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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:
biglips · 10/07/2005 11:24

i remember the saturday mornings show - No 73, and the Muppet show shows on Sundays (oh fab!)
oh and also Bykers Grove (ya!) oh and a must - Roller skates... also the Snooze (that is a knitted tube that sits on your shoulder and go over your head)

munz · 10/07/2005 11:26

ooh how about fraggle rock - does anyone remeber that one? that was excellent, and pink panther used ot be on on a sunday afternoon.

did anyone else eat their sunday tea on the coffee table which had beeen made up to look like the 'big' table?

biglips · 10/07/2005 11:26

tiny tears doll (which ive still got for the past 26 yrs!!!)

munz · 10/07/2005 11:26

me to! and a baby talk lol.

biglips · 10/07/2005 11:27

oh fab - fraggle rock - i used to love that programme.. i had one of them builders toy (a wind up one - lol!)

burstingbug · 10/07/2005 11:27

Ooooh oooh ooooh, super gran and mr magika

munz · 10/07/2005 11:27

was super gran the one which looked like the bag lady?

biglips · 10/07/2005 11:27

Remember the BIG watch that you used to hang up on the wall?

swiperfox · 10/07/2005 11:28

Do you remember the get along gang?

Have remembered that other one i was thinking of....Why Don't You?

burstingbug · 10/07/2005 11:29

Think she did look like a bag lady, it was on on a saturday or sunday early evening

swiperfox · 10/07/2005 11:29

lol i had one of those watches!! Right next to my enormous Paul Young poster!!

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 10/07/2005 11:29

munz - u and me the same age hun???? Thought u were older than me!!!

munz · 10/07/2005 11:30

oh right the one i'm thinking of was on during the week I think,

now the important question is were you a CBBC person or a CITV person?

munz · 10/07/2005 11:30

JM - I am by a whole whopping 5 months!

Miaou · 10/07/2005 11:30

Swiperfox do you mean "Why don't You" - the song went "why don't you, why don't you, switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead..." Always thought it was a bit weird that at the beginning of the programme they told you to switch it off....

I remember an episode with two girls showing off their collection of fans....yawn

swiperfox · 10/07/2005 11:30

Did any of you used to watch 'Music Time' at school and have to do the plays that they were doing? I'm sa sad i still remember all the songs lol

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 10/07/2005 11:31

a whole 5 months?! march girlie then

biglips · 10/07/2005 11:32

bursting bug - i had one of them watches right next to my shakin stevens poster (is that sad or wha??)

munz · 10/07/2005 11:33

bubba is due 2 day b4 my b'day.

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 10/07/2005 11:34

cool..... cant believe im only 22 (for another few weeks!) and i remeber all this stuff!

nutcracker · 10/07/2005 11:34

Have got Fraggle rock on dvd now

biglips · 10/07/2005 11:35

i love to see Fraggle rock again as its a must for children - lol

Miaou · 10/07/2005 11:35

Did you watch "how we used to live" at school? When I was there it was about the second world war. I can still remember the music! And they used to put the clock thing up beforehand to get everyone in and sitting down for the start - ah, the days before videos.....

I was in a later series of "How we Used to Live" about the 1840s, anyone remember that one? Found a copy of it in my dd's school one day

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 10/07/2005 11:35

oh yes, how we used to live!

munz · 10/07/2005 11:35

that's so cool!

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