You remember the "Goodnight Kiwi" song played when TVNZ closed for the night. You know what "Sike" means.
You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off."
You know that another name for a keyboard is a "Synthesizer."
You can sing the McDonald's Big Mack,Filet-o-fish, quarter
pounder, and French fry song.
You know who Mr. T is.
You know who Fat Albert is. And who was old boy with the pink
mask?
You ever wore fluorescent, neon clothing.
You could breakdance, or wish you could.
You owned one of those small containers of slime.
You Believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power.
Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away.
You thought that Transformers were "more than meets the eye".
You can remember Michael Jackson when he was black.
You wore a banana clip at some point during your youth.
You remember the garbage pail kids, and owned some.
You owned a cabbage patch kid and a "my little pony"
You played Dungeons and Dragons
You can sing the tree song from "Bad Jelly the Witch"
You thought the Dukes of Hazard were the coolest guys out
You were a member of the 1ZB 1080 club
You knew what Willis was "talkin' 'bout."
You actually thought "Dirty Dancing" was a REALLY good movie.
You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game.
You told your mum to throw out her seventies gear back in 1983,
and then last year wished she hadn't
You owned any cassettes (and still won't chuck them out, even
though your kids beg you to).
You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living
in space.
You know what leg warmers are and probably had a pair.
You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish.
You wore your shirt with the collar up.
You had a Swatch Watch with the Swatch Guard.
Your Legos collection started with the free sets in a Happy meal.
You remember when Happy Meals came in a box, not a paper bag.
You wore your bra outside of your top like Madonna, or your girl
friend did.
You had Wonder Woman or Superman underoos.
You owned, or knew somebody with a Commodore 64.
You recorded songs off the radio with your boom box.
You used a ton of hairspray on your hair
You used a ton of gel under that hairspray
You can sing the theme tune to "Rick Dee's - The Weekly Top 40"
Somehow you still know all the words to songs played on VH1's "Big 80s"
Your arm was full of rubber bracelets.
You have ever wondered what happened to Saturday morning cartoons.
You had to get up to change the channel, or had one of those
noisey "clicky boxes".
You can still sing 1 to 12 from the Pinball machine song on Sesame Street.
You wore those wide, colorfull shoelaces.
"Islands in the Stream" was the best song - ever.
You still cannot go in to the sea without thinking of that damn
movie Jaws.
El Debarge's "Get a beat to the Rhythm of the night" plagued the
radio every hour.
If you can identify with at least half of this list then you, my
friend, are a "Child of the 80s".