Another Rad 80s Thread
 

I was looking up something else and found this!! LOL!

A TOTALLY AWESOME GIRL'S PERSPECTIVE!

(http://www.furiousmuse.com/2004_07_01_archive.html)

[b]You Know You Grew Up in the 80's IF:[/i]

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

2. You watched the Pound Puppies.

3. Your parents got in a fist fight with someone in Toys R Us to get you that Cabbage Patch Kid for Christmas.

4. You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Belair"

5. You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish.

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

7. You owned those lil Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.

8. You know that "WHOA" comes from Joey on Blossom.

9. M.C. Hammer

10. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock".

11. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars.

12. You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales".

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

14. You wore a pony tail on the side of your head or a banana clip.

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, Shelter, House) with friends at school.

18. You wore a Jordache jean jacket and you were proud of it.

19. L.A. Gear.....

20. You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in Kindergarten.

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, if you will, clothing.

25. You ever wore "Multiples" clothing. It could be a skirt OR a belt!

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

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

28. You took metal Lunch boxes to school. (Dukes of Hazard rules!)

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

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

31. You remember Hypercolor t-shirts.

32. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.

33. You thought She-ra and He-Man should hook up.

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

35. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes.

36. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I?"

37. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up" and "Where's the Beef?"

38. You remember going to the skating rink before there were in-line skates.

39. You recorded songs off the radio with a separate cassette player/recorder that you got for your birthday. (It was your favorite gift!)

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

41. You remember Popples.

42. "Dont worry, be happy!"

43. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights, under a jean skirt, with high top Reeboks or Keds with no shoelaces and a Benneton shirt with one big stripe across the front.

44. ET, The Gremlins and the Goonies were the best movies of all time.

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

46. You remember watching Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales

47. You thought Doogie Howser was hot and you had a crush on the two Corey's.(Haim and Feldman)

48. You know that Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac didn't start his career doing phone commercials.

49. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool. And you probably wore a "Debbie Gibson" hat too.

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

51. You wanted a Volkswagon Rabbit after seeing the movie "License to Drive" with Corey Haim.

52. You remember when Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Andrew McCarthy and Emilio Estevez were best friends.

53. You know all the words to Bon Jovi - SHOT THRU THE HEART.

--Edited because apparently I can't count

I can't believe how EVERY SINGLE ONE applies to me!!! Well - with the following minor exceptions.

#11 Duck Tales song: I never really knew all the words but I could hold my own!

#18 Jem: I feel like I was older than kindergarten...

I also never really got into "Duck Tales." And I HATE E.T. and have still never seen Gremlins. But I could recite Goonies to you. :)

Also -- my jean jacket wasn't Joradache, it was Guess!

But yeah, I just had MAJOR flashbacks to being a kid while reading this list.

Oh, and I still have all my tapes of recorded songs. :)

I got most of them. :) I think I was 7 1/2 or even 8 when JEM was big, so definitely not kindergarten. I also never thought that She-Ra and He-Man should hook up because, well they're siblings!

I remember wanting He-Man and She-Ra to hook up....till I found out they were siblings?

I didn't read "hook up" as a sexual thing. I thought it referred to them fighting together???

Re: Another Rad 80s Thread
 

Dood. It's totally Shack, not Shelter.

"Duck Tales, ooo wee ooo" (that's all I can remember from the theme song. Though I did watch it pretty much every day after school.

Re: Re: Another Rad 80s Thread
 

I was that asshole who always picked four girls we KNEW, four cars no one would ever say (Minivan, Caravan, Limo, SUV), 4,5,6 or 7 kids.....it goes on..

Me and my friends STILL play MASH! And I was totally that girl who owned all of the Babysitter's Club books. Wow, this list is great.

I didn't ever want a Cabbage patch kid, and I am terrified of ET, but other than that, right on the money.

Oh man, my chapter was all about the Multiples!

Okay, I'm having major flashbacks now... and cringing at some of them...

I kind of liked Multiples. :o They were comfy! Haha... it was apparently the rule that whoever was working the Multiples department at our local dept. store had to wear Multiples head to toe. One day I went into that store and the person working the department... was a man. He was decked out in (IIRC) a tunic, one of those tube tops worn as a belt, and leggings. Now, Multiples were definitely intended for women........

Oh, my this brings back memories... Most good. THANKS for posting that list.

I hated jelly shoes then, hate 'em now. (and that goes for the jelly purses) I'm very glad I was just old enough not to have been into the Strawberry Shortcake, Jem, Duck Tales stuff. I remember it, but it was for younger kids.

I *loved* Pee Wee Herman sooo much!!! I made my mom go out and buy me the talking Pee Wee doll for Christmas. She was mortified (I think I was in HS at the time...). Recently she told me it was still in her attic - box and all - if I don't claim him soon, in the garbage he'll go! (It's been 20+ years, I think she's full of hot air.)

- I currently have the Fraggle Rock theme song on my mp3 list *nods* (Also have Gummi Bears :) )

- I once lost a soccer ball Popple out of my school bus window when I was in grade school. (I'm still upset about that, really.)

- I have a new set of Ramona/4th Grade Nothing books for my future classroom :D

- I'm still mad at my (now deceased) dog for ripping apart my Beagle Pound Puppy...


---This list brought back some memories :)

ETA: I also still have the Duck Tales Nintendo video game :D :D

I'm desperate to find as many JEM TAPES as possible. I see them on ebay every now and then and I've only been able to get one.

I also tried to start my own babysitter's club and I named myself CEO. Me and my two best friends ended up having CEO only parties.

Are Mulitples the same thing as Units? I remember there being a Units store at the mall and I also remember making fun of the people who wore them, haha.