Friends Don't Let Friends Go Back to the 80's

Have you seen the department store ads and fashion magazines recently? They're trumpeting a return to the 80's in clothing, hair and make-up. Even the music of the 80's is having a weird renaissance. What gives? It hasn't been so long that we can't remember how awful that decade was. Here's a list to jog your memory and help you avoid a terrible mistake:

1. Boy George
2. Neon green leggings, lace fingerless gloves, skinny checkerboard ties, white plastic stilettos
   
3. Hostile takeovers, leveraged buyouts, Leona Helmsley
   
4. Political correctness, Jane Fonda
   
5. Miami Vice pastel blazers with padded shoulders and pushed up sleeves
6. Mullets, big frizzy perms, shaved sides of your head, side ponytails
   
7. Wham's Wake me up before you go-go, Hall and Oates' Maneater, Duran Duran anything
   
8. 3.5" floppy disks, brick cell phones,
   
9. the Yugo
   
10. Cyndi Lauper

So don't let this happen to you or anyone you know.