This is a list for those who grew up in the 80s, but almost everyone this site at least lived through the 80s.

YOU KNOW YOU GREW UP IN THE 80's IF-

1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE".
2. You watched the Pound Puppies.
3. You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Belair"
4. You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt
stylish.
5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tired to start a club of your own.
6. You owned those lil Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.
7. You know that "WOA" comes from Joey on Blossom.
8. Two words: M.C. Hammer
9. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock".
10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars.
11. You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales".
12. When it was actually worth getting up early on a
Saturday to watch cartoons.
13. You wore a pony tail on the side of your head.
14. You saw the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on the big screen.
15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
16. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.
17. You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House) with friends at school.
18. You wore Jordache jean jacket and you were proud of it.
19. L.A. Gear.....
20. You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in Kindergarten.
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, if you will, clothing.
25. You can remember what Micheal Jackson looked like before his nose fell off...
26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
27. You took Lunch Pales to school.
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 favourite band.
32. You thought Sheena and He-Man should hook up.
33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged friendship bracelets.
34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes.
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 in-line 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 list occasionally saying
"This wasn't from the 80's!"
42. You remember Popples.
43. "Dont worry, be happy"
44. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks.
45. You wore socks scrunched down.
46. "Miss MARY MARY MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK"
47. You remember boom boxes vs cd players.
48. You remember watching both "Gremlins" movies.
49. You know what it maeant to say "Care Bear Stare!!"
50. You remember watching Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales"
51. You thought Doogie Howser was hot.
52. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
53. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool.
54. You knew all the characters names and their life
stories on "Saved By the Bell", the ORIGINAL class.
55. You know all the words to Bon Jovi - YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME

I guess I'm more in the category of grew up in the 70's.

Regardless,this looks more like a list that GIRLS or GAY GUYS can relate too.


51. You thought Doogie Howser was hot.
53. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool.

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I mean come on! There's plenty more if you read it all. Wear you pony tails to the side,Strwberry Shortcake. What the???

i agree, it seems to be more of a girl list...EXCEPT for the ninja turtles. b/c they kick ass.

WHAT? No Transformers or Voltron on the list???

i can do #3

fraggle rock rulz :!: :!: :!: :!: :!:

I sure am glad I grew up in the sixties after reading that list of things that didn't last long. Except Alf. :sarcasm:

I was born in 87, but in the 90's I still remember oregon trail days in the computer lab... That game was so cool...

I must have completely missed the 80's. I was busy holding down a military career and working on my cars.

Like myself, if you were born in the 50's your probably to senile to remember those things or at least choose to forget about 99% of them. :lol:

i remember flushing ninjas turtles down the toilet to get them back to the sewer.......then watching my dad dig up the back yard to unclog the pipes.

Oh the memories

I guess I'm more in the category of grew up in the 70's.
Yea...*sigh*...me too. It's hell get'n old!!! :(

HAHAHA! I was born in 83. That is THE difinitive list for children of the 80's! I agree though, where the hell were Voltron, Transformers, and even Thundercats? Great list, and it applies to both sexes which is cool, I'll have to show my girlfriend too. Thanks for the flashback through my childhood!

Kris

Like myself, if you were born in the 50's your probably to senile to remember those things or at least choose to forget about 99% of them. :lol:Hey, I resemble that remark! :P

I do remember the 80s but I don't remember alot of your comments :?

What happen to the Ghostbusters????? GhostBusters,Turtles,Voltron,Thundrcats I had a lot of those toys growing up and I still have them.... I was born in 1983 I had a late start in the 80's but I caught up quick. A few months ago I was lookign for the Fraggle rock theme song, that was a good show at the time :) Also can't forget things like the Commodore 64 and 128 the Lemonade stand, I can just barely remember that bt I remember I played it alot....

Man what about g.i. joe i know i had all kinds of g.i. joe stuff when i was a kid, and yes i too had a Commodore 64 growing up i think i still might actually have it stored away somewhere.

I Wish I had a good memory from back then I was busy picking on my younger sisters and Brothers duck tales and the gargoyals, Thats quite a flashback Your right in so many ways I wish I had pics lmbo.... Thanx and You cant forget the famous quote " You Said what" the years that the kids learned how to ignore there parents the best and turn a bad situation into a worse one..... have a good one

What about hair bands? Or Battlestar Galactica?

what about pog? ... or was that more of a early 90's thing .. i still got all my pog .. hey does anyone remember that candy from the early 90's called screaming saucers? they wrre little blue sour candies that would turn your mouth blue for some reason schools decided to ban them cuz it turned kids mouths blue. Anyways i think they dissapeared because they caused cancer or sumthing to that extent but they were good! Anyone know where i can find some?



Dan

I was a child of the 60's / 70's kind of..

I remember things like

Popeye, Olive Oil, Brutis. Boris and Natasha, Rocky and Bullwinkle

The phrase "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a Hamburger today" still comes to mind.

The "Marlboro Man" was not dying of cancer then!

Movies like "The Ten Commandments" Good, Bad and the Ugly, Fist full of Dollars, Vanishing Point have more of a meaning. Woodstock! :D Now that was a concert!

Music like Motown and then Zeppelin, Grand Funk Railroad, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Doors were very popular. I remember Charles Manson murders of the Tate Family, Shows like Bonanza, Big Valley, Wagon Train were on the TV.

I remember Records made of vinyl that required "Record Players" to hear them. I remember the first 19" Color Console TV marketed. I remember the phrase "Put a Tiger in your tank!" and "You can trust your car to the man that wears the star!"

I can remember "Pure Cain Sugar, It's quick dissolving." I also remember the Morton Salt girl, Speedy Alka-Seltzer and the Coppertone commercials. Dean Martian's Celebrity Roast, The Smothers Brother's show,

I remember Tie Dyed T-Shirts, Long Long hair and the Rock Opera "Hair", "Tommy" and Jesus Christ Superstar.

I remember JFK stating over the air, an unheard of threat to Fidel Castro to "Blow His Paper Hanging ass off the face of the map".

I remember practicing Air Raid Drills in School. I remember when phones didn't just "Unplug" from the wall they were hard wired in.

I remember Transistor Radios, cloths hanging on the line to dry OUTSIDE!

I remember when Tennis Shoes were made from Canvas and thin rubber soles and all of them were hightops. Keds & PF Flyers.

I remember the whole family piling into the car for a Sunday drive through the country and maybe a picnic.

ElkyPete sounds like you and I grew up in the era, just took a road trip down memory lane. It's a terrible thing to grow old, now I know why my kids say I'm " Older Than Dirt". :)

...and then Zeppelin, Grand Funk Railroad, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Doors were very popular

o man... you got the greatest taste man. but you left out pink floyd, the dead, jefferson airplane, BOB DYLAN, skynyrd, and so many more!! o Immigrant song just came on the radio! man between this site, and the radio, work aint so bad :D

"Pink Floyd, the Dead, Jefferson Airplane, BOB DYLAN, Skynyrd"

I was never much a Dead Head, Dylan was not too hard to listen to, Floyd came much later, "By the way; Which ones Pink?" That little Southern Band was pretty good also.

I also left out Deep Purple, Canned Heat, Wasn't Airplane actually Starship in the 70's?! Grace Slick. Blondie, Heart, and one of my favorite radio show was Dr. Demento! Sat evenings.

I left out Beatles, Stones, War, Santana, Hose` Faliceano (sp), Blood Rock, Black Sabbith ect......

Because "The Cisco Kid was a friend of mine!" But I did not shoot the deputy.

"By the way; Which ones Pink?"
:lol: :lol: have a cigar :lol: :lol:
Wasn't Airplane actually Starship in the 70's?!
i do not recognize jefferson starship as being in any way related to airplane....no but really it was airplane back in the mid-late 60's. they were really in to the acid wave... but your right they did sell out... oops i mean change to jefferson starship. o and the stones and beatles were no brainers, didnt think you had to mention them.

I've got tons of vinyl. No record player but lots of records. Been thinking of some day putting it on CDs.

I never had an 8 track! I hated those noisy pieces of junk. Tapes always broke and by the time the Auto manufacturers were installing them in carz they were replaced by the Cassette tapes, which were worlds better.

"Older than dirt" you say?!? I relized I was getting old when I noticed it had been over "Twenty Years" since I had gotten out of the service. 8O I was Carded up until I was 24 or more. Then one day the people at stores started calling me "Sir and Mister", hell that was my Dad's name not mine!

Woodstock was in '69! that is 34 yeas ago. 34 years!

I listen to Older Rock and Country now days. In my arrogant youth I aspired to become a Rock-n-Roll drummer! What a dumb @ss I was!

Ted Macks Original Amateur Hour...The Ed Sullivan Show...and oh yeah who remembers "See the USA in your Chevrolet" :lol:

well i was born in 84 and i remember like half of those.

Heck, I had streamers on my bike handlebars in the fifties. When I was a youngster, I lived through a WWII blackout in eastern North Carolina. That was during the times that German U boats came in close to our shores. All the other stuff in the list is just recent history.