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Calling children of the 80's!! (and others!)

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LilMissy · 10/07/2005 00:27

Children of the 80's How true is this, aah the good old days! Hello children of the 80's. Read this, it will take you back but be careful 'cause it will also make you realise that you are now actually quite old.......

1.. Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo.

2.. You played with "My Little Ponies."

3.. Friendship bracelets were ties that couldn't be broken.

4.. You ever read Nancy Drew.

5.. The Hardy Boys, The Babysitters Club, Forever or Sweet Valley High.

6.. You wanted to be on "Jim'll Fix It".

7.. You wore one of those slap-on wristbands at some point...or heaven forbid one of those T-shirts that changed colour with heat (Global Hypercolour).

8.. You were upset when She-ra, Princess of Power and He-Man got cancelled.

9.. You can remember watching Saved by the Bell.

10.. You even wore fluorescent-neon clothing... (if you can call it clothing!).

11.. You could break dance (ok, you wished you could).

12.. You remember when Amiga was a state of the art video game system.

13.. You remember M.C. Hammer.

14.. You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air".

15.. You can remember when it was Jazzy Jeff and The fresh Prince and NOT just plain Will Smith!

16.. You own ANY cassettes.

17.. You have ever pondered on why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.

18.. My Little Pony, Gummy Bears and Transformers are familiar to you.

19.. You ever had a Swatch Watch.

20.. You believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power!"

21.. With your pink (or blue) portable tape player, you sang to kylie and Jason!

22.. Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away.

23.. You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living in space.

24.. You recorded songs off the radio with your boom box.

25.. Your arm was full of rubber bracelets.

26.. You wore those wide, colourful shoelaces.

27.. You never questioned why the A-Team were always imprisoned in places that had sufficient tools to build an armoured tank.

28.. You never did the top toggle of your coat up around your neck without having your arms in the sleeves, and you knew you looked like a superhero.

29.. You remember watching a house inhabited by a jester, A pantomime horse and a woman who sneezed, and thinking that this was perfectly normal.

30.. You've never had more than 10 sweets in a 10p mix-up.

31.. You could have got away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids.

32.. You remember Fingermouse and Dangermouse (not forgetting his trusty sidekick Penfold!).

33.. You remembered Monster Munch when they were 10p.

34.. When 'Computer' Tennis, Pac-Man and Donkey-Kong ruled.

35.. You remember hearing the tune then running out to buy an ice cream cone on a warm summer night - 99's, screwballs or a cider Lolly.

36.. You got up extra early, especially to watch Saturday Morning cartoons.

37.. You remember Ant and Dec as PJ and Duncan.

38.. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.

39.. It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.

40.. You remember when Snickers were Marathons and Starburst were Opal Fruits.

41.. You remember when 25p was decent pocket money and you'd reach into a muddy gutter for 10p.

42.. Important decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."

43.. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better and taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.

44..You called Going Live on 081 811 8181.

45..And you had your own Gordon the Gopher

OP posts:
nutcracker · 10/07/2005 10:51

I was a Take That girl too sweetmonkey

I decorated a denim jacket with all take that stuff and had my walls covered in posters, scarfs etc.

nutcracker · 10/07/2005 10:52

I like New kids on the block too

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 10/07/2005 10:52

i had a PINK and i mean PINK shell suit, liquirice allsorts jumper, my bro had a RACER BIKE - you know with the funny handles and all those gears!!!

sweetmonkey · 10/07/2005 10:53

they were soooooooo cool!!!!!

burstingbug · 10/07/2005 10:54

Brownie uniforms how they should be brown button up dresses with the yellow tie thing
I don't like the uniforms they wear now!!

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 10/07/2005 10:54

TV programme - The Bizz..... the one with Paul Nicholls in it.... stage school thingy whatsit.

sweetmonkey · 10/07/2005 10:55

take that i meant not the other stuff

me and my bro used to play outside all day and just used to ride our bikes around the block all day. we never got bored of it either
oh to be that age again

misdee · 10/07/2005 10:55

pump up trainers.

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 10/07/2005 10:57

those anke hopper things.... you put it round your ankle and spun it round and jumped over it - god, cant remember what they were called!!!

sweetmonkey · 10/07/2005 10:57

jabm do you remember byker grove when it was actually good, it went a bit weird if i remember correctly,

did anyone else collect the nat west pigs? i have a picture of me in my little white tights and bobble hat and a smart purple button up jacket standing next to the daddy pig that was in the bank one day

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 10/07/2005 10:58

oh yes.... Byker Grove when it was good - did go very weird!!!

burstingbug · 10/07/2005 10:58

and the thing you could jump on with a ball in the middle a plastic thing round it - it looked like the planet saturn

sweetmonkey · 10/07/2005 10:59

what about the ball that had the plastic bit round the outside , used to put yr feet on it and hop away (think called space hopper)

swingball

and proper rollerskates (i had my little pony)
not these inline things they have now

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 10/07/2005 11:00

the fisher price skates you wore with your shoes still on!!!

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 10/07/2005 11:00

sm and bb - talkign about the same thing aint ya?!

sweetmonkey · 10/07/2005 11:01

yeah i had those too,

cabbage patch kids,

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 10/07/2005 11:01

glo worms

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 10/07/2005 11:01

care bears the first time round

keepers

sweetmonkey · 10/07/2005 11:02

oh my god yeah i had those , also what were those animals you got like snails and stuff where you had a key and the shell opened up and you could hide stuff in there

misdee · 10/07/2005 11:03

you mean quad skates. i used to skate a lot. was always at thwe roller disco

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 10/07/2005 11:03

that was keepers sm!

burstingbug · 10/07/2005 11:03

Loved those metal skates like the ones you're talking about, not sure which make i must have had but they had red leather strap bits on then. clunking down the street

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 10/07/2005 11:03

roller discos!!!! Weren't they just the HIGHLIGHT of your week!!!

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 10/07/2005 11:04

Big Yellow Teapot!

sweetmonkey · 10/07/2005 11:04

m sure they had a diff name, i also had an ET whose finger lit up
but i bit it off