. Also, less creepy…

   Don’t hate on Lionel Ritchie even if VH is obviously better in every way (whether with Dave or Sammy). Lionel was smooth and talented.

   Also, he made a video about sorta kinda stalking a blind chick?

   That’s romance, not stalking. Don’t be bogus.

   That’s priceless.

3. Member
   Ed G.

   @EdG

   

   1:52 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

   @cosbyaccusers, Dr. Huxtable is an obstetrician so it’s totally normal for him to have drugs in his fanny pack meant to put you under. #science

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   Randy Webster

   @RandyWebster

   1:55 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

   The Dowager Jojo:This kind of thing always disorients me because it takes me a minute to realize the 80’s actually were…….a while ago.

   Lol.  I was already old by the 80’s.

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   Randy Webster

   @RandyWebster

   1:57 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

   RightAngles:

   Michael Minnott:I still fondly remember when music videos were a big deal. Not just on MTV, but local stations would have music video shows on after school. They had a certain cheesey charm to them.

   I know! I can still remember the first time I saw one. We were at a northside bar in Chicago, and suddenly all the TV screens had Madonna singing one of her songs and acting it out! We said, “Wh-a-a-a? Did they make a movie out of it?”

   Lol.  Madonna is new music in my book.

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   Randy Webster

   @RandyWebster

   1:58 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

   Ed G.:

   Randy Webster:

   [….] Michael Moorcock, maybe?

   None for me, thanks. Makes me gag. And my name is Ed not Michael.

   I’m not going to ask how you know.

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   Ed G.

   @EdG

   

   2:03 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

   Randy Webster:

   Ed G.:

   Randy Webster:

   [….] Michael Moorcock, maybe?

   None for me, thanks. Makes me gag. And my name is Ed not Michael.

   I’m not going to ask how you know.

   #boygeorgegroupie

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   Tim H.

   @TimH

   2:06 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

   Randy Webster:

   6foot2inhighheels:I once read a Sci-fu book called Guns of the South, where racists from the future armed Lee’s Army with modern guns to fight the North.

   I wonder how cell phones and twitter would have changed the Reagan years.

   I don’t remember the author’s name, though I remember seeing the book. One of the first alt-history books. He wrote 3 or 4 in the series, I think. Michael Moorcock, maybe?

   Harry Turtledove.  A professor of Byzantine history, no less.  I loved this book, as well as his related alt-history book called How Few Remain, which also has the Confederate States winning their independence—and having to re-win it twenty years later—but without the time machine involved.  As a Southerner and history buff, I was impressed with the historical detail.

   How Few Remain is followed by The Great War, which takes US—CS relations up to World War I, and he has another that goes up to WWII.  I think I didn’t continue with these, but I can recommend the first two I named.

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   Grosseteste

   @Grosseteste

   2:19 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

   Mate De: #tiffanywasahackdebbiealltheway

   Noooooooooooo

   Only in my dreeeeeeeeams

   As real as it may see-ee-eem

   It was only in my dreams

   That has to be one of my top five earworms of all time.

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    Basil Fawlty

    @BasilFawlty

    

    2:24 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

    This is so bogus.  I just checked Wikipedia and Twitter didn’t even exist in the 1980s. Ricochet needs to employ some professional fact checkers like the New Yorker does.

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    DocJay

    @DocJay

    2:33 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

    Dave Sussman:

    6foot2inhighheels:I once read a Sci-fu book called Guns of the South, where racists from the future armed Lee’s Army with modern guns to fight the North.

    I wonder how cell phones and twitter would have changed the Reagan years.

    DC Mayor Marion Barry may not have been re-elected… Abscam would have gone viral and Gary Hart and Donna Rice may have had a sex tape.

    #monkey business.

    Would The Clintons have made it big still?

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    Basil Fawlty

    @BasilFawlty

    

    2:37 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

    DocJay:

    Dave Sussman:

    6foot2inhighheels:I once read a Sci-fu book called Guns of the South, where racists from the future armed Lee’s Army with modern guns to fight the North.

    I wonder how cell phones and twitter would have changed the Reagan years.

    DC Mayor Marion Barry may not have been re-elected… Abscam would have gone viral and Gary Hart and Donna Rice may have had a sex tape.

    #monkey business.

    Would The Clintons have made it big still?

    Don’t know about Hillary, but Bill probably wouldn’t have had a problem.

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    Chuck Enfield

    @ChuckEnfield

    5:57 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

    BrentB67:Thanks. I actually get those jokes.

    If I wasn’t feeling old before I am now.

    What jokes?

    Thanks for the memories though.  I forgot all about Twitter in the ’80’s.

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    JimGoneWild

    @JimGoneWild

    6:51 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

    My 8-track player stopped working. Can you repeat some of those “tweets”, as you call them?

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    Umbra Fractus

    @UmbraFractus

    8:23 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

    The Dowager Jojo:

    This kind of thing always disorients me because it takes me a minute to realize the 80’s actually were…….a while ago.

    A few months ago Gary McVey mentioned something that happened “thirty years ago.” It took me a few pages worth of comments to realize that “thirty years ago” was 1986.

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    Umbra Fractus

    @UmbraFractus

    8:28 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 9, 2016

    @ValleyGyrl Wait! Paul McCartney used to be in a band with Julian Lennon’s dad? #NotBuyingIt

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    David Deeble

    @DavidDeeble

    12:45 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 10, 2016

    This is great!

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    Chris

    @Chris

    5:05 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 10, 2016

    RightAngles:

    Michael Minnott:I still fondly remember when music videos were a big deal. Not just on MTV, but local stations would have music video shows on after school. They had a certain cheesey charm to them.

    I know! I can still remember the first time I saw one. We were at a northside bar in Chicago, and suddenly all the TV screens had Madonna singing one of her songs and acting it out! We said, “Wh-a-a-a? Did they make a movie out of it?”

    Like some others here I remember Day One of MTV, but just as memorable was the first school day after Michael Jackson’s Thriller video came out.  It was the talk of the school – we just couldn’t get over how long it was and all the special effects.

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    Ario IronStar

    @ArioIronStar

    5:24 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 10, 2016

    That’s so gay.

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    Dave Sussman

    @DaveSussman

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    8:23 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 10, 2016

    Mate De:Hahahaha these are great. I used to wear Electric Youth perfume lol

    #tiffanywasahackdebbiealltheway

    I knew you looked familiar!

    #IthinkI’llBemoanNow

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    Dave Sussman

    @DaveSussman

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    8:25 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 10, 2016

    Basil Fawlty:This is so bogus. I just checked Wikipedia and Twitter didn’t even exist in the 1980s. Ricochet needs to employ some professional fact checkers like the New Yorker does.

    #WontGetFooledAgain

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    Dave Sussman

    @DaveSussman

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    8:40 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 10, 2016

    Im gonna say it… was a little surprised this went main feed.

    Maybe someone can find and post their 70’s browser history.

    ie: (www.LeaveTheGunTakeTheCannoli.com)

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    Dave Sussman

    @DaveSussman

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    8:57 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 10, 2016

    DocJay:

    Dave Sussman:

    6foot2inhighheels:I once read a Sci-fu book called Guns of the South, where racists from the future armed Lee’s Army with modern guns to fight the North.

    I wonder how cell phones and twitter would have changed the Reagan years.

    DC Mayor Marion Barry may not have been re-elected… Abscam would have gone viral and Gary Hart and Donna Rice may have had a sex tape.

    #monkey business.

    Would The Clintons have made it big still?

    @docjay You may recall Rose Law Firm had a really nifty 80’s Facebook page for a new land development deal… It was called Whitewater until a group called #BlackWatersMatter suggested the name was racially insensitive to other fluids.

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    DocJay

    @DocJay

    10:27 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 10, 2016

    #blue dress fluids matter.

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    TG

    @TG

    10:37 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 10, 2016

    DocJay:#blue dress fluids matter.

    Silly DocJay.  Get with the program.  #EveryoneLiesAboutSex.

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    Titus Techera

    @TitusTechera

    10:46 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 10, 2016

    Eighties? Blue dress? Creepy? I’m your huckleberry! This has taken me away from Warren Zevon, who was a thing in the eighties, too, but here it is. You probably have to imagine listening to this drunk:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMZocFVTSNE

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    Randy Webster

    @RandyWebster

    1:01 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 10, 2016

    I thought that was Mitch Ryder.

28. Member
    Titus Techera

    @TitusTechera

    1:04 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 10, 2016

    I guess, yeah–instant hit, just add one devil.