You're an 80's child if...

You had a crush on one of the New Kids on the Block members.

You wanted to be on Star Search. (Come on, we all did)

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 had slouch socks, and puff painted your own shirt at least once.

You owned a doll with 'Xavier Roberts' signed on it's butt.

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 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. (Was there an 80's movie

she WASN'T in?)

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 - (hey u guyz!!)

You owned an extensive collection of Cabbage Patch Kids and trolls.

You actually saw Ted Danson as the MacDaddy he played ''Sam'' to be.

You ever wore fluorescent -neon if you will clothing...(or nail

polish)

You could break dance, or wished you could. (I said hip hop....)

You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system.

(Remember Pong)

You know all the words to ''Ice Ice Baby''.

You remember MC hammer well.

You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"

You own any cassettes.

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 communicate with some being named Cinergy.

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 remember when Saturday Night Live was funny.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you can identify with at least half of this list then you, my

friend, are a ''Child of the 80's.''

I got it even worse - my childhood was spread out over the late 70's / early 80's.

Others:

You never tied your high top leather sneakers.

Your sneakers had unmatched colored untied laces.

If you're a boy, you had hair 1" tall on top of your head, and halfway down your back in the back - the spiked mullet.

You wore parachute pants and thought they were cool

Sleeveless T-shirts were cool, even if you had "twig arms."

You had an earring in one ear and wouldn't dream of having both ears pierced. (boys)

Your parents completely flipped out when you asked for an earring.

You settled for a magnetic earring or a fake hoop instead.

You were in love with Martha Quinn (or Adam) on MTV.

You remember when MTV played music videos.

You wanted your MTV.

You contemplated the physics behind being gagged with a spoon.

A hand held "Gameboy" was called Comp IV or Merlin.

(I have both of those, and they both still work).

You wore deck shoes without socks and longed to be able to grow a "Don Johnson" shadow on your face.

You remember Jordache jeans being very tight and very cool. Levis were fine. Wranglers were out.

Shorts were short, not knee length.

Socks slouched or pulled up - the decision was a fashion crisis.

You wore Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith concert shirts to school the day after the concert and you were considered very very cool.

You missed school the day after the big concert and were considered extremely, totally, radically cool.

You wanted to transfer to Ridgemont High and take Mr. Hand's class with Jeff.

You finally realized that Smurfette WAS a slut.

When you got a car, you worked all summer long to pay for those cool directional aluminum rims and white letter tires.

Putting a cassette deck into your car, or older sibling's car, was the height of high tech audio combined with 6x9 Kenwood speakers. Alpine was totally out of reach.

You said, "OH, this CD thing will never catch on. They don't play in cars."

"CD's will never replace vinyl albums."

Auto reverse tape decks - wow! No more flipping tapes!

VCR's (VHS or Beta?) that could record a TV show! Like, OH MY GOD! Let's watch it again!

Swords and sorcery movies were the rage. Harry Potter hadn't been "born" yet. Conan was king.

You lusted after Tanya Roberts (OR Marc Singer) in the epic film THE BEASTMASTER. (Or was that BREASTMASTER???)

Your friend's folks got a satellite dish and you all flocked there to watch BEASTMASTER on HBO all day long. (Or reruns of Smokey & the Bandit).

Black Trans Am's were the rage, and you pretended they could drive themselves and talk to you.

You stood in line at the mall to be able to sit in a KITT Trans Am and talk to it - and believed it was real.

OR - you freaked out when the 4-headlight Trans Am / Firebird with the huge bird decal on the hood gave way to the KITT look. (Pop up headlights? What the hell is that?)

V-6's were for weenies. Mustangs had 4-barrel carb'ed 302's and Chevy's had 305's - or 350's if you were daring. Girls drove 4 cylinder cars...

Well I sure failed on this list because over 75% of them I had no idea what you both were talking about.

However

Long hair, earrings

My ex and I convinced my oldest son that he should let his hair grow and he did. Then he ask his mother if he could have his ear pierced. She said NO but after a bit of arguing she said ask your father (me). When my son called me and said that mom said to ask you, I already knew that she had said no. You learn these things after being married for a while. So I went over to there house and got her new husband involved and we took a vote, it was 2 to 1 with my ex casting the descending vote but I did have a provision and that was he had to wait at least two months. If he still wanted one then it was ok with me. Two months later Steve took my son to get his ear pierced and when they returned both had their ears pierced. When my second son asked his mother if he could get an earring she sure go get in the car and I will take you.

Today they are 30 and 28 and both still have earrings in their ear and long hair.

River

now i am feeling old i was an early 70's kid boo hoo

I am a 50's kid. Back when men were men ( and sheep were nervous). --FLO--

Like Flo, I'm a 50's kid. Graduated from H.S. in 1960.

I do think, however, that the sheep are still nervous in rural areas....

JesusA (imported) wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:00 pm Like Flo, I'm a 50's kid. Graduated from H.S. in 1960.

I do think, however, that the sheep are still nervous in rural areas....

Me, too. I'm a 50's and 60's kid, since I graduated from high school in 1958 and went to college during the 60's. I couldn't have answered many of the 80's questions. By then, my kids were grown.

What's even worse is that we, the old 80's kids, inflicted the 80's upon "our" kids in the mid-to late 90's...

i grew up in the 90's but both my parents were 80's kids and i know more bout the 80's than the 90's.

Shit, I am still a child. Who wants to grow up when we're having so much fun? So, as to all this 80s stuff - before my time, thank you!

And Flo, Next time you go to a restaurant, especially out west, ask the waitress for the sheephereder's special. A cup of coffee and a piece of Ewe...