You're Lost Between A Baby Boomer And A Gen-X'er If...
- You remember when Jordache jeans were cool.
- In your fifth grade class picture you were wearing an Izod shirt with the collar up.
- You know by heart the words to any Weird Al Yankovic song.
- You ever rang someone's doorbell and said, "Landshark!"
- Three words: Atari, IntelliVision and Coleco sound familiar.
- You remember Friday Night Videos before the days of MTV.
- A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid.
- You remember when music that was labeled alternative, really was alternative.
- You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan.
- You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you.
- Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language.
- You're starting to view getting carded as a GOOD thing.
- You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Madonna or Cyndi Lauper video.
- The first time you ever kissed someone at a dance came during "Crazy For You," by Madonna.
- You remember with pain the sad day when the Green Machine hit the streets and made your old Big Wheel quite obsolete.
- The phrase, "Where's the beef?" can still make you laugh.
- You honestly remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possibly have better special effects than those in the movie TRON.
- Ted the photographer on The Love Boat.
- Your hair at some point in time in the 80's became something that can only be described by the phrase, "I was experimenting."
- You've ever shopped at a Banana Republic or Benetton, but not in the last five years.
- You're starting to believe now that maybe having the kids go to school year round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
- You're doing absolutely nothing pertaining to your major.
- U2 is too popular and mainstream for you now.
- You remember trying to guess the episode of the Brady Bunch from the first scene.
- You had a front-row seat for Luke and Laura's wedding on General Hospital.
- You're parents wanted you to attend medical school, but you decided it was pointless since Quincy got all the babes anyway.
- You know who shot JR.
- This rings a bell: "...and my name is Charlie. They work for me."
- You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on after all.
- You know all the words to the double album set of Grease.
- You ever had a Dorothy Hamill haircut.
- You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed 867-5309 to see if Jenny would answer.
- "All skate, change directions", means something to you.
- You owned a pair of Rainbow suspenders just like Mork used to wear.
- You bought a pair of Vann's and wanted to order a pizza in history class so you could be just like Jeff Spicoli.
- You owned a preppy handbook.
- You remember when there was only PG and R.
- You learned to swim about the same time Jaws came out and still carry the emotional scars to this day.
- You remember when your cable TV box had a sliding selector switch.
- Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those brick sized packages of Bazooka gum.
- Bo and Luke Duke.
- VCRs cost $2,000.
- There was nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together.
- Rotary dial telephones.
- You actually believed that Mikey, famed for his Life Cereal commercials, died after eating a packet of pop rocks and drinking a Coke.
- The theme song to Greatest American Hero still comes back to you on occasion.
- (BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I'M WALKING ON AIR...)
- You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phases: When I was younger... When I was your age... You know, back when...