JUST FOR THE HECK OF IT

• Haysi Fantayzee
• Fido Dido
• Original New York Seltzer
• The Activision Decathlon
• Rude Dog
• Like Cola
• “St. Elsewhere”
• Dr. J and Larry Bird One On One
• Choose Your Own Adventure
• Swatch Live

• Blackened redfish
• Spy magazine
• Belouis Some
• “ACTING!”
• Big-haired girls who never wore anything but stirrup pants and giant grey sweatshirts
• The first time the Eagles and the Who retired
• . . . and when the money sucked them right back in again
• Phil Collins appearing at both Live Aids
• Willy Wonka Skrunch bars
• “He’s tanned, he’s rested, he’s ready . . . Nixon ‘88″
• Not wearing socks
• The Drive
• The Catch
• Marithe & Francois Girbaud
• Fire Marshall Bill
• “Josie’s on a vacation far away . . .”
• Having to play crappy pop tunes like “Relax” and “Easy Lover” in pep band
• “Who would ever buy a Blazer to haul their family around in?”
• “PSYCH!”
• PB Max
• Chess King
• Everything I Really Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten
• Raid Over Moscow
• “Just the Ten Of Us”
• Having your parents tell you that in their day nobody drank but everybody smoked, then realizing that nobody at your school smoked, but everybody drank
• You were nobody if you didn’t drive a Monte Carlo or Cutlass Supreme
• $10,000 a year was a lot to pay for college
• 400 observational comics asking “What part of the chicken is the McNugget?”
• 20+ years later, we still don’t know
• Robin Williams was funny and Bob Dole wasn’t
• Hearing Baby Boomers ratlle on about the 60s was almost as tiring as hearing Gen Xers bloviate about the 80s must be now