To MEG (and any other 80's child)

[BJ]

Hi Meg (the one i was just talking to in chat)

here it is (i love it):-

YOU KNOW YOU WERE A CHILD OF THE 80'S IF...
> > >> >
> > >> >You remember snap bracelets getting you in trouble at school
> > >> >You ever played with "My Little Ponies"
> > >> >You remember friendship bracelets - ties that couldn't be broken
> > >> >You ever read Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, The Babysitters Club,
> > >> >or Sweet Valley High.
> > >> >You know all the words to "Ice Ice Baby".
> > >> >You had a crush on one of the New Kids on the Block members
> > >> >You remember the New Kids On The Block.
> > >> >You wanted to be on Star Search.
> > >> >You had Garbage Pal trading cards.
> > >> >You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before he had
> plastic
> > >>surgery,
> > >> >You wore one of those t-shirt rings or a scrunchie on one side of
your
> > >>shirt
> > >>during your youth.
> > >> >You wore french rolled pants, or the ones w/the zippers on the back
of
> > >>the legs
> > >> >You wore multiple pairs of socks in the middle of the summer just so
> you
> > >> >could be "hip" (purple and hot pink looked so good together!).
> > >> >You have puff painted your own shirt at least once.
> > >> >Cabbage Patch kids!
> > >> >You knew what Willis was "talkin' 'bout."
> > >> >You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off"!
> > >> >You were upset when She-ra, Princess of Power, and He-Man was
> cancelled.
> > >> >You can remember watching Full House and Saved by the Bell for
hours,
> > >>back
> > >> >when there were new episodes.
> > >> >You have seen at least 10 episodes of Fraggle Rock.
> > >> >You hold a special place in your heart for"Back to the Future."
> > >> >You wanted to be a Goonie. ("Goonies never say die.")
> > >> >You remember Madonna in her cone stage.
> > >> >You knew "The Artist" when he was humbly called"Prince."
> > >> >You even wore fluorescent-neon clothing...
> > >> >You could breakdance, or wished you could.
> > >> >You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system.
> > >> >You remember M.C. Hammer, (and owned a pair of"hammer pants"!)
> > >> >You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air".
> > >> >How many of you can recite the theme to DuckTales?
> > >> >You own any cassettes.
> > >> >You owned a pair of L.A. Gear, Keds, or Converse sandshoes.
> > >> >You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins or an ET lunchbox.
> > >> >You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf,(and
> how
> > >> >come Baby Smurf never grew up...)
> > >> >Gummy Bears, Transformers, You can't do that on Television, Double
> Dare,
> > >> >and Ridgy Didge are familiar to you.
> > >> >You ever had a Swatch Watch or POP-Swatch
> > >> >You actually spent countless hours trying to perfect the "Care Bear
> > >>Stare".
> > >> >And knew the song... the Carebear countdown...
> > >> >You thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye.
> > >> >You spent hours in the loungeroom building and re-building Lego
> cities.
> > >> >Do Polly Pockets or Popples ring a bell?
> > >> >Big wheels and bicycles with streamers were the way to go!
> > >> >Party like it's 1999" seemed SO far away!!
> > >> >You stayed up all night listening to Teddy Rupskin
> > >> >Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?
> > >> >If you still have a crimper in your bathroom drawer!
> > >> >If you remember singing Amy Grant's "Baby, Baby".
> > >> >You had more than one Star Wars action figure You loved your
acid-wash
> > >>jeans,
> > >>black stretch pants and big loop earrings.
> > >> >If you wanted to pick a lock with a toothbrush just like MacGyver
> > >> >You wanted to travel through time on Quantum Leap.
> > >> >You had at least one Hypercolor shirt.
> > >> >If you remember when rollerblades were the new thing.
> > >> >You were scared of the Gremlins.
> > >> >The Wonder Years was a part of your daily lifestyle.
> > >> >You had Hotwheel races down your street.
> > >> >Rainbow Brite...
> > >> >When Bum Bags were cool!
> > >> >How many trolls did you have?
> > >> >Does "Heros in a half shell" mean anything to you (TURTLE POWER!).
> > >> >Everything was rad, totally awesome, and tubular!!!
> > >> >You remember when the original Nintendo was the best $100 you could
> > >>spend.
> > >> >When Astro Boy was the Pokemon of the day.
> > >> >Do you know who killed Laura Palmer? Or were you not allowed to
watch
> TV
> > >> >at that hour ?
> > >> >When Kylie and Danni said 'goodnight Australia' on a weekly basis
> > >> >and later when you were embarrassed to say that you liked Dannii ?
> > >> >How cool was Punky Brewster and her rainbow socks?
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >IF YOU CAN IDENTIFY WITH AT LEAST HALF OF
> > >> >THESE,YOU ARE A CHILD
> > >> >OF
> > >> >THE
> > >> >80'S!!
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >
> >

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Eagles Rock!Go Ben and Jaxon!

 

[Stealth bomber]

I was born in 1977 but a few of them might apply to me. Certainly the ones about Ataris and Transformers

Call me a child of the early 80's I guess.

You might all find this interesting...when I was six my favorite song was Men at Work's "Down Under", and I had never even heard of Australia then

It was the first record I ever got. Still got it too!

 

[BJ]

born in 1977....I would say that would make you a child of the 80's! you were only like 13 when the 80's finished!
And atari was soo cool hey!?...i can remember the day we got one and it had like 100 built in games it....oh wow.....it was like the biggest thing since vegemite!!!
BJ

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Eagles Rock!Go Ben and Jaxon!

 

[I feel so old]

who can remember when "space invaders" was the most exciting (and only) video game out!

mind blowing!

 

[Agent 86]

i was a 'moon patrol' man myself....... can still hear that music in my poor tired brain on a quiet day

 

[servo]

ok I was born in 62 and consider myself a child of the 70's. Most of that stuff means nothing to me.

I do remember when space invaders first came out, and the song by Player 1.

I got my first tv/video game when I was 14. It was a big black box and had 3 games on it. Can't remember what it was called but the games were pong (tennis), squash and soccer. The screen was black, the lines and bat were white. Thats all it had. I was blown away. Played for ours at a time.

 

[meg]

That was ace BJ, very funny

megs

 

[Intresting!]

It overlooked some of the great 80's icons though:

* Rollerdisco.
* The Playboy & Kiss pinball machines.
* The domino/knocking them over craze.
* Hulkamania.
* As mentioned Space Invaders.
* Rubic's Cube.
* Mad Max.
* Con The Fruiterer.
* Bob Hawke.
* Ronald Reagan.
* Leg Warmers.

 

[Same Old's]

Hey Interesting, you forgot "Peristroka"

 

[lioness]

Agent86, I too spent many hours playin 'moon patrol' damn I loved that game

BJ thanks for that list, found myself chuckling at some of them, esp the purple and hot pink lookin soooooooo good together lol.

Born in 1977, I was a child of the 80's.

 

[Westy Boy]

Brilliant!!! How many memories did that bring back!?!! .... I just saw my 'whole' life flash right past me LOL

Time for some Wonder Years reminiscing…. SORRY!!!

>You know all the words to "Ice Ice Baby"..... ahhh Vanilla Ice... "rollin.... in his five point 0... (echo) 0 (echo) 0!!"... and i've got both of his cassettes

...but what happened to the rivalry with M.C. Hammer?? HAMMER TIME!!!

>You knew what Willis was "talkin' 'bout.... sorry.... i was with Arnold on that one.

>You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off"!..... if only we all had a Mr Miyagi figure in our lives to set us on the right path.... and win Karate tournaments.... instead of going outside and picking fights and standing on one leg... then falling over when trying to kick your opponent (who is also standing on one leg because he has seen the movie too!)....
When the girl was shocked that Ralph allowed her to drive his car, he replied with "hey, it's the 80's", implying that the feminist revolution/ equal rights movements had not gone unnoticed with him, and this gesture was a sign of the times!

>You were upset when He-Man got cancelled..... devastated... but more disappointed with the fall of Night Rider though... and Kit's return in Night Rider 2000 just wasn't the same in a Viper ;(

>You even wore fluorescent-neon clothing..... parachute Hang Ten boardies in green, orange and yellow was my style... so sue me!

>You could breakdance, or wished you could.... still do.... just call me Guido

>You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system..... for $100 i got to use a system based on how many times I could hit a button in a minute to make Duncan Armstrong (my hero in 88- who I imagined was the swimmer in the game) swim faster... Don’t forget the Commodore 64.... and it’s far superior brother... the Amiga

>You owned a pair of L.A. Gear sandshoes.... they were the nikes of the 80s! Reebok was the adidas of the 80s

>You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf... my mind wasn't advanced enough to "ponder" things.... except why Papa's smurf’s hat was always different and why the violent one never learnt that bombs didn’t achieve anything.... anyone remember the snorks?.... smurfs under water!

>Double Dare and Ridgy Didge are familiar to you.... I was a contestant on Double Dare.. YAY!!... but I always struggled with the Ridgy Didge hand signal.

>If you wanted to pick a lock with a toothbrush just like MacGyver.... and simultaneously cut the restricting ropes around him, stop the bomb (with 2 seconds left) and open a safe.... all with only a bucket of water!

>You had at least one Hypercolor shirt.... two actually... both ended up orange with no colour change in sight after 3 weeks... damn unpoliced 80's false advertising!

>If you remember when rollerblades were the new thing.... and roler skates would never become obsolete

>You had Hotwheel races down your street.... hehehe... mine had a supercharger coming out of the bonnet.

>Does "Heros in a half shell" mean anything to you..... ahhh the Ninja Turtles... Donatello was such a role model!... Everything was rad, totally awesome, and tubular!!! .... Michaelangelo influenced a generation.

>You remember when the original Nintendo was the best $100 you could spend..... I think you are forgeting the above mentioned Atari!

So am I an 80's child?

[This message has been edited by Westy Boy (edited 17 November 2000).]

 

[Grendel]

Arrrggghhhh nononononono BJ what have you done!!

Its all coming back now, the horror the horror

The trouble with remincising is it brings back so many memorys. - Steven Wright

 

[Mobbs]

Just found a video store recently that's stocked to the nines with Dr Who movies.

Poor missus (who is from the US) doesn't know what the fuss was about.

Now, if only I could find Catweazle, and Ahhh Sta-ar Blazers ...

 

[Shinboners]

Don't forget all those John Hughes films...the Breakfast Club was a classic...every movie that had Molly Ringwald playing the female lead....oh, and Ferrie Buellers Day Off which triggerred off the shortest fashion trend in history, the "Ferris Says" t-shirts! More on clothes and who remembers shoes with steel caps? And the Felix the Cat T-shirts? Fake Gucci t-shirts leaving the Queen Vic Market by the truckload and those hawkers in the Bourke Street Mall selling fake bottles of Yves Saint Laurent perfumes. Hey, the 80s were so long ago that Melbourne's King Street was not only the coolest place to be on the weekend evenings, but it was also the safest place to be....and not a tabletop dancing bar in sight. For the more alternatively minded, does anyone remember the following....Industry, Subterrain, The Beehive, Club Mud, the Seaview Ballroom, Thrash and Treasure, Clockwork Orange...oh, hang on, one other name....Sanction (on a Tuesday night with that infamous wine fountain!). The 1987 stock market crash and taking the day off uni to see if the stockbrokers would indeed, jump out of their windows (they didn't), and what ever did happen to Christopher Skase, Alan Bond, Laurie Connell, John Spalvins, and their mates? Don't forget the mates, and don't forget that you were an arseh*le if you sacked a worker after the Americas Cup win in '83 (????) when I also remember someone mentioning something about no child living in poverty by a set date...Messiahs come and go, hey?

 

[Pessimistic]

I have a mental block on the 80's

Wasn't that the time that terrible woman was in power in Britain ?

Dan24 is now going to reply what a wonderful leader she was.

 

[Shinboners]

Here doggie.....c'mon boy.....

Should be in the music thread, but I wonder how many anti-Thatcher songs were written during the 80s.....hmmmm....

[This message has been edited by Shinboners (edited 17 November 2000).]

 

[Pessimistic]

Mind you, the Eighties would have been a great time to be in OZ

-Distinctive OZ Rock sound

-A$1.50 to the pound

-Hawthorn dominance

 

[Bloodstained Angel]

Shinboners - the answer to that is NOT ENOUGH !

cheers

 

[Bernie]

Being of an age, the 80s are a blur only really referencable by football eg. I bought my house on the day Bombers thrashed Pies in the Prelim Final so it must be 1984 ( that kind of thing ).

The good thing about the 80s was that we actually went to the hairdresser again ( there are photos taken in the 70s too hideous to reveal even now ) and someone actually mentioned that 'brown and purple don't go together'.

The BAD 80s - the decade of the 'mates' - thing was those 'They said you'd never make it' ads , trying to create these 'super Aussies' and giving the Tall Poppy Syndrome a bad name. In retrospect, it's a great lesson in propaganda and attempted maipulation - we now know what that's all about and are appropriately cynical - hence the success of Roy and HG's The Dream. That's our contribution to the world - spot the w***er. Fair to say Bondy and Chris S. were right up there.

 

[sandie]

I remember living through all those fads, but not as a child but a parent. Spare a thought for all those long suffering parents who spent a fortune on transformers, cabbage patch kids, ataris & having to buy 2 pairs of socks at a time, just so you kids could wear 2 different colours.
My fav atari games, I used to play it while the kids were at school, lol, were froggers & pitfall.
cheers.

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mantis

 

[Shinboners]

The ultimate 80s fad: pet rocks.

Scully, I think I have the answer....there is an 80s revival at Arden Street and hence the rumours of them wanting to recruit Ryan O'Conner.

Cheers
SB

p.s. On second thoughts, wouldn't O'Conner qualify as a pet boulder?

 

[Magpie Gal 19]

Thanks BJ u just brouhgt back my childhood memories!

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

snap bracelts - wouldnt dare to go anywhere with out one

my little ponys - I had a pink one! and hired the movie millions of times

The baby sitters Club - One of my fav books when I was young! How lucky was Kristy to have Logan as her boyfriend. ah he was hot than. Also Hoiw can u forget the Baby sitter Club videos that came out late 80's early 90's and the board game. Which all of my friends and I wanted

New Kids on the Block - I have still got their cassette and remember singing their hit song (I forgwet what is waz called) over and over again. Also Singing their other song Tonite.

Michael Jackson - I am ashmed of saying that I used to like him when I waz young. But not anymore

the Tshirt thingy tied to one sied. waz such a kool look . Back than ofcause

Some of my fav Thsirts back than was the ones I painted with the paint stuff and that puffy paint.

Ah I still got my Cabage Patch Kid around somewhere. I think I called her Rosemary she went on all my holidays with me.

I had to watch Full House every day at 4pm. after school. Little Michelle was cute my DJ was my fav.


MC Hammer - U cant touch this.

Quantum Leap. Remeber the name of the show but I dont think I can remeber sitting down watching it

Hyper coulour Tshirts. Remeber mum bying everyone in my family one. I had the purple one turing to pink. or was it the other way around. I wore it to death. Oh dont forget the Hyper coulor socks too

Rollerblade. Roller Skates Rock!!!!

Wonder years - u could everforget Kevin, winnie and co


Bum bags -


I had to watch Yount Talent Time every sati nite

Punky Bruster - was my hero. I still got my punky
Bruster doll lying around somewhere picking up all the dust


Ok thats all.
I hope this means I am an 80's chick.
well it better because I was born early in the 80's



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NICKY DAVIS KICKS ASS!!!
GO THE MIGHTY PIES!!

 

[Arch]

ahhh- all brings back so many memories doesnt it ???? Great stuff BJ.

Being another 1977 baby- I consider myself a fully fledged 80's kid.

The transformers and masters of the universe figures were super popular at my primary school. But She-ra was a crock and Hordak was a total try hard of a villian (no match for Skeletor)

I also recall reading Tintin books,the choose your own adventures books, the windies thrashing us in every cricket match i ever watched, INXS getting huge, BROS (when will I , will I, be famous), The stutter rap, Poison, entire days down the milkbar hogging the Double Dragon machine, and the words tops, ace, rad and mint.

ah to be a kid again.

 

[James2]

Ahh Memories......

As for gameshows, who can forget "It's a Knockout!"

What a classic that show was.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

A child of the early eighties I guess.

The emergence of gender confused singers: Boy George and Marilyn. (took me a while to figure it out)

The coolest song was c-c-c-c-ccomputer games by Mi-Sex or M-m-m-mm-m-my sharona by the Knack. Lots of stuttering in the eighties!!!

You may have worn a Choose Life t-shirt before you decided where you would wake up and go-go to.

Maybe you could help Bucks Fizz make their mind up.

You knew who you were gonna call if you had a ghost in your house.

Sweat bands were trendy (hmmm)

You remember Duran Duran's Girls on Film clip. (Come on guys, it's burnt into the memory. Probably your first sexual experience

).

Jacko was not a team player at all but an individual.

ALF was the coolest character on T.V

'****** bands'(excuse the term - that's what they were called in Qld at least) - those rubber seals off oil drums that everyone insisted on wearing.

Radiator's 'You Have The Right To Remain Silent' was required music at every teenage party. (like we thought the girls might take the hint - Give you what

????).

This stuff just pours out when you start thinking. How do I make it stop???