Tuesday, August 31, 2004

You know that you grew up in the 1980's if...

You ever ended your sentence with "psych" (Yup)
You solved the Rubics cube.....by peeling off the stickers
You watched the pound puppies (Yup)
You can sing the rap to "the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (Now this is a story, all about how... (Yup))
You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish (Yup)
You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of
your own. (That was in the 90s)
You owned those little Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls (Yup)
You know what 'Whoa' comes from Blossom (Yup, and BLossom had a huge nose)
Three words: M.C. Hammer (Yup)
You thought it would be great to have a friend named "Boner"
You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales" (Yup)
If you played the chipmunks Christmas album all year long! (Yup)
Remember reading Kool-Aid man comics (Yup)
You ever watched Fraggle Rock (Yup)
You had plastic streamers on the handle bars of your bike(Yeah baby)
You remember When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch
cartoons (Cartoons suck now!)
You wore a pony tail to the side of your head (yup)
You saw the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big screen(yup, and have all 3 movies at home)
You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school (Yup)
You made your mom buy you one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a
knot on the side (Yup)
You had a Kirk Cameron poster on your bedroom wall
You played the game "Mash" with friends at school (1990s)
You wore a Jordache jean jacket and you were proud of it
L.A. GEAR (Yeah)
Your mother wouldn't let you have garbage pail kids
You wanted to change your name to Jem in Kindergarten (Jem and the Rockers rocked!)
You remember reading "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and all the Ramona books (yup)
You know the profound meaning of "Wax on,Wax off"
You wanted to be a Goonie
You ever wore fluorescent, neon if you will, clothing (Yup)
You wanted to be on StarSearch
You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off (He was still fugly)
You took Lunch pales to school (Yup)
You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf (yup)
You remember the craze, and then banning of slap bracelets (Yup)
You still get the urge to use "NOT" at the end of every statement you make (Yeah)
You remember Hypercolor T-shirts
Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band
You remember Punky Brewster (I wanted to be just like Punky!)
You loved Howard the duck
You thought Sheera and He-Man should hook up (They so totally should have! They made a cute couple)
You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged
"friendship bracelets" (I still have most of mine)
You ever owned a pair of Jelly Shoes (I still have some)
After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you couldn't stop saying "I know you are
but what am I?" (Yeah)
You remember "I've fallen...and I can't get up!" (Yup)
You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates (Learned to skate there)
You ever got seriously injured on a slip and slide
You know not to mix poprocks and soda (but did it anyway!)
You have played with a 'skip-it' (I went through a few of them)
You had or went to a birthday party at McDonald's (Many of them)
You learned oldies songs by watching Alvin and the Chipmunks (Yup)
You had a Glow Worm or watched the cartoons (I think I still have my Glow Worm)
You remember dancing along with the Bangles in "Walk Like An Egyptian" (Yup)
If you remember Heathcliff the orange cat (Yup)
You saw the California Raisins Christmas claymation special (Yup)
You've gone through this list occasionally saying "That wasn't from the 80's" (Yup)
You remember Popples (Have one)
DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!! (Yup)
You wore socks over tights with high-top Reeboks (yup)
You wore like 8 pairs of socks at once, scrunched down (Yup)
MISS MARY MACK MACK MACK ALL DRESSED IN BLACK BLACK BLACK.....>
You remember boom boxes instead of CD players (Yup)
You remember watching both "Gremlins" movies
You remember the Transformers
You know what it meant to say "care bear stare!!" and you had a favorite (Yup)
You remember Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales (Oh yeah)
You remember watching TV thinking Doogie Howser was hot! (Mmm yummy)
You remember Alf, the little furry brown alien from Melmac (Alf is the best!)
You remember the large amounts of hairspray used (That's how the ozone hole got so bad)
You remember those very stylish headbands (Yeah)
You remember Vicky the Robot
You remember Eve Garland from Out of this World and how she could stop time by
pressing the tips of her index fingers together and talking to her dad through a
glowing cube in her bedroom
You remember the beggining of New Kids on the Block (Joey McIntyre is hot)
You remember watching The Cosby show (Yup)
You remember Mr.Belvadere
You remember Michael J. Fox in Family Ties and Back to the Future (Mmmmm yeah)
You know all the names of the gang from "Saved by the Bell" (I don't remember them right now)
You know all the words to Bon Jovi's "shot through the heart" song (Yup)

Author's notes are in parenthesis

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