End of the 80s!

Well goodbye to the 80s! I wonder what the next decade will bring?!

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Last night I was at an 80s nostalgia party - which is kind of odd but also very fitting. There were posters all over the house with the top "phrases" and "sayings" of this rather forgettable decade, mixed and matched with pictures in a way that initially seemed random, but perhaps was not...

"Where's the beef?"	Dan Quayle
"Grody to the max"	Don Johnson
"You, Sir, are no Jack Kennedy"	"We Are the World" video
"Who shot J.R.?"	George Bush
Boy Toy	Dr. Ruth
"Gag me with a spoon"	Oliver North
Power Lunch	Scene from The Breakfast Club
Bimbo	Reagan, Bush and Gorbachev
Carb Load	Donald Trump
"Girls just wanna have fun"	Clarence Thomas
"We start bombing in five minutes"	Some hair metal band
"Just say no"	Scene from Ishtar
"Preppie	Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat
"Radical!"	Woman in big-shouldered power suit
"Totally tubular!"	Berlin Wall coming down
Valley Girl	Sun City, South Africa
Buppie	David Letterman
Passive/Agressive	Christie Brinkley
"Wicked!"	Tiananmen Square
"Gnarly!"	The Supreme Court
"Plate o shrimp"	Scene from Footloose
"I'll be back"	a grid with a bunch of triangles
The Brat Pack	Madonna
Space Cadet	a Rubik's Cube
"I've fallen and I can't get up"	Pac Man screen
Wine Coolers	Democratic presidential candidates, 1984
Material Girl	Mr. T
Power Tie	Scene from Blue Velvet
Golden Parachute	Nancy Reagan with Papa Smurf
"I want my MTV	Space Shuttle Challenger
Star Wars	Leg Warmers
Slam Dance	Falklands War
Spokesmodel	E.T.

and so on.

The food? Well, sushi, pesto pasta (you know, the carbo load) oat bran muffins... someone even brought a six pack of New Coke. Repo Man was playing in the other room.

The hostess was wearing leg warmers and the host had on a power tie. Pretty awesome.

Well, I got pretty wasted. I don't really remember everything, except that there was a Madonna wanna-be contest, followed by some slam dancing. It was rad!