dancerjodi | 80s meme

1. How old were you in 1980?
5

2. How old were you in 1989?
14

3. Were you a Toys R' Us kid?
I really miss Childworld

4. Did you watch Transformers?
nope

5. Did you see E.T. on the big screen?
yep

6. Did you own a Lite Bright?
my sister had one

7. Who is your Favorite Golden Girl?
Sophia

8. When someone says " Who you gonna call? " You think?
Ghostbusters!

9.What was your favorite toy?
I really loved fashion plates and stationary stuff (not really a toy, but that's what I remember being really excited about and spending tons of time with)

10. Did you have a Pogo Ball?
my sister had one

11. Did you listen to New Kids on the Block?
good god no!

12. What New Kid did you have a crush on?
none - at that point it was all about Lars Ulrich (what was I thinking?)

13. Did you play M.A.S.H?
yes

14. Did you watch The Care Bears?
no

15. Did you have Jelly bracelets?
yes

16. Did you ever own a slap bracelet?
yes

17. The Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles?
I'm crackin' skulls!

18. Did you have a crazy hair style?
It sort of looked like something died on my head (I was still trying to blow-dry it out straight (except for the top) then, and wasn't very successful with that so it was all pretty dried/dead/frizzy).

19. What was your first bike?
it was blue, and didn't have a bananna seat like my best friend Jennifer's did (is all I remember). Getting the 3 speed was a huge deal, the 10 speed forget about it! I have a hybrid 20 speed now and have no clue how to use the thing and I kind of miss my old 3 speed!

20. Name one thing you still own from your childhood?
books, some stuffed animals, baby blankets, an old lamp

21. Did you have a Cabbage Patch Kid?
yep

22. Rainbow Brite or Strawberry Shortcake?
Strawberry Shortcake (just her) - my parents heard something about them being recalled so Mom took it away and kept it up on the fridge so that I couldn't get to it, so traumatic! Brian bought me one on Ebay years ago for Valentine's Day unopened. I couldn't resist cracking the package because I was curious if her head still smelled (it didn't).

23. Did you watch Miami Vice?
no

24. Did you own a Trapper Keeper?
many (in middle school I canibalized one by cutting the plastic with an xacto so that I could slide my own photo pages from Metal Edge or Hit Parader into them)

25. Atari or Nintendo?
n/a, we had a Commodore 64 at some point (EJ was a kid when we finally got a Nintendo). My favorite game to this date ever was the "Montezuma's Revenge" for the Commodore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montezuma's_Revenge_(video_game)

26. Did you play Pac-Man?
at my Aunt's house - my cousins had all of the cool stuff

27. Which was better: Jem and The Holograms or Barbie and The Rockers?
Jem is excitement, ooh Jem, Jem is adventure! Glamor and Glitter, Fashion and Fame - Jem is truly outrageous! (one of these days I'll get a group together to do Jem and Misfits costumes at a con - its been done before but I still think it would be fun)

28. He-Man or She-Ra?
He Man

29. What movie scared you the most?
n/a (I grew up watching a lot of Dr. Who and Stephen King movies)

30. Did you try to dance like Michael Jackson?
Totally (I even had a single sequined glove to wear in a dance recital one year)

31. What Is The First Thing That Comes To Mind When You Hear "flux copassitor"
Michael J Fox

32. What other colors did Pepsi come in?
I have no clue

33. Roger Rabbit Or Howard The Duck?
Roger Rabbit

34. Did you ever beg your parents to have your school picture taken with the 'LASER' background?
Yes, and they never let me do it (they hated that duplicate face in the corner thing too)

35. Do you know what the Ninja Rap is?
TMNT?

36. Do you know why people cringe when they hear the word BUCKNER?
No

37. Can you name the family members from National Lampoons Vacation movies?
No (but my family resembles them quite a bit)

38. Did you have pump sneakers?
no, but I had the white nikes with the classic red swoosh and the hi-top Reeboks (my parents weren't cutting edge with much, but for some reason they'd relent sometimes on the clothing items that would be durable)

39. Did you own HYPER COLOR shirts?
no

40. Did you watch Smurfs?
no