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You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...

...you know, by heart, the words to any "Weird" Al Yankovic song.
...the Brady Bunch movie brought back cool memories.
...three words: "Atari" "IntelliVision" and "Coleco". Sound familiar?
...you remember the days that hooking your computer into your television wasn't an expensive option that required gadgets - it was the ONLY WAY to use your computer!
...you remember "Friday Night Videos" before the days of MTV.
...you ever owned a pair of "Pop-Wheels" - that handy little combination of shoe and roller skate that lasted about a year on the open market.
...a predominant color in your childhood photos is "plaid".
...while in high school, you and all your friends had big plans to get together again at the end of the century and play "1999" by Prince over and over again.
...one of the top five questions you've always wanted answered was to Robert Smith of the Cure - "What WAS that head on the door thing anyway?"
...you were shocked and horrified at the Challenger Explosion(which you were probably watching in school at the time), and yet, when someone mentions the name "JFK", the first thing you think of is "Oliver Stone".
...you, yes you, sat down and memorized the entire lyric sheet to "It's the end of the world as we know it".
...you took family trips BEFORE the invention of the mini-van. You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you.
...you can't remember a time when "going out for coffee" DIDN'T involve 49,000 selections to choose from.
...Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language.
...you ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Madonna, or Cyndi Lauper video.
...at one point during your teenage years, you walked with a noticeable tilt to one side due to the number of plastic rings on that arm.

...the first time you ever kissed someone at a dance was during "Crazy for You" by Madonna.
...you ever owned one of those embarrassing crimping irons.
...you used to hold in your head the thought that all those gold chains on Mr. T actually looked kinda cool and the thought that Mr. T made millions seemed rational to you at the time.
...you remember with pain, the sad day when the Green Machine hit the streets and made your old big wheel obsolete.
...the phrase "Where's the beef?" still puts a smile on your face.
...(women) you thought Sean Cassidy was "dreamy", and lusted after "Ted, your ship's photographer" on the Love Boat, and Ponch and John from CHiPs.
...you've recently freaked out from learning that you now fall into the "26 - 50" age category on most questionnaires.
...your hair, at some point in time in the 80's, became something which can only be described by the phrase "I was experimenting".
...you've ever shopped at a Banana Republic or Benetton, but not in the last five years, okay?
...you're starting to believe (now that it wouldn't affect YOU) that maybe having the kids go to school year-round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
...you want to go out dancing, you really, REALLY do, but your back hurts, sorry.
...you've recently horrified yourself by groaning as you get out of bed, not because of a hangover, but because it genuinely just hurt to do so.

...you ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon.
...When someone mentions two consecutive days of the week, the Happy Days theme is stuck in your head for hours on end.
...you know who shot J.R..

...you had a crush on one of the New Kids on the Block.

...you wanted to be on StarSearch.

...you thought "Ghostbusters" was by far the coolest movie.

...you can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off. Or even when he had those freaky eyes in "Thriller" at the end of the video.

...you rolled up the bottoms of your splatter painted jeans.

...you wore loafers with everything, and you put the laces in those little rolls.

...you knew what Willis was "talkin' 'bout".

...you know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off.

...you know where to go if you "wanna go where everybody knows your name."

...you thought Molly Ringwald was REALLY cool.

...you know what "sike" and "not!" mean.

...you knew "The Artist" when he was humbly called "Prince."

...you ever wore flourescent-neon clothing...

...you could breakdance, or wished you could.

...you know who He-Man and She-Ra are.

...at one point, you knew all of the words to "Ice Ice Baby".

...you remember MC hammer well.

...you own any cassettes.

...you were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living on the moon.

...you have ever wondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.

...you remember when Saturday Night Live was funny.

...you wanted to be The Hulk for Halloween.

...you thought that Transformers were "more than meets the eye."

...partying "like it's 1999" seemed SOOOO far away!!!!!!!!!!!!!