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

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

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.

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

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 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'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 still watch things on Beta tapes

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 feeling in your thumb is only now just returning after holding down the Atari joystick to control the racecar in Enduro Racer

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

You can sing all the words to "One Night in Bangkok" by Murray Head, and now you understand that it is about chess.

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

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."

When you saw luging at the Winter Olympics you poured water down your driveway and tried it yourself.

A piece of folded paper and two hands could tell your fortune.

Knickers and leg warmers were cool

You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar and choreographed "Dancing Queen" by yourself in your room.

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

You wanted to be "The Hulk" for halloween

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

If you remember Bruce Willis from Moonlighting, not Die Hard

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

If you ever used Lee Press-On Nails

If you wear jelly shoes

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

heres a side question. can you find 2 that fit in the 70's?

Wow!

Good job finding all those Dark Star!

You forgot the shirt with tails, the bigger the better

Aquanet was the hairspray of choice

and the Bonnie Bell lipsmacker

Those where the days

I'm gonna take a guess here, but I think the two things that don't fit are probably the Oscar Mayer weenie song, and the oooh no, Mr. Bill.

Tell me would the Salerno cooky song fit in the 70's or the 80's.
It kinda went like this:

You can looky, looky, looky
but you'll never find a cooky
with a better butter batter than Salerno.

i glad i wasn't alive for all that eighties stuff...sounds like a bunch of preppy girls, ridiculous clothing/hair, and a waste of money...

that's actually the 90's.
if i remember right, preps would get beaten up in the 80's, not do the beating.

i sorry mr.80's

i was born in 83. not really an 80's kid, but i do remember all that stuff.

lol......thats great stuff!!

The 80's were very tacky, but didn't feel like it at the time. I never did subscribe to the fashion styles of the era. I had long hair and wore my Iron Maiden rock jersey on the days my Styx jersey was dirty.

G'N'R came out then too, I wore the words of my cassette tape I listened to them so much.

The 80's were fun I was a teenager in the 80's

In my mom's basement I still have kicking around somewhere:
An old Atari computer
An old Intellivison video game that you hooked up to the TV
Risk game board
Trivial Pursuit game board

Lots of old records, buttons, posters, magazines etc.

I also remember lots of stuff to embarrassing to post



...you get the idea

Dot9M

the main thing i remember from the 80's was the carpets.
what happened to the 80's carpets? as soon as 1990 rolled around, 80's carpets dissapeared!!

I was 5 in 1980 and a teenager by the end of the 80's. Oh yes those were the days, Big Hair with tons of hairspray, even bigger shoulder pads, neon glo socks, smiley face t-shirts, Wham, Paisley print shirts, Boy George, Bad perms,The London scene and Punk, Sid Vicious. drum machines, Kylies first hit, Duran Duran, Battle Star galatica. Star Wars, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Maggie Thatcher, Care Bears, HUGE palstic earrings including really strange ones like cups and saucers, Thundercats, Mel and Kim, Atari, Dirty Dancing...

The 80's was actually a very cool era musically. As for the dress sense it was cool. Alot of thrift shop shopping going on and being original.

The 80's was all about originality, well here in the UK anyway.

I like Ferris Bueller(sp?) . in fact, according to my mother, I was named after his best friend. Yeah, kinna disconcerting........
Neways....
I'm glad I missed all that other stuff

I must say Angelfish, i prefered your other avatar and sig pic.

**sniffsniff**
but Johnny's sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo pretty.

i know, he's obviously homosexual and it's frightening me.

haha

**whacks**
no he's not!
**whacks more**
takeitbacktakeitbacktakeitback!!!!!

Thats a great list, and how true!!! I remember the 80's quite well. You did forget; wearing a thick belt over your long shirt. The Mohawk! Multicolored spiked hair! Does anyone want to " Wang Chung" tonight? I think "Slam dancing" started in the 80's too. Oh Dear! I am getting old!

Anyone P****d off when Mike Reid banned "relax" from the radio!

all pop culture eventually turns tacky. then it becomes ridiculous, then modern kids find it hard to beleive anybody ever wore that stuff.

I love 'Relax' great tune! do you remember the t-shirts people used to wear as well with Relax written over them.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The 80's was without a doubt the WORST decade of them all.

God bless the 80's