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

[BlondieK143]

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 Bel Air”...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” (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 turtle’s names.
15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
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?
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 you 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 what 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 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 (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 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 banana 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 knew how to use it.
66. You're still singing shot through the heart in your head, aren't you!!!

[henslee]

1. that list makes me feel anciet,

[BlondieK143]

3. awww, I'm sorry!

:(

[ghostsofgiants]

2. Sweet, sweet nostalgia

That brought back some memories.

[BlondieK143]

4. Did, didn't it?

:D Some good, some bad!

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Indeed

<head="hung in shame">
I had a mullet when I was little, and I loved it.
</head>

I had some rad light-up L.A. Gears though.

[BlondieK143]

16. LMAO!!!

:rofl: You weren't the only one with one though so don't feel bad! At least you didn't do the rat tail thing. :D

Me too! I had about 4 pairs L.A. Gears and jelly shoes each!

[Reverend_Smitty]

17. I'm surprised that Reebok pumps weren't on there

One of the greatest days of my childhood was when my mom finally broke down and got me a pair of Pumps. LA Gear was cool but I coveted the Pump!

[ghostsofgiants]

18. Actually I had the Pumps too, after I outgrew the L.A. Gears

And I did also have a rat's tail at one point. Ah well, it was fun as hell.

[Reverend_Smitty]

19. good times

but damn if I didn't look rediculous...must have been all the drugs our parents did in the 60's and 70's to dress their children in such silly clothes :P

[BlondieK143]

21. No freaking kidding!

I had quite a few pairs of different colored spandex shorts back then. :blush:

[ghostsofgiants]

22. That would certainly explain it

Lousy hippie parents, haha.

[BlondieK143]

20. That's all that matters.

:D And now you can look back and laugh!

[Allenberg]

5. Considering I was born in 81

I can relate to almost all of it :D

[BlondieK143]

6. 85 here

So I can remember almost all of it. :D

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Hey, '85 here too

[BlondieK143]

10. Awesome!

:) Great year! October here.

[ghostsofgiants]

12. March

Good times.

[BlondieK143]

14. Happy belated!

:)

[ghostsofgiants]

15. Thanks!

[name not needed]

23. 88 here

Remember that Mario Brothers cartoon that used to be on saturday mornings?

[ghostsofgiants]

26. There were two actually

The one with Captain Lou Albano and there was a Super Mario World cartoon if I'm not mistaken. I loved both.

[Reverend_Smitty]

9. A couple of those things were before my time

but I remember the vast majority of them...like the fluorescent fad of the early 90's...god damn I owned a lot of fluorescent clothing!

54,55,and 66 had me in hysterics because it was all true...I'm gonna have that song stuck in my head all day!

on edit:
Born in 84...and a Jersey girl to boot (its a state law to know the words to countless Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen songs)

[BlondieK143]

13. I know!!

:rofl: I still remember my aunt playing this song and me hearing it for the first time. :D Gotta love those hairbrush microphones!

[Kellanved]

11. hmm

11,12,14,19,24,30,40,43 and 51

:P

[khashka]

24. I was beginning to think we grew up in different times

til you mentioned Fraggle Rock!

I want my adolescence back - I want Fraggles and songs and radishes and I want all of you to not realize that I just became the ultimate uber geek (without even trying).

Khash.

[BlondieK143]

25. Riiiight.

Because YOU could be a geek! :eyes:

Down in Fraggle Rock! :D

I can't really say that I miss those days too much unless I could've lived with my grandparents the whole time.

[khashka]

39. Because YOU could be a geek

I am such a geek!

I think math is cool.

I still play D&D and think it's really neat.

When I grow up I wanna marry a physicist, or maybe a mathematician.

I think college profs are more erotic than strippers.

I am a true and total geek.

Of course, I also blew off my college chem final by writing over and over "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance". But I also aced the course - major geek boy, me.

Khash.

[BlondieK143]

40. That's not you being a geek.

That's you being unique.

I think :yourock: so that should be enough. :D

[JAbuchan08]

27. Maybe that's what the "cool" kids were doing,

but I was not very well integrated into pop culture. I did love "Oregon Trail day" though.

[BlondieK143]

29. Wasn't that awesome?

I'd hate it when you'd have to cross the river, made me so damn nervous! :)

[JAbuchan08]

57. Cattle were always dying on me

poor deceased cattle. Dead people too if I remember correctly.

[Seabiscuit]

28. Reading this makes me feel like I'm from a different planet.

I can only nod my head to 3 out of the 66 items: #s 25, 37, and 56.

:hide:

[BlondieK143]

32. Hey, all that matters

is that you remember MJ BEFORE! :)

[Seabiscuit]

33. I remember MJ from 1963 when he was a little kid with the Jackson Five

And I remember seeing all those weird facial changes he went through. It freaked me out. It still freaks me out. :wow:

[BlondieK143]

34. OH!

Um... nevermind :hide:

[Seabiscuit]

53. I got the date wrong. I was thinking of "Little Stevie Wonder" in 1963.

The Jackson Five's first two big hits came out in 1970: "I want You Back" and "ABC". They were followed with: "The Love You Save", "I'll Be There", and "Never Can Say Goodbye".

Back in 1963 Stevie Wonder, also from Motown, had his first big hit single, "Fingertips", and another in 1964: "Uptight (Everything's Alright)". That was my freshman year in college, when he was known as "Little Stevie Wonder". Within a year he dropped the "Little" and became just "Stevie Wonder".

I'm definitely did not grow up in the 80's or 90's. I'm already suffering from memory loss. :)

[carpetbagger]

44. Yeah, and I even have a partial claim to growing up in the 1980's.

I was born in 1970. Since I had an older sister, and was somewhat precocious, I'd date the childhood I can remember as 1974-1985 or so. I identified with about 8 or 9 of these things, about half of them "do you remember..". It's amazing how shoved together generational experiences are. I was 10 when the Smurfs came out, never got into them, the college drinking game notwithstanding. I guess everyone looks back to their childhood as the golden age, but I really think there's something to the statement that the late 1970's were the last days when childhood still didn't carry an excessive number of trademarks. Some (Star Wars being the most notable), but not pervasive, and not in children-specific programming (cartoons stand out as being relatively non-commercial, and more than half of the cartoons we watched were decades-old).

[Seabiscuit]

58. Now that you mention it, you probably watched the same cartoons I did in

the 50's. Well, most of them, anyway.

[carpetbagger]

60. Yeah, I sure did.

Looney Tunes (at the time appearing on Saturday mornings as "The Bugs Bunny-Road Runner Show") was, of course, the grand master of cartoons. Beyond that, we wasted most of our summers (and learned the benefits of sick days) tuning into Tom and Jerry, Heckle and Jeckle, Underdog, Rocky and Bulwinkle, Yogi Bear, Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, etc.

The Flintstones were a little after your childhood, I guess, and of the newer cartoons, I can only remember looking forward to Scooby Doo and Spiderman.

[Seabiscuit]

74. The only ones on your list I didn't see as a child were:

Underdog, Rocky and Bulwinkle, Scooby Doo and Spiderman. In fact, I've never watched any of these.

Yogi Bear came along in my late childhood around the time I stopped watching cartoons.

Road Runner "beep beep" came along in my mid-childhood.

Looney Tunes has been around forever. My favorites were Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Yosemite Sam.

Mel Blanc was one of a kind. Before he died I heard his voice was insured by Lloyds of London for millions.

[ironflange]

30. In reference to No. 10

We used to do the same thing in 1966, usually with baseball cards, ya young whipper-snapper!

[BlondieK143]

31. Whoops!

If you would've saved those things instead of putting them in your tires, maybe you'd be rich by now! :D

[Seabiscuit]

36. That's what I did and therefore that's what I could be if I ever sold them

Instead, I intend to keep them in the family, hopefully for generations, as "family jewels". :)

[Seabiscuit]

35. We did it with playing cards on our bike spokes in the early 50's.

ya young whipper-snapper! The newer the plastic the better. Of course they didn't stay new for long.

Back then baseball cards were considered too valuable to waste. Original Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, and Duke Snider cards were revered above all else on the planet. The thought of using them on our bike spokes never occured to us - if someone did it it would have been viewed as an act of desecration.

[Left Is Write]

47. They putting cards in their bikes when my mom was a kid in the 40s.

[Seabiscuit]

59. Yeah, it was our moms who grew up in the 20's that got us started. :)

Playing cards on bicycle spokes may be as old as bicycles themselves.

[Dastard Stepchild]

37. oh dear.

That is my childhood in 66 items.

One teensy correction though.

Item #1 is "psych"... using the one word "psych" was shorthand for "Dude, I totally psyched you out!"

[BlondieK143]

38. Hey, I didn't write it!

:D I just associate with it.

[mark414]

41. oh damn

this brings back some memories

i can say yes to just about every damn thing on here

[BlondieK143]

42. Weird, huh?

We all had different childhoods yet they're strangely similar. :D

[MrSandman]

43. I remember...

Lynyrd Skynyrd..Pronounced len urd skin urd.
Black Trans Ams
Michael Jackson when it was OK for him to be with 14-year-olds.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

45. Wow.

NOSTALGIA TRIP.

[sundog]

46. haha

:toast:

you did that yourself?

[BlondieK143]

48. I WISH!

The list was forwarded to me. I edited out a few stupid ones and added two of my own. :)

[Left Is Write]

49. We were reading Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary in the 70s too.

In fact, though many Ramona books came out in the 80s, the first Ramona book (Ramona The Pest) was published in 1968. Judy Blume's Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing was originally published in 1972.

(And I really hate to sound like a nitpicker, but whoever wrote that didn't know the name of the Bon Jovi song. It's called "You Give Love A Bad Name." And I see someone already took care of "psych." :) )

[BlondieK143]

50. Yeah, there are a few mistakes.

But on the Bon Jovi thing, I think a lot of people don't know actual song titles so they just tend to call them whatever lyrics in the song. Because of that, I'm giving that mistake an okay. :D

[AntiCoup2K4]

67. So you never heard Bon Jovi's first album then?

"Shot through the Heart" is a song from that album

Lyrics as follows (DISCLAIMER - Standard Bon Jovi sappiness alert!)

Would you be content to see me crying
After all those little games you put me through
After all I've done for you you're lying
Wouldn't it be nice to tell the truth

Didn't somebody somewhere say
You're gonna take a fall
I gave you everything
Now here's the curtain call


Shot through the heart as I lay there alone
In the dark through the heart
It's all part of this game that we call love

Now you've come back here to say you're sorry
But I don't know who you're talking to
It could be the man I used to be, girl
But I've grown up and now I'm over you

Standing there just a live wire
With nowhere left to turn
You were gonna set the world on fire
When will you ever learn?



Didn't somebody somewhere say
You're gonna take a fall
I gave you everything
Now here's the curtain call
And I'm shot...

Baby does what baby please
And baby must have what she sees
But not this time, the tables turned
Baby, you just got burned



Wasn't the album's big hit, but it did get a fair amount of airplay back in the 80's.

[Dervill Crow]

64. I read Beverly Cleary's books in the 1960s.

I don't remember exactly when Ramona came on the scene, but I'm pretty sure my third grade teacher read "Henry and Ribsy" to the class.

Grant Park in Portland (near Klickitat St., of course!) has statues of Henry, Ribsy, Ramona, and another character I don't remember. Damn this senile dementia! I bought my daughters a set of Ramona books so I could relive MY childhood.

[Left Is Write]

70. Henry, Ellen Tebbits, Otis Spofford, Beezus and Ramona were all

introduced in the 50s. (Ramona was introduced in "Beezus and Ramona" but didn't get her own book until the 60s)

[Dervill Crow]

79. Thank you!

Otis Spofford is the name I couldn't think of.

My younger daughter was Ramona incarnate.

[yellowdogintexas]

51. raising a kid born in 1984 counts, doesn't it?

Besides, her parents discovered Duck Tales woo hoo before she did, and taped all the episodes ...SHE drags those old tapes out when she is sick in bed and watches them, along with our homemade Beany & Cecil tapes.

[KaliTracy]

52. shouldn't the first one be "psych" ? like I psyched you out? ...graduated

Highschool in 83....


edit for weird typo -- and sorry didn't see the post above about pyched...

[LSdemocrat]

54. It's all about Bon Jovi

It's all about those fifth-graders who brought their Bon Jovi tapes for the bus driver to play when I was in first grade (1986-87).

[RetroLounge]

55. You Know You Grew Up In The 80's in Chicago

if you ever snorted coke in the ladies room at Club Neo then went home with a waitress from The Exit.

:evilgrin:

RL

[texas1928]

61. Some of us are NOT that OLD!!!

:eyes:

[RetroLounge]

69. and some of us are!

:rofl:

RL

[MrSlayer]

56. Very little of this applies to me.

Where's the beef and other catchphrases yeah but I wouldn't have been caught dead doing 90% of this stuff in the 80's.

[sakabatou]

62. 67...

Your introduction to japanese animation was either Dragonball/Speed Racer/Transformers

[deadparrot]

63. I'm on the later end of that spectrum...

but a lot of those are familiar to me. :)

[njdemocrat106]

65. Ooh, the memories...

I think this list is more female-skewed, but I can relate to quite a few of them. Fraggle Rock, Ninja Turtles, DuckTales (does anybody remember the game show Fun House? It always came on before DuckTales in my area), Pee-Wee, The Oregon Trail (I still have a copy for my Apple IIc). The girls always forced the bus driver to play their New Kids on the Block or Paula Abdul tapes (yes, Paula was popular way before American Idol). I felt like I lived in McDonald's when I was a kid with all the parties I attended there (and for some reason, I liked McDonald's a whole lot better then than I do now). I could go on, but I won't :) .

[SmileyBoy]

66. Thank you for bringing back all the memories.

Now I feel like 8 years old again.

[Huckebein the Raven]

68. Ahhhh those were the days

thanks for the memories Blondie

:)

If I may:

67.) If you watched Old School Nick: Pete & Pete, Salute Your Shorts, etc.

[lildreamer316]

71. I still.....

..scrucnch my socks; I just wear low-rise jeans that cover them so you can't see that I did. I also still push my long sleeves up past the elbow (buching them "stylishly" like in the '80s). I still insist on a clean pair of Keds every summer. My ex used to still "wrap & roll" his jeans with boat shoes (no socks of course).
Can't believe the jelly bracelets came back!

[Strawman]

72. Some things remain but tight rolling jeans is truly extinct

Still see some 80's hair, etc. but apparently everyone got the memo on tight rolling jeans.

I'm bringing it back, baby. Monday morning I'm going into work with my jeans tight rolled.

[RevolutionaryActs]

73. Fuck, it's not right to feel old when you're 19!

:o

[Left Is Write]

80. Indeed.

Zip it, young chickie!

[Qanisqineq]

75. OMG! I had the biggest hair with tons of Aqua Net!

Wow, talk about bringing back some memories. Especially the big hair, the tight rolled jeans, MASH, actual cartoons, and a few others. And I had forgotten all about Popples.

You mean it isn't cool to scrunch my socks anymore?!?!?! Crap, I still do! Oh well, I'm not trying to impress anyone. :D And I am constantly trying to refrain myself from typing "NOT!" here at DU. I don't want to seem too stuck in the 80's/90's.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

76. Since this is an American message board ....

and this list is quite understandably based predominantly on American trends and fashions in the 1980s), there is a lot here that I am unable to relate to. But even as a foreigner, I'm surprised at how many I am able to relate to and the wonderful memories that they bring back

2,9,12, 14 (the Turtles were a major craze when I was in my second year of junior school), 24, 25, 26 (can't say I ever pondered that question but I used to watch the Smurfs with my sister), 27, 28, 32, 33, 40, 47, 51 (I loved that show) and 52.

As for Bon Jovi, the one I remember the best of his hits is "Living on a Prayer" and that is because it was played quite frequently on the radio when our neo-con government started tampering with the rights of dock workers in the late 1990s -I used to live in quite a unionized area

And as for "We are the World", I remember "Do They Know it's Christmas" better

[UdoKier]

77. Not "Sike", "Psych!"

as in "psyched out"...

[Torgo Johnson]

78. Born in 1975....

so I remember all but a few of these. I remember in on the bus in elementary some 6th grader said the lyrics as:

Shot through your nose
and out your toes
nobody knows
what kind of pantyhose

I still laugh at that even though I still have no idea what it means.

I also remember Dukakis winning the 6th grade straw poll by large margin. Too bad the adults were not as smart as the kids in that case.

[Left Is Write]

81. If it helps, I was an adult in 1988...

and there was NO WAY I was voting for GHWB.