Remember the 80's?

My 2 cousins used to do their hair at night before bed, and sleep neat, since it took them 2 hours to do at night.

I never understood the idea of sleeping neat, but ti worked for them.

Here is VH1's version of you know your an 80's child

1. You consider Ocean Pacific a designer label.

2. You thought the Stray Cats were bringing guitars back to rock 'n' roll.

3. You thought the lead singer of Poison was hot ... until you realized she was a he.

4. You still get the shakes when you remember Apple Macintosh's 1984 advertisement.

5. You preferred Van Hagar to Van Halen.

6. You thought George Michael was straight.

7. You had just discovered this great new singer called Tina Turner.

8. You owned a home Beta video recorder.

9. The Day After gave you nightmares.

10. Your favorite G.I. Joe figure was Snake Eyes.

11. You wondered what Lisa Bonet was doing married to that loser Lenny Kravitz.

12. You never figured out who the crooks were on Murder She Wrote.

13. You believed The Last Temptation of Christ was going to send Martin Scorsese to hell.

14. You regard Look Who's Talking as a turning point in John Travolta's career.

15. You admired Bill Cosby's taste in sweaters in The Cosby Show.

16. You didn't realize The Official Preppy Handbook was a gag.

17. You rolled up the sleeves on your sports jacket for the Sonny Crockett look.

18. You had no problems thinking members of the Miami police department drove Lamborghinis.

19. You thought Burt and Loni were a fairytale romance.

20. You thought Clint Eastwood would one day be president
21. Michael Jackson's fondness for Emmanuel Lewis seemed perfectly innocent.

22. You weren't sick of Robin Williams yet.

23. L'Oreal mousse changed your life overnight.

24. You stuck around after the commercial break to see if the General Lee on The Dukes of Hazzard really made it over that dried-out gulch when the bridge was down.

25. David Byrne seemed like the strangest guy ever.

26. You watched The Tracey Ullman Show for the funny cartoon segments about the yellow people.

27. You thought acid wash jeans were as important an evolutionary step as the wheel.

28. You believed Liberace really died from eating nothing but watermelon.

29. You got your medical knowledge from watching TV movies.

30. You wondered who those old guys were in the Run-D.M.C. 'Walk This Way' video.

31. You threw out your Atari console after buying an Intellivision.

32. You were 99.9% sure Sue Ellen shot J.R.

33. You can watch Scarface without once thinking of rap music.

34. You remember Ronald Reagan making that 'We begin bombing Russia in five minutes' joke.

35. The notion of a roller-skating musical starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly with music from ELO seemed like a good idea.

36. Porky's seemed like a new low.

37. You'd stay up late to watch The Hitchhiker on HBO, because of the dirty bits.

38. You could only complete two sides of Rubik's Cube.

39. Simon Le Bon's lyrics made sense to you.

40. War Games had you wondering if you could really start Armageddon using your crummy TRS-80

Too funny! My best friend at the time convinced me that her cousin was Ralph Machio she even went so far in forging an autograph for me as proof! LOL!

How scary is it that this photo used to make me drool!!!

Wasn't he like 30 yrs old in that picture, too?!

I was TOTALLY in love with him!! Even before The Karate Kid!! He was on a show called 'Eight is Enough'!

Dallas...Who shot JR? Falcon Crest? Puff on the top of your head, Big HAIR! Top Gun! More socks, jelly bracelets. Drive in movies - ET Phone Home. So scared of clowns in my room.

Oh my god, this is memory lane!

bumping

Lunatrek's post reminded me of this thread

Here's to a good blast from the past Friday Flashback

I have the Official Preppy Handbook and followed it somewhat faithfully for a while. My college roommate had it and she hunted and found one for me.

I LOVE Rob Lowe!!!

He was on the Daily Show with John Stewart last night...looking as beautiful as ever!! The only thing that got me depressed was that he said that he has been married for 13 years!!

I guess there goes my chances with him!!

This thread is still going strong! LOL love it

I remember having a collection of feathered clips that I would attach to my pocketbook when I went roller skating on Friday nights. I had no clue that they were actually roach clips! I found out a year or so later. Hee hee. I think that was 1980 or 1981.

Hot Skates and Top Roller (that was before they turned it into the vendor fleamarket - the one in Oceanside on Long Beach Rd. and now it's a Marshalls). That was about 1981-1982 or even 1983

Shopper's Village! Yesssss. Remember it well.

Roosevelt Field before they put up the 2nd floor and the food court, and going there on the N15 bus.

Nathan's car nights on Tueday nights

The Outsiders...I loved C. Thomas Howell. Wonder what he's doing now.

E.T. the Extra Terrestrial

Z-100 'from worst to first' in 1983 - 1984

'Discovering' WLIR in 1986 when I had enough of Michael Jackson and Madonna. Becoming a 'Duranie' and pledging my love to John Taylor LOL

The Cure, The Smiths, New order and Depeche Mode.

Wow. Memories!!

Yea he is a hottie!!!!!!!!

Maribelle-Here's a recent photo of C. Thomas Howell

Ahhh I still think this is good music....
The Cure, The Smiths, New order and Depeche Mode.