You might be Generation X if...
(by anonymous, updated with more from anon.)
- You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed "8-6-7-5-3-0-9"
to see if Jenny would answer.
- You wore anything Izod, especially those windbreakers that folded up
into a pouch.
- You remember when Jordache jeans were cool.
- You know, by heart, the words to any "Weird" Al Yankovic
song.
- The Brady Bunch movie brought back memories.
- Three words "Atari" "IntelliVision" and "Coleco".
Sound familiar?
- You remember the days when "safe sex" meant "my parents
are gone for the weekend."
- You remember "Friday Night Videos" before the days of MTV.
- A predominant color in your childhood photos is "plaid."
- While in high school, you and all your friends discussed elaborate
plans to get together again at the end of the century and play "1999"
by Prince over and over again.
- You remember when music that was labeled "alternative" really
was.
- You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the mini-van. You rode
in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you.
- You've ever conversationally used the phrase "Jane, you ignorant
slut."
- You watched HR Puffenstuff as a child, but now that you're older, you
really understand that it would have been much better had you known about
drugs at the time.
- Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the
English language.
- You remember when Madonna was just hitting the scene.
- You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran,
Rick Springfield, Madonna,or Cyndi Lauper video.
- You actually remember who Rick Springfield is.
- You remember any of the following: Echo and the Bunnymen, Cutting Crew,
Scritti Politti or Orchestral Maneouvers in the Dark.
- The first time you ever kissed someone at a dance came during "Crazy
for You" by Madonna.
- You remember with pain the sad day when the Green Machine hit the streets
and made your old Big Wheel quite obsolete.
- The phrase "Where's the beef?" still doubles you over with
laughter.
- Honestly remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever
possibly get better special effects than those in the movie TRON.
- Your hair, at some point in time in the 80's, became something which
can only be described by the phrase "I was experimenting."
- You're starting to believe (now that it wouldn't affect YOU) that maybe
having the kids go to school year-round wouldn't be such a bad idea after
all.
- You're doing absolutely nothing pertaining to your major.
- You ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon.
- U2 is too "popular" and "mainstream" for you now.
- You remember trying to guess the episode of the Brady Bunch from the
first scene.
- You spent endless nights dreaming about being the Bionic Woman or Wonder
Woman or the Six Million Dollar Man.
- You know who shot J.R.
- "...and my name, is Charlie. They work for me."
- You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on
the guitar.
- You know all the words to the double album set of Grease.
- You owned a pair of Rainbow suspenders just like Mork used to wear.
- You bought a pair of Vanns and wanted to order a pizza in history class
so you could be just like Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
- You were too young to go see the Blue Lagoon so you just had to settle
for second hand reports.
- You learned to swim about the same time Jaws came out and still carry
the emotional scars to this day.
- Wonder twin powers, activate! Form of a an iceberg, shape of a hammer.
- You actually believed everything Leonard Nimoy told you on "In
Search Of..."
- Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those "brick-sized"
packages of Bazooka gum.
- Bo and Luke Duke.
- There was nothing strange about Bert n' Ernie living together.
- Rotary dial telephones.
- You anxiously awaited "That's Incredible" with Fran Tarkenton
and John Davidson on Wednesday nights.
- You actually believed that Mikey (famed for his "Life" cereal
commercials) died after eating a packet of pop rocks and drinking a Coke.
- The theme song to "Greatest American Hero" still comes back
to you on occasion.....
- Your "dressy" wardrobe centered on pastels and linen
blazers - guys included.
- "The Reflex" was a cool song.
- You remember "Battlestar Galactica".
- You remember the days that hooking your computer into your television
wasn't an expensive option that required gadgets, it was the ONLY option!
- You thought "Weird Science" was a masterpiece.
- Chevy Chase was really funny in those vacation movies.
- You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following
phrases: "When I was younger...", "When I was your age...",
You know, back when..." or "I just can't <fill in the
blank> like I used to."
- You jammed to the Miami Vice theme and thought Jan Hammer was cool.
- You wanted to move to Hawaii because that's where Magnum lived.
- For the girl crazy bunch: your first sexual dream occured to thoughts
of Jeannie, Marsha Brady, Samantha from Bewitched or for those hardcore
comic fans, Daphne from Scooby Doo or Josie or any of the Pussycats.
- For the boy crazy bunch: you thought Sean Cassidy was "dreamy",
lusted after "Ted, your ship's photographer" on the Love Boat,
Chachi or to keep it fair to the comically interested, thought Fred was
a hunk on Scooby Doo.
- You remember when a guy piercing his ear was radical to the max.
- You owned a Trapper Keeper.
- You remember when there was only "G", "PG" and
"R", none of this "PG-13" crap.
- You remember "Hey, let's be careful out there."
- You ever rang someone's doorbell and said "landshark".
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