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[BBQ Platypus]

I don't know.  Maybe you had to be there.  I was just a baby during the Reagan years, and I can't really remember anything before  '90, '91 or so.

I suppose I'll just never get it.

[Doctor Who?]

Yeah I don't remember any music from the 80s so I will be giving this one a miss.

[gojikranz]

born in 88.  you gotta explore, of course i dont explore modern music so i guess we're even.

[RVR II]

All you young 'whisker-biscuits' just sit back and let the 80's experts handle this one and when this list is complete, maybe, just maybe, you'll want to explore this unique musical decade for yourselves

[Tripe]

I was 5-15 in the '80s (please everybody look where the apostrophe goes). Frankly most of the decade is awful but some of the music is good.

[Sharktopus]

'80s (please everybody look where the apostrophe goes).

THANK YOU

Also, there's a hyphen in Spider-Man, dammit.

[MontyServo]

I was 5-15 in the '80s (please everybody look where the apostrophe goes).

Grammar police!!!!

Actually, since we are on the subject.  The one that always confuses me is where does the period go in a sentence that ends in a parentheses?  Inside or outside the parentheses?   I'm gonna guess outside since that is how you just did it.  But I usually get tripped up by that one.

[Tripe]

Actually it's either/or depending upon how much of the sentence the period ends is contained within the parenthesis.

[Sharktopus]

My personal parenthetical rule: if it's a complete sentence within the parentheses, the period goes inside. That just makes sense to me.

[Tripe]

Yep I amended my post to reflect that (it occurred to me that the distinction isn't as obvious as I assumed it is).

[MontyServo]

That's probably the way I've been doing it all along then.  Not realizing it was correct either way depending on what was written.  I know that sometimes I'll have it inside the parentheses, sometimes outside.  I just would wonder sometimes if I was doing it right.

[Sharktopus]

I'm about to piss off some uptight English teachers, but here's the bottom line: Whatever gets your idea across to the reader clearly is the best way to go, and damn the rules. Trying to apply rules to the English language is a fool's errand.

[RVR II]

'80s (please everybody look where the apostrophe goes).

So?
I Like putting the apostrophe in the wrong place..

[MontyServo]

I'm about to piss off some uptight English teachers, but here's the bottom line: Whatever gets your idea across to the reader clearly is the best way to go, and damn the rules. Trying to apply rules to the English language is a fool's errand.

It's not that I was trying to follow perfect grammar.  It's just that sometimes it would look wrong to me and I would want to change it.  Other times it would look fine.  I just wanted to know if it was supposed to be one way or another.

But I agree.  As long as it's concise and to the point, it's all good.

'80s (please everybody look where the apostrophe goes).

So?
I Like putting the apostrophe in the wrong place..

That's what she said.

[Tripe]

'80s (please everybody look where the apostrophe goes).

So?
I Like putting the apostrophe in the wrong place..

Actually, for the most part, you don't put it in the wrong place.

I'm about to piss off some uptight English teachers, but here's the bottom line: Whatever gets your idea across to the reader clearly is the best way to go, and damn the rules. Trying to apply rules to the English language is a fool's errand.

To a point this is correct; many of the grammatical rules are artificial shibboleths.

Some, however, are intended to make sure the correct sense is conveyed, like the one about apostrophe placement.