| From: | MC23 mc23@**********.com |
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| Subject: | 89 ways to know that you're stuck in the 80s... |
| Date: | Tue, 2 Feb 99 15:52:03 -0500 |
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>2. you relax by putting on your legwarmers and dancing to the "Footloose"
>soundtrack
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>3. you think the Two Coreys are "totally awesome"
>
>4. you're still bitter that Wham! broke up
>
>5. Punky Brewster is your hero
>
>6. you type all of your term papers on a Commodore 64
>
>7. you still resent your parents for not installing a dumbwaiter in your
>house like Webster's
>
>8. the only video games you play are Frogger and Pac Man
>
>9. you're building your own Clockwork Smurf
>
>10. your summer attire is Jellies and Jams
>
>11. A-Ha's "Take on Me" is still your favorite video
>
>12. you consider yourself truly, truly, truly outrageous, much like Jem
>and the Holograms
>
>13. you wonder why more people don't wear high heels, Jordache jeans, and
>lacy ankle socks
>
>14. you call all motorcycle cops "Ponch"
>
>15. every time you go to the beach you look for Snorks
>
>16. you're still upset Madonna and Sean broke up
>
>17 you know who Stinky Sullivan is
>
>18. you work out with "Get in Shape Girl"
>
>19. you want to be Molly Ringwald when you grow up
>
>20. you enjoy dancing on the ceiling and wearing your sunglasses at night
>
>21. you know who Loverboy is
>
>22. you think there should be a Kids Incorporated original cast reunion
>
>23. you think of Janet Jackson as "that girl who used to date Willis"
>
>24. you can sing the theme song to Small Wonder
>
>25. every time you see a fountain you want to dance around it and yell
>"Fame!"
>
>26. you still have a shoebox full of Garbage Pail Kid cards
>
>27. you write your congressman asking him to introduce a bill to make
>"Born in the USA" the national anthem
>
>28. you still use your Snoopy Sno-Cone machine
>
>29. you know it's not "comma, comma, comma" it's karma
>
>30. you stay up nights wondering what Bastian's mother's name was in "The
>Neverending Story"
>
>31. you have nightmares about the Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak
>
>32. you still practice your Care Bear Stare
>
>33. you know that girls just wanna have fuh-un
>
>34. you can name all The Wuzzles
>
>35. you harbor a secret dream of being slimed by Alistair
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>36. you can do the Safety Dance
>
>37. in your spare time you are writing "The Breakfast Club 2"
>
>38. you like to "connect the dots, la la la la!"
>
>39. someone metions Jennifer Beals and you don't say "Who?"
>
>40. your prized possesion is a collection of "Return of the Jedi" Shrinky
>Dinks
>
>41. you know whose number is 867-5309
>
>42. you get depressed thinking about Anthony Michael Hall's career
>
>43. you're starting a write-in campaign to MTV to bring back Remote Control
>
>44. you drink Diet Coke because Max Headroom told you to
>
>45. you consider Jo vs. Blair the major philosophical conflict of the 20th
>century
>
>46. you have a duck phone and ride around your house on a little train
>
>47. you want to be one of the Solid Gold Dancers
>
>48. you still watch things on Beta
>
>49. you want to change your name to Rio and dance on the sand
>
>50. you know that "Weird Science" was a movie before a tv show
>
>51. your favorite proverb is "some like it hot and some sweat when the
>heat is on"
>
>52. you always waited for the Sweet Pickles Bus to visit your house
>
>53. your favorite party game is Hungry Hungry Hippos
>
>54. you saw the New Kids on the Block when they were Tiffany's opening act
>
>55. you liked Tom Hanks better when he was a crossdresser
>
>56. you know which Hollywood Square Jim J. Bullock was in
>
>57. you practice getting in and out of your car through the windows
>
>58. you have the tendency to turn up the collar of your polo shirts
>
>59. you're still wondering who really was the boss
>
>60. you know what the "P" in "Alex P. Keaton" stands for
>
>61. you keep asking your teachers if instead of the quiz you can take the
>physical challenge
>
>62. you organize weekend tournaments of TV tag
>
>63. you still drink New Coke
>
>64. when you watch "Terminator 2" you wonder where Vincent is
>
>65. you know ALF's real name
>
>66. you never go out for a night on the town without frosted blue
>eyeshadow and feathered bangs
>
>67. you can name all of the Thundercats
>
>68. you got a hankerin' for a hunk of cheese
>
>69. everything in your wardrobe is either pastel or fluorescent
>
>70. your musical inspiration is Sonny Mann
>
>71. sometimes you just want to shout, shout, let it all out
>
>72. you're planning a dream vacation to Mepos
>
>73. you use your Speak and Spell to phone home
>
>74. you know the original members of Menudo
>
>75. sometimes out of the blue you just got to shake your love
>
>76. when you're stuck in traffic you tell your car to engage Turbo Boost
>and are surprised when it doesn't talk back
>
>77. you remember when Vanessa sang Kareoke to "Locomotion"
>
>78. you know that Mr. Steele functions best in an advisory capacity.
>
>79. people are constantly gagging you with spoons
>
>80. your idea of appreciating ancient cultures is "Walk Like an Egyptian"
>
>81. the only thing you know about the Nazis is that they threw Indy to the
>snakes
>
>82. you still use your hair crimper before going out on a hot date
>
>83. you hatch plots to break Murdock out of VA hospital
>
>84. you know which five people Serpentor's DNA came from
>
>85. you have "We Are the World" on 45
>
>86. you're still sending death threats to Mr. Rubik
>
>87. you can feel St. Elmo's fire burnin' in you
>
>88. you watch NYPD Blue thinking, "Well, they're no Crockett and Tubbs,
>that's for sure"
>
>89. 'Goonies' is your favorite movie of all time!
