You might be a child of the 80's if...

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  1. Jim

    Jim Senior Member

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    • You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off. Or even when he had those freaky eyes in "Thriller" at the end of the video.
    • You wore a banana clip or one of those slap on wrist bands at some point during your youth.
    • You can remember watching Full House and Saved by the Bell for endless hours.
    • You have seen at least 10 episodes of Fraggle Rock.
    • You'll always 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 ever wore fluorescent—neon if you will—clothing...
    • You could breakdance, or wished you could.
    • You remember when ATARI was a state-of-the-art video gaming system.
    • You own any cassettes or albums.
    • "Poltergeist" totally freaked you out.
    • You had a crush on one of the Coreys (Haim or Feldman).
    • You actually thought "Dirty Dancing" was a REALLY good movie.
    • You have heard of "Garbage Pail Kids" (and perhaps still have a collection of them).
    • You owned a Jordache anything, or you remember when Jordache jeans were cool.
    • Chevy Chase was really funny in those vacation movies.
    • You wanted to be a Goonie ("Goonies never say die.")
    Feel free to add more... [​IMG]
     
  2. Claire

    Claire Senior Member

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    Oh-My-Gawd......sooooo-true:&

    Poltergeist-*cries*:(
     
  3. Obituary~Birthday

    Obituary~Birthday Member

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    hehe, i can remember most of those things, and i was born in 1989
     
  4. ZePpeLinA

    ZePpeLinA Jump around!

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    oh man i'm getting old!!!
     
  5. dapablo

    dapablo redefining

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    **** ***, blooody kids. :)
     
  6. mynameiskc

    mynameiskc way to go noogs!

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    "You can remember watching Full House and Saved by the Bell for endless hours."

    i reject this statement completely.


    and poltergeist was my favorite movie, right up until i saw the shining (nicolson).

    i'll add: you can remember when they first started selling microwaves for the home and you actually had to read the instructions...
     
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    monosphere Holly's Hubby

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  8. dapablo

    dapablo redefining

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    I still do :)
     
  9. Jim

    Jim Senior Member

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    ...Robots in disguise!!
     
  10. Power_13

    Power_13 insult ninja

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    I have this fellow sitting on my amp. Loads of parts are missing or broken, but he's an original, not one of the reissues. I've been thinking about getting a reissue to use for repair parts (Phool_13 and his money :rolleyes: )
     
  11. Power_13

    Power_13 insult ninja

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    Which brings me to:

    You might be a child of the 80's if you're still bitter about Optimus Prime being killed off in the movie.

    Extra points if you remember how he came back :D
     
  12. Claire

    Claire Senior Member

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    and-how-did-you-acquire-such-an-item-Mr-Poo-13?:)

    disclaimer:-this-question-is-completely-unstaged;)
     
  13. IronGoth

    IronGoth Newbie

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    There should be one for the 70s. I will therefore attempt to do this meself.

    YOU MIGHT BE A CHILD OF THE 70s IF....

    You saw the ORIGINAL Star Wars, in a theatre.
    More than once.
    At least one of your teachers wore some large trinket on a chain, like Mrs. Roper out of Three's Company.
    Appliances were in baby crap/pea soup yellow, or that hideous avocado green, or a dusky crap brown.
    You've ever eaten anything made with carob.
    Gordon from Sesame Street was balding, but in fact had hair.
    You've ever spied on your parents (or a parent of a childhood friend) meditating or doing some other freaky New Age stuff.
    It was VERY difficult to get in trouble, especially at school (emphasis was on caring, empathy, understanding etc)
     
  14. Power_13

    Power_13 insult ninja

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    Cheers, Claire. I did need to have that question asked, explanation at the end [​IMG]

    I had a friend in primary school. I'll call him Matthew, because that was his name. He was the original owner of Optimus Prime, but I swapped with him. I got Optimus and Ravage for...umm...I can't remember them all. But I remember swapping Cosmos, the little fat UFO guy that nobody liked and probably had his lunch money nicked by Omega Supreme.



    You might be a child of the 80's if you remember swapsies. Mini Boglins, Monsters In My Pocket, Transformers, video games/video game consoles (I regularly swapped consoles with friends for a week or two, just so we could both have a bit of a change)

    That's just reminded me, one of my friends still has my Super Bomberman cart. The bastard :(
     
  15. Claire

    Claire Senior Member

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    Hippy-army-on-it's-way-brother;)
     
  16. HappyHippySoldierBoy

    HappyHippySoldierBoy Banned

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    I'm always bragging about how I went to school in the eighties, Grange Hill Stylie!!! I pretty much ticked EVERYTHING on that list! Even the crush on Corey Feldman! what a legend.
     
  17. HappyHippySoldierBoy

    HappyHippySoldierBoy Banned

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    why the hell would you part with a Super Bomberman cart??!! Snes or Megadrive?
     
  18. IronGoth

    IronGoth Newbie

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    Megadrive = Genesis for you USian folk
     
  19. mynameiskc

    mynameiskc way to go noogs!

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    you remember when devo, fab five freddie and madonna were heard on the same radio station...
     
  20. Power_13

    Power_13 insult ninja

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    SNES. I completed it as well.

    Another one for the list:

    You remember a day when games didn't have photo-realistic graphics, voice actors or even any voices come to think of it, but you played them again and again. This could also apply to the 70s, I guess...


    By the way, it was two months late to be part of the eighties, but I'd just like to cast my vote for Super Mario Brothers III as the best console video game ever :p
     

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