You're Lost Between "Baby Boomer" and "Generation X" if...
You're Lost Between "Baby Boomer" and "Generation X" if...
1. You remember when Jordache jeans with a flat-handle comb in the
back pocket was cool.
2. Any photograph of you shows you wearing an Izod shirt with the
collar turned up.
3. You know any "Weird Al" Yankovic songs by heart.
4. You've ever rung someone's doorbell and said "Landshark!"
5. You were once bowled over by the technological excellence of such
products as Atari, IntelliVision, TelStar and Coleco.
6. You remember the premier of MTV -or worse yet, you remember its
predecessor, "Friday Night Videos."
7. You and your friends ever discussed having a reunion at the end of
the century and playing Prince's "1999" until you passed out partying.
8. A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid.
9. You remember when music that was labeled "alternative" really was
alternative, and when "alternative comedy" was really funny.
10. You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan.
11. (Related to No. 10) You rode in the back of the stationwagon
facing the cars behind you.
12. You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the
following phrases: "You know, back when...," "When I was your
age...," or "When I was younger..."
13. Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you learned things
like grammar, math and history. (A big hint here is if the only way
you can recite the Preamble to the Constitution is by singing it.)
14. You ever dressed to look like someone in a Madonna, Cyndi Lauper
or Duran Duran video.
15. You remember your first kiss with someone having happened while
either "Leather and Lace" or "Crazy for You" was playing.
16. You remember with pain the day the Green Machine hit the streets
(or the sidewalks), instantly making your Big Wheel obsolete.
17. The age-old question "Where's the beef?" still makes you laugh.
18. You remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever
possibly have more advanced special effects than "TRON."
19. You had a crush on Ted the photographer on "Love Boat," Gage
from "Emergency," or Ponch from "CHIPS."
20. Your hair at some point in time in the '80s could only be
described by saying "I was experimenting."
21. You've ever shopped at Benetton.
22. You're starting to believe that having the kids in school year-
round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
23. You're currently employed doing something that has absolutely
nothing to do with your college major.
24. U2 is too popular and mainstream for you now.
25. You remember trying to guess which episode of "The Brady Bunch"
it was by the first scene.
26. You had a front-row seat (i.e., blew off one or more classes) for
Luke and Laura's wedding on "GH."
27. Your parents wanted you to attend medical school, but you decided
it was pointless since Quincy got all the babes anyway.
28. You know who shot J.R.
29. You recall when Love's Baby Soft was in every girl's Christmas
stocking.
30. This rings a bell: "My name is Charlie, and they work for me."!
31. You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on. (Related item:
you were sure that "New Coke" would NEVER catch on.)
32. You know all the words to the double-album set of the "Grease"
soundtrack.
33. You've ever had a Dorothy Hamill haircut.
34. You sat with your friends on any given Friday night circa 1982
and dialed 867-5309 to see if Jenny was actually there.
35. "All skate, change directions" means something to you.
36. You've ever owned a pair of rainbow suspenders like the ones Mork
used to wear.
37. You bought a pair of Vans and wanted to order a pizza in history
class so you could be just like Jeff Spicolli. (Related item: if
you've ever smacked yourself in the head with a shoe and
exclaimed,"I'm so wasted!"
38. You owned a Preppy Handbook.
39. You were too young to see "Blue Lagoon," so you just had to
settle for the second-hand reports.
40. You remember when movies were only PG and R.
41. You learned to swim at about the same time "Jaws" came out....and
still carry the emotional scars to prove it.
42. You remember when your cable TV box had a sliding selector
switch. and your "cable remote" was connected to the TV by a CORD!
43. Your jaw would ache by the time you finished one of those brick-
sized packages of Bazooka!
44. You remember Bo and Luke Duke, Daisy, Boss Hogg, or-worst of all- what Sheriff Roscoe's full name was.
45. Your parents paid $2,000 for a top-loading VCR that was almost
the size of a coffee table.
46. You found nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together.
47. You remember having a rotary phone.
48. You actually believed that Mikey, famed kid on the Life cereal
commercials, died after eating Pop Rocks and drinking a Coke.
49. "Members Only" jackets...say no more.
50. And lastly, I'll make a song stick in your head for the rest of
the day: ....you actually remember the words to the theme song
of "The Greatest American Hero." ("BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I'M WALKIN' ON AIR... I NEVER THOUGHT I COULD FEEL SO FREE-EE-EE...")
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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Huney, Bon & Simba-missed so very much
(graduated HS in 72)
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