Grew Up In the 80's if:
1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word SIKE.
2. You can sing the rap to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and can do the Carlton
3. You know that 'WOAH' comes from Joey on Blossom
4. If you ever watched 'Fraggle Rock'
5. It was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
6. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
7. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
8. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.
9. You played the ga me 'MA S H'(Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House)
10. You wore stonewashed Jordache jean jackets and were proud of it.
11. You know the profound meanin g of ' W AX ON , WAX OFF'
12. You wanted to be a Goonie.
13. You ever wore fluorescent clothing. (some of us...head-to-toe)
14. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off and his cheeks shifted.
15. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only fem ale sm urf .
16. You took lunch boxes to school...and traded Garbage Pailkids in the schoolyard.
17. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.
18. You still get the urge to say 'NOT' after every sentence.
19. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged handmade friendship bracelets.
21. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes.
22. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying 'I know you are, but what am I?' 23. You remember 'I've fallen and I can't get up'
24. You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates.
25. You have ever played with a Skip-It.
26. You remember boom boxes and walking around with one on your shoulder like you were all that.
27. You remember watching both Gremlins movies.
28. You thought D oogie Howser/Sam antha Micelli was hot.
29. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
30. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool...and don't even flinch when people refer to them as 'NKOTB'
31. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on 'Saved By The Bell,' The ORIGINAL class.
32. You know all the words to Bon Jovi - SHOT THROUGH THE HEART.
33. You just sang those words to yourself.
34. You still sing 'We are the World'
35. You tight rolled your jeans.
36. You owned a bannana clip.
37. You remember 'Where's the Beef?'
38. You used to (and probably still do) say 'What you talkin' 'bout Willis?'
39. 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 80s or Early 90s!!!
4 comments:
so true (we weren't even that old in the 80's).
I loved the 80's that was such a good time.
I grew up in the sixties and early seventies. You lost me on most of that stuff. I think I was about twelve when we got our first colored tv. No cell phones, no personal computers, no video games, no video rental stores, we never went out to eat except at gradma's house (now she could cook). What did we do? We entertained ourselves by playing outside. If you were lucky you could record your favorite songs off of the am radio onto a cassette tape. I never heard of that being illegal.
I am not so sure the cartoons on Saturday were still worth watching in the 80's. Now the 60's, those were some good ones!
I lived in the 80's but I don't remember most of that stuff. I do remember things being "crazes" and then being banned. At our grade school (circa 1969) we had these hard lucite balls on nylon strings attached to a lucite ring--they were called clackers. You can imagine the noise they made as you flipped them up and down, clack, clack,clack, clack... you get the picture. Well, apparently some broke. End of clackers.
Then there was the cinnamon toothpick rage. Kids were soaking wooden toothpicks in cinnamon oil and sucking on them all day. Apparently some ingested too many splinters, got burns and sores in their mouths, etc. from excessive use. End of cinnamon toothpicks.
I am sure there were others... Just don't remember them! (Yeah, another sign you didn't grow up in the 80's, but before!) :-)
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