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Dig out your Chip & Pepper shirt...
...put on your Cooperalls...
...take a seat on the patio, under the lanterns...
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...fire up the Yorx stereo...
...and remember when Terry Fox made you proud to be Canadian:
Rick Hansen made you proud to be Canadian - and when he passed through your town, your school choir sang the "St. Elmo's Fire" theme song to him:
Ben Johnson made you proud to be Canadian...briefly:
The coolest stuff came from one place (when they had it in stock):
You had this on LP...
...these on cassette...
...and this on CD:
Of course, whatever you listened to, you probably bought it here:
Or maybe here:
...after seeing the video on The Nation's Music Station:
Unless you didn't have cable:
...which also deprived you of getting the NHL highlights whenever you wanted.
Speaking of which...
...it was a great time to be a fan of these guys:
Or these guys...
Or even these guys:
The Leafs, alas, had gone over a WHOLE DECADE without hoisting Lord Stanley's Mug.
As for baseball, the Expos - not the Jays - were Canada's team:
...even if we still have no freaking idea what this was supposed to mean. ("elb?")
But who cared, when they had the greatest mascot ever?
We got hooked on Degrassi Junior High when Spike got pregnant...
...we can still complete the line, "There's a voice, keeps on callin' me..."
...and we know exactly how to say, "It's that big chunk of fudge."
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When we had the munchies, nothing else would do:
...and Hostess also helped us build up our sticker collections:
So even though we might be adults now...
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...we still have our memories...
...and we can look back with pride at the greatest decade ever!
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