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Were you a child of the eighties......

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°o.O(¯`·._.·Frankie·._.·´¯)O.o°

°o.O(¯`·._.·Frankie·._.·´¯)O.o° Report 21 Mar 2008 22:57

I remember too many of them lol

♥**♥Straykitten♥**♥

♥**♥Straykitten♥**♥ Report 21 Mar 2008 22:56

i sorta remeber some of those things but was born on 79 so not many of them lmao

♥~Muffy! ~♥

♥~Muffy! ~♥ Report 21 Mar 2008 22:55

How many of these can you say yes to?

You remember Don Johnson when he was "cool"

You know who shot J.R

You remember when Michael Jackson was actually considered something of a sex symbol

You practice getting in and out of your car through the windows

You owned at least one skinny leather tie.

Your first Walkman weighed 10 pounds and was the size of a brick.

You wore L.A. Gear tennis shoes.

You're always "in the mood for dancing"

You wore lace gloves with the fingers cut off, bangle bracelets up to your elbows,

You need a shopping cart to carry your personal stereo with you.

You remember what Michael Jackson looked like before the surgery.

You go rollerskating every Friday night (not to skate, but to 'hang out')

There was nothing to question about Bert n' Ernie living together

The feeling in your thumb is only now just returning after holding down the Atari joystick

You remember the magazines of song lyrics

If the best non-slasher movie in your opinion is An American Werewolf In London.

Ferris Bueller was your idol.

You can sing all the words to "One Night in Bangkok" by Murray Head, and now you understand
that it is about chess.


If you had an entire wardrobe of Esprit clothing (or coveted one.)

Have multi-colored earrings that touch your shoulders

Played Upwords, Boggle or Trivial Pursuit (the original) on a rainy afternoon

You're still bitter that WHAM broke up

You can feel St. Elmo's fire burnin' in you.

You have the tendency to turn up the collar of your polo shirts

You never go out for a night on the town without frosted blue eyeshadow and feathered bangs

Everything in your wardrobe is either pastel or fluorescent

You still can't believe that Milli Vanilli was deceiving you all that time

You still watch things on Beta tapes

You still carry your boom box on your shoulder

You think David Hasselhoff was awesome in Knight Rider but sucks in "Boob Watch."

A piece of folded paper and two hands could tell your fortune.

Knickers and leg warmers were cool

If you remember Bruce Willis from Moonlighting, not Die Hard

You thought a Commodore 64 was the highest technology available

When you saw luging at the Winter Olympics you poured water down your driveway and tried it
yourself.


You want to be "Where Everybody Knows Your Name"

You know who played Magnum P.I

You can name at least three members of the Brat Pack

Still wear Wet n' Wild makeup

If your idea of hi-tech toys is still the heat-sensitive color-changing sticker on Transformers

You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar and choreographed "Dancing
Queen" by yourself in your room.
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You had snap bracelets

You had had five pairs of socks on at any given time

You still think Donkey Kong can beat Mario up

If you still have your scratch-n-sniff sticker collection

If you ever used Lee Press-On Nails

If you wear jelly shoes