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...nursing student...journalism grad....many layers...book/movie lover and newspaper junkie...health nut and health hazard...paradoxical. Now, a little thing to remind us all of what we truly are...Children of the EightiesWe are the children of the Eighties. We are not the first "lost generation" nor today's lost generation; in fact, we think we know just where we stand - or are discovering it as we speak.We are the ones who played with Lego Building Blocks when they were just building blocks and gave Malibu Barbie crewcuts with safety scissors that never really cut. We collected Garbage Pail Kids and Cabbage Patch Kids and My LittlePonies and Hot Wheels and He-Man action figures.Big Wheels and bicycles with streamers were the way to go, and sidewalk chalk was all you needed to build a city. Imagination was the key. It made the Ewok Treehouse big enough for you to be Luke and the kitchen table and an old sheet dark enough to be a tent in the forest. Your world was the backyard and it was all you needed. With your pink portable tape player, Debbie Gibson sang back up to you and everyone wanted a skirt like the Material Girl and a glove like Michael Jackson's.Today, we are the ones who sing along with Bruce Springsteen and The Bangles perfectly and have no idea why. We recite lines with the Ghostbusters and still look to The Goonies for a great adventure. We flip through T.V. stations and stop at The A Team and Knight Rider and Fame and laugh with The Cosby Show and Family Ties and Punky Brewster and what you talkin' 'bout Willis? We hold strong affections for The Muppets and The Gummy Bears and why did they take the Snorks off the air? After school specials were only about cigarettes and step-families, the Polka Dot Door was nothing like Barney, and aren't the Power Rangers just Voltron reincarnated?We are the ones who still read Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, the Bobsey Twins, Beverly Clearly and Judy Blume, Richard Scary and the Electric Company. Friendship bracelets were ties you couldn't break and friendship pins went on shoes - preferably hightop Velcro Reeboks - and pegged jeans were in, as were Units belts and layered socks and jean jackets and jams and charm necklaces and side pony tails and just tails. braces with colored rubberbands made you cool.The backdoor was always open and Mom served only red Kool-Aid to the neighborhood kids- never drank New Coke. Entertainment was cheap and lasted for hours. All you needed to be a princess was high heels and an apron; the Sit'n'Spin always made you dizzy but never made you stop; Pogoballs were dangerous weapons and Chinese Jump Ropes never failed to trip someone. In your Underoos you were Wonder Woman or Spider Man or R2D2 and in your treehouse you were king. In the Eighties, nothing was wrong. Did you know the president was shot?Star Wars was not only a movie. Did you ever play in a bomb shelter? Did you see the Challenger explode or feed the homeless man? We forgot Vietnam and watched Tiananman's Square on CNN and bought pieces of the Berlin Wall at the store. AIDS was not the number one killer in the United States. We didn't start the fire, Billy Joel. In the Eighties, we redefined the American Dream, and those years defined us.We are the generation in between strife and facing strife and not turning our backs. The Eighties may have made us idealistic, but it's that idealism that will push us and be passed on to our children - the first children of the twenty-first century. Never forget:We are the children of the Eighties.Believe It Or NotA cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.A pigs orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.A snail can sleep for three years.All Polar bears are left-handed.An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.China has more English speakers than the United States.Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.Marilyn Monroe had six toes.More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.No word in the English language rhymes with month.On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.Some lions mate over 50 times a day.The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.And Believe it or Not, I'm Fuckin Rad Get premade layouts from Myspace Layouts + CLICK HERE TO GET A PRE-MADE LAYOUT