Fill in the blank.  if you remember wanting to be a Goonie.
                      if you still roll up your sleeves
                      if you still use 'cool beans' or'awsome' in your lingo
Have fun with this!  I want to see waht you can come up with. ;D

I know I was an 80's child because I was born in the 70's  ;D

I am an 80's child because ...

I still have some of the old cassette tapes I had when I was a kid.  The only one that still works well is "Polytel's Rock Sizzzlers"  ;D

....you totally rocked out to the record "Disco Mickey Mouse"

....wore side pony-tails and tied your t-shirts in a knot at the bottom


...you once thought that sporting buttons/pins of Michael Jackson was a good thing


....your favorite cartoons consisted of: Smurfs, Snorks, Jem, The Littles, GetAlong Gang, etc..

....you collected things like: garbage pail kids cards, scratch & sniff stickers, bracelets/necklaces with water & glitter in them, and yummy smelly erasers.

....you had toys like: easy bake oven, light brights, viewmaster, cabbage patch kids doll, pogoball, slip & slide, etc.

....you totally rocked out to the record "Disco Mickey Mouse"


Oh man Disco Mickey Mouse, now that goes way back.  I even had "Sesame Street Fever"  ;D

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I remeber that.

                  If you reffer Bruce Springstien to "The Boss"
                  If your favorite video games are still Pac Man or Ms. Pac man, Donkey Kong, Galaga, ect.
                  If you remember when "Apple" became a household name and you remember when a vcr was 2,000.
                  If you remember heating up your left over on the stovetop and when your parents bought thier first microwave.

If you remeber when Micheal Jackson was black and still had his nose.
If you can remember party lines
If you remember useing 8 tracks before cassetes were popular
If you remember those 45's with two singles
If you now listen to the 'oldies' stations for classic rock. (80's music)

*If you remember more than just He-Man/She-ra, Transformers or Voltron the 3 or 4 most popular & iconic cartoons of the decade & when you ask people in their early 20s & younger if they remember (insert obscure 80s cartoon title) they have no idea what you are talking about.

*If when you think of metal you immediatly think of denim, leather & bullet belts & possibly still wear them as opposed peircings, deadlocks & quarter length shorts & you remember a time when bands could actually play & had absolutly smokin lead guitarists & actually still had solos in their songs.

*When you argue with people in their early 20s & younger about how BMXs were better, more light weight & agile back then because BMX stands for Bicycle Moto Cross & those bikes where made that way because it was all about racing  with a few tricks thrown in for show & not trying to jump off the Empire State Building without breaking the wheels or your neck or snapping the frame & handle bars & you also remember when Mongoose was a good bike made in the USA & not just an overpriced cheap sh!t bike made in Taiwan.

*When you are compeled to defend the pioneering video games to a generation (early 20s & younger) who just can't understand the appeal (even if you were to beat it into their thick skulls) of iconic games that don't have the latest technology & that don't need to be strictly eye candy to be challenging, addictive & fun.

*When you remember a time when hifi systems were actually still being made in Japan & they weren't all made to overly emphasise the bass & put it in the foreground & everything else in the background & you could actually adjust the bass & treble to suit your preference instead of just bass on or off.

*When you still remember dial phones & you are shocked & amazed when someone in their teens has no idea how to use one.

*If you are shocked & horrified when you go to catch up with an old friend & go to their house for a movie night & plan to bring some of your obscure & out of print movies around to remenis & they tell you they don't have a VCR in their house & only have a DVD player.

*When you have to explain yourself when someone younger than 18 asks you "who are Bebop & Rocksteady"? or "who's Krang"?

*If you remember when MTV was cutting edge television and played music videos and only music videos 24 hours a day.  (note:  I try to explain this concept to my friends who are in their early 20s and they have NO concept and shrug it off as old people's crap,  ugggh)

*Your favorite iPod playlist is all 80s music (proudly guilty of that one  :P  my 80s mix is 10 hours long and talk about bridging the generation gap  ;)

*You remember when iconic 80s TV shows (i.e. Dukes of Hazzard, Miami Vice, Dallas, Knight Rider, Dynasty , Cosby Show)  were as or more popular (and often better yet cheesier) than Lost and Desperate Houswives are today.

Remembering Deborah Gibson as  bubblegum pop teen singer "Debbie Gibson" , not a stage actress and songbird

('I'm more of a '90's kid, though I remember some that were still around in the early/mid 1990's...though I was mostly sedated during the '90's also  ::)  :P )


Disney as a pay channel and Looney Tunes shown everywhere on tv before only being available on DVD

If for the first time ever in your life, you started to feel OLD sometime around the 1999-2003 time frame. 

(and you probably weren't even 30 yet, but you knew you were no longer part of the youth culture)

You even just KNOW what an Apple II+, IIe, or IIgs is...
You saw the first Wrestlemania when it was on Pay-Per-View or you had to go somewhere they were showing it
You watched World Class Championship Wrestling or the AWA on ESPN
You watched 'Miami Vice' every week
You remember when the Walkman was quite expensive
You had a Cabbage Patch Kid
You wanted and got your MTV
You played Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Centipede, yadda yadda yadda....
Your idea of a cool video game system was the Atari 2600

If you owned a Mini Pops record.