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[ewx]

BBC edits Skylab out of history. I think it's the first time I heard the last decade referred to as "the roaring 90s", too, but perhaps I've just been under a rock.

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[gerald_duck]

This all sounds too much like Men In Black, except that guy looks nothing at all like Tommy Lee Jones.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

I was under the impression it was the 1920s which were referred to as 'roaring'. Or possibly the 1890s..

[ewx.livejournal.com]

The 1920s and 1990s did have a number of things in common, so it doen't come as too much of a surprise that the same adjective has been applied to both...

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

The 1920s and 1990s did have a number of things in common

Oh?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

A massive boom, fuelled among things by blatantly overoptimistic speculation, followed by a massive crash, during which some extremely dubious business practices came to light.

[gerald_duck]

My main association is the "roaring forties", but that was a latitude, not a decade.