The Big CityMama Give-away 80's Contest Thing. Win Prizes!

I got stuff to give-away, people.  Now, while I may do this all the time for the BlogHer Free Stuff & Fabulous Deals newsletter, I am soooo not good at managing this kind of stuff in my personal life. I live within walking distance of the post office and still find it hard to get there. (Hi Trish, I haven't forgotten about you, I promise.)

So here's what I got:

3 sets of Jennifer Weiner books including her new unreleased book Certain Girls which is the follow-up to Good In Bed. Certain Girls takes place 13 years later and introduces readers to Cannie's teenager daughter, Joy. You know you read it, you know you want it. Three CityMama readers will win a sets which include both books.

The other thing I got are Boca coupons. Receive a free Boca meatless product of your choice from burgers to lasagne. I have about 10 of these babies to give away.  If you want a chance to win more Boca coupons, hop on over Mir's place and enter her give-away!

All items will be mailed to you at a later date, but since the Boca coupons expire at the end of the month, those will go out ASAP.

But we have to make it fun (and funny!). So here's where the contest part comes in.

The Big CityMama Give-away 80's Contest Thing

Answer the questions as best you can and winners will be chosen at random. (You don't have to answer all of them. Comment and you'll be entered.) There may be more than one correct answer for a given question. Points given for responses that make me laugh, even if they aren't correct. Googling allowed and encouraged.

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1. Name all the members of DeBarge.

2. Watch this video then answer the following question: Whose hair is more lush, silky, and beautiful—David Coverdale or Tawny Kitaen? Why? Please use specific examples to support your answer.

3. Who is this artist? Bonus points if you've ever copied one of these onto your binder, a homemade textbook cover, or in an art class where you tried to pass it off as your own style.

4. Have you ever doodled a lighting bolt? (Be honest.)

5. Name the ways in which the athletic scenes on a Pee-Chee folder can be altered so they are "funny."

6. What is proper etiquette to indicate that you are next when playing a coin-op video game like Donkey Kong or Galaxian?

7. What is this and what is it used for?

8. What clothing items are appropriate for "checkering?"

9. Look at the following head coverings:

Now match the hats to the following scenarios:

a) Which hat would you wear while on assignment for your New York-based magazine to hang out in the Australian outback with a local who eventually follows you back to New York and shows you his big, impressive... knife.

b) Which hat would you wear while driving your Trans-Am down El Camino Real blasting Led Zeppelin's Kashmir and sipping McDonald's vanilla milkshakes spiked with Creme de Menthe that you stole from your parents liquor cabinet on your way to meet your friends at AM-PM.

c) Which had would you wear hanging out in a cafe in Sri Lanka waiting on your buddies who like to drive Jeeps through outdoor markets wearing ridiculous headbands and shirts unbuttoned down to their navels revealing their bony chests and pasty skin.

10. Complete this lyric:

We are, we are, we are but your children__________________________.

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Leave your answers in the comments and make sure your emails work. Use real ones, ain't no spam happening here. It's a blog.

Contest ends, oh, sometime next week.  I'll pick the winners by next Friday.

Comments

[Crystal]

1. Mark, James, Randy, and Eldra (or "El"), and their sister Bunny.
2.David Coverdale - looks like they used a non sticky mouse as opposed to aquanet
3. julian schnabel
4.yes
5. doodle new clothes to resemble someone in ur class u didn't like
6. Put ur qtrs up next on console
7. Trapper Keeper, school work?
8. boots??
9. A - C
B - B
C - A
10 finding our way Around indecision

[Rose]

Darnit, I was born in the 80's. This should be educational.

I do know several answers.

4. Yes.

5. Put your quarter on the machine.

6. Put the athletes into sexual positions.

7.Trapper keeper! Keeping your carefully tabbed classes organized. For, like, a week, then you just throw everything inside it.

8. Hats, Vans, Belts, bracelets, socks. Or, everything?

[christina]

1) DeBarge: Mark, James, Randy, and El, and Bunny

2) Cloverdale for sure, just look how angelic his hair looks when the light hits it

3) Patrick Nagel; Yes, not only did I do it on folders and book covers. I also did it for school dance tickets, flyers, and banners. I think I even saved copies somewhere tucked in the dark recesses of my mom's garage.

4) Yep. Always tried to get the perfect ratio between width and length and number of zigs. I kid you not.

5) Alter or add things to the images so they end up affecting each other. Ex: Turn tennis racquet into a flaming torch lighting football player's butt on fire, etc...

6) line up the quarter(s) sitting on the console up against the glass.

7) Trapper Keeper; for holding all your classes worth of homework, handouts, etc.

8) shoes

9) a) A & C
b) none of the above?
c) C

10) "...finding our way around indecision."

[Erica (crummy cupcake)]

1. I have to say that I only really know El, but I could look above or Google for Mark, James, Randy and Bunny
2. David has the superior hair from a health and beauty standpoint. Tawny has a skanky over-processed thick mane that tends to look stringy and ratty.
3. Nagel. 10th grade drawing and painting class was all about copying Nagel and Ty Wilson (http://www.tywilson.com/)
4. Lightening bolts - uh, yes. Too many to detail.
5. I had to keep my Pee-Chee's pretty clean (thanks to the folks), but I was all over the colored ones when they came out in 8th grade. Green and purple. Sweet.
6. You place your quarter, standing up, on the face of the game.
7. This is a Trapper Keeper, to keep your folders and papers oh so organized. i just bought one of these for my daughter this year. Clearly, not as cool as the one shown here.
8. Bandanas, scrunchies, shoes, socks, etc...
9. Crocodile Dundee - C
Trans-Am cruise - A
Duran Duran Video - B
10. finding our way around indecision we are we are we are rather helpless changes forever a whisper to a scream

[beth]

1.Please tell me you didn't name your child for a member of DeBarge!!
2.Coverdale and it's even more glowing if you watch the video without sound because that's all you can pay attention to! ha!
3.Nagel. I've always thought that those random posters that are in nail salons kinda look like his work. No offence intended, but they do!
4.Still do, shall I attach a scanned copy? :)
5. If I was a teenage boy, make them sexual, but I'm not so I got nothing.
6. Put your quarter down then back off.
7.Trapper Keeper, though I took it to school, I'm not sure I ever actually put anything useful into it other than doodles of lightning bolts...
8.Anything canvas or denim, preferably shoes.
9. a-1
b-1
c-1
10."...finding our way around indecision."

[debbie - i obsess]

I can't take the time to get to all of these right now, but I used my Trapper KeeperS religiously. I was a geek and I knew it even then. *shrugs*

El Debarge is the only I know off the top.

arrows up the skirt of the tennis girl with the name of the ho-bag in your class next to her. etc.

croc dundee - will I ever manage to erase the image of the female actress wearing that godawful g-string one piece swimsuit in the pond? ew. she had such a weird ass. and I didn't need to see so much of it. or, you know, any of it.

quarters lined up nice and proper on the side of the machine.

this is a confused mess of responses but outta time.

will link this afternoon.

smooch. Deb

[christina]

Oh, I meant
#9 -a) B & C, not A.
Laughing with you.

[kris]

1. El, Mark, James, Randy, and Bunny
2. I have to go with Coverdale as well. The lighting in this video is his friend.
3. Nagel
4. Yesterday.
5. Hair is funny. Mustaches, afros, stubble, unibrows and armpit hair would all improve the look of this folder.
7. Trapper Keeper, baby! For all your homework, and of course, to look cool on the bus.
8. I checkered my chucks.
9. A - C
B - B
C - A
10. Finding our way around indecision...

[Carolyn]

1. Uhhh....Who's DeBarge?
2.

Okay, I just scanned through the rest of the questions and I have no idea about any of them. Jeez. I must have missed something. But I love Jennifer Weiner and Boca so can I still enter?

[Amanda]

Okay, I get the following:

-I had not one, not two, but three (!!) Trapper Keepers...geek, yes.

-David, definitely. Tawny had the "out of the bottle" look going (not to mention the weird car-hood fetish thing).

-I remember wearing a checkered hat, shirt *cropped on the diagonal*, and shoes (Vans).

-I *did* doodle lightening bolts.

Hoping that this counts!

[kelly]

1.Uh Debarge?
2.Coverdale clearly has the better colorist
3.Nagel! Every frat house had a nagel mural
4.nope
5.never had one of these
6.putting your quarter down on the glass,preferably between levels when actual game play was suspended
7.the trapper keeper was used as a status symbol
8.vans, the bottoms of your jeans, notebooks
9. A hat 3 B hat 1 C hat 2
10. uh I dunno?

[janet]

um. ok so i have no clue, except that doodling on peechee folders was a national pasttime in my youth (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth).

but can i enter anyway? :-)

[Gudrun]

I know no answers, but I had to comment, because you slay me! How hysterical - I saw your video post the other day, I had no idea you were such an 80's fan. Personally, I have a snappy pic of me from 8th grade with the asymmetrical haircut. I might be talked into trading that for prizes ;-)

[Tricia]

#1. I was too into Styx, Phil Collins, and Pat Benatar.

#2. David for the spiral perm, of course

#3. Nagel- oh, yes!

#4. See #5

#5. 'droppings' falling out of clothing, sexual positions, dialogue bubbles, flowers in the runners hands... too many...

#6. Quarters on the screen

#7. Trapper Keeper- notes from class

#8. 501's, and shoes (never had vans)

#9. a- brown hat with croc teeth
b- white cowboy hat
c- checkered

(oh, the El Camino, to Hillsdale and back to Burger King)

#10. no clue- see #1

[Stephanie]

1. El, Mark, James, Randy, and Bunny

2. Tawny Kitaen? Are you kidding? Old Haystack head? Aquanet City - even for the '80's

3. Patrick Nagel - Ooo! remember the cover for Duran Duran's Rio? I cut out pictures of his work from magazines and put them on my walls... He died in '84 age 38 after exercising. Scared me away from exercising ever since...

4.I doodled lightening bolts, wore pink lightening bolt polo shirts, wore a gold-tone lightening bolt necklace...

5.Excessive hair is funny, word ballons are funny, addition of male genitalia is funny, adding underwear lines to the tennis player...classic!

6. Balance a quarter on the top vertical name area of the game console. (That's what the plastic edging is for, right?) OR you can place a quarter on the actual joystick area balanced horzontally between the two joystick levers. (This is less effective since not everyone looks down at a player's hands)

7. It's a Trapper Keeper. A Trapper Keeper is supposed to be used for organizing classwork - a different color "folio" for each period. But it was more often used for: Trapper Keeper bowling near the lockers, a seat cushion at assemblies and football and making your friends jealous because you got the cutest or coolest picture.

8. Painters caps, Vans, neckerchielf, hair bands/scarfs, blouses, pants, skirts, dresses, socks and t-shirts.

9. a-3, b-1, c-1 (checked painter's cap - good for any occation!)

10. Finding our way around indecision.
We are we are we are rather helpless
Changes forever
Whisper to a scream.

Yay! Icicle Works!!

[bombaygirl]

1) Mark, James, Randy, and Eldra (or "El"), and their sister Bunny
2) Of course, David. Just look at that cloud...how could it not be the softest thing to land on?!!!
3) Nagel. All my boyfriends in college had a Nagel on their walls. It was supposed to be so cool.
4)Yeah, I doodled lightning bolts. And a whole bunch of other stuff.
5) We didn't have these in India!
6) never got into these, so don't know
7) Trapper Keeper (I actually used these in college too! How sad is that? Also, that really dates me, doesn't it?)
8) ball caps and keds.
9) a-3, b-1, c-2
10) no freaking idea

Not bad...I only had to google the first one, and I didn't care enough to google the last!

[cat/bad kitty]

1. Only the only DeBarge that anyone cares about, (and yes, that's including Janet Jackson) is Eldra Patrick DeBarge.

2. Coverdale. Chest hair. Luxurious. Curtains match the carpet, for sure.

3. Uh, I would say Nagle except he died long before all that crazy ass face piercing got ok.

4. Only as a tribute to Elvis - TCB!

5. Fucking
Peeing
Pooing

6. Nice trick question. Girls don’t play video games, duh.

7. I almost didn’t recognize it without a Star Wars or kitten motif. This is where you keep the forged hall passes that allow you to leave study hall and take public transportation into the city and buy manic panic hair dye.

8. I have no idea, because we were so uncool back east. However, google says it has to do with custom carved pistol handles. http://www.checkering.com/my_photos.htm

9. a) #3, it goes best with my THONG http://www.robbscelebs.co.uk/noops678/crocodile_dundee0032.jpg
b) Whaaaaaaaat? It’s too hard to hear you while I’m puking my guts out the window.
c) THIS WAS THE BEST VIDEO EVER HOW CAN YOU MAKE FUN OF IT?????!?!?!?!? I LOVE NICK RHODES!!!!! OR MAYBE JOHN TAYLOR!!!!! WHICHEVER ONE WILL ET ME BLOW HIM AS LONG AS IT'S NOT ANDY!!!!!!

10.
Joy Division and The Cure was much better than Icicle Works. Do you have a cigarette?

[The Other Dana]

1. Tyrone, Pablo, Tasha and Uniqua.
2. Who are David Coverdale and Tawney Kitaen? Were they in that Nickelodeon show, Hey Dude?
3. Patrick Nagel, but I cheated and looked at someone's answer. I don't know who he is either. I'd google, but I'm so darn lazy. Maybe I'll do it with question number 4.
4. HO-LEE CRAP! I know this answer! Yes! :)
5. Does this answer have to involve other body parts? Because my husband thinks that would be funny. (Yes, I've asked him for help. He grew up in the 80s. I did, too, but much more the late 80s -- like 1989.)
6. You place the quarter up on the top of the thingie. I don't know what it's called, but it's sort of like places quarters on a pool table to indicate you'd like to play next. Or like quarters on the slots of a dart board.
7. OMG, a Trapper Keeper! I had one of those. It was supposed to hold my folders and loose leaf paper. Mine just collected dust.
8. I haven't the slightest. Is that like short-checking? If so, than I say shorts.
9. B, then A, then C. Or something.
10. really, no clue on this one.

[Marcela]

I have no clue on most of the answers and the ones I might have a clue don't have enough time to think about... but I would still like to participate, can I?

[radzilla]

man, i did this last ight, but it dissappered, so here i go again (on my own!!!)

1. i only know el. never really listened to debarge. but, wasn't janet married to el for about two minutes once upon a time?

2. totally tawny. because, who else can do the splits on the roof of a car?? hawtness!!!

3. never like nagel posters.

4. lightening bolts, lips, eyes and eyebrows, and horse heads.

5. adding moustaches, black eyes, and warts with hairs coming out of em.

6. put your quarter down and hover like you mean business.

7. i atill have my trapper keeper. i'd totally hand it down, but i don't think O would appreciated the puppies on the cover.

8. slip on vans is what all the cool kids with bilevels wore.

9. "you call that a kniiiife?"

10. whisper to a screeeaaammm!

[Kat G]

oh lord. I swear, I was alive in the 80s but I can't answer any of these except for the Nagel poster.

And Tawney... Cause her NAME is tawney and she crawls around on cars so by definition she has to have much silkier hair!

[Michelle]

6. Put your tokens on it.
7. Trapper Keeper. Used to hold paper and school stuff.
9. 3rd hat is a

1st hat b

[erin]

I think I must be a bit older than you because I am all like, Debarge who? I can, however, answer several other questions.
1) ???
2) Don't feel qualified to make assessment
3) Nagel
4) Er, yes I must admit it.
5) Asking this question brought out the worst in me. All I can see if a big strap on attached to the cheerleader and, well, you know where that thing is going! Obviously the guys are running fast - away from her!
6) Put your quarter on the machine.
7) Trapper Keeper baby!
8) a-3, b-1, c-2
9) ...finding our way
Around indecision, we are, we are, we are ever helpless,
Take us forever, a whisper to a scream

[Rose]

Wow, I am surprised to see how many times Vans were mentioned here! I am a fairly new Vans convert, they are the only tennis shoe I wear. Unless I am working out (hahhahaha). And, most of the time I wear dressier shoes, but I love me some Vans.

Back in the 80's I was all about the bright Teal high top Chucks.

S, you should have everyone post their best 80's photo ever.

[Nagelphile]

I know #4! If you are interested in seeing more Nagel images, check out

http://patricknagel.lefora.com/forum/