YOU KNOW YOU GREW UP IN THE EIGHTIES IF…

1. Cabbage patch kids were legitimate members of your family.

2. You watched the Pound Puppies.

3. You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"

4. You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish.

5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby - Sitter's Club and you
even started a club of your own.

6. You owned those lil Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.

7. You know that "WHOA" comes from Joey on Blossom.

8. Two words: M.C. Hammer

9. You even watched "Fraggle Rock".

10. You had plastic streamers on your handlebars.

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. Your favourite skirt flew up past your waist
if you spun around quick enough

14. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.

15. You saw the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on the big screen.

16. You made your mum buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.

17. You played the game "MATCH" (Mansion,Apartment,Toilet,Church,House)

18. You walked like an Egyptian.

19. You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in Kindergarten.

20. You remember reading "Are you there God, it's me, Margaret"

21. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF"

22. You wanted to be a Goonie.

23. You even wore fluorescent clothing.

24. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off...

25. You have even pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.

26. You took Lunch Pails to school.

27. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.

28. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence.

29. You remember Hypercolor t-shirts.

30. Barbie and the Rockers was your favourite band.

31. You thought Sheera and He-Man should hook up.

32. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged friendship bracelets.

33. You even owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes.

34. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I?"

35. You remember, "I've fallen and I can't get up"

36. You remember going to the skating rink before there were in-line skates.

37. You even got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide or monkey bars

38. You remember when the film clip to "Like a Prayer" was banned

39. You have even played with a Skip-It and Gak

40. You never admitted to wanting to play catch and kiss but always did

41. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.

42. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.

43. You remember Popples.

44. "Don't worry, be happy"

45. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks.

46. You wore socks scrunched down.

47. The bigger the scrunchie in your hair, the better.

48. You collected transformers

49. Being the winner of two squares at school was a braggable achievement

50. You used phrases like "not the momma" & again" to be annoying to your siblings after watching the Dinosaurs

51. "Miss MARY MACK MACK MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK"

52. You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.

53. You remember watching both "Gremlins" movies.

54. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!!"

55. You played elastics at recess and 'my mother
your mother lives down the same street.. .’ at lunch.

56. You had ice-cream cake for your birthday

57. Home and Away hasn't been the same since Shane and Angel left

58. You remember watching Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales"

59. You thought Doogie Howser was hot.

60. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien
from Melmac

61. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were famous.

62. You knew all the characters names and their
life stories on "Saved by the Bell", the ORIGINAL class.

63. You know all the words to Bon Jovi - SHOT THRU THE HEART.

64. You just sang those words to yourself

65. You cut your t-shirts in half and wore it with your homemade Levi shorts... (the shorter the better)

66. You remember when mullets were cool!

67. You had a mullet!

68. You tore holes in the knees of your jeans on purpose

69. You still sing, "We are the World"

70. You didn't know monkey magic was mimed

71. Cowabunga!

72. Perms were cool especially your fringe

36. You remember going to the skating rink before there were in-line skates.

I was a skating junkie,4 nights a week sometimes moreand i`ve still got mine but alas no skating rink anymore,and was born in the 60`s,must get them out and go for a skate

16. You made your mum buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.

Oh my god... i think i might still have one of these somewhere? It's is funny how many of the things on that list i can remember, and are sooooo true! I had like 5 different hypercolour shirts i got from Supre when i was little... and the funny thing is, i'm now working there! I lived in bike shorts and reebok sneakers, watched fresh prince of bell air after school (always sang the theme song), and collected snap bracelets!

Thanks foxy_fuschia, i've just had the biggest flash back of my life! That list is awesome and so true!

Was I ever born in the 1940s!!. Fewer than 10 of them mean anything to me.

transformers rock !!!!!! and the original ninja turtles are way tougher than the new ones

Yeah i can remember a whole heap of them and a few others, my sister making dances to "Girls just wanna have fun", SEGA master system II with alex the kid in a miricle world built in, the Jet Hopper remote controlled car, all the nintendo hand games especially donkey kong, those fluro curly laces for your reeboks, (i personally had a pair of reebock thunderjams) Spokedokies, the skateboard with the wings on the side, the banning at school of collecting the garbage gang collectors cards and Speaking about the inline skates which was only the american term for rollerblades and playing street hockey just like they did in the mighty ducks movies.... I hope i haven't bored you too much.

OHHH and voltron, they were cowabunga dude.... sorry.

i feel sorry for those born after 1990, they really have no idea what an awesome decade they missed out on. so much shit today thats popular is from that time.

I started grade 1 in 1980, i remember when rap dancing started and films like Beat Street were on TV and I remember when The A Team's first show aired. Battlestar Galactica, oh help me I am still lost in the 80's. And I can still do the backspin and the worm, B Boys of today don't have %$#@ on me and now I am 31. But its good to see I am not the only one, stay FLY, Cheers Damo.

I was going thru that list thinking of all the awsome memories! Bike shorts under my pleated skirt, giving out friendship braclets, care bear stare! And monkey magic was one of my fave shows (sad but true) hehehe

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe anyone?

What about the incredible hulk!!!

Hulk hogan V's Andre the Giant!

Tuffie wheels (Fibreglass/ plastic) on a BMX were cool

I remember too many things off that list!

Definitely used to wake up soooo early on Sat mornings to watch cartoons on the Early Bird Show with Daryl Cotton and that little white fluffy duck (can't remember the name though, it had a cute 'lil voice!). Also rememember Agro's Cartoon Connection...
I had one of the first Cabbage Patch Kids (called Louise Effie. I still have it, though her hair is braided in tiny plaits!)
I used to roller skate too.... in primary school I was beating all the big guys in the speed skates.... tehehe
Odd socks were also in thanx to Punky Brewster!

Anyway, I hate the eighties. Such bad taste, and to see it all coming back in.... ewww!
And don't get me started on the music from then..... :puke

The eighties, a wonderous time filled with happy memories which make for wonderful drunken 'laugh till u wet ur pants' conversation and all round embarassment.

hmm, my sister lurved Punky Brewster... I always wondered why a young girl ended up living with a strange old man, maybe her odd socks and 'tude' were an indicator of something more sinister? :o
Oh and as for cabbage patch kids, well that was all part of the Brewster conspiracy, wherby some sick puppy wanted to mess with young minds in an effort to create a global mooning movement. :P
(Great fancy dress number for those a little more adventurous: couple of balls of wool and a permannet marker!). I am certain Punky and cabbage patch kids came from the same 'great' mind. Lets face it, they're weird!

Fraggle Rock rules!

Ninja turtles. Like many a good thing, marketing gurus bring things back from the dead in the effort to make some money. It is always inferior to the original and you feel ripped off.

They better not touch Mad Max, the goodies or prisoner, is all I can say.

I just wanted to punch Peewee herman back then, still do now! Retard

Yeehaa, rollerskating rink!.... funky orange wheeled, brown booted vessels of tinea! Nah nah, I got speedskates, so much cooler! Mum used to take us to the Carlingford skating rink, there are some songs which when I hear, brings back memories of that 'rink aroma' and all the funky flashing lights.

Yay maccas parties....... Is there no end to the scheming tactics of that lowlife clown when it comes to making a buck. Though happy toys, er I mean meals were yet to be marketed on a sinister level. I hate Maccas, my son now hates that I hate maccas, but thats because he is under the ad machines spell.. grrrr

Popples, puggles, the dark crystal, neverending story, labrynth, strange creatures influencing fertile minds. Muppets, webster, and that lovable arnold, so many kookie creatures created back then. Is it no wonder that drugs are getting more and more hard core as our culture looses the abundant 'fantasy' element, replaced by playstations, 'makeovers', infotainment and reality TV.

'Don't worry be happy' I just ate my scrunchy. 80's schmaties, Rainman just squeezed in!

Transformers more than meets the eye! My son(6) now loves transormers, he loves hanging with his 'uncle'(26) talking endlessly about them as his uncle has a nice collection. Funny thing is when he hangs with the boys (his uncles friends, all late 20's) I have to tell them to give his toys back. Fights all round, grrr!

"You used phrases like "not the momma" & again" to be annoying to your siblings after watching the Dinosaurs" still do at times, thanks for reminding me.

Gremlins... loved scaring lil sis with that one, wait till she would go to the oustside loo......... creep up behind and start scrating the back wall, making gremlin sounds..... ahhahahahaha,, pants down, runs screaming to mum!

Freakin Home and away.. who remembers Sally's 'imaginary' friend? Milko I think his name was. Oh and how she used to hang with Lance and Martin the trailer trash? Bwaahaahahaha Sally and her big boobies grew up to become the trailer trash Queen! God she was such a dork.

I hated ALF.. with a passion.. grrr

Yay.. Shot thru the heart and your to blame............his hair always reminded me of a shaggy dog. All those puffy heads,, grr shaggy dogs.. all of them. :puke

Call me non-conformist, but I NEVER thought mullets were cool, there is just something fundamentally wrong with them especially the permed or super frizzy ones. Cweepie.

Hey and who duzn't sing 'we are the world' when pissed. Oh and 'What about me' used to be another cool one till that knob spoilt it by dragging it back into the mainstream. Grrr, I thought young talent time was dead and burried.

MONKEY.. WHOOHOO.. loved that show, but thought pigsy was the most disgusting creature. They are all so ugly, except tripitaka Hands up who used to whistle at the clouds waving a broomstick in the air, hitting ur sibling over the head for fun?

Perms, like mullets freaked me out, there was something wrong with hair stylists back then, obviously the offending hallucigens have been banned from products this century. You can tell the hairdressers whom must be using up thier 'secret stash' of cheap 80's product, they're the ones in country towns and run down shopping centres near retirement villages. Usually there is a shed or industrial estate nearby.

The eighties were warped.

i think u maybe need to re-write and say for the early 80's babies. us late 80s babies can only relate to maybe 21 25 27 29 37 41 44 46 60 71...

um, I really think that's more a CHild of 80's rather than babies of the 80's. Sadly, you seem to have homed in on most of stuff I hated about the 80's.

For instance,
the world would have been a much better place without...
Care bears
cabbage patch kids
full house
doogie houser
rainbow bright
home and away
and most of the other stuff you mentioned.

However,
at least you got BonJovi in.

But what about,
Def Leppard,
Twisted Sister
Guns n Roses
Technotronic
Knight rider (the car, not David Hassalhoff)
The A team
Monkey Magic
Ferris Bueler's day off
The breakfast club
Better off Dead
Blow waves
Duran duran
Early Metalica
80's Skating
Run DMC

That is just the highlights of some of the Good bits.

BTW, anyone remember watching Simon Townsend's wonder World, or Secret Valley?

And yes, I had a mullet at one time.



[ Edited on 12-12-2005 by pete wood ]

go secret valley........young kids on mini motor bikes, and that spider McGerk (i think).

As for maccas birthday partys, a mate had a similar phone number to the local maccas and he would occassionally get a wrong number
calling to make a booking for a kids b'day party.
Instead of informing them of their mistake he would take the booking.
Come the day we would go to said maccas and wittness the group of kids and agrivated parents wondering why their was no party.

So a big sorry to anyone who missed out on their b'day party at the jindalee maccas in brisbane.

Lee.

ha ha thats classic buzzbug.

sadly i was born in 86 so missed alot of this obviously awesome stuff u guys got up to.

anyone seen real cancun? the back in the 80's song the nerdy guy sings is pretty cool