If you ever watched Fraggle Rock
Or wore a ponytail on the side of your head
Or know the profound meaning of "Wax on, wax off"
Or wanted to be a Goonie...
If you ever owned a pair of Jelly shoes
Or remember walking around with a boombox on your shoulder
Or still sing "We are the World"
Or ever owned a Banana clip...
If you still say "Whatchyou talkin' 'bout, Willis?"
You are a child of the 80's.
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Yep - that's me. I tried a banana clip in my 7 year old's hair and then took it out cause I just couldn't do it.
LOL! That's great! Yep, that was me fer sure!
All of the above, except for the Boombox - only because I never had one. :-D
So, I never wore a banana clip.
I didn't own any gel shoes.
Yet, I still consider myself a child of the '80s. I still crank the radio when Journey plays.
I felt a little old when American Idol had their "Songs From The Year You Were Born" night, and one of the contestants sang, "Every Breath You Take". **SIGH**
Brad
"Yet, I still consider myself a child of the '80s. I still crank the radio when Journey plays."
I remember walking around with my friend Dave with his refrigerator-sized booombox on the day Journey released Frontiers. Between that and Styx's Kilroy Was Here, we wore the darn thing out.
I am a child (teen, really) of the 80s and still have the parachute pants to prove it.
And no I won't post a picture . . . that would be gross and I'd embarrass myself.
Brian
Ruth - You mean you couldn't make it stay in her hair or you couldn't stand the idea of her wearing one? ;-)
Cindi - I should have put something in there about Valley Girl...because I, like, Omigod!, totally talked that way!
Heather - You never had a boombox! Oh! What did you listen to Dirty Dancing on?
Brad - Are you SURE you never wore jelly shoes? C'mon, you can admit it...hehe.
Yeah, that song from the year you were born thing on AI gets me, too... or that "Classic Rock" now includes Def Leppard. What the heck? I thought classic rock was, like, Jefferson Airplane...
Good grief.
spoon!
Oh those were the days.
My post didn't all show up lol.
It just says spoon.
It should've said, Like, like gag me with a spoon lol!
Brian - Hehe, I subjected my entire family to a Journey "Frontiers" concert on MTV in, maybe 1984. My parents hated it. Oh but Steve Perry can SING!
Anyhow, didn't you hear parachute pants are back? ;-)
Cindi - Like, totally!
Like, fer shure, Stacey.
That movie had good music in it. Good mushy stuff like Oh No by The Commodores :)
Or am I getting my movies mixed up? I think I'm mixing up Valley Girl speak with The Last American Virgin soundtrack. Must be the giant wads of snot running around in my head.
Sue - You are mixing your movie metaphors, but that's OK. Not sure I ever saw Last American Virgin...my parents probably censored it...I'll have to look into it.
Like, don't bother. Puerile nonsense, dude.
Oh I can put a banana clip in all right...just couldn't stand her wearing it.
By the way - did anyone else wear pastel pumps with lacey ankle socks? Like the girls in the ZZ Top video?
Ruth - I knew what you meant about the banana clip, but I wanted to confirm.
And yes, I SO did. "She's got legs"...well I did back then, anyhow.
I was in my late teens and early 20's in the 80's. But I still say, "Whatchyou talkin' 'bout Willis" and people inevitably think I'm from another planet. (Which really isn't that far from the truth) :)
Mike - I still say it, too...said it to my 12 year old last week, and he cracked up. I think it does constitute being from another planet...the 80's planet...which is entirely full of it's own mysteries.
... "pastel pumps with lacey ankle socks?"
Oh, Erin and Ruth, for shame!! :)
Considering those colours are all pretty and pastelly, and young girly, that combination of clothes items sure managed to look kinda ... well, Madonnaish ;)
Sue - Madonna-ish...noooo, are you kidding? Madonna wore lacy pastel socks with BLACK pumps.
Yes, well, whatever colour the shoes, it looked trollopy :)
Hehe. I got around in a bubble skirt in the eighties. And when dining out on live music, bourbon and coke, my friend and I had these oversize black and white striped men's shirts that we wore with a belt cinched in at the waist, black stillettoes and fishnets. Lovely!
What a couple of skanks. :D
Ok - I can't stand it - I have to say it re: the banana clips:
It was so much so the thing that when I was a part of precision team skating and competing, that part of our "uniform" was - YEP - BANANA CLIPS!!!!!!!! I've got the videos to prove that we all had to wear them!
WOW!
:)
Sue - Looking skanky was the point, wasn't it?
Anyhow, I happen to be watching Sixteen Candles at the moment, speaking of 80's...'Young Guns Go For It' by Wham! What the hell were we thinking with some of this stuff?
Cindi - Was that before or after your short boyish haircut freshman year? I don't remember you in a banana clip.
I NEVER wore a banana clip...believe me I tried, oh how I tried, but something about my hair made me look like a mop.
Guilty...
Bowling For Soup: 1985
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6dMmNcT3ouo
Welcome, Tara! Nice to meet you!
So, I have to ask, which member of Duran Duran? ;-)
Now I am going to read your blog.
Oh my goodness, yes to all the above! Although I never had a boombox. Leg warmers are missing ;-)
Lyn - You are right about the legwarmers. Fer shure. ;-)
I thought fingerless gloves ought to be on there, too.
Oh, leg warmers! Who didn't want to be the chick in Flashdance?
This is fun, walking down memory lane, full of crap fashions and excellent music :)
I was looking at photos the other day at my parents' and my hair! It was, like, yellow blonde (which looks foul on me), and it was this bizarre, sticking-out-at-the-sides cut (you know, like, wings? Or the flicked side bits?) and it looked just so disgusting I can't tell you. And I said to my Mum, "How did you let me go out looking like that?" And she defined baleful the way she looked at me, and said, "As if you would have listened to anything I said." Yeah, oops. Sorry, Mum :)
Oh yeah, Sue, I had the really long bangs that hung over one eye, so I walked around with my head tilted sideways so I could see. It took years to break that habit, even after I changed my hairstyle.
And Sun-In! Did you guys have that? My hair was soooo blonde from that. If you ever used it, do you remember how it smelled?
No, we didn't have Sun-In here. Isn't it amazing how smells take you back? As soon as you mentioned smells and the eighties, I automatically thought of Reef Oil, suntanning oil that smelled like coconuts. Yum! :)
I don't think we had Reef Oil, but I used Bain du Soleil. That and Sun-In pretty much describes the way all my summers as an adolescent and teen smelled.
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