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You know you are a child of the 80's if... You wore all jelly shoes Snap on braclets that wrapped around your wrist Plastic Earrings to match your outfit You watched Thunder Cats and Tranformers (more than meets the eye!) You had a crush on Corey Haim Ozzy Osborne Was SCARY! You recorded songs off the radio on tape Blue Eyeshadow You teased your hair the highest and sprayed it with Aquanet Dippidy Doo Your jean jacket with the wool inside High tops with the big tongue sticking out Writing all over your pants and jean jacket with markers was cool. The 80's Movie "The Pilot" Breakin' and Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo Bonkers Keds with no laces! I LOVE THE EIGHTIES!!!!!!!!!!! ~Thanks Shanna, Quincy, Washington big hair. loved men in lether jackets 'n' tight jeans. micheal jackson normal. u ran round with your mates thinkin u was a gooney. loved everything pink. lisning to cyndi lauper. JUST HAVIN A GOOD TIME, havin a laugh. ~Thanks melissa. Holding a yellow flower under your friend's chin saying..Do you light butter? -Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew! -EastCoasters- Filenes, Jordan Marsh, Bradlees, Caldors, Zayres, The Weathervane, Hit or Miss, Ups n Downs, Merry Go Round, Cherry Web and Touraine -Turtlenecks with whales, hearts, clovers all over them with matching shoelaces - Ripping out the pages of Teen Beat and Tiger Beat photos of Ralph Macchio, Lief Garret, Shaun Cassidy and taping them to your fresh wallpaper your dad just put up for you - HoolaHoops, pogostick,wheel-o, lemon twist - Scott Baio! - Wishing if you would take off your glasses, spin around there would be a big flash and you would be wonderwoman! - Donkey Kong, Pitfall Harry, Frogger, PacMan - Belt buckles you could change with different preppy straps - Boat shoes, docksiders, chinese shoes, jordache purses with long straps in every color - Getting off at a different bus stop just to see the cute boy walk home -Putting puffy stickers all over your looseleaf binders/getting lisa Frank stickers but not sticking them to anything bcuz they were TOO pretty -Lunch boxes not cool/brown paperbags were -Wrapping a ball of yarn around your boyfriends class ring so it would fit you - Begging your parents to see Flashdance bcuz it was rated R - Prom dresses that were not sexy but more curtain like, and that was in! - At 18 looking like you were 14 NOT 18 looking like you were 30 - Devil dogs, twinkies, sno-balls, coffe cakes, pop-tarts, ding dongs - Not catching the ice cream man in time was the end of the world - Riding your 10 speed bike with no hands, no helmet, feet up in the middle of the road after dark! - Bartering at school-selling candy, chocolates, girly stuff during recess - Working in a retail job and actually loving just bcuz all your friends worked there and you got a discount - Parking...Parking...Parking - Legwarmers, off the shoulder tops, tops to your knees, shoulder pads - Passing notes in class, obsessively - Praying for a snow day to miss school - Listening to every slow, sappy 80's song to define your high school relationship/breakup and relying on the lyrics as actual therapy.... and it worked! - Geeks, jocks, sluts, deadheads, cheerleaders, brainiacs, dorks - "For Better Hallway Vision" - About Last Night, Sixteen Candles, Ferris, Breakfast Club, St.Elmo's fire, Pretty in Pink, you still watch them and know all the lines - Camarao's, FireBirds, t-roofs, Iroc-Z, Trans-Am-, MonteCarlo, bench seats UGH! - Talking on the phone with the dial all night with no call waiting, no answering machine, no caller id, no call waiting caller id... ~Thanks Jennifer you remember when diapers came in that jumbo box with the plastic handle. you ruined a perfectly good pair of gloves by cutting the fingers off to be like Madonna. you loved Monster Chomps cookies. your tv had knobs instead of buttons. your favorite PSA was "Right to Say No" that aired on Saturday mornings. Jo Polniaczek was your favorite Facts of Life girl. the cover of the Quiet Riot album freaked you out. you still wonder what "Gunter,Glieben,Glauchen,Globen" really means. you cried when Chrissy Seaver was born. you secretly wanted Hunter and McCall to fall in love. you thought D.J. Tanner had great hair! you loved candy cigarettes. you ever had or always wanted the Barbie Ice Cream Shop. you remember when VCRs ejected from the top instead of the front. you remember when One Life to Live opened with the overhead shot of the huge white bridge, and General Hospital showed the outside of the hospital and the ambulance racing by. you like to share with younger viewers that American Idol was NOT Paula Abdul's first gig. you still call it a jam box or a boom box and you remember how huge those suckers used to be....and we liked it that way!!! you carried your denim purse with all the buttons stuck in it. you wondered which was better...Brite or Mop n'Glow. you remember the toothpaste that squeezed out in the shape of a star. you loved the prom dresses with the bow on the butt. ~Thanks Leigh-Ann its a trip to see what used to be around come back to play. When I'm out shopping or using the internet I see things that I had as a little girl and its like some force inside of me tells me to get whatever it is. Then I find myself saying "your 27 Tommy (my boyfriend) will think I'm a freak! But I'll tell you a secret I'm building up my strawberry shortcake collection again...shhhh But for sure we had all the bitchen stuff like........ -Saturday Morning Cartoons, wake up early this Saturday and there are no more cartoons. What happened to them all? -Hyper Color Tee shirts -When Taco Bell had little Hugga Bunch Dolls -Track-Ball! -Strawberry Shortcake-the new one is ugly! -Barbies and the Rockers -Jem -Heath Cliff -Anything Guess -And those funky sandals that had the neon thick straps that you would tie up your leg. -wearing two tank tops in two different colors and of course the socks had to match *God I wish I was little again. ~Thanks Tiffany Alvarez Mr. Microphone commercial..."Hey good looking, I'll be back to pick you up later" ~Thanks karmun if you remember being scared of tales from the crypt and watching the later cartoon series, wanting to eat the TMNT pizza wiht Mikey because cartoon pizza look uber good! ~Thanks HEaven you know who Esteban,Zia,and Tao are. I can't believe noone else has mentioned this. ~Thanks Nero You wished you could dress as stylishly as the outfits you created on your Fashion Plates!!! ~Thanks 80's Ruled! YOU AND YOUR FRIEND WANTED TO MOVE TO SANTA CARLA AND BE VAMPIRES JUST LIKE THE LOST BOYS---EVEN HAD ALL THE DETAILS WORKED OUT YOU SPENT HOURS PRACTICING THE LOOKS IN THE "BACK TO SCHOOL ISSUE" OF 'TEEN MAGAZINE YOU TRUELY THOUGHT THAT YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS COULD START A BAND--- EVEN THOUGH NONE OF YOU SANG OR EVEN OWNED AN INSTRUMENT THE MEMBERS OF "THE BABYSITTERS CLUB" BECAME LIKE DEAR FRIENDS OF YOURS YOU'RE STILL SCARED TO EAT PIXIE STIX ON HALLOWEEN YOU REMEMBER STAYING UP TO WATCH THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JOHNNY CARSON YOUR MOM SPENT A SOLID HOUR LACING YOUR BRAND NEW L.A GEAR BRATS, USING ALL THREE LACES...THE PINK, PINK SPARKLY, AND WHITE GREASE AND SWEET VALLEY HIGH TOTALLY DISILLUSIONED YOU ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL--- YOU REALLY WERE EXPECTING RYDELL HIGH, AT THE VERY LEAST YOUR MOM MADE YOU THE TOTALLY MUST HAVE "XANADU BARRETTS" MADE FAMOUS BY OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN YOU STILL FEEL COMPELLED TO WATCH "FLASHDANCE" & "GREASE" & "SUPERMAN" EVERY TIME THEY COME ON YOU KNOW WHAT WALLY WORLD IS YOU REALLY EXPECTED KIRK CAMERON AND COREY HAIM TO WRITE YOU BACK ~Thanks JANA 1974 You remember when you and your friends carried around those necklaces where those dolls came out of it. Trying to look at every store to find the jem earrings that you could wear. Slip N Slide. Wanting for christmas to come around so you could watch the rudolph the red nose reindeer and the grinch. Wanting to dress up as she-ra or wonder women for halloween. Making sure you got every barbie out there. ~Thanks tinkerbell You HAD to have your next birthday party at the Roller Skating Rink. You can remember watching Bill Cosby doing the commercials for J-E-L-L-O You can remember trading you Garbage Pail Kids You had to have the new British Knights tennis shoes and then you had to have the new L.A. Gears You used to write I Love Ferris Bueller on your Notebooks ~Thanks JODI My Buddy KORBS trading post...great place to get clothes and loved their cowboys! XUXA My pet monster mapletown and sylvanian families Pudding with a hard chocolate topping Marathon bar and mars almond bar had the three real almonds on top getting your name engraved with a crappy scratch pen on a metal four leaf clover at the fair jiggle writers Current Affair with Maury Povich Simons Quest Paying 6.00 for a video rental Going to the mall to see your favorite TV charachters who were making a "special appearance" Keeping your housekey in your Kangaroo shoes pocket Criss cross and their backward clothes Booney Bouncing Magic Mountain still had Bloop, Blip and Bleep for mascots I think Disneyland still had ticket books Jimmy Swaggerts hooker tryst fake tears stcuk on your face by your eye Dinosaurs...not the mamma! seeing record stores start filtering out LP's and bringing in CD's Ronco LP's still advertised on TV Otter Pops the little dolls you would buy, they had adoption papers (no not cabbage patch) but you kissed their cheeks to see if they were a boy or girl. You didnt know until you bought it and some came with a certificate making it a twin or you could buy a set of twins. kewl state or county fair games like throw a dime win a glass went away toe socks ~Thanks Melissa (Nelson) Crandall You know the words to School House Rock You remember Land of the Lost You and your friends had matching t-shirts that said "can't touch this" on the back with your name on the front. You turned your bedroom light on by clapping your hands! You remember Men without Hats and Devo You remember when MTV first started and they actually played videos. And you remember sitting in front of the TV for hours watching them. You spend your Saturday afternoons listening to records in your room with your friends. Saturday nights were spent at the skating rink where you had to rush out to the floor when your favorite song came on. You had to get up to change the channel! You walked up to the park on Saturday mornings carrying a giant rolled up piece of linoleum and a boom box so you could break dance with your friends. ~Thanks Allison eating breakfast in front of the tv on satatday morning ~Thanks jason You remember smurf berry crunch, sit and spin and glow worm ~Thanks Sonya You had to go to Skateland every weekend and you had to spray your hair with a whole can of Aqua net. ~Thanks 80's Mom Guess jeans 501 jeans Vaurnet (sp?) sunglasses Ray Bans like Tom Cruise wore in "Top Gun" Swatch watches Jelly Purses. Esprit Clothes United colors of Benneton Fall into the Gap Go see Cal Unicorns Rainbow shirts Corderoy jackets Mini skirts Pat Benetar! Mall Rats Converse Jean jackets with as many buttons you could fit on the front Suspenders like Morks Na nu Na nu Putting your hair in "Mindy's" Break dancing Perms that made my hair HUGE! ~Thanks Lynne You had a Cricket doll. You remember Dominoe's the Noid. Restaurants used to sell "Collector" glasses, and you still have them all. You had a Trapper Keeper You had a crimper and used it regularly You wore shorts or stirrup pants under a skirt You wore an oversized shirt and would tie it in a knot at the waist or used a shirt clip which you had in several different colors and styles. You would work out with Mickey Mouse Mousersize on the Disney Channel. You remember seeing The Care Bears Movie, The My Little Pony Movie, The Huggabunch Movie, and The Rainbow Brite Movie in the theater then getting the Beta tape of them. You owned an Atari, a Commador 64, and a Beta tape machine. You had one of those jackets that you could color then wash and color again. You remember when mobile phones were huge. Almost every CD you own now were to replace those tapes you had in the 80's. You know the words to Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal. ~Thanks Mariel I remember looking forword to Scooby-Doo after school,I remember wanting to get the next Bop magazine to look at pictures of Duran-Duran or Micheal Jackson, and begging for a o.p. bathing suit. ~Thanks Amy you're only reason for waking up saturdays was to watch KID VIDEO*, snorkels, smurfs, Jem* (cuz she's truely truely truely outrageous), old skool G.I. Joe, He-man, She-ra, Rainbow Brite, strawberry shortcake, rose pedal's place, care bears, gummi bears, Shirt tails, MASK, the get along gang..or other RAD cartoons like those. you used to dress like duckie or any of the cast from pretty in pink. if molly ringwald was your idol..and you yearned to find someone cool like duckie, john cusack, or billy idol to date. if you listened to the cure, the clash, the ramones, the eurythemics, duran duran, depeche mode, took funk skating lessons, or tried to dance like michael jackson to the "Thriller" album. if you remember wearing flourescent paint spattered clothes, acid or stone washed jeans in various colors, pegging the legs of your pants, using 2 different colores strings in your shoes to make your laces look like a checkerboard, wearing cross colors and skids, rocking overalls with the one strap hanging down,if you had a caboodle, used aqua net, and ratted the heck outta your hair, had the original nike air jordans in the white black and red, bought reebok hightops in all of those god ugly solid colors..haha. if you remember small wonder, alf, magnum p.i. gilligan's island, chips, mork and mindy, family ties, what's happening, the show where there was some girl named evie and she was like half an alien and she would talk to her dad through a cube every night before bed, WKRP in cincinatti, you cant on television, the original degrassi high, and 21 jump street (cuz johnny depp was in it). if you like movies like pretty in pink, 16 candles, high fidelity, gremlins, the karate kid, big trouble in little china, little monsters, back to the future, dirty dancing, and star wars, fast times at ridgemont high, and police academy movies. ~Thanks shy'n* 1. You remember the BLT in the styrofoam from McDonalds. 2. You watched Gem and MASK cartoons before school. 3. You watched 321 Contact, Where in the World Is Carmen SanDiego and the supercool after school specials. 4. You remember when New Kids on The Block and New Edition ruled the music charts. 5. You played cars with your friends while riding bikes (even bigger child of the 80's if you put a boombox in your handlebar basket) 6. You owned more than 5 hypercolor shirts 7. You owned more than 5 Ocean Pacific hats 8. You had the Punky Brewster sneakers and still wish in 2005 you had them now 9. You remember and/or loved watching Zoobily Zoo 10. You played Chinese Jump Rope or Double Dutch religiously 11. you loved Small Wonder, Silver Spoons 12. You can remember watching the Cosby Show and A Different World back to back on Thursday nights 13. You can remember when The Golden Girls and Empty Nest came on back to back 14. You can belt out the Facts of Life theme song NOW 15. you remember when $5.00 got you a movie ticket, soda and popcorn. ~Thanks Shawnna Stone After you finish reading the list you are almost or are reduced to tears as a result of the nostalgic memories and the realization of how old you are. ~Thanks Zak You collected Scratch n Sniff Stickers You looked forward to after school specials You had tons of charms on your plastic charm necklace You wore jelly shoes, rings, and bracelets You had an Atari and played Pac Man and Donkey Kong You played with Baby Skates, Rainbow Brite, Strawberry Shortcake, My Little Pony, Teddy Ruxbin, and Care Bears You loved Punky Brewster Back to the Future was the best movie You liked Max Headrom Michael Jackson was actually cool You liked The Candy bar PB Max Vanilla Ice was cool ~Thanks Denise Mendez (Niki) You dressed like John Taylor of Duran Duran, and couldn't wait to get the next Bop magazine.. You coveted Mystik Oily stickers.. and anything from Lisa Frank.. Inspector Gadget with Penny and Brain were on every day after school...Channel 56 was the best! Ellio's pizza was your staple food.. leg warmers were really cool, even when it wasn't cold.. Breyer horses filled your room.. along with the Prince posters.. You worshipped My Little Pony, friendship pins, jelly bracelets, Cabbage Patch, Garfield,feathered hair,Cindi Lauper, and watched the Dukes of Hazzard! ~Thanks Julia Eldridge if you looked forward to afterschool specials if you got scared of the theme songs from pink panther, twilight zone and unsolved mysteries if you had a spirograph, perfection and operation game (and remember their commercial songs) if you were shocked to find out that the rapper SNOW was white after you memorised all the words to informer if you remeber the Flintstones coming on after the news at noon if you ever watched Polka Dot Door or wondered why your name was never called when that girl from Romper Room and Friends looked through her mirror ~Thanks starbelly you wore candy necklace. You had PEZ candy. You remember Kim Catrell (from Sex in the City) was the Manniquin ~Thanks Ty you watched The New Zoo Review. You wore overalls with the straps hanging down. You used to cook popcorn on top of the stove. You used to put the gun up to the TV screen while playing duck hunt on your nintindo. You remember when the little stick of gum came in the pack with the garbage pail kids. ~Thanks Tanya You con remember the smoggies, rainbow brite, fraggle rock, the goddies, my little pony, strawberry shortcake and my pet monster. you remember getting up at 6am to watch The Gummi Bears on saturday mornings you can remember the theme to any of these shows ~Thanks a true 80's child you watched david the gnome and sang the theme song before all 26 episodes ~Thanks steven LOOKED FORWARD TO WATCHING THE BRADY BUNCH SHOW ON TV. ~Thanks unknown You are looking at this website and and it is bringing back oh so many memories! ~Thanks Sarah ... You wore 3 pairsof different colored slouch socks at one time. ... You remember the Huggabunch Kids ... You wore the interchangable SWATCH watches ... You watched KIDS Inc. everyday after school ... You remember the "spotty man" from the Super Ted Movies ~Thanks KMax you can name all the caritors to fragle rock and he-man ~Thanks nicole whoever could tease their bangs the highest was cool if you wore bright coloured belts over t-shirt like dresses that are hanging of the shoulder if you wore tight black pants with black dress shoes with bowes. if you remember the adison twins if you rollerskated in your basment and listened to records if you remember corner stores also being video stores ~Thanks Des You owned parachute pants and glacier glasses in many colors. ~Thanks Paprboy68 you owned most of the masters of the universe action figures you tried to grow a pony tail you stayed up late playing super mario bros you wanted a knife like rambo and crocodile dundee ~Thanks Golden Child You remember when the doublemint twins lost their hats. ~Thanks Leigh-Ann You had mall maddness You had the snap on braclets You knew all the star's names from rainbow bright ~Thanks Kerry at least 3 of your friends were having babies! ~Thanks Laura You wore stirrup stretch pants. You remember the Wuzzles and Denver the last Dinosaur. You wore a necklace with a hard plastic pacifier on a string. You though L.A. Gears were cool. You played your cassette tapes in your talking ALF doll. You had a Snoopy Sno-Cone maker. You had Barbie and the Rockers, Jem, and She-Ra. You collected Garbage Pail Kids stickers. You remember Electric Youth, Navy, & Exclamation perfume. ~Thanks Marisa You remember having the little plush Ceasar guy from Little Ceasar's. Pizza pizza! ~Thanks Heidi, in Georgia (again!) you wished Kubiac would just let up on Parker Lewis already! ~Thanks Heidi, in Georgia Bananna Clips, Holly Hobbie, Skaterboard pants, Richard Simmons, Tennis hats, Velcro Shoes, and the sad part is my kids think this all new....... ~Thanks 3 chicks who are getting OLD On Who's The Boss nights you and your big sister would watch Who's The Boss and eat potato chips. You had a "Wuzzles" birthday party. ~Thanks Nicole IF YOU Remember When Micheal Jackson Looked Normal & Not Like A Freak Show. He Was Once Pretty Far Out.Thanks!! ~Thanks John You can remember puffy cabbage patch kid stickers, Remember when prince had a name, and loved the movie Purple Rain You used to love the summer time fun on the slip and slide, even if you got lots of scratches and cuts. You remember singing along to the smurfs, and mummpet babies on saturday mornings You can remember when you could actually buy penny candy from the local store, When a soda came in a 16 ounce bottle and only costed 50 cents or so You could return the soda bottles to the local store for about 5 or 10 cents If you can remember when saved by the bell first came on tv. you are difantly from the 80's if you thought that the Rockie movies where the best fighting series that ever was. Or if your christmas tree had those huge lights, that you thought were going to weigh the tree down. If you had one of the straberry trolly that went with Straberry Shortcake. If you had a cabbage patch doll, and kept the birth certificate. If you wanted to Alysa Malino from Who's the Boss. If you can remember thinking that the atari was so neat, and you had to play pac man and pit falls I remember the 80's, and the biggest thing that I can remember from the 80's is that you could actually get little metal license plates from the Honey comb box. ~Thanks Tootie Remember: Barbie and the Rockers Outfits with a short skirt attached to the capri length pants Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth perfume Could sing every song by Tiffany, Paula Abdul, Debbie Gibson Hugga Bunch dolls there were ONLY plastic halloween costumes that split every time you moved (I was Alf) hair bows made of different colored shoelaces were eastland shoes with the strings curled up Chuck E. Cheese was Showbiz Pizza Collected the California Raisins Got a "Slimer" sundae with green slime at Hardees Watched Finders Keepers and Double Dare on TV Had a She-ra castle/horse/friends Had you birthday party at Pizza Hut and got Care Bear stickers with the party Watched Ghostbusters the movie at the theater and remember the cartoon. Used Teddy Ruxpin to play your NKOTB tapes Made up dances/cheers/ and songs with friends at recess time Had Microwave milkshakes ~Thanks Toni you know what these cartoons are....rainbow bright, snorks, shirt tales, get along gang, pound puppies, care bears (original), transformers (original), strawberry short cake (original), she-ra, gummie bears....and u know the rest if u are a child of the 80's ~Thanks melissa You owned Alf dolls from Pizza Hut ~Thanks strawbearyfae you are a child of the 80's if you remember watching 21 jump street, saved by the bell, small wounders, squre pegs... If you ever saw your dad wearing neon pink, or you wore neon colors withe tie dyed shirts, spandex, two pairs of scoks, keds or jelly shoes, plastic jewerly... if you had a smurf fan in your bedroom with matching sheets... if you remember when mc donalds served food in styrofoam boxes or when happy meals came in card board boxes... you played with smurfs, poples, pound puppies, cbbage patch kids... listened to new kids on the block and had there tapes! if you had a baby talk doll who would not shut up, had a playdough hair salon, had a barbie moter home, played with pink, purple and light blue legos, had k'netxs, owned anything made by nerf... if you had a cabbage pacth club house in your back yard... if you loved molly ringwald or any of the brat pack members... ~Thanks E'spinkangel you remeber the TV show Extra you had a pooch patrol by your bed every night.... you owned or knew someone who had the all famous High Top Sneakers.... you remember the songs " Bop " by Dan Seals and " Wake me up before you go-go " by Wham ..... you remember Astro Boy as being your saviour, ( on early in the morning before school ) you remember Curious George :D :D :D you remember Size Small Tv Show ( Canadian only Broadcast ( I think )) you remember the saying you said when you were told to shut up ..... " I don't shut up I throw up and every time your mother comes around the corner she has to clean it up " you remember doing the " offical " dance to Tiffany's song " Running just as Fast as We can " ~Thanks Kerri-Jean M. ( CA ) Collected Scratch n' Sniff/Stinky Stickers. You remember or owned a pair of KangaRoos tennis shoes. You anxiously looked forward to acquiring your next My Little Pony. ~Thanks K.Webb There were GOOD cartoons on right when you got off from school. ~Thanks Ulisa You remember the first arcades...Pac Man, Tron, Donkey Kong, Tron, Burger Time, Pong. You watch Boomerang on Satellite and remember all the shows when they were first run. 21 Jumpstreet was a really cool show and you wanted to marry Johnny Depp, Richard Greico or Peter DeLuise. You still had a plastic lunchbox You dreamed you were Jennifer Grey in Dirty Dancing. You had a Dorothy Hamill haircut. You wore legwarmers...just like the ones in Flashdance. Thriller was the scariest video you ever saw (and in my case the very first one I ever saw) Video killed the Radio Star and you found out it was true You watched Think Fast, Square One TV and Simply HAD to go to the theater to watch The Empire Strikes Back, ET and Star Trek II. You had a banana seat bike with a basket on the front. You had a boombox. You wore charm necklaces (the plastic ones with the bells on the charms), jelly shoes, and those rubber bracelets. You spent a lot of time putting beads on your friendship pins The Fisherprice toys were still made with wood Malibu Babrbie, Crystal Barbie and Peaches n Cream Barbie were the must haves you are (gulp) approaching 30 or are over 30 now You are starting to feel old especially since all the music you listened to is now on the Oldies station and your kids say "ewwww you listened to THAT?!" ~Thanks Mom of 3 You wanted Dougie Howser MD to be your doctor - or more! You fancied Corey Feldman or one of his brothers You know what Nanoo Nanoo means (Mork) You wanted your own adventure like on the Goonies You know all the words to the full length Fresh Prince Rap Hypercolor tshirts were the greatest invention ever You remember when My Little Pony was Skinny and Boney You remember when you had the power to lift up a flower - it takes you an hour - He man You know who lived down at the bottom of the garden among the birds and the bees (Poddington Peas) You remenber Rod, Jane and Freddy on Rainbow You remember when Button Moon was the best. ~Thanks Retrochickuk You remember Dance Party USA. You remember when the Disney Channel played Baby Songs every morning. ~Thanks Nicole You read the Choose your own adventure books. ~Thanks Stacey V. ...you played with an Atari 2600 or 2800 .. and remember the game Pitfall too. ...you remember Kidd Video, the Smurfs, the Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Brite, Danger Mouse, Heathcliff, Dungeons and Dragons as awesome T.V. shows. ... you saw E.T. in the movies. ... you wore big thick belts that didn't fit properly, but instead just hung around your waist. ... you remember when bandanas were cool to wear. ... you remember what a 'My Child' doll was and 'Chatty Cathy'. ... you wore those sunglasses that were like the visors of Geordi from Star Trek the Next Generation. ... you KNOW who Geordi was on Star Trek the Next Generation was without being a trekkie! ~Thanks K you know if you were a 80's child if you had jelly shoes and had jelly braclets and the bracelets that were clear plastic with glitter inside, those were my favorites!! plus collecting garbage pail kids cards!!!! ~Thanks carmen You remember when Saturday Night Live was actually funny You remember Miami Vice and HAD to have a white suit You wanted a car like Kit Had Cabbage Patch dolls You remember roller skating on a wooden floor Remember President Reagan Remember Pound Puppies Remember jelly bracelets Remember big (really big) hair Remember mullets (some refuse to go) Remember rips and tears (done purposely) in clothes Remember acid washed jeans Remember ANYTHING Neon Remember headbands (actually sweatbands) Remember skin tight jeans (on men) - courtesy of Rock n Roll Remember when you had no responsibilties Remember Thundercats ~Thanks Lisa when you hear people who are younger than you singing songs you used to listen to and you start to feel a little old. ~Thanks Heather you ever wanted to be a cruise director, just like Julie from the love boat. you remember when hardee's, sold cute stuffed animals from "shirt tales", "muppets", and disney, at christmas time and you wanted one under your tree soooooo bad. you ever taped a song off the radio with a portable tape player;;;you had your mom screaming over the song after it was recored. your bike had a pad going across the handlebar and cute colored tassles hanging from the handles. you also sported a smurf license plate you got out you cereal box. prizes out of your cereal was actually cool. you remember when your parents bought a microwave; cooking microwave popcorn and pizza was new. you remember when a character on a tv show was really mad when they said,,,"damn" and "go to hell" you had everything poochie..the white dog with pink ears and pink sunglasses on her forehead. you had an eraser collection and traded them with you friends..you also traded purses,watches,shoes, jackets,,,you name it you owned one of those gold lam'ee purses that looked like a huge tote bag; you owned one of those purses that looked like a soft basket;;your mother also had a purse bigger than a diaper bag you or any one you knew, wore lee press on nails your mother had one of those huge food processors that would take up an entire cabinet you wanted to be a solid gold dancer ~Thanks a midnight toker you wore garanables as a kid and zip sneakers ~Thanks april you wore fossil beads (strings of different colored beads that you would twist together and would close with a big clip in the back) you wore luvs baby soft perfume... if you ever received exclamation perfume as a christmas gift. you wanted a white jeep like daisy duke you got the barbie dream bed, dallas(barbies horse),and the barbie dream pool, for christmas you ever bought the books to every movie you saw you actually wanted to be a waitress at mels diner you know who framed roger rabbit you ate reeses pieces just because E.T did you bought the plastic mcdonalds plates with ronald, grimace and the hamburgler.. you know who mayor mcCheese is you know who captain crook and BIG MAC is you remember the fry guys ~Thanks april (loving the 80's now and 4ever) you ever wanted to fill a house with popcorn. Michelle Meyrink was your idol. (RoTN, Real Genius) you remember George Lucas before his neck took over his head. ~Thanks midnitecoaster You can sing every word with David Bowie in the Labyrinth. You wished at night that the "Goblin King would come and take your brother/sister away right now" ~Thanks Stephanie you ate frankenberries or boo-berries for breakfast. you drank tang. you remember being dropped of at the skating rink on friday nights. you had a cloth belt, with a little magnetic buckle, with the smurfs on it. you played with paper dolls. you collected pencils and traded them with your friends. you had "hammer"pants.a.k.a mc hammer. you and your best friend each had one half of a heart necklace. you had a pair of pink, yellow,etc converse canvas hightops. you wore heavy metal concert t-shirts. you referred to new kids on the block as n.k.o.t.b. ~Thanks jenn You saw the commercial for the "Lost and Found" stuffed animals and kept wondering if one would appear at your window like it did for the children in the commercial. You had one of those personalized birthday cassettes with some guy singing about "It's your birthday today." "Singing (your name), happy birthday to you." You worked out with your Shirt Tales Exercise book and cassette. You would see the commercial for Mrs. Butterworths and then wondered why the bottle that you had never talked. ~Thanks Nicole You used to walk an invisible dog on that "floating" wire leash and convinced people there was really something there. you had a birthday party at the roller rink and the best song they played was "We built this City on Rock and Roll" You had the slap on wrist braclets and remember why they were pulled off the market. You used to watch Reading Rainbow. You wanted a bed and a tree house like Punky Brewster. You named your dog after Brandon from Punky B. You wore gloves all year round with the fingers cut off. You know, the thin kind that Madonna used to wear. You and your girl friends used to do dance routines for your friends and families. They would contain moves you saw from your favorite music videos on MTV. ~Thanks Stacy k. you remember where's the beef you remember the california raisins you had scratch n sniff stickers you had poofy stickers you watched the cosby show every week, along with the fats of life, family ties and full house you were rad or your clothes were gnarly you wore a jeans jacket or a billabong jacket you listened to bon jovi or motley crue you wore parachute pants and sang the pepsi generation song you saw capatin eo at disney world you had to have reeboks or converse shoes you wore a white jacket with your pastel t shirt you ironed your hair with a clothing iron to get it to stand up straight you watched the get along gang and shirt tales on Saturday morning you remember between the shows on Saturday morning was schoolhouse rock and you can still sing all the words to I'm just a bill you wore bubble skirts all you wanted was an iroc z camaro Patrick Swayze, George Michael and Michael Jackson adorned your walls Debbie Gibson, Tiffany and Madonna adorned your walls your first pair of cool shoes were air jordans--the red ones You remember a show called the great space coaster you thought skip stevenson was cool you played with strawberry shortcake, rainbow brite, jem, care bears, smurfs, he man, she ra, star wars, gi joe and my little pony you listened to Debbie Gibson, Michael Jackson, Wham, Air Supply and Journey You wore shirt dresses ~Thanks Mom of 3 You searched the entire mall to find yourself a Debbie Gibson-style felt hat. Your mom actually helped you cut holes into the knees of your stonewashed jeans. You used to beg your dad for a quarter so you could buy a toy in the plastic bubble out of those machines on the way into the grocery store. Remember the sticky hands on the long sticky string that you could slap to a window? You had bubble necklaces and hot loops. You wore 2 different colors of slouch socks with white Keds without the laces. You had to buy your shoes a size larger in order to achieve this degree of fashion idiocy. You remember spraying your bangs with cans of Rave and getting it in your eyes. You remember Jelly Sandals. You had a Viewfinder and a Lite Brite. You had Shrinkidinks and Colorforms. You had a Fred Flinstone Bop-Bag. You traded Marvel Cards. Your remember "Robble Robble"...The Hamburgler, Grimace, The Fry Guys, and the talking/singing chicken McNuggets. You had a hair crimping iron. You recall mega-huge New Kids on the Block Buttons. You had a jean jacket with little buttons all over them. Finding batteries small enough to put in the back of your Jem doll so that her earings would flash. You remember Pogo ball, the evil pogo toy that was blister-enducing but tons of fun. You remember those little things you could put all over the spokes of your bike that would go up and down and make noises when the wheels turned. You remember bike radios...big, red, bulky boxes with a horn and a reflector on the front that you had to screw to the handlbars of your bike. You had a Pocket Rocker...tiny little cassette tapes of Huey Lewis and the News and Tiffany. You remember Bop, Big Bopper, Teen Beat, and Tutti Frutti Magazines, and rushing to the nearest grocery store to get the newest one JUST for the posters. You remember those plastic necklaces with the charms hanging off of them. They had baby bottles, little bikes, whistles, etc. You remember watching Annie over and over again. You had a Talk-&-Play machine. A big white tape-player with red, blue, yellow, and green buttons on it that came with little books and a cassette that you interactively pushed the buttons to. You had to watch: The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, Punky Brewster, You Can't Do That on Television, Kids Incorporated, and USA Cartoon Express Your parents watched: Falcon Crest, Dynasty, Dallas, and Solid Gold. You had to have the Dukes of Hazard theme song on record and you thought Luke Duke was a hottie even though you were like, 3 years old. You can vaguely remember a strange device called an eight track player...and you remember Beta. You remember that a video camera came with a large VCR-type thing that actually had to be worn like a bag when you took pictures with it. Your roller skates had pom-poms on them or glow-sticks and you used to get a flashing flower light at the roller rink. You thought it was totally all right that Jon Bon Jovi had bigger hair than you. Guys wore mid-calf biker pants and eyeliner with high-tops. You told your hairdresser you wanted hair like Alyssa Milano from Who's the Boss. ~Thanks Mel you remember "Love Hewitt" from Kids Inc. and The New Mickey Mouse Club with Keri Russell. you remember Double Dare and thought "hey i could beat them" you remember Today's special you wore side ponytail, hot pink keds and the panty hose with the lace end right above your ankle. ~Thanks Vonnie LOVED Boy George Were a fan of NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK. You had a pair of LA Gears. Own a pair of SKIDZ & Zcavaricci's. Had a big wheel. Wore rubber bracelets in different colors that said little things.. Had Garbage Pail Kids Collection Cards and traded them Wore jeans with slouch socks. Biker Shorts.. LAst but not least--JEM and the HOLOGRAMS...SMURFS...MY LITTLE PONY...RAINBOW BRIGHT...STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE... 80's were the days..... ~Thanks Jessica A You learned how to spell with your Scrabble People read-along books. You loved the commercial for the original Fame series. ~Thanks Nicole you rushed home to watch "Real People" and "That's Incredible" You know that "No Gnews is good gnews with Gary Gnue" You owned "mork" suspenders with the white gloved hand pointing and whatever else was on those. You wore Oxford button up shirts with a "fag tag" on the back. With 501's of course. You remember your first pair of Vans tennis shoes when you only had a choice of colors not styles. ~Thanks amber You had a pony tail on the top of your head Wore white lace socks with black flats OR Wore Tennis Shoes and white lace socks with a dress. ~Thanks ChickaBonita you knew Jon Stamos played on You again first... you had jon stomas poster on your wall and it had lipstick on his mouth.. thought the head band you got at the fair... the one with the wobble stars or balls was cool folded your notes to friends at school in that little square and had the pull tab and wrote to and from on ~Thanks T. Mcintosh You owned a lunchbox from Vlasic Pickles that was green and shaped like a bus. You ate Jello Pops and Jello Pudding Pops in the summertime. You played pretend for hours with your Fisher-Price toys. (Little People and their sets, Vanity Set, Kitchen Center, Medical Kit, Purse, etc.) You watched the Go-bots and He-man while you were getting ready for school in the morning. You owned one of those Fisher-Price Little People barns that "mooed" when you opened the barn doors. You remember the wooden playground at McDonald's before they started putting the ball pits. Your favorite commercial on television was "Hefty Hefty Cinch Sack!" ~Thanks Nicole You remember when people actually fought over Cabbage Patch dolls at the store when the came out. ~Thanks Jessica L. You did double dutch with your girl friends at every recess. you watched the show " you can't do that on television" ~Thanks D.S You teased your bangs to the sky, wore "black flats" (black shoes with flat soles) with no socks in winter, or high tops with the curly shoe strings (usually neon), Super tight "fancy ass" jeans , dangly earrings,and knees ripped out of your acid wash jeans . ~Thanks Evil dee* You have any school pictures where you have on neon clothing and bangs to the side and as high as you could get them You ever owned a popple!!! Your brothers GI Joes kept killing your Barbies for no good reason, and all you wanted was for them to hook up you thought that Heman and Shera should have gotten married ~Thanks kristin You practiced "Dirty Dancing". You played with the Weeble Wobbles. You remember when happy meals came in boxes. ~Thanks Heather you remember the wuzzles you can still sing the words to ducktales and couldn't wait for ducktales:treasure of the lost lamp to come out you still have ninja turtle toys from burger kings you couldn't wait for the ninja turtles movies you thought casey jones was cute you ever dressed up like a ninja turltle for halloween you know who megan and sundance are you own the my little ponies movie you know all the words to chip and dales rescue rangers theme song, and you wished you were gadget you were convinced that you were helping the carebears when you did the care bear stare with them you remember shirt tales you remember paw paws ~Thanks calu carebear You can remember when all the lands on the Mario games had only one path to the exit. You did not have to go every which way trying to find it! ~Thanks Nicole You spent hours perfecting your 'Care Bear Stare'. ~Thanks Stephanie Degrassi High was a religion to you at 5pm every day after school!!! Joey, Spike, Stephany, Wheels! ~Thanks Emma L You wore a ponytail with my multiple hair ties. You tied your shirt up with one of those plastic rings. You owned a sit-n-spin and/or a big wheel. ~Thanks Brittany you had a crush on any of the people in new kids on the block. ~Thanks Cynthia You remember when cable access was a few buttons on a box....with just 1 HBO. After watching "Wierd Science", you daydreamed about making your own hottie from your crummy Commodore 64. You wore candy necklaces, with a cool pack of candy cigarettes. ~Thanks Donny you wanted to ride the train on Silver Spoons. ~Thanks Chris you remember the "member's only jacket" and thought it was soooo cool. ~Thanks Karen and Joe You watched country music videos on TNN's Country Clips. ~Thanks Nicole You have ever uttered the phrase "Grody to the max" or "gag me with a spoon". You remember New Coke and its demise. ~Thanks Krissie you remember playing M*A*S*H to see who you were going to marry, what car you would drive, and how many kids you would have. ~Thanks Angie you tied a bedsheet around your neck and thought you could fly like superman. you got new sneakers and bragged to your friends that they "made you run fast...watch...see!" had a bike with all the accessories...bell, spoke thingies that made that sound and handlebar tassels. you actually played...OUTSIDE... ~Thanks Randi C You have ever struck a dramatic pose (with or without a prop) and shouted "Thundercats--Hoooo!". You can, even now, hum or sing the theme songs to "Care Bears," "Strawberry Shortcake," "Voltron," or "Thunder Cats" (with or without looking at the lyrics. You are part of an online club for anything 80s-related. ~Thanks Heidi You're favorite cartoon was the Smurfs and you remember eating the Smurf berries cereal. ~Thanks Amy If you can remember when the mullet was cool, and you had one! If you couldn't leave your house without your Jeans Jacket. ~Thanks Lyssa You remember doing Mad Libs and thinking they were really funny. You had a Skip-it contest at recess. You remember having fights with your friends of who you were all going to marry Donny, Joey, or Jordan! You know all the Chipmunks and Chipettes' names. You thought Tiffany was the coolest singer ever. You remember the Family Ties show where Jennifer tried to turn cool, thought she was cool, and remember practicing saying "like, hi, ok" and tossing your hair over your shoulder. You thought Kirk Camron was hot. You remember Leo before Titanic as Luke on Growing Pains. you wore your jelly sandles everywhere. You tried to explain to your parents why you needed an odd number of pierceings in your ears and why some or all of the earings did not match. You remember seeing Captain O. C. Readmore every Saturday morning. You have compared the Power Rangers to Voltron. You remembered Summer from Baywatch as Jamie from Charles in Charge. ~Thanks Sheryl You watched Howard The Duck on HBO. You remember when Elmo first appeared on Sesame Street.(and NOT St.Elmo!) You wanna crack that whip when a problem comes along. Those Hubba Bubba commercials cracked you up. You kept laughing when Sgt.Hartman kept on cussing You wanted to be as strong as Arnold Schwarzeneggar Mr.T scoulded you. Jem reminds you of the Bangles. ~Thanks Matt you wore shirts with Spuds McKenzie on them. ~Thanks Genevieve you remember when nothing came between brooke and her calvins! ~Thanks Lisa you remember the munchichis (you know the little monkey looking things.) Oh yeah, the Snorks, too. (Live under water had little blowholes on their heads!!!!!). ~Thanks Sara you remember little headbands, shoelaces with designs, little black leather ties, and fingerless lace gloves. ~Thanks Patty you would poof your bangs like 6 inches high. ~Thanks Crystal you remember arguing the merits of Beta vs VHS!! you ever wondered why those kids would never give the rabbit his Trix, but would push co-co puffs on to the coo-coo co-co puffs bird. ~Thanks kathy You remember the show Fragile Rock. You know the whole theme song to The Prince of Bellair. ~Thanks eeyore85 You know custard was the name of cat. You know what a wuzzle is. You owned a pound puppy. You saw the Garbage Pail kids at the movies. You made friendship Bracelets during class. You know who Heathcliff is. You went to th store and ask the male manaquines where's muffy? You you thought Pinwheel was the best show ever. all year you looked foward to Christmas to see Rudolph. You thought the old guy down the street was Mr. Rogers. You owned a Members Only jacket. You remember madonna young. You buried GI Joes in the backyard. You saw the boy who could fly and broke your leg cause you thought you could. You rememder when Dinsney movies were actully drawn by people. You thought laser disks were space age technology. You say "Woah....thats heavy". You have ever said "Hey Mcfly...You Irish bug!". You thought you were Annie. Kirk Cameron was on your wall. You thought Ronald Mcdonald was the coolest guy and he even hosted your party. The Showbiz gorrilla scared you. You thought the Last Starfighter was almost as good as Star Wars. You remember when tapes were expensive. You had the Disney record player and every storybook and record combo they made. Thriller was the scarest thing you had ever seen. You hoped your prom would be as good as Zack and Kellys. You had a Cabbage Patch Kid with your name. You had a bunch of bruises from the rock under the slip and slide. You were heart broken when you found out Millie vanillie was lipsincing. You one day hoped to be a member of lamda lamda lamda....... damn those alpha betas.... If you remember when Blair was hot Toottie was not. You had to go to the mall to get an icee. You woke up on saturday and said "aww man, I missed the Muppet Babies". You wanted Mr Belveder to be your butler. ~Thanks Kimberly you can remember loading the car with snacks and drinks and hiding your brother on the floorboard as you headed to a drive-in movie. You thought that the devil was under your bed and trying to possess you. You remember the corduroy OP (Ocean Pacific)shorts that guys wore, skin tight. You had a pair of JAMS (floral shorts). You had a pair of dark blue Nike's with the light blue swish or vice versa. You know who shot J.R. You had a crush on Bo or Luke. You know who told Mel to "Kiss my grits". You wore big pom poms with bells on your roller skates. You had a "Best Friend" baseball t-shirt with an iron-on of a rainbow or unicorn on the front. You had to lay on your bed and zip up your Gloria Vanderbilts with a wire clothes hanger because they were too tight. You couldn't wait to watch the Disney movie on Sunday nights, hoping it would be a cartoon. You know the difference between a 45 and a 33. You ever spun your hamster around on your record player. You had a record player that closed up like a suitcase. You listened to Charlie Brown's Christmas on your record player and followed along in your book. You ever spun your hamster around on your record player. You watched MTV for hours hoping to see the "We Are The World" video. You played in the toy section at K-Mart on Saturdays while your mom chased the "Blue Light Special". ~Thanks shelly You ever crimped your hair! ~Thanks stacy You rocked a Vision Street Wear Hip Pack and a Rude Dog T-shirt. ~Thanks DoPeDiSH you saw the California Raisins Christmas special. ~Thanks ??? you remember Shannen Dougherty on "Little House on the Prairie" instead of on "90210". ~Thanks Amy S you pegged your pants. you ever wore jelly shoes. ~Thanks Sarah Jo your favorite cookies were giggles. you knew how to cut loose footloose. you or someone you knew thought that clip-on earings were cool. ~Thanks Kibby You remember some of the games from the bozo the clown show. ~Thanks TJ You wore your collar UP on your shirt. You had, a "Friendship Bracelet" or "Friendship Pin". Two words - Glamour Dolls. You actually know what "Parachute Pants" are. you used to try and do the 20 Minute Workout on t.v. You wore electric blue eyeshadow and high heels with jeans looked cool. You used to wear the lower legs of your pants folded over, then rolled up. Opposite "flair" look now. You signed a SlamBook. ~Thanks Robyn you read this entire list and can relate. ~Thanks Monique- you wore more then one pair of colored socks at the same time. ~Thanks Kerstan you ever "walked a dinosaur" or "walked like an egyptian". ~Thanks Lynne T you owned and wore a Hypercolor T-shirt and thought it was "rad!" ~Thanks Hilary O. You remember how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tottsie pop. ~Thanks Kat you owned a Lite Brite. ~Thanks Laura P. you think tight jeans are the fad, AND you still do. you actually know the real voices of the Mystery Gang. You watched the game show Carmen Sandeigo and thought it was the most orignal show ever. ~Thanks TiNkErBelL You ever went to sleep with Gloworms as your night-light. You were in love with Zach or Slater. You ever clapped your hands and yelled "I care" with the Care Bears. You ever turned over rocks looking for David the Knome. You ever had an "Oppsie Daisy" doll that would'nt work. You remember when Polly Pockets could stand on you finger nail and you couldn't change their clothes. you remember mircormachines or transformers. ~Thanks Becca you remember Sara Jessica Parker from Square Pegs and not from Sex in the City. ~Thanks Lisa you had a plastic charm necklace and traded the charms at school. you owned a sticker collection. you moved the stickers on the rubiks cube. you remember when the New Kids on the Block were hangin' tough. you had a simon game. you had a barbershop playdough set. you remember the pillowkins pillows or the huggabunch dolls. you owned a moped. you went roller skating on saturday nights with the gang. ~Thanks Heidi you owned a Go-bot. you knew that Thursday night was Cosby night at 8PM. You sat in the back-back seat in a stationwagon facing the car behind you on family trips. you had a turning knob on your tv (with NO REMOTE!). you owned PONG or played it at someones house you saw the challenger explosion live (sorry). ~Thanks Tommy L. your school had alot of Pat Benitar look-alikes. ~Thanks Shana H. You remember and tried to copy Punky Brewster. you thought vampires lived in santa rosa(Lost Boys). you owned jordache acid wash jeans double points if you owned to rhinestone jacket. You know that "Menudo" is not a mexican soup. DOuble points if you recognize Ricky Martin as the little guy from menudo. You owned New Kids on the Block videos, cartoons, bedsheets, tapes,stationary etc. You wanted to be Michealangelo with Leonardo's killer sword skills. You know that N'Sync is no way a pop band ::cough:: New Kids ::Cough:: You can remember a world without rap. You wanted to be Pretty in Pink and 16 at the same time. ~ You remember Sleepaway Camp. you remember and had to have the barbie dream house. Your high school really was like "fast times at ridgemont high". Your prom was in the gym. Saved by the bell was still in junior high. ~Thanks Monique- you remember the Misfits as the enemies of Jem and the Holograms. You still wake up early on saturday morning thinking "good" cartoons are going to come on. If you thought Kimmy Gibbler and the mouse cheerleader at showbiz were hot. If you get frustrated when someone mentions a rubiks cube. ~Thanks Paul M. you remember when only the cool people wore Jordache jeans. ~Thanks Leslie I. you remember when wearing suspenders was cool. you remember Bon Jovi's "runaway" being a big hit. you remember wanting to watch shows like "dance fever" and "solid gold". you know what the "afterschool special" is. you know who "yuck mouth" is. ~Thanks Susan you remember when mtv actually played videos you owned a ghettoblaster and did back spins on a piece of cardboard. you ate Mr.T cereal. ~Thanks Rico You wore Debbie Gibson's signature perfume,"Electric Youth", or knew someone who did. You memorized Weird Al songs such as, "Like a Surgeon", and "Eat It". You owned "Reeboks" or "British Knights". You wore leg warmers and/or sweat bands!. ~Thanks Krissi S. You know what totally tubular means. ~Thanks moondust You wore slap bracelets and/or the gummy/jelly bracelets. You played the table Pac Man game; famous for being at the local Pizza Hut. You wore a pony tail on the side of your head. Oh and the hair thing, guys and perms, enough said. You ever had a Swatch Watch and of course wore multiple watches on one arm. Slouch socks who could ever forget those. You remember when George Michael was Hot and straight! You can sing or hum the theme to Who's the Boss and/or Silver Spoons, I bet you can. You remember when Twisted Sister was a really heavy band. You wanted a Gizmo of your own as a pet. ~Thanks Josephine R. You wore penny rolled pants,matching tie-dye outfits (the ones with the rings), or Stonewash jeans. You remember when Coke & Pepsi came in bottles. You owned an Easy Bake oven. You remember the Christmas that Cabbage Patch Kids couldn't be found in any store!! ~Thanks Chrissi G. You instinctively cringe whenever someone says "I don't know" due to an Pavlov's dog-like fear of green slime being dumped on your head. You remember when Nickelodeon rocked. You will actually argue when people call the Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, or Britney Spears pop music. You can remember the exact moment when you realized... "Hey... that chick leading Culture Club... that's a guy!" You can actually argue the merits between Parker Lewis Can't Lose and Ferris Bueller. ~Thanks Josh You can remember Jamie and his robotic sister on "Small wonder" the TV show. ~Thanks Thanks Josh and Mia You know your an 80's kid if you know what K - I - D - S means... Kids inc.!! You knew what The Truffle Shuffle was. You knew who Grubby was...(Teddy Ruxpin). ~Thanks Joe C. Your hair had height and you used aquanet as the glue. ~Thanks Susan You know what a "burnout" is. You owned/operated a 'Trapper Keeper' You know what "Psych" means. Once, while spending hours in the arcade, you actually lined up quarters on the top panel of the game -- to "reserve" your spot. You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off". You know that another name for a keyboard is a "Synthesizer". You can name at least half of the members of the elite "Brat Pack". You know who Tina Yothers is. You wanted to be a Goonie. You had top-of-the-line Commodore 64s in your jr. high computer lab You know who Max Headroom is. You even wore fluorescent, neon if you will, clothing. You could breakdance, or wish you could. You wanted to be The Hulk for Halloween. You Believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power!" Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away. You thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye. You can, right now, hum to yourself the theme to 'Inspector Gadget' You wanted to be on Star Search. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off. You wore a banana clip at some point during your youth, or knew someone who did. You knew what Willis was "talkin' 'bout". You HAD to have your MTV You remember when Kramer was on a show called 'Friday's' You hold a special place in your heart for "Back to the Future". You know where to go if you "wanna go where everybody knows your name". You thought Molly Ringwald was REALLY cool. You actually thought "Dirty Dancing" was a REALLY good movie. You heard of Garbage Pail Kids. You knew "The Artist" when he was humbly called "Prince". You actually saw Ted Danson as the MacDaddy he played "Sam" to be. You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system You own(ed) any 'cassette singles' You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living on the moon. You remember And/or own any of the Care Bear Glass collection from Pizza Hut. Or any other collection they came out with. Poltergeist freaked you out. You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins, Starwberry Shortcake, or an ET lunchbox. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf. You know what a Doozer is. You wore bike shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish, or knew someone who did. You remember when Saturday Night Live was funny. You had Wonder Woman or Superman underoos. You know what a "Whammee" is.. ~Thanks Unknown Click here to add your own "child of the 80's if..." to the list! [ Add to this list! | Back to Wishing*Stars*Galaxy ~The Silly 80's ]

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