You Are A Child Of The 80's If:

[CarolinaCutie]

FYI, Max Headroom reruns now come on Tech TV.

I caught a glimpse of it the other day, and I RAN, freaking out, to tell my little sister (15) on Instant Messenger. Apparently she doesn't remember it. It was an exciting moment anyway

[Dionysus]

Personally, I like the early 90's better.

[Angels&Arrows]

I have not read through all the posts... So forgive me if this is a repeat...

Two words...... Speed Skates...

Roller Skating was big in Virginia Beach in the early 80s!!!!!!!! And if you were cool you had speed skates, they looked like black sneakers with white racing strips and cool special wheels.... And if you were really cool you could do fancy line skating...

Yes indeed... loved late grammer school.

[ZetaLuvBunny]

Okay, sorry to burst peoples' bubbles, but I was born in 1983, and I remember MOST of those things!!! Some of them may have been things I "heard" about later on, but many I actually remember/know about.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by deltaphi94
[B]>The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1983.
**uh, I started college LAST fall, and I was born in '83!

>They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and probably did not know he had ever been shot.
**I knew about him being shot even though it happened before I was born, and I also vividly remember the election year George Bush, Sr., was FIRST running for office, because I said to my grandma something about "I can't believe the fat man won and not the skinny man." LOL

>Atari predates them
**my best friend in 3rd grade had one of these

>They have likely never played Pac Man
**I played Pac Man plenty of times!

They don't know what a cloth baby diaper is
**My mom used these on me!

or know about the "Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up" commercial.
**We used to joke about this ALL THE TIME in elementary school.

>Roller-skating has always meant inline for them.
**Yes, I had both the nice leather roller SKATES as well as the crappy plastic skates that you could buy at your local gas station waaaay before I ever got rollerblades.

>They have no idea when or why Jordache jeans were cool.
**I had a few pairs, they were still cool all through the '80s.

>They have never seen Larry Bird play.
**True, BUT, I did know who he was even back in the '80s cuz we talked about him in West Virginia History class since he used to play for WVU.

>They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
**I saw this movie plenty of times when I was small, even though the first one came out about a yr or two before I was born.

>They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.
**my mom told me she used to have some

>They don't know who Mork was
**I watched re-runs of this all the time.

>They never heard: "Where's the beef? ", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel," or "De plane, de plane! "
**I've heard about all of these.

>They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
**We had one when I was little. We didn't have a computer until 1996!

[Optimist Prime]

You know what....Skeletor could kick HeMan's ass.

[chopper816]

i wish i couldve been in college in the 80's, the music, the musclecars, reagan, good times!!!!

[KillarneyRose]

Originally posted by ZetaLuvBunny
>They have never seen Larry Bird play.
**True, BUT, I did know who he was even back in the '80s cuz we talked about him in West Virginia History class since he used to play for WVU.

If this is Larry Bird the former Boston Celtic, I THINK he went to Indiana State. But I could be wrong.

[juniorgrrl]

Originally posted by deltaphi94
I got this in an email today, and it reminded me of this thread...


THE CLASS OF 2005
>
>Just in case you weren't feeling old enough today, this will certainly change things. Each year the staff at
>Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to
>give the Faculty a sense of the mind-set of
>this year's incoming freshman.
>
>Here is this year's list:
>
>The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1983.
>
>They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and probably did not know he had ever been shot.
>
>They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
>
>There has been only one Pope in their lifetime.
>
>They were 10 when the Soviet Union broke apart and do not remember the Cold War.
>
>They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
>
>Tianamen Square means nothing to them.
>
>Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
>
>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 and have never heard of Pong.
>
>They may have never heard of an 8 track. The Compact Disc was introduced when they were 1 year old.
>
>They have always had an answering machine.
>
>Most have never seen a TV set with only 13 channels, nor have they 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, or know about the "Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up" commercial.
>
>Feeling old yet? There's more:
>
>They were born the year that Walkmen were introduced by Sony.
>
>Roller-skating has always meant inline for them.
>
>Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.
>
>They have no idea when or why Jordache jeans were cool.
>
>Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
>
>They have never seen Larry Bird play.
>
>They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
>
>The Vietnam War is as ancient history to them as WWI, WWII and the Civil War.
>
>They have no idea that Americans were ever held hostage in Iran.
>
>They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.
>
>They don't know who Mork was or where he was from. (The correct answer,
>by the way, is Ork)
>
>They never heard: "Where's the beef? ", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel,"
>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.
>
>

This e-mail is a big piece of crap. I got it when I started college in 1998. The exact same email. It was about the class of 2002. It even made it into Dear Abby. It certainly wasn't true for my class - but with each year, it does get more and more true...

Although...Jay Leno took over the tonight show in 1992 - the class of 2005 was 8 then. I think most 8 year olds know the difference between Johnny Carson and Jay Leno

I was born in 1980. Part of me will always live in the 80s. Friday night, while waiting for take-out, my boy and I squared off at a game of Pac Man. On one of the 2 player tables. Damn, those things are cool. I so want one for my house.

I'm wearing my Care Bears t-shirt right now. They have Care Bear slippers at Hot Topic. They are so cool!

[Optimist Prime]

I rememeber Beta! Haha. Also, growing up in the 80's i was well aware of the cold war.

[kdonline]

I still have my family's BetaMax, along with the collection of tapes...one of them being the only copy of my appearance on MTV's Remote Control (1988)...wearing a KD jersey, of course.

My "kinky perm" & subsequent Flock-of-Seagulls hairstyle had grown out by then, since it was a few months before graduation & I figured I needed to have somewhat normal hair to interview.... this was the 80's Corporate America, ya know...

Yeah, being a collegian during the 80s was really fun...

[Optimist Prime]

You know what I miss from the 80's. A certain style of jacket, called the name of its manufacturer. Member's Only. One must needs be a member to wear one.

[AOX81]

Your fondest childhood memory is when Skippy got his head stuck in the banister
Punky Brewster is your hero
You type all of your term papers on a Commodore 64
You still resent your parents for not installing a dumbwaiter in your house like Webster's
A-Ha's "Take on Me" is still your favorite video
You consider yourself truly, truly, truly outrageous, much like Jem and the Holograms
You wonder why more people don't wear high heels, Jordache jeans, and lacy ankle socks
You call all motorcycle cops "Ponch"
Every time you go to the beach you look for Snorks
You're still upset Madonna and Sean broke up
You know who Stinky Sullivan is
You work out with "Get in Shape Girl"
You enjoy dancing on the ceiling and wearing your sunglasses at night
You know who Loverboy is
You think there should be a Kids Incorporated original cast reunion
You think of Janet Jackson as "that girl who used to date Willis"
You can sing the theme song to Small Wonder
Everytime you see a fountain you want to dance around it and yell "Fame!"
Born in the USA" the national anthem
You still use your Snoopy Sno-Cone machine
You know it's not "comma, comma, comma" it's karma
You stay up nights wondering what Bastian's mother's name was in "The Neverending Story"
You have nightmares about the Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak
You still practice your Care Bear Stare
You can do the Safety Dance
Someone metions Jennifer Beals and you don't say "Who?"
You know whose number is 867-5309
You get depressed thinking about Anthony Michael Hall's career
You're starting a write-in campaign to MTV to bring back Remote Control
You drink Diet Coke because Max Headroom told you to
You consider Jo vs. Blair the major philosophical conflict of the 20th century
You have a duck phone and ride around your house on a little train
You want to be one of the Solid Gold Dancers
You still watch things on Beta
You know that "Weird Science" was a movie before a tv show
Your favorite proverb is "some like it hot and some sweat when the heat is on"
Your favorite party game is Hungry Hungry Hippos
You saw the New Kids on the Block when they were Tiffany's opening act
You liked Tom Hanks better when he was a crossdresser
You know which Hollywood Square Jm J Bullock was in
You practice getting in and out of your car through the windows
You have the tendency to turn up the collar of your polo shirts
You're still wondering who really was the boss
You know what the "P" in "Alex P. Keaton" stands for
You keep asking your teachers if instead of the quiz you can take the physical challenge
You know ALF's real name
You never go out for anight on the town without frosted blue eyeshadow and feathered bangs
You can name all of the Thundercats
Sometimes you just want to shout, shout, let it all out
You're planning a dream vacation to Meepos to visit your cousin Balki
You use your Speak and Spell to phone home
You know the original members of Menudo
Sometimes out of the blue you just got to shake your love
When you're stuck in traffic you tell your car to engage Turbo Boost and are surprised when it doesn't talk back
You remember when Vanessa sang Kareoke to "Locomotion"
Your idea of appreciating ancient cultures is "Walk Like an Egyptian"
You hatch plots to break Murdock out of VA hospital
You have "We Are the World" on 45
You're still sending death threats to Mr. Rubik
You can feel St. Elmo's fire burnin' in you

[UDZETA]

Wow I miss those days!!! What a good time. They still show a lot of those cartones on the cartoon network. Ninja Turtles was a great show too!!! I was the only girl in second grade that had Ninja turtle shoes!!! I even had a birthday party in the turtles theme. Haha what a dork I was...

I cannot even say i relate to half of those list above but i relate 100 % to everything ever mentioned above. I may be 33, but i now feel real old. The one about LA gear Hi Tops........ oh yes that was me and a banna clip!

Or early early 80s you were child if you had to have jordache, bon jur, sasson, gloria vanderbilt and camin defur Jeans and of course you cannot forget those dittos and OPs and Lightening Bolt and Rainbow shirts but most of all i had to have my van slip ons and lip gloss!

Laura

[Kevin]

I never had a pogo ball