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On the date

Tuesday, June 8, 1982

From the day

Perspective: The Teenager · Tactile

I’m sprawled on the shag carpet, the plastic mane of my new My Little Pony scratching my palm while "Ebony and Ivory" blares from the radio. Dad's slamming the morning paper down, grunted something about how **TENANT GROUPS AND POLITICIANS ASSAIL RENT PLAN**, which is like, so boring I could die. I just want to adjust my neon jelly bracelets and forget he exists; listening to him whine about the landlord is seriously making me want to say gag me with a spoon. If he doesn’t stop acting so cheesy, I’m going to bolt to the arcade before the humid June air ruins my feathered hair completely.

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Ebony and Ivory

Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder

The must-have

My Little Pony

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

awesomebodaciouscheesychill

Valley Girl

as ifbarf me outgag me with a spoongrodytotally

Hip Hop

baddefdopeflyfreshword

Yuppie

greed is goodpower lunchnetworking

Catchphrases of 1982

  • E.T. phone home

Tech Check

Compact Disc (CD), Commodore 64 & Adobe PostScript.

Cost of Living (1980)

Loaf of Bread

$0.50

Gallon of Gas

$1.19

Average Home

$47,200

New Car

$7,200

Time Elapsed

16,068 days ago

(44 years, 8 days)