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Also, why didn't anyone mentioned He-man or She-ra??? Come on people!

Hey I'm a Jersey girl who was a teenager in the '80's........I think we're to blame for the hole in the ozone layer using all that hairspray........ eek

But..

Am I the only one who's kind of horrified by the 80's fashion revival that's going on?

I mean it was ok for us, it was the first time around and we didn't know any better lol
But I find I have to stop myself from pointing and laughing at the kids that I see on the streets now, looking like something out of a Bananarama video..

I was born in '86 and I remember...

Ending your sentence with "psych"

Solving the Rubics cube.....by peeling off the
stickers

Watching the pound puppies

Singing the rap to "the Fresh Prince of
Bel-Air"

Three words: M.C. Hammer

Singing the entire theme song! to "Duck Tales"

The crypt keeper

Reading Kool-Aid man comics

Watching Fraggle Rock

Plastic streamers on the handle bars of
your bike

When it was actually worth getting up early on a
Saturday to watch cartoons

Wearing a pony tail to the side of your head

Seeing the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
on the big
screen

Getting super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day
in computer
class at school

Playing the game "Mash" with friends at school

My dad BUYING me have garbage pail kids stickers

Reading "Tales of a Fourth Grade
Nothing" and all the Ramona books

Knowing the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off"

Wearing fluorescent, neon if you will,
clothing

What Michael Jackson looked like
before his nose fell off

Taking Lunch boxes to school

Pondering why Smurfette was the ONLY
female smurf

The craze, and then the banning of
slap
bracelets

Using "NOT" at the end of
every statement

Thinking my childhood friends would never
leave
because we exchanged "friendship bracelets"

Owning a pair of Jelly Shoes

After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you couldn't
stop saying "That guy's creepy, isn't he?"

"I've fallen...and I can't get up!"

Going to the skating rink before there
were inline skates

Getting seriously injured on a slip and slide

Knowing not to mix poprocks and soda

'skip-it'

Glow Worm and the cartoon

Dancing along with the Bangles in
"Walk Like An
Egyptian"

Heathcliff the orange cat

California Raisins Christmas claymation
special

MISS MARY MACK MACK MACK ALL DRESSED IN BLACK BLACK
BLACK.....

Boom boxes instead of CD players

Both "Gremlins" movies

Transformers

Overalls, everyone was wearing
them

"Care bear stare!!"

MY Little Pony Tails

Alf, the little furry brown alien from
Malmac

Large amounts of hairspray used

Very stylish headbands

New Kids on the Block when they were "New"

You remember watching The Cosby show

You remember Michael J. Fox in Family Ties and Back
to the Future

And!!!!!:

Huffy was the bike to own.

Spandex and leotards were in. No, really they were.

Rock was rock, country was country, pop was pop, and music didn't have an identity crisis.

Ditto for monopoly.

Atari!

why was Smurfette the only female smurf?


*sings* in west philiadelphia born and raised on the playground is where i spent most of my days chillin out maxin ralaxin all cool and all shootin sum b-ball outside of the school wen a couple of guys they were up 2 no good started makin trouble in ma neighborhood i got in 1 lil fight n my mom got scared n said ur movin with ur auntie n uncle in bel air
i whistled for a cab n wen it came near the license plate said fresh n it had dice in the miroor if anythin i could say that this cab was weird but i thot naww 4get yo home 2 bel airrrrr. i pulled up 2 the house bout 7 or 8
an i yelled 2 the cabby yo home smell ya lata
looked at my kingdom i was finally there ta sit on my throne as the prince of bel air..dunt dunt dunt dunt dunt, dunnunna dunt dunt dunt dunnunna dunt *fade in episode*



two words: hammer time!



And I'm still disappointed that I couldn't be a member of the babysitter's club and my mom wouldn't let me start my own club! Where the heck is Stoneybrook anyhow?


LOVED the Ramona books


Those SkipIt things were the reason why kids back then were so much thinner than kids now...that and hop-scotch, hide n seek, and tag


And what's up with that survey completely missing BOP-IT and SIMON SAYS!

I've been laughing nonstop as I've read my way through the list. Loved Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Superfudge, and the Ramona Books. I was hooked on Voltron when it had the 5 lions, and I annoyed the heck out of my older siblings by always watching Saturday morning cartoons - all morning long and as many after school cartoons as I could manage. Thundercats, ewoks, smurfs, He-man, She-ra, Gem (is truly outrageous, truly, truly, truly outrageous). I sang along to "Conjuction Junction", and "I'm Just a Bill" and ohhh, what where the others?!

I remember when we first got cable we had a box that you had to either get up to change or pull across the room and risk tripping everyone with the cord (I tripped myself up more than a few times).

My first computer was an Apple II plus with a dinky 6" square sreen, a built in keyboard, and a massive amount of space taken up by the CPU. Green print on a black screen, no other colors. I was always playing Loadrunner on it with a joystick - spent way too much time on that game.

Did anyone else get sucked into the cabbage patch kid craze when they first came out? I had to, just had to have one.

And Harry and the hendersons, madonna's like a virgin, my lil' ponies, G.I Joe, Spiderman and his Amazing friends....