YOU KNOW YOU GREW UP IN THE 80's IF.....
 

Here's another thing I read that I thought was funny.

1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE ".


2. You watched the Pound Puppies.

3. You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Belair " ..and can do
the "Carlton".


4. Girls wore biker shorts under their skirts and felt stylishly

sexy.


5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to
start a club of your own.


6. You owned those lil' Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.

7. You know that "WOAH " comes from Joey on Blossom

8. Two words: Hammer Pants

9. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock ".

10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars... and
"spokey-dokes" or playing cards on your spokes for that incredible sound effect.


11. You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales " (Woo ooh!)


12. When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to
watch cartoons.


13. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.


14. You saw the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles " on the big
screen... and still know the turtles names.


15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer

class at school.


16. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your
shirt in a knot on the side.



17. You played the game "MASH " (Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House)


18. You wore stonewashed Jordache jean jackets and were proud of it.


19. L.A. Gear....need I say more


20. You wanted to change your name to "JEM " in Kindergarten. (She's
truly outrageous.)


21. You remember reading "Tales of a fourth grade nothing " and all
the Ramona books.


22. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF "


23. You wanted to be a Goonie.


24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing. (some of us... head-to-toe)


25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose
fell off and his cheeks shifted.


26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.


27. You took lunch boxes to school... and traded Garbage Pail Kids in
the schoolyard.


28. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.


29. You still get the urge to say "NOT " after every sentence.


30. You remember Hypercolor t-shirts.


31. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.


32. You thought She-ra (Princess of Power!) and He-Man should hook
up.


33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you
exchanged handmade friendship bracelets.


34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes. (and like #24, probably in
neon colors, too)

35. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you

are, but what am I? "

36. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up "

37. You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline
skates.

38. You never got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.

39. You have ever played with a Skip-It.

40. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.

41. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.

42. You remember Popples.

43. "Don't worry, be happy "

44. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top
Reeboks.

45. You wore socks scrunched down (and sometimes still do... getting
yelled at by "younger hip" members of the family)

46. "Miss MARY MACK MACK MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK"

47. You remember boom boxes.. and walking around with one on your

shoulder like you were all that.

48. You remember watching both "Gremlins " movies.

49. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!!""


50. You remember watching "Rainbow Bright" and "My Little Pony Tales"

51. You thought Doogie Howser/Samantha Micelli was hot.

52. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.

53. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool... and
don't even flinch when people refer to them as "NKOTB".

54. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved
By the Bell ", the ORIGINAL class.

55. You know all the words to Bon Jovi - SHOT THROUGH THE HEART.

56. You just sang those words to yourself.

57.You remember watching Magic vs. Bird.

58. homemade Levi shorts.. (the shorter the better)


59. You remember when mullets were cool!

60. You had a mullet!

61. You still sing "We are the World "

62. You tight rolled your jeans.

63. You owned a bannana clip

64. You remember "Where's the Beef?

65. You used to (and probably still do) say "What you talkin' about
Willis?"

66. You had big hair and you knew how to use it.

67. You're still singing shot through the heart in your head, aren't
you!!!



PASS THIS ON TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS WHO GREW UP IN THE 1980s ROCK ON!!!

this is SO you, isn't it mark? lol hammer pants...

i remember all of that stuff. and the weird thing is, is that i'm watching i love the 80's (1982) right now! i love that show!!!

32. You thought She-ra (Princess of Power!) and He-Man should hook
up.


LOL.....She-ra and He-Man are sibs!

1982 was the BEST year ever!!!!!! hmmm not like i'm biased :)

I relate to far too many of those! :eek:

How many threads like this do we have? I hate all of you Gen X sons of bitches.

Re: YOU KNOW YOU GREW UP IN THE 80's IF.....
 

46. "Miss MARY MACK MACK MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK"


Or recall:

Miss marry had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell, miss marry sat upon it and broke her ......
and all those other favorite hand slap games.....


or even better yet at sleep over trying to do "light as a feather" and lift a body up..... or

going into the girls bathroom and saying bloody mary and freaking out by the time you hit the third time......

those remnd me of growing p inthe ( 70s) and 80s and evrything on the list above

i still use the "light as a feather, stiff as a board" mantra to relax and go to sleep.

:cool:

y'know, A LOT of that list is more from the 90s than the 80s.
i remember a lot of it growing up, and i was all of four in 89.

Ah... my childhood just flashed before my eyes. LOL

It's kind of funny watching young kids now-a-days playing with My Little Pony (which I saw a commercial for today) and Strawberry Shortcake. My roommate and I joke about how they are trying to be like us 80 kids....haha....And yes 82 was a good year.

What, no Lazer Tag?

I just showed this to my daughter, who just turned 23. She is going to forward it to her best friend as soon as she stops laughing!

We just moved recently and while packing up stuff out of our attic, we found an envelope with some Garbage Pail kids in it. She has decided to keep it, along with the old set of Strawberry Shortcake sheets we also found.

I just can't believe how kids these days are taking to our old toys such as strawberry shortcake, carebears, jem, and rainbow bright. i see them come into hot topic and just grab the stuff up! kind of freaky

Anyone remember when Burger King was selling the various Alf dolls with their kids' meals? We were on vacation, going all over the US when this happened and I would throw a temper tantrum if my parents didn't stop the car at EVERY Burger King... I never got my Alf doll though... so sad. :confused:

I think I'm actually gen Y? From what I've heard, Gen X stops in 78 or 79, and I was born in 80. What are the cutoff years guys??

Generally accepted 'cutoff' years (your mileage may vary depending on sources) :

Baby Boomers: January 1, 1946 - December 31, 1964
Generation X: January 1, 1965 - December 31, 1979
Generation Y: January 1 1980 - December 31, 1999

Here's one site that explains it better: http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/genxintro.htm

And another: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X

Not leaving the 'Y' generation out either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y

Wow. Gen Y seems to last almost twice as long as the other two generations. And I don't know about y'all but those born in the early 80s really will have a totally different perspective than those born, say, in the mid 90's on. But then again, someone born in '46 will definitely have a different perspective than one born in '64. Thanks for the links, Alphasigou

slight hijack---On the last link (about Gen Y) they list a girl named "Cecelia Cichan" as the sole survivor of a plane crash. I vaguely remembered a girl in my ab psych class that revealed to us that she had been a sole survivor in a plane crash. On a whim I looked up her name in the UA student directory online. Damn if she wasn't in there! Sometimes following a hunch gets you somewhere, I guess.

/end hijack

[hijacked again - squawking 7500]

As Paul Harvey says... the rest of the story:

Northwest Flight 255, an MD-82 bound for Dallas from Detroit crashed on takeoff on August 16, 1987. Here's the summary and probable cause of the accident from the NTSB website (www.ntsb.gov) : (caps in the original)

NTSB Identification: DCA87MA046 . The docket is stored on NTSB microfiche number 33859.
Scheduled 14 CFR Part 121: Air Carrier NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.
Accident occurred Sunday, August 16, 1987 in ROMULUS, MI
Probable Cause Approval Date: 4/28/89
Aircraft: MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-9-82, registration: N312RC
Injuries: 156 Fatal, 2 Serious, 4 Minor.

NORTHWEST FLT 255 (NW255) CRASHED AFTER TAKEOFF FM RWY 3C AT DETROIT METRO AIRPORT. WITNESSES SAID NW255 ROTATED FOR TAKEOFF 1200-1500 FT FROM THE END AND LIFTED OFF NR THE END OF THE 8500 FT RWY. AFTER LIFTOFF, THE WINGS ROCKED LT AND RT AND THE ACFT FAILED TO CLIMB NORMALLY. 18 FEET OF THE LT WING SEPARATED WHEN THE WING CONTACTED A LIGHT POLE 2760 FT BEYOND THE RWY END. THE ACFT ROLLED STEEPLY TO THE LEFT AND STRUCK POLES, A BLDG, AND AUTOMOBILES BEFORE CRASHING INTO A RAILROAD EMBANKMENT. THE ACFT WAS DESTROYED. THE EVIDENCE INDICATED THAT THE FLAPS AND SLATS WERE IN THE UP/RETRACT POSITION AND HAD NOT BEEN DEPLOYED FOR TKOF. NEITHER PLT RECITED THE ITEMS OF THE TAXI CKLIST. STALL WARNINGS WERE ANNUNCIATED BUT AN AURAL TKOF WARNING WAS NOT ANNUNCIATED BY THE CENTRAL AURAL WARNING SYSTEM (CAWS). IT WAS CONFIRMED THAT 28 VOLT DC PWR WAS NOT PROVIDED TO THE CAWS PWR SUPPLY #2. THE REASON FOR THE LOSS OF ELECTRICAL PWR WAS TRACED TO A CIRCUIT BRKR BUT NO MALF OF THE CB WAS FND. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, SEE NTSB/AAR-88/05.


The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:

CHECKLIST..NOT PERFORMED..PILOT IN COMMAND
LOWERING OF FLAPS..NOT PERFORMED..COPILOT/SECOND PILOT
LOWERING OF SLATS..NOT PERFORMED..COPILOT/SECOND PILOT



Contributing Factors

WARNING SYSTEM(OTHER)..DISABLED


All except for Cecilia Cichan perished in the crash. The serious/minor injuries were for people on the ground, if I remember correctly.

[/end hijack - sqwawking 1200]

I always thought that Gen X ended in '76 and anyone born between January 1 1977-December 31 1980 was sort of in the cusp, since we're old enough to remember some things that X'ers like (namely, early Madonna, 80s sitcoms, etc) and young enough to enjoy (somewhat) the teenybop revival of the late 90s/early 00s.

Anyone remember television freeze tag?

Silver

I LOVE THE 80'S!!!!!!!!!! Over half the tapes in my car are 80's music, plus got a bunch of 80's cds (so if i ever get money to get a stereo with a cd player in my car those go in it lol)

I know I'm only 20, but I still have my Popples, Care Bears, Cabbage Patch dolls, and Pound Puppies- and I do remember most of the stuff on that list. It's kinda creepy that I feel old, even though I'm not.


(I had a NKOTB nightgown and sleeping bag... ugh :rolleyes: )

I sent this list to my bf and I guess he was bored at work because he wrote back with some that were left off the list. Thought you all might enjoy/remember these too:

1a. If you wore Micheal Jordans.
1b. You wanted to be like Mike.

2a. If you could recite Ferris Bueller,
2b. the whole movie.

3a. When "The Simpsons" and "In Living Color" where the funniest shows on TV.
3b. You probably wanted to be a fly girl.

4a. Every guy wanted to be Joe Montana.
4b. Or catch a pass from him, preferably in the Superbowl.

5a. You know WWF did not stand for the World Wildlife Foundation.
5b. Hulk Hogan could beat up Mr. T.

6a. Goose was cooler than Maverick, and you still think he's alive.
6b. Iceman is a dick. Slider stinks. And you keep up with foreign relations.

7a. GI Joe vs. The Transformers would be the ultimate.
7b. It still would be the ultimate.

8a. You know what GNR stands for.
8b. You wanted to be in it.

9a. Bo was the best athlete of all time, and could do anything.

i love that show too. i watch it all the time..it's like crack