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Growing up in the 80's!!

  • 13-02-2003 12:23pm
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭


    >It's funny cos its true..........
    >
    >
    >You know you grew up in the 1980's if:
    >
    >
    >
    >* You solved the Rubics cube.....by peeling off the stickers >
    >
    >* You can sing the rap to "the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" >
    >
    >* You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to
    >start
    >
    >
    >a club of your own.
    >
    >* You owned those little Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls
    >
    >* You used to collect fancy paper/marbles/football stickers and swap
    >them
    >
    >* If you played the chipmunks Christmas album all year long!
    >
    >* For those who had BBC1 you remember Saturday morning Live and
    >Kicking when its 1st started with Philip Scofield and Gordon the
    >Goffer
    >
    >* Remember reading Kool-Aid man, Bunty, Mandy and Judy, Dandny or
    >Beano comics
    >
    >* You ever watched Fraggle Rock/The Brady Bunch/Alf and the rest....
    >
    >* You had plastic streamers on the handle bars of your bike or else
    >a basket on the front
    >
    >* You remember When it was actually worth getting up early on a
    >Saturday to watch cartoons like the Care Bares (care bare stare and
    >no what it meant)/Scooby Doo/the Smurfs
    >
    >
    >* You saw the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big
    >screen and had your collection of them
    >
    >* You made your mom buy you one of those clips that would hold Your
    >shirt in a knot on the side
    >
    >* You had pictures of Bros or New Kids on the Block on your Bedroom
    >wall your mum always new it was a phase and it would pass)
    >
    >* L.A. GEAR
    >
    >* You used to own the cabbage patch dolls or a glow worm
    >
    >* You remember reading the Famous Five and the Secret Seven or books
    >by Judy Blume
    >
    >* You know the profound meaning of "Wax on,Wax off"
    >
    >* You wanted to be a Goonie
    >
    >* You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his Nose
    >fell off
    >
    >* You still get the urge to use "NOT" at the end of every statement
    >(not!!)
    >
    >* You thought Sheera and He-Man should hook up
    >
    >* You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you
    >exchanged "friendship bracelets" (jesh how wrong where u)
    >
    >* You ever owned a pair of Jelly Shoes
    >
    >* After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you couldn't stop saying "I
    >know you are but what am I?"
    >
    >* You remember "I've fallen...and I can't get up!" (after your
    >paretns took your stablizers of your bike)
    >
    >* For those Liverpool fans you remember Ian Rush (and that dodgy
    >moustache)
    >
    >* You remember going to the skating before there were inline skates
    >
    >* You know not to mix poprocks and soda (but did it anyway!)
    >
    >* You have played with hula hoops and used to make up fancy moves
    >
    >
    >* You had or went to a birthday party at McDonald's
    >
    >* You remember watching wrestling and the Hulk/the Undertaker/the
    >British Bulldog and Jake the Snake
    >
    >
    >* You learned oldies songs by watching Alvin and the Chipmunks
    >
    >* You remember dancing along with the Bangles in "Walk Like An
    >
    >Egyptian"
    >
    >
    >
    >* You've gone through this list occasionally saying "That wasn't
    >from
    >
    >the 80's" or else saying "God, yeah I used to love that" you can
    >
    >remember who they are
    >
    >
    >
    >* DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!
    >
    >* You wore socks over tights with boot runners
    >
    >* You wore like 8 pairs of socks at once, scrunched down
    >
    >* MISS MARY MACK MACK MACK ALL DRESSED IN BLACK BLACK BLACK.....
    >
    >* You remember you had a collection of records and tapes rather than
    >CDs
    >
    >* You remember watching both "Gremlins" movies
    >
    >* You remember the Transformers
    >
    >* You remember Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales and probably
    >had a collection of them
    >
    >* You remember Alf, the little furry brown alien from Melmac
    >
    >
    >* You remember the large amounts of hairspray used or else the
    >criming of hair and those dodgy punk styles
    >
    >* You remember those very stylish headbands
    >
    >* You remember the beggining of New Kids on the Block
    >
    >* You remember watching The Cosby show
    >
    >* You remember Michael J. Fox in Family Ties and Back to the Future
    >
    >* You know all the names of the gang from "Saved by the Bell"
    >(Zac/AC/Slater/Screech/Kelly/Jessie/Lisa and not forgetting Mr. B.
    >and the Max Cafe)
    >
    >* You know all the words to Bon Jovi's "shot through the heart" song
    >
    >* You either remember having an Atari Computer/Nintendo or if you
    >were lucky Comodore64
    >
    >Pass this on to anyone you know grew up in the 1980's so they can
    >remember there childhood memories.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    -You used one of those fancy paper models that when you opened them told you who you'd marry
    -played pacman , battleship and asteroids
    -etch-a-sketch
    -Macgyver
    -Timmy Mallet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,317 ✭✭✭CombatCow


    Huh yup alf was pretty sweet- rember him eating raw potatos on the doorstep of his house WTF ?

    I dont remember that : You made your mom buy you one of those clips that would hold Your
    shirt in a knot on the side
    :confused:

    COMBATCOW


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    ive seen better ones like this, but still some good ones.
    family ties......hehehehe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭pinkpig


    monkey magic


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭pinkpig


    Monkey magic

    the part where pigsy's piss is frozen


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭pinkpig


    ate them soap jellies
    and edable paper


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭Mad_Patrick


    I remember edible paper, I remember that it actually tasted like paper


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    You can sing the rap to "the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"

    It ran from 1990 to 1996 its more the 1990's then the 80's.

    www.freshprinceofbelair.co.uk


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    You know all the names of the gang from "Saved by the bell"

    1989 - 1993 the orginal series. http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-457/


  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,173 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Aonghus McAnally and Mary Fitzgerald on Anything Goes Saturday mornings!

    Sinclair Speccy!

    Space Invaders and Pong in the arcades

    Tight Stonewash jeans!

    BMX (or even the common yellow BMX 2000) ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,522 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Scratch 'n sniff!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,806 ✭✭✭Lafortezza


    Bosco!!!!

    Loved watching him when I arrived home from school, David, Marion, what were the other presenters called?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,317 ✭✭✭CombatCow


    :D Wierd Science :D

    COMBATCOW


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,079 ✭✭✭Mr.Applepie


    Originally posted by Elmo
    It ran from 1990 to 1996 its more the 1990's then the 80's.

    www.freshprinceofbelair.co.uk

    Elmo spoiling fun since i 1906


    I actually saw monkey last night. On C4 at 1am. Very confusing


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭PunyHuman


    "Pat's Chat" with your man Ingoldsby with the phone on his head. You see him on Grafton street these days, or maybe that is some other grey relic.

    Wanderly Wagon.

    And Fortycoats. Actually if someone has a picture of Fortycoats please post a link, I've searched without success.


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