You know you grew up in the 80's when.....

[IAmBatman]

what about trapper keepers and those slap on wrist bands?

 

[CPBrownson]

you and your friends built 20ft plywood ramps and freestyled your BMX bikes long before it was recognized as a sport.

you did this WITHOUT any gear because who the hell wore a helmet on a bike back then?!

cereal boxes actually had toys in them instead of making you send in 3 UPC symbols.

you ate "Surgar Smacks" instead of just "Smacks"

KFC was known as KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN

a large chocolate shake from McD's was a LARGE chocolate shake instead of a medium.

you know what Cabage Patch Kids are.

you know the meaning of "Go ahead punk, make my day."

your parent's car had imitation wood panel interior, or side paneling

the attention span of the average television veiwer was longer than 30 minutes.

you remember the Rubix Cube craze

you tried to impress your friends by "solving" the Rubix Cube by prying the blocks apart.

you know the meaning of "De Plane, De Plane!"

you remember David Hasselhof as being synonomous with KIT, not bikini-clad lifegaurds.

you listened to "Alternative Music" when it was still underground.

you know who Spuds McKinsey (sp?) was.

Rock Me Amadeus!!

 

[KaOTiK]

Hey now, lets not over look this Happy Meal fiasco so quickly now!

Kao

 

[jaggrey]

Does any1 remember when McDonalds had some stupid song and put a square record in the Sunday paper w/the coupons? I had to be around 7 or 8 (I was born in 81).

 

[mrCide]

Voltron!@#!@#

 

[Ranger X]

Thanks for making me feel old.
I was like "Oh yeah" to almost every one of those listed above!

 

[CPBrownson]

<< U2 was cool >>


What do you mean by was? They still are cool!
but yeah, how could we forget parachute pants!

As to the Happy Meal thing: My son gets a Happy Meal at least once a week and it's always in a bag. I think Burger King's kids meal sometimes comes in a box though, but maybe not everytime. Depends on what sort of movie they are marketing.

 

[KaOTiK]

I am totally outraged over this Happy Meal business going on. I havent had one in along time but damnit i wanted my kids (if i have any) to enjoy the full Happy Meal expericne not a cheap bag one! Thats it, im writin to there corp HQ over this.

Kao

 

[8ball]

<< What do you mean by was? They still are cool! >>


They were cool until Achtung Baby. Too commercial after that.
Roller skating on Friday nights. (Where I had my first real kiss)
Jean jackets with patches.
Sergio Valente and Jordache.
Bleach spotted jeans.
Rat tails.
Earrings in your right ear (guys) were a no no.
Hutch was a cool bike.
Smear the Queer.

 

[CPBrownson]

<< I am totally outraged over this Happy Meal business going on. I havent had one in along time but damnit i wanted my kids (if i have any) to enjoy the full Happy Meal expericne not a cheap bag one! Thats it, im writin to there corp HQ over this.

Kao >>


LOL! Just take your kids to BK. Even my son says that their toys are cooler than the ones McD's gives away.

 

[gooseman]

Damn, I'm feeling old now. I was 17 when the 80's started.

 

[shopbruin]

<< Does any1 remember when McDonalds had some stupid song and put a square record in the Sunday paper w/the coupons? I had to be around 7 or 8 (I was born in 81). >>



i do i do! i'm only 20 but i remember....

*starts singing* big mac, mcDLT, quarter pounder with some cheese, a hamburger a cheeseburger, french fries...

and they had that one burger that separated the two halves &quot;this side is hot, this side is not&quot;

 

[CPBrownson]

<< They were cool until Achtung Baby. Too commercial after that. >>


That did take some getting used to I admit. But they &quot;returned to thier roots&quot; with thier latest album. I just saw them in concert and they still rock! I guess I'm too much of a die-hard U2 fan; I'd still love 'em no matter what they did.

Those were some good ones though! &quot;Smear The Queer&quot; OMG! I had forgoten that there was such a phrase!!

 

[KaOTiK]

<<

<< I am totally outraged over this Happy Meal business going on. I havent had one in along time but damnit i wanted my kids (if i have any) to enjoy the full Happy Meal expericne not a cheap bag one! Thats it, im writin to there corp HQ over this.

Kao >>


LOL! Just take your kids to BK. Even my son says that their toys are cooler than the ones McD's gives away. >>



Its the Pokemon, thats why your kid likes BK toys better Does BK at least still have those free cardboard/paper crowns that kids can wear? Its been awhile since ive been there as well, but i remember in highschool wearin them around after i got back from launch (im on 21 so you can figure it out ).

Kao

 

[Maetryx]

Maetryx here,
Ah yes.... the eighties

Don't forget:
Ocean Pacific (clothing brand)
Vans (slip on shoes)
Converse aka Hi-Tops
Stryper, the very first Christian heavy metal band
Pac-Man the game AND the Saturday morning cartoon
No pain, no gain
Smurfs
My Little Ponies
Mon Chi Chi
Snakes (the foldable, jointed polygonal plastic toys that could be folded into different shapes)
Summer Olympics in Los Angeles (1984)
Wine Coolers were new
candybars cost 25 cents
Pop Rocks blew up your stomach if taken with soda pop
collectible cards came with sticks of bubblegum that tasted like cardboard
Who you gonna call?

 

[CPBrownson]

I don't know if BK had the crowns anymore or not. That would be interesting to find out though.

 

[yiwonder]

I'm 16 and I'm recognizing a lot of this stuff.

About this whole McDonalds thing...They haven't used boxes in a while I thought. I liked those boxes. There would be a maze and some other games on there. Oh the good ole days...

I remember the BK crowns about 3 years ago, but haven't really payed attention lately. Quick someone, run down to BK to see.

 

[HansHurt]

The A-Team
Greatest American Hero
Mork and Mindy
Simon &amp; Simon
Battlestar Galactica
Magnum P.I
The Love Boat
Q-Bert
Rubik's Cube

&quot;Kiss my grits&quot;
&quot;E.T. phone home&quot;
&quot;Big bucks, no whammies&quot;
&quot;Bodacious&quot;
&quot;As, if&quot;
&quot;Dork&quot;
&quot;Gnarly&quot;
&quot;Like, oh my God&quot;
&quot;Make me barf&quot;
&quot;Smooth move X-Lax&quot;
&quot;Totally tubular&quot;
&quot;Where's the beef?&quot;

And for me D&amp;D was big

 

[goldboyd]

blowing in the game cartiges and in the nintendo itself trying to get a game to work

 

[KaOTiK]

Its an fast food conspiracy i tell you....

Kao

 

[gooseman]

Hell, I remember when McDonalds commercial on TV said, &quot;Get a Hamburger, Fries and a Coke and change back from your dollar&quot;!!!!!

 

[amnesiac]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! I'm soooooooo old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 I remember almost ALL of that.. Dang, was it really so long ago?

 

[Theophilus]

Snapple and before the bottled water craze
roled up pants to the ankle
Nike windbreakers
Nike Air just came out
Remember when Air Jordans first came out
Bo Jackson
Prowings for the poor kinds like me
&quot;Going out&quot; with someone meant you called them up everyday and just talked and occasionally see a movie together
&quot;Going steady&quot; didn't mean much different, just a status thing
Leather jackets with the world atlas inside

 

[ace31216]

Man...thanks for the great memories!

 

[CPBrownson]

crap, how could I have forgot PacMan!

and Ms PacMan

the Challenger space shuttle tragedy

the assisnation of John Lennon
(these last two are examples of events within a decade that everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. Like JFK in the 60's and the Oklahoma City Bombing in the 90's.)

the hyped-up fear of nucular war

either you, or someone in your neighborhood had a fallout shelter in thier backyard.

AIDS

&quot;We Are The World&quot;

carbon paper replaced by Xerox (the misuse of the brand name when referring to photocopies or a photocopier even though the machine may not have been made by Xerox. This still happens today though not as frequent.)

The Dukes of Hazard

The Six Million Dollar Man (syndicated in the 80s)

The Incredible Hulk

The Fall Guy

Airwolf (and you were later shocked to see Jan Michael Vincent had become a crazy-eyed drunk!)

Magnum P.I.

The A Team

and you had a lunch box of one or more of these shows.

Porky's

Revenge of the Nerds

Rambo

Rocky

Cherry Coke

The Pepsi Challenge

Michael Jackson sets himself on fire for Pepsi

the extravagent use of Velcro

the Walkman

Cindy Lauper

moshing/mosh-pit were known as slam-dancing/slam-pit