80's Child

[Siobhan]

Take a look at this and see how much you can identify with it. It really takes you back.

YOU KNOW YOU WERE A CHILD OF THE 80'S IF...
You remember snap bracelets getting you in trouble at school
You ever played with "My Little Ponies"
You remember friendship bracelets - ties that couldn't be broken
You ever read Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, The Babysitters Club, or Sweet
Valley High.
You know all the words to "Ice Ice Baby".
You had a crush on one of the New Kids on the Block members,
You remember the New Kids On The Block.
You wanted to be on Star Search.
You had Garbage Pal trading cards.
You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before he had plastic
surgery,
You wore one of those t-shirt rings or a scrunchi on one side of your
shirt
You wore french rolled pants, or the ones w/ the zippers on the back of
the
legs.
You wore multiple pairs of socks in the middle of the summer just so you
could be "hip" (purple and hot pink looked so good together!).
You have puff painted your own shirt at least once.
You owned a doll with 'Xavier Roberts'signed on it's butt.
Cabbage Patch kids!
You knew what Willis was "talkin' 'bout."
You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off"!
You were upset when She-ra, Princess of Power, and He-Man was cancelled.
You can remember watching Full House and Saved by the Bell for hours,
back
when there were new episodes.
You have seen at least 10 episodes of Fraggle Rock.
You hold a special place in your heart for "Back to the Future."
You wanted to be a Goonie. ("Goonies never say die.")
You remember Madonna in her cone stage.
You knew "The Artist" when he was humbly called "Prince."
You even wore fluorescent-neon clothing...
You could breakdance, or wished you could.
You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system.
You remember M.C. Hammer, (and owned a pair of "hammer pants"!)
You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air".
How many of you can recite the theme to Duck tales?
You own any cassettes.
You owned a pair of L.A. Gear, Keds, or Converse tennis shoes.
You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins or an ET lunchbox.
You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf, (and how
come Baby Smurf never grew up...)
Gummy Bears, Transformers, You can't do that on Television, Double
Dare,
and Ridgy Didge are familiar to you.
You ever had a Swatch Watch or POP-Swat
You actually spent countless hours trying to perfect the "Care Bear
Stare".
And knew the song... the Carebear countdown...
You thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye.
You spent hours in the basement building and re-building Lego cities.
Do Polly Pockets or Popples ring a bell?
Big wheels and bicycles with streamers were the way to go.
"Party like it's 1999" seemed SO far away!!
You stayed up all night listening to Teddy Rupskin
Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?
If you still have a crimper in your bathroom drawer!
If you remember singing Amy Grants "Baby, Baby".
You had more than one Star Wars action figure
You loved your acid-wash jeans, black stretch pants and big loop
earrings.
If you wanted to pick a lock with a toothbrush just like MacGyver
You wanted to travel through time on Quantum Leap.
You had at least one Hypercolor shirt.
If you remember when rollerblades were the new thing.
If you learned how to spell mouse from the Mickey Mouse Club theme song,
You felt like a big girl when your mom bought you GIRL TALK.
You used to wear bright pink slip-ons and jellyshoes
You were scared of the Gremlins.
Your parents wouldn't let you watch The Simpsons because it was
inappropriate.
The Wonder Years was a part of your daily lifestyle.
You had Hotwheel races down your street
Rainbow Brite...
When Bum Bags were cool!
Did you keep your hot pink lipstick in a caboodle?
You could not get enough hair spray on those bangs? (curled in a
circle!)
How many trolls did you have?
Does "Heros in a half shell" mean anything to you (TURTLE POWER).
Everything was rad, totally awesome, and tubular!!!
You remember when the original Nintendo was the best $100 you could
spend.
When Astro Boy was the Pokemon of the day.
Do you know who killed Laura Palmer? Or were you not allowed to watch TV
at
that hour?
You didn't quite know what those two grumpy old men in the Muppets were
saying until the show was taken off air.
When bubble skirts and ra-ra skirts were all the rave!
When Kylie and Danni said 'goodnight Australia' on a weekly basis and
later
when you were embarrassed to say that you liked Dannii.

[etienneSAI]

just so EVERYONE knows....yes, i DO know the theme to ducktales!

life is like a hurricane here in duckburg
*something*, racecars, aeroplanes, it's a duck-blur.
might solve a mystery
or re-write history...
DUCKTALES...WOOO-OOOO
everyday that i've been making ducktales
wooo-ooo
tales of *something something*...and ducktales woo-ooo

and don't even start me on fraggle rock...i have every episode on tape, thankyouverymuch!

etienne
sigma alpha iota

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"red is the color of music and has been since the very earliest of times. the caps of faeries and musicians are well-nigh always red."~*~w.b.yeats

"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck." - Tori Amos

[ZChi4Life]

Oh my gosh, that list is scary! I can relate to damn near everything on there! I'm sooo old! LOL! And etienneSAI, why do you and I not know the "something" parts to Ducktales!? LOL! That's so funny!
I love being an 80s kid! Oh that reminds me, anyone remember singing the Toys R Us commericals?
I don't wanna grow up
I'm a Toys R Us kid
There's a million toys at Toys R Us
that I can play with
From bikes to planes to video games
it's the greatest toy store there is!
I don't wanna group up, cuz if I did
I wouldn't be a Toys R Us kid!

Sorry, I had to get that outta my system. I feel better now.

[juniorgrrl]

Okay, so I dug up the .wav of the Ducktales theme and found the *something* lyrics

its
"racecars, LASERS, aeroplanes..."
"tales of daring, do-bad and good-luck tales"

What about 80s Nickelodeon? I used to watch it all day, every day.

"Pinwheel pinwheel, spinning around, look in my pinwheel and see what I found."

I would give anything to have just one tape of that show, its one of those things that defines my childhood.

I'd have to say that the 80s were my favorite decade. I remember crying on New Year's Eve 1989, because I was scared of what would happen in the 1990s. For a 9 year old, I was pretty astute and didn't even know it...

[SilverTurtle]

I posted this in another forum a while ago, but here it is for anyone who missed it:

The 80's



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[Siobhan]

What's even creepier for me is that I have a (very) vague memory of the late 70's, ahhh...

[AOX81]

Originally posted by Siobhan

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

Of course!!

Now... this is a story all about how
my life got flipped, turned upside down,
and I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air

In... West Philidelphia born and raised
on the playground is where I spent most of my days,
chillin' out, maxin', relaxin', all cool
and all shooting some b-ball outside the school

When a couple of guys said "we're up to no good"
started making trouble in my neighborhood,
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
she said "you're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air"

I whistled for a cab and when it came near
the license plate said "fresh" and had dice in the mirror,
if anything I could say this cab was rare
but I though now forget it, yo home to Bel-Air

I pulled up to a house about seven or eight
and I yelled to the cabby "yo home, smell ya later,"
I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there
to settle my throne as the prince of Bel-Air

[RubberSoul]

Originally posted by Siobhan
What's even creepier for me is that I have a (very) vague memory of the late 70's, ahhh...

Don't feel bad, Siobhan, I remember a whole lot of the 70s......most of that 80s list was high school (or college, in the case of Laura Palmer and Ice Ice baby) for me!!!!!!!!!!