I taught myself a sort of "Chicken Dance" last night on the Accordion. You're all in for a treat as I learn to play this thing. I'm learning on the smaller one which only has the major keys and the bass tonic note. So I can't play some things that involve other chords. All in due time. Chicken Dance will be easy to master and a great party trick once I work on it some more. Can't wait to start on some real polkas though like the Pennsylvania Polka, Minnesota Polka, or Beer Barrel Polka!!!
There's a list out for the most popular toys over the past 100 years.
Here is a decade by decade breakdown.
1900 - 1909: Crayola Crayons
1910 - 1919: Raggedy Ann Dolls
1920 - 1929: Madame Alexander Collectible Dolls
1930 - 1939: View-Master 3-D Viewer
1940 - 1949: Candy Land
1950 - 1959: Mr. Potato Head
1960 - 1969: G.I. Joe
1970 - 1979: Rubik's Cube
1980 - 1989: Cabbage Patch Kids
1990 - 1999: Beanie Babies
2000 - Present: Razor Scooter
So in looking at this list, I had all of them except the Madame Alexander Dolls... whatever that is. I know what the 3-D Viewer was, but don't think I actually owned one. And GI Joe was still my favorite stuff growing up. That and Legos. But according to Forbes, 1985 saw the peak of Cabbage Patch Kids with $600 million in sales ($1.1 billion in 2005 dollars).
Other 1980 toys (when I was a kid.... I didn't start growing up till 2004 by some people's measures) include Trivial Pursuit (still popular), Care Bears (still watched by kids), My Little Pony (still played with by Pat), Transformers (still cool and used in Family Guy References from time to time), Koosh Ball (still boring), Pictionary (I remember playing many rounds of this with people), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (classic example of late 1980s superheros!) and Super Soaker (used all through college).
1990s saw Power Rangers (blah), Furby (blah), Groovy Girls (what the?!?!), Tickle-Me Elmo (blah) among other things. Just goes to prove that the 80s were so much better of a decade to be a kid!!!
Song of the Day - Speaking of 80s (no - not talking about Journey... songs best left in the 80s remember?), INXS had some great stuff that still rocks. Devil Inside is on the iTunes shuffle mode this morning and gets me pumped for the day ahead. Still can't believe they did an American Idol INXS or whatever it was called. Dumb.....
Video of the Day - And another classic 80s movie Stripes was on TV last night. I watched a little bit of it, right through the scene of "Don't call me Francis".... lighten up Francis!
Webpage of the Day - A new Bunny Movie for you to enjoy... Christmas Story. I love these things!
Have a great Tuesday!!!
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I still have my GI Joe's and Legos at my house? Want to come over and play? Transformers too, but I didn't have very many of those.
Logelin's got a ton of Transformers and He-Man stuff even that we can play with. I just have my 8-bit Nintendo and tons of games to contribute to the 80s toys party!! And some Star Wars stuff here and there.
Is this what you aspire to be like Adam?
Yes - that's the full-sized 120 button accordion. Mine only has 20 buttons which is plenty for now!
Adam...guess what I won at my Xmas party on Saturday?!? You and Pitzen will be so jealous....
Painted Pottery?
Muzzle for Boy?
Tickets to see Journey?
Personalized Pool Stick?
X-Ray vision?
That's about all I can think of....
Not even close! The 30 GB IPod...with,that's right I said with...a Bose speaker dock!! Even better...it was free!! So I didn't have to blow a paycheck(my paycheck not yours or Jamie's size ones!) for the darn thing!!!
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