You know you're a child of the '80s if...


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 know the meaning of Wax on/Wax Off

You're always "in the mood for dancing"

If you can "See Better" with sunglasses that have paint splattered all over the lenses.

You wore lace gloves with the fingers cut off, bangle bracelets up to your elbows, bright red
Reebok high tops and parachute pants to a school dance


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')

You still want to take Karate...(after you move to California)

You watch NYPD Blue thinking, "Well, they're no Crockett and Tubbs, that's for sure".

"Outrageous!" is the term to describe something neat and cool

You think that Garbage Pail Kids are your children's worst enemy

You had a poster of Bo, Luke & Daisy Duke

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 to
control the racecar in Enduro Racer


You went out and purchased the sound track for 'Miami Vice'

You remember the magazines of song lyrics

If you think Hulk Hogan is the best wrestler of all time.

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

Two words: The Clapper.

Six words: "This is your brain on drugs."

You want to live in 'the Valley'.

Ferris Bueller was your idol.

You watched 'Star Search' on a regular basis.

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.)

If you know the words to the "Oscar Mayer" theme songs

Your bangs are teased perfectly to 7 inches above the rest of your hair.

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 know whose phone number is 867-5309

You drink Diet Coke because Max Headroom told you to

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

You still wear a bandana tied around your leg and/or a ponytail off-center on the side of your
head.


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

People are constantly gagging you with spoons.

You know all the words to "I'm just a bill, sitting up on Capitol Hill" and "School House Rock."

The phrase "Where's the beef?" still doubles you over with laughter.

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

Every now and then, you blurt out: "Ooh noo, Mr. Bill!!!"

You still watch things on Beta tapes

You know who Martha Quinn is.


You still carry your boom box on your shoulder

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

You wanted to be "The Hulk" for halloween

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 had ringside seats for Luke and Laura's wedding

You ever had a Dorothy Hammill haircut.

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"

'A Different World' kicked butt

Remember "Dancin' to a Big Mac at McDonalds!"

You know who played Magnum P.I

One Phrase, "The Plane, The Plane"

You can name at least three members of the Brat Pack

Still think banana clips were a godsend

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.


You still wear your "Members Only" jacket.

You still have a couple of those barettes made of woven ribbons.

You had snap bracelets

You remember when Pee-Wee wasn't a pervert.

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

If you remember when you heard that drinking soda and eating Pop Rocks would make your
stomach explode


You still play with that CASIO SK-1 Keyboard

You're still hoping for a New Kids on the Block reunion tour

You still argue over who was better: Tiffany or Debbie Gibson

Every time you hear the "OH YEAH..." song you think of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

You still watch tapes of Stingray, McGyver, and Airwolf

Yep stuck inthe 80/s and u can make me leave!!!!!BBBBAAAAUUUUUMMMMAAAAA!!!!!

Seriously! There is NOTHING better than the 80's. My birthday bash this year is 80's themed and it's gonna be the best party yet. I'm psyched! I'm already planning the goodie bags.

Slap bracelets
Slinky's
and Nerds candies!

You had a mullet before it was called a mullet--and it was cool!
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i dont want 2 remember

katt said:

most of these happened when i was still little, so i'ma go with the ones i remember:





popples edit
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I had skinny ties, parachute pants, white capezios...put eyeliner under my eyes when I went to the clubs..wore paco rabinny...

Short-short skirts, fish net stockings, feet crippling pointy high heels, hair long but spiking up everywhere – those where the days

i'm a child of the 80's cuz my daughter now wants some leggin's and a mini skirt....i'm like...damn..didn't I wear that.

I miss the candy! Lemon Heads and Charlie Chans. Pop Rocks, Now A Laters, Pixie stixs, Nerds and Jolly Ranchers. I could eat that stuff all day. I tried to eat a box of Nerds and ended up with a headache like you would not believe.

I did know how to play stairway to heaven on guitar

i got it..

here's the ULTIMATE thing from the 80's

does anybody remember...

"ON TV"?...that's what was on the black cable box with blue letters on it.

it was when cable first came out

for some reason, i remember the "Adults Only" time slot(no pun intended)...they would show x-rated movies around 10:45..and show the last one at 5 in the morning.

I do remember that means I'm getting old.

You know you're from New Jersey if.....

1 - There are no beaches, there's "the shore", and the road to the shore is the "Parkway", not the "Garden State Parkway"
2 - You know what a "WAWA" is and know of the location of at least 10 of them.
3 - You don't understand why there aren't more 24 hour diners elsewere in America.
4 - You can name every flavor of saltwater taffy.
5 - You've run out of money on the "Parkway".
6 - You STILL can't believe MTV actually went to Seaside Heights for Spring Break in 1998....
7 - .....and actually did it again in 2002.
8 - You know this is the only state that you don't need "New" to identify it,
(like, Mexico, York, Hampshire....doesn't work, does it?)
9 - You start planning for Memorial Day in February.
10 - You still haven't seen that many gardens.
11 - You only go to "the city" for day trips.
12 - Route 18 doesn't freak you out at night.
13 - You believe the Statue of Liberty is in New Jersey, not New York.
14 - You don't take shit from anybody.....
15 - ....especially people from New York or Philly, because YOU live here, not them. They just come
here for the summer, invading the beaches and bars, thinking they own the damn state,
who the hell do they think they are?!
16 - You know at least 2 people who still listen to Bruce Springsteen,
still refer to him as "The Boss", and actually seen him play with the E. Street Band
at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park.
17 - You know Paramus has 4 MAJOR malls within 3 miles of each other.
18 - You worked at a "Friendly's" in high school.
19 - You've spent St. Patricks Day in Belmar.
20 - You've been nearly run over by a tram car in Wildwood.
21 - You have a family member that retired to Cape May, Ocean Grove, Brick or Tom's River
instead of Florida.
22 - Donald Trump is mentioned daily in your local newspaper.
23 - Even your school made good italian subs, and they are called "subs", not a "submarine sanwhich",
"hoagie", or worse yet, a "hero"
24 - The Jets/Giants football games have actually started fights in your family.
25 - You can smell when it's low tide.
26 - You've been to the Great Adventure Safari and had to take the monkey "by pass" because
your dad had a padded vinyl roof on the car.
27 - People think you say "water" weird.
28 - Your car gets covered in yellow-green pollen in April.
29 - You know that ACME is an actual supermarket, not just in Looney Tunes cartoons.
30 - Because your town was probably founded before 1776 and all the restaurants, bars, and shops
have "ye", "olde", or "colonial" in their names.
31 - You know the myth of the Jersey Devil.
32 - You think the Olive Garden is the worst excuse for an italian restaurant ever.
33 - You remember when Hoboken was a ghetto, and not overpriced.
34 - There is a fruit and vegetable stand on every corner.
35 - You like vinegar or gravy on your french fries.
36 - You don't think of citrus fruit when someone mentions the "Oranges"
37 - You've ordered a hard roll with butter for breakfast before.
38 - You've know the way to Seaside Heights since you were 7.
39 - You remember that the "Two Guys" were from Harrison.
40 - You know that the entire state is not one big oil refinery.
41 - You know what a "jug handle" is and how to properly negotiate a "circle"
42 - You know the previous had to do with driving.
43 - You know what "White Castle" is and have eaten a sack of em at 3 in the morning before.
44 - You don't think "What exit (do you live near)?" is very funny.
45 - You know that people from the "609" area code are a little "different"
46 - You live within 20 minutes of the nearest mall.
47 - You refer to all highways and interstates by just their numbers.
48 - You knew someone in high school that had connections to the mafia.
50 - You or someone you know was seriously hurt at "Action Park"

and finally.....

50 - You have NEVER pumped your own gas.

jerseykrs said:

I never worked at Friendly's and I only know of like 3 wawa's ....they don't have them up by me....other than that.

What is a Jersey Devil?

ShySlantedEye1 said:

there's a couple of different stories...

here ya go: http://www.jerseyhistory....devil.html

It's a monster that lives in the pine barrens

luv4all7 said:

i'll get the Delorean warmed up and fly over, shall I?










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Sweeny79 said:

I thought it was about baseball.

A few more things from the 80s I loved...

Wacky Wall Walkers

Lick-n-stick Tattoos

The Facts Of Life

Blackstone Magic Sets

You Can't Do That On Television / The Third Eye / The Tommorrow People

Stand Up Spotlight with Rosie ODonnel

Jelly Bracelets

Dippity Doo

Fat Laces and Converse (had an awesome pair with turqoise suede stripes)

Alf

Alice

Those sunglasses with the blinking led lights, like in the Rapture video

GoBots (they were cool too! LOL)

When they would put records on cereal boxes, like Frankenberry

Ghostbusters cereal

Strawberry motherfucking Shortcake cereal, that would turn your milk pink

Thompson Twins

Neon Slime

Those pencils that you pull the lead tips out and shove them in the back and a new one pops out.

Tom said:

i remember getting one of those out of a box of corn pops, it was a blue one...within about a day it wouldn't stick to anything no more, since it was covered in carpet fibers and hair from me dropping it on the floor and not washing it off.


better yet, when nickelodeon was still good...



gobots were cheap as hell


same with smurfberry crunch cereal...i loved that stuff, i'd wanna eat it for dinner sometimes instead of what my mom or dad cooked


i loved those pencils, especially if they smelled like fruit or candy!

TheCountessOfRochester said:

i remember ONTV. we didn't have it so the channel would be all squiggly so me and my sister would sit and watch for the screen to straighten out so we could see the naked parts

ShySlantedEye1 said:

I think you mean hockey.



and that's where the team got the name.

brownsugar said:

for me when i was a kid, whenever i spent the weekend at my grandma's house i'd stay up till 12 in the morning, sneak-watching the softcore porn movies on cinemax. they always had the emmanuelle films on there, i remember them.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

i know right?



here's another thing from the 80's

remember the show "Silver Spoons?"

"here we are, face to face.a couple of silver spoons
hoping to find,we're two of a kind...
making a go,...making a go TOGETHEERR!
we're gonna find our way(insert 80's Van Halen-esque wannabe guitar riff here )
TOGETHERRR taking the time each day...
to learn all about those things you just can't buy...
two silver spoons together
you and..IIIIIEEE!"


shame i know that theme song.

ahhhh...those were the days!

luv4u said:

who else actually remembers the wedding of Luke and Laura? jeez that was a long time ago!

You know you're a child of the '80s if.....

you think the Yamaha DX7 is the greatest synthesizer of a time!

you remember all of the lyrics of 2 Live Crew's Hey, We Want Some Pussy& Throw That Dick!

you still play George Clinton's Atomic Dog at any party today.

you remember Janet's first 2 albums BEFORE Control.

you brought Girl Scouts cookies.

you used to wear British Knights, Filas, OR Ballys footwear.

you thought LL Cool J really was THE greatest rap artist of all time.

you remember the names of most of the black bands at the time (funk or rock)
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