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The Scientific Shitlord
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The 80s kid thread
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BrutulTM
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My grandparents had the old school gigantic satellite dish and an illegal descrambler so they got every channel. They had to have it updated every few months or it would go back to scrambled, and the sound would stop working quite a while before the video. More than once when they were in Arizona for the winter I would sneak out of my house at night, walk 1/4 mile to their house with a blank VHS tape, stick it in the recorder, and then walk home, and go back to get it the next morning and reap the rewards of 6 hours of the playboy channel with no sound. Back then the Playboy channel was just naked chicks with big hairy bush walking in grass, jogging on the beach, twirling an umbrella, riding a horse etc. but if you played some music while you watched it got the job done.
Abefroman
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My grandfather had one of those types of dishes. I loved the fact you could watch newscasters during commercials. Holy fuck though I would go mad now having one of those. Changing channels often meant you had to wait for the thing to move to align to a different sat.Speaking of which, this is a worthy addition to the 80's thread:
Royal
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Swedish Erotica was where the good stuff was. I remember how odd it seemed at the time, having grown up with names like Playboy and Penthouse magazines being spoken amongst friends in hushed, revered tones. Fast forward to the satellite age and Playboy was reduced to amateur status.
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Only 2 of those I don't recognize, the person to the right of Lando and the guy to the left of Marshal Lonestar.
Lanx
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Royal
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As one of the resident Old Farts, being born in '69 I'm remember enough of the 70's to feel like a kid of both decades. Some of the stuff you guys are posting (like Schoolhouse Rock for instance) are actually legacy items passed on from us 70's kids to the 80's. There was some things from 70's that, in a more perfect world, would have lived on that you guys who came later missed out on:
Shogun Warriors, contemporaries of the large Godzilla figure and precursors to the Transformers (smaller versions could change shape and there was one named Megatron in the Shogun Warriors comic book).
If Darth Vader fucked a Lego, their unholy offspring would have been Baron Karza:
The Micronauts were the ultimate transformers before The Transformers. Dozens of different figures and vehicles, and most of the pieces were fully interchangeable between them.
Ahh the heady days of toys with spring loaded projectiles that could choke your toddler cousins faster than you could say "Fire!!!".
Shogun Warriors, contemporaries of the large Godzilla figure and precursors to the Transformers (smaller versions could change shape and there was one named Megatron in the Shogun Warriors comic book).
If Darth Vader fucked a Lego, their unholy offspring would have been Baron Karza:
The Micronauts were the ultimate transformers before The Transformers. Dozens of different figures and vehicles, and most of the pieces were fully interchangeable between them.
Ahh the heady days of toys with spring loaded projectiles that could choke your toddler cousins faster than you could say "Fire!!!".
