It Came From The 80's

^This...

...came from shit like this:

I got to thinking about the whole rainbows and unicorns thing the other day when QoH was watching one of her programs.  The one very sarcastic smartass on the talk show had a coffee mug of a unicorn shitting a rainbow.  I think the guy is a few years older than me.  I think this whole thing is smartasses of my generation being...well, smartasses.  For a generation that was little kids at a relatively happy time (the 80's), we sure did turn into a sarcastic bunch of smartasses!  ;P

Anyway, I think it's something in our collective consciences.  That there sticker album up there^?  Yeah, I have the very same one *still* in my possession along with the unicorns and Gremlins stickers. (I also have some Transformers ones.)  Stickers and rainbows and unicorns were the shizzle.  It was the era of Rainbow Brite, Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, My Little Pony, etc.  All happy bright rainbow kinda shit.  I don't know how rainbows and unicorns came to be gay symbols.  Maybe from co-opting the old slang meaning of the word "gay" as in 'that stuff was the gayest stuff ever'?  IDK

And R.I.P. David Bowie.  He'll always be the Goblin King to me.