A post in which I list a lot of only semi-related things

I'm listening to Surfer Rosa for the first time in years, and I'm quite convinced that the Pixies were the only good things to come out of the 80s. I mean:

Chernobyl
bad hair
ugly clothing
bad music (I mean, even Queen and Pink Floyd sucked in the 80s)
Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Brian Mulroney
3rd world debt crisis
Tianamen Square
Microsoft Windows
bloody US-supported coups in Nicaragua, Angola, Cambodia, Afghanistan etc. etc. etc.
late 1980s recession
Jane Fonda
shoulder pads
AIDS
Beta losing to VHS
John Lennon assasinated

Not to mention, if Wayne Gretzky hadn't been so successful playing hockey in the 80s and forsaking us to play on American teams, we wouldn't have to listen to him tell us on the tv that we should buy jeans, wallpaper, pillow cases, cereal, chocolate bars, action figures
hockey sticks
antifreeze
Ford trucks
Coca-Cola
Esso gas
Big Macs
Campbell's soup
Primestar TV
Nike clothes
Hallmark Cards
7-Up
CIBC banking services
Zurich Insurance
the Olympics
Tylenol...

Besides, I still think Bobby Orr was a better player. The only reason the stats don't show it was because the rules were different and the seasons were shorter. Does The Great One have a number that rhymes with his name? Quod erat demonstratem.

Rocket Richard was pretty cool too.

Okay, I'll make exceptions for Ghostbusters and Back to the Future and M*A*S*H.