Okay 80's Girls...Here's one for us!

[mantysk8coach]

This is inspired by the "You were a little girl in the 70's if..." thread. While I can relate to many of those (born in '77)...my friend just sent me this yesterday, and this brought back so many great memories I almost had tears in my eyes!

Enjoy!

You were a child of the 80's if...

>1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "SIKE"
>
>2. You watched the Pound Puppies.
>
>3. You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Belair" and can do the
>"Carlton".
>
>4. Girls wore biker shorts under their skirts and felt stylishly sexy.
>
>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: Hammer Pants
>
>9. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock"
>
>10. You had plastic st reamers on your handle bars... and "spokey-dokes" or

>playing cards on your spokes for that incredible sound effect
>
>11. You can sing the entire theme song to "DuckTales " (Woo ooh!)
>
>12. 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...and still know the turtles names.
>
>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 stonewashed Jordache jean jackets and were proud of it.
>
>19. L.A. Gear....need I say more?
>
>20. You wanted to change your name to "JEM " in Kindergarten.(She's truly
>outrageous.)
>
>21. You remember reading "Tales of a fourth grade nothing" and all the
>Ramona books.
>
>22. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF"
>
>23. You wanted to be a Goonie.
>
>24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing. (some of us...head-to-toe)
>
>25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell

>off and his cheeks shifted.
>
>26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
>
>27. You took lunch boxes to school... and traded Garbage Pail kids in the
>schoolyard.
>
>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 She-ra (Princess of Power!) and He-Man should hook up.
>
>33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because y! o u
>exchanged handmade friendship bracelets.
>
>34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes. (and like 24 .. probably in neon

>colors, too)
>
>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 inline
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 throug h this nodding your head in agreement or shaking
your
>head in embarassed memories.
>
>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 (and sometimes still do... getting
yelled
>at by "younger hip" members of the family)
>
>46. You remember boom boxes. . and walking around with one on your
shoulder
>like you were all that.
>
>47. You remember watching both "Gremlins " movies.
>
>48. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!!"
>
>49. You remember watching "Rainbow Bright" and "My Little Pony Tales"
>
>50. You thought Doogie Howser/Samantha Micelli was hot.
>
>51. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
>
>52. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool.. and don't
even>flinch when people refer to them as "NKOTB".
>
>53. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By
>The Bell," The ORIGINAL class.
>
>54. You know all the words to Bon Jovi - SHOT THROUGH THE HEART.
>
>55. You just sang those words to yourself.
>
>56. You remember watching Magic vs. Bird.
>
>57. Homemade Levi shorts.. (the shorter the better)
>
>58. You remember when mullets were cool!
>
>59. You had a mullet!
>
>60. You still sing "We are the World"
>
>61. You tight rolled your jeans.
>
>62. You owned a bannana clip.
>
>63. You remember "Where's the Beef?"
>
>64. You used to (and probably still do) say "What you talkin' bout
Willis?"
>
>65. You had big hair and you knew how to use it.
>
>66. You're still singing shot through the heart in your head, aren't
you!!!

 

[Disneynutbsv]

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

>but what am I?"

I remember most of those! I remember watching Pee Wee's playhouse and he said that he loved Fruit Salad and everyone else on the show said, "so why don't you marry it!", so he did, he married his fruit salad

 

[Poohgirl]

All I can say is WOW....

and your to blame...you give love a bad name.

It won't go away.....

 

[Mandy_in_NC]

My name is Mandy and I am a child of the 80s!! Need I say more?

 

[RadioNate]

lol...66 is SO true!

 

[mytwotinks]

I must be right in the middle. Just about everything from both lists (70's & 80's) describes my life!

 

[beckmrk04]

AAAHHHH... I love it. I just walked through memory lane.

 

[CheshireVal]

I'm right in the middle, too. I relate to a lot of things on both lists.

 

[Sthronds]

Yeah, I fall right in the middle too. I relate to both lists. It's really scary to remember those things and yes, I am still singing that stinkin song!

Oh, and did your Jelly shoes hurt as much as mine did?

 

[PrincessTrisha]

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

Sometimes, just to freak out my friends and family (and when I am in an outrageously silly mood) I still do this....

Inevitably someone will look at me and go.......ohhh Trisha

And yes, Shot through the Heart is still playing in my head.

 

[ashjohnson80]

OMG I laughed out loud at so many of those, especially thinking that Doogie Howser was hot. I used to have this huge poster of him in my room. And hypercolor!

 

[Tiffann4k]

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


Okay I answered yes to all but this one...what was it ??

 

[Dax]

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


Okay I answered yes to all but this one...what was it ??

OK I googled and found this...

I'm wondering when my mansion will be ready. Because in 4th grade, I played a killer game of MASH, and I'm still waiting for any of the results.

MASH, if you were born before 1975, is a TV show about the Korean War. But to anyone younger than 30, MASH is a game that determined our future – where we'd live and in what kinds of houses, what occupations we'd have, what cars we'd drive, and most importantly, what cootie-ridden members of the opposite sex our friends teased us about for the next year.

MASH typically stood for "Mansion – Apartment – Shack – House," though I've heard slight variations. The idea was to have four choices in each category--one wonderful, one tolerable, one awful, and one preferable. Let's say you had five letters in your name, or your birthday was the fifth, or you cheated by placing every bad option in every fifth place. You'd cross off every fifth choice until you were left with one option in each category, which you were then contractually obligated to pursue. Each one of us, at some point, was expecting to be a doctor living in a mansion in Paris with a Lamborghini in the garage. All cootie-ridden members of the opposite sex were equally wonderful and frightening.

Since we were so young, our choices were often limited to the only stuff we'd heard of. The professions were usually things like doctor, lawyer, teacher and garbage man, with teacher being the awful choice (Come on, we were eight!). Cities typically included wherever you were from, followed by a combination of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, and Paris (even though many of us did not know what country housed London, Paris, or Los Angeles). And of course, our cars: ranging from Lamborghinis to station wagons, with little in between. Not many 8-year-olds know much about Camrys or Sentras

 

[Dax]

I found an online version of MASH....LOL

M A S H

 

[THE HAT]

yep fraid i am another one stuck in the middle, these are all so true and clear.....
jelly shoes made your feet sweat soooo bad
i still sing fresh prince of bell air (gotta love nick at night) this is a story all about how..
ramona books....when she squeezed all the toothpaste out, and had to use it from the jar
nkotb....still have pics from the concert tiffany opened for them
the pee wee dance, i go between that and the elaine (nuff said)
stonewashed jeans and it was the coolest if you found a stone in the pocket
have all the alf dvds
put the slip and slide at the end of the swingset slide(from the 70's out of the leg holes)
the celtics in the 80's good times....neither rain nor hail can stop mchale
must admit i had the mullet of ALL mullets business in the front and party in the back
had the we are the world record and would put the speaker in the window to blast it while we rode our (70's) bananna seat bikes
rolled jeans or folded jeans at the ankle and hooked it with a bobby pin
banana clips in every flourescent color to match the socks
big hair, lol one can of white aqua net a day thank god it was only a buck a can better then the mullet right?!!? (NOT)
slater and zach screech jessie etc
hated the wendy's commerical see my name is wendie so it was where's the beef and of course the answer was ( oh god the pain) between wendy's (ie's) buns.

plus more, but i am busy cranking up big haired, flowing long jacket, and scarfed bon jovi on my boom box!....psyche!

 

[mainewmn]

Thank you for taking me down the memory lane!

 

[budbeerlady]

This list cracked me up!!!!! I had the neon yellow shirt over the bike shorts with the t-shirt clip, but the best part was the curled banges that stuck out 3 inches from my forehead with superhold spray with my hair in a pony tail under my hot pink hat and blue eyeshadow! I was cool in my L A Gear hightops! I still crack up at old pictures.

 

[jekajekalynn]

Thanks for starting this thread!!!!


OMG !! The Oregon Trail!!!!!


And anyone remember the "Voyage of the MIMI " series in computer class??

Ok... I don't know if these have been posted but:


-If you remember when NBC used to play cartoons (like EWOKS)
-You remember when Gorden and Susan adopted Miles on Sesame Street
-You owned one of those multicolored plastic chain link necklaces with the little plastic charms that would hook up on them
-We Girls can do anything, right Barbie??
-You remember when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn't look so sinister
-you drank Eckto Cooler Hi-C
-You owned at least 3 He man toys INCLUDING the skull mountain thing with the slime dispencer (me!! )
-You watched the Ramona Quimby tv series

 

[Equidae]

I know every one of those! I may still have one of those clips to knot my shirt with -- I remember when that was so cool!

 

[icebrat001]

these are so true!