Dear Abby says 80s music is "awesome"...

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Abby's quite understanding of this poor 10 yr old's dilemma. God KNOWS I've felt this way at times...

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DEAR ABBY: I am 10. I was born in 1994. My problem is I really, really wish I had lived in the '80s. I know this sounds stupid, but the style was awesome -- not skanky. The music was great -- not rap. The '80s seem awesome! I mean, they had good songs like "She Blinded Me With Science." The '80s seem so cool -- at least people are always saying so.
Help, Abby, please. I'm sitting here listening to '80s music now. I wouldn't admit this to anyone else except my mom or dad. -- BORN IN THE WRONG ERA

DEAR IN THE WRONG ERA: I can't "fix" your problem, but it may comfort you to know that many people feel the way you do about various eras -- and that includes the roaring '20s, the romantic '30s, the fashionable '40s, the revolutionary '60s, the experimental '70s, as well as the "awesome" '80s.
When you're older, you'll be able to satisfy your "itch" to live in the '80s by collecting music, clothing and accessories from that decade. It's not exactly a trip back in time, but it will capture the nostalgia.

― chr1sb0y (chr1sb0y), Friday, 24 June 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

"When I was six and a half I spent a lot of time in Brooklyn, and I thought I'd finally found my place. But then Jay-Z released another album and everything collapsed."

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 June 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

God, I cursed living through the 80's quite often.

I came to terms with it eventually.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 24 June 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

"Jaren 80? Bedenk zelf wat."

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 24 June 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Skanky rap gets a bad rep.

― a real live British pub hooligan (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 June 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

It was awesome how there was no rap in the '80s.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 24 June 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

DEAR IN THE WRONG ERA:

May I suggest picking up Thomas Dolby's The Flat Earth instead of only listening to his obvious single. Stupid bitch.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 24 June 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Problem pages were a lot better in the 80s as well.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 24 June 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

correct response:
"You are not cool enough to live in the 80s"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 24 June 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

is this the awesome, octopus-like influence of bowling for soup manifesting itself?

or is bowling for soup merely a symptom of the awesome, octopus-like influence of this 10 yr old?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 24 June 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

correct response:
"You are not cool enough to live in the 80s"

That certainly was my problem...

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 24 June 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

this exchange is so banal i think my brain just caved in

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 24 June 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Aw, "BORN IN THE WRONG ERA" is me ca. 1992, except I was twelve years old instead of ten. When I was ten I was in my "I love the '70s" phase. Long story short, I totally empathize with BITWE.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 24 June 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mujweb.cz/www/David_Tramba/ModTal.jpg

"You bet it was awesome!"

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 24 June 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

Dear Abby,

Got a problem. I'm a decent, underpaid, hardworking county coroner. It's important that my family eat meat at least three times a week. But we just can't afford to with the prices the way they are. So I bring home some choice cuts from my autopsy subjects. Just mix in the Tuna Helper:and ta-da!

The whole family thinks my new meals are delicious. They ask me what's my secret. Abby, I think they're getting suspicious. My smart-ass 8-year-old keeps asking, "Where's all the meat? The red dye #2 kind that's kept in the fridge."

If they find out the truth I don't think they'll understand. Abby, what do I tell my family?
DEAR REAGANOMICS VICTIM: Consult your clergyman. Make sure the body's blessed and everything should be just fine.

― DJ Mencap0))), Friday, 24 June 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

DEAR IN THE WRONG ERA: but let me make it clear that no people feel the way you do about eras like the invisible '50s.

― Poppy (poppy), Friday, 24 June 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

You know, Ilived thru half the 80's. yeah.... hmm... i mean, "No Sleep Till Broklyn" was on MTV instead of "C-c-c-c-check it Out". That was pretty sweet.

Isn't ten years old a little early to be feeling out of place era-wise. Actually, I guess by 3rd grade I thought I should have been born in time to live thru the release of "Axis:Bold As Love". But dude, I got to live thru NIRVANA! No qualms here!

Stiil, a 10 yr old waxing wanna-be-nostolgic about the 80's? Man, times are changing.

And where is this kid getting his info from? What, no skanks at any of those RUN DMC concerts? Please, the RASING HELL tour shoulda been called the FUCKIN SKANKS tour.

I also like how aparently Thomes Dolby is better than an entire genre of music. Someone needs to buy this kid a fuckin Tone Loc record.

― tonyD (noiseyrock), Friday, 24 June 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

DEAR ABBY: Your advice was not sufficient. I'm putting the finishing touces on my Quasarr2000 time machine (patent pending) and soon my dream will come true. I thought you might like to know that once I arrive in the 80s, one of my plans is to stalk you and alter your future drastically. This exchange will never even have happened! Did I just blow your mind? (that last question is rhetorical, you don't have to answer it in your column) -- BORN IN THE WRONG ERA

― Ô¿Ô (eman), Friday, 24 June 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

To be anal for its own sake, the thread subject line does not accurately reflect Abby's own opinion of 80s music, which is not actually given.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 24 June 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

(But, yeah, that's such a non-answer. She could have at least tried to make the kid feel more comfortable about being honest about his or her tastes [especially if "people are always saying" that the 80s were awesome].)

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 24 June 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

(Although maybe being honest isn't actually always the best policy.)

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 24 June 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

the roaring '20s, the romantic '30s, the fashionable '40s, the revolutionary '60s, the experimental '70s, as well as the "awesome" '80s.

What about the fifties!

― babyalive (babyalive), Saturday, 25 June 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

DEAR ABBY: Your advice was not sufficient. I'm putting the finishing touces on my Quasarr2000 time machine (patent pending) and soon my dream will come true.

Science!

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Saturday, 25 June 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

Great, another Ultragirrrl thread!

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

How were the 40s "fashionable"? Is that just in the interest of alliteration? If so, couldn't it be the "Fascist fightin' 40s"?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

"borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered Eighties"

― Ian Riese-Moraine eats nation-states for breakfast! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

she skipped the fifties!

― ra's al latebloomer: not a dolphin lover, honest (latebloomer), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

I just assumed this was another one of those fake letters that made it through the vetting process.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

how many times is someone going to post that she missed the fifties?

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.xenu.net/archive/fifties/asf.jpg

― Ô¿Ô (eman), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Do you think she should have looked for a New Haven postmark, Josh?

Actually, I think what she was trying to say was that the 1980s was when Nick Lowe recorded "Awesome," which I believe is true.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Quite the pity that the cover wasn't illustrating ol' Elron's deal there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

I see that Poul Anderson's name is there, but no mention of the craze he started, the Society for Creative Anachronism.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

"the tendentious twenties!"
"the fatuous forties!"
"the fickle fifties!"
"the specious sixties!"
"the suggestable seventies!"

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 25 June 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

"the romantic '30s"

dustbowl, okies, rise of facsism, bread lines, mass starvation, etc.

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 27 June 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

i blame the parents

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 27 June 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

You know what decade I really wish I could have lived in? The 2010s, what with their nanohouse, thongpacks, and adoption of gender neutral pronouns like "hyr"!

― Millions now living will never die! (honestengine), Monday, 27 June 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

DEAR ABBY: I am 10. I was born in 1994. My problem is I really, really wish I had lived in the period between 1976 and 1983. I know this sounds stupid, but the style was awesome -- not skanky. The music was great -- not rap. The period of time between 1976 and 1983 seem awesome! I mean, they had good songs like "She Blinded Me With Science." The period of time between 1976 and 1983 seem so cool -- at least people are always saying so.
Help, Abby, please. I'm sitting here listening to music made between 1976 and 1983 now. I wouldn't admit this to anyone else except my mom or dad. -- BORN IN THE WRONG ERA

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

This thread roolz.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 16 September 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

DEAR ABBY: I am 10. I was born in 1934. My problem is I really, really wish I had lived in the '20s. I know this sounds stupid, but the style was awesome -- not skanky. The music was great -- not swing. The '20s seem awesome! I mean, they had good songs like "Crazy Blues." The '20s seem so cool -- at least people are always saying so.
Help, Abby, please. I'm sitting here listening to '20s music now. I wouldn't admit this to anyone else except my mom or dad. -- BORN IN THE WRONG ERA

― J. Sot (dogbrute...), Saturday, 16 September 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

This thread makes me so happy I want to die...

But seriously...wasn't the 80's music the shit?

DEAR IN THE WRONG ERA:

May I suggest picking up Thomas Dolby's The Flat Earth instead of only listening to his obvious single. Stupid bitch.

-- cutty (holle...), June 24th, 2005.

hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

― I am not Ted Nugent (Bimble...), Saturday, 16 September 2006 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously...

Nik Kershaw anyone?

― I am not Ted Nugent (Bimble...), Saturday, 16 September 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

Look, the 50s was when Dear Abby got raped, that's why she doesn't want to talk about them, OK? Christ.

― Eppy (Eppy), Saturday, 16 September 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

DEAR ABBY: I am 10. I was born in 1996. My problem is I really, really wish I had lived in the '80s. I know this sounds stupid, but the style was awesome -- not skanky. The computers was great -- not windows. The '80s seem awesome! I mean, they had good guns like the Commodore Vic 20! The '80s seem so cool -- at least people are always saying so.
Help, Abby, please. I'm sitting here imagining I'm programming in Basic now. I wouldn't admit this to anyone else except my mom or dad. -- BORN IN THE WRONG ERA

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 16 September 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

ILM in PWNING 10 yr old SHOCKA: C/D?

― grady (grady), Saturday, 16 September 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahaha! Seriously.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 18 September 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

At least wait until the kid turns 11.

He/She probably is 11 by now....

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 18 September 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker With Flowers In My Hair Who Owned An Atari

― musically (musically), Monday, 18 September 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

OMG I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE

― trees (treesessplode), Monday, 18 September 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

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