A LOL for your Friday night

[emmagrant01]

So I was cleaning out a box of old stuff and found these buttons from high school. Can you guess what year I graduated? ;-)



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[junesrose.livejournal.com]

You are WAAAY younger than me, and I remember those things the first time they were seen....excpet perhaps Frankie. :O

I'm just guessing here....1999????

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

You're off by a decade! ;-)

[etakyma.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing late 80's early 90's... so 1990?

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Close! I graduated in '89. :-D

[etakyma.livejournal.com]

Ha! So we are about the same age! I graduated in '89 as well (although I graduated HS when I was 17 - latter-half-of-the-year-baby that I was!).

I've got a lot of buttons from that era, too - they decorate my sewing machine cover.

[annafugazzi.livejournal.com]

Really? Me too!

[drarryxlover.livejournal.com]

I have never seen these before in my life, so as to guessing a year. Before I was born? Is that too rude? Late 80s? (I was born 1990)

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

LOL, I'm old enough to be your mom, then! I turned 19 in 1990. :-P

[drarryxlover.livejournal.com]

Haha! But you'd be young mum if that were the case!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I had a pregnancy scare the summer of 89, so yeah, possible! But happily, not what happened. ;-)

[aliciajd]

It's sad that I don't recognize the Frankie button and suspect that it's because I'm much older than you. But, then I applied for Social Security today because I'll be 62 in October. So I'm probably way older than everyone on my flist.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

You're definitely not alone! But even at 40, I sometimes feel waaay older than most of my flist. :-P

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

1989 but only because I know how old you were this year and I'm 7 years younger than you. :)

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Ding-ding-ding! :-D

[sui-tan.livejournal.com]

I have no idea... 1992? D:
And I just love the Nuclear Bomb button <33

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Close! 1989 was the year. And a good year it was, too!

[rickey-a.livejournal.com]

hmmm, I graduated HS in 86, and these wouldn't be out of style in any of my friend's old shoeboxes. I think you're a little younger than me so I'll say 88!

[lauramcewan.livejournal.com]

Same here!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Close! I graduated in '89. :-D

[kerryblaze.livejournal.com]

I think you graduated two years after me. So I'll go with '89. *sigh* that was a good year.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

You're right! And yeah, it was a good year, wasn't it? The end of the Cold War, the end of Apartheid -- it felt like the whole world was changing just as I was becoming an adult. It was a crazy feeling.

[saladbats.livejournal.com]

I'm going to guess 1988 or 1989, because I think you and I are pretty close in age. And definitely close in the types of buttons we had in high school. 8)

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I think we are the same age, actually. (Though I swear you don't look a day over 30!) Yep, '89. :-D

[saladbats.livejournal.com]

I always say that I know I have to grow older, but no one said anything about growing up. 8)

[akemi42.livejournal.com]

I love the nuclear bomb one!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I think that was a retro button I picked up in a head shop or something. ;-)

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

FGTH <3

The only year that mattered '88!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Well, '89 was a good one too. ;-)

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

ha! From those buttons I'd say 1963!! Other than Frankie who is SO 1986.

But having met you, and knowing that you're quite a bit younger than me, I'm gonna go with 1995

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

The 60's were really in style in the late 80s. My friends and I were obsessed with the 60s. We dressed in vintage clothes, listened to 60s music, and so on. Our parents (who all grew up in the 60s) thought we were nuts!

1989, actually. :-D

[teas-me.livejournal.com]

I'm only going by the nuclear bomb one, because I had one just like it :)

I would say somewhere between 1993 and 1996.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit older than that! 1989 was the year.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

FRANKIE SAY. Omigod!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I remember when "Relax" would play on the radio (uncensored), and my friends and I would giggle hysterically because NO ONE over the age of 30 seemed to know it was about gay sex! Oh, but my local radio station refused to play George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" around the same time. It was so bizarre!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who would sing jokingly along with it, "When you wanna come...with me to the store!"

[geneva2010.livejournal.com]

I have an "Impeach Nixon" button - I think from middle school. ;-)

Those buttons seem more 70's than 80's or 90's to me! A couple of them could definitely be 60's. Maybe they were retro in the 80's or 90's?

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the 60s was very retro in the late 80s. My friends and I were very much hippie-wannabes. We listened to 60s music, dressed in vintage clothes, and so on.

[cherrysyllabub.livejournal.com]

1988! Same as me!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Close -- 1989!

[chickadilly.livejournal.com]

FRANKIE!!! I already read the comments so I know - hehe. We're about the same age ... almost. :D

[mindabbles.livejournal.com]

omg, now "Relax" is going to be in my head all night. Will that help me write porn? LOL, do kids still wear buttons? They were all over my denim jacket. :P

[freckles42.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks for making me feel young. At school, I'm easily 6-7 years older than almost everyone in my section and a couple of the kids call me grandma. I'm almost 30.

But, y'know, the point was driven home for me in a few ways. 1. None of them were alive when the Challenger exploded, which I remember. 2. None of them were alive when Halley's Comet swung past (again, I remember). 3. Most of them were in middle school on 9/11. I was a sophomore in college.

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

The 80's were an awesome time to be a teen! I shudder to think what I still have. I'm certain I still have a slap-bracelet or two around...

[lagreyeyes.livejournal.com]

Gosh, you're young. *g*