One For The Children Of The Eighties Hello children of the 80's. Read this, it will take you back 1. Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo 2. You played with "My Little Ponies." 3. You know all the words to "Ice Ice Baby" 4. You wanted to be on "Jim'll Fix It" 5. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before he had plastic surgery.... HE'S HAD SURGERY? I DIDN'T NOTICE 6. 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). 7. You had slouch socks and puff painted your own shirt at least > >once. 8. You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off". 9. You were upset when She-ra, Princess of Power and He-Man got > >cancelled. 10. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved > >By the Bell", the ORIGINAL class.... 11. You remember Madonna in her cone stage. 12. You knew "The Artist" when he was humbly called "Prince." 13. You even wore fluorescent-neon clothing... (if you can call it > >clothing!) 14. Not only did you wear fluorescent-neon clothing, but they were > >mismatched with fingerless gloves and toweling socks. 15. You could break dance (ok, you wished you could) 16. You remember when Amiga was a state of the art video game system. 17. You remember M.C. Hammer. 18. You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air".... 19. You own any cassettes. 20. You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins, ALF or ET > >lunchbox... 21. You have ever pondered on why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf 22. My Little Pony, Gummy Bears and Transformers are familiar to you. 23. You ever had a Swatch Watch. 24. You actually spent countless hours trying to perfect the "Care Bear > >stare." 25. You believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power!" 26. You spent hours in the basement building and re- building Lego > >cities. 27. Big wheels and BMX's were the way to go. 28. With your pink (or blue) portable tape player, you sang to Kylie > >and > >Jason! 29. If you ever owned Polly Pocket or Micro Machines. 30. If you ever made Ken fall in love with Barbie. 31. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE". 32. Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away. 33. You knew that Transformers were "more than meets the eye". 34. You actually thought "Dirty Dancing" was a REALLY good film. 35. You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living in > >space. 36. You know what leg warmers are and probably had a pair. 37. You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish 38. You had to change into play clothes after school. 39. You recorded songs off the radio with your boom box. 40. Somehow you still know all the words to songs played on VH1's "Big > >80s 41. You can still sing 1 to 12 from the Pinball machine song Sesame > >Street. . 42. You wore those wide, colourful shoelaces. 43. You still don't like going in the sea because of Jaws. 44. You remember Now compilations that had the pig on the front cover. 45. You never questioned why the A-Team were always imprisoned in > >places > >that had sufficient tools to build an armoured tank. 46. Dungeons & Dragons was your favourite programme. 47. You've ever said "bright light, bright light" in a strange > >high-pitched voice 48. You fell out with friends during heated arguments about the > >relative > >merits of Matt & Luke... 49. Cerise pink, electric blue and banana yellow have ever featured in > >your wardrobe or make-up collection.... 50. Your new winter coat was best used to demonstrate that your wings > >were like a shield of steel. > > >
altho i was born in '79 there's sum classics in there tom, umbongo is soooooooooooooo yummie..........i now have an adult version of it tho mix it with vodka...............& on occasions fresh fruit & ice then wacked in a blenda..........sorted!!! the only thing i did with my little ponies was cut the hair off, rip the heads off then bury them in a draw, thus ensuring i cud play with transformers!! i did actually write to jim'll fix it to try & get in the take that - could it be magic video..never got on tho!! i cud go on 4 ever with these.....
Doesn't surprise me one bit!! Yeah your right tho all the above tho Q-Toy, especially the amiga, oh the memories
] who had barbies? sindy was the proper doll...barbie was too fake! Ken/Paul never fell in love with sindy tho....Anton, my action man did! loved my little ponies tho..Apple Jack, Bow Tie, Cotton Candy, Majesty....loved them all! i did this...me and my friend Anne French used to play at carebears in her living room...i didnt see her for years, and then i ended up in her media class at colege...she was one of the most popular girls ever, everyone looked up to her, and yet she was the one who shouted across the classroom, "Me and Heather used to to the carebear stare in my living room!"
43. You still don't like going in the sea because of Jaws. I still freak out if someone splashes behind me in the swimming pool
Re: One For The Children Of The Eighties how true. but my lunchbox was count duckula. transformers are robots in disguise and denver the last dinosaur rocked my world them cycling shorts could have walked to the washer themself and VH1 is spot on. what a mint thread. just think, our kids wont ever know what the fuck any of this really meant.
Re: One For The Children Of The Eighties Of course i still remember him i bought his greatesy hits the other month.
