1. You know "knowing is half the battle."
2. You wonder what the other half is.
3. You ever thought "jellies" with flared ankle socks was a cool
fashion statement.
4. You still think "jellies" with flared ankle socks are a cool
fashion statement.
5. People snicker at you for wearing "jellies" with flared ankle socks.
6. You collected Garbage Pail Kids.
7. You had all the ones in a set and assembled the
Garbage Pail puzzle on the back.
8. You have now lost all your Garbage Pail kids, but still have a few
lingering remnents of the gum that came with them.
9. You owned a Pogo Ball.
10. You wore a hole in your Pogo Ball.
11. You took your Pogo Ball on vacation to a small Minnesota town
and bounced down the sidewalk on it. (not likely for most people, I just threw it in here for my sister, who actually did it) ;-)
12. You wore multi-colored jelly braclets.
13. You wore more than 20 multi-colored jelly braclets.
14. Being forbidden to have gum in class, you would take off one
of your multi-colored jelly braclets and chew on it instead.
15. You watched He-Man.
16. You knew who Tela's mother was.
17. You owned a He-Man action figure.
18. You thought you were He-Man.
19. You watched She-Ra.
20. You owned a She-Ra action figure.
21. You thought you were She-Ra.
22. You wondered why She-Ra and that Bo guy never just got married.
23. You think Roller Skates are more fun than Roller Blades.
24. You had one of those jackets with detachable zipper sleeves.
25. You always took the sleeves off the jacket to be cool.
26. You lost the sleeves to the jacket.
27. You remember the last names of all the Cory's.
28. You had an Atari.
29. You played Pac-Man
30. You ran around proclaiming you had "Pac-Power!"
31. You played Defender.
32. You took it personally when the aliens kidnapped one of the
little people.
33. You watched the Smurfs.
34. You owned Smurf merchandise (T-shirt, underwear, socks, toys, ect.)
35. You sang, "Fa-la-lalalala."
36. When someone asks you something time related you say,
"Not yet my little Smurfs."
37. When someone gives you the shaft, the only thing you can
think to say is, "Well, that wasn't very Smurfy of you."
38. You watched Thundercats.
39. You wondered why Lion-o aged like 10 years during the trip to Earth,
but apparently no one else did.
40. When piling into the family car you ever said, "Ok--Everybody
into the ThunderTank!"
41. You watched Scooby-Doo.
42. You hated Scrappy.
43. You had a TV with a knob.
44. When you woke up Saturday morning to watch cartoons, you worried
that the noise generated by turning the knob would wake up your parents.
45. You still have a TV with a knob.
46. You had a BETA.
47. You watched Care Bears.
48. You can still actually remember any of their names.
49. You thought Popples were cooler than anything.
50. You owned a Popple.
51. You still take out your Popple every once in a while and
turn it inside out.
52. You thought it was cool to stay up late and watch Saturday Night Live.
53. You thought Elvira was scary.
54. You thought Schoolhouse Rocked.
55. You knew the function of a conjunction-junction
before it was taught in school.
56. You think inter-planet Janet was a galaxy girl.
57. You label the new Schoolhouse Rocks as being lame
(except for the one with Mr. Morton!)
58. You rolled up your pants into those little folds in Jr. High.
59. You whined to your parents to buy you a Trapper-Keeper.
60. You took all the folders out of it once you got to school and
made a folder fort out of them.
61. Someone tried to con you into saying "Bloody Mary" ten
times in the dark.
62. You owned a Texas Instruments Computer.
63. You played a game off a cassette on it.
64. You stuck one of the game cassettes in a regular tape player
to see what would happen.
65. You played "Pirate's Island."
66. You find yourself saying "Yo-Ho" and wondering where the twisted
knife and the bloody book are.
67. You played "Hunt the Wumpus."
68. You think "Hunt the Wumpus" is still cooler than any game made today.
69. You had a Commodore 64.
70. You know what happens if you accidentally type LOAD"$",8,1
rather than LOAD"$",8
71. You played Jumpman.
72. You put a C64 emmulator on your PC so you can still play Jumpman.
73. "Forbidden Forrest" was the most violent game you had.
74. You hummed the "alien abduction" theme from Close Encounters
of the Third Kind.
75. You had a Rubix cube.
76. You solved your Rubix cube.
77. You got mad at your Rubix cube and threw it against the wall.
78. You cheated on your Rubix cube by peeling all the stickers
off of it and then sticking them back on so the colors would match.
79. You remember the whole Dungeons & Dragons controversy.
80. Your parents ever tried to stop you from playing Dungeons & Dragons
because they thought it was satanic.
81. Your parents ever tried to stop you from watching the Dungeons
& Dragons cartoon.
82. You watched it anyway.
83. You remember what you were doing in class when the Challenger blew up.
84. It was cool to chew bubble gum.
85. You watched Rainbow Bright.
86. After reading #85 you now have the Rainbow Bright theme song
running through your head but can't remember all the words.
87. You wanted to be on "Let's Make a Deal."
88. You saw someone trade it all for what was behind
Door #2 and end up with a goat.
89. You wanted to go up against the Whammie.
90. The phrase "Ooo...And it stops...On the Whammie!" somehow
made its way into your vocabulary.
91. You are familiar with the phrase, "Whoa-ho, Mr. Telephone! That's
some pretty strong language!"
92. You wanted to know where the beef was.
93. You'd like to buy the world a Coke.
94. You're a Pepper.
95. You loved the "clear cola" revolution.
96. The first time you saw Garfield's Halloween Special you almost
died laughing.
97. You were an Uptown Girl.
98. You did the moonwalk.
99. You lost one glove by accident, but no one cared because they thought
you were just being cool.
100. You could breakdance.
101. You couldn't breakdance but you knew someone who could.
102. You knew someone that could do one, and
only one, breakdancing trick.
103. No one you knew could breakdance, but they could fake it pretty well.
104. You urged your Mom to drive faster after she picked you up
at school so you could get home in time to see G.I Joe.
105. You inserted the phrase, "Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis?"
into your vocabulary.
106. You tried walking like an Egyptian.
107. You watched the new Mission Impossible on TV and
wondered if Jim ever refused to accept any missions.
108. You watched ALF.
109. You wanted to kill the writers of the last episode of ALF.
110. You wondered who shot JR.
111. You thought Sue Ellen did it.
112. You didn't know who shot JR, but it sounded like a good question.
113. You felt sorry for Dr. David "Bruce" Banner whenever you heard the
Incredible Hulk Theme.
114. The word "dipstick" made its way into your vocabulary.
115. You thought the General Lee was a cool car. Yee-haw!
116. You vowed to someday own a car horn that played Dixie.
117. You owned original Star Wars action figures.
118. Now you wish you hadn't played with them out them out in the mud
because they're worth so much money.
119. You wanted to meet the Muppets.
120. You wore your sunglasses at night.
121. You wondered why that woman on Hee-Haw had a piece
of paper hanging off her hat.
122. You watched Ducktales.
123. You stopped watching it after they added that idiot cave
duck to the cast.
124. You were a material girl in a material world.
125. Everything you think you see becomes a Tootsie Roll.
126. You sometimes wonder whatever happened to the New Kids on the Block.
127. You know how many licks it takes to get to the
tootsie roll center of a Tootsie Pop.
128. When you think of Kool-Aid, you remember the
giant kool-aid guy crashing through a wall.
129. You wondered why Saber on "Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs"
always seemed to get the short end of the stick.
130. You colored your hair with Crayola markers so you'd look like
Cindi Lauper.
131. When you see commercials selling CD collections of 80's music,
you're offended by the dorky people trying to immitate a
typical person from the 80's.
132. You want a thrill, you want it now, you want a Sh-sh-shhh-shasta!
133. You sat up late at night trying to design a flux capacitor.
134. You weren't cool unless you had a Capri-Sun.
135. You thought Snorks were just a cheap rip-off of the Smurfs.
136. You collected Aristocat's stickers.
137. You had a Swatch.
138. You had an Apple IIe.
139. You played "Oregon Trail" on it.
140. The taste of Juicy Fruit moves ya.
141. You remember watching MTV when they played decent videos on it.
142. You wanted some ocean front property in Arizona.
143. You had a side pony-tail.
144. You watched reruns of the Jetsons.
145. You wanted to meet George Jetson, and Jane his wife.
146. You remember the first Kibbles N' Bits ad jingle
147. You tried New Coke.
148. You thought 'Bastian waited just a little long to
name the princess.
149. You weren't afraid of no ghost.
150. Calgon took you away.
151. You've got the fever for the flavor of a Pringle.
152. You can sing how to make a Big Mac.
153. You thought Spuds MacKenzie was one cool dog.
154. You're stuck on Band-Aids, 'cause Band-Aids stuck on you.
155. You squeezed the Charmin.
156. You coulda had a V8.
157. You wanted the rabbit to get some Trix.
158. Had you been given the chance, you would have given Trix to the rabbit.
159. Someone tried to get your Lucky Charms.
160. You wondered why the Leprechaun didn't zap those thieving kids for
chasing him around all the time trying to swipe his cereal.
161. You wondered who Vern was in those "Hey Vern" ads.
162. You actually remember what those "Hey Vern" deals were trying to sell.
163. You'd like a nice Hawaiian punch.
164. You were thanked for your support by Bartles & Jaymes
165. You thought Jem and the Holgrams were "truely outrageous."
166. You "believed it or not."
167. You wondered if Charlie the Tuna was strange for trying to sell cans
of his own species. (Sorry Charlie)
168. You betcha bite a chip.
169. You wish you were an Oscar Mayer wiener.
170. You miss the rains down in Africa.
171. When E.F. Hutton talked, you listened.
172. You watched "Farm Aid."
173. You mangled the lyrics to "Karma Chameleon."
174. You still mangle the lyrics to "Karma Chameleon."
175. You wanted to find the A-Team.
176. The phrase "I pity da fool!" worked its way into your vocabulary.
177. The words "Power X-Treme!" mean something to you.
178. You owned a Wacky Wall Walker.
179. You were disappointed if you threw it at the wall and it just flopped off on the floor without any wacky walking.
180. You wore a giant t-shirt with one of the edges either tied in a knot or held in a tail by one of those plastic rings.
181. You made and wore friendship bead pins.
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