Who Needs the 80s Anyway?
If Cartman were here, he’d say that the 80s were hella-gay.
And no, that obnoxious, non-homophobic comment has nothing to do with how badly I did on this quiz I found on Kate’s Venomous blog.
UPATE: OK, I feel a little better now, knowing that Michele didn’t do any better.
October 31st, 2003 at 1:19 pm
Scored a 121 on the stupid thing–and it took way too long to remember half of those songs.
October 31st, 2003 at 3:11 pm
I scored the same as you did but I got 83 right which leads to this comment:
Ok either 1)You’ve read The Straight Dope or 2)You are a god. Either way 10 points.
Not the first so the obvious conclusion is . . .
Hey this snarky stuff is cool
October 31st, 2003 at 3:29 pm
I got that one right, too. In my case, it’s both; I have read at least one Straight Dope book, but I don’t remember reading anything about colitas.
I was kind of PO’ed by #4, though. I got the answer right, but did not get credit for it because I spelled the name “Jesse” correctly, rather than misspelling it the way Rick Sprengfeld did.
October 31st, 2003 at 3:35 pm
It was worse for me. I put in Jessie’s instead of Jessie, so the quiz read it as Jessie’s’s girl, marked me wrong and mocked me besides.
November 1st, 2003 at 4:16 am
In reference to the term “homophobic.”
The term “homophobe/ homophobic/ (etc)” has always been such a crock.
We should all start throwing around the suffix “-phobe” to dis those that disagree with us.
Atheists and agnostics can be “Theophobes.”
NARAL and Planned Parenthood types can be “ProLiferphobes”
The rest of the world can be designated as “Ameriphobes”
NEA proponents can be “Homeschoolophobes”
Etc.
November 1st, 2003 at 8:16 pm
The 80’s WERE hella gay.
November 1st, 2003 at 11:54 pm
I know, but then again, so is saying “hella.”
November 3rd, 2003 at 3:53 pm
True enough.
A word that originated in NorCal I believe. Hmm…
November 14th, 2003 at 6:17 pm
Copters are the only things worthy of being called hella.