Children of the 80's

[Claire G]

Hello children of the 80's. Read this, it will take you back...

Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo

Friendship bracelets were ties that couldn't be broken.

You know all the words to "Ice Ice Baby".

You wanted to be on "Jim'll Fix It".

You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before he had plastic surgery.

You had one of those T-shirts that changed colour with heat (Global Hypercolour).

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

You were upset when She-ra, Princess of Power and He-Man got cancelled.

You remember Madonna in her cone stage outfit.

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

You wore fluorescent-neon clothing... (if you can call it clothing!)

You could break dance (ok, you wished you could)

You remember when Amiga was a state of the art video game system.

You remember M.C. Hammer.

You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"....

You can remember when it was Jazzy Jeff and The fresh Prince and NOT just plain Will Smith!

You own any cassettes.

You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins, ALF or ET lunchbox.

You have ever pondered on why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.

My Little Pony, Gummy Bears and Transformers are familiar to you.

You had a Swatch Watch.

You believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power!"

Big wheels and BMX's were the way to go.

With your pink (or blue) portable tape player, you sang to Kylie and Jason!

You owned Polly Pocket or Micro Machines.

You made Ken fall in love with Barbie.

Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away.

You knew that Transformers were "more than meets the eye".

You wore a banana clip at some point during your youth.

You were LED to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living in space.

You know what leg warmers are and probably had a pair.

You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish.

You recorded songs off the radio with your boom box.

You wore those wide, colourful shoelaces.

You never questioned why the A-Team were always imprisoned in places that had sufficient tools to build an armoured tank.

Dungeons & Dragons was your favourite programme.

You said "bright light, bright light" in a strange high-pitched voice.

You fell out with friends during heated arguments about the relative merits of Matt & Luke.

Cerise pink, electric blue and banana yellow have ever featured in your wardrobe or make-up collection.

You did the top toggle of your coat up around your neck without having your arms in the sleeves, and you knew you looked like a superhero.

Your new winter coat was best used to demonstrate that your wings were like a shield of steel.

You still remember when the A-ha video was the pinnacle of modern technology and you can still sing all the words.

Your best party dress was either a ra-ra or puff-ball skirt.

You remember watching a house inhabited by a jester, a pantomime horse and a woman who sneezed, and thinking that this was perfectly normal.

You tried to convince your Dad to fit a strip of red lights on the front of a Capri so it looked like KITT.

You had more than 10 sweets in a 10p mix-up.

You hid behind the sofa whenever you heard the word "Exterminate!".

Girls - You owned a pair of Pixie boots, generally worn with leg warmers.

Boys - You owned a pair of pale grey slip-ons, generally worn with white towelling socks.

Ooh, you could crush a grape!

You held a chicken in the air or stuck a deckchair up your nose.

You wore legwarmers & tried to do the splits while jumping in the air while singing you were going to live forever.

Your best mate had a Soda Stream at home and you were jealous.

Any elderly Scottish lady sounds like Supergran

You remember playing British Bulldog,

When 'Computer' Tennis, Pac-Man and Donkey-Kong ruled

You remember hearing the tune then running out to buy an ice cream cone on a warm summer night - 99's, screwballs or a cider lolly.

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.

Important decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."

[Red]

Flashback!!!!!

[tdiplc]

Blimey! Must be a girl thing!

I remember some of that - must be getting far too old.

[andyhart21]

I cant believe I remember every single one of those!

[JMRussell]

Originally posted by andyhart21

I cant believe I remember every single one of those!

Just proves I'm not a child of the 80's not only do I not remember the I'm not sure I even noticed when they were around but late 60's early 70's then you're talking!

[Steven]

Important decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."

Still do that now in business decisions! :lol:

[Jimbo]

That brings back some memories!:lol:

[willtang]

...feelin' old:(:(

[Steven]

hey where are

- Smash windows and run from the police

- graffitti the walls down the recreation park whilst swigging cider

- Smoking pipe tobbaco whilst you supposed to be at school

- Yelling at the bullies that the strange woman walking the dog in the distance is your aunti so they will leave you alone.

- Take your neighbours dog for a walk.. only to tie it to your go cart and drag you real fast down the street.

- Buy cigarettes from the ice cream man for 10p each

maybe this was in the 70'S

:?::?:

[willtang]

- Buy cigarettes from the ice cream man for 10p each

Sadly, when I started smoking you could get 10 Sovriegn outta the machine for 10P (or 2 bob as it was then)

Sob!!

[UltraViolet]

Originally posted by Claire G

You remember when Amiga was a state of the art video game system.

Cripes - I can remember when the Atari 2600 was cutting edge and fended off Intelivision !!!

Originally posted by Claire G

You still remember when the A-ha video was the pinnacle of modern technology and you can still sing all the words.

Ohhh yes - remember teenage drooling in front of the TV when he emerged at the end of the video all ragged and in need of a hug.....

Originally posted by Claire G

Girls - You owned a pair of Pixie boots, generally worn with leg warmers.

Darn - you mean these are not fashionable anymore???

Originally posted by Claire G

When 'Computer' Tennis, Pac-Man and Donkey-Kong ruled

Cool stuff !!! Wonder if you can buy the old arcade machines cheap now - would make a nice addition to go with the pool table etc in the games room.....

Originally posted by Claire G

You remember hearing the tune then running out to buy an ice cream cone on a warm summer night - 99's, screwballs or a cider lolly.

Screwballs - wow - there is a blast from the past. Did anyone else have an Ice Cream van that sold ice cream cones with a teddy bear shaped lolly stuck in it?

[Mitch]

i was bor on 13th october 1982. i had a commodore 64 computer in 1990 jus before i got my spectrum with its games that on tape that took bout an hour to load ahaha.

screwballs rule, still eat them now with the chewing gum at the bottom!!

used to watch nightrider when i was bout 5 and the A-TEAM classics!!

my dad had a brand new brown merc 200se that he brought in 1982 used to love that car still got it but took it over to cyprus probably drive it off a cliff nxt summer get some insurance and get a convertible.

but some ***** you guys are on about leaves me :?:

mind u i aint as old as you hahaha:lol:

[tonb]

Excellent Clare, but what about when:

The only way to get into your dads car was by sliding across the bonnet then climbing in through the window.

You wanted a horn on the car that played Dixie.

You had a grifter with the twist 3 speed geers, and if you were really cool you also had a yellow and black siren on the front (that played 3 tunes I seem to remember).

You had a 5-4-3-2-1 in your tuckbox.

Upgrading your ZX81 to a 16K RAM was space age stuff!

Using "floppy disks" on the BBC B COmputers at School - except there was nothing floppy about them - you could sink battleships with them.

Taking a game into school on the last day of term .......

:rolleyes:

Roll on 30 .... sigh :eyes:

[javadude]

You forgot about...

- the bay city rollers

- power cuts

- chopper bikes

....oh I guess that makes me old :wow:

[Matthew_McNally]

Originally posted by UltraViolet

Cripes - I can remember when the Atari 2600 was cutting edge and fended off Intelivision !!!

Colecovision was the dogs danglies though.

What a thread - both cool and dishearterning at the same time!

Cool - because it brought back so many memories, although not all of them. EG - never drooled over Morten Haarket (***** - I remember his name).

Disheartening - because I have now just remembered how old I am getting.

Anybody know the URL for stannah stairlifts, and those baths you sit in and the seat goes up and down?

:lol:

[Matthew_McNally]

Originally posted by tonb

You had a grifter with the twist 3 speed geers, and if you were really cool you also had a yellow and black siren on the front (that played 3 tunes I seem to remember).

Weren't there three 'classes; of this range?

Boxer - small model

Grifter - big model

what was the third - doing my head in now.

Course, we never had one.

THere were four lads in my family, and I was the oldest.

So - the bike we had had to be used by everyone - so we had a budgie.

Which of course was the baby version of the chopper - except for girls.

:(:(

[tonb]

Hands up who played cops and robbers on their bike .... and made lots of motorbike and tyre screaching noises!

And who also made up their own version of "The Red Hand Gang" ....... having secret meetings in the garden shed!

I can honestly say that I never had leg warmers though!!! (but I did want to live forever ..) :bounce:

[dark_is200]

My dad actually had a car that played Dixie, it was a very, very fast citroen CX

Originally posted by tonb

Excellent Clare, but what about when:

The only way to get into your dads car was by sliding across the bonnet then climbing in through the window.

You wanted a horn on the car that played Dixie.

You had a grifter with the twist 3 speed geers, and if you were really cool you also had a yellow and black siren on the front (that played 3 tunes I seem to remember).

You had a 5-4-3-2-1 in your tuckbox.

Upgrading your ZX81 to a 16K RAM was space age stuff!

Using "floppy disks" on the BBC B COmputers at School - except there was nothing floppy about them - you could sink battleships with them.

Taking a game into school on the last day of term .......

:rolleyes:

Roll on 30 .... sigh :eyes:

[Steven]

here is the ultimate

Putting a playing card on the back wheel of your bike so that it goes through the spokes and made a motor bike sound!

I had a grifter! i had the balck and red sports grifter.... all the kids were jelous!

man.. this thread rocks :)

[willtang]

who remembers tab cola?

check the unoffical website

tab website

[Matthew_McNally]

Originally posted by Steve

I had a grifter! i had the balck and red sports grifter.... all the kids were jelous!

what was the other 'Grifter' type bike?

Boxer, Grifter and......?

[Steven]

it was a Grifter XL

I used to have one

The SC430 of the bike generation :lol:

Who remembers buying stink bombs and those little paper things that used to bang when you threw them.... what were they called?

[Wallace]

Let me know when you get around to "a child of the 50s/60s then i'll join in:(

[DaveEllen]

and what about those tank tops .........:(

[UltraViolet]

Originally posted by Matthew_McNallyColecovision was the dogs danglies though.

That came out a bit later though didn't it?

- along with the Vortex thing.

I upgraded to a ZX Spectrum 48 (rubber keyboard) and played JetPac, Manic Miner and anything by Ultimate Play the game........ Underwurld was soooo cool!!