You remember when Acid/Glacier Washed jeans were cool.
In one of your fifth through eighth grade class pictures you were wearing an Izod shirt with the collar up and had that great feathering in your hair.
You know the words to any Weird Al Yankovic song
You ever rang someone's doorbell and said "Landshark!"
The words; "Atari, IntelliVision and Coleco(-Vision)" sound familiar to you.
You remember the days when "safe sex" meant that your parents were gone for the weekend.
You remember Friday Night Videos before the days of MTV.
A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid.
While in high school, you and your friends discussed elaborate plans to get together again at the end of the century and play Prince's "1999" until you passed out partying.
You remember when music that was labeled alternative, really was alternative.
You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan.
You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you, or up-top in one of those deathtrap camper shells!
You've ever conversationally used the phrase; "Jane, you ignorant slut!"
Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language.
You're starting to view getting carded to buy alcohol as a GOOD thing.
You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Madonna or Cyndi Lauper video.
Everybody cut, Everybody Cut...Footloose.
You remember with pain the sad day when the Green Machine hit the streets and made your old Big Wheel quite obsolete.
A "Yard Job" was the complete opposite of "Working on some Landscaping".
You honestly remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possibly get better special effects than those in the movie TRON.
You did bike-tricks and/or board-kicks.
Your hair at some point in time in the 80's became something which can only be described by the phrase; "I was experimenting."
Some 80's tunes make you "feel good".
You're starting to believe now that maybe having the kids go to school year round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
You're doing absolutely nothing pertaining to your major.
You recently tried 'Breakin' and realized the term means something about bones now.
You remember trying to guess the episode of the Brady Bunch from the first scene.
Video killed the radio star.
You're parents wanted you to attend medical school, but you decided it was pointless since Quincy got all the babes anyway.
You know who shot JR.
This rings a bell: "...and my name is Charlie. They work for me."
You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on after all.
When anyone uses the word "like" in a sentence, you notice. But when you abuse the word, you don't notice.
You knew/know someone with a Dorothy Hamil haircut.
You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed 867-5309 to see if Jenny would answer.
"All skate, change directions," means something to you.
You owned a pair of Rainbow suspenders just like Mork used to wear.
You bought a pair of Vanns and wanted to order a pizza in history class so you could be just like Jeff Spicoli.
You know what a preppy handbook is.
You were too young to go see the Blue Lagoon or Alien, so you just had to settle for second hand reports.
You have the talent to use Rotary dial telephones.
You often rely upon the wisdom of Mr.Miagi.
You learned to swim about the same time Jaws came out and still carry the emotional scars to this day.
Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those brick sized packages of Bazooka gum.
Bo and Luke Duke. Oh...Daisy! Enos the what?
VCRs cost $2,000.
There was nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together.
You remember when there was only PG and R.
You actually believed that Mikey (famed for his Life cereal commercials) died after eating a packet of pop rocks and drinking a Coke.
The theme song to Greatest American Hero still comes back to you on occasion.
You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phrases, "When I was younger..." "When I was your age... " "You know..." "Back when..."
This timeline appropriately describes actual events in your life:
- - - (a) Star Wars opens, you are still in single digit ages, and you think the creatures are WAY cool.
- - - (b) Empire Strikes Back opens, you are now in early double digit ages, and you are convinced that; the special effects are much better, the characters are cool, and you want one of every collectible out there.
- - - (c) Return of the Jedi hits the theaters, you are now a teenager and can't get your eyes off Princess Leia's rack!
- - - (d) You secretly try to rienforce the idea that the; "...major profit in parting with that Star Wars stuff on eBay" actually WAS a good move.
You've gotten so bored with the internet that you've resorted to hunting down web-sites about the 80's.
You realize exactly what 'generation labels' are and feel glad not to be associated with any of them.