you might be an 80s child if.....

[cassiesmom]

I went from age 15 to 24 during the '80s - does that count?

-You own any cassettes or albums. (BOTH!)
-You ever had a Swatch Watch. (Check. WITH the requisite accessories.)
-You have worn a Banana Clip, or knew someone who did. (I did.)
-You remember "Friday Night Videos" before the days of MTV. (Would MTV exist without "Friday Night Videos"?)
-Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language. (Not only the English language, but math, history, and civics as well!)
-You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Madonna, or Cyndi Lauper video. (Not intentionally - but when I look back now at pictures taken during those years - OUCH!)
-You actually know who Rick Springfield is. (Oh, my gosh! I LOVE Rick Springfield! He played a doctor on "General Hospital" when I was in high school AND he was a rock 'n' roll star. The scary part is - he gave a concert in Chicago recently and the audience was mostly women my age!)

Starched my polo-shirt collars to death, and wore them flipped up. No starch at hand? Hair spray. (YUCK! Did I really do that?!) Shoulder pads the size of pillows. Gloria Vanderbilt jeans. Nothing comes between me and my Calvin's.

There was a PBS show recently, a retrospective about "The Electric Company" and the whole way through, I was thinking I remember that bit, I remember that character, I remember that song... I was a total "Electric Company" kid. I hope it's on again soon.

BOY, AM I GETTING OLD!!

[kt_luvs_kitties]

All very true! and funny!

[Twisterdog]

Starched my polo-shirt collars to death, and wore them flipped up. No starch at hand? Hair spray. (YUCK! Did I really do that?!) Shoulder pads the size of pillows. Gloria Vanderbilt jeans. Nothing comes between me and my Calvin's.

There was a PBS show recently, a retrospective about "The Electric Company" and the whole way through, I was thinking I remember that bit, I remember that character, I remember that song... I was a total "Electric Company" kid. I hope it's on again soon.

BOY, AM I GETTING OLD!!

Oh, that's hilarious, I remember doing that, too. Preferably, two polo shirts layered, and BOTH collars starched up. LOL

I LOVED Electric Company! My husband and I were talking about that show just the other day.