Remember the 80's?

by Dimples 21 Replies latest social humour

  • Dimples
    Dimples

    Boy did this bring back memories

    You're an 80's child if....

    You had a crush on one of the New Kids on the Block members.

    You wanted to be on Star Search. (Come on, we all did)

    You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off.

    You wore a banana clip or one of those slap on wrist bands at some point during your youth.

    You wore French rolls on the bottom of your splatter painted jeans.

    You had slouch socks, and puff painted your own shirt at least once.

    You owned a doll with 'Xavier Roberts' signed on it's butt.

    You know the profound meaning of ''Wax on, Wax off.''

    You can name at least half of the members of the elite ''Brat Pack.''

    You can remember watching Full House and Saved by the Bell for endless hours!!!!!!

    You have seen at least 10 episodes of Fraggle Rock.

    You know that another name for a keyboard is a ''Synthesizer.''

    You hold a special place in your heart for ''Back to the Future.''

    You know where to go if you ''Wanna go where everybody knows your name.''

    You thought Molly Ringwald was REALLY cool. (Was there an 80's movie she WASN'T in?)

    You know what ''Sike'' means.

    You fell victim to 80's fashion: big hair, crimped, combed over to the side, and you wore spandex pants

    You wanted to be a Goonie - (hey u guyz!!)

    You owned an extensive collection of Cabbage Patch Kids and trolls.

    You actually saw Ted Danson as the MacDaddy he played ''Sam'' to be.

    You ever wore fluorescent -neon if you will clothing...(or nail polish)

    You could break dance, or wished you could. (I said hip hop....)

    You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system. (Remember Pong)

    You know all the words to ''Ice Ice Baby''.

    You remember MC hammer well.

    You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"

    You own any cassettes.

    You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living on the moon.

    You remember and/or own any of the CareBear Glass collection from PizzaHut.

    Poltergeist freaked you out.

    You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins or an ET lunchbox.

    You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.

    You wanted to communicate with some being named Cinergy.

    You wanted to have an alien like Alf living in your house.

    You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish.

    You wore tights under shorts and felt stylish.

    You ever had a Swatch Watch.

    You actually spent countless hours trying to perfect the care-bear stare.

    You remember when Saturday Night Live was funny.

    You had Wonder Woman or Superman underwear.

    You wanted to be The Hulk for Halloween.

    You Believed that ''By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power''

    You thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye.

    Partying ''like it's 1999'' seemed SO far away!!!!!!!!!!!!

    If you can identify with at least half of this list then you, my friend, are a ''Child of the 80's.''

    DIMPLES

  • misspeaches
    misspeaches

    I'm a child of the 80's... AND PROUD OF IT!!!

  • upside/down
    upside/down

    What about that new show...MTV.

    ....and Max Headroom.

    The BMW 325i

    Tarrence Trent Darby

    501's

    oh my gawd there's too much to recall...

    u/d(of the graduated in '84 class)

  • misanthropic
    misanthropic

    Oh wow this brought back so many memories from when I was a kid!

    I had an Orphan Annie lunch pail and I thouht I was so kewl!

    alt

  • Robdar
    Robdar

    You fell victim to 80's fashion: big hair, crimped, combed over to the side, and you wore spandex pants

  • doofdaddy
    doofdaddy

    Leg warmers

    Shoulder pads

    Sweat bands

    Big hair (and gel)

    Duran Duran

  • Robdar
    Robdar

    I remember how overjoyed I was to discover hair mousse.

  • Cygnus
    Cygnus

    Friday Night Videos late on NBC. Pinning the cuffs of your trousers. Teenage slasher films. Pyromania on vinyl. 300 baud modems. Montana to Clark. Gretzky to Kurri. Baseball to Bill Buckner.

  • LyinEyes
    LyinEyes
    Tarrence Trent Darby

    I thought he was hot!!

    Oh and Molly Ringwald was bitchin'.

    But ask ourselves, friends, have we move on? Or do our kids catch us singing those 80's songs?

    I still kind of do the big hair thing now and again. Thank gawd I gave up the pastels colors thou, so unflattering on me.....hehe.

  • glenwoodswoman
    glenwoodswoman

    I still have a few banana combs Yikes....

    hey, if I looked hard anough, I could probably produce my pink leg warmers....

    Glenny

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