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fiazko
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YOU KNOW YOU GREW UP IN THE 80's or early 90's IF-

1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE".

2. You watched the Pound Puppies.

3. You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"

4. You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish.

5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own.

6. You owned those lil Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.

7. You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey on Blossom.

8. Two words: M.C. Hammer

9. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock".

10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars.

11. You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales".

12. When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

13. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.

14. You saw the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on the big screen.

15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.

16. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.

17. You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment,Shelter,House)

18. You wore Jordache jean jacket and you were proud of it.

19. L.A. Gear....need I say more

20. You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in Kindergarten.

21. You remember reading "Tales of a fourth grade nothing" and all the Ramona books. Ramona completed in 1st grade.

22. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF"

23. You wanted to be a Goonie.

24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing.

25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked before his nose fell off...

26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.

27. You took Lunch Pails to school.

28. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.

29. You still get the urge to! say "NOT" after every sentence.

30. You remember Hypercolor t-shirts.

31. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.

32. You thought Sheera and He-Man should hook up.

33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged friendship bracelets.

34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes.

35. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I?"

36. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"

37. You remember going to the skating rink before there were in-line skates.

38. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.

39. You have ever played with a Skip-It.

40. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.

41. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.

42. You remember Popples.

43. "Don't worry, be happy"

44. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks.

45. You wore socks scrunched down.

46. "Miss MARY MACK MACK MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK"

47. You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.

48. You remember watching both "Gremlins" movies.

49. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!!"

50. You remember watching Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales"

51. You thought Doogie Howser was hot.

52. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.

53. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool.

54. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on Saved By the Bell", the ORIGINAL class.

55. You know all the words to Bon Jovi - SHOT THRU THE HEART.

56. You just sang those words to yourself.(didn't you)

57. You remember watching Magic vs. Bird.

58. You cut your t-shirts in half and wore it with your homemade Levi shorts..(the shorter the better)

59. You remember when mullets were cool!

60. You had a mullet! and you still do!!

61. You still sing "We are the World"

You're still singing shot through the heart in your head arent you!!!

[ February 24, 2004, 12:01 AM: Message edited by: fiazko ]

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Synesthesia
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32. He-man and She-ra are brother and sister!!! They can't hook up! [Eek!]

*is so 80s*

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Annie
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I kill me! Ha!

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peterh
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55. Actual name of the song is "You Give Love A Bad Name "

Edited to *put on painters hat with flaps in the back*

[ February 24, 2004, 12:11 AM: Message edited by: peterh ]

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Bob_Scopatz
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Because there's not enough 80s threads

I stll have a lot of my threads from the 80's. I'm waiting for them to come back into style.

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fiazko
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Don't worry, Bob. They're on their way. I just went jeans shopping today and there was a row of WHITE jeans. Next thing you know, Pumps will be back in the shoe stores.

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Valentine014
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Uh, excuse me, I did not have a pair of jellies.
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I had a pair for every day of the week.

[ February 24, 2004, 01:30 AM: Message edited by: Valentine014 ]

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Eruve Nandiriel
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Oh, dear. I got 35/61! [Eek!]

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42. You remember Popples.

*happy sniff* [Smile]

Yes I remember Popples. I still have my little stuffed Popples at the foot of my bed. [Blushing]

#62. You feel old because they play MacGuyver on TV Land.

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Jeni
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Okay, I got like fifty of those. This is just weird.

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fiazko
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Ok, all but, like, 5 apply to me. What does that mean?

[edit: Jeni, are we the same age?]

[ February 24, 2004, 01:15 AM: Message edited by: fiazko ]

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Taalcon
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I 'got' all of them, and all but a few applied to me.

Oh, and speaking of JEM... she's still truly outrageous.

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Synesthesia
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what! jem on dvd! yay!
my mother used to think that show was satanic. it was so good.

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Da_Goat
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Whatever. A lot of those things apply to my friends and I - basically 90's or 0's kids.

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sarcasticmuppet
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Duck Tales! Woo-oo!

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JonnyNotSoBravo
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Dude, like this thread is so totally gender unbiased - not! Like any self respecting dude would ever watch My Little Pony or the Care Bears or wear skirts (and especially not with tights under them - my boys gotta breathe!).

And how did Eruve who's only like 16 or so get so many of these right? We gotta stop airing those "I love the 80's" shows! They're giving away all our cool secrets! And when did we find out He-Man and She-Ra were related? I musta missed that episode - though the similary of their swords kinda gives it away. Teela was so friggin' hot!

When you spelled "psyche", I heard the phonetical "sighk' eeee" which made me wonder why talking about the mind was so popular. Then I realized you meant "Sike".

My favorite saying of the 80s was "Face!" and you acted like you were dragging a clawed hand over your face. It was s'posed to mean that you had totally made the other person look bad. Maybe some thing to do with "losing face" or saying "in your face". Anyways, it was really retarded, like most great fads.

Hypercolor shirts were so cool! Whenever someone wore one, we'd rush up and slap them until until their shirt completely changed color, leaving them standing there with the crap beaten out of them.

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TomDavidson
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This test is skewed dramatically towards people who were eight-year-old girls in the '80s. [Smile]

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David Bowles
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I dunno, that Dougie was one cutie, IMHO...

[Smile]

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UofUlawguy
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I consider myself an eighties kid, because that was when I actually paid attention to what was going on around me. I was born in 1973, but remember almost nothing about the seventies as such.

I remember most of the things on the list, but at the time most of them were things that were lame because only little kids went for them. In other words, the things on the list are either late-eighties, or marketed to quite young children in the eighties.

My list of eighties stuff would include very few of the things on that list.

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Jeni
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That's because it's actually a "Late eighties, early nineties" list. [Smile]

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Eruve Nandiriel
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And how did Eruve who's only like 16 or so get so many of these right? We gotta stop airing those "I love the 80's" shows!

I don't watch that show.
I would've gotten more questions, but since I didn't go to public school I didn't get into as many fads.

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