This is the truest and funniest email I think I've ever gotten. I related with EVERY one of these things....
Kind of a long list, but if you grew up in the 80's, it is SOOOOOOOO worth reading, and even printing!!!!!!!!!


You know you grew up in the 1980's if...............


You ever ended your sentence with "psych"

You solved the Rubics cube.....by peeling off the stickers (okay, I'll admit
it, I did this!)

You watched the pound puppies

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

You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish

You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a
club of your own.

You owned those little Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls

You know that 'Whoa' comes from Joey on "Blossom"

Three words: M.C. Hammer

You thought it would be great to have a friend named "Boner"

You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales"

If you played the chipmunks Christmas album all year long!

Remember reading Kool-Aid man comics

You ever watched Fraggle Rock

You had plastic streamers on the handle bars of your bike

You remember When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to
watch cartoons

You wore a pony tail to the side of your head

You saw the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big screen

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

You made your mom buy you one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a
knot on the side

You had a Kirk Cameron poster on your bedroom wall - along with several
others from Teen Beat, Johnny Depp, River Phoenix

You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House) with friends
at school

You wore a Jordache jean jacket and you were proud of it

L.A. GEAR

Your mother wouldn't let you have garbage pail kids

You wanted to change your name to Jem in Kindergarten

You remember reading "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and all the Ramona
books

You know the profound meaning of "Wax on,Wax off"

You wanted to be a Goonie

You ever wore fluorescent, neon if you will, clothing

You wanted to be on StarSearch

You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose felloff

You took Lunch pales to school

You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf

You remember the craze, and then banning of slap racelets

You still get the urge to use "NOT" at the end of every statement you make

You remember Hypercolor T-shirts

Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band

You remember Punky Brewster

You loved Howard the duck

You thought Sheera and He-Man should hook up

You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged
"friendship bracelets"

You ever owned a pair of Jelly Shoes

After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you couldn't stop saying "I know you
are but what am I?"

You remember "I've fallen...and I can't get up!"

You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates

You ever got seriously injured on a slip and slide

You know not to mix poprocks and soda (but did it anyway!)

You have played with a 'skip-it'

You had or went to a birthday party at McDonald's

You learned oldies songs by watching Alvin and the Chipmunks

You had a Glow Worm or watched the cartoons

You remember dancing along with the Bangles in "Walk Like An Egyptian"

If you remember Heathcliff the orange cat

You saw the California Raisins Christmas claymation special

You've gone through this list occasionally saying "That wasn't from the
80's"

You remember Popples

DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!

You wore socks over tights with high-top Reeboks

You wore like 8 pairs of socks at once, scrunched down

MISS MARY MACK MACK MACK ALL DRESSED IN BLACK BLACK BLACK.....

You remember boom boxes instead of CD players > > > > > > >>

You remember watching both "Gremlins" movies

You remember the Transformers

You know what it meant to say "care bear stare!!" and you had a favorite

You remember Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales

You remember watching TV thinking Doogie Howser was hot!

You remember Alf, the little furry brown alien from Melmac

You remember the large amounts of hairspray used

You remember those very stylish headbands

You remember Vicky the Robot

You remember Eve Garland from Out of this World and how she could stop time
by pressing the tips of her index fingers together and talking to her dad
through a glowing cube in her bedroom

You remember the beggining of New Kids on the Block

You remember watching The Cosby show

You remember Mr.Belvadere

You remember Michael J. Fox in Family Ties and Back to the Future

You know all the names of the gang from "Saved by the Bell"

You know all the words to Bon Jovi's "shot through the heart" song -
sshhh......

Leg warmers!

You remember when only "bad" boys got thier ears pierced and girls wore hoop
earrings that practically touched their shoulders.

You know what a big wheel is.


Take care guys!

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~Hopefull~

Hopefull,

LMAO!! oooh man, i was just a wee youngin in the 80s but i remember all that stuff. If your big on takin trips down memory lane (like me..lol) check out www.yesterdayland.com and go to the 80s section, they have EVERY game, movie, cartoon, toy,piece of clothing and song from that decade. Remember teddy ruxpin(sp?) and jellies! I must have had like 20 pairs of those things when i was 8! lol Thanks for the post! "Like totally awesome"....HA! Oh im so glad people dont talk like that anymore!.....LOL Take care!

Doyle

Hopefull,

Ahhhhhhhh yes, lots of these things were my reality in my preteen/teenage years. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. It was nice.

tulip

OMGosh, I loved that. I remember all of that. Remember "wheres the beef?" LOL.

Thanks for this post wow I could actually think of everyone of those things as I read them.

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Snow

Just dreaming of the day when big hair comes back in!!

Yesterday I was washing my car and guess what I was saying...

"Wax on, Wax off"

That just cracks me up. Phych. Not. LOL!

Reena

I want those slappy metal bracelets to come back! Remember those? they were sooo cool but way too dangerous. I just loved to play with them..lol, I was an odd child..go figure...HA! Take care all!

Doyle

YOU GUYS ARE TOTALLY RAD, LIKE FOR SURE!
TOTALLY TUBULAR REPLIES MAN!!!!!!!!!!

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~Hopefull~

DUDE! That was wayyyy too funny and soooooo true! I had forgotten all about that stuff! (thanks for bringing back the memories!)

LMAO!!! That was awesome thinking back to when I use to have big hair with lots of hair spray in it and I wore the tights with the socks over them scrunched down with my hightops!! Loved the jellies, had every color! DEFINTELY listened to Bon Jovi...knew all his songs and I still love him and his music today!! Thanks for reminding me of so many things from the 80's, they were great times!!

Dana

What memories...yeesh. 80's fashion sucked by the music ROCKED! I actually found myself embarassed reading this post.

OH MY GOD,dude like i am so into the 80's it is like so cool.Man i can not believe i use ot do that stuff.Well most of it.all but the jelly shoes and so on lol.

Whaddaya mean?? Big hair and a ton of hairspray is out?? LOL Guess a trip to my hairstylist is in order.


Andrew,
I remember the show "Small Wonder"! I never really liked it either, but I remember it. Thanks for the blast from the past. (Did you know that show ran for 4 years?!) I don't think I could have called that show up from memory if I tried!

Andrew,

I remember small wonder!..lol wow that was a VERY un-funny show. And they always had her cleaning and cooking, weird for a child robot...lol. I still remember some of the theme song too. Come to think of it, there wernt very many funny sit-coms back then were there? Even Alf kinda sucked...."Paaaah!" (remember that?..lol) Take care!

Doyle

http://smallwonder.hispeed.com/SWonTV/ThemeLyrics.html

Follow the link to hear the "Small Wonder" theme song! LOL