A little ‘humor’ to start the week…

YOU’RE AN 80’S CHILD IF…

-You had a crush on one of the New Kids on the Block members.
-You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off.
-You wore a banana clip or one of those slap on wrist bands at some point during your youth.
-You wore French rolls on the bottom of your splatter painted jeans.
-You know all the words to “Funky Cold Medina” and “Bust a Move”.
-You had slouch socks, and puff painted your own shirt at least once.
-You know the profound meaning of ”Wax on, Wax off.”
-You can name at least half of the members of the elite ”Brat Pack.”
-You can remember watching Full House and Saved by the Bell for endless hours.
-You would never admit to that now.
-You have seen at least 10 episodes of Fraggle Rock.
-You know that another name for a keyboard is a ”Synthesizer.”
-You 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 thought Molly Ringwald was REALLY cool.
-You know what ”Sike” means.
-You fell victim to 80’s fashion: big hair, crimped, combed over to the side, and you wore spandex pants.
-You wanted to be a Goonie.
-You owned an extensive collection of Cabbage Patch Kids and Troll Dolls.
-You actually saw Ted Danson as the MacDaddy he played ”Sam” to be.
-You ever wore fluorescent-neon or Hypercolour clothing…
-You could break dance, or wished you could.
-You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system.
-You know all the words to ”Ice Ice Baby”.
-You remember MC hammer well; fondly.
-You can still sing the rap to “Fresh Prince of Bel Air”
-You own any cassettes or cassingles.
-You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we’d all be living on the moon.
-You remember and/or own any of the CareBear Glass collection from PizzaHut.
-Poltergeist freaked you out.
-You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins or an ET lunchbox.
-You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.
-You wanted to have an alien like Alf living in your house.
-You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish.
-You wore tights under shorts and felt stylish.
-You ever had a Swatch Watch.
-You actually spent countless hours trying to perfect the care-bear stare.
-You had Wonder Woman or Superman underwear.
-You wanted to be The Hulk for Halloween.
-You believed that ”By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power”
-You thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye.
-Partying ”like it’s 1999” seemed SO far away!

h/t Woody

Comments

A little ‘humor’ to start the week… — 18 Comments

  1. Proper names for keyboards are harpsichord, piano-forte, and organ.

  2. Ok. I’m not an 80s child but I went to college in the 80s so I can sympathize with these. LOL

  3. I was the mother of a small child. I know what some of these items are. Married a movie buff in the late 80s so I know what the movie references mean. Note: cassettes came into being back in the 60s so the 80s reference I don’t get.

  4. Guilty: 30 of the 42 items listed.

    …and I still have my GI Joes and Transformers.

  5. I turned 25 in 1980, and couldn’t have cared less about those things. Too busy trying to find – and keep – employment that wasn’t going belly-up.

  6. Um, yeah, we shall not speak of the Cabbage Patch doll and Koosa dolls that someone’s maternal parent will not allow to be disposed of. Or the jelly bracelets and twister beads in the old jewelry box on the dresser. No, nope, nope. But I did point and laugh when people discovered that parachute pants could NOT be put in the dryer.

  7. Hey Old NFO;

    Yes I remember the 80’s and a lot of that stuff I did except the fashion…although I DID have a “Members Only” jacket, and the good part of the 80’s besides the music…we had a president that loved this country.

  8. I don’t have a clue about most of these things. Farglerock? Whatever. I never really did follow current culture.

    I’m old. I don’t fit in anymore, and I cannot understand why societal trends are happening. I don’t own a smart phone of any kind, couldn’t operate one if I did own it, and wouldn’t want it.