Favourite 80's song....
Play That Funky Music? Was that 80's?
Apologies..some of these are Australia only, but most aren't...
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You know you were a child of the 80's if...
*You remember snap bracelets getting you into trouble at school.
*You ever played with "My Little Ponies".
*You remember friendship bracelets - ties that couldn't be broken.
*You ever read Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, the Babysitters Club, or Sweet Valley High.
*You know all the words to "Ice Ice Baby".
*You had a crush on one of the New Kids on the Block members,
*You remember the New Kids On The Block.
*You wanted to be on Star Search.
*You had Garbage Pal trading cards.
*You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before he had plastic surgery.
*You wore one of those t-shirt rings or a scrunchie on one side of your t-shirt during your youth.
*You wore french rolled pants or the ones with the zippers on the back of the legs.
*You have puff painted your own shirt at least once.
*You owned a doll with 'Xavier Roberts' signed on it's butt. Cabbage Patch Kids!
*You knew what Willis was "talkin' 'bout."
*You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off"!
*You were upset when She-ra, Princess of Power, and He-Man was cancelled.
*You can remember watching Full House and Saved by the Bell for endless hours back when they were new episodes.
*You have seen at least 10 episodes of Fraggle Rock.
*You hold a special place in your heart for "Back to the Future." ("Hydrate level four please")
*You remember Madonna in her cone stage.
*You knew "The Artist" when he was humbly called "Prince."
*You even wore fluorescent-neon clothing...
*You could break dance, or wished you could.
*You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system.
*You remember M.C. Hammer, (and owned a pair of "hammer pants"!)
*You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air".
*How many of you can recite the theme to Duck! tales?
*You own any cassettes.
*You owned a pair of L.A . Gear, Keds, or Conversetennis shoes.
*You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins or an ET lunchbox.
*You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf,(and how come Baby Smurf never grew up...)
*Gummy Bears, Transformers, You can't do that on Television, Double Dare, and Ridgy Didge are familiar to you.
*You ever had a Swatch Watch or POP-Swatch.
*You actually spent countless hours trying to perfect the "Care Bear Stare".
*You thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye.
*You spent hours in the basement building and re-building Lego cities.
*Do Polly Pockets or Popples ring a bell?
*Big wheels and bicycles with streamers were the way to go.
*With your playschool record player you sang back up to Debbie Gibson (she was SO cool!).
*Party like it's 1999" seemed SO far away!!
*You stayed up all night listening to Teddy Rupskin.
*Can you tell me how to get to ! Sesame Street?
*You still have a crimper in your bathroom drawer!
*You remember singing Amy Grant's "Baby, Baby".
*You had more than one Star Wars action figure.
*You loved your acid-wash jeans, black stretch pants and big loop earrings.
*You wanted to pick a lock with a toothbrush just like MacGyver.
*You wanted to travel through time on Quantum Leap.
*You had at least one Hypercolor shirt.
*You remember when rollerblades were the new thing.
*If you learned how to spell mouse from the Mickey Mouse Club theme song.
*You felt like a big girl when your mom bought you GIRL TALK.
*You used to wear bright pink slip-ons and jellyshoes.
*You were scared of the Gremlins.
*Your parents wouldn't let you watch The Simpsons because it was inappropriate.
*The Wonder Years was a part of your daily lifestyle.
*You had Hotwheel races down your street.
*Rainbow Brite...
*You remember when Bum Bags were cool! < BR>
*Did you keep your hot pink lipstick in a Caboodle?
*You could not get enough hair spray on those bangs (curled in a circle!)
*How many trolls did you have?
*Does "Heros in a half shell" mean anything to you?? (TURTLE POWER).
*Everything was rad, totally awesome, and tubular!!!
*You remember when the original Nintendo was the best $100 you could spend.
*You remember when Astro Boy was the Pokemon of the day.
*Do you know who killed Laura Palmer?
*Or were you not allowed to watch TV at that hour?
*You didn't quite know what those two grumpy old men in the Muppets were saying until the show was taken off air.
*When bubble skirts and ra-ra skirts were all the rave!
*When Kylie and Danni said 'goodnight Australia' on a weekly basis and later when you were embarrassed to say that you liked Kylie.
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