This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Fast Eddie: pulling my own addition, behind second thoughts ...
Tanto: Do video games, pre-crash, fit here? It's before my time.
Looney Toons: Mmm. I don't think so... I lived through that period as a kid/teen and I don't remember it being anywhere nearly as all-pervasive as the CB fad was.
Looney Toons: Removed
- A cynic may notice that crusades that simultaneously criticize an aspect of culture tend to change whenever the Predidency changes political parties.
It's certainly not only American; Gilbert and Sullivan spoofed a few fads in their operettas, including a period of intense interest in all things Japanese, and a sudden widespread interest in "Mediaevalist aesthetic" poets.
Doug S. Machina: Metrosexual, "one who is sexually attracted to entire cities". Surely that's Captain Jack from Torchwood?
I think what the person was getting at was the skyscrapers and roads and public transport and infrastructure, rather than Anything That Moves. Heheheh.
