Child from the '80's

[TwoTanks]

Child from the '80's:
· You know what "Sike" means.
· You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off."
· You know that another name for a keyboard is a "Synthesizer."
· You can sing the McDonald's Big Mack, Filet-o-fish, quarter pounder, and French fry song.
· You know who Mr. T is.
· You know who Fat Albert is. And who was old boy with the pink mask?
· You ever wore fluorescent, neon 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 knew that knowing is half the battle.
· You wanted to be on Star Search.
· You can remember Michael Jackson when he was black.
· You wore a banana clip at some point during your youth.
· You remember the garbage pail kids, and owned some.
· You knew what Willis was "talkin' 'bout."
· Rut row raggy and Zoinks
· You HAD to have your MTV.
· You actually thought "Dirty Dancing" was a REALLY good movie.
· You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system.
· You owned any cassettes.
· You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living on the moon. Instead we're sending people to live on deserted islands with nothing but the clothes on their backs for 39 days vying for a million dollars
· You remember and/or owned any of the Care Bear Glass collection from Pizza Hut or the Muppets glasses from McDonalds and drank out of them with a crazy straw
· Poltergeist freaked you out.
· You knew who Ben Stein was before you could win his money, "Bueller?"
· You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins, ET, Dukes of Hazard, Knight Rider, Strawberry Shortcake or A-Team lunch box.
· You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.
· You know what leg warmers are and probably had a pair.
· You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish.
· You wore your Izod shirt with the collar up. Or you wore two different color IZOD shirts at the same time with both collars up
· You had a Swatch Watch with the Swatch Guard.
· Your Legos collection started with the free sets in a Happy Meal.
· You remember when Happy Meals came in a box, not a paper bag.
· You remember when Saturday Night Live was funny.
· You had Wonder Woman or Superman underoos.
· You know what a "Push Up" ice cream is.
· You had to come in the house when the street lights came on.
· You had to change into play clothes after school.
· You owned, or knew somebody with a Commodore 64.
· You hated Scrappy Doo.
· You recorded songs off the radio with your boom box.
· You wish you had a light saber.
· Somehow you still know all the words to songs played on VH1's "Big
80's"
· Your arm was full of rubber bracelets. Tied together of course
· You have ever said, "Gag me with a spoon."
· You have ever wondered what happened to Saturday morning cartoons.
· You had to get up to change the channel. "you were the remote control"
· You can still sing 1 to 12 from the Pinball machine on Sesame Street.

If you can identify with at least half of this list then you, my friend, are a "Child of the 80's".

TT

 

[wstein]

hmmm, guessing I am a child of the 80's then

 

[sb_diver]

I think I'm a child of the 80s too

 

[adder70]

· You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system.

You are a video game nut of the '80's if you can time order the release of the Atari 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, and the Atari 5200.

· You owned, or knew somebody with a Commodore 64.

Don't forget owning any computer with a cassette tape drive!
I owned a Commodore 64 after I overran the memory of my VIC 20 with my self-written programs. My C64 (and the VIC?) had a cassette tape drive.

· You recorded songs off the radio with your boom box.

I used some of the tapes from the C64, and I just tossed the tape with "Shout" as the number one song from '85.

· You wish you had a light saber.

Absolutely!

· Somehow you still know all the words to songs played on VH1's "Big
80's"

I don't know ALL the words, but my wife calls me the '80's song encyclopedia. I can recognize most within 2 seconds (usually before the first word).

 

[simbrooks]

Unfortunately so....

 

[Northeastwrecks]

Yeah, I remember, and loved, being a teenager in the 80's.

 

[FreeFloat]

- You remember wearing Friendship pins on your shoes.
- Velcro closure shoes were stylish.
- You know what it meant when things were Totally Tubular or Grody.
- You had or wanted at least one Hypercolor shirt.
- NKOTB were popular and everyone knew all the words and most of the moves to their songs.
- Big Macs came in Styrofoam boxes.

 

[hecker-the-wrecker]

I am that old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(am I????) sob, sob, yes,yes!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[wapyaly]

What about Cabbage patch dolls, wearing one flourescent pink sock and one flourescent green one, LA Gear trainers (with the BIGGEST tongues, hanging OUT of course!), Kajagoogoo! Rara skirts, perms (see big hair!) shell suits, big shirts billowing out from over bigger belts, ABC, Duran Duran, rubiks cube, the 'a' team, does anyone remember 'Manimal' a bizarre series about a man who turned into different animals! Dallas and Dynasty, Margaret Thatcher and 'Spitting Image' oooh the list goes on and the memories come flooding back!

 

[wapyaly]

And who can confess to owning a 'Frankie says.....' T-shirts (one for the brits I think!