WHEN YOU'RE LOST BETWEEN "BABY BOOMER" AND 
 "GENERATION X"
 
  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!" (ding dong ditch).

  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 station wagon 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,
  Merry Go Around or Chess King.

  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  just 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."

  51. (BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I'M WALKING ON AIR...  
  I NEVER THOUGHT I COULD FEEL SO FREE-EE-EE...")
 
  52. You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the 
  following phases: When I was younger...When I was yourage...
  You know, back when... 


We are the MTV Generation!!! 

We grew up in a time when movies changed our lives, 
music had meaning,  and watching TV was a cool thing to do 
on a Saturday night & MTV was the King of TV on any night!!

... Totally, Totally tubular, fer shure, dude! 

AUTHOR UNKNOWN! 


Other Nostalgia Facts from the 80s'

1983 
Chart Toppers: Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara, 
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club, Electric Avenue -
Eddy Grant, You Can’t Run from Love - Eddie Rabbitt 

1985 
The 1983 Heisman Trophy winner, Mike Rozier, jumped
from the United States Football League to the Houston 
Oilers of the NFL. Rosier signed for more than two 
million dollars over a four-year period. 
That’s about the same as Mary Pickford’s deal in 1916. 

1985 
The motion picture Cocoon, directed by Ron Howard, 
grossed $7.9 million during its opening weekend across the
country. Cocoon, which had a brilliant cast, including screen
legend Don Ameche, beat out Rambo: First Blood, Part II
starring Sylvester Stallone, in first-weekend receipts. 
Howard first became famous as a child star (Opie) on
the Andy Griffith Show; and then later, as
Richie Cunningham on Happy Days. 

1985 
The wife of exiled Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn
became a U.S. citizen.
Natalia Solzhenitsyn celebrated in her new home in 
Rutland, Vermont. 

1987 
‘The Great One’, Jackie Gleason, died on this day, 
at the age of 71.
Gleason was one of TV’s biggest stars in the 1950s
and 1960s. 
He started on the DuMont Television Network, became a
celebrated fixture on CBS-TV, and later, a movie
star. He starred in honored films such as, Gigot and 
The Hustler. He also starred in Smokey and the Bandit.
Jackie Gleason is best remembered from TV, however, 
as bus driver Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners,
which still ranks as one of TV’s greatest sitcoms.