1984 was 30 years ago

old hippy

What are your memories of that year?

I remember being amazed by ZTTs Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Band Aid and Robin of Sherwood on the telly. Holiday in Menorca and going red as a beacon when a topless girl talked to me on the beach

Napper Hawkins

Dribbling, mainly.

wazky

Its Friday tomorrow, sorry should I have started another thread for that?

Mint Aero

and 1974 was 40 years ago. I was nothing, must've been a sad world.

Teyla Emmagan

Robin of Sherwood! Oh Michael Praed, how I loved you. I still can't pronounce your name, but you definitely created the first stirrings in my girlish loins.

Sigh!

Nemeses

WHAT YEAR IS THIS?

MadsL

I Ran the World!!

Wish I still had the T shirt!

Can't find the charity single but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHoJPUHG83g

Duff

Worrying about hanging out in my dad's sac for another 3 years.

MadsL

Mint Aero wrote: »

and 1974 was 40 years ago. I was nothing, must've been a sad world.

Don't start that thread, I will really feel old.

branie

I got a tractor and trailer for Christmas that year (not a real tractor, of course)

Nemeses

MadsL wrote: »

Don't start that thread, I will really feel old.

How far back do we have to go?

1884? :P

o1s1n

I was born in July 84. Wait a minute, that means that... argh, no!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(:(

old hippy

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Robin of Sherwood! Oh Michael Praed, how I loved you. I still can't pronounce your name, but you definitely created the first stirrings in my girlish loins.

Sigh!

My manish loins were not immune, either

The Backwards Man

Dukes of Hazzard
The A-Team
The Fall Guy

That's all I remember.

branie

old hippy wrote: »

My manish loins were not immune, either

for Maid Marian, I hope

Muise...

I thought this was going to be another conspiracist misreading of Orwell.
Phew!

TwoShedsJackson

The war with Eurasia.

old hippy

branie wrote: »

for Maid Marian, I hope

No offence to Judie Trott (think that was her name) but Praed was much more alluring.

Muise...

Muise... wrote: »

I thought this was going to be another conspiracist misreading of Orwell.
Phew!

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

The war with Eurasia.

Ha!

Maximus Alexander

I distinctly remember not existing.

branie

The theme from Robin of Sherwood is going through my head now!

Jake Rugby Walrus666

branie wrote: »

for Maid Marian, I hope

I liked the giant, talking deer

old hippy

Jake Rugby Walrus666 wrote: »

I liked the giant, talking deer

Herne the Hunter.

That show was such a change to the traditional Robin Hood story. A lot more mysticism and darkness. Much better (IMHO) than that dreadful BBC version a couple of years back...

Killgore Trout

Herniated Hunter?

Edit: Doh! beaten to it

mrsbyrne

Dancing like mad to Jump by The Pointer Sisters at the disco. Life was great. Life is still great.Great weather great music great friends fantastic snogging.

moxin

Eurythmics mentioned 1984 in one of their songs that year. Oh, there was Animal Farm too!

johndoe99

fondly remember going to watch 'Police Academy' in the cinema that year.

RoboRat

Lucky No. 7 on a Mr. Freeze
Cigarettes being about 90p (wasn't smoking but used to get to keep the change when I got them for my mother)
Tayto being 8p
Beat the Keeper/ Squares and lots of it
Football being absolutely crap to watch on TV
Ten Penny mixture

Loved Robin of Sherwood but the only woman for me back then was Wonder Woman

Also loved the Greatest American Hero

branie

I think Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince was on TV in 84

BorneTobyWilde

I was born in 2006 so .

Galwayguy35

It was the year I found out Santy wasn't real.

Chefrio

Born in November 1984.

RoboRat

It was the year I found out Santy wasn't real.

Take that back... TAKE THAT BACK NOW!

The Princess Bride

Did the Intercert in '84.
Morrissey must've been wailing,as I remember one of my classmates murdering his miserable songs as I did my art exam.

Went to first disco.(Wore a denim skirt!)
Got the shift for the first time- Good times;-)

chinwag

I can recall most of these events: http://www.rte.ie/tv/reelingintheyears/1984.html

Eileen Down

I kept myself busy by spinning on my back, spinning on my knees, spinning on head and then I would attempt to freeze.

eamonnq

A hole in my shoe which was letting water.

branie

I might have started watching the Houndcats and the Barkleys on video in '84

SirCreepalot

I'm depressed for you guys. It's a good thing I am forever young.

Mena

Moved to Joburg in '84. 10 years old so I was.

2ygb4cmqetsjhx

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

I was born in 2006 so .

Ah here. You are 7/8 and on boards? Jaysus.

HerrScheisse

I had only recently come out from beneath my wooden desk and removed my cupped hands from my ears, although the crouched position of the 1980's did afford me a prime view of a clearly fear moistened Fraulein Bempts underworld, for that I am forever grateful to the untold fear between east and west.

LordSutch

1984 ish . . .

Dallas.
Dynasty.
Top of The Pops.
The Professionals.
The New Avengers.

Compact Disc players (top loaders).
Charles Haughey.
The Troubles in NI.
Holidays in the Canaries.
This new Italian food 'Pizza'.
Push button phones!
Mini hand held TVs.
Bombardier buses.
Smoking in Cinemas.
Smoking on buses.
Smoking everywhere.

Mass emigration via boat & plane to Britain & beyond < some things never change.

C.K Dexter Haven

The air attack warning sounds like.
This is the sound.

HerrScheisse

1984 - the relief we are all still alive affter the recent Nato exercises.

Outside of that, I was pleased that if the air siren had turned true, that my last sight would have been a loosened Fraulein Bempts fear moistened undercarriage. Come take me God, my ears were cupped to prevent noise damage, if I had known it were real, I might have prodded forth with my nose and taken taken a final snifter.

PizzamanIRL

Jase Deep Vowel wrote: »

Ah here. You are 7/8 and on boards? Jaysus.

You never know who's behind the screen. Could be someone with 3 balls.

Billy86

30 years on...

...and that b*tch in the short shorts still hasn't paid up for putting that sledgehammer through my big-screen TV. :mad:

GLaDOS

I was -6, good times.

Sam Kade

Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy came and he drank a pint of the black stuff in Ballyporeen. It was a scorching weather from April to September.

Rothko

I was -5 years old so I don't have many memories of it.

donegal__road

GAA centenary, Coca Cola centenary, Frankie goes to Hollywood, Michael Jackson, Ronald Regan visit, the North was bad. I started secondary school.