You're Between a Baby Boomer and a Gen X'er if...
(Probably between 25 and 35 right now)
1. A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid (or
stripes in several directions).
2. All skate, change directions, means something to you.
3. Bo and Luke Duke.
4. Feathered hair
5. Girls thought Sean Cassidy was dreamy, and lusted after Ted
the photographer on The Love Boat.
6. In high school, you and your friends discussed elaborate plans
to get together again at the end of the century and play
Prince's "1999" until you passed out partying.
7. In your fifth grade class picture you were wearing an Izod
shirt with the collar up.
8. In your sophomore class picture, you're wearing an Izod shirt
with the collar "up."
9. Knickers and leg warmers were cool
10. Rotary dial telephones.
11. Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually
learned the English language.
12. The Brady Bunch movie brought back cool memories.
13. The first time you ever kissed someone at a dance came during
"Crazy for You," by Madonna.
14. The phrase "Where's the beef," still doubles you over with
laughter.
15. The theme song to Greatest American Hero still comes back to
you on occasion.
16. There was nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living
together.
17. This rings a bell: "...and my name is Charlie. They work for
me."
18. This timeline appropriately describes actual events in your
life:
a. Star Wars opens, you are still in single digit
ages, and you think the creatures are WAY cool.
b. Empire Strikes Back opens, you are now in early double
digit ages, and you are convinced that the special
effects are much better, the characters are cool, and you
want one of every collectible out there.
c. Return of the Jedi hits the theaters, you are now a
teenager and you cannot get your eyes off Princess Leia's
breasts or Han Solo's butt
19. Three words: Atari, IntelliVision and Coleco, sound familiar
(and Tandy).
20. U2 is too popular and mainstream for you now.
21. VCRs cost $2,000.
22. You actually believed everything Leonard Nimoy told you on "In
Search Of..."
23. You actually believed that Mikey, famed for his Life cereal
commercials, died after eating a packet of pop rocks and
drinking a Coke.
24. You actually know who Rick Springfield is.
25. You bought a pair of Vanns and wanted to order a pizza in
history class so you could be just like Jeff Spicoli in Fast
Times at Ridgemont High.
26. You can guess the episode of the Brady Bunch from the first
scene.
27. You could sing "99 Red Balloons" in English and in German.
28. You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran
Duran, Madonna or Cyndi Lauper video.
29. You ever had a Dorothy Hammill haircut.
30. You ever rang someone's doorbell and said "Landshark!"
31. You ever used the phrase "Kiss mah grits!" in conversation.
32. You ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon.
33. You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the
guitar and choreographed "Dancing Queen" by yourself in your
room.
34. You freaked out when you found that you now fall into the age
category on most questionnaires.
35. You had ringside seats for Luke and Laura's wedding on General
Hospital.
36. You honestly remember when film critics raved that no movie
could ever possibly get better special effects than those in
the movie TRON.
37. You know all the words to the double album set of Grease.
38. You know by heart the words to any Weird Al Yankovic song.
39. You know who shot J.R.
40. You learned to swim about the same time Jaws came out and
still carry the emotional scars to this day.
41. You owned a Jordache anything, or you remember when Jordache
jeans were cool.
42. You owned a pair of Rainbow suspenders just like Mork used to
wear.
43. You owned a preppy handbook.
44. You remember Friday Night Videos before the days of MTV.
45. You remember LeFreak by Chic
46. You remember the days when "safe sex" meant that your parents
were gone for the weekend.
47. You remember when Jordache jeans were cool.
48. You remember when music that was labeled alternative, really
was.
49. You remember when there was only PG and R, none of this PG-13
crap.
50. You remember when your cable TV box had the three rows of
numbers and you had to move the selector switch accordingly.
51. You remember with pain the sad day when the Green Machine hit
the streets and made your old Big Wheel quite obsolete.
52. You remember, "Hey, let's be careful out there."
53. You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the
cars behind you.
54. You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed
867-5309 to see if Jenny would answer.
55. You spent endless nights dreaming about being the Bionic Woman
or Wonder Woman or the Six Million Dollar Man.
56. You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan.
57. You view getting carded to buy alcohol as a GOOD thing.
58. You watched HR Puffenstuff as a child, but now that you're
older, you really understand that it would have been much
better had you known about drugs at the time.
59. You were afraid of the Sleestaks on Land of the Lost.
60. You were too young to go see the Blue Lagoon so you just had
to settle for second hand reports.
61. You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on after all.
62. You wore anything Izod, especially those windbreakers that
folded up into a pouch you could wear around your waist.
63. You're doing absolutely nothing pertaining to your major.
64. You're parents wanted you to attend medical school, but you
decided it was pointless since Quincy got all the babes
anyway.
65. 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.
66. You've ever conversationally used the phrase, "Jane, you
ignorant slut!"
67. You've ever shopped at a Banana Republic or Benetton, but not
in the last five years.
68. You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the
following phases:
a. When I was younger...
b. When I was your age...
c. You know, back when...
69. Your hair at some point in time in the 80's became something
which can only be described by the phrase, "I was
experimenting."
70. Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those brick sized
packages of Bazooka gum.