Back when I was twelve, the big college fad was streaking--that's running around naked. Another fad from the '70s was the Pet Rock. The guy behind it said you could train your pet rock to fetch, by throwing a stick then throwing the rock after it. He guaranteed that the rock won't return without the stick!
Does anyone else remember deely boppers? I think they're a hair band with two antennas sticking out of it with flowery things on the end. I recall they had a very brief heyday with young girls in the early '80s.
Every generation has its fads, of course, especially with college boys. In the '50s there was panty raids and stuffing people into a phone booth; in 1939 there was swallowing goldfish; and back in the '20s there was a craze for sitting on the top of flagpoles!
Does anyone remember when dirty dancing like the lambada was a craze around 1990? Then in the mid-'90s there was the macarena... And don't get me started on clothing fads like earth shoes and painter's pants!
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