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1. You can sing the theme song from ‘Fame’
2. You remember when Saturday morning TV was either ‘Tiswas’ or ‘Noel’s multi- coloured ‘Swap shop’
3. You had a rat’s tail, a mullet (the first time round) or used wet look gel
4. You remember reading ‘choose your own adventure’ books.
5. You remember the craze of ‘elastics’ and ‘Double Dutch’ skipping
6. You collected smelly rubbers
7. You had/wanted a B.M.X /a Chopper or a Raleigh Grifter
8. You remember when home freezers were so big you could fit a whole cow inside one
9. You loved Magnum P.I
10. You played kerplunk
11. You had a Tiny tears/ Girls World/eagle eye Action man/Evel Knievel toy
12. You remember when Peter Duncan ran the marathon
13. You remember when Macdonalds first came to town
14. Your family had a soda stream
15. You used to wear too much hairspray
16. You know the words and actions to the Birdie Song , Agadoo and Superman too.
17. You wore leg warmers/fluorescent socks (different colour on each foot)
18. You had/wanted a ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64 ( and here’s one for the geeks the words ‘copyright 1984 Sinclair Research’ mean something to you)
19. It had to be ‘Insignia’ (for boys & girls)
20. You remember the test card & the days when children’s T.V was only on for a couple of hours a day
21. You wanted to be on Crackerjack
22. You remember when Neighbours & Eastenders hit our screens
23. You thought you might marry George Michael
24. Grange Hill was must see T.V & Degrassi Junior High was even better
25. If you had the day off school the only thing you could watch on T.V was Pebble Mill at One
26. You stayed up to watch The Tube
27. You remember when Adidas trainers were un-cool and Reeboks & LA Gear were the trainers of choice
28. You remember your parents first owning a video recorder/ dishwasher/ microwave
29. Computer screens were black with white or green writing there were no disks or cd’s only cassettes you had to rewind!
30. Tomorrow’s World predicted that we would all be wearing silver spacesuits & flying about on hover bikes by now
31. You recorded the charts from Radio 1 on a Sunday evening
32.You collected ‘pepe’ key rings
33. You can remember when M.B games were made of good quality plastic
34 You had a crush on/wanted to be Michael J Fox
35. You saw E.T at the cinema
36. The Chuckle Brothers were dogs
37. The theme song from Top Gun reminds you of your first ‘smooch’
38. You wore baggies, drainpipes or ski pants
39. You had a perm
40. Girls thought blue mascara and pink frosted lipstick looked good & boys thought ‘Sun-in’ looked good
41. You shopped for cool clothes in Concept man/ Chelsea Girl
42. You remember when breakfast T.V started
43. You had a fuzzy felt
44. You bought Smash Hits magazine for the song lyrics and Just Seventeen for the problem page
45. You can remember the first vinyl single you ever bought
46. You remember when cans of drink were 25p and crisps were 12p
47. You remember 1/2p’s ,£1 notes and the days before 20p’s even existed
48. You remember watching a movie on video at home for the first time
49. You loved Poison or Lacoste
50. You were jealous of the kids on Jim’ll Fix It
51. You ate Sherbert dip dabs, pacers, cola cubes, fireballs & popping candy
52. You made your friends C60 ‘mix-tapes’
53. You spent your pocket money on Star Wars figures
54. You didn't have to wear a seatbelt in the back of your parents car
55. You made arrangements to see your friends face to face and if you wanted to phone them at home you had to risk speaking to their dad!
56. You can recite the names of the fireman from Trumpton, go on you know you want to ‘Pugh, Pugh, Barney, Mcgrew…’
57. You watched Bananaman, Jackanory, The Flumps, Mr Benn, Bod, Jamie & the magic torch and Dangermouse
58. You had a poster of Duran Duran,Adam Ant, Llimahl or Mel and Kim on your wall
59. You wore jelly shoes and had a jelly bean bag.
60. You loved "The Adventure Game’ ... ‘gronda gronda’
61. You had the day off school for Charles and Di’s wedding and received at least one commemorative mug
62. You had a giant Puma school bag & a beige chino’s coat
63. You had a batwing jumper
64. You had to strap roller skates on over your shoes
65.You really wanted a Mr Frosty
66.Kevin Keegan, Daley Thompson,Duncan Goodhew and Eric Bristow were top sportsmen
67. You could/wanted to do the moonwalk
68. You remember when Madonna & Cyndi Lauper were in the same league
69. You drank Irn Bru, Um Bongo, Tizer, Tip Top & Dr Pepper
70. You really thought you might get into The Guinness Book of World Records one day
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You know your from the 80's if you remember..............................
#0, by kollect-o-maniak, 09 May 2009 12:27 AM
You Know You're From the 80's if...
1. You can sing the theme song from ‘Fame’
2. You remember when Saturday morning TV was either ‘Tiswas’ or ‘Noel’s multi- coloured ‘Swap shop’
3. You had a rat’s tail, a mullet (the first time round) or used wet look gel
4. You remember reading ‘choose your own adventure’ books.
5. You remember the craze of ‘elastics’ and ‘Double Dutch’ skipping
6. You collected smelly rubbers
7. You had/wanted a B.M.X /a Chopper or a Raleigh Grifter
8. You remember when home freezers were so big you could fit a whole cow inside one
9. You loved Magnum P.I
10. You played kerplunk
11. You had a Tiny tears/ Girls World/eagle eye Action man/Evel Knievel toy
12. You remember when Peter Duncan ran the marathon
13. You remember when Macdonalds first came to town
14. Your family had a soda stream
15. You used to wear too much hairspray
16. You know the words and actions to the Birdie Song , Agadoo and Superman too.
17. You wore leg warmers/fluorescent socks (different colour on each foot)
18. You had/wanted a ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64 ( and here’s one for the geeks the words ‘copyright 1984 Sinclair Research’ mean something to you)
19. It had to be ‘Insignia’ (for boys & girls)
20. You remember the test card & the days when children’s T.V was only on for a couple of hours a day
21. You wanted to be on Crackerjack
22. You remember when Neighbours & Eastenders hit our screens
23. You thought you might marry George Michael
24. Grange Hill was must see T.V & Degrassi Junior High was even better
25. If you had the day off school the only thing you could watch on T.V was Pebble Mill at One
26. You stayed up to watch The Tube
27. You remember when Adidas trainers were un-cool and Reeboks & LA Gear were the trainers of choice
28. You remember your parents first owning a video recorder/ dishwasher/ microwave
29. Computer screens were black with white or green writing there were no disks or cd’s only cassettes you had to rewind!
30. Tomorrow’s World predicted that we would all be wearing silver spacesuits & flying about on hover bikes by now
31. You recorded the charts from Radio 1 on a Sunday evening
32.You collected ‘pepe’ key rings
33. You can remember when M.B games were made of good quality plastic
34 You had a crush on/wanted to be Michael J Fox
35. You saw E.T at the cinema
36. The Chuckle Brothers were dogs
37. The theme song from Top Gun reminds you of your first ‘smooch’
38. You wore baggies, drainpipes or ski pants
39. You had a perm
40. Girls thought blue mascara and pink frosted lipstick looked good & boys thought ‘Sun-in’ looked good
41. You shopped for cool clothes in Concept man/ Chelsea Girl
42. You remember when breakfast T.V started
43. You had a fuzzy felt
44. You bought Smash Hits magazine for the song lyrics and Just Seventeen for the problem page
45. You can remember the first vinyl single you ever bought
46. You remember when cans of drink were 25p and crisps were 12p
47. You remember 1/2p’s ,£1 notes and the days before 20p’s even existed
48. You remember watching a movie on video at home for the first time
49. You loved Poison or Lacoste
50. You were jealous of the kids on Jim’ll Fix It
51. You ate Sherbert dip dabs, pacers, cola cubes, fireballs & popping candy
52. You made your friends C60 ‘mix-tapes’
53. You spent your pocket money on Star Wars figures
54. You didn't have to wear a seatbelt in the back of your parents car
55. You made arrangements to see your friends face to face and if you wanted to phone them at home you had to risk speaking to their dad!
56. You can recite the names of the fireman from Trumpton, go on you know you want to ‘Pugh, Pugh, Barney, Mcgrew…’
57. You watched Bananaman, Jackanory, The Flumps, Mr Benn, Bod, Jamie & the magic torch and Dangermouse
58. You had a poster of Duran Duran,Adam Ant, Llimahl or Mel and Kim on your wall
59. You wore jelly shoes and had a jelly bean bag.
60. You loved "The Adventure Game’ ... ‘gronda gronda’
61. You had the day off school for Charles and Di’s wedding and received at least one commemorative mug
62. You had a giant Puma school bag & a beige chino’s coat
63. You had a batwing jumper
64. You had to strap roller skates on over your shoes
65.You really wanted a Mr Frosty
66.Kevin Keegan, Daley Thompson,Duncan Goodhew and Eric Bristow were top sportsmen
67. You could/wanted to do the moonwalk
68. You remember when Madonna & Cyndi Lauper were in the same league
69. You drank Irn Bru, Um Bongo, Tizer, Tip Top & Dr Pepper
70. You really thought you might get into The Guinness Book of World Records one day
Have you ever noticed that people who do the least, have the most toys -Charlie Jade
it was my first glimpses at computers ,hours and hours typing lines of code for the piggin application not to work becouse you got one character wrong
