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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

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sweetmonkey · 10/07/2005 12:25

and aunt sally. used to love going to the harvester coz they were standing at the door and you got play mats and stuff and the beefeater was mr men where you got badges and hats and stuff

munz · 10/07/2005 12:26

ooh with his cuppa tea and a nice slice of cake! lol, I had the aunt sally doll and DB has the worzel one!

sweetmonkey · 10/07/2005 12:27

did anyone have trolls too? i still have mine, one had hair that smelt of choc . and a boy i met on holiday years ago sent me an astronaut one from america. had big ears like prince charles LOL

swiperfox · 10/07/2005 12:28

worzel used to scare me changing his head!!

Ooh thats reminded me -Terrahawks - I was absolutely petrified of the evil lady in that!!!

sweetmonkey · 10/07/2005 12:29

thundercats

ChaCha · 10/07/2005 12:29

Swiperfox - LOL me too, wasn't her name Zelda? Or am i confusing her with someone else?

swiperfox · 10/07/2005 12:30

yes zelda that was her!! lol

nasty nasty lady!!

ChaCha · 10/07/2005 12:32

Someone mentioned Fraggle Rock!!! I loved it!!

Dance your cares away....
Worries for another day...

I liked Red and those ogres that lived on the other side...'The trash heap has spoken...naaah'
LOL

Awww...the 80's!!!

ChaCha · 10/07/2005 12:33

Gordon the Gopher!

munz · 10/07/2005 12:54

I ahd trolls as well, I had a salior one (given how p'mouth's a naval port) - married a soldier instead thou!

tiffini · 10/07/2005 13:11

Remenber the Pink Panther cartoons??

tiffini · 10/07/2005 13:38

And button moon, and the moomins

hercules · 10/07/2005 13:56

I've bought ds some worzel gummidge videos and he loved them. He took them into school one day and all the kids watched them and loved it too. Noone else in his class had heard of it

hercules · 10/07/2005 13:56

and i managed to get the wg books too.

LilMissy · 10/07/2005 14:37

have a look at this rainbow episode

(its not an orginial but was made for the crew to laugh at )

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munz · 10/07/2005 14:55

do u belkieve they took most of our cartoons off cos tey were politically incorrect/ were suggestive - WTF? didn't do me any harm!

spacecadet · 10/07/2005 18:24

takes me back, im technically a child of the seventies and was a teen in the mid 80;s, i remember wearing big plasticy earings, baggy t-shirts with belts slung round them, leggings and stilletoes..ewwwwww and have photo for proof!!! (and posters of depeche mode and michael j fox adorned my bedroom walls

Puppy · 10/07/2005 23:21

I remember most of the things mentioned,
I can remember having neon bermuda shorts, neon braces and flower fairies. Also watching rag dolly anna and also lets pretend

jenkel · 10/07/2005 23:42

I was also a teenager in the 80's, think most of the things listed was mid to late 80's. I can remember that my favourite outfit was a pink/black check ra ra skirt, pink/black check long jacket jacket, black fishnets and black pixie boots, very desperatly seeking susan. Remember all the 'relax' teeshirts.

biglips · 11/07/2005 09:18

jessica - i was just about to say Worzel gummidge and also Grange Hill when Zammo was taking drugs and also the comics that i used to read "Beano"

munz · 11/07/2005 09:19

oooh oh timmy mallet with mallets mallet on during the summer!

ninah · 11/07/2005 09:30

OMG I saw Rick Astley at the weekend! he was singing Sinatra ....

2kidsandahubby · 11/07/2005 09:31

Dallas, crack a jack, cabbage patch dolls, arr the good old days!!

2kidsandahubby · 11/07/2005 09:32

Dallas, crack a jack, cabbage patch dolls, arr the good old days!!oh and baby new born, boy or girl - couldn't afford the real thing so I got the cheaper version!!

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