You Know You Grew Up In The 80's or Early 90's If:

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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 "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 streamers 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 "
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.
25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off and his cheeks shifted and when he wore that white glove!
26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
27. You took lunch boxes with thermos's 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 you exchanged handmade 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 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 through this e-mail laughing and 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. 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 - You give love a bad name.
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 and rat tails!
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' about Willis?"
65. You had big hair and you used tons of harispray for your bangs...the wave!
66. You're still singing you give love a bad name in your head, aren't you!!!
 

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Oh to be that age again..
I find it funny that alot of the shows we grew up with are now on Nick at Nite.. and my kids love them... Fresh Prince imparticular....
 

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Oh Liza, such memories~!!!
I remember how cute we thought we were with our giant harisprayed wavebangs,, t-shirt clipped on the side with the little colored heart clips, bright red tights with scrunchy colorful socks and high top tennisshoes!!! Oh how I loved my football popple, fraggle rock, and the real ninja turtles. I also remember that everyone had a pair of splatter paint pants(ya know, the acid wash blue jeans with dif color paint splattered in disarray all over them) Also..the one full piece jump suits that made you look like a clown! And trapper keepers! And DA** IT, I am still singing that darn song!!!!!!!!

Thank you for the memories!!!
 

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

OMG ! I had forgotten that ! To me, that was one of the highlights of the week!
 

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OMG, that is so funny, i have a memory of every single one of those... yea, i am totally an 80's-90's kid... wow

ah.. back in the day


oh, and i totally agree about the cartoons... ::censor::censor::censor:: is up with all the cartoons nowadays, my children are so not watching tv, i dont even watch cartoons anymore....sad, really sad
 

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Originally Posted by mferr84

OMG, that is so funny, i have a memory of every single one of those... yea, i am totally an 80's-90's kid... wow

ah.. back in the day


oh, and i totally agree about the cartoons... ::censor::censor::censor:: is up with all the cartoons nowadays, my children are so not watching tv, i dont even watch cartoons anymore....sad, really sad
Actually, I'm more of a 70's - 80's kid, 'cause I preferred the cartoons in the late 70's to even the ones mentioned here, but they're all better than the crap that passes for cartoons now!
 

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I have to agree with cindy.
I hate the new cartoons they have now, it makes me throw up!
 

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Yep, I remember all these. It'll be interesting to see what the list of the next generation will look like - those who have never lived without the internet, don't know what a VCR or tape deck is, etc.
 

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Some additions:

You know how to "Slam dance" and are proud of it !

You know whose number was "8675-309" !

 
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Originally Posted by Sanctie

Oh Liza, such memories~!!!
I remember how cute we thought we were with our giant harisprayed wavebangs,, t-shirt clipped on the side with the little colored heart clips, bright red tights with scrunchy colorful socks and high top tennisshoes!!! Oh how I loved my football popple, fraggle rock, and the real ninja turtles. I also remember that everyone had a pair of splatter paint pants(ya know, the acid wash blue jeans with dif color paint splattered in disarray all over them) Also..the one full piece jump suits that made you look like a clown! And trapper keepers! And DA** IT, I am still singing that darn song!!!!!!!!

Thank you for the memories!!!
I had a few of those splattered jeans.. and do you remember the pencil cases with the buttons that pop out hidden compartments... I still have a snow white one that's in perfect condition...
 

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Oh my gosh I absolutely remember every last bit of that! What's funny is that I had a gift under the tree this year from "The Ghost of Christmas Past." Can you believe that it was an authentic My Little Pony!!! I laughed SO hard. God I love "the good 'ol days"!
 

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I remember MOST of these

You can not forget:

If you ever insisted on having your hair "crimped"
 

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Originally Posted by Malakai711

I had a few of those splattered jeans.. and do you remember the pencil cases with the buttons that pop out hidden compartments... I still have a snow white one that's in perfect condition...
The pencil cases! I had those but I had Kero-keo-kero pe (sp?) frog and another from that store Cloud Nine!
I had Trapper Keeprs and splattered jeans and I wore a pony tail on the side with my colorful socks, high top shoes and jeans tight rolled! I also had the slam bracelets and wow I remember all that stuff. I feel OLD now!
 
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