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Meme stolen from kerikeri:
1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHED".
2. You played with Barbie Dolls
3. You knew/know all the names of Barbie's family members
4. It's slinky!
5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own.
6. You owned those lil Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.
7. You owned a banana-seat bicycle
8. You remember when "10 second skip-proof" disc-mans came out
9. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock". [Not often. My family didn't have HBO.]
10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars!
11. You remember when Full House didn't have reruns.
12. When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
13. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
14. Pong.... need I say more?
15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
16. You owned one of those turtle sandboxes
17. You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House)
18. You played with the fake-food kitchen sets
19. You owned Polly Pockets
20. You owned the Ninja Turtles action figures
21. You remember reading "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and all Ramona books.
22. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF"
23. You wanted to be a Goonie. [Was the right age, but just never got into that movie.]
24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing. [Heck, I still have some of it.]
25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off.
26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf. [They explain why on the show, and also in the movie Donnie Darko.]
27. "One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish..."
28. "We're tiny, we're toony, We're all a little looney, And in this cartoony, We're invading your TV!"
29. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence. [Not.]
30. Your favorite band was once the Spice Girls
31. When your mittens were attached to your coat [Um, I grew up in Southern California.]
32. Where is thumbkin?
33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged friendship bracelets.
34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes. [Right age, wrong gender.]
35. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I?" [No, but all my friends did.]
36. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"
37. You owned and ate out of your easy bake oven.
38. You read "Go dogs go" over and over again
39. You have ever played with a Skip-It.
40. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.
41. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
42. If you give a mouse a cookie....
43. ..."Don't worry, be happy"
44. You remember when Honey I Shrunk the Kids came out.
45. You wore socks scrunched down. [Not in the faddish way; it just looks silly to wear socks pulled up to mid-calf with shorts.]
46. "Miss MARY MACK MACK MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK"
47. You had the experience of stretching Stretch Armstrong
48. You remember all of Inspector Gadget's gadgets.
49. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!"
50. You remember watching Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales [Yes, I really did.]
51. "This is the song that never ends... it just goes on and on my friends..."
52. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
53. Skorts!
54. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By the Bell", the ORIGINAL class. [There was an unoriginal class? Or was the orignial class the one with Miss Bliss?]
55. You were scared the first time that you went on Splash Mountain at Disney World [Never been to Disney World. Haven't even been to Disneyland in ages.]
56. *singing along* shot through the heart, and youre too blame! you give love a baaad name!
57. WHERE in the world is Carmen Sandiego? [Yes to both the PBS show and the computer games.]
58. You watched Bill Nye The Science Guy [Yep. Never too old for silly science filk.]
59. You used floaties!
60. You and all your friends owned mood rings.
61. Lamb Chop and Charlie Horse are still to this day your good friends.
62. You saved up your money to buy ring pops and push pops. [Didn't save my money, though I had a lot of push pops as a kid. As far as candy goes, it's all about Lik-M-Aid.]
63. You started every morning with a Flinstones vitamin
64. You spent hours in line at McDonalds to get Teeny Beanie Babies.
65. You knew the life history of every character in the Sweet Valley series.
66. You can finish the lyrics for songs like: "Over and over I feel it..." and "Love me love me say that you love me...." [The second one's the Cardigans, but I don't know the first.]
67. MATH BLASTERS!
68. You paid over $100 for a "retired" Beanie Baby.
69. Little bunny Fu-Fu.... [hoppin' through the forest, scoopin' up the field mice and boppin' 'em on the head.]
70. You read the "Tales of Peter Rabbit", among other things.
71. Circle circle, dot dot, now you have a cootie shot!
72. The biggest insult was "I'm not going to invite you to my birthday party!"
73. Boxcar children!
74. Barrel of monkeys!
75. You played freeze tag.
76. How much wood would a wood chuck chuck... [A: As much wood as a wood chuck could chuck.]
77. You had "Magic Markers" that changed colors.
78. You cried when you finished the "Little House" books. [Read them, but didn't get that into it.]
79. After reading "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" you decided that it was high time
for you to buy a bra and get your period. [Read the book, but didn't have that reaction for obvious reasons.]
80. Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream... throw your teacher out the window, listen to her scream. Ten days later....
81. Deck the halls with gasoline! Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la. Light the match and watch it gleam....
82. Joy to the world, the teacher's dead...
83. You read books like "The Headless Cupid" and "The Egypt Game" and managed to form a group that did the exact same things. [Read and loved the books, but never formed such a group.
84. Glow neckalces.
85. Everyone had a designated Sailor Moon character, and at recess you would get together and practice the poses and attacks.
86. Gack! [Know what it was, but never owned any.]
87. Glow in the dark stars. [My sister has some though.]
88. Pretty Pretty Princess. [Remember seeing ads for the game.]
89. You ever used one of those round clips on the hem of an oversized T-shirt to tighten and shorten it.
90. You wore leggings with stirrups.
91. You owned at least one hair barrette with a huge ribboned bow on it.
92. You played with the American Girl dolls.
93. You remember “Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers,” “Tale Spin,” and “Darkwing Duck.”
94. You wanted to be/pretended to be/idolized one of the characters on one of the above shows.
95. You remember tie-dying shirts as a classroom project. [Sort of. Did it on swim team, and later when I was teaching at camp.]
96. You had to watch “Voyage of the Mimi” in school.
97. You read the “Sweet Valley University” books and daydreamed about how wonderful and exciting college would be.
98. You ever had nightmares after reading a “Goosebumps” book.
99. You remember waiting all day for a song you liked to come on the radio so you could tape it onto a cassette for your mix tape. [Actually, I just taped long blocks of the radio and copied the songs I liked to another tape.]
100. You obsessively watched shows like “David the Gnome”, “The Noozles” and “Eureeka’s Castle” on Nickelodeon. [Nah. It was all about The Third Eye, Special Delivery, Belle and Sebastian, Mysterious Cities of Gold, and Spartacus.]
101. You thought Clarissa was just so cool and fashionable. [Thought she was annoying.]
102. You wanted to join the Midnight Society.
103. You were grossed out by the illustrations in the “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” books, but you loved them anyway.
104. You sang along with Fred Penner and Sharon, Lois & Bram.
105. You felt like a rebel for listening to Alanis Morissette’s first album. [Sort of. It was a bit of rebellion when everyone else was making fun of her lyrics.]
106. In retrospect, you feel stupid for spending so damn much money on Pogs.
107. You remember when Elijah Wood was more Tiger Beat than Frodo. [I don't remember pre-LotR Elijah at all.]
108. You remember hearing Hanson for the first time and being convinced that they were the latest girl band. [Actually, I assumed Hanson was just some female solo artist with one name. Like Poe.]
109. You watched “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and wished you could do magic and had cool aunts and a talking cat. [Watched the show, but mostly in syndication. Never really got into TGIF; every ABC sitcom after "Perfect Strangers" was unwatchable.]
110. You ever made or played with a paper fortune-teller. [I used to know how to fold those. Not sure any more.]
111. "Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg... The Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away, hey!"
1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHED".
2. You played with Barbie Dolls
3. You knew/know all the names of Barbie's family members
4. It's slinky!
5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own.
6. You owned those lil Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.
7. You owned a banana-seat bicycle
8. You remember when "10 second skip-proof" disc-mans came out
9. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock". [Not often. My family didn't have HBO.]
10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars!
11. You remember when Full House didn't have reruns.
12. When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
13. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
14. Pong.... need I say more?
15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
16. You owned one of those turtle sandboxes
17. You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House)
18. You played with the fake-food kitchen sets
19. You owned Polly Pockets
20. You owned the Ninja Turtles action figures
21. You remember reading "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and all Ramona books.
22. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF"
23. You wanted to be a Goonie. [Was the right age, but just never got into that movie.]
24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing. [Heck, I still have some of it.]
25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off.
26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf. [They explain why on the show, and also in the movie Donnie Darko.]
27. "One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish..."
28. "We're tiny, we're toony, We're all a little looney, And in this cartoony, We're invading your TV!"
29. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence. [Not.]
30. Your favorite band was once the Spice Girls
31. When your mittens were attached to your coat [Um, I grew up in Southern California.]
32. Where is thumbkin?
33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged friendship bracelets.
34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes. [Right age, wrong gender.]
35. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I?" [No, but all my friends did.]
36. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"
37. You owned and ate out of your easy bake oven.
38. You read "Go dogs go" over and over again
39. You have ever played with a Skip-It.
40. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.
41. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
42. If you give a mouse a cookie....
43. ..."Don't worry, be happy"
44. You remember when Honey I Shrunk the Kids came out.
45. You wore socks scrunched down. [Not in the faddish way; it just looks silly to wear socks pulled up to mid-calf with shorts.]
46. "Miss MARY MACK MACK MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK"
47. You had the experience of stretching Stretch Armstrong
48. You remember all of Inspector Gadget's gadgets.
49. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!"
50. You remember watching Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales [Yes, I really did.]
51. "This is the song that never ends... it just goes on and on my friends..."
52. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
53. Skorts!
54. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By the Bell", the ORIGINAL class. [There was an unoriginal class? Or was the orignial class the one with Miss Bliss?]
55. You were scared the first time that you went on Splash Mountain at Disney World [Never been to Disney World. Haven't even been to Disneyland in ages.]
56. *singing along* shot through the heart, and youre too blame! you give love a baaad name!
57. WHERE in the world is Carmen Sandiego? [Yes to both the PBS show and the computer games.]
58. You watched Bill Nye The Science Guy [Yep. Never too old for silly science filk.]
59. You used floaties!
60. You and all your friends owned mood rings.
61. Lamb Chop and Charlie Horse are still to this day your good friends.
62. You saved up your money to buy ring pops and push pops. [Didn't save my money, though I had a lot of push pops as a kid. As far as candy goes, it's all about Lik-M-Aid.]
63. You started every morning with a Flinstones vitamin
64. You spent hours in line at McDonalds to get Teeny Beanie Babies.
65. You knew the life history of every character in the Sweet Valley series.
66. You can finish the lyrics for songs like: "Over and over I feel it..." and "Love me love me say that you love me...." [The second one's the Cardigans, but I don't know the first.]
67. MATH BLASTERS!
68. You paid over $100 for a "retired" Beanie Baby.
69. Little bunny Fu-Fu.... [hoppin' through the forest, scoopin' up the field mice and boppin' 'em on the head.]
70. You read the "Tales of Peter Rabbit", among other things.
71. Circle circle, dot dot, now you have a cootie shot!
72. The biggest insult was "I'm not going to invite you to my birthday party!"
73. Boxcar children!
74. Barrel of monkeys!
75. You played freeze tag.
76. How much wood would a wood chuck chuck... [A: As much wood as a wood chuck could chuck.]
77. You had "Magic Markers" that changed colors.
78. You cried when you finished the "Little House" books. [Read them, but didn't get that into it.]
79. After reading "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" you decided that it was high time
for you to buy a bra and get your period. [Read the book, but didn't have that reaction for obvious reasons.]
80. Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream... throw your teacher out the window, listen to her scream. Ten days later....
81. Deck the halls with gasoline! Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la. Light the match and watch it gleam....
82. Joy to the world, the teacher's dead...
83. You read books like "The Headless Cupid" and "The Egypt Game" and managed to form a group that did the exact same things. [Read and loved the books, but never formed such a group.
84. Glow neckalces.
85. Everyone had a designated Sailor Moon character, and at recess you would get together and practice the poses and attacks.
86. Gack! [Know what it was, but never owned any.]
87. Glow in the dark stars. [My sister has some though.]
88. Pretty Pretty Princess. [Remember seeing ads for the game.]
89. You ever used one of those round clips on the hem of an oversized T-shirt to tighten and shorten it.
90. You wore leggings with stirrups.
91. You owned at least one hair barrette with a huge ribboned bow on it.
92. You played with the American Girl dolls.
93. You remember “Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers,” “Tale Spin,” and “Darkwing Duck.”
94. You wanted to be/pretended to be/idolized one of the characters on one of the above shows.
95. You remember tie-dying shirts as a classroom project. [Sort of. Did it on swim team, and later when I was teaching at camp.]
96. You had to watch “Voyage of the Mimi” in school.
97. You read the “Sweet Valley University” books and daydreamed about how wonderful and exciting college would be.
98. You ever had nightmares after reading a “Goosebumps” book.
99. You remember waiting all day for a song you liked to come on the radio so you could tape it onto a cassette for your mix tape. [Actually, I just taped long blocks of the radio and copied the songs I liked to another tape.]
100. You obsessively watched shows like “David the Gnome”, “The Noozles” and “Eureeka’s Castle” on Nickelodeon. [Nah. It was all about The Third Eye, Special Delivery, Belle and Sebastian, Mysterious Cities of Gold, and Spartacus.]
101. You thought Clarissa was just so cool and fashionable. [Thought she was annoying.]
102. You wanted to join the Midnight Society.
103. You were grossed out by the illustrations in the “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” books, but you loved them anyway.
104. You sang along with Fred Penner and Sharon, Lois & Bram.
105. You felt like a rebel for listening to Alanis Morissette’s first album. [Sort of. It was a bit of rebellion when everyone else was making fun of her lyrics.]
106. In retrospect, you feel stupid for spending so damn much money on Pogs.
107. You remember when Elijah Wood was more Tiger Beat than Frodo. [I don't remember pre-LotR Elijah at all.]
108. You remember hearing Hanson for the first time and being convinced that they were the latest girl band. [Actually, I assumed Hanson was just some female solo artist with one name. Like Poe.]
109. You watched “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and wished you could do magic and had cool aunts and a talking cat. [Watched the show, but mostly in syndication. Never really got into TGIF; every ABC sitcom after "Perfect Strangers" was unwatchable.]
110. You ever made or played with a paper fortune-teller. [I used to know how to fold those. Not sure any more.]
111. "Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg... The Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away, hey!"