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The Perfect 80's Outfit
You Know You're An 80's Child When-
you were told that pop rocks and soda would explode in your stomach
* your hair became something which can only be described by the phrase "I was experimenting"
* you didn't know George Michael was gay and thought he was hot
* a predominant color in your childhood photos is "plaid"
* you rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you
* you dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Madonna, or Cyndi Lauper video
* your first boy/girl dance was to the song "Crazy for You" by Madonna
* you frequently used the word "sike" in conversations
* partying "like it's 1999" seemed so far away
Calling All 80's Kids, Punks & New Wavers!
Remember New York's New Wave/Rockabilly/Punk Scene?
That was New Wave & 80's At It's Best :0)
Now Step back in time. Add Rare old finds to your page!
Grab a can of aqua net
And ENJOY THE 80'S FLASHBACK!
Make this place truly go back in time by
adding your favorite 80's pictures to my page!
*A FINE EXAMPLE OF NEW WAVE HAIR*
*NEW WAVE -N- PUNK HAIR SPECIALTIES*
Are You a Child of the 80s?
Trapped between the "Baby Boomers" and "Generation Y"
is a special generation ... a generation we call
"Children of the Eighties."
If you can identify with most of the 15 points below,
chances are you are definitely one of them ...
You owned a *real* Rubik's cube.
One word: Izod.
You remember when MTV didn't exist.
Alternatively you remember when the M
stood for Music, not Mundane.
"Alternative" music actually was...and not popular Top 40 tunes.
You were a "wanna be". Madonna, Duran Duran,
Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, etc.
"Where's the beef?"
You know how to use a rotary phone.
Max Headroom was cool.
You know how (or wanted to be able) to Moonwalk!
Atari, IntelliVision, TelStar and Coleco were
the ultimate gaming systems to own.
Leg warmers and headbands alá Pat Benatar
once looked really cool to you.
You remember when Jordache jeans with a
flat-handle comb in the back pocket was cool.
Jelly bracelets & shoes!
Your hair defied gravity.

You are still baffled by the "day glo" clothing trend.
So, are you a Child of the '80s?
You're facing a long uphill culture battle to
stay tuned-in to that great decade, so follow our advice:
Never forget or deny your 80s heritage.
Be sure to start most of your sentences with
"Back in the 80s" or "When I was your age"...
Spend a majority of your time in your late 20s
& early 30s obsessing over how much better
things were "back then".
Never let them see you sweat.
Some 80's Music Trivia for You...
Biggest selling album of the 80s (and all time) Michael Jackson's Thriller album of 1982 is the biggest selling album of all time, with over 42 million copies sold - and rising.
Freddie Mercury and Thriller
There are many reports that Freddie Mercury of Queen recorded a track with Michael Jac
kson's for Thriller. However, this track has never surfaced in public.
Beat It guitarist
The guitarist that Michael Jackson's Beat It such a characteristic sound was Eddie Van Halen.
Drum machines
In the band Echo and the BunnyMen, Echo was the name of the drum machine. The drum machine used by Sisters Of Mercy was nicknamed 'Dr Avalanche'.
MTV
MTV started on August 1, 1981 in the US. If you want to know the first song played on MTV US (and Europe), see this article in the Music Video section.
Kim Wilde
Kim Wilde was originally known as Kim Smith. She was born November 18, 1960. Her first hit song in the UK, Australia and NZ was 'Kids In America', released in 1981. Oddly this single was not initially released in the US until a year later where it only managed top 40 status.
Johnny Cougar
John Mellencamp was never comfortable with the fact that he had changed his name to the stage name 'Johnny Cougar'. However, his success made it difficult to change back, so in the 80s he became the hybrid John Cougar Mellencamp.
1984
In 1984, Eurythmics and Van Halen released albums with the title 1984. The film based on George Orwell's 1984 was also released 1984. The very crappy film, Class of 1984, was released in 1982 (this was also Michael J. Fox's second film which appeared just before the 82 debut of Family Ties).
Bananarama/Shakespeare's Sister
In 1987, Siobhan Fahey, former member of Bananarama, married Dave Stewart (Eurythmics). She later formed the band Shakespear's Sister with Marcella Detroit. They had two albums: Sacred Heart (1989) and Hormonally Yours (1992).
Robert Smith
Robert Smith of The Cure was also the guitarist in the early days of Siouxsie and the Banshees. Both jobs became too much, so he focused on The Cure.
Kylie Minogue's first hit
Kylie Minogue's first hit song was a cover version of Locomotion. The film clip also stars the Australian actress/comedian Tania Lacy.
Duran Duran
Duran Duran was named after a character in the 1960's film Barbarella. Jane Fonda played the lead and throughout the film she was searching for a character called Duran Duran. The band paid tribute to this film in the late 90s song Electric Barbarella. After fading out in the late 80s, Duran Duran also made a brief comeback in 1993 with the song Ordinary World.
*MOVIE QUOTES*

Valley Girl
"That chick Julie, she's truly dazzling"
Sixteen Candles
"That's why they call them crushes, if they were easy they would be called something else."
The Breakfast Club
Allison:"want to see whats in my bag" Brian and Andrew:"NO"
Ferris Beuller's Day Off
Its a little childish and stupid, but then again, so is high-school.
Say Anything
You start out depressed, everything turns out to be a pleasant surprise.
The Breakfast Club
Teacher- "What was that rucus?" Brian- "What rucus?" Teacher- "I heard a rucus." Brian- "Can you describe this rucus?"
Ghostbusters
"listen...,you smell something?"
Breakfast Club
"does barry manilow know you stole his wardrobe?"
Top Gun
I feel the need, the need for speed
Say Anything
i gave her my heart // she gave me a pen =<[br />
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Our journey through time has taken a most excellent turn!
The Breakfast Club
Screws fall out all the time. The world is an imperfect place. -Bender
Ferris Buellers Day Off
I do have a test today, that wasn't bullsh**. It's on European Socialism. I mean, really, what's the point? I'm not European. I don't plan on being European. So, who gives a crap if they're Socialists? They could be fascist anarchists, it still wouldn't change the fact that I don't own a car.
CAUTION:
MAY BRING BACK CHILDHOOD MEMORIES!
YOU KNOW YOU GREW UP IN THE 80's or early 90's IF.......
~1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE".
~ 2. You watched the Pound Puppies.
~3. You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"
~4. You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish.
~5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own.
~ 6. You owned those lil Strawberry Shortcake scented dolls.
~7. You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey on Blossom.
~ 8. Two words: M.C. Hammer
~9. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock".
~10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars.
~11. You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales". Woo-Ooo
~12. When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
~13. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
~14. You saw the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on the big screen.
~ 15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
~ 16. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.
~17. You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House)
~18. You wore Jordache jean jacket and you were proud of it.
~19. L.A. Gear...need I say more
~20. You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in Kindergarten.
~21. You remember reading "Tales of a fourth grade nothing" and all Ramona books. Ramona completed in 1st grade.
~22. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF"
~ 23. You wanted to be a Goonie.
~24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing.
~25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off...
~26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
~27. You took Lunch Pails to school.
~28. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.
~ 29. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence.
~30. You remember Hypercolor t-shirts.
~ 31. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.
~32. You thought She-ra and He-Man should hook up.
~ 33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged friendship bracelets.
~34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes.
~35. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I?"
~36. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"
~37. You remember going to the skating rink before there were in-line skates.
~38. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.
~39. You have ever played with a Skip-It.
~ 40. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.
~ 41. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
~42. You remember Popples.
~43. "Don&..39;t worry, be happy"
~44. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks.
~45. You wore socks scrunched down.
~46. "Miss MARY MACK MACK MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK"
~47. You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.
~ 48. You remember watching both "Gremlins" movies.
~ 49. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!!"
~50. You remember watching Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales"
~51. You thought Doogie Howser was hot.
~52. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
~53. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool.
~54. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By the Bell", the ORIGINAL class.
~ 55. You know all the words to Bon Jovi - SHOT THRU THE HEART.
~ 56. You just sang those words to yourself.(didn't you)
~57.You remember watching Magic vs. Bird.
~58.You cut your t-shirts in half and wore it with your homemade Levi shorts..(the shorter the better)
~59. You remember when mullets were cool!
~60. You had a mullet!
~61. You still sing "We are the World"
~62. You "Pegged" your pants ritually
You're still singing shot through the heart in your head aren't you!!!
PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS WHO GREW UP IN THE 1980s or early 1990s!!!
"STEREOTYPICAL EIGHTIES CLIQUES"
Hacker
(a subset of the nerds group)
The geeks had their own language, and it was rarely verbalized. Around the time that Wargames reached mall movie theatres around the world, the BBS scene had given rise to a whole new class of speech. Mostly this subset relies on misspellings of common words, some extremists would actually substitute every o in their words for zeros. The required equipment for this type of person seemed to be a Commodore 64 which was the machine of choice for teenagers who didn't know better.
The Jocks
This crowd consisted of the athletic geared people in any school. Most of them prayed for scholarships if they wanted to go onto college, most that didn't get them, ended up working in less than glamourous jobs. Jocks generally had their own events (athletic in nature of course) and could be seen at most popular group functions as well .
The Losers
These were generally the type of people who were rebelling against any authority figure they could. They generally spent their time cutting classes, and had awful academic performance. They rarely were invited to parties, but were known to show up anyways. They sometimes threw their own, but mostly they would just find a good hiding place for small drinking parties for the members of their group.
The Nerds
Also known as "the geeks". Mostly filled with students of higher academic pursuits, they were generally lumped into one catch all category. Some in this group could actually move into other groups, such as the popular group or the jocks, but would still be labeled as that particular groups nerd. Hackers, when actually at school, would fall into this group as well, since most tended to be the academic sort (at least in computers and math). Generally their outward appearance set them off from the rest of any group since they were never dressed quite like the rest of the groups.
The Outcasts
Generally someone who didn't dress like everyone else was dressing, and had a little fashion sense would easily fit into this group. This was the group with the most artistic inclinations, and tended to be the type of people who weren't real interested in going to a kegger. This group usually remained low key and could almost go unnoticed. Unlike the the nerds, this group didn't require academic performance to be of high standards. Usually though, members fell into the middle of the road academically though.
The Popular Group
This was generally the crowd that came from middle and upper class families and consisted of people who generally were well liked by most groups except those that they came in direct contact with. Generally they gravitated towards the jocks when it came to invites for parties, and some people were generally considered to be members of both groups. In California valley girls were also included in this subset, in the "Valley" of course. Outside of it, they were tolerated, though not always considered to be acceptable. Since nationally, the Valley Girl phenomenon lasted a short period, most imitators generally fell in line with the rest of the popular group.
Rapper
As rap music gained popularity, so did the parlance surrounding them. Mostly fans of rap music could be found talking like this. This is real unfortunate when it's a skinny white loser in a mall who thinks he's cool. Anybody who doesn't grow up in the 'hood shouldn't talk like this without risking looking like a poser.
Skater
Typically this is someone who actually skates. Emphasis is on the word "dude" which is used a lot like the word "like" is by valley girls. Slang is mostly skating related. Depending on the region of the country and their attention to clothing, they could be considered a subset of other groups as well.
Surfer
Typically this is someone who actually surfs. I've rarely seen imitators of this type. Mostly limited to California, received wide recognition when Sean Penn's character in Fast Times at Ridgemont High was introduced. Slang is mostly surfing related, which dates to the sixties for the most part. Generally considered to be a subset of the loser group since their academic standing was sub-par due to excessive hanging time on the beach.
Valley Girl (a subset of the popular group)
Popularized by the Frank Zappa song of the same name with his daughter Moon Unit. Before this song, it was a regional dialect limited to the "Valley" in California. Afterwards however, teenagers across the country were unfortunately imitating (or at least attempting to). Watch the movie of the same title to get a good solid look at a "Val" in action. The pre-requisite to being fluent in Valley-speak, would be a lobotomy and Daddy's credit card. The word "like" is often repeated and has several different meanings depending on the context in which it is used.
IF you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ...uphill BOTH ways... yadda, yadda, yadda. And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! . . . . . .but now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet!!! If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! There was no email! We had to actually write somDONOTBLOCKOURADSebody a letter... with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @..*% it all up! And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options! We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! Don't get me started on the cell phone for kids issue. We all have fallen into the trap of "it's for their safety". But it is amazing that we came and went and never had a phone on us and we all lived. A cell phone, hell back then phones at home still had cords on them. Imagine being tied to one spot. Roaming charges...yeah, we had those...when we strayed too far from home we got charged with it and got our butts beat...there are some roaming charges for you! We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! ... Just like in LIFE! Nowadays kids have a million activities after school and on the weekends that they need to be taken to. When we were young, our Mom's didn't take us anywhere, except to the grocery store (and back then they didn't even have to take us in, they could just leave us in the car!). Heck they didn't even drive us to school...your transportation was your stinking little feet. Not to mention they would never have paid money for all of those activities...we were told, "What, do you think? We are just made of money?". The answer was no and we walked to where we wanted to go. When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed! Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no 'on-screen' menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little brat-bastards! And now there are DVD players in the cars!! God forbid they just stare out the window like we did just to go to the mall with mommy . . . Now Mom's can't say, "If you don't behave I am going to come across this seat and beat your butt", no! Because they would hit their heads on the damn DVD player!! And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a friggin fire. . .imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy-Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like a moron. That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're s-p-o-i-l-e-d. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
Regards, ----- -The 30 Something crowd! ----