Battle of the Decades – First Round

Time for another epic battle. And since we are now a solid decade past the previous century, that gives us all the distance for reflection that we need to start a big messy winner-takes-all battle between the decades of the 1900s. Of course, we here at the Non-Review, tend to faint at the sight of blood, so instead of us stepping onto the battlefield, we’ll let your votes decide who wins each battle. Then we’ll stand at a safe, and less nauseating, distance to simply tally the votes to declare a winner. So let’s get to it. Here are our first two contenders:

1980s

Your proudest achievements:
I went and blew up Mount St. Helens, then I kicked down that stinkin’ Berlin Wall. But even better, I got IBM to start selling the very first PCs, and then I found the Titanic! Woohoo! And as if that wasn’t enough, I also gave birth to TS Hendrik.
Things you don’t like to talk about:
I got a little clumsy after drinking New Coke, and ended up punching a nice big hole in the Ozone. Then I accidentally blew up that Challenger Space Shuttle. Unfortunately I also spilled some stuff in Chernobyl, and also in Alaska with the Exxon Valdez.

1930s

Your proudest achievements:
I stopped that annoying Prohibition thing in America, which I have to admit is quite ironic since I also founded Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, with a few beers in my system, I built myself a dam. And that Hoover Dam turned out so well, I decided to build the Empire State Building—which of course needed air-conditioning, so I invented that too.
Things you don’t like to talk about:
I accidently lost Amelia Earhart. Sorry. Then I thought I totally made up for it by finding Pluto, but now, of course, it’s—well, I don’t want to talk about it. And I’m really sorry about that whole Hindenberg thing, but I swear I didn’t mean to start WWII.

So which of these two is the greater decade? You tell us by casting your vote, for one or the other, in the comments section. On Saturday we’ll announce the winner (so vote before then), and then throw two other decades up against each other, for round two.


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