You made baby chocolate cakes in your Easy Bake Oven.
You washed them down with dessert from the Snoopy Snow Cone machine.
You had a Fisher Price doctor's kit with a stethoscope.. that worked.
You thought Gopher from the Love Boat was cute
You had either a bowl cut or a pixie
You wore a poncho with a faux fur muff and clogs.
You begged Santa for the electronic games PacMan/Simon/Merlin.
You owned your own roller-skates and banana board.
You wore rainbow striped socks with toes.
You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad.
You wore that plaid ruffled shirt w/ high neck in at least 1 school pic.
The above was inspired by LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
You remember when Tom Hanks was on Bosom Buddies
You remember when Molly Ringwald on Facts of Life
You remember when Robin Williams was Mork.
You wore T-shirts with your name on them in fuzzy lettering
You had a scratch and sniff T-shirt.
You carried a Muppets lunch box to school.
You watched Flintstones reruns at lunchtime.
U tape recorded songs off the radio by holding your recorder up to the speaker.
You thought Olivia Newton John's song "Physical" was about aerobics.
First knickers, then leg warmers.
You learned all about girl stuff from Judy Blume's "Are you There God? It's me Margaret"
You can remember the words to the theme song of "The Greatest American Hero." ("BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I'M WALKIN' ON AIR... I NEVER THOUGHT I COULD FEEL SO FREE-EE-EE...")
There was nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together.
You actually believed that Mikey, famed kid on the Life cereal commercials, died after eating Pop Rocks and drink- ing a Coke.
In your home there was an 8-track tape.
Your parents paid $2,000 for a top-loading VCR that was almost the size of a coffee table.
You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE".
You watched the Pound Puppies.
You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Belair "
Girls wore biker shorts under their skirts and felt stylishly sexy.
You owned those lil' Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.
Two words: Hammer Pants.
If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock ".
You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
You saw the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" IN THE CINEMA
You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.
You wore stonewashed Jordache jean jackets and were proud of it.
You remember reading "Tales of a fourth grade nothing"
You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off".
You wanted to be a Goonie.
You wore flourescent, neon if you will, clothing.
You could breakdance, or wish you could.
You wanted to be The Hulk for Halloween.
You Believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power!"
Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away.
You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off
You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
You took lunch boxes to school... and traded Garbage Pail Kids in the schoolyard.
You still get the urge to say "NOT " after every sentence.
You remember Hypercolor t-shirts.
friendship bracelets.
You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes.
After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I?"
You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"
You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.
You have ever played with a Skip-It.
You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.
You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
"Don't worry, be happy"
You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks.
You remember boom boxes. and walking around with one on your shoulder like you were all that.
You remember watching both "Gremlins" movies.
You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!"
You remember watching "Rainbow Bright" and "My Little Pony Tales
You thought Doogie Howser/Samantha Micelli was hot.
You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool
You know all the words to Bon Jovi - SHOT THROUGH THE HEART.
You just sang those words to yourself.
Homemade Levi shorts. (the shorter the better)
You still sing "We are the World"
You tight rolled your jeans.
You remember "Where's the Beef?"
You had big hair and you knew how to use it.
You're still singing shot through the heart in your head,aren't you!
You wore a banana clip at some point during your youth
You owned a doll with 'Xavier Roberts' signed on its bum
Or you knew someone who did...
big hair, crimped, combed over to the side
You wore spandex pants
you solved the Rubics cube.....by peeling off the stickers...
You hold a special place in your heart for "Back to the Future".
You wanted to go to Kokomo, or maybe Aruba, Jamaca....
You mismatched your clothes to emulate "Punky Brewster"
socks up to your knees
You know how to tease your bangs straight up
Mr. Hooper's death on Sesame Street profoundly affected you
Two words: Lite Bright
You know how to make "Friendship bracelets"
You owned a Teddy Ruxpin
You actually thought "Dirty Dancing" was a REALLY good movie.
You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system.
You own any cassettes.
You had little mirrors on your socks and denim jackets
You believed that in the year 2000 we'd all be living on the moon.
Poltergeist freaked you out.
You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins or an ET lunchbox.
You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish,
You remember when McDonald's sandwitches came in styrofome boxes
You remember when Pepsi was the choice of a new generation
In front of the mirror for hours trying to get your hair perfectly feathered
You used to watch Webster
You've downloaded the best 80s theme songs
You wanted your own robot sister after watching the sitcom Small Wonder
You had a crush on Kirk Cameron
You just HAD to have a car like Kit
The Cosby Show reflected the fashion and it was 'cool'
You wanted detention after seeing "The Breakfast Club"
Night Court made you want to major in law
You remember "Hey, Hey, Hey, its fat albert"
The Fraggles were your close personal friends
The Polka Dot Door was awesome
You know that the higher the pony-tail the cooler it is
You wore torn jeans
You wrote on your jeans
You had a crush on one of the Coreys (Haim or Feldman)
Or knew someone who did.
You had Kangaroos Shoes (little velcro pocket on the side)
Wore your Dad's shirts to wear over leggings with a black leather V-belt
You walked like an Egyptian
You remember Solid Gold
You remember Ricky Schroeder was a spoiled rich kid in Silver Spoons
You watched the wonder years
You remember when computers were those little things used to type letters
You ever ate C-3PO breakfast cereal
You tied a bandana around your thigh because that was what they did in "cool bands"
You've worn at least one article of clothing backwards (not counting hats)
You've played with a Pound Puppy
You've played with anything containing the word "Nerf"
You still know the words to any Paula Abdul, MC Hammer, or Vanilla Ice song
You watched 90210 since the beginning
You ever had a doll with adoption papers
You wore overalls with one strap unbuckled and hanging down over your back
You've ever used the words "dag" "decent" "sike" "gnarly" or "awesome"
You had a See n Say or See n Spell.
You ever thought that you could "take a bite out of crime"
You wondered whether Big Bird was a boy or a girl
You remember the original Muppet Show Tonight and can sing the theme song
You cried with Laura in Little House on the Prairie
You couldn't fall asleep without your Glo-Worm
You wanted to move to Hawaii because that's where Magnum lived.
Your hair, at some time during the 80's, became something which can only be described by the phrase, "I was experimenting."
You had WonderWoman or Superman underoos.
You had a crush on Jon Bon Jovi, or knew someone who did.
If you can identify with at least half of this list then you, my friend, are a "Child of the 80's".
born in the 80's?
They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era
They were kids when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
Tianamen Square means nothing to them.
Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums.
The _expression "You sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.
They have never owned a record player.
They have likely never played Pac Man
They may have never heard of an 8 track.
The Compact Disc was introduced when they already born
They have always had an answering machine.
Most have never seen a black and white TV.
They have always had cable.
There have always been VCRs, but they have no idea what BETA was.
They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
They don't know what a cloth baby diaper is
They don't know about the "Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up" commercial.
Feeling old Yet? There's more:
They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
The Vietnam War is as ancient to them as WWI, WWII and the Civil War. can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.
They don't know who Mork was or where he was from. (ork)
They never heard: "Where's the beef?", or "De plane, de plane!"
They do not care who shot J.R. and have no idea who J.R. was.
Michael Jackson has always been white.
Kansas, Chicago, Boston, America, and Alabama are places, not bands...
There has always been MTV.
They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
Do you feel old yet? If you do, then pass this on to some other old fogies...
but don't send it back to me, I feel old enough.
When I was your age....
When I was a kid we didn't have The Internet-we wanted to know something,
we had to go to the ---- library and look it up ourselves!
And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a
letter-with a pen!--and then you had to walk all the way across the street
and put it in the ------ mailbox and it would take like a
week to get there!
And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to
go to the ------ record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd
usually talk over the begining and F it all up! You want to hear about hardship?
We didn't have fancy ---- like Call Waiting! If you were on the
phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal! And we didn't have
fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the the phone rang, you had no idea who
it was it could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space
Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked xxxx! Your guy was a
little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple
levels or screens, it was just one screen forever!
And you could never win, the game just kept getting harder and
faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating!
All the seats were the same height! A tall guy sat in front of you, you
were screwed! And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was
only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a
little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! Remote, what
remote?? You had to get off your fat xxx and change the friggin channel!!!
And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday
morning... ...D'ya hear what the hell I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL
WEEK, you spoiled little ----!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it
too easy! You're spoiled, I swear to God! You guys wouldn't last
five minutes back in 1980!
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