Children Of The 80's:
-Were the first generation to be
born into Luvs, Huggies and Pampers.
-Know what a "Whammee" is.
-Had He-Man and She-Ra underoos.
-Have never known John Lennon to be alive.
-Wore Swatch watches.
-Have always had a woman on the Supreme Court, and women have
always been traveling into space.
-Wore bike shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish.
-Have never needed a prescription to buy ibuprofen.
-Know what a Doozer is.
-Never heard Walter Kronkite suggest that, "That's the way
it is."
-Have occasionally pondered why Smufette was the ONLY female
smurf.
-Were born and grew up with Microsoft, IBM PC's, in-line skates,
fax machines, NutraSweet, film on disks, and unregulated
quantities of commercial interruptions on television.
-Were freaked out by Poltergeist.
-Have always had somebody named Dole running for something.
-Owned pieces of the Care Bear glass collection from Pizza Hut.
-Cats has been on
Broadway all their lives.
-Were led to believe that in the year 2000, we'd all be living on
the moon.
-While they all know her children, they have no idea who "Ma
Bell" was.
-Used an ATARI when it was a state-of-the-art video game system.
-Have never heard anyone say, "Book 'em Dano,"
"Good night, John-boy," or "Kiss my grits,"
in prime time.
-Collected Garbage Pail Kids.
-Never knew Madonna when she was "like a virgin."
-Thought "Dirty Dancing" was a really good movie.
-Have never had to worry about the packaging of Tylenol.
-Hold a special place in their hearts for Back to the Future.
-Had to have their MTV.
-Have never seen Bob Marley perform reggae live.
-Knew what Bruce Willis was "Talking" about.
-Jesse Jackson has always been getting someone out of trouble.
-Owned dolls with "Xavier Roberts" signed on their rears.
-Strikes by highly paid athletes have beecome a routine part of
professional athletics.
-Wanted to be on Star Search.
-Knew the moonwalk as a Michael Jackson dance step, not a Neil
Armstrong giant step.
-They can, right now, hum the theme to Inspector Gadget.
-John Cougar has always been John Cougar Mellencamp or vice
versa.
-Thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye.
-Space travel has always been accomplished in reusable
spacecraft.
-Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SOOO far away.
-Ditto for the phrase "in the next millennium."
-Have always been able to get their news from CNN or USA Today.
-Know that another name for a keyboard is a
"synthesizer."
-Have spent more than half their lives with Bart Simpson.
-Know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off."
-Don't understand why Solidarity is spellled with a capital
"S."
-Have more often than not heard the phrase "We'll be right
there, Mrs. Fletcher."
-Didn't think there is anything futuristic about 2001, and were
never concerned about the year 1984.
-Owned and operated a "Trapper Keeper."
-Camelot refers to King Arthur's seat of government, not John
Kennedy's.
-President Kennedy's assassination is as significant to them as
that of Lincoln's or Garfield's.
-Have probably never dialed a phone or
opened an icebox.
-Have neither seen white smoke over the Vatican nor know its
significance.
-Cannot identify the last United States President to throw up on
a Japanese prime minister.
-Have always known ketchup to be a vegetable.
-Susan B. Anthony has always been on the dollar but probably
never bought them anything.
-Felt pretty special when their elementaary schools had
top-of-the-line Commodore 64's.
-Have never seen a Bank Americard.
-Care Bears, Smurfs, ET and Gremlins provided their Halloween
costumes and lunch box themes.
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