are you baiting me?

ohhh blagger

30 years ahead of its time, to be precise. I can't see this mess going over well in 98, much less 78, but it somehow seems perfect for 08.

Being an adult in the late 80's to mid-90's was probably more fun than being a kid, though. But at least us kids had Ducktales.

Come to think of it, Scrooge McDuck's eyes were HUGE. They took up like 3/4ths of his head. Pink Lady would probably take one look and try to rape him.

The cool thing about being an adult in those days is you could just shit all over the place like it was the 50's and not give a goddamn shit about anything. You could just wait until the oil prices were shit low and buy shit and do coke and who cares, everyone was going into rehab at the same time so it was like a post-Vietnam cleansing ritual.

Also, Ralph Nader was still concentrating on auto safety instead of general consumer safety, so you could buy the most awesome fucking toys.. just incredibly kickass shit like jarts and crossbows and authentic cap guns.

The one I wanted was this realistic Thompson submachine gun, with real wooden furniture. You kept your caps in the detachable magazine. That would get you shot today, but back then toy stores had a whole wall of fucking excellent metal-and-wood cap guns. I had 2, a Beretta and a Mauser, and a set of jarts. Hell, you could rob a bank with all that.

Also candy with dubious preservatives and artificial sweeteners, and cereal that was 90% sugar and 10% marshmallow.