Phendrana Drifts

VH1 has published a list of things that might indicate that you are indeed a child of the 80's. Born in 1978, I think that might apply to me... and looking at the list it appears that is correct.

1. You consider Ocean Pacific a designer label.
I remember Ocean Pacific, but didn't own anything by them. But lots of people in my class certainly did.

2. You thought the Stray Cats were bringing guitars back to rock 'n' roll.
Nope, not me.

3. You thought the lead singer of Poison was hot ... until you realized she was a he.
Poison made it big just before I hit puberty so I knew Michaels was a boy by the time I fell in love with girls.

4. You still get the shakes when you remember Apple Macintosh's 1984 advertisement.
I don't remember the commercial when it originally aired, but of course I've seen it since. But no shakes.

5. You preferred Van Hagar to Van Halen.
I'm not sure what is exactly being said by this statement, but I very much preferred Van Halen with Sammy Hagar than David Lee Roth. But I got more of the reference than some, so I guess I count.

6. You thought George Michael was straight.
It didn't matter a lot to me, but yup, I so thought George Michael was straight.

7. You had just discovered this great new singer called Tina Turner.
No, I don't think I am that old... Tina Turner was certainly big by the time I noticed she existed.

8. You owned a home Beta video recorder.
My family made the wise choice of VHS over Beta. But I know lots who didn't.

9. The Day After gave you nightmares.
The day after what?

10. Your favorite G.I. Joe figure was Snake Eyes.
Yup. That guy was so cool.

11. You wondered what Lisa Bonet was doing married to that loser Lenny Kravitz.
I am embarrassed to say it now, given that Kravitz is a staple in my listening habits and the rest of the world has said Lisa who? but at the time I thought she was slumming it.

12. You never figured out who the crooks were on Murder She Wrote.
Even as a kid, I was never that stupid. I knew who did it by the second commercial break.

13. You believed The Last Temptation of Christ was going to send Martin Scorsese to hell.
No, but I know the reference. And I love the Last Temptation of Christ.

14. You regard Look Who's Talking as a turning point in John Travolta's career.
Sigh, I don't anymore, but Look Who's Talking was a movie I saw and enjoyed at the time (I was what, eight?) But we all know now that it was Pulp Fiction that did it.

15. You admired Bill Cosby's taste in sweaters in The Cosby Show.
Guilty.

16. You didn't realize The Official Preppy Handbook was a gag.
What's the Offical Preppy Handbook?

17. You rolled up the sleeves on your sports jacket for the Sonny Crockett look.
No, I never did that.

18. You had no problems thinking members of the Miami police department drove Lamborghinis.
Guilty again.

19. You thought Burt and Loni were a fairytale romance.
Fairy tale might be stretching it.

20. You thought Clint Eastwood would one day be president.
Why? No, I never thought that.

21. Michael Jackson's fondness for Emmanuel Lewis seemed perfectly innocent.
You mean it wasn't?

22. You weren't sick of Robin Williams yet.
No, I am sick of him.

23. L'Oreal mousse changed your life overnight.
No it hasn't.

24. You stuck around after the commercial break to see if the General Lee on The Dukes of Hazzard really made it over that dried-out gulch when the bridge was down.
And it always did! That car was amazing! I want a '69 Dodge Charger!

25. David Byrne seemed like the strangest guy ever.
Who?

26. You watched The Tracey Ullman Show for the funny cartoon segments about the yellow people.
Yup, I can proudly say that I saw the Simpsons (regularly too, on CBC) before they had their own series.

27. You thought acid wash jeans were as important an evolutionary step as the wheel.
I did at the time.

28. You believed Liberace really died from eating nothing but watermelon.
No, he died of AIDS. But I remember it.

29. You got your medical knowledge from watching TV movies.
Well, not all of it.

30. You wondered who those old guys were in the Run-D.M.C. "Walk This Way" video.
No, I knew that they were Aerosmith.

31. You threw out your Atari console after buying an Intellivision.
A tiny bit before my time.

32. You were 99.9% sure Sue Ellen shot J.R.
I still haven't seen Dallas.

33. You can watch Scarface without once thinking of rap music.
Not even a little bit. What is the connection between Scarface and rap?

34. You remember Ronald Reagan making that "We begin bombing Russia in five minutes" joke.
Yes, I do.

35. The notion of a roller-skating musical starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly with music from ELO seemed like a good idea.
It kind of did at the time.

36. Porky's seemed like a new low.
It wasn't? There was a previous low that was lower?

37. You'd stay up late to watch The Hitchhiker on HBO, because of the dirty bits.
Puberty is rough on us, you know. Wanting sex but being far too awkward to attract anyone.

38. You could only complete two sides of Rubik's Cube.
I can complete a Rubik's Cube.

39. Simon Le Bon's lyrics made sense to you.
Who?

40. War Games had you wondering if you could really start Armageddon using your crummy TRS-80.
Yup, that was me.

3 Comments:

At 8:50 AM, Allie said…

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At 8:50 AM, Allie said…

9. The Day After gave you nightmares.

Well... actually being a child of the eighties (I'm a "bit" older than you), meaning really that I was a child of the "Cold War" - The Day After not only gave me nightmares, but it defined my entire early teenhood... and perhaps even I as a person. I would even credit it with spawning my survivalist nature, fascination with nuclear war and joining the army.

And oh yeah, I had OP.
At 8:52 AM, Allie said…

Sorry - that first comment was me too, I just screwed it up :)

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