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101 Ways To Tell If You're From (Or Stuck In) the 1980's
This 80's list may be just what you need for inspiration if you are planning an 80's party.
You may not believe some of the things that people found acceptable in the 80's.
You know you're from the 80's if…
1. Someone says to you "Tommy used to work on the docks," and you immediately reply, "Union's been on strike. He's down on his luck, it's tough, so tough."
2. You think everyone these days must have awfully cold legs since they aren't wearing their trusty leg warmers.
3 . You know that a friendship pin is a safety pin with beads on it that kids used to attach to their sneakers.
4. You consider "oldies music" to be anything recorded before Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, and Air Supply.
 
5. You know where you were on the day of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (January 28, 1986) and a teacher from your school had applied to be the first Teacher in Space. On that day, teacher Christa McAuliffe died along with six NASA astranauts.
6. You are still singing the lyrics of "Living on a Prayer" as you read this because I started you off in number 1.
7. You were psyched when you got to prepare your term papers on a brand new stand-alone word processor because electric typewriters were so old-fashioned.
8. You still think that you have to rush home from work on Thursday nights because you don't want to miss Family Ties, The Cosby Show, or Cheers on NBC.
9. You remember that there was a time before VCR's, before anyone you knew was able to record a television program at home. You either watched it live or you had to wait until the summer reruns.
 
10. You caught yourself saying "What you talking about, Willis?" just the other day.
11. Nothing came between you, your tight designer jeans, and your desire to either look like or date Brooke Shields.
12. Breakdancing on the sidewalk looked like fun. Now it just looks like you might break something.
13. Your family was really advanced because you were the only ones on the block to have a computer…and it was either a RadioShack Tandy TRS-80 or it was a Commodore 64.
14. You thought eating fast food was healthy…it had all the food groups, meat in a hamburger, milk from the dairy group in the shake, the fries were vegetables, and the bun was a grain. Just like the government charts suggested, right?
 
15. You begged your parents to pay for martial arts lessons after you saw The Karate Kid and The Karate Kid, Part II. You were over it by the time you saw The Karate Kid, Part III and you had no idea until you read this sentence that there was a The Karate Kid, Part IV in 1994, which was also called The Next Karate Kid, in which Hillary Swank was Pat Morita's protégé that time.
16. Your parents overheard you say "Gag me with a spoon," and thought you were into some kinky stuff.
17. You still have and wear your favorite clothes from high school because you think nothing compares to 80's fashion. (Maybe that's just me!)
18. When you got your driving license, your dream car was an IROC-Z, but the best you could afford was a used Le Car or an old Yugo.
19. You had a glow in the dark light saber for a toy and argued with your friends when you played Star Wars about who got to be Luke Skywalker and who got to play Darth Vader.
20. You remember when everyone thought George Michael, Richard Chamberlain, Neil Patrick Harris, Chad Lowe, and Rock Hudson were all straight.
21. You refuse to get an iPod because you think real music should only be listened to with cassingles on a Sony Walkman.
22. You can still recite dialogue from any movie starring Molly Ringwald.
23. You can remember a time when you had never heard of AIDS, global warming, SARS, or avian flu.
24. You know who Oliver North is and why he was in the news.
25. You think MTV still plays music videos.
 
26. You marveled at the medical headlines that the first artificial heart had been implanted in someone.
27. The first president you really remember is Ronald Reagan. First Lady Nancy Reagan convinced you to "Just Say NO" to drugs
28. You couldn't wait for the fall to find out the revelation of the biggest mystery of the year - "Who Shot J.R.?" on Dallas, but now you can't remember for the life of you who did it. (It was Kristin Shepard.) In fact, you've even forgotten who killed Laura Palmer on Twin Peaks. (It was her father, Leland Palmer.)
29. You got your fitness advice from Richard Simmons on TV and couldn't believe that stuff Dr. Ruth Westheimer talked about on the radio.
30. You remember the day that thousands of radio stations across the world played "We Are The World" at the exact same time. (Now, you're singing it! I admit it, I am.)
31. You and your friends couldn't wait to play Trivial Pursuit and get your pieces of the pie.
32. You used half a can of hairspray every morning, but made sure it was the pump bottle or an aerosol without CFC's (which you have now forgotten stands for Chlorofluorocarbons) because you didn't want to be responsible for the destruction of the ozone layer.
33. You or someone you knew wore parachute pants to a school dance.
34. You had at least one of the following: a Cabbage Patch Kid, Intellivision, He-Man action figures, a Rubik's Cube, or something with a Pac-Man logo on it.
35. You got your fashion advice from Valley Girls and Miami Vice cast members.
Are you still not sure that you're from the 80's? Like, OK, you need to continue reading the next section of the 80's List at this link.
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