She-ra, He-man, Rainbow Bright, Teenage mutant ninja turtles, Attari, The Police, Dark Chrystal, Gremlins, friendship charms, Omnibot < ,neon attire...men wearing make up.. Aaah those were the days.
And the high chance of having a job when we grew up, that wasn't even invented yet,... I'm proof of that!
Posted by Avadaru (Member # 3026) on :
He-man and She-ra were my favorites. I had all the action figures.
Anyone remember Jem and the Holograms? (I think that's what it was called.)
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
*raises hand* I watched Thundercats, Silverhawks, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. My brother loved He-Man.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Rainbow Bright! I also loved Smurfs, Glow Worms, and well Sessame Street in the 80s. I don't think I liked Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtles till the 90s, it was scary till then. (I turned four the first month of 1990)
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I learned my colors from Cyndi Lauper's hair in different videos. Seriously. When I was 18 months old. I LOVED Cyndi Lauper. When I wanted to hear "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", I said, "Fun!", and "She-Bop" was "Bop!"
I was also a fan of the album Thriller, Graceland by Paul Simon, and "California Girls" as performed by David Lee Roth. I collected those little Smurf figurines (well, I begged my daddy for them whenever I saw them and he gave in), and my sisters tried to get me to play the Smurfs game without cheating.
My sister drew a full-size portrait of Annie Lennox on her bedroom wall. My other sister had Souxie and the Banshees posters all over her walls. The Christmas I was two and a half, they both chipped in and got me embroidered jeans, a ski sweater, and matching leg-warmers, which I then insisted they help me put on (removing my dress in front of the company to do so. )
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
*born the first month of the 80's decade* Posted by xtownaga (Member # 7187) on :
*was born in '87* that um... kind of counts... even though I don't really remember the 80's that much
EDIT: oh and I still watched the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
I was born in '89. I don't really remember any of that stuff.
Geezers.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Yeah, I only remember bits. I do remember Suxie and the Banshees, my brother named his cat Souxie in 1989, I remember really ugly hair and the braces my cousin had, that had neon pink things on her teeth. I associate roller skating in school gymnasiums with the 80s, and wearing pink and orange together, and really really bad blush on cheeks. But I didn't have style, or much taste at that point.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I can't believe some of you are younger than my baby brother (three years younger than me, he was born in '86.) Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Souxie! That's how you spell it!
I remember many a 6-year-old birthday party at the roller rink, skating to the Cure, the Eurythmics, and "Time After Time". That was the popular party that year, I guess.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
My husband missed the 80's by 3 days-- he was born Dec. 28 of '79. But since all his early memories are of the 80's (and I have pictures of him and his sibs in tank tops and short shorts in garish colors ), I think he counts. Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Yeah, like Soux indians. I'm probably just a teeny bit older than your brother, but right about the same age, also born in 86.
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
He was deffinitely an 80's child! Marlozahn was born The April of 79 and he, of course, grew up in the 80's.
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
*raises hand*
You somehow managed to forget ghostbusters and transformers. I'm dissapointed.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
UW? Yeah? Well my birthdate is 1-9-80. Posted by Zalmoxis (Member # 2327) on :
Aren't you the child of the decade that you were 8-18 in? I think some of you are actually '90s children.
<-----turned 8 in 1980.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
April 1982
I was definately an 80's child and I can remember EVERYTHING you have all posted. But I also remember Sabre Rider and the Star Sheriffs, speed racer, My Little Pony had astonishingly evil villains, and I CANNOT believe everyone forgot the American Hero GI JOE! I think I must have seen EVERY single episode of GI Joe at least until that oddity GI Joe Extreme showed up, then I just stopped. I still remember TONS of the lessons they gave me at the end of all their episodes, like never getting close to train tracks when the lights and sirens are activated. Opt for fresh fruit instead of candy at the grocery store. Its unfortunate I have NO idea what role models will exist for my kids when they are born. Being a kid in the 80's was rocking solid. But being an adult was an unfortunate situation Being a kid in the 00's is horrible, cartoons all suck and they try to be clever and crass rather than actually teaching our kids anything other than naked butts are funny, and nasal high pitches voices are apparently the norm.
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
Woa! You got me beat Mac!
Edit: but only by 15 days!
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Yeah, I think the cartoons and children's culture of the late 80s was better than post say 92.
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
*raises hand* Do I get a My Little Pony now?
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
What about the Mon Chi-Chi's or the Snorkles? Pound Puppies and the Smurfs? Chips? Knight Rider? anyone? Oh, and the Dukes of Freaking Hazard. Come on People. And how can we forget the music? Twisted Sister anyone? Ratt? Motley Crew? How about Madonna, Adam Ant, Men at Work, Devo, Ton Loc, Young MC, Bowie, Dire Straits, Run DMC? Man the 80's freaking rocked.
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
I was born in 1981, but I think I only qualify as a semi-80s child. I remember a lot of commercials for the stuff everyone's mentioned, but I didn't actually have access to most of it myself. My mom didn't believe in getting me toys (we couldn't afford it), and my TV-watching was severely limited by my dad's monopoly on our family's only TV - lots of news, baseball, and football, none of which I cared about. So I was greatly enamored of My Little Pony and She-Ra, etc, but I don't recall ever seeing their shows, and I definitely never had the toys (but I did have Jem rain boots once). What can I say, I was deprived.
But no one's mentioned the Gummi Bears cartoon yet! Or the Pound Puppies! I loved those!!
Edit: Okay, so Beatnix mentioned Pound Puppies while I was typing.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
quote:Originally posted by Avadaru: He-man and She-ra were my favorites. I had all the action figures.
Anyone remember Jem and the Holograms? (I think that's what it was called.)
That show had such catchy music but my mother would not let me watch it when I lived with her as she thought it was evil, but it was cool. I loved synergy. I slept through most of the 80s and hated Reagan and if I watch sitcoms and movies from then I cringe. I hate baby boom and fatal attraction and freaking two men and a baby!
Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
I've still got a basement full of Pound Puppies, Care Bears and My Little Ponys. When are those 80's Childred ever going to come back and get them?
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
YOu could make a killing off them now. All the 80's stuff is coming back huge. my kids love the Care Bear and own about all of them and the cousins. We watch and play with Strawberry shortcake and rainbow bright toys. Ninja Turltes are coming back. It's like the producers and manufacturers realized the new stuff sucks and they needed to get back to the classics
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
My mom bought me My little ponies to bribe me to go to kindergarten... you could imagine how many I ended up with. Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: I can't believe some of you are younger than my baby brother (three years younger than me, he was born in '86.)
How do you think those of us born in 1970 (or earlier) feel? Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
Born in '81, but in another world...
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kwea: How do you think those of us born in 1970 (or earlier) feel?
Old.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
quote:How do you think those of us born in 1970 (or earlier) feel? [Big Grin]
about 80
Posted by Youth ap Orem (Member # 5582) on :
Born in '83! Did anyone else have skating rink's where they played disco duck all the time and the limbo stick? Or those Kool-Aid like drinks in the grenade shaped plastic containers with a foil top?
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote:Born in '81, but in another world...
Born in '86 and in a sort of different world.
Not nearly as far as Corwin, at it wasn't so much a feature of the society but of my particular family. I remember people talking about Ninja Turtles but they were never a feature of my childhood. Rollerskating was a part of it, although a very minor part. I think I went once.
My TV was Blue Peter and Thunderbirds reruns. Other children had the '80s and '90s, although a British version , but the closest I got was Alanna The First Adventure . (oh, and Starlight Express, but since that was a flop everywhere but in London, it's not really part of the culture you are all talking about!)
In a way, I never really woke up until the millenium when it comes to popular culture, so I guess you could say I am actually a "child" of the '00s along with all the five year olds .
This means that whenever anyone shares notes on their childhood I have to sit quietly and listen.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
I think I'm going to paint my bedroom at my parents house to be My Little Ponies, I'm moving out in less than a year, and it'll seem nostalgic in a while. It's currently lavender with ugly flower border.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
quote:Or those Kool-Aid like drinks in the grenade shaped plastic containers with a foil top?
They still make those, and they're delicious.
I remember being eight years old, and at my birthday party. Everybody was playing with my He-man toys (most of the people there I'm still friends with) and my She-Ra toys were with them. My friends wanted to know why I had girl toys. An excellent question, as I had no sister. Up till then, I didn't know toys were gender-specific. After all, She-Ra came with a horse, which was way cool. She wasn't a doll or anything, she was an action figure.
Philistines.
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
Siouxsie.
Posted by Swampjedi (Member # 7374) on :
I'm still a Transformers fan.
'82 here.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
I remember Jem. God help me, I remember Jem.
I was born in 1985.
I have a Rainbow Brite quilt that my parents gave me when I was 3. I still have it. In fact, my parents video taped me opening it.
::mom holds up quilt::
3 year old nathan: WAINBOW BWIIIIIIITE!! Dad: Yes Nathan, Rainbow Brite! 3 year old nathan: WAINBOW BWIIIIIIITE! Dad: *chuckle* Yes, it sure is! 3 year old Nathan: I wish _I_ had one!
I remember She-Ra and He-Man. I remember Transformers and Ninja Turtles.
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
"WAINBOW BWIITE!!"
3 year olds are Cute!
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
Thanks Nathan, that's the cutest and funniest thing I've run into all day.
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
quote:Anyone remember Jem and the Holograms? (I think that's what it was called.)
Was anyone else really annoyed by the fact that Barbie's clothes were too small to fit on that Amazon named Jem?
Posted by krynn (Member # 524) on :
hehe, im an '83 model. we had the original Atari system. ah Centepede, what a great game... for its time!
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
I made it into the world of 80's children by only 30 days. 1980, here, baby!
Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
ET for Atari = Worst. Game. Ever.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Man this thread makes me feel old.... 1973...
I've got Jem and Rainbow Brite and Thundercats and Fraggles all on my Netflix queue. My elder daughter absolutely cannot STAND Fraggles, so the younger one and I teasingly terrorize her by singing. I almost made the theme song my ringtone....
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
My stars some of you were born after I graduated high school.
I am OLD.
Posted by Avadaru (Member # 3026) on :
I have the "Gummy Bears" theme song stuck in my head now.
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Material Girl Chernobyl "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Blade Runner glasnost PC's Falklands War "Just say no" "Read my lips" "Make my day" Challenger Bloom County Cosby Show Cheers C-64 Iran-Contra hip-hop The Human League Terminator Reaganomics R.E.M. Falklands War KAL 007 People Power Miami Vice Tiananmen Square VCRs IRAs karaoke
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
My mom always says Challenger was scariest disaster she's ever watched on tv, it was the day my dad went back to work, when I was 6 days old, she was sitting in front of the tv nursing me and watching the take off when it happened.
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
Ooh...I remember seeing that happen. I was five, and very disgruntled that Muppet Babies was being interrupted - until it happened, that is. Then I was horrified. Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
We were watching the Challenger launch in school. I think I was in 2nd or 3rd grade at the time. And yeah, horrified is a pretty good word for our reactions.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: I learned my colors from Cyndi Lauper's hair in different videos. Seriously. When I was 18 months old. I LOVED Cyndi Lauper. When I wanted to hear "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", I said, "Fun!", and "She-Bop" was "Bop!"
I'm so old. Old, I tell you. Old. As in Ancient. Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
I had Spiderman underoos. I would try to wear them on Sundays whenever possible, because going to church meant wearing a button-up shirt. Because if you're going to change into your secret identity, you have to do it with a shirt that unbuttons in the front.
--Enigmatic
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote:Ooh...I remember seeing that happen. I was five, and very disgruntled that Muppet Babies was being interrupted - until it happened, that is. Then I was horrified.
I was three. We watched it in my preschool. I remember it like it was, well, not yesterday, but I remember it very clearly.
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
quote: I'm still a Transformers fan.
Yep, same here. Even have the original seasons on DVD. The movie twice over (VHS and DVD. VHS will never come out of the plastic). I remember rollerskating to M.J. and Poison. I still listen to that music (not Poison, but 80's music).
Posted by Silent E (Member # 8840) on :
I was reviewing my high school yearbook this morning, and was shocked at all the big hair (on the girls) and mullets (on the guys). Of course, back then, I had never heard the term mullet.
Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :
I remember watching the Challenger launch in ninth grade science class after lunch.
ET was the first PG movie I was allowed to watch.
I envied my friends who had Ataris.
Anybody remember ENTER magazine?
Posted by Swampjedi (Member # 7374) on :
quote: Yep, same here. Even have the original seasons on DVD. The movie twice over (VHS and DVD. VHS will never come out of the plastic).
I was so excited when the DVD seasons came out! All I had was the Heros/Villains DVDs, and suddenly all of my favorite episodes were available!
I must admit that I'm really too young for early Transformers, and I never saw the later seasons. I got the tapes from the local video place, and watched them over and over.
Wow, so many great quotes in the movie.
</geek>
Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :
quote:I was reviewing my high school yearbook this morning, and was shocked at all the big hair (on the girls)
I WANTED "beautiful" big hair, but it was almost impossible for me to achieve, because I don't have the right texture hair. The individual strands are thin and delicate, so it goes flat if I put much hair spray on it, looks dirty if I put much mousse on it, and splits at the ends if I get a perm.
*spent years 1983-1990 with terrible hair*
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
quote:*spent years 1983-1990 with terrible hair*
But, really, for those of us alive and in charge of our own hair during that time, who didn't? My very worst hair year? 1989. Boy howdy, was that bad.
I remember most of the 80s fairly well. I was in school when Cyndi Lauper was popular. In fact, I was Cyndi Lauper one year for Halloween. The following year, I was Laura Ingalls Wilder. I was a girl of varied tastes.
I watched the Challenger launch in school, as well. I was in the second grade.
Posted by larisse (Member # 2221) on :
I remember almost all of that stuff and more. I remember Pinwheel and all the great early Nickelodeon programs like Belle and Sebastian and David the Gnome. Loved me some Transformers and GI Joe. I wanted to be Jem when I grew up and even dressed up as her once for Halloween. (Note to self, never wear jelly shoes ever again.)
I remember the Challenger Disaster. We got to watch it on tv at my grade school. I remember all of us being very shocked and the teacher shutting off the tv hurriedly. We all went to lunch that day very confused.
Overall, the 80's were a very fun decade for me, but the time before puberty often is.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
My hair in the last couple years of the 80s is probably best described as a fluffy q-tip. >_<
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
quote:Belle and Sebastian
OH! I'd totally forgotten about that one. I remember now, because there was a girl named Isabel, and my father and younger brother, being funny, started calling all the characters Isa-whatever. Sebastian was Isaboy, Belle was Isadog, there was a grandfather who became Isagramps. Good times.
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
Even though I was born in 1980, I paid attention to very little of the pop culture of the 80's. Looking back, I'm really glad that I was so oblivious. 80's hair *shudder*
I do remember David the Gnome. That was a great show. I actually managed to find the first episode online back when I had high speed internet. I just wish I had found more; I would love for my daughter to watch shows like that when she's older.
--Mel
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
Mon Chi-Chis! Yeah!
KQ, I was born on the 29th. I think I remember so much of the 80s because I have older brothers and a less than vigilant mother. I was all over MTV and HBO at the age of five. I love the 80s. *nostalgic sniff*
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
In 1980, I was the same age that my kid is now -- 14.
Yikes!
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
3-2-1 CONTACT!
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I wasn't born yet for the Challenger disaster.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
I remember 3-2-1 Contact! But I was too young.
Posted by sillygoose (Member # 1616) on :
Well I guess I didn't really grow up in the 80s since I was born in 87, but I still watched a lot of those good cartoons. I loved the original transformers, and did any of you ever watch Captain Planet or Dark Wing Duck? (I don't know if they started in the 80s or not) How come they don't make good cartoons like those anymore? *sigh*
goose Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
I watched both Captain Planet and Dark Wing Duck. Launch Pad McQuack was the ultimate comic relief as a kid.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
quote:(Note to self, never wear jelly shoes ever again.)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Jelly shoes!!! I'd blocked that particular memory....
Posted by onlyme (Member # 8836) on :
I was born in 88' but the photo's of my parents are very funny. My mom's hair had to be award winning BIG and definitely "BULLET PROOF"! I will have to print this thead out for her she will enjoy it.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I had jelly shoes! My mom said they were impractical but my sisters thought they were adorable. And bought me some. And I watched 3-2-1 Contact. And the Electric Co. And Sesame Street-- I remember when we saw Snuffy the first time!
quote: I think I remember so much of the 80s because I have older brothers and a less than vigilant mother.
I hear that! My sisters were 9 1/2 and 12 1/2 when I was born. I used to watch them get dressed every morning, and they used to help get me ready sometimes. I remember my sister (who has TONS of hair like mine) crimping and teasing it every morning. Everyone envied her her big floofy crimped side ponytail. Gosh, I wish big hair hadn't gone out before it was my turn.
One day when my brother was two, they got him dressed for preschool. In a far-too-big-for-him Metallica t-shirt, black jeans, his little boots, and they spiked his hair into a mohawk with their uber-strong gel and colored the tips blue with some wash-out dye that my sister had from Halloween. Then they put eyeliner on him (would have used blush, too, but he was always naturally pale with very pink cheeks.) He then marched proudly out to go to preschool and my mom cracked up. She thought it was so funny, and he was so happy, she took him like that. The preschool teacher loved it, too, took a picture and posted it for the rest of the year. Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Thats adorable Kq. I had neon green Converse all stars, in a teeny size, I was probably 2. I don't remember any other weird clothes, well stirrup pants, but I think that was the 90s, oh and sweat dresses, ack. Stirrup Pants with a Sweat dress and Converse Hight tops, and naturally wavy blonde hair! I shouldn't admit to this.
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
Pshaw, 3-2-1 Contact was so annoying. Square 1 was so much better. Unfortunately, on our tv station at least, Square 1 was only on half the year, with Reading Rainbow being on the other half. Reading Rainbow was ok, but how could it compete with Mathnet?
--Mel
Posted by Theaca (Member # 8325) on :
quote:Originally posted by Yozhik: I remember watching the Challenger launch in ninth grade science class after lunch.
ET was the first PG movie I was allowed to watch.
I also watched Challenger launch after lunch in science class. O_O I remember the big deal about getting to go watch ET.
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
Perhaps this is more for the teenagers of the 80s than the children, but it needs to be said.
The Breakfast Club.
Seriously, people: The Breakfast Club. And while we're at it, Weird Science, Real Genius, The Goonies, Sixteen Candles, and Labyrinth.
--Enigmatic
Posted by Silent E (Member # 8840) on :
Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Karate Kid.
Depeche Mode, Erasure, The Cure, Duran Duran, INXS; Guns N Roses, Poison, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard.
The Cosby Show, Family Ties, Silver Spoons, Diff'rent Strokes, Punky Brewster.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Punky Brewster! I LOVED Punky Brewster!!!
Posted by sillygoose (Member # 1616) on :
Back to the Future will always be one of my favorites Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Depeche Mode put out a new album recently.
um...just so you know.
Posted by Uhleeuh (Member # 6803) on :
For my list of all things of the 80s I remember/watched/wore/listened to, please consult I Love the 80s part 1, part deux, and 3D. Everything from 86 and up, I remember and everything from 86 and down I learned about post-86. *born in 83*
Posted by Avadaru (Member # 3026) on :
quote: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Jelly shoes!!! I'd blocked that particular memory....
Oh, wow, I'd forgotten about these too...I remember being really jealous of my older sisters because they had jelly shoes. I thought they were the coolest.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
It depends on whether you define "80s child" as "born in the 1980s" or "was an adolescent in the 1980s." In the former sense I was an 80s child; in the latter I was firmly a 90s child (born 1981).
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Is it wrong of me if I can still sing along to Rainbow Brite?
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Only if you're wearing her outfit too.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I remember all of these things/shows because my kids did or watched them!!!! Every one of you are young enough to be my kid!
*sulks and goes off to find the children of the 60's thread....*
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
Despite my late birth, I was more a child of the 60's than the 80's, culturally speaking. I had a turn-table and I only listened to records that my dad had given me: The Beatles, Peter and Gordan, The Monkees. My dad loves old movies; I think I saw more movies when I was a kid that were from the 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's than the other two decades.
So my childhood was a bit strange, but I liked it.
--Mel
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
FG, you wanna be really scared? If I'm the right age to be your kid, that means that Ems is the right age to be your grandkid.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
I refused to ever wear jellies because if you wore them, you weren't allowed on the jungle gym at recess. And there's no way I was staying off that jungle gym.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Long live the 80's! Do you remember Mighty Orbots?
OH! Cyndi Lauper is coming to Michigan!!!! I'm going to go this Decemper to see her in Ann Arbor!
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
I never actually saw the Mighty Orbots. However, I had a roommate in college who had watched them as a kid and loved it. One day he was very excited to have suddenly remembered the name of his favorite Orbot. He was asleep on the couch and suddenly sat bolt-upright shouting:
"Bort! He was blue! He could transform! BORT WAS A LEG!"
Which is a fairly odd thing to hear your roommate burst out with when you had no idea of the context.
--Enigmatic
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
<--just got a bootleg DVD of all 130 episodes of Thundercats.
Sunday, I get all the He-Man episodes.
I love being back in NYC. Best. Criminals. Ever.
Posted by JenniK (Member # 3939) on :
I was sick the day of the Challenger disaster.On the way back from the doctor's office we heard what happened on the radio. I was in 5th grade and it was my uncle's birthday (January 28th). I know about all of the things mentioned as I grew up in the 80's, I loved Gummi Bears, Pound Puppies, et al. I even had a cabbage patch kid.... do you remember Garbage Pail Kids?
I'm a little older than some of you...and in 1989 I started High School.... born in '75......
But Kwea is still older than me!!!! Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
My mom has some Garbage Pail kids cards-- unopened packs.
She's going to save them another 20 years and sell them on ebay.
Posted by Yank (Member # 2514) on :
Born in '82. I thought Transformers were the coolest thing in the history of the world. I still tend linger around the toy section in Walmart to see if they have anything cool. I'm kind of sad that my younger brother is now too old for them; they made great birthday and Christmas presents.
I have a roommate now who's 18 and he makes me and my other roommate feel really old. We were talking about the original Atari system and playing games on Commodore, and he said "What's that?"
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
yep, I get that from my youngest sister. She's mostly out of it anyway, being that she is so shy and all.
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
"Gummi Bears! Bouncing here and there and everywhere! High Adventures that's beyond compare! They are the Gummi Bears!" Posted by Yank (Member # 2514) on :
Great, now I'll have that song stuck in my head the rest of the day. *angry face*
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
But it's such a catchy tune! And it's happy too! It's better than a depressed song in your head... right?
Posted by Yank (Member # 2514) on :
*laugh* I suppose, but there's something about childhood tunes that makes them *incredibly* persistent.
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,neon attire...men wearing make up..![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Old, I tell you. ![[Taunt]](graemlins/taunt.gif)