{"id":49,"date":"2003-04-04T17:29:01","date_gmt":"2003-04-04T22:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2003-04-04T17:29:01","modified_gmt":"2003-04-04T22:29:01","slug":"you-know-you-grew-up-in-the-80s-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2003\/04\/04\/you-know-you-grew-up-in-the-80s-if\/","title":{"rendered":"You know you grew up in the 80&#8217;s if&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy sent me this funny\/sad list of stuff&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>>YOU KNOW YOU GREW UP IN THE 80&#8217;s IF:<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>1. You&#8217;ve ever ended a sentence with the word &#8220;PSYCHE&#8221;.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>2. You watched the Pound Puppies.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>3. You can sing the rap to the &#8220;Fresh Prince of Bel Air&#8221;<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>4. You wore biker shorts under your skirt and felt stylish.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tired<br \/>\nto start<br \/>\na<br \/>\n>club of your own.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>6. You owned those lil Strawberry Shortcake scented dolls.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>7. You know that &#8220;Whoa&#8221; comes from Joey on Blossom.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>8. Two words: M.C. Hammer<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>9. If you ever watched &#8220;Fraggle Rock&#8221;.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>10. You had a banana seat bike.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>11. You can sing the entire theme song to &#8220;Duck Tales&#8221;.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>12. When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to<br \/>\nwatch<br \/>\n>cartoons.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>13. You wore a pony tail on the side of your head.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>14. You saw the original &#8220;Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles&#8221; on the<br \/>\nbig screen.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in<br \/>\ncomputer class<br \/>\nat<br \/>\n>school.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>16. You made your Mom buy one of those clips that would hold your<br \/>\nshirt in<\/p>\n<p>>a<br \/>\n>knot on the side.<br \/>\n17. You played the game &#8220;MASH&#8221; (Mansion, Apartment,<br \/>\n>Shelter, House) with friends at school.<br \/>\n18. You wore Jordache Jean jacket<br \/>\n>and you were proud of it.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>19. L.A. Gear&#8230;..<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>20. You wanted to change your name to &#8220;JEM&#8221; in Kindergarten.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>21. You remember reading &#8220;Tales of a fourth grade nothing&#8221; and<br \/>\nall the<br \/>\n>Ramona books.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>22. You know the profound meaning of &#8220;WAX ON, WAX OFF&#8221;<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>23. You wanted to be a Goonie.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his<br \/>\nnose fell<br \/>\n>off.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female<br \/>\nsmurf.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>27. You took Lunch Pales to school.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>28. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>29. You still get the urge to say &#8220;NOT&#8221; after every sentence.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>30. You remember Hyper color T-shirts.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>31. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>32. You thought She-ra and He-Man should hook up.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because<br \/>\nyou<br \/>\n>exchanged friendship bracelets.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>35. After you saw Peewee&#8217;s Big Adventure you kept saying &#8220;I know<br \/>\nyou are,<br \/>\n>but what am I?&#8221;<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>36. You remember &#8220;I&#8217;ve fallen and I can&#8217;t get up&#8221;<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>37. You remember going to the skating rink before there were in<br \/>\nline<br \/>\n>skates.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n><br \/>\n>38. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>39. You have ever played with a Skip-It.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>40. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonald&#8217;s.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>41. You&#8217;ve gone through this list occasionally saying &#8220;This<br \/>\nwasn&#8217;t from<br \/>\nthe<br \/>\n>80&#8217;s!&#8221;<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>42. You remember Popples.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>43. &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, be happy&#8221;<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>44. You wore, like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top<br \/>\nReeboks.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>45. You wore socks scrunched down.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>46. &#8220;Miss MARY MACK MACK MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK&#8221;<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>47. You remember boom boxes vs CD players.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>48. You remember watching both &#8220;Gremlins&#8221; movies.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>49. You know what it meant to say &#8220;Care Bear Stare!&#8221;<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>50. You remember watching &#8220;Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony<br \/>\nTales&#8221;<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>51. You thought Doogie Howser was hot.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>52. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>53. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>54. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on<br \/>\nSaved By<br \/>\n>the<br \/>\n>Bell&#8221;, the ORIGINAL class.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>55. You know all the words to Bon Jovi&#8217;s &#8220;Shot thru the Heart.&#8221;<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS WHO GREW UP IN THE 1980s!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy sent me this funny\/sad list of stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}