You know you grew up in the '80's when...

willywanker

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You know you grew up in the 1980s when....

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-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.

-You owned any cassettes.

-You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living in
space.

-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.

-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 wished you had a light saber.

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

-Your arm was full of rubber bracelets.

-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, or had one of those noisey
"clicky boxes".

-You can still sing 1 to 12 from the Pinball machine song on Sesame
Street.

-You thought the Thriller video was pretty cool.

-You remember the first time you went in to a video store to rent a
movie.

-Canadians watched...Romper-Room, Mr. Dress-up, and the Friendly Giant
-
remember the teeny weeny furniture you wished you had?!

-You wore those wide, colorfull shoelaces.

-Quiet Riot's "Come on feel the noise" was the best song - ever.

-You know where "I want my two dollars" came from.

-You still cannot go in to the water because of that damn movie Jaws.

-El Debarge's "Get a beat to the Rhythm of the night" plagued the radio
every hour.

-You remember life before minivans and SUVs.

-Cars...Gremlins were cool - Pacers were not!
 
--You owned the soundtrack to Footloose, Flashdance, Purple Rain or all three

--You remember BK Knights cross trainers

--Jeans with little zippers at the ankle were cool when you were in junior high

--you remember Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam

--You ever had a "collar up" occasion

--Every time you hear Peter Gabriel, you picture claymation or John Cusack holding a boombox over his head

--You grew up thinking it was perfectly natural to see the president in an old movie on Sunday afternoon

--You ever threw a plastic spider at the wall, to watch it walk down

--You know that Jem is truly outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous.

--you or a sibling ever owned a Glo-Worm

--the first time you went to the video store, they stocked VHS and BetaMax

--The Bangles' "Eternal Flame" or Debbie Gibson's "Lost in your Eyes" was heavily featured at a high school formal

--every time you see Kim Catrall (Samantha) on "Sex & the City", you think "Hey, it's the chick from Mannequin"

--You grew up thinking Molly Ringwald was in a lot of cool movies

--You remember when Hulk Hogan wasn't "Hollywood" and Gov. Ventura was "The Body"

--You really thought Russia was probably going to invade, or we were going to go to nuclear war

--Rick Shroeder will always be Ricky to you
 
Being the cliche 80's kid, these threads really make me giggle.
 
Oh yeah! LOL! Been done before but damn...the memories! :)
 
Riding down a country road with a 12 pack of Bud with the radio blasting "You Shook Me All Night Long", or "Girls Girls Girls"

TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes

Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon

Bird and Magic were players, not coaches or owners

Hot women had big breasts and big hair

Deloreans
 
rambling man said:
Riding down a country road with a 12 pack of Bud with the radio blasting "You Shook Me All Night Long", or "Girls Girls Girls"

TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes

Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon

Bird and Magic were players, not coaches or owners

Hot women had big breasts and big hair

Deloreans


ACDC was so kool and still is and I love girls girls girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How about the microwave ovens, vcrs and finally getting cable. I remember it was kool to get a blow dryer and a curling iron. ZZ top was kick ass too. Remember Jordache jeans! At my school it was the jocks and the burn outs. I was a cheerleader who was accepted into both groups. Oh the parties with ACDC, yikes. I would skip school and drink beer and eat donuts off the music, never got caught, wrote my own notes and graduated in the top 10% of my class because I was the proverbial "good girl". I think I missed every Monday in my Junior year in high school. No way you could get away with that now in the years of computers. How about computers, the first one I ever saw was the size of a desk.

Barbara
 
LOL! I still think 'Dirty Dancing' is a really good movie, but maybe only because I like watching Patrick Swayze shake that gorgeous ass of his....:p
 
When I think of gorgeous asses I think of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders....
To think that at one time if you needed to talk to someone you called them on the phone, the rotary phone that is...
Any highly charged long distance sexual conversation took place by letter, (which made it easy for her dad to catch you both doing it.)

Today is both better and worse than that magical decade, I guess you could say the same about any time
 
You remember when Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Wendy Ritcer, Capt. Lou Albano, Ken Patera, and Brutus "the Barber" Beefcake were also cartoon characters every Saturday morning.

Your heros were the Transformers.
 
I still have my entire transformers collection. Mint packaging :D
 
i had Castle Greyskull! then we gave it to Goodwill and my hopes of selling it on EBay went down the shitter...

you got the original Optimus, Angel?
 
Scylis my dear, I have the complete original collection. I also have my GI Joes, my Gobots, my collection of Care Bear poseable figures, my Smurf figure collection, and the entire line of strawberry shortcake dolls.

All in perfect condition and packaged aside from the GI Joes. I played with those :D
 
As part of my spring (turning into summer) cleaning binge, I'm selling/donating all of my old toys - Barbie and the Rockers, Rose Petal Place dolls, He-Man and She-Ra figures and castles, and a complete set of third edition Garbage Pail Kids. It's funny, but most of the toys are in mint condition in their original boxes. I preferred a 20 yard length of rope my dad picked up at the hardware store - million and one uses, and far more interesting than any of the plastic toys.
 
willywanker said:
You know you grew up in the 1980s when....

-You know who Fat Albert is. And who was old boy with the pink mask?

I don't want to hear any smack talking on Fat Albert, I learned everything from Fat Albert. HEY! HEY! HEY!

-You Believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power.

I still DO have the power of Greyskull.

-You knew that knowing is half the battle.

Isn't it?

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

I still have a working one and a Coleco Vision.

-You had Wonder Woman or Superman underoos.

I still sport the superman underoos with the matching T-shirt.

-You have ever wondered what happened to Saturday morning cartoons.

I KNOW what happend. They evolved.

-You wore those wide, colorfull shoelaces.

Still do.

 
Angel said:
Scylis my dear, I have the complete original collection. I also have my GI Joes, my Gobots, my collection of Care Bear poseable figures, my Smurf figure collection, and the entire line of strawberry shortcake dolls.

All in perfect condition and packaged aside from the GI Joes. I played with those :D

*lol* i understand! how could you not play with the GI Joes?!?
 
scylis said:
Angel said:
Scylis my dear, I have the complete original collection. I also have my GI Joes, my Gobots, my collection of Care Bear poseable figures, my Smurf figure collection, and the entire line of strawberry shortcake dolls.

All in perfect condition and packaged aside from the GI Joes. I played with those :D

*lol* i understand! how could you not play with the GI Joes?!?

I did. I used the GI Joes for my manly man for my Barbies!
 
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