You Probably Grew Up In The Eighties If . . .
You know, by heart, the words to any "weird" al yankovic song
You remember the days when cocaine was just fine in powder form, thank you very much
The brady bunch movie brought back cool memories
three words: "atari" "intellivision" and "coleco". Sound familiar?
You remember the days that hooking your computer into your television wasn't an expensive option that required gadgets - it was the only way to use your computer!
You remember the days when "safe sex" meant "my parents are gone for the weekend"
You remember "friday night videos" before the days of mtv
You ever owned a pair of "pop-wheels" - that handy little combination of shoe and roller skate that lasted about a year on the open market
A predominant color in your childhood photos is "plaid"
You see teenagers today wearing clothes that show up in those childhood photos, and they still look bad
While in high school, you and all your friends discussed elaborate plans to get together again at the end of the century and play "1999" by prince over and over again
You remember when music that was labeled "alternative" really was
You can't remember when the word "networking" didn't have a computer connotation to it as well
You took family trips before the invention of the mini-van. You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you.
You knew all the words to billy joel's "we didn't start the fire", but it really didn't hold any meaning for you until about the third verse
You watched hr puffenstuff as a child, but now that you're older, you really understand that it would have been much better had you known about drugs at the time
You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phases:
"when i was younger"
"when i was your age"
"you know, back when..."
"because i said so, that's why"
"just can't (fill in the blank) like i used to"
Schoolhouse rock played a huge part in how you actually learned the english language
Kids that work in restaurants and supermarkets are starting to piss you off by calling you "sir" or "ma'am"
At one point during your teenage years, you walked with a noticeable tilt to one side due to the number of plastic rings on that arm
"celebration" by kool & the gang was one of the hot new songs when you first heard it at a school dance
You ever owned one of those embarrassing crimping irons
You used to hold in your head the thought that all those gold chains on mr. T actually looked kinda cool and the thought that mr. T made millions seemed rational to you at the time
You remember with pain the sad day when the green machine hit the streets and made your old big wheel quite obsolete
The phrase "where's the beef?" Still doubles you over with laughter
You were convinced for years that batman was a mildly overweight man with a moderate beer belly who wore his underwear outside of his clothes and talked strangely
(guys) your first wet dream occurred to thoughts of jeannie, marsha brady, samantha from bewitched or, for those hardcore comic fans out there, daphne from scooby doo, josie or any one of her pussycats
(girls) you thought sean cassidy was "dreamy", lusted after "ted, your ship's photographer" on the love boat.
You're still occasionally suffering flashbacks from your 21st birthday party
You freaked out when you found that you now fall into the "26 - 50" age category on most questionnaires
Your hair, at some point in time in the 80's, became something which can only be described by the phrase "i was experimenting"
You remember when the phrase "candy is dandy, but sex won't rot your teeth" started getting followed by "yeah, but m&m's won't give you aids..."
You've ever shopped at a banana republic or benetton, but not in the last five years, okay?
You're starting to believe (now that it wouldn't affect you) that maybe having the kids go to school year-round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all
Going to keg parties no longer involves hiding out in the woods when the cops show up
You want to go out dancing, you really, really do, but your back hurts.
You've recently horrified yourself by groaning as you get out of bed, not because of a hangover, but because it genuinely just hurt to do so you're finding that you just don't understand more than half the Lingo used on mtv any more
(mostly guys on this one) sex is still as much fun as it used to be, and you're still really interested in it, but you just want to make sure there's nothing really good on cable that you'd be missing first
You ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon
U2 is too "popular" and "mainstream" for you now
You ever used the phrase "kiss mah grits" in conversation
When somone mentions two consecutive days of the week, the happy days theme is stuck in your head for hours on end
You remember trying to guess the episode of the brady bunch from the first scene.
You ever used the phrase "don't make me angry...you wouldn't like me when i'm angry" when trying to frighten someone off.
You spent endless nights dreaming about being the bionic woman or wonder woman or the six million dollar man
You had ringside seats for luke and laura's wedding (on general hospital)
You remember "hey, let's be careful out there"
You're parents wanted you to attend medical school, but you decided it was pointless since quincy got all the babes, anyway.
You know who shot j.r.
This rings a bell: "and my name, is charlie. They work for me."
