The Indian Navy's Marine Commando Force were equipped until the late 1980s with crossbows supplied with cyanide-tipped arrows, as an alternative to suppressed handguns.

Anderson was involved in the fledgling alternative comedy scene in the early 1980s and was the first act to come on stage at The Comedy Store when it opened in 1979.

Christian alternative music has its roots in the early 1980s, as the earliest efforts at Christian punk and new wave were recorded by artists like Andy McCarroll and Moral Support, Undercover, The 77s, Adam Again, Quickflight, Daniel Amos, Youth Choir ( later renamed The Choir ), Lifesavers Underground, Michael Knott, The Altar Boys, Breakfast with Amy, Steve Taylor, 4-4-1, David Edwards and Vector.

A more economical alternative was made available to the handloader in the 1980s, the copper plated bullet.

Alternative rock grew out of the grunge scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s and is particularly favored by college radio and adult album alternative stations ; there is a strong focus on songwriters and bands with an outsider sound or a more sophisticated sound than the " three chord wonder " cliché.

The alternative spelling " nybble " parallels the spelling of " byte ", as noted in editorials in Kilobaud and Byte in the early 1980s.

There are estradiol skin patches such as Estraderm ( the original brand, introduced in the late 1980s ) that offer a completely natural alternative.

Before turning in a mainstream direction in the 1980s, NDW attracted a politically conscious and diverse audience, including both participants of the left-wing alternative scene and neo-Nazi skinheads.

" By the end of the 1980s, these bands, who had largely eclipsed their punk rock forebears in popularity, were classified broadly as alternative rock.

In the early 1980s, UCSD Pascal was ported to the Apple II and Apple III computers to provide a structured alternative to the BASIC interpreters that came with the machines.

Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of other sub-genres, including New Wave, post-punk and eventually the alternative rock movement.

But whereas migrants without papers try not to draw the attention of the police, alternative and artist's squats break the news from the 1980s onwards.

It was widely used in switching networks during the 1980s and early 1990s, for example as an alternative to circuit mode terminal switching, and for automated teller machines.

In the 1980s and 1990s, several American bands began to combine polka with various rock styles ( sometimes referred to as " punk polka "), " alternative polka ", or " San Francisco-style ".

Critics have called them the most important alternative rock band to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s.

Since the late 1980s, there has been a move towards alternative designs of nursing uniforms in some countries.

In 1992 the NME declared The Cure had during the 1980s become " a goth hit machine ( 19 to date ), an international phenomenon and, yep, the most successful alternative band that ever shuffled disconsolately about the earth ".

Some hardcore bands began experimenting with other styles as their careers progressed in the 1980s, becoming known as alternative rock.

The band's sound is considered a blending of the alternative rock of the 1980s and 90s with the hard rock of the 1970s, though the band is known for making each of their records possess a unique musical style, despite having the " sonic blueprint " of the band, as Robert DeLeo describes.

Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn's SST record label, a seminal alternative rock label of the 1980s, maintained its headquarters in Lawndale.

Mercury Rev is an American alternative rock group, that formed in the late 1980s in Buffalo, New York.

Citroën probably gained former VW customers as the only other " retro alternative " economy car style of vehicle, the Volkswagen Beetle, was withdrawn from the European market in 1978, ( special order only from Mexico in the 1980s ), when it ceased production in West Germany.

It could be noted that older bands such as Eurythmics, New Order and Depeche Mode had built on the New Wave music of the 1980s and added more dance and electronic instrumentation and alternative rock influences to become early pioneers of " electronica " music.

They came to prominence in the early 1980s for performing at the London comedy club The Comic Strip, which also gave its name to the television series and the informal grouping of so-called alternative comedians.

* Alternative comedy, a range of styles used by comedians and writers in the 1980s

Popular comedy stars in the 1980s included Dudley Moore, Tom Hanks, Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd.

In addition to the " Super Bowl Shuffle " rap song, the Bears ' success in the 1980s – and especially the personality of head coach Mike Ditka – inspired a recurring sketch on the American sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live, called " Bill Swerski's Superfans ".

The semi-theatrical music and comedy troupe transformed into a ska-influenced new wave band in 1979, and then changed again towards a more guitar-oriented rock sound, in the late 1980s.

Leary began working as a comedian in the Boston comedy scene of the 1980s at the underground club Play It Again Sam's.

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Category: 1980s comedy films

Category: 1980s comedy films

Parodies of Popeil's infomercials were done on the comedy show Saturday Night Live by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy and the " Veg-O-Matic " may have provided comedian Gallagher inspiration for the " Sledge-O-Matic " routine since the 1980s.

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The sub-genre became a popular trend in the 1980s when actors who were known for their background in comedy such as Eddie Murphy, began to take roles in action films.

His fame as a comedy film actor was later heightened by success in hit Hollywood films such as Foul Play, 10 with Bo Derek and Arthur in the late 1970s and early 1980s, respectively.

Her last film of the 1980s was opposite partner Kurt Russell for the third time in the comedy Overboard ( 1987 ).

Hawn's career slowed down after leaving Hollywood in the late 1980s, but revived somewhat in 1990 with the action comedy Bird on a Wire, a critically panned but commercially successful picture that paired Hawn with Mel Gibson.

Jason has also appeared on several radio comedy shows, and had numerous voice acting parts, notably in the long running animated series Danger Mouse, Count Duckula and The Wind in the Willows of the 1980s and early 1990s.

Category: 1980s comedy films

Low budget films such as the comedy / drama Muriel's Wedding, starring Toni Collette, the gently satirical suburban comedy The Castle directed by Rob Sitch ( which cast Eric Bana in his first prominent film role ), and Baz Luhrmann's flamboyant Strictly Ballroom each attained commercial and critical success, and explored quirky characters inhabiting contemporary Australian suburbia-marking something of a departure from the Outback and historical sagas which obtained success in the 1970s and 1980s.

Category: 1980s comedy films

Category: 1980s romantic comedy films

ET ; the programming featured within the block, which has existed since the early 1980s, includes smaller feature films and occasionally stand-up comedy specials.

Radio Active was a radio comedy programme, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 during the 1980s.

Sniglet is a neologism, popularized by comedian / actor Rich Hall during his tenure on the 1980s HBO comedy series Not Necessarily the News.