The Eighties were a crazy time. Here are 88 ways of remembering them, or to realize that you are stuck in them. | ||||||||||||||||
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1. Your fondest childhood memory is when Skippy got his head stuck in the banister. 2. You relax by putting on your legwarmers and dancing to the "Footloose" soundtrack. 3. You think the Two Coreys are "totally awesome." 4. You're still bitter that Wham! broke up. 5. Punky Brewster is your hero. 6. You type all of your tem papers on a Commodore 64. 7. You still resent your parents for not installing a dumbwaiter in your house much like Webster's. 8. The only video games you play are Frogger and Pac Man. 9. You're building your own Clockwork Smurf. 10. Your summer attire is Jellies and Jams. 11. A-Ha's "Take on Me" is still your favorite video. 12. You consider yourself truly, truly, truly outrageous, much like Jem and the Holograms. 13. You wonder why more people don't wear high heels, Jordache jeans, and lacy ankle socks. 14. You call all motorcycle cops "Ponch" 15. Every time you go to the beach you look for Snocks. 16. You're still upset that Madonna and Sean broke up. 17. You know who Stinky Sullivan is. 18. You work out with "Get in Shape Girl." 19. You want to be Molly Ringwald when you grow up (who doesn't) 20. You enjoy danicing on the ceiling and wearing your sungalsses at night. 21. You know who Loverboy is. 22. You think there should be a Kids Incorporated orignal cast reunion. 23. You think of Janet Jackson as "that girl who used to date Willis." 24. You can sing the theme song to Small World. 25. Every time you see a fountain you want to dance around it and yell "Fame!" 26. You still have a shoebox full of Garbage Pail Kid cards. 27. You petition Congress to make "Born int he USA" the national anthem. 28. You still use your Snoopy Sno-Cone machine. 29. You know it's not "comma, comma, comma" it's karma, karma, karma. 30. You stay up nights wondering what Bastian's mother's name was in "The Neverending Story." 31. You have nightmares about "The Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak." 32. You still practice your Care Bear Stare. 33. You know that girls just wanna have fuh-un. 34. You can name all the Wuzzles. 35. You harbor a secret dream of being slimed by Alistair. 36. You can do the Safety Dance. 37. In your spare time you are writing "The Breakfast Club 2." 38. You like to "connect the dots, la la la!" 39. Someone metions Jennifer Beals and you don't say "Who?" 40. Your prized possesion is a collection of "Return of the Jedi" Shrinky Dinks. 41. You know whose number is 867-5309. 42. You get depressed thinking about Anthony Micheal Hall's career. 43. You're starting a write-in campaign to MTV to bring back Romote Control. 44. You drink Diet Coke because Max Headroom told you to. 45. You consider Jo vs. Blair the major philsophical conflict of the 20th century. 46. You have a duck phone and ride around your house on a little train. 47. You want to be one of the Solid Gold Dancers. 48. You still watch things on Beta. 49. You want to change your name to Rio and dance on the sand. 50. You know that "Weird Science" was a movie before it was a TV show. 51. Your favorite proverb is "Some like it hot and some sweat when the heat is on." 52. You always waited for the Sweet Pickles Bus to visit your house. 53. You saw the New Kids on the Block when they were Tiffany's opening act. 54. Your favorite party game was Hungry Hungry Hippos. 55. You like Tom Hanks better when he was a crossdresser. 56. You know which Hollywood Square Jim J. Bullock was in. 57. You practice getting in andout of your car through the windows. 58. You have the tendency to turn up the collar of your polo shirts. 59. You're still wondering who really was the boss. 60. You know what the "P" in "Alex P. Keaton" stands for. 62. You organize weekend tournaments of TV tag. 63. You still drink New Coke. 64. When you watch "Terminator 2" you wonder where Vincent is. 65. You know ALF's real name. 66. You never go out for a night on the town without frosted blue eye shadow and feathered bangs. 67. You can name all the Thundercats. 68. You got a hankerin' for a chunk of cheese. 69. Everything in your wordrobe is either pastel or fluorescent. 70. You musical inspiration is Sonny Mann. 71. Sometimes you just want t shout, shout, let it all out. 72. You're planning a dream vacation to Mepos. 73. You use your Speak and Spell to phone home. 74. You know the orginal members of Menudo. 75. Sometimes out of the blue you just gotta shake your love. 76. When you're stuck in traffic you tell your car to engage Turbo Boost and are suprised when it doesn't talk back. 77. You remember when Vanessa sang Kareoke to "Locomotion." 78. You know that Mr. Steele functions best in an advisory capacity. 79. People are constantly gagging you with spoons. 80. Your idea of appreciating anciet cultures is to "Walk Like an Egyptian." 81. The only thing you know about the Nazis is that they threw Indy to the snakes. 82. You still use your hair crimper before going out on a hot date. 83. You hatch plots to break Murdock out of the VA hospital. 84. You know which five people Serpentor's DNA came from. 85. You have "We Are the World" on 45. 86. You're still sending death threats to Mr. Rubik. 87. You can feel St. Elmo's fire burnin' in you. 88. You watch NYPD Blue thinking, "Well, they're no Crockett and Tubbs, that's for sure." |
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Each of these, the 88 ways and the child of the 80's were written by an unknown author. I only put them on here because I can relate to a lot of what was said and I just found a lot of it just plain humourous. I hope that you found yourself either laughing along or crying along with it as I found myself. |