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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:14 PM Author: spectacular reading party office Please someone respond so my 33 year old ass doesn’t feel geriatric anymore (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316627) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 1:58 PM Author: emerald orchestra pit gunner what are January birthdays like? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35320929) |
Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:17 PM Author: slippery business firm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahLBqD0aqo0 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316659) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:20 PM Author: spectacular reading party office 180 man but here’s the real late 80s
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=agauTTLbOss |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:23 PM Author: slippery business firm heck, yeah - mancrushing on MacGyver (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316695) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 5:23 PM Author: peach mother https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35322066) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:21 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard everyone was white. even the poor people. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316680) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 11:22 PM Author: Brilliant Drunken Kitchen I love how in Who's the Boss, Tony is considered exotic and different because he's Italian. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317653) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 11:45 PM Author: sadistic azn AAAYYY, ANGELUUH! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317799) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 11:51 PM Author: Costumed personal credit line international law enforcement agency MOOOONNNAAAAHHHHH (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317827) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:21 PM Author: abnormal pale abode tattoo i was alive but pretty young. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316682) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:22 PM Author: supple stock car garrison america was still america:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRTTES4BZ04 |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:24 PM Author: slippery business firm yes. it was still 180 back then. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316701) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:24 PM Author: lemon church 2nd grade is blurry. I do know that I keep up with a ton of people from that period since we went o school together all the way until 8th grade. iirc, running home to watch cartoons was a big deal. transformers, gi joe, voltron, he-man, thundercats. we watched a lot of wwf wrestling and would do moves on each other and have fake matches in the school yard. everyone watched baseball and the mets were about to become a big deal. we played tops/scullies/skellzies which was a hood version of marbles but more complex with bottle tops that we would wax or put clay in. http://www.memegen.com/meme/ql6s6a. a lot of milkcrate basketball. http://blog.stompandcrush.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/milk-crate-basketball-hoop.jpg it was a good time. reagan was president. we did the pledge of allegiance every day. july 4th wasn't something you shamed. you traded valentine's day and christmas cards at school. you saw nuns in everyday life. it was 180. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316705) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:25 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard remember playing "pencils?" and "bang cock?" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316712) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:26 PM Author: lemon church LMAO pencil fights! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316716) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:26 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316718) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:29 PM Author: lemon church you ever play the game with the hands where one guy put his palms face up and you put yours top of his and tried to slap his hands without him slipping out?
birthday punches! |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:30 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard slaps, i think.
and planned fights. like after school at the flagpole and it'd be like a rock concert with kids from schools you've never even heard of all lined up to watch. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:32 PM Author: lemon church YES. a lot of kids fought their way up the ranks of respectability that way. once you shot a fair one, basically you were "in". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316767) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:33 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316776) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:25 PM Author: spectacular reading party office Thanks for ruining my life with this poast :((((((( (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316713) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:27 PM Author: lemon church the scholastic book club and book fair was a big deal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316722) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:28 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard remember those color brochures you could buy books off of and they'd come once every couple months? like hardy boys and shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316732) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:29 PM Author: lemon church yeah scholastic book club or arrow. the teacher would hand them out. encyclopedia brown. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316746) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:31 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard fuck i want to suicide. if death wasn't forever...i guess i can wait another 10-40 years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316763) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:31 PM Author: lemon church we were pretty poor nationally speaking but relatively well to do in my neighborhood and my mom and dad said "you can order any book you want from that"
i had a MASSIVE personal library as a kid. i finally took over the house from them after they moved to PR and i go to the attic and find that my mom saved my entire library. hundreds of books. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:32 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard yeah i recently found some shit in my parents' attic. old homework folded in half in stephen king books and shit. stuff never turned in, obviously. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316774) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:38 PM Author: marvelous federal useless brakes This sounds like the early 90's when I was in elementary school, but put in power rangers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316816) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:57 PM Author: apoplectic pit I'm a couple years younger than you but cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317011) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 11:12 AM Author: chrome friendly grandma Were people inclusive of LGTBQTTP+XYR folk? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35319940) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 2:57 PM Author: lemon church there were 2 gay dudes who lived together in my building. they were part of the neighborhood just like everyone else. they owned a hair salon called "the joint" which had a big cannibus leaf as the symbol. no one seemed to give them trouble. they were just flaming homos. like...ok. junior would eventually be one of the first AIDS deaths i remember.
there was one crossdresser (tranny?) and that person was 100% unhinged. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:25 PM Author: lemon church also saturday morning cartoons while gorging on cereal was a big deal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316711) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:26 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard i actually hated it when noon came and my dad booted me out of the living room for college football. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316715) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:31 PM Author: slippery business firm booted or punted? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316762) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:35 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard he'd change the channel and i'd cry or something and he'd punch my stomach, actually. he was a high ranking officer and we lived in annapolis so violence was expected. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316790) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:30 PM Author: slippery business firm i think 1985 was the year the zeitgeist of the 80s really gelled.
i remember drinking lots of wine coolers, and i went to a formal event wearing a royal blue cumberbund and matching bow tie.
also, my hair was practically airborne from all the mousse i used |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:31 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard wtf i'm old and i was scared of gremlins in '85. are you a boomer? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316757) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:32 PM Author: slippery business firm them's fightin' words (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316771) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 10:41 PM Author: Puce boltzmann sex offender (literal 50 year old) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317399) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 10:35 PM Author: Fishy dead base Damn you’re old (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317344) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:34 PM Author: Racy deer antler someone post that 7-11 video (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316786) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:36 PM Author: lemon church this is very culturally specific but...
it was MACHO TIME! |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:37 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard and jake the snake roberts. i was like "how's that shit not illegal?" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316811) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:42 PM Author: Provocative embarrassed to the bone tanning salon Say no to drugs posters and rallies were everywhere at school. Different strokes was a popular sitcom and remember how hot as fuck dana plato was. Pretty sure she was one of my first crushes. Just beat that pussy up.
Michael J fox could still play pac man. Airline jackings and soviet union were the biggest national threats. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:43 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard alyssa milano (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316860) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:43 PM Author: Racy deer antler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winners_Don%27t_Use_Drugs#/media/File:Winners_Dont_Use_Drugs.png (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316868) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:45 PM Author: lemon church bicycle man, gordon jump ca. 1983 tho. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316881) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:49 PM Author: Provocative embarrassed to the bone tanning salon U watch cheers? I remember watching a lot of it bc my older brothers were into it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316920) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 10:06 PM Author: lemon church sam malone...man among men. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317095) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 11:05 PM Author: Fishy dead base Being pro-life was “cool.” See the shirts here:
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:43 PM Author: lemon church https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wometco_Home_Theater
people either had WHT or HBO, but they werent cable per se. they were stand alone boxes. so if your dad wanted to watch a fight, you would go to his friend's house or yours, depending on the channel, to watch the fight. invariably your dad was drinking and all the boys of the men were there because all the moms forced the dads to take their sons to "man them up". you could steal one beer from the fridge, and split it with your friends and our dads would fake being upset but it was no big deal and they even took pictures of you hammered. you know...shit you go to jail for now. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:44 PM Author: Racy deer antler what about those huge ass satellites (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316874) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:45 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard remember the tyson fights. and getting wrestlemania iv on bootleg vhs and that king kong bundy hulk fight made me cream. and the andre the giant big john stud $75K fight. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316878) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:46 PM Author: lemon church i saw wrestlemania iii on closed circuit at the felt forum at MSG. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316888) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:47 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard that's fancy. i loved those cheap wrestling leagues like ric flair on some weird channel before wwf, and those steel cage matches only in wrestling magazines in leagues that weren't even televised. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316901) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:52 PM Author: lemon church are you a nycmo? i watched all the wrestling on U68 in the day. they had syndicated wrestling from across the country for a couple of years. like mid south on mondays, world class on tuesday, nwa jim crockett promotions on wednesday (what your talking about), championship wrestling from florida (thursdays) and memphis on fridays. all at like 7:30pm. one day i go for my regular wrestling fix and it's the home shopping network.
and like that. POOF. it was gone.
I loved the wrestling mags. my dad would "pay" me in wrestling magazines the days I went to work with him in the truck by taking me to an optimo smoke shop and let me get two of the "apter" mags like pro wrestling illustrated or "the wrestler".
great times. THE BEST of times. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:54 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard it was literally the best time of my life.
i lived in maryland but the channels sound similar. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:49 PM Author: lemon church tyson fights were a spectacle. just like the country was electric.
the only other thing that were like tyson fights my whole life was the short time i lived in the boston area and pedro was on the mound. the whole city buzzed. you'd be on the red line and the conductor would randomly say "pedro has 4 ks and no hits through 5". old lady in her office listening to the radio. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:44 PM Author: idiotic umber principal's office 1985 was a time of innocence before high top sneakers became a thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316871) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:48 PM Author: slippery business firm you could still get colognes that didn't smell like air freshener or lemon pledge.
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:48 PM Author: Maroon knife https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s92DFGRNv0s (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316908) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:49 PM Author: rebellious razzle stead idk all i remember is going to nursery school. lots of apple juice (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35316917) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:51 PM Author: Arousing Theatre Force MDs: Tender Love:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pW_vpwbERBo
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:55 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard in case anyone's still alive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ&list=PLvdr2fcSSucdRPCLWH7AZxCl4voskV20c |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:59 PM Author: lemon church 80s threading aka "seeding the XO seppuku cult" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317029) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:58 PM Author: Arousing Theatre Ready for the World, Oh Sheila:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wbL2lMn34Oo |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 9:59 PM Author: lake ungodly step-uncle's house rigor I think people had to catch dinosaurs with spears for food. dark time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317028) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 10:06 PM Author: rebellious razzle stead bouncers, who let this child into this thread? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317101) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 10:05 PM Author: Provocative embarrassed to the bone tanning salon I think smoking was still ok to do in restaurants and work. I remember these cigarette vending machine and my dad would give me money to get him some. I think u pulled a knob and it would dispense it.
Edit: apparemtly this was still an option well into the 90s. I do remember playing with the ash tray lid on flights. Just open and closing it. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 10:06 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard yes to all of that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317097) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 10:15 PM Author: lemon church yessir. i remember going to the store to get cigarettes for my mom and play illegal lottery (PR and DR lotto) and they gave you whatever you needed no big deal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317168) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 10:20 PM Author: Costumed personal credit line international law enforcement agency this shit was doable post 2000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317215) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 11:55 PM Author: rebellious razzle stead Yeah. I went on a diligence trip to flint Michigan in 2009 and they still had smoking sections (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317851) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 10:29 AM Author: Provocative embarrassed to the bone tanning salon Not sure when it all stopped in my state. I do remember sitting on flights and playing with the ashtray lid - open... Close... Open...close (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35319662) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 11:54 PM Author: sadistic azn Those cigarette vending machines in restaurants were fucking cool, they were like big pipe organs with all those knobs. Really COMMANDED RESPECT when you were on your way to the bathroom or whatever. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317841) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 12:24 AM Author: lemon church they SHOWED BIG. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35318020) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 10:24 PM Author: lemon church also saturdays after cartoons, if it was bad weather and you couldn't go out and play, you watched kung fu flicks on channel 5. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317243) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 10:36 PM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard i never knew if it was 1 punch or 10 angles of the same punch. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317360) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 10:38 PM Author: lemon church those guys were 180 filmmakers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317381) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 11:45 PM Author: sadistic azn And if you accidentally woke up too early for cartoons there would either be a test pattern on, or some TV preacher (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317801) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 11:47 PM Author: rebellious razzle stead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317807) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 12:05 AM Author: Costumed personal credit line international law enforcement agency dem infomercials (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317916) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 12:19 AM Author: sadistic azn I think those came later, I don't think there were a lot of infomercials yet in 1985. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317993) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 12:21 AM Author: Excitant out-of-control gas station haunted graveyard no it was a horizontal rainbow screen util 7am. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35318008) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 12:21 AM Author: Costumed personal credit line international law enforcement agency fair enough
(i was three then) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 11:23 PM Author: flirting exciting liquid oxygen or exercise babes in leg warmers and matching sweat bands (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35325654) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 10:59 PM Author: spectacular reading party office Thread fucking delivered holy fuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317542) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2018 11:38 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317756) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 12:01 AM Author: Glittery spot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35317890) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 12:33 AM Author: laughsome shrine puppy My grandfather would take us to Dodgers games and drink a beer or four in heavy traffic on I-10 with one elbow on the window, taking sips as we went along. when he was done he'd crunch the can and hand it back to myself or sister and say "y'all put that down under the seat where no one can see" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35318081) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 11:09 AM Author: Motley Legal Warrant Range (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35319919) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 8:49 AM Author: Flesh wrinkle This wasn’t even a thing yet. And look at the McDonald’s staff....
https://youtu.be/yfH3yf-vf3A |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 11:06 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle Canary Locus this movie was in post-production in 1985 (it came out in 1986). probably the best synopsis of how kickass america was at the time. also probably one of the best intros to a movie EVER. brings back fond memories because this is the first movie i can recall ever seeing at a movie theater (with my now-deceased grandpa).
https://youtu.be/vVKlYpP1KEE |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 11:21 AM Author: Provocative embarrassed to the bone tanning salon Not sure if around '85, but there was definitely this feeling that the Japanese were going to take over. I remember a flood of Japanese items like Nintendo, movies, and clothing style. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3881540&forum_id=2#35320017) |
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Date: February 4th, 2018 2:24 PM Author: Purple comical yarmulke just checked top 100 songs. 1984 was better as 1985 and 1986 have a higher % of pussy songs biggest difference is that it looks like run dmc cover of aero smith is only rap group of those 300 songs and it is 86 |