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  1. "The President of the United States has said his country will make up for being late joining two world wars by being early for World War III"

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    (From Not the Nine O'Clock News. Originally referring to Reagan)
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  2. The Olympics take place in Moscow. High jumper Gerd Wessig (GDR) set a new world record with 2.36 m. The Berlin Wall is being raised.

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  3. News I remember from the '80s? Too many things to count. These off the top and in no particular order…

    Mt. St. Helens
    Space Shuttle Challenger
    Iran Contra
    S&L
    Berlin Wall
    Greg Louganis
    We Are The World
    Tigers won a World Series
    Farm Aid
    Comic Relief
    EPCOT opened
    Rubik Cube comes to USA
    Trivial Pursuit

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  4. Husband of PMRC Founder Tipper Gore Claims to Have Invented the Moonwalk

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  5. Be running up that road
    Be running up that hill
    With no problems

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  6. BREAKING: People nationwide discover writing things down actually improves their life.

    More at 11.

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  7. BREAKING: Experts confirm that “having a plan” is now considered a life skill, not just a personality trait.

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  8. Cities and States consider banning wearing a Walkman while driving or while crossing the street as a pedestrian.

    Please don’t walk or drive distracted.

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  9. Parents vote “Jim”ll Fix It” and “Top of the Pops” as top family viewing

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  10. Common New Year's Resolutions for 1980: Better Music, Best Films, Biggest Hair

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  11. @kcdc Tutu manages to resist the odd temptation to give his Peace Prize to the strange RE guy.

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  12. Hotel Industry Scion Donald Trump Returns From Moscow Trip, Announces He Alone Can End Nuclear War, Considering Run For President

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  13. Sequel to Ridley Scott's Alien in Development: Sigourney Weaver Reported to Return, Director of "Piranha 2: The Spawning" Attached

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  14. New York Academy of the Performing Arts announces that they can “Do the Show Right Here”

    #Fame
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  15. Madonna Reported To Not Actually Be Virgin, Her Publicist Released Statement Clarifying She Never Claimed To Be, Merely "Like" One

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  16. Topless Scenes Banned in All Future Hollywood Films, Out of Respect For Jamie Lee Curtis

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  17. Mark Hamill Reported To Break Nose And Lose Hand During Shooting of Star Wars Sequel


  18. Alexander the Great warned the world 23 centuries ago — now, U.S.S.R withdraws from Afghanistan. That should be that.

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  19. Breaking from the political desk: USSR installs actor in the White House, Moscow, in it for the long haul, expects to crush the USA by its 250th anniversary

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  20. Happy Days Fans Surveyed, Majority Agrees Show Just Wasn't Same Since Fonzi Jumped Shark

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  21. "Coming up after the Price is Right on the noon news, "Urgent recall. There is a rise in falls due to entanglement in kitchen wall phone cords due to rebound pressure tension. Cletus Investigates"
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  22. Despite 1982 dissolution of U. S. Metric Board, in 1984 Designer Gail Blacker persists with metric data, designing a very ill-fitting suit for David Byrne. Mr. Byrne, ever the gentleman, carries on as though it’s the ultimate in new style.

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  23. #BREAKING
    Teen Gang Arrested At Circle K for Stealing Cigarette Lighters and Slim Jim pepperoni sticks.

    Pam Bondi Demands Life In Botswana Without Parole.

    "But we're fucking white kids!" claims anxious deportee.

    NOPE says DOJ.

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  24. Due to viewers’ increasingly divided attention, Police Squad!, a new TV show relying heavily on sight gags, is canceled after 6 episodes

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  25. #HashtagGames
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    #HamRadio

    Using your 220 or 440 handie-talkie to make a phone-patch call became controversial because of intra-LATA billing, whereby Ma Bell put the kibosh on ham radio phone patches in those bands pretty much altogether.

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