The contest is over and I've finally finished reading all 118 pages of your entries.
The good news is with the caliber of your answers, I could see every single one of you working on a VH1 I Love the 80's special.
The bad news is I could only choose a few winners. (Also, I completely suck at coming up with any contest that can be considered "quick.")
Anyway, here in no particular order are the five winning sentences...
"Because nothing defines my 80's like six college freshmen readying themselves post happy hour/pre-night out, showering side by side (separate stalls of course) with individual copies of the lyrics to Paradise by the Dashboard Light in Ziploc bags affixed with rubber bands, dangling from the shower head so we can all sing IN UNISON to the cranking boom box... STOP RIGHT THERE!!" - Margaret Saylor
"Despite the nagging fear someone might "push the button" and annihilate the world as we knew it before I could save up enough babysitting money for a pair of Guess jeans, it was really the only decade where it was OK to fantasize about Scott Baio living in the basement." - Mary
"At one magical point in the 80's my butt and my head were the same size." - Kristina
"With two plastic swords and a few Fruit Roll-Ups, my brother and I defended out suburban NJ neighborhood from the likes of Skeletor, Gargamel, and Serpentor." - Kate
"It isn't just nostalgia that makes me think the 80's were a more innocent time; back then Michael Jackson wore one glove because he was the coolest guy on the planet, not because he was up to something with Vaseline." - Texie
HOWEVER, after I picked these there were a couple more entries I couldn't stop smiling about. So I'm giving away my entire cache of audio books and the following are also winners...
"If anyone had high cholesterol, ADD, HPV, erectile dysfunction, an overactive bladder, herpes, or restless leg fucking syndrome, we didn't speak of it during commercial breaks in Falcon Crest." - K.C.
"There is a picture of the Breakfast Club crew on my MySpace page while there are no pictures of my family." - Anna
"The 80's evolved from a Lacoste-wearing Preppy Handbook worshipper to a miniskirt Go-Go's girl turned into a big-haired Guns N' Roses fan, all in a single decade." - Julie
Everyone, thanks for playing along - your answers were fab!
For you eight winners, please email me at jenwritesbooks (at) gmail (dot) com with a full name and an address where I can send these. (I'll ship Thursday because I'm not going to be the asshole in line at the post office on April 15 tomorrow like I was last year.) Also, if you have a website you'd like me to link to your name on this post, please include that, too. (Oh, and I'm planning to remove the plastic outer-wrap so I can sign them. If you want your copy still in the package, let me know.)
And that's it.
So, until tomorrow when I finally post the damn prom photos... party on, dudes!
