Post #126,846
11/20/03 2:07:46 PM
11/20/03 2:08:13 PM
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Another silly quiz...
[link|http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s.html|92.4. And I didn't even cheat]
Qualifies for junkie status apparently.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
Edited by bepatient
Nov. 20, 2003, 02:08:13 PM EST
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Post #126,855
11/20/03 2:37:44 PM
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Hey, no fair
Your generation stuck mine with a motherload of cultural horrors (bradys! disco! plaid! roller skating!). -30% for being a yuppie.
5 point bonus for telling me where you saw this. Thanks!
Final Score: 33.35 So I think I got 58.35. Couple spelling things, and several more I could have given artist and song but not lyric. ===
Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
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Post #126,857
11/20/03 2:53:48 PM
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Re: Another silly quiz...
54.5 (if you count the ones where I misspelled the answer, but basically got it right)
Hey, I'm a child of the '70s; I always thought the '80s were a vast wasteland musically...
jb4
"There are two ways for you to have lower Prescription-drug costs. One is you could hire Rush Limbaugh's housekeeper ... or you can elect me President."
John Kerry
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Post #126,865
11/20/03 3:13:46 PM
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I would tend to agree...
...that from a pop music perspective...the 80s was pretty much a waste. Good music was around..it just didn't get played on pop radio.
I was a dj for 7 of the 10 years of the 80s...1 was freeform, 4 years college, 2 years classic rock.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #126,900
11/20/03 5:20:50 PM
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So I was lead to believe from earlier posts.
I was "in the biz" for 6 years in the seventies: 3 at a small comercial 1KW AM, 3 at a large rock station in Albuquerque (and witnessed the transmogrification of FM radio from freeform, to formatted to "adult contemporary").
jb4
"There are two ways for you to have lower Prescription-drug costs. One is you could hire Rush Limbaugh's housekeeper ... or you can elect me President."
John Kerry
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Post #126,860
11/20/03 3:05:58 PM
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Yeah, right.
You were probably working in a bank in the 80's. 15% handicap on the Gen Xers.
No bonus for telling me where you saw this. How sad for you!
Final Score: 37.95 .
Err..
I was working as a roadie for a band in the 80s. *Not* a top forties band. And I'm not a Gen Xer; baby boomer's more accurate.
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It is much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why?
Because it is easier to give someone the finger than it is to give them a helping hand.
Mike Royko
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Post #126,861
11/20/03 3:07:31 PM
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69.975
missed a few for spelling (eg. heard instead of hear) ah well, some I should have known.
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #126,864
11/20/03 3:10:35 PM
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Ahem. 109
And I was born a few months before the guy who wrote the test, incidentally. :-) You grew up to this. No Bonus. No penalty.
5 point bonus for telling me where you saw this. Thanks! Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #126,866
11/20/03 3:14:50 PM
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damn!!!
As my friend said who sent me this...who scored over 98...you need to get a life ;-)
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #126,867
11/20/03 3:15:38 PM
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No...
I needed a life back in the 80's... ;-)
My excuse was that I was a teenager. What was yours? ;-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #126,869
11/20/03 3:16:24 PM
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I was...
..a god-damned drunk!
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #126,870
11/20/03 3:17:13 PM
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That was late 80s...
Ah, college...
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #126,871
11/20/03 3:23:01 PM
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Pretty much the entire decade for me.
Moved to Europe...where drinking was legal...went to college when legal age was still 18....so I essentially didn't slow down. I hit the 80's at full speed and just >blazed< right on through :-)
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #126,868
11/20/03 3:16:03 PM
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Re: Another silly quiz...
I can't take it, because I only knew about 2 when I looked at it. I know so little 80's music, I mostly listen to 70's music. Now... if it was 70's music.... ;)
John on the other hand, would probably ace it. :)
Nightowl >8#
"The difference between being immature and child-like is that one is what you are, and one is what you choose to be."
Comment by Nightowl {O,O}
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Post #126,902
11/20/03 5:22:37 PM
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Oh, C'mon! Don't wimp out, girl!
Give it a whack!
jb4
"There are two ways for you to have lower Prescription-drug costs. One is you could hire Rush Limbaugh's housekeeper ... or you can elect me President."
John Kerry
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Post #126,907
11/20/03 5:37:37 PM
11/20/03 5:41:48 PM
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Re: Oh, C'mon! Don't wimp out, girl!
Okay.... but you'll all laugh at me.
27 points.
Nightowl >8#
Edit: I told you all, I didn't listen to 80's music in the 80's. I listened to 70's music... and I still do. :)
"The difference between being immature and child-like is that one is what you are, and one is what you choose to be."
Comment by Nightowl {O,O}
Edited by Nightowl
Nov. 20, 2003, 05:41:48 PM EST
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Post #126,945
11/20/03 8:49:57 PM
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Okay, John took it :)
He got a 55.75, but they subtracted 30 points for him being a Yuppie.
Still, he knew a LOT more than I did!
Nightowl >8#
"The difference between being immature and child-like is that one is what you are, and one is what you choose to be."
Comment by Nightowl {O,O}
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Post #126,925
11/20/03 7:10:48 PM
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31.5
80s sucked.
70s was pretty good.
60s was great.
I'd like to see the same type of quiz for the other decades.
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Post #126,963
11/20/03 9:45:01 PM
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24.85
60s was great
Anyone who has ever met you, Barry, could figure you'd say that one. I'm surprised you remember the 60s, if they were that good. ;-)
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Post #127,008
11/21/03 9:05:22 AM
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I wasn't "there"
Born in 63.
But I appreciate a lot of the music from that time frame.
Most of the music I listen to is probably from 65-83ish.
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Post #127,013
11/21/03 9:21:17 AM
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November I assume
..just before the Tragedy, which as it turns out was 40 yrs ago today.
-drl
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Post #127,157
11/21/03 6:46:52 PM
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August
I like to pretend that he had premonitions of the event and his true spirit abandoned his body and jumped into mine. Which I now spend a lifetime fighting in an attempt to immerse myself in selfish degradation. It seems to be working.
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Post #127,188
11/21/03 8:41:03 PM
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1963? I'm older than you? I'm screwed!
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Post #127,189
11/21/03 8:48:14 PM
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Yeah...looks like you are...
neener neener
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #127,190
11/21/03 8:53:20 PM
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Bastidge! Have at you! "navarone bepatient"
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Post #127,194
11/21/03 9:04:44 PM
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You are indeed brave, Sir knight, but the fight is mine.
stylewhack2 n3jja
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #127,195
11/21/03 9:12:50 PM
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Tis but a scratch! Have at you! "acidbomb bepatient"
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Post #127,211
11/21/03 11:32:18 PM
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What are you going to do, bleed on me?
mauser n3jja.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #127,247
11/22/03 9:50:42 AM
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Runnin' away are you?
Come back here! I'll bite your kneecaps off!
machinegun bepatient
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Post #127,269
11/22/03 2:56:56 PM
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Omigawd.. the dread___KNEE-CAPSLOCK key ON.
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Post #127,270
11/22/03 3:09:55 PM
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Re: Omigawd.. the dread___KNEE-CAPSLOCK key ON.
SOMEONE CALL THE KNIGHTS THAT SAY KNEE!? ;)
Nightowl >8#
"The difference between being immature and child-like is that one is what you are, and one is what you choose to be."
Comment by Nightowl {O,O}
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Post #127,358
11/23/03 3:51:12 PM
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Guhhrrroooaaann - and Spot-On, feathered hooter :-\ufffd
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Post #127,574
11/25/03 12:11:14 PM
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MY SUGGESTIONS ARE THE RESULT OF COUNTLESS NANOSECONDS OF
COUNTLESS NANOSECONDS OF COGITATION! HOW DARE YOU REJECT THEM?!?
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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Post #126,975
11/20/03 11:23:06 PM
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Another yuppie...
Your generation stuck mine with a motherload of cultural horrors (bradys! disco! plaid! roller skating!). -30% for being a yuppie.
5 point bonus for telling me where you saw this. Thanks!
Final Score: 27.05
I always liked the music better than the lyrics, anyway.
U2 guiter riffs.
Dire Straits, keyboards.
Metallica non stop heavy metal.
Glen
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Post #126,987
11/21/03 6:49:54 AM
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-14
Might have been better, but quit after only being able to answer 2 questions out of the first 50... Tooooooo Old
"All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever."
1 Peter 1:24-25
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Post #126,988
11/21/03 6:50:01 AM
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-14
Might have been better, but quit after only being able to answer 2 questions out of the first 50... Tooooooo Old
"All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever."
1 Peter 1:24-25
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Post #127,076
11/21/03 11:41:18 AM
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Final Score: 92
Bonus Question 1: Giddy Up! 2 points.
Bonus Question 2: Duh. 1/2 point.
Bonus Question 3: Wow! You remember your School House Rock, too! Bonus: 2
You grew up to this. No Bonus. No penalty.
5 point bonus for telling me where you saw this. Thanks!
-YendorMike
[link|http://www.hope-ride.org/|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
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Post #127,083
11/21/03 12:05:26 PM
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44.9 - and I *like* that music!
"Voices Carry"? No wonder I could never find that song - I thought it was "Mrs. Geary".
You don't know what you have 'till it's gone. Lots of great background music in that list.
-drl
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Post #127,105
11/21/03 2:08:22 PM
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Yes...the music of the '80s is...
...the elevator music of the next millenium!
jb4
"There are two ways for you to have lower Prescription-drug costs. One is you could hire Rush Limbaugh's housekeeper ... or you can elect me President."
John Kerry
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Post #127,107
11/21/03 2:35:23 PM
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Re: Yes...the music of the '80s is...
I still remember being in the grocery store and becoming aware the the Muzak version of "Born to Run" was playing - I laughed out loud. "What's next, Whipping Post?"
-drl
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Post #127,124
11/21/03 4:23:59 PM
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Re: Yes...the music of the '80s is...
...the elevator music of the next millenium! Yikes!!! One more reason for owls to avoid elevators in the next millenium! Nightowl >8# "The difference between being immature and child-like is that one is what you are, and one is what you choose to be."
Comment by Nightowl {O,O}
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