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How you know you experienced the 90's:

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  • 18-01-2006 11:31am
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭


    1) 10p Mr Frosty Ice Pops on lonng summer days!

    2) Gordon the Goffer!

    3) You could do or tried to do the Prodigy step. 'You're no good 4
    me....'

    4) You owned or longed for an Adidas three stripe tracksuit

    5) You owned a compilation tape with TOP TUNES such as "Mr Vain", "What
    is
    love" and "Rhythm is a dancer" and 'How Bizarre, How Bizarre"

    6) Girls thought Blue Mascara was cool!

    7) Girls actually fancied Garry Barlow more than Robbie Williams

    8) The Racoons!

    9) You owned a pair of Nike Air Max, and wore them to death

    10) Mr Motivator (What ever happened to him?)

    11) Running on the spot dancing!

    12) You wore leggings/cycling shorts with long t-shirts

    13) You owned a Bennetton, NafNaf, sweater shop jumper or
    waistcoat

    14) Girls owned scrunchies in an array of colours and tacky headbands
    with
    there names written on in thick glitter

    16) You bought Smash Hits for the song lyrics and the immense amount of
    stickers that you would stick everywhere!

    17) You had a pen pal

    18) You could only watch the Simpson's on sky

    19) On a Saturday afternoon you watched
    Catchphrase,Gladiators,Generation
    Game, Noels House Party and then Casualty

    20) You taped the Pepsi Chatshow on radio one and tired in vain to pause
    the
    tape before the annoying guy talked and ruined the whole thing.

    21) Cans of Coke were 25p

    22) 10p Space Raiders Crisps

    23) A grey Fruit of the Loom jumper was a must have

    24) Sharkie & George were the crimebusters of the sea

    25) Puffa jackets

    26) You used the line "it's a free country" every day

    27) The Sky Sports Blimp!

    28) Impulse body spray for girls

    29) Hootch Alcoholic Lemonade (where's it gone?!)

    30) 'Don't forget your toothbrush', 'TFI' and Big Breakfast with Chris
    Evans

    31) You had at least one troll

    32) You know the dance to Macarena and Saturday Night.You also tried to
    scat
    like Scatman John! Bi bat ba ba da bo...

    33) You watched Baywatch and longed for the day that Eddie & Sharni got

    together!

    34) You watched Byker Grove ha ha ha ha ha ha hah (the themesong
    ending),
    and saw PJ get shot in the eye with a paintball!

    35) PJ and Duncan not Ant and Dec!Dodgy Pop Not Dodgy Presenting!

    36) Shellsuits & bumbags!

    37) You longed to live in Beverley Hills 90210

    38) Home and Away was a prime time ITV programe watched by millions

    39) You owned a Spice Girls album

    40) Fruit salads and black jacks!

    41) Strike it lucky on a sunday night with Michael Barrymore when he was

    straight & married

    42) Chain letters

    43) You had fake ID

    44) You remember Todd Landers in Neighbours

    45) You religiously watched Saved by the Bell on a Saturday morning!

    46) You more than likely lost/nearly lost a wobbly tooth on
    a wham bar!!

    47) CKone

    48) Going Live, then Live and Kicking was the place to be on a Saturday

    Morning - you know you remember the number 01818118181

    49) You knew every word to the theme tune from Fresh Prince of Bel Air

    50) You collected Premier League Stickers and did swops at playtime


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 395 ✭✭Dermington


    wow i actually had quite a few flashbacks there.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    haha *cringe*

    The memories...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Mr Motivator (What ever happened to him?)

    Legend.

    Its amazing just how much stuff you can forget from your childhood!


  • Registered Users Posts: 888 ✭✭✭Merrick


    Ah, memories...
    Penny sweets at the cornor shop was another one in my street


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,626 ✭✭✭smoke.me.a.kipper


    48) Going Live, then Live and Kicking was the place to be on a Saturday

    Morning - you know you remember the number 01818118181


    oh god, the memories. Andi Peters etc... and the postcode on the address... 6LA!!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    *Sniff*

    So many memories... so much high quality embarassment


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,437 ✭✭✭Crucifix


    I would kill for some fruit salads and a couple of postman pats right now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    19) On a Saturday afternoon you watched
    Catchphrase,Gladiators,Generation
    Game, Noels House Party and then Casualty
    all of the above except Casualty :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭jaggeh


    49) You knew every word to the theme tune from Fresh Prince of Bel Air

    still do and we play the song when getting drunk


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭Loomis


    jaggeh wrote:
    49) You knew every word to the theme tune from Fresh Prince of Bel Air

    still do and we play the song when getting drunk

    Now this is the story all about how
    My life got flipped, turned upside down...

    Ok...I'll stop


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Dave


    I'd like to take a minute
    So sit right there...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 454 ✭✭toffeapple


    how to know you REALLY expericnced the 90's

    ....your brain is ravaged from extacy abuse....and your short term memory is...eh....something....eh what??? ..yeah


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    ...and I'll tell you how I became the Prince Of Bel Air


  • Registered Users Posts: 417 ✭✭MistressPandora


    Oh...*cringe*...
    I know where to get all those sweets I used to get as a kid! If you scavange in the pound shops (another thing I remember as a kid, they were pound shops, not the €2 store), you'll find LOADS of stuff you clogged your arteries and destroyed your teeth with.
    I get all nostalgic chewing on wham bars.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭**elaine**


    Wow that list is so true!
    All the memories :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭Squirrel


    I was only born in '89 but can remember most of them things, oh god. Can't wait to show it to my brother, he'll feel old then.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭JohnK


    24) Sharkie & George were the crimebusters of the sea
    Ah, that brings me back :D. Good times :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭Devon


    Just think. In 10 years, that's going to read:

    1. You visited dailydancer.com and thought he was cool.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,335 ✭✭✭Cake Fiend


    toffeapple wrote:
    your brain is ravaged from extacy abuse....

    I only took ecstacy once, and I certainly didn't inhale...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 213 ✭✭HarryHoudini


    You used to get 2 games of Street Fighter 2 for 50p in the bowling arcade!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 534 ✭✭✭DonkeyRhubarb


    Sharky & George!! I thought I was the only one!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    I still eat Fruit Salads!!! Yum :D Now if I could only find the apple jacks.


  • Registered Users Posts: 830 ✭✭✭- bo -


    4) You owned or longed for an Adidas three stripe tracksuit

    5) You owned a compilation tape with TOP TUNES such as "Mr Vain", "What
    is
    love" and "Rhythm is a dancer" and 'How Bizarre, How Bizarre"

    9) You owned a pair of Nike Air Max, and wore them to death

    17) You had a pen pal

    18) You could only watch the Simpson's on sky

    19) On a Saturday afternoon you watched
    Catchphrase,Gladiators,Generation
    Game, Noels House Party and then Casualty

    40) Fruit salads and black jacks!

    41) Strike it lucky on a sunday night with Michael Barrymore when he was

    straight & married

    42) Chain letters

    46) You more than likely lost/nearly lost a wobbly tooth on
    a wham bar!!

    50) You collected Premier League Stickers and did swops at playtime

    the memories some flooding back :cool:


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