Got tagged with this one on facebook by an old girlfriend. Note the lithe yet powerful legs. Like a jungle cat!
Yes, in the early 80s, I was not unlike a puma. Who listened to a lot of Asia. And drank California Coolers.
Question: Are those shorts? Or did I get naked and sit on a Smurf?
Yeah, the 1970’s had some lingering fashion waves, and looks like the undertow caught you. I hope it was Brainy Smurf you squished – never could stand that little brown-noser.
Otherwise, you look alright there, man. Nothing to be embarrased about.
I’m pretty sure I had Lori’s hairstyle back then.
We all had shorts like that. If I finish this bottle of wine I’m drinking too quickly I may have to upload a photo of me…
I’m more concerned about the angle of the wrist.
Or did I get naked and sit on a Smurf?
No . Trust me on this one , smurf’s do not bleed out evenly .
smurfs , heh.
I notice the white man’s overbite. I think I may have been rocking out to Journey.
I think you secretly wanted to be a stewardess for National Airlines.
I think I may have been rocking out to Journey.
Nah …… the part of your head that shows in the picture definitely has different thoughts .
Air Supply?
Those knees are “awesome”.
I’ll see your 1981 and raise you a 1983.
You’re so brave. I want to be that brave when I grow up.
Didn’t Lileks write a book about the orange walls in that picture?
I’m all out of love.
What’s love got to do with it ?
It was the heat of the moment.
Are you trying to use this to sell ads?
Relax … don’t do it .
My last was for Joe .
A runaway case of blueballs. Find a time machine, and go back to tell yourself “candy is dandy, but liquor’s quicker.”
Journey was awesome! Saw them live during the tour supporting “Frontiers.”
Just today I was listening to Whitesnake. Saw them live too way back when. Quiet Riot opened for them I think.
Good times.
Whatever works, right?
Whatever works, right?
There is only one Safety Dance .
There is only one Safety Dance .
That chick in the video was smokin’.
That chick in the video was smokin’
The midgets…….. fucking made that video .
Safety Dance.
What the hell was up with that video, anyway? Low budget + fortuitous presence of a RennFaire in the vicinity = MTV legend.
I thought the picture of the Harrier jet at the end was the best part.
Oh – and the chick. She wanted it.
Did you get Brainy Smurf? He had it coming, always snitching to Papa Smurf about who was shagging Smurfette in the Smurf-berry bushes. And you know she was smurfing in those Smurf-berry bushes because all of the other smurfs were always singing…
I don’t want to lose your love tonite. I just want to use your love tonite.
powpow
When “Safety Dance” came out, the singer thought he was hot shit and would have a career so he left the band. Turns out it was just the fact that MTV was in its infancy and would play any video it got (except, oddly, hip-hop). Oops.
Jeff, were you the first guy on Blue’s Clues? Did you get fired for smoking weed, or is that an urban myth?
#27 SBP:
Safety Dance; Maypole.
It’s probably a British thing and best not analyzed too deeply. Like the midget.
I always figured that Papa Smurf was the only sexually complete male Smurf (think about it: only one with facial hair). The others were just neuters and drones.
What about the guy in the Men At Work “Land Down Under” video who has the koala tethered to his leg?
Yer snapping yer fingers. har har.
And your girlfriend looks a lot like me. Back then I mean.
I’m much prettier now. Might look good on low-res internet video.
I put out too…and I voted McCain..and if worse comes to worse I can sweat pipes with my hot ass gas I KNOW YOU’RE READING THIS YOU FUCKS WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH MY DAY?
My call is you guys were toe-tappin’ and finger-snappin’ to Billy Squier and were on your way to the roller rink. The dress code being striped collared shirts?
Shoot the duck.
Nice photo. New career for Jeff as a banana hammock model, perhaps?
#34 Mr. Bingley:
It’s probably just an Australian thing*. Tim Blair might be able to explain it.
*And by an Australian thing I mean ‘a lot of alcohol was probably invovled’.
Now? I’m like a cougar!
#38 I know from experience that if you ever want to make Tim nervous and change the subject all you need to do is ask him about Koalas and rope.
Never understood it until now.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/30 @ 6:20 pm #
Safety Dance.
I was just kidding around . I’m laughing so hard at the video link . I just may burst
Oh well.
I know everyone in the And We Danced video. Seriously, every white kid on the Main Line was in that one.
No way that link works.
Y’all’s memories of the early 80s are far too complete.
For me it was the Zenyatta Mondatta tour and then everything gets really vague.
80’s were doobie, very cheap, very cold keg beer and Talking Heads.
Unlike the 70’s, which were MD 20-20 and Zepplin.
Good times? Who knows.
Jeff G,
Your head is cuttoff man; we can’t check your 80’s hair-do…
Was it the tastefully long, side part, only a little rebellious; or the full on middle part…
If it had been like that chick’s, well then, you’d have been a reeeeeeal Outlaw!…
Nice shorts; I remember when we all wore nut-huggers-even the NBA players…
It was probably a great time for the Wham! boys and Duran-Duran, what wif a bunch of young pretty boys runnin’ round in nut-huggers…
Ever drink a White Russian so fast you have to take a shit as soon as you’re done?
‘Cuz they’re hungry like the wolf!
The Heat of the Moment is a great song.
Blondie put out “Rapture” that year. Oy. Thanks for mainstreaming it.
It’s not your fault, Jeff…she clearly blinded you with science!
Nice white man’s overbite, Jeff G. Do you play any air guitar..?
For the younger PW denizens, that’s something you did while drunk and rocking out before there was guitar hero…
Or hell, any reasonably decent video/computer games for that matter!
We’ve all gotten soft!
“Ride, captain ride upon your mystery ship
Be amazed at the friends you have here on your trip
Ride captain ride upon your mystery ship
On your way to a world that others might have missed”
-Blues Image-
Til one by one they were gone…
99 Red Balloons.
Triumph, “Allied Forces”
http://tinyurl.com/c79ukm
Rawks
and nena’s 2002 remake.
Argent; admittedly a few years before
It’s good for this thread…
http://tinyurl.com/67pccp
Hold your head up!
You should show some stomach. I see that’s a big ad these days.
Gosh, that was one of my wrestling psych songs in HS
The girl in this picture actually got me in to Triumph. I was just listening to Magic Power, in fact.
While we’re sort of on the dwarf theme:Shock the Monkey.
I sorta feel like shocking my monkey after seeing Nena in those leather pants, actually.
Foreigner, “Hot Blooded”
http://tinyurl.com/cj5yul
“Check it an’ see…”
Owner Of A Lonely Earworm
The more I see those shorts, the more I think Radio GaGa
Phil Collins: In the Air Tonight
Stevie’s voice on Fleetwood Mac’s “Sara”-who didn’t want some of that???
Just so you know,
You’re dealing with a tourist who’s every move is among the purest.
I still can’t get over how great my legs looked.
Rock You Like a Hurricane. Saw these guys in concert twice — just an amazing live band.
Dude, here’s a pull…
April Wine…
“I like to Rock”
http://tinyurl.com/aqzjde
and,
“Roller”
http://tinyurl.com/buaa34
Or, both of them back to back…
http://tinyurl.com/cd3szq
Partied reeeeeeal hard to these tunes back in the day…
Let’s try that again: Rock You Like a Hurricane.
If this is going to be a lame first concert thing , I’ll go first . Trooper … ha , beat that .
Shit, it’s eating YouTube links all of a sudden.
that was one of my wrestling psych songs in HS…
When I played football, the defense always listened to this one suiting up.
http://tinyurl.com/44drez
My first concert was Aerosmith (Get Your Wings had just come out) opening for Mountain.
It wasn’t lame.
First “concert” (really just live act at No Fish Today, a great bar in Baltimore) – Paul Butterfield
First big venue concert – David Bowie
Sex Pistols…
“Pretty Vacant”
http://tinyurl.com/bl5ga5
“They’re pretty….pretty Vacant”
“Friggin’ in the riggin'”
http://tinyurl.com/bmd9rz
“The first mate’s name was cooper,
By christ he was a trooper,
He jerked, and jerked,
Until he worked himself into a stupor”
Noysche BMoe…
Everytime “Rock You Like a Hurricane” comes on the radio, I sing along…except when I sing it, it goes something like this:
Sam I am! Wouldn’t you like Green Eggs and Ham! Come on! Come on ! Come on!
Don’t know why, it just fits.
More cowbell ?
Badfinger, “Baby Blue”
http://tinyurl.com/yoml4f
Classic
PJ video killed the blogging star…
Can’t make it work.
Scary video fact: Billy Joel’s ‘The Longest Time’ video.
The high school reunion was for the class of 1959. That was 25 years for a 1984 video. I graduated in 1984. This is 2009.
Do the math, people!
Every time I hear this one I can hear a blow dryer in the backround.
Well, it’s now ‘Good-Bye to You’.
Dan. Why don’t you reprint Roger’s email here. Make sure to include the part where you assure him that you know I can be a dick, etc. ect. I’m sure that was helpful.
Well, it’s now ‘Good-Bye to You’.
Please , Don’t take on me .
If it’s 1982 there must be ALDO NOVA
B Moe,
You saw Mountain in concert? I was just asking a bunch of people I know who know music if they could name one other Mountain song than “Mississippi Queen”.
We all came up blank.
Help a brother out?
Hot damn! Those are legs that go all the way up.
Nantucket Sleighride.
On second look, I’m wrong-those look like rug burns you’re sporting!
Way to go, Proto-Jeff!!!
Thos legs are FAT. In that ime frame I weighed about 160 pounds, and was/a
Since I’m drunk and nostalgic and weepy and shit. I found a picture from roughly the same time period as our host, and to make him feel better about his fashion choices, I will link it.
http://tinyurl.com/d8snvt
We were On the Loose!
Quick quiz: which one of those girls married me, and which one married the Marine helicopter pilot?
Good night.
I get it, it didn’t work.
some dude
Now really, g’night
This is why I love this place.
Bob Reed, if you’re gonna go all April Wine, we’re gonna have to spin Crash and Burn.
They call it the burnout factor and only the good die young.
Somebody’s gonna take their life just trying to have some fun…
..and make an ass out of themselves.
April Wine Rawked Pablo,
Thanks for that one…
’86 was good, too.
Here’s to Your Health, Sir!
Hope your head feels better.
’86!
Boss! Nice gams!
I tell ya, I lost all interest in watching basketball when they decided to dress in shiney, baggy kneebusters (aka board shorts).
I’m with Darleen here, but I’m gay so that may have something to do with it.
HOW DARE YOU OBJECTIFY US!
Somewhere there are pictures of me that were taken during the ’80s. And they are in the possession of a very nervous individual who knows what will happen if they are ever published.
Because of the Red, White and Blue Balls !
Comment by guinsPen on 1/30 @ 9:18 pm
w00t! (oh, the deja vu! same era as my majorette pics)
B Moe:
Did Mountain have the enormous cowbell when you saw them?
Woot! Except for the fact you’re a fat, Naughty Monkey bootin’, cud-chomping retard. Woot!
This is not the protein wisdom I used to know .
I was always partial to Big Country, myself.
Don’t really remember a cowbell, pretty much everything about them seemed huge at the time.
ok I clicked and clicked all of them but the Nena remake wins I think. I hadn’t heard it before. If you didn’t click on that you should just to see how good she looks and sounds twenty years later. But what’s up with bouncy air guitar guy? I mean, that was a choice. His, the director’s, I dunno. But that was a choice.
Didn’t the Big Country guy kill himself? I loved that cd. Except I don’t think they had cds then. brb.
oh. Yes.
That’s still a great cd though.
And The Burning Sensations. Fuck, I liked music back then.
I’m Thored
What a downer…it was such a good album. Optimistic, confident. To see him hang himself is just too depressing.
Let’s see if it’s still eating Teh Tube.
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (technically late 70s there).
OUTLAW, baby.
And what 80s recap would be complete without Institutionalized?
This is for Jeffersonian. Don’t be sad. It’s Friday.
Nice Pull SBP…
Check out some Robert Palmer…
http://tinyurl.com/5r2v2q
Click the link, it’s simply irresistable…
Or how about some Steelers Wheel
http://tinyurl.com/dgbul9
Classic
For Ace.
@118
A friend has two tickets for AC/DC, tomorrow night, Nashville. $750.00 for two seats.
Two seats. For that, back in the ’70’s, I could’ve had a whole row of seats..and enough left over for party favors to keep everyone awake.. )
Thanks for that, ‘feet.
This guy manages Arctic Monkeys now. That’s some kind of career. Good on him I think.
You guitarists should check out FretKillr’s channel. This is as close to Hoyt Axton as I’ve heard, anywhere.
And, for a good night lullaby, how about some Cream-live…
http://tinyurl.com/dftt59
Until next time
Best Wishes
Oops, one more, for Palin…
http://tinyurl.com/6zpgt8
Heart
Another one for Palin.
For ‘nip.
All right, one last one before bed…
http://tinyurl.com/ccfa7c
“Do ya know what I mean?”
Comment by thor on 1/30 @ 9:51 pm
What?
And in 1981, I was a young mom of two (#2 daughter 4 mos old)
How come that picture cuts off the top of your head?
You had a mullet didn’t you?
Speaking of power mullets, what ever happened to The Outfield?
Hang themselves like the Big Country dude?/ touring?/ working at PetSmart?
Enquiring minds and whatnot.
I don’t trust those Wiki people.
The picture came that way. But she found more. Oh yes, did she find more.
Ok, but (my Dad’s golf shirt and the fact your left hand appears to be in mid “snap” aside) next time we want a picture of Lori in the tight blue underoos and you wearing the jeans.
Actually, we don’t need you in the picture at all.
Just Lori in short-shorts.
She was pretty cute.
And you have what appear to be rug-burns on your knees.
Well played sir.
Hey, Jeff, is that a…
Oh! wait! He-Man’s on after the commercial!!
(My oldest drove me nuts with that cartoon…not that I didn’t become a complete tool and buy him every He-Man action figure to go with his TV time. )
Sitting on Smurfs is only one of many methods to use on your Smurfin Safari
“Well, we snuck into the Magic Woods, we were in disguise, now,
We surrounded the village and took ’em all by surprise, now,
And when the napalm hit, they were all little blue French fries, now,
And we had fun, fun, fun, blowin’ all the little Smurfers away.”
Unlike the 70’s, which were MD 20-20 and Zepplin.
No.no. It was white cross and some really good Hawaiian shit laced with opium and Pink Floyd and not a whole lot more I remember.
At least we know Steve Burns from Blues clues did not get run over or die of heroin. He was always really Jeff Goldstein!
“Who listened to a lot of Asia. And drank California Coolers.”
Whew. I thought I was the only one. Thanks for that.
Test for finding out if you are gay
Here is another test
The truth hurts some times.
That looks suspiciously like Cary Quad behind you, Bingely.
…at Purdue, in case anyone’s interested. Maybe all of those old college dorms were built the same, though.