Wednesday, June 6th 2012
Hot Slut Of The Day!
The clock backpack from the 80s! The clock backpack wasn't even that popular in the 80s, but I begged for one and finally got one at the start of my 4th grade year. It was a battery-powered clock on a backpack. That's it and it was my everything for a couple of months. My signature outfit was my purple clock backpack, black & white BK Knights, black jeans and some red sweatshirt. I looked like a miniature gay Big Ben. The clock stopped working after a few weeks, the zipper always got snagged and it was a piece of shit. But it was still a modern technological marvel to me. It was like my generation's Siri. Yes, we were simple people in the 80s.
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LOL, MK- what are the odds? I was just thinking about those yesterday and wondering what kids these days would think if one of them showed up with one.
When I was in 4th/5th grade all the kids (well, more like 90% girls) wanted one. You were a nobody unless your friend could tell the time by standing behind you.
Needless to say, I was one of those nobodies.
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These days, some helicopter parent would call out the bomb squad and have this poor bag dismantled. We live in stupid times.
Ahh, the days of wearing BK's and rockin' the Swatch!
Never did the clock back pack, but I totally rocked spandex bike shorts and LA Gear Stardusts. As a mattter of fact, I'm thinking of ordering a new pair! They are straight out of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.
http://www.lagearnews.com/2009/05/la-gear-stardust-is-back/
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Oh MICHAEL!! We would've either been the bestest of friends or rivals to the death in elementary school!!!
Don't remember the Clock Backpack, but anyone remember the Reebok Pumps-- hubby got them-- you had to squeeze the pump ball to "inflate" them-- never worked, and they weren't cheap either. And as for "miniature gay Big Ben" --BWAHAHA!!
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i wanted one of these growing up, but we couldn't afford it.
laugh it up bitches....lol
That is still very, very cool.
I want one.
BK Knights... British Knights Knights? :)
I never had a pair because Value City didn't have my size at the time...
"a miniature gay Big Ben"...you just made me spit out my coffee.
I remember seeing these on Third Ave. and coveting them. So when it was time for a new book bag I asked my grandfather for the bag with a clock. He misunderstood and bought me a regular cartoon book bag and stuck a $2 fake leather watch in it. The kids thought the bag he bought me and the watch was cool anyway so it all worked out. For like half a week. Until that bitch Yolanda showed up to school with a swatch.
No, I didn't have a fancy backpack like you but
I'd have loved to have seen that "signature outfit" all dressed up like a "miniature gay Big Ben"... Oh stop it MK, lololol
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I had a phone purse. It looked like a flat black rotary phone. The handle you carried it with was the receiver. Tucked inside was a cord that plugged into the wall. I sold it on eBay for over $50 years later.
Does anybody remember the white hightop sneaker with the fat laces? I want to say Seicos?
Submitted by MissJaneTexas on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:54am.
Oh yes, Umbros! I remember there were these shoes that had 3 triangle details on each side and you could change out the color of these triangles. The cool thing in gym was to have umbros and then make the triangles match your umbros. hahahah. memories.
Kaepas!!! I had to save up money FOREVER to buy those! I thought they'd make me cheer better, yell louder, jump higher...but alas, I still didn't the squad.
Submitted by AtomicCity on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:51am.
Oh yes, Umbros! I remember there were these shoes that had 3 triangle details on each side and you could change out the color of these triangles. The cool thing in gym was to have umbros and then make the triangles match your umbros. hahahah. memories.
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I was obsessed with these. No one in my podunk town had one of these, so I felt it my need to introduce them...along with Umbros and Hypercolor t-shirts.
The first day I had mine I threw it on the gym floor and shattered the face. Tres chic.
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I don't remember these. From what I remember of the 80s it was neon, blue eye shadow, Electric Youth perfume, those really large NKOTB buttons and to be really cool you had to have those broken heart best friend necklaces/rings. Extra cool if it was a 3-way break.
I was also really young in the 80s so I might be mixing my 80s with early 90s.
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How the hell did I miss the clock backpack? We had the huge watches (Swatch or knockoff brands), and some kids wore big clocks around their necks a la Flavor Flav...but I never saw the clock backpack. Maybe because rural Georgia, fashion-wise, is at least 15 years behind the rest of the country?
How many people with clock backpacks were still late all the time? :-P
I looked like a miniature gay Big Ben.
LMAO!! I didn't beg for the clock backpack, but I did go batshit cray for an ice washed jean jacket with suede fringe.
I'll go you bitches one better - I have a big-ass, leopard bag with an equally big-ass clock on it that goes with me EVERYWHERE that I bought on sale at some online bag place. the clock works but you should see the assholes come out if the battery stops or I forget to turn the clock when the seasons change.
hostile, I tell ya, hostile...
This bag wouldn't have lasted long with me.
I'm not a very destructive person, generally, but I beat the shit out of my backpacks growing up. They were always ripped and mangled by the end of my time with them. I blame all of the super smart person books I had to carry in them... *adjusts eyeglasses*
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I had a clock purse. It was pretty fucking cool (for a clock purse, lol).
Submitted by Provolone on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:08am.
I used to beat the shit out of kids that had these.
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i knew that i recognized you!... no, i'm kidding, i'm kidding!
what is this shit?... the "lil Flava Flav starter kit"?
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I used to beat the shit out of kids that had these.
I did have BKs, but they were the ones with the reactor juice so us straight kids could perform athletic endeavors with greater skill (or steadying our balance while beating up nerds).
I remember the clock purse. http://www.thriftyfashionista.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/clock-3.jpg
Submitted by Hekki on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 9:43am.
Sorry, I don't remember these. Neon everything, yes. The clock, not so much.
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me either. I was in high school from '80-'84, so maybe these were too childish to notice. But I like it !! I think I would have had one if I had been younger.
How sad. Not that, but that I think that backpacks came after my school days. You just carried your books with one hand against one hip and NEVER like Marcia Brady wrapped with one arm against your breasts.
members only jacket, ocean pacific tees.
hell yea it rocked.
i miss the 80's. music & pop culture today sucks hairy balls.
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Sorry, I don't remember these. Neon everything, yes. The clock, not so much.
I have never seen one of those but I guess we can thank Flavor Flav for this piece of iconic beauty?
Radical!
Michael K did you wear everything with a Swatch?