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    80 ways to tell you are stuck in the 80s

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    01 : You’re still bitter that Wham! broke up
    02 : Punky Brewster is your hero
    03 : You’re building your own Clockwork Smurf
    04 : A-Ha‘s Take on Me is still your favorite video
    05 : The only video games you play are Frogger and Pac Man
    06 : You call all motorcycle cops “Ponch”
    07 : Every time you go to the beach you look for Snorks
    08 : You know whose number is 867-5309
    09 : Your fondest childhood memory is when Skippy got his head stuck in the banister
    10 : You relax by putting on your leg warmers and dancing to the Flashdance soundtrack
    11 : You think the two Coreys are “totally awesome”
    12 : You type all of your correspondence on a Commodore 64
    13 : You still resent your parents for not installing a dumbwaiter in your house like Webster‘s
    14 : Your summer attire is Jellies and Jams
    15 : You consider yourself truly, truly, truly outrageous . . . much like Jem and the Holograms
    16 : You wonder why more people don’t wear high heels, Jordache jeans and lacy white ankle socks
    17 : You’re still upset Madonna and Sean broke up
    18 : You know who Stinky Sullivan is
    19 : You work out with ‘Get in Shape Girl’
    20 : You want to be Molly Ringwald when you grow up
    21 : You enjoy dancing on the ceiling and wearing your sunglasses at night
    22 : You know who Loverboy is
    23 : You think there should be a Kids Incorporated original cast reunion
    24 : You think of Janet Jackson as “that girl who used to date Willis”
    25 : You can sing the theme song to Small Wonder
    26 : Every time you see a fountain you want to dance around it and yell “Fame!”
    27 : You still have a shoebox full of Garbage Pail Kid cards
    28 : You have started a Facebook group to make Born in the USA the American national anthem
    29 : You still use your Snoopy Sno-cone Machine
    30 : You know it’s not “comma, comma, comma” it’s karma
    31 : You stay up nights wondering what Bastian’s mother’s name was in The Never Ending Story
    32 : You have nightmares about the Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak
    33 : You still practice your Care Bear stare
    34 : You know that girls just wanna have fu-un
    35 : You can name all of the Wuzzles
    36 : When someone calls for someone more than once in public, you start saying, “Bueller, Bueller, Bueller”
    37 : You can do the Safety Dance
    38 : In your spare time you are writing Breakfast Club 2
    39 : You like to “connect the dots, la la la la!”
    40 : Someone mentions Jennifer Beals and you don’t say “Who?”
    41 : Your prized possession is a collection of Return of the Jedi Shrinky Dinks
    42 : You get depressed thinking about Anthony Michael Hall‘s career
    43 : You’re starting a campaign to MTV to bring back Remote Control
    44 : You drink Diet Coke because Max Headroom told you to
    45 : You consider Jo vs. Blair the major philosophical conflict of the 20th century
    46 : You have a duck phone and ride around your house on a little train
    47 : You want to be one of the Solid Gold dancers
    48 : You still watch things on Betamax
    49 : You want to change your name to Rio and dance on the sand
    50 : Your favorite proverb is “some like it hot and some sweat when the heat is on”
    51 : You always waited for the Sweet Pickles Bus to visit your house
    52 : Your favorite party game is Hungry, Hungry Hippos
    53 : You know that Weird Science was a movie before a TV show
    54 : You saw the New Kids on the Block when they were Tiffany‘s opening act
    55 : You liked Tom Hanks better when he was a crossdresser
    56 : You know which Hollywood Square Jim J. Bullock was in
    57 : You practice getting in and out of your car through the windows
    58 : You have the tendency to turn up the collar of your polo shirts
    59 : You’re still wondering who really was the boss
    60 : You know what the “P” in Alex P. Keaton stands for
    61 : You keep asking your teacher’s if instead of the quiz you can take the physical challenge
    62 : You organise weekend tournaments of TV tag
    63 : You still drink New Coke
    64 : When you watch Terminator 2 you wonder where Vincent is
    65 : You know ALF‘s real name
    66 : You never go out for a night on the town without frosted blue eye-shadow and feathered bangs
    67 : You can name all of the Thundercats
    68 : You got a hankerin’ for a hunk of cheese
    69 : Everything in your wardrobe is either fluorescent or pastel
    70 : When you’re stuck in traffic you tell your car to engage Turbo Boost and are surprised when it doesn’t talk back
    71 : You remember when Vanessa sang karaoke to Locomotion
    72 : You know that Mr. Steele functions best in an advisory capacity
    73 : People are constantly gagging you with spoons
    74 : Your idea of appreciating ancient cultures is Walk Like an Egyptian
    75 : The only thing you know about the Nazis is that they threw Indy to the snakes
    76 : You still use your hair crimper before going out on a hot date
    77 : You hatch plots to break Murdock out of VA hospital
    78 : You know which five people Serpentor’s DNA came from
    79 : You have We Are the World on 45
    80 : If someone says, “Who are you gonna call?” the first thing you say is “Ghostbusters“

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