First thing that comes to mind when you think of the 1980's

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Snap bracelets, Pledging Allegiance in school, civics class, "put your heads on your desks," 80's hair, shoulder pads, blue eyeshadow, lipstick that changed color Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Transformers/Jem/He-Man/She-Ra/... and a sugary bowl of cereal, Snow Days, sitting "Indian Style", leg warmers, Punky Brewster high tops, neon colors, stirrup leggings, Lisa Frank school supplies, sequins gowns (I remember being spellbound by them and my mother remembers smiling as she had to drag me away), arcades, candy cigarettes, Gremlins, fall of the Berlin Wall, Hands Across America, Live Aid, Band Aid, We Are The World, MTV, Pat Benetar, Queen, coin operated rides outside the grocery store, pay phones, lunch ladies serving cooked food, celebrating birthdays in class, celebrating holidays in class, candy for right answers, roller skating parties for birthdays, the smell of my own hair burning from being crimped or blown dry, dirt cake, rows of wooden desks with tops that opened, mud pie, library checkout cards, scratch and sniff stickers, Chinese Chicken Salad, receiving gift certificates from Burger King for doing well in spelling bees, The Elephant Show, plastic lunch boxes that came with a thermos, making ash trays in art class, finger puppets and sweatbands from the rewards bag for doing well in class, Red Rover, chalk dust from chalkboards, In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, reading Weekly Reader in class, dodge ball, frozen yogurt, chocolate milk for helping to set up the lunch room, Giorgio (perfume), reams and reams of dot matrix paper, buying ice cream from the ice cream truck that came to my school yard, climbing trees that bordered the school yard, ordering books and posters from Scholastic, watching Bob Ross paint, Poison (perfume), Tales From The Dark Side, the troll dolls on my teacher's desk, Care Bear Stare, don't touch the radiator (my school and some peoples houses had the old kind that got really hot), homemade zucchini bread, Obsession (perfume), Exxon Valdez oil spill in the Arctic, Flo-Jo, "It's 10 o'clock, do you know where your children are?," weeple, PSA's for wearing your safety belt and not driving drunk and not doing drugs, McGruff the crime dog ("take a bite out of crime"), Rubik's cubes, ink on my fingers from a warm fresh copy of a worksheet, going door to door selling chocolates and magazine subscriptions so my school could get money and I could win a see-through phone, pizza party for the whole class if we read x number of books each and gave book reports on each book, rotary phone, fish n'chips wrapped in newspaper, long spirals of phone cord, recording from the boombox, hole in the ozone layer, home made Chex muddy buddies, card catalogs, rolodexes, Cabbage Patch Dolls, people starving in Ethiopia, wreckage the Titanic discovered, learning to type on a beige/gray computer with a black screen and glowing green letters, pasty glue in a jar, Duck Hunt, Tetris, Mario Brothers, Zelda, Chernobyl, Baby Jessica, AIDS crisis (you can't get it from hugging, you can't get it from shaking hands...), is flag burning a form of speech?