Subject: HUMOUR: Remembering the 80s YOU'RE LOST BETWEEN A BABY BOOMER AND A GENERATION X'ER IF... >You remember when Jordache jeans were cool. >You wore anything Izod, especially those windbreakers that folded up into a pouch you could wear around your waist. >In your fifth grade class picture you were wearing an Izod shirt with the collar up. >You know the words to any Weird Al Yankovic song by heart. >You ever rang someone's doorbell and said, "Landshark". >Three words: "Atari", "IntelliVision" and "Coleco". Sound familiar? >You remember "Good Rockin' Tonite" before the days of MTV. >While in high school, you and your friends discussed elaborate plans to get together at the end of the century and play Prince's "1999" until = you passed out from partying. >You remember when music that was labeled alternative, really was. >You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the mini van. >You rode in the back of the station wagon and faced the cars behind = you. >You've ever conversationally used the phrase "Jane, you ignorant slut." >You watched HR Puffenstuff as a child but now that you're older, you really understand that it would have been much better had you known = about drugs at the time. >You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phrases: "When I was younger..."or "When I was your age..."or "You = know, back when...". >"Schoolhouse Rock" played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language. >You're starting to view getting carded to buy alcohol as a GOOD thing. >You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Madonna or Cyndi Lauper video. >You remember with pain the sad day when the "Green Machine" hit the = streets and made your old "Big Wheel" quite obsolete. >You honestly remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever = possibly get better special effects than those in the movie "TRON". >Girls thought Sean Cassidy was dreamy and lusted after Ted, the ship's = photographer, on "The Love Boat". >You freaked out when you found that you now fall into the "26 - 50" age category on most questionnaires. >Your hair, at some point in time in the 80's, became something which = can only be described by the phrase "I was experimenting". >You're doing absolutely nothing pertaining to your major. >You're starting to believe (now that it wouldn't affect YOU) that maybe having the kids go to school year-round wouldn't be such a bad idea = after all. >You ever wanted to be "gagged with a spoon". >U2 is too "popular" and "mainstream" for you now. >You ever used the phrase "kiss my grits" in conversation. >You ever remember trying to guess the episode of the Brady Bunch from the first scene. >You spent endless nights dreaming about being the Bionic Woman or = Wonder Woman or the Six Million Dollar Man. >You had ringside seats for Luke and Laura's wedding on "General = Hospital". >You remember "Hey, let's be careful out there". >You know who shot J.R. >Your parents wanted you to attend medical school but you decided it was = pointless since Quincy got all the babes anyway. >This rings a bell "...and my name is Charlie. They work for me." >You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway To Heaven" on the guitar. >You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on, after all, look at Tab. >You know all the words to the double album set of Grease. >You ever had a Dorothy Hamill haircut. >You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed 867-5309 just to see if Jenny would answer. >"All skate, change directions" means something to you. >You owned a pair of rainbow suspenders just like Mork used to wear. >You bought a pair of Vaans and wanted to order a pizza in history class so you could be just like Jeff Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont = High". >You owned a preppy handbook. >You were too young to go see the "Blue Lagoon" so you just had to = settle for second hand reports. >You remember when there was only PG and R....none of this PG 13 crap. >You learned to swim about the same time "Jaws" came out and still carry = the emotional scars to this day. >You remember when your cable TV box had the three rows of numbers and = you had to move the selector switch accordingly. >You actually believed everything Leonard Nimoy told you on "In Search Of...". >The "ABC After School Special", "My Mom's Having A Baby", actually taught you stuff you didn't know. >Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those 'brick-size' = packages of Bazooka gum. (I preferred "Hubba Bubba") >Bo and Luke Duke. >VCR's cost $1,000. >There was nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together. >Rotary dial telephones. >You actually believed that Mikey, famed for his Life Cereal = commercials, died after eating a packet of "Pop Rocks" and drinking a = Coke. >You searched all over for the jeans with glittery designs on the pockets. >You've ever eaten a candy ring, necklace, cigarette or whistle. >Gloria Vanderbilt stretch jeans were the height of fashion. >You prefer roller skates to roller blades. >You ever thought someone was cool because they had a "bendable" pencil. = Or because they had a mechanical pencil or painter's paints or parachute = pants. >You ever had the poster of Farrah Fawcet-Majors in the one piece swimsuit. Or had the Farrah Fawcet lunchbox or the Farrah binder or = spiral notebook. >If you ever wore Garanimals. (Hey!! At least my clothes matched!!) >If the phrases "Na-nu Na-nu" or "Shazbatt!" mean anything to you. >If you ever secretly practiced your moon-walk. >If you ever argued over which was better...."Close Encounters" or "Star Wars". >You remember when HBO was new and they played "Gone With The Wind"about = a million times. >You remember when MuchMusic was new and they played "Video Killed the = Radio Star" about a jillion times. >You ever thought Bonnie Tyler was a good singer. >You tried "Billy Beer". >You ever wanted a Ronco product or ever bought a K-Tel record. >You had to chew a red tablet after brushing your teeth to see how well you did. >"I'm Chevy Chase and you're not...". >"Rock-Em Sock-Em Robots". >If you know the words to Steve Martin's song "King Tut" or ever say......"Well, excuuuuuuuuussse ME!"....or "I'm a WILD and CRAZY GUY!" >You ever "feathered" your hair. >If you ever even considered owning "Mood Rings" or "Pet Rocks". >If you remember when the televangelists were really concerned about dungeons and dragons. >"Pacman", "Frogger" and "Centipede", friendship pins, colored = hairspray, >Martian head bands and you can't get the word "like" out of your vocabulary. >This timeline appropriately describes actual events in your life: "Star Wars" opens, you are just hitting the double digit ages and you think the creatures are WAY cool. "The Empire Strikes Back" opens, you are now in early double digit ages and you are convinced that the special effects are much better, the characters are WAY cooler and you want one of every collectible out = there. "Return Of The Jedi" hits the theatres.....you are now a full-blown teenager and you cannot take your eyes off Princess Leia's = breasts or Han Solo's butt. >The theme song to the "Greatest American Hero" still comes back to you = on occasion...."Believe it or not I am walking on air, I never thought I = could be so freeeee, Flying away on a wing and a prayer, Who could it = be, Believe it or not, it's just me". Laugh a little, then send this message to your grade six best friend, if = you still know what city they live in. If not, just think you can = probably find their address on the net. Isn't that scary!! *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* "I had a glass of water... I mixed it myself; one part oxygen, two parts hydrogen... I don't trust anybody." -- Steven Wright =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=