Just curious...

[Momo]

Maybe we should do a census every other year or so?

[ladymoreta]

Re: Just curious...

I'm an 80's child!

1. You had a crush on one of the New Kids on the Block members.
2. You wanted to be on StarSearch.
3. You ever uttered the word "Radical!"
4. You wore jelly shoes and jelly bracelets
5. You thought "Ghostbusters" was by far the coolest movie
6. You remember watching shows like "Punky Brewster" , "Webster", "You Can't Do That On Television" , "Wild&Crazy Kids" and "Double Dare"
7. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off. Or even when he had those freaky eyes in "Thriller" at the end of the video.
8. You wore a banana clip in your hair or one of those slap on wrist bands at some point during your youth.
9. You rolled up the bottoms of your splatter painted jeans.
10. You wore loafers with everything, and you put the laces in those little rolls.
11. You had slouch socks, and puff painted your own shirt at least once.
12. You owned a doll with 'Xavier Roberts' signed on it's butt.
13. You knew what Willis was "talkin' 'bout."
14. You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off."
15. You can name half of the members of the elite "Brat Pack."
16. You can remember watching Full House and Saved by the Bell for endless hours!
17. You have seen at least 10 episodes of Fraggle Rock.
18. You yearned to be a member of The Babysitters Club, and tried to start a club of your own.
19. You sat on your back porch, playing with your "My Little Pony" , "Rainbow Brite" , and "Strawberry Shortcake" dolls
20. You know that another name for a keyboard is a "Synthesizer."
21. You hold a special place in your heart for "Back to the Future."
22. You know where to go if you "wanna go where everybody knows your name."
23. You thought Molly Ringwald was REALLY cool.
24. You know what "sike" and "not!" mean
25. You fell victim to 80's fashion : big hair, crimped, combed over to the side, big hoop earrings, and possibly the worst: you wore spandex pants.
26. You wanted to be a Goonie, or Elliot from E.T.
27. You owned an extensive collection of Cabbage Patch Kids and trolls.
28. You knew "The Artist" when he was humbly called "Prince."
29. You actually saw Ted Danson as the MacDaddy he played "Sam" to be.
30. You ever wore fluorescent-neon if you will clothing....
31. You could breakdance, or wished you could.
32. You know who He-Man and She-Ra are.
33. You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system.
34. You know all the words to "Ice Ice Baby".
35. You remember MC hammer well.
36. You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Belair".
37. You own any cassettes.
38. You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living on the moon.
39. You remember and/or own any of the Care Bear Glass collection from Pizza Hut.
40. Pizza Hut was the coolest place to hang.
41. Poltergeist freaked you out.
42. You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins or an E.T. lunchbox.
43. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.
44. You wanted to communicate with some being named Cinergy, or you wanted green hair like that lead singer of the Misfits.
45. You totally LOVED Barbie's cooler, punkier counterpart, "Jem" and her "Rockers"
46. You wanted to have an alien like Alf living in your house.
47. You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish.
48. You wore tights under shorts and felt stylish.
49. You layered your multi-colored slouch socks, and added suspenders to make your outfit complete.
50. You ever had a Swatch Watch.
51. You actually spent countless hours trying to perfect the care-bear stare.
52. You had a crush on one of the Coreys
53. You remember when Saturday Night Live was funny.
54. You had Wonder Woman or Superman underwear.
55. You wanted to be The Hulk for Halloween.
56. You believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power"
57. You thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye.
58. Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away!!!!!!!!!!!!!
59. You ever owned or wanted any of the NKOTB action figures or dolls.
60. You remember when Deborah Gibson was "Debbie" Gibson.

[DCJenn]

Re: Just curious...

No kidding.

J

(1966!)

[HouseofWool]

Re: Just curious...

Oh my gosh, some people were born in the '80s? Okay, I feel old.

I think the list was more along the lines of you were a kid in the 80's... At least I hope so. Cuz I wasn't and I can so releate to a lot of things on the list.

[poky]

Re: Just curious...

Yeah, the list was more about if you were born in the late 70's/early 80's. I was born early 70's, and a lot of those are things I was JUST too old for.

Re: Just curious...

OK, so I realized that I was getting older today when I told my babysitter that I thought Jacob (from Twilight) was kinda cute...and then realized that he was born in 1992...UGH, when did this happen?

[ladymoreta]

Re: Just curious...

Erm, 1981 here! I was old enough to remember most of the list though.

[MrsK]

Re: Just curious...

OK, so I realized that I was getting older today when I told my babysitter that I thought Jacob (from Twilight) was kinda cute...and then realized that he was born in 1992...UGH, when did this happen?

Oh, man. 1992 was just yesterday, wasn't it?

[GreyhoundsRUs]

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I am reminded of how "old" I am every day - my seniors from last year were born mostly in 1990...so my current students (mostly freshmen) were born in...1994! They didn't know about light brown M&M's...sigh

[JaneDoe]

Re: Just curious...

1975! I remember a lot of the things on the 80s list.

[ladymoreta]

Re: Just curious...

I do remember when they added blue M&Ms. That was weird. And when they retired some crayolas. (I miss you Green Blue!)

[MDPhDWife]

Re: Just curious...

Erm, 1981 here! I was old enough to remember most of the list though.

[alison]

Re: Just curious...

I do remember when they added blue M&Ms. That was weird. And when they retired some crayolas. (I miss you Green Blue!)

1978 here.

Wasn't there a Blue Green too?

I wasn't allowed to watch tv as a kid, so I don't know many of those things on the list.

Re: Just curious...

For all us "older" folks:

You know you grew up in the 60's if:
You can sing the theme to "Gilligan's Island."
You ever told someone to "look it up in their Funk and Wagnalls".
You watched Captain Kangaroo.
You'd invade the kitchen for some "Shake-a-Puddin" with a Lick-a-Maid chaser.
Red Hots, Hot Tamales. Otter-Pops.
You put playing cards in the spokes of your bike because it sounded cool.
You got up early on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons.
You drove your parents nuts singing all the songs from Mary Poppins.
You'd go to the dime store for taffy sheets, wax lips, candy cigarettes (and pretend to smoke them), Fire Sticks, Green Apple Sticks, Razzles, Sweet-Tarts and Chik-o-stiks.
You had "groovy" Tie dye shirts.
You thought the Monkees were a real group, and Davy Jones was dreamy...
You played Candyland.
You had a Jungle Gym.
You remember Sonny and Cher when they were together
...and Playdough, Hotwheels and Lincoln Logs.
You knew how to do "The Twist" and "The Pony".
You played Twister at parties.
You remember full service gas stations.
You played paper dolls, Betsy Mcall and read Highlights.
You tried to learn macrame.
The smell of Crayola crayons, school paste and Playdough takes you back in time...
"Say goodnight Dick"
You bought singles-45 rpm records
You remember Kurt Russell when he was in Disney movies. (rawrr)
Mini skirts.
Surfer culture- Frankie and Annette, the Beach Boys...
You drew smiley faces on all your notebooks and on your jeans.
You owned a Lava lamp and a troll doll.
You owned at least one black light poster.
You had a Superball and a Magic-8 ball and a Spirograph and a Mr. Potato Head (with his friend Cooky Cucumber).

[ladymoreta]

Re: Just curious...

I love the 60's list! I did some of it, but TBH, I don't recognize some of it.

Wasn't there a Blue Green too?

Yes, but I think they still make it. Green blue was darker, I think. It was one of my favorites, so it was always one of the first to wear down.