Gen X- The “Other” Ages Lesbian Thread

[xita]

I think it's kinda cool that there's crossing over in threads. I read somewhere that people are now hanging out cross-generationally more than they ever have. So these generations mean less and less. I think the article I read cited the internet for this phenomenon. Anyway, there is argument about who generation x is anyway, some liste conservative 1965-75, others cite 1961-81. Useless numbers for ya, but I think gen x-ers should definitely remember the eighties that's my version of things.

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"Trust is a risk masquerading as a promise."

[Gatito Grande]

Well, speaking of crossing-over (or at least, overlap): the Baby Boom Generation (aka "Boomers") is usually reckoned as 1946-64. At the same time, Douglas Coupland, the guy who wrote Generation X (that is, he invented the concept) was born, IIRC, in 1960. Ergo, Yours Truly, born in 1962, is happy to claim membership in both.



GG I have the memories of a Boomer, and the poverty of an Xer . . . a Yer . . . a Zer. Oh hell, is there a Generation Broke? Out



I saw Prince in his Purple Rain tour (1985), so I think that cover my 80's Music bonafides!



ETA: I took the test, but "only" came up w/ 67.3. That sucker stunk! It frickin' marked me wrong for "Jesse's" girl (and "dance" instead of "danced"---give me a break! )

Edited by: Gatito Grande at: 5/24/04 2:39 pm

[good2cats]

Hi,
Either way you slice it I'm a boomer but with a head full of scary useless information.I took the music test and received a score of 151.625.pathetic much?Well back to the old lesbian home.

[Kieli]

Where is this music test I keep hearing so much about? The 80s was an excellent music time for me but, I gotta say, the 70s (and late 60s) cranked out some goodies like Rush, Tower of Power, Earth Wind and Fire, Aerosmith, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, et. al. We SO can't forget the 70s (even though it was an era that makes the fashionistas cringe in abject horror and the architecture looked like came straight outta Logan's Run (anyone remember THAT show?!))



I'm a late 60's baby....is there a Gen name for us?

Time flies by when the Devil drives.
It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.

[cattwoman98111]

kieli, honey, sweetie, look at page one toward the bottom. Holley posted the link there.







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licky, licky where art thou

Edited by: cattwoman98111 at: 5/24/04 7:19 am

[Kieli]

Thanks luv



backtracks a secondwaitaminute....this thread or the music trivia thread? Hell, the brain is the first thing to go.

Time flies by when the Devil drives.
It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.

Edited by: Kieli  at: 5/24/04 10:35 am

[tiredsoul]

Kieli, that would be this thread but hey, we'll make it easy...



80's Lyrics Quiz



Holley finds the coolest stuff



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*licky comes running* "I'm here, I'm here!" *licky trips*

[Krazy Dreamer]

Quote:

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“krazy i think u cheated. ”

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I think somebody is crying out desperately for attention. And since I’m such a nice person, here you go, Glenda. By the way didn’t you tell me just 3 or 4 months ago that you were 25? Are you sure you’re not 15?

"Some men see things as they are and say,'why?' I dream things that never were and say, 'why not?'"

- Robert F. JFK

[Kieli]

Thanks TS, since my screen didn't have two pages, I was wondering "WTF?" so....off to take the quiz.



eta: Whoa...totally pathetic. I got a 78.5. Don't even know if that's bad or good

Time flies by when the Devil drives.
It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.

Edited by: Kieli  at: 5/24/04 1:05 pm

[cattwoman98111]

Kieli dont feel bad my score was lower than yours.









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Scrappy runs toward licky sliding under the falling body and catching it just before it hits the ground. Scrappy looks up at licky and says "never underestimate puppy power"

[mollyig]

Well, I'm 31, so I suppose that makes me eligible for this thread. Though, honestly, I think there should be a thread for "people that don't act their age", and I'd be right at home there!

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"Love is just like breathing when it's true" Indigo Girls

[3peanuts]

I'm 26, so I kind of guess I fit in this thread.



I was looking for a thread in which the standard was "people who were born in the late 70's, and remember disco music from elder brothers/sisters, who spent their childhood during the 80's and remember Cherry Merry Muffin and still have a soft spot for Care Bears, who were teenagers during the 90's and sang sad and angsty songs and wore horrible shirts on Nirvana t-shirts. I guess this is the thread I was looking for.



It was mind blowing when, chatting with younger dykes, I got to know something very surprising: they don't know "Four Non Blondes" music, they have sex earlier, they consider Madonna a sex role model (well, in a sort of way).

So I got to a conclusion: Madonna and more sexual freedom is what we are leaving to them as a legacy of our angsty years as teens (well, angst was the main feature of little me), moreover I discovered Madonna and sex are related.



Madonna and sex related: Goddess the kind of revelation that can blow your mind.

"I like Amber Benson 'cause she's a proletarian" Sarabiga

Keynes was right

[Twisted Minstrel]

I hate to say I belong to anything, but this thread certainly applies to something. I'm a 34 year old teen with the occassional 80s flashbacks. I remember those years...a swirling maze of cotton candy pastels, new wave punk, flock of seagulls, go-gos, frankie goes crazy in hollywood, just relax, don't do it, do you wanna touch me ferris bueller, molly ringwald's perky breasts, bad sci-fi, madness, leg warmers, st elsewhere, big shoulder pads, big hair, martha quinn, V (yes, you remember V, you worship V, V was the shiznit), omigoddebbiegibson, haircut 100 (love plus one baby), val speak (like, omigod, that is like totaly, like bitchin and stuff, like gag me with a spoon, gross me out totally!), square pegs, jolt cola, steven speilberg ruled the box office, andrew lloyd webber ruled broadway, hart to hart, SNL sucked really really bad, madge was like a virgin, so was MTV, Don Imus was host on VH1, let's get Physical....etc. etc. etc.



Oh yes, I remember.

http://www.geocities.com/dijeratti/index.html

[Rowan158]

Kind of like an 80's thread, only bigger and better.



OK, I had no clue what a PeeChee was but I remember Garbage Pail kids (fighting over the cards!)



We still have a skating rink here. I thought everyone did...



I so remember Cherry Merry Muffin, Rainbow Bright, and just the other day I had to explain to some poor soul who She-Ra is. Apparently she’d never heard of She-Ra OR HeMan! The atrocity. And yes, my CareBear is in a bag in my closet in my room at my parents house. If I ever get a real house of my own, it’ll be there.



... I know I had a point when I started to write this post...

You'll know when I'm done because I'll be dead.



“Procrastination is not the problem, it is the solution.”

[maudmac]

I took that 80s lyrics quiz so long ago, I have no idea what my score was. I have another link y'all might like. It's good for a stroll down memory lane, for sure.



Vintage Electronics Have Soul!



TM, I was smiling and nodding through that list you posted up there. Excellent stuff. Especially V. I loooooved V sooooo much.



Oooh, which reminds me of Buck Rogers. Was Erin Gray hot as hell or what? Damn.

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and i don't really care if you think i'm strange   /   i ain't gonna change

[marciam]

I saw this thread and just had to take a look. I'm 29, knockin' pretty loud on 30. As soon as I saw Lic-A-Maid in the very first post, there was no way I was gonna not read the whole thing



Oh... and I so don't believe that was a misstype



Marcia

"Now get out of here and go claim your orgasms!" Anya to Tara in Planting a Seed by Ophelia11

"Well, we usually call it the ‘Wine Me, Dine Me, Sixty-Nine Me’ Festival of Homos, but Lezziepalooza has a nice ring, too." Willow to Buffy in Gods Served and Abandoned by Antigone Unbound

[Cicca]

I grew up on Lik-M-Aid, I'm 31, not exactly a lesbian, but I'd sure like a girlfriend who's one.

Sadly, I no longer remember my preference of Fun-Dip flavours, but I did have one. I think it came in a few different varieties. The stuff they make now is just not the same! I also lived Gold-Mine gum. And my first love was Candy Necklaces. So lame that I felt really girlie when I wore mine!

Is there a hyphen in anal-retentive?

[3peanuts]

Oh that tip moved me to tears (well not exactly).



I loved She-Ra, she was so full of curves...

*sigh*

"I like Amber Benson 'cause she's a proletarian" Sarabiga

Keynes was right

[maudmac]

She-Ra was definitely hot. But my heart really belonged to Firestar. Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends was on when I was about 8 or 9 or so and I really just watched for Firestar.



Good times, good times.

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and i don't really care if you think i'm strange   /   i ain't gonna change

[Kieli]

Damn skippy, Erin Gray was hot! And who DIDN'T notice Princess Ardala's cleavage? I dare you to tell me you didn't LOL



Oh the 80s...lot's o' hotties on the tube. I fell head over heels for Queen Starsha and Nova of the Star Blazers fame.

Time flies by when the Devil drives.
It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.

[urnofosiris]

I remember Erin Gray from Buck Rogers, she was my first celebrity crush I think.

[3peanuts]

My first celebrity crush has been Nastassja Kinskij in "Cat People", I've always been pretty perverted for a teenager. Next came Twin Peaks girls: all of them. I've never been able to pick one.



And I had a crush for Cherry Merry Muffin when I was a baby, but I guess I've already aknowledged you with this time ago.



Let's think about Storm, in her Punk Claremont period. Good 80's: those were X-Gals...and those were Marvel Comics!

I spent Literature classes imagining Storm crashing the windows of my classroom and bringing me upon a cloud with a powerful wind, where, obviously she made love to me surrounded by a warm breeze.

Geek-infested roots: how many of us remember their first sexual fantasy to be an X-Girl? Sigh...

"I like Amber Benson 'cause she's a proletarian" Sarabiga

Keynes was right

[cattwoman98111]

Marcia, guilty as charged. You know me too well, it so was not a typo.



She-Ra, Red Sonja, Firestar *sigh* yes I remember them as well. I look back on it now and say to myself "Self, how come it took so long to realize girls rock!"



And Mollyig, this can qualify as the thread where nobody acts their age. I will make it so!



Twisted Minstrel you forgot jelly bracelets, Tiffany, Keds, Guess Jeans just to bring back more memories. V ah yes, I remember that as well.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

[xita]

Go Tiffany! Down with Debbie!

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"Trust is a risk masquerading as a promise."

[cattwoman98111]

um, xita sweetie "down with Debbie" does that mean "down on Debbie"



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scrappy nuzzles licky

[xita]

Is there really any doubt which one I am talking about

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"Trust is a risk masquerading as a promise."

[maudmac]

Tiffany, Debbie...Debbie, Tiffany... I think the jury's still out on that one.



Oooh! Who remembers Count Duckula? One of my favorite cartoons of all time!



Speaking of vegetarian vampires...there was Bunnicula, which reminds me of the Velveteen Rabbit, which reminds me of Watership Down, which...I just cannot handle...



Bright eyes, burning like fire. Bright eyes, how can you close and fail? How can the light that burned so brightly, suddenly burn so pale?

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and i don't really care if you think i'm strange   /   i ain't gonna change

[dekalog]

the Velveteen Rabbit **sigh**



i loved the 80's because in the small town i grew up in they still played cartoons before the feature movie - things like mr. magoo, and yogi bear



first crush though was laurette spang who played Cassiopeia in the original battlestar galactica which along with charlie's angels was my favourite show

[3peanuts]

I loved Count Duckula!

"I like Amber Benson 'cause she's a proletarian" Sarabiga

Keynes was right

[urnofosiris]

Oh dear, I think I am going downhill fast. For a millisecond I read Cunt Dickula. I have no idea what has happened to me.