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skylark97, the growing up in the 80s/90s list thing. You know, I think I might have revealed more about myself in my blabbering on throughout the list then I have anywhere else in the entire time I've been on the internet. I'm usually very closed-mouthed, and quickly delete anything where I'm not.
Be warned, there's a hell of a lot of italics in here. I really should have italicized the list and used plain letters for my replies (for one thing, then I could used italics to stress things like normal, rather then using asterisks for both that and describing actions), but I didn't think about that until I was almost done and I'm too lazy to change it.
1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE ".
Not often. *shifty eyes*
2. You watched the Pound Puppies.
Oh, and I loved them so much, although I couldn't afford to actually have any.
3. You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Belair "
This is a story all about how
My life got flip-turned upside-down
And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air
*DUN-dundun-DA-DUN*
*bounces around in her seat* I was actually just watching the show yesterday.
4. You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish.
I had a pair of biker shorts, but I hated them and never wore them. Plus, I only wore skirts on holidays. I did wear skorts though.
5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own.
*shifty eyes again* No... never...
Oh, who'm I kidding? I wanted all of Claudia and Stacy's outfits, and I had a huge crush on Dawn, and I was just rereading a couple of the books that I found in the back of my closet the other day, and I still buy the new series in California because I *still* have a bit of a crush on Dawn.
But I never tried to have a club of my own, because it wasn't convenient from where I lived.
6. You owned those lil Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.
Only one. I was a big My Little Ponies and Rainbow Brite fan, there was only one Strawberry Shortcake cartoon (the one with the little fruit babies) that I really liked to the same extent.
7. You know that "WOAH " comes from Joey on Blossom.
Yeah, and I never even watched the damned show.
8. Two words: M.C. Hammer
I only liked one of his songs (I can't remember what it was, but it was a slow one), and yelled at my brothers when they tried to play the rest of them
9. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock ".
I loved it, even though I could only watch it when visiting my grandma or grandpa since we didn't have cable
10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars.
Purple and white ones. And whenever I'm in the bike section of any big stores I toy with the idea of buying neon-green ones to match my current bike.
11. You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales".
Life is like a hurricane
HERE in DUCKburg
Racecars, lasers, aeroplanes
It's A duck-BLUR
Might solve a mysteryyyyy
Or rewrite historyyyyy
Ducktales, Woooo-oo
I did watch so much once that prehistoric duck was introduced though. Even as a kid I could tell it had jumped the shark. Shame it was so early in the shows run.
Still, to this day I want to hunt down the parody of the Jason myth, since I remember absolutely loving that episode.
12. When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
When did it stop being that way?
13. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
Only as one-half of a pair of pigtails.
14. You saw the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles " on the big screen.
And the second, and the third, and watched the cartoon, and owned a dollar-store movie book, and had a crush on Leonardo, and always wondered when one of them was going to hook up with April.
15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
...Never heard of it. We never played games on the computers at my school during that time period.
16. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.
No, I just knotted the shirt and it stayed knotted. There were clips? There were people who *needed* clips?
17. You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House)
And continued to do so throughout highschool whenever my friends and I were bored. Though for us it was Mansion, Apartment, Shack, Hut.
18. You wore Jordache jean jacket and you were proud of it.
No.
19. L.A. Gear....need I say more
No.
20. You wanted to change your name to "JEM ".
Jem is now out on DVD, and I'm going to get it on my birthday. When I was a little girl whenever I got hurt I'd hide the pain and announce that I was OK, I'm a Jem-girl! Thus beginning my life-long obsession with never, *ever* letting anyone tell when I was hurting.
21. You remember reading "Tales of a fourth grade nothing " and all the Ramona books.
One of the Fourth Grade Nothing ones at least. I saw one or two of the Ramona videos and hated them so I never read them, and Fudge (that was the little brother, right?) annoyed the hell out of me so I didn't read the rest of those. When it came to series like that I was a fan of the Wayside School books myself, especially the second one. To this day I vividly remember Chapter 19 (and Chapter 19, and Chapter 19) when one of the girls gets trapped in the non-existant nineteenth story of the school where Mrs. Zarves teaches and where they never do anything but pointless busy work like copying out the dictionary and slowly forget all their real knowledge because their heads are full of the dictionary. And no one outside of that class can see the girl anymore. And there's a boy whose name was switched with one of the kids from Mrs. Jewls class (On the first day of school everyone got the other boy's name wrong, and he never corrected them. The boy who got trapped Zarves class had the same thing happen so he's called by the other boy's real name and vice versa.) And the teacher, who seemed terribly kind and wonderful when they first met her, was the devil and hell was being trapped in that classroom everyday, doing meaningless work and learning nothing.
The girl escaped by being stupid and silly, which Zarves hated, and if I remember right I think that as Zarves kept getting angrier and angrier the girl started to think that she might kill her instead of just kicking her out but she couldn't dare stop because with a choice between dying and being stuck there for ever she chose death. Though it was stated more obliquely then that, since it was a children's book after all. *grins* And in the last chapter the boy's finally freed because the other boy finally stands up and announces his real name and that misunderstandings what was keeping him trapped there.
22. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF "
Yes. Yes I do. Don't have anything interesting to say about this one.
23. You wanted to be a Goonie.
NO! That movie *horrified* me as a kid!
24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing.
And didn't stop until ninety-three or -four or so.
25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off...
*snickers* Yes.
26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
I've never pondered, 'cause I *know*. There are no female smurfs, Smurfette was magically created by Gargamel to entice the smurfs into his grasp. Originally she had black hair, but Papa Smurf remade her as good and she became a blonde, although I think she still has a heart literally made out of stone and she doesn't have a tail.
When the Smurflings where de-aged they snuck into Gargamel's place and used the same method he did to make Sassette. She also started evil but was turned good.
Smurfs are also "born" (i.e. dropped in by the stork) the same age they'll always be. Papa Smurf always has been always will be an oldish man, Grandpa smurf has always been ancient, Baby Smurf will always be a baby. However, since the girls are unnatural, who knows whether this law applies to them or not.
When smurfs are dropped of by the stork every smurf in the village has to accept them, otherwise they'll be taken away again. Baby Smurf almost had this happen to him, because of Grouchy Smurf being, well, a grouch. But when it happens he realised that he didn't really want the baby gone, and managed to get him back.
So, what does all this teach us? That all smurfs are naturally gay, it doesn't matter because they don't reproduce the way normal animals do, and the reason they all fall all over themselves over Smurfette is because the magic that made he makes them attracted to her, and since that itself isn't evil it wasn't undone when the evil parts of her were removed. *grins*
I know so damn much about the smurfs that it's stupid, and it's all the fault of an old friend of mine. She was writing a paper to try and prove pretty much above point, that considering that the ratio of girl to boy smurfs was 2:500 there must be widespread homosexuality in their race. She wanted to know if there was ever any reason given for that. This was back in '94 or so, before everyone and their dog know how to effectively search the internet, and since I was the person she knew with the most experience since I'd been on Telnet since being weaned from my mother's teat (we were to poor for much of anything, but damned if we wouldn't have one'na them new-fangled per-se-nal computers!) so I hunted down info for her, and it's stuck in my head forever after. I can't even remember the damned show itself, I couldn't describe a single episode, but if you ever need Smurf info I'm *still* the first person you should come to.
27. You took Lunch Pails to school.
A Real Ghostbusters one. I can't believe my mom got me a luxery like that, especially since I always ate free school lunches instead of ever bringing one.
I had a crush on Egon. How many more of these do you think will have me revealing childhood crushes?
28. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.
YES! *loves all over slap bracelets* We couldn't get them, but my cousin slipped me my favorite ones out of his in one of the few kind gestures I can really remember him making from my childhood.
They actually made a comeback (at least around here) a few years ago. I don't know if they were banned again or what, it didn't last that long.
29. You still get the urge to say "NOT " after every sentence.
Not every sentence. Just some.
I'm really more of a "duuuuh"er.
30. You remember Hypercolor t-shirts.
Never had any, but I knew people who did.
31. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.
No, hasn't this been established already by that earlier question? Jem and the Holograms was my favorite band, duuuuh. And the Misfits.
32. You thought Sheera and He-Man should hook up.
No, I thought She-Ra should hook up with ME! And I still do! Especially evil-her. *Such* a crush on her.
Anyway, he's her brother.
33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged friendship bracelets.
No, I was much more cynical then that. I was the best in my class at making them though.
Oh, this reminds me of the the time my popularity hit it's peak in elementery school. My dad brought home a lot of really long bi-colored wires for some reason, and my mom taught me how to make bracelets by folding the wire so the shorter side fit nicely around your wrist then you wrapped the rest of it tightly around that part (leaving a loop at the fold) and leaving a bit uncovered at the end. You hooked the uncovered bit through the loop and tucked it into the coil and then you had a bracelet.
I went to school wearing one or two, and all the girls in the school who came into contact with me went *wild* over them. They kept begging me to give them one, and promising all sorts of favors if I did. It was insane. The next day I brought them all in, and sold all but my two favorites (and a few I gave to my friends for free) for a buck a piece and made about $30.00 off of something I'd made for free.
34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes.
Yes, ones where the jelly was in a lacy pattern rather then all closed together. Those things got hot as hell if they were closed off like normal shoes, your feet began to sweat terribly and the inside became slimy and your feet slipped around inside of them making them get rubbed raw against the edge of the shoe. And, of course, you couldn't just wear socks with them to protect your feet since they look stupid inside of see-through shoes.
So, yes, ones that're full of holes is the way to go.
35. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I? "
Yes, and that was another movie that horrified me. I still watched it all the time though, since my aunt taped it for us.
36. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up! "
Yes. God that annoyed me.
37. You remember going to the skating rink before there were in-line skates.
Only once. A friend had a birthday party at the skating rink. I'd never skated before, did my best for her sake and hated it, and spent the rest of the party sitting on the sidelines with her parents. This was before I had ever even ridden a bike without training wheels, so I didn't even have any sort of clue from that to figure out how you were supposed to catch your balance.
Later in life I got inline skates and figured it out, though I was still to clumsy to keep it up, once I got going fast I would invariably run over a tiny little pebble or pavement crack and go flying. So when my grandpa found an old pair of roller skates from when my mom and her siblings were young I snatched them up and did much better on my ancient, ugly, 1950s canvas-shoe roller skates then I ever did on my sleek modern plastic rollerblade that gave me blisters and made my ankles ache from my feet being forced into a 90-degree angle.
You know when I think about it, if there's one person in the world people could point out as proof that calcium does bullshit for building strong bones, it's me. I'm the clumsiest person you'll ever meet. If there's a wet floor under me it's guaranteed that I'll not just slip on it, but I'll go flying across the room, slam against the wall, and end up with at least one of my feet twisted in an unnatural position under a piece of furniture or something that it shouldn't be able to fit under. It's a running joke of my moms that I can't even sit in a chair, because it's *true*, I *can't*, I'll be sitting perfectly normally with all four feet on the ground and then the next thing you know I'll be sprawled all over the place with the chair lying on my head. This happens at least one a week. And I don't drink milk or eat yogurt or even have ice cream or any other decent dairy product that often.
And yet, I've never sprained my ankle, yet alone fractured or broken it. I've never had a single broken bone apart from the hand my brother broke (and someone when someone's deliberately out to break something on you, having the strongest bones in the world isn't going to be able to stop them. Well, unless you're Wolverine, and it's not during that period after Magneto removed the adamantium and before Apocalypse gave it back), even from the time I fell off the roof, or the time I fell out of a tree, or that other tree, or the swingset, or the jungle jim, or... need I really go on? And it's not even that I drank plenty of milk in my childhood when my bones were really developing and they got strong enough to withstand it. I've always hated the taste of it, and then when I was seven or so I stopped drinking it completely for years and years because I was traumitised by a certain sketch on a certain show that I'm not naming or describing because I hate it so. To this day I can't drink milk plain without gagging because of it, and I only get any at all because of my developing a taste for incredibly milky coffee and tea.
38. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.
No. Even once we finally got one we couldn't really use it because the ground in our yard was really uneven and the only areas that weren't were shed on by the pricker trees (No, I don't know what the pricker trees really were. Some sort of evergreen, with horrible barbed needles (shaped sort of like jacks, except rectangular and with many more prongs coming off. They actually look a lot like giant bonsai, except that the needles are much much stiffer) that were always falling off and embedded themselves in your feet if you went shoeless, which I almost always did back then. We had several of them in our yard, I don't know why were never cut them down except that it probably wasn't nearly as unpleasant for everyone else as it was for me, since they really just barely stuck to the top layer of skin instead of really piercing it. It's just that I'm allegic to all evergreen plants. It took me stupidly long to realise it to, it wasn't until I was a junior or so in high school that it finally came together in my head that "...Wait a sec... everytime I've ever so much as lightly brushed up against evergreen needles I've had reactions ranging from a bad itch to extreme pain depending on what the tree or shrub in question is. Maybe, just maybe, there's a reason for this!" Up until then I just assumed everyone else had the same reactions as me, and always wondered everyone in the family were such masochists that they'd get a Christmas tree every year, drag it through the house leaving needles everywhere that'll burrow into the carpet and suddenly be stepped on months after the holiday ends, then decorate it with your *bare hands*, then crawl underneath it, the branches dragging aross your back and the needles poking through your clothing, everyday to water it. Christmas trees are a special kind of hell.
39. You have ever played with a Skip-It.
Yes, borrowed from a friend, but my aforementioned clumsyness made me terrible at it. I was always so jealous of the people who were good at it, since I wanted so badly to be as good as the kids in the commercials but could never even get it to go one full rotation without tripping over either it or my own feet.
40. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.
Yes, when I was in kindergarten, and all the kids in class came plus a few real friends from outside of school, and I don't know how my mom afforded it, and I don't know why she did it since I would *never* have chosen something like that for myself. Maybe she just didn't want to have a lot of kids over, since my brothers were still toddlers plus our house was really hard for people to find anyway.
41. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
Mostly, yes. And dancing in my seat at times.
42. You remember Popples.
Yes! I had two, and I loved them, and I think my mom gave them away to Toys for Tots when she thought I outgrew them. She never gave any of my toys away again after the fit I had about that. I'm in my twenties and I still haven't outgrown toys, and I have two mini-popples in my room somewhere that I got at a garage-sell several years back.
43. "Don't worry, be happy!"
Oooooh, oh oh ohohoh ooooh ohohoh
I could never stand the song myself (it caused the same boiling anger in me that "If You're Happy and You Know It", when you were forced to clap your hands, did. Fuck you, I'll be happy when I damned well feel like it! I was a very jaded little kid. It was all that destitution.)
44. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks.
You know, some of these are just making me as angry and depressed as I did in the actual time period. Do you know how much a pair of Reeboks cost you jerk? I got *one* new dress a year, to look nice for Christmas. Everything else I had was what my mom could find for a buck or less at garage sells. We were too poor for fucking *thrift stores*, let alone to wear out my all my socks eight times as fast with a pair of goddamned Reeboks for some stupid fashion craze. To this day I can't stand buying clothes new, even though it's no longer a matter of, you know, survival, just because my brain will always whisper to me that it's a horrible waste of money to buy any clothing that costs more then $5.00 tops. My prom dress cost $40.00, and that was an extravagance the likes of which has never been matched for me clothes-wise.
I'm sorry, I'm being all angry and venty. It's just that the questions about all stuff that I couldn't to have are digging up a past left well behind.
45. You wore socks scrunched down.
Remember saying I wouldn't wear out my socks that fast? Well, maybe it should be amended to say if I wore them, since I didn't and I don't. Back then I didn't even wear shoes if I could help it. I don't like my feet feeling contained.
46. "Miss MARY MACK MACK MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK!"
With silver BUTTONS BUTTONS BUTTONS, all down her BACK BACK BACK! Though isn't this really from prior to the eighties? I clearly remember it being in the traditional folksongs section of the music book my class used.
47. You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.
I know what this is talking about, though I've always hated the term "boom box"
48. You remember watching both "Gremlins" movies.
No. I knew of the movies, but I never wanted to see them. Really, when I was a kid unless something aired on TV or my aunt or grandma provided a tape the only movies I ever saw with fluffy cartoons on fridays and R-rated action and horror movies (yes, the girl who was afraid of The Goonies grew up on a steady diet of horror movies. But, having watched them since I was literally in the cradle slasher flicks and monster movies didn't effect me that much) every other night of the week if we rented something. It's strange that I grew up to hate most action and horror movies but to this day crave fluffy cartoons. I think I reached my saturation point for them.
49. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!!"
I actually grew up always thinking that they said "Care Bears Care!" It was only a few months ago that I saw it written down for the first time and realised the truth. The movies are some more things that I want to hunt down, especially the creepy one where everyone gets trapped in crystals.
50. You remember watching Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales
Yes! And in a weird coincidence just yesterday I downloaded the My Little Pony movie on a whim. I was so incredibly happy to find a copy for download, since it was my favorite movie growing up but then I brought the tape that had it, Sleeping Beauty, and a bunch of weird disney music videos on it over to a friends house to watch when I slept over the night before she moved far far away. Then I left the movie there (along with Matilda, which was my favorite book at the time) and never saw it again.
Imagine my crushing disappointment when I found that someone had apparently randomly chopped large hunks of the movie out of the file. The whole thing was chopped down to something like twenty out of the ninety minutes, with ever last one of the major sceens cut (no Lickety-Split getting emberassed, no rainbow of light failing and dream castle being covered, no Lickety-Split and Spike getting trapped behind the waterfall by the Smooze, no meeting the flutter-ponies only to find them refusing to help, and pretty much none of the ending. And, worst of all, the Nothing Can Stop the Smooze song was hacked out, and that was the most vivid memory I have of the movie!) I watched it all though, and it was really weird. I couldn't remember a damn thing really, except at the same time somewhere in the back of my mind there's a part that still has it memorised but which I can't consciously reach, and because of that it was like I had a constant feeling of deja vu.
So, that's another I'll have to hunt down, and I also desperately want a copy of Rainbow Bright: The Beginning of Rainbowland. I loved that movie just as much, but didn't own it so I only saw it when we rented it. Unlike MLP though, this one had parts that badly frightened me, but which drew me back for more. Finding Starlight frozen alive was the biggest scare for me, along with the two headed dragon that had Canary Yellow (Crush! I also had crushes on both purple girls, and Lala Orange. And Wisp in those two episodes, though once she becomes Rainbow Brite it left. Yeah, I was crushing all over this show.) captive.
51. You thought Doogie Howser was hot.
Not in the least.
*coughs*
I though Vinnie was hot.
52. You remember Alf, the lil furrybrown alien from Melmac. (Alf is still awesome!!!!)
I remember him, my family used to always watch the show and I can't believe how much I liked it considering how much I adored my cat.
53. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool.
I remember them mostly because I hated them, and that ticked all the girls in my class off. So I pretended to have a crush on the one in the red jacket (no damn clue then or now what his name is or anything about him) on a folder I got out of the folder vending machine at school.
I never heard any of their songs that I know of, but I was actually a fan of their cartoon series (along with the M.C. Hammer cartoon, which I forgot about when talking about him.)
54. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on Saved by the Bell ", the ORIGINAL class.
No, that's another of the many things on this list that I hated. I knew who Screech was, because who didn't? But I never watched the show.
55. You know all the words to Bon Jovi's - SHOT THRU THE HEART.
I don't know all the words to *any* Bon Jovi song. I don't know any Bon Jovi songs. As far as I know I've never heard his music before in my life, even though I know who he is and I know that there must have been some on the radios or movies or something, I just wouldn't know it if I heard it.
56. You just sang those words to yourself.(didn't you)
I think we've settled the fact that I don't.
Yeah, I'm also still a bit ticked over the complete lack of anything resembling modern music in my childhood. Couldn't even listen to popular music on the radio since the only one we had was in the car, and that was always tuned to oldies station. So I was always so far out of the loop when it came the music that you couldn't even *see* the loop from where I was.
Of course, I probably wouldn't have the strange, nonsensical taste in music I have today if this wasn't true, so maybe I should be glad to have not had my brain polluted early on by the crappy pop I would have listened to if I tried to match my classmates tastes.
57. You remember watching Magic vs. Bird.
No, I hate watching sports. I'm fine with playing basketball, but watching it bores me to tears.
I did watch Magic Johnson's talk shoe every night though. Of course, this is because I'm nocturnal, I didn't have cable, and the majority of stations were already off the air by the time the airing I watched was on so I just watched whatever I could.
58. You cut your t-shirts in half and wore it with your homemade Levis shorts.. (the shorter the better)
I couldn't afford to waste clothing that I would need come winter like that.
59. You remember when mullets were cool!
What strange backward planet did you come from where mullets were ever cool?
60. You had a mullet!
You will die for that insult, and so shall all that you love.
61. You still sing "We are the World "
I only actually know the chorus, but yes I do.
62. You "Pegged " your pants ritually. (You're still singing shot through the heart in your head arent you!!!)
I've never heard of this, so I went to check the fashion section of Yesterdayland to but they didn't have it, and I did a quick search but couldn't find anyone actually describing them (admittedly, I didn't look hard) or a picture, just that it's apparently a guy style and it was a big style in the fifties. Then I did an image search, and unless it's wearing your pants tucked into your socks that's not helpful since none of the pants look similar. Then I realised that if the style's originally from half a centery ago maybe I should look further back on Yesterdayland then the eighties, but still nothing. Then I got bored.
I'm gonna say I never did it, since it sounds like another thing that would ruin my pants. And get off the damned song, would you?
63. You tight rolled your jeans.
No. I'd roll up the bottom of my pants when they were too long for my legs (which they usually were since I was a really short kid) to keep from walking on the cuffs, and that was it.
Fucking Reeboks *spits*
ETA three hours later: Out of curiousity I just copied and pasted the cut portion of this entry into word web to see how long it was.
Almost six-thousand words. *smacks self silly* See, if I'd just spent all that time working on the next chapter of That Most Lonely Thing, or writing up the Draco/unidentifiedWeasleyTwin hatesex smutbunny that's been poinging around my brain it would be done now.
skylark97, the growing up in the 80s/90s list thing. You know, I think I might have revealed more about myself in my blabbering on throughout the list then I have anywhere else in the entire time I've been on the internet. I'm usually very closed-mouthed, and quickly delete anything where I'm not.Be warned, there's a hell of a lot of italics in here. I really should have italicized the list and used plain letters for my replies (for one thing, then I could used italics to stress things like normal, rather then using asterisks for both that and describing actions), but I didn't think about that until I was almost done and I'm too lazy to change it.
1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE ".
Not often. *shifty eyes*
2. You watched the Pound Puppies.
Oh, and I loved them so much, although I couldn't afford to actually have any.
3. You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Belair "
This is a story all about how
My life got flip-turned upside-down
And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air
*DUN-dundun-DA-DUN*
*bounces around in her seat* I was actually just watching the show yesterday.
4. You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish.
I had a pair of biker shorts, but I hated them and never wore them. Plus, I only wore skirts on holidays. I did wear skorts though.
5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own.
*shifty eyes again* No... never...
Oh, who'm I kidding? I wanted all of Claudia and Stacy's outfits, and I had a huge crush on Dawn, and I was just rereading a couple of the books that I found in the back of my closet the other day, and I still buy the new series in California because I *still* have a bit of a crush on Dawn.
But I never tried to have a club of my own, because it wasn't convenient from where I lived.
6. You owned those lil Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.
Only one. I was a big My Little Ponies and Rainbow Brite fan, there was only one Strawberry Shortcake cartoon (the one with the little fruit babies) that I really liked to the same extent.
7. You know that "WOAH " comes from Joey on Blossom.
Yeah, and I never even watched the damned show.
8. Two words: M.C. Hammer
I only liked one of his songs (I can't remember what it was, but it was a slow one), and yelled at my brothers when they tried to play the rest of them
9. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock ".
I loved it, even though I could only watch it when visiting my grandma or grandpa since we didn't have cable
10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars.
Purple and white ones. And whenever I'm in the bike section of any big stores I toy with the idea of buying neon-green ones to match my current bike.
11. You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales".
Life is like a hurricane
HERE in DUCKburg
Racecars, lasers, aeroplanes
It's A duck-BLUR
Might solve a mysteryyyyy
Or rewrite historyyyyy
Ducktales, Woooo-oo
I did watch so much once that prehistoric duck was introduced though. Even as a kid I could tell it had jumped the shark. Shame it was so early in the shows run.
Still, to this day I want to hunt down the parody of the Jason myth, since I remember absolutely loving that episode.
12. When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
When did it stop being that way?
13. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
Only as one-half of a pair of pigtails.
14. You saw the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles " on the big screen.
And the second, and the third, and watched the cartoon, and owned a dollar-store movie book, and had a crush on Leonardo, and always wondered when one of them was going to hook up with April.
15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
...Never heard of it. We never played games on the computers at my school during that time period.
16. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.
No, I just knotted the shirt and it stayed knotted. There were clips? There were people who *needed* clips?
17. You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House)
And continued to do so throughout highschool whenever my friends and I were bored. Though for us it was Mansion, Apartment, Shack, Hut.
18. You wore Jordache jean jacket and you were proud of it.
No.
19. L.A. Gear....need I say more
No.
20. You wanted to change your name to "JEM ".
Jem is now out on DVD, and I'm going to get it on my birthday. When I was a little girl whenever I got hurt I'd hide the pain and announce that I was OK, I'm a Jem-girl! Thus beginning my life-long obsession with never, *ever* letting anyone tell when I was hurting.
21. You remember reading "Tales of a fourth grade nothing " and all the Ramona books.
One of the Fourth Grade Nothing ones at least. I saw one or two of the Ramona videos and hated them so I never read them, and Fudge (that was the little brother, right?) annoyed the hell out of me so I didn't read the rest of those. When it came to series like that I was a fan of the Wayside School books myself, especially the second one. To this day I vividly remember Chapter 19 (and Chapter 19, and Chapter 19) when one of the girls gets trapped in the non-existant nineteenth story of the school where Mrs. Zarves teaches and where they never do anything but pointless busy work like copying out the dictionary and slowly forget all their real knowledge because their heads are full of the dictionary. And no one outside of that class can see the girl anymore. And there's a boy whose name was switched with one of the kids from Mrs. Jewls class (On the first day of school everyone got the other boy's name wrong, and he never corrected them. The boy who got trapped Zarves class had the same thing happen so he's called by the other boy's real name and vice versa.) And the teacher, who seemed terribly kind and wonderful when they first met her, was the devil and hell was being trapped in that classroom everyday, doing meaningless work and learning nothing.
The girl escaped by being stupid and silly, which Zarves hated, and if I remember right I think that as Zarves kept getting angrier and angrier the girl started to think that she might kill her instead of just kicking her out but she couldn't dare stop because with a choice between dying and being stuck there for ever she chose death. Though it was stated more obliquely then that, since it was a children's book after all. *grins* And in the last chapter the boy's finally freed because the other boy finally stands up and announces his real name and that misunderstandings what was keeping him trapped there.
22. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF "
Yes. Yes I do. Don't have anything interesting to say about this one.
23. You wanted to be a Goonie.
NO! That movie *horrified* me as a kid!
24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing.
And didn't stop until ninety-three or -four or so.
25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off...
*snickers* Yes.
26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
I've never pondered, 'cause I *know*. There are no female smurfs, Smurfette was magically created by Gargamel to entice the smurfs into his grasp. Originally she had black hair, but Papa Smurf remade her as good and she became a blonde, although I think she still has a heart literally made out of stone and she doesn't have a tail.
When the Smurflings where de-aged they snuck into Gargamel's place and used the same method he did to make Sassette. She also started evil but was turned good.
Smurfs are also "born" (i.e. dropped in by the stork) the same age they'll always be. Papa Smurf always has been always will be an oldish man, Grandpa smurf has always been ancient, Baby Smurf will always be a baby. However, since the girls are unnatural, who knows whether this law applies to them or not.
When smurfs are dropped of by the stork every smurf in the village has to accept them, otherwise they'll be taken away again. Baby Smurf almost had this happen to him, because of Grouchy Smurf being, well, a grouch. But when it happens he realised that he didn't really want the baby gone, and managed to get him back.
So, what does all this teach us? That all smurfs are naturally gay, it doesn't matter because they don't reproduce the way normal animals do, and the reason they all fall all over themselves over Smurfette is because the magic that made he makes them attracted to her, and since that itself isn't evil it wasn't undone when the evil parts of her were removed. *grins*
I know so damn much about the smurfs that it's stupid, and it's all the fault of an old friend of mine. She was writing a paper to try and prove pretty much above point, that considering that the ratio of girl to boy smurfs was 2:500 there must be widespread homosexuality in their race. She wanted to know if there was ever any reason given for that. This was back in '94 or so, before everyone and their dog know how to effectively search the internet, and since I was the person she knew with the most experience since I'd been on Telnet since being weaned from my mother's teat (we were to poor for much of anything, but damned if we wouldn't have one'na them new-fangled per-se-nal computers!) so I hunted down info for her, and it's stuck in my head forever after. I can't even remember the damned show itself, I couldn't describe a single episode, but if you ever need Smurf info I'm *still* the first person you should come to.
27. You took Lunch Pails to school.
A Real Ghostbusters one. I can't believe my mom got me a luxery like that, especially since I always ate free school lunches instead of ever bringing one.
I had a crush on Egon. How many more of these do you think will have me revealing childhood crushes?
28. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.
YES! *loves all over slap bracelets* We couldn't get them, but my cousin slipped me my favorite ones out of his in one of the few kind gestures I can really remember him making from my childhood.
They actually made a comeback (at least around here) a few years ago. I don't know if they were banned again or what, it didn't last that long.
29. You still get the urge to say "NOT " after every sentence.
Not every sentence. Just some.
I'm really more of a "duuuuh"er.
30. You remember Hypercolor t-shirts.
Never had any, but I knew people who did.
31. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.
No, hasn't this been established already by that earlier question? Jem and the Holograms was my favorite band, duuuuh. And the Misfits.
32. You thought Sheera and He-Man should hook up.
No, I thought She-Ra should hook up with ME! And I still do! Especially evil-her. *Such* a crush on her.
Anyway, he's her brother.
33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged friendship bracelets.
No, I was much more cynical then that. I was the best in my class at making them though.
Oh, this reminds me of the the time my popularity hit it's peak in elementery school. My dad brought home a lot of really long bi-colored wires for some reason, and my mom taught me how to make bracelets by folding the wire so the shorter side fit nicely around your wrist then you wrapped the rest of it tightly around that part (leaving a loop at the fold) and leaving a bit uncovered at the end. You hooked the uncovered bit through the loop and tucked it into the coil and then you had a bracelet.
I went to school wearing one or two, and all the girls in the school who came into contact with me went *wild* over them. They kept begging me to give them one, and promising all sorts of favors if I did. It was insane. The next day I brought them all in, and sold all but my two favorites (and a few I gave to my friends for free) for a buck a piece and made about $30.00 off of something I'd made for free.
34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes.
Yes, ones where the jelly was in a lacy pattern rather then all closed together. Those things got hot as hell if they were closed off like normal shoes, your feet began to sweat terribly and the inside became slimy and your feet slipped around inside of them making them get rubbed raw against the edge of the shoe. And, of course, you couldn't just wear socks with them to protect your feet since they look stupid inside of see-through shoes.
So, yes, ones that're full of holes is the way to go.
35. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I? "
Yes, and that was another movie that horrified me. I still watched it all the time though, since my aunt taped it for us.
36. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up! "
Yes. God that annoyed me.
37. You remember going to the skating rink before there were in-line skates.
Only once. A friend had a birthday party at the skating rink. I'd never skated before, did my best for her sake and hated it, and spent the rest of the party sitting on the sidelines with her parents. This was before I had ever even ridden a bike without training wheels, so I didn't even have any sort of clue from that to figure out how you were supposed to catch your balance.
Later in life I got inline skates and figured it out, though I was still to clumsy to keep it up, once I got going fast I would invariably run over a tiny little pebble or pavement crack and go flying. So when my grandpa found an old pair of roller skates from when my mom and her siblings were young I snatched them up and did much better on my ancient, ugly, 1950s canvas-shoe roller skates then I ever did on my sleek modern plastic rollerblade that gave me blisters and made my ankles ache from my feet being forced into a 90-degree angle.
You know when I think about it, if there's one person in the world people could point out as proof that calcium does bullshit for building strong bones, it's me. I'm the clumsiest person you'll ever meet. If there's a wet floor under me it's guaranteed that I'll not just slip on it, but I'll go flying across the room, slam against the wall, and end up with at least one of my feet twisted in an unnatural position under a piece of furniture or something that it shouldn't be able to fit under. It's a running joke of my moms that I can't even sit in a chair, because it's *true*, I *can't*, I'll be sitting perfectly normally with all four feet on the ground and then the next thing you know I'll be sprawled all over the place with the chair lying on my head. This happens at least one a week. And I don't drink milk or eat yogurt or even have ice cream or any other decent dairy product that often.
And yet, I've never sprained my ankle, yet alone fractured or broken it. I've never had a single broken bone apart from the hand my brother broke (and someone when someone's deliberately out to break something on you, having the strongest bones in the world isn't going to be able to stop them. Well, unless you're Wolverine, and it's not during that period after Magneto removed the adamantium and before Apocalypse gave it back), even from the time I fell off the roof, or the time I fell out of a tree, or that other tree, or the swingset, or the jungle jim, or... need I really go on? And it's not even that I drank plenty of milk in my childhood when my bones were really developing and they got strong enough to withstand it. I've always hated the taste of it, and then when I was seven or so I stopped drinking it completely for years and years because I was traumitised by a certain sketch on a certain show that I'm not naming or describing because I hate it so. To this day I can't drink milk plain without gagging because of it, and I only get any at all because of my developing a taste for incredibly milky coffee and tea.
38. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.
No. Even once we finally got one we couldn't really use it because the ground in our yard was really uneven and the only areas that weren't were shed on by the pricker trees (No, I don't know what the pricker trees really were. Some sort of evergreen, with horrible barbed needles (shaped sort of like jacks, except rectangular and with many more prongs coming off. They actually look a lot like giant bonsai, except that the needles are much much stiffer) that were always falling off and embedded themselves in your feet if you went shoeless, which I almost always did back then. We had several of them in our yard, I don't know why were never cut them down except that it probably wasn't nearly as unpleasant for everyone else as it was for me, since they really just barely stuck to the top layer of skin instead of really piercing it. It's just that I'm allegic to all evergreen plants. It took me stupidly long to realise it to, it wasn't until I was a junior or so in high school that it finally came together in my head that "...Wait a sec... everytime I've ever so much as lightly brushed up against evergreen needles I've had reactions ranging from a bad itch to extreme pain depending on what the tree or shrub in question is. Maybe, just maybe, there's a reason for this!" Up until then I just assumed everyone else had the same reactions as me, and always wondered everyone in the family were such masochists that they'd get a Christmas tree every year, drag it through the house leaving needles everywhere that'll burrow into the carpet and suddenly be stepped on months after the holiday ends, then decorate it with your *bare hands*, then crawl underneath it, the branches dragging aross your back and the needles poking through your clothing, everyday to water it. Christmas trees are a special kind of hell.
39. You have ever played with a Skip-It.
Yes, borrowed from a friend, but my aforementioned clumsyness made me terrible at it. I was always so jealous of the people who were good at it, since I wanted so badly to be as good as the kids in the commercials but could never even get it to go one full rotation without tripping over either it or my own feet.
40. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.
Yes, when I was in kindergarten, and all the kids in class came plus a few real friends from outside of school, and I don't know how my mom afforded it, and I don't know why she did it since I would *never* have chosen something like that for myself. Maybe she just didn't want to have a lot of kids over, since my brothers were still toddlers plus our house was really hard for people to find anyway.
41. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
Mostly, yes. And dancing in my seat at times.
42. You remember Popples.
Yes! I had two, and I loved them, and I think my mom gave them away to Toys for Tots when she thought I outgrew them. She never gave any of my toys away again after the fit I had about that. I'm in my twenties and I still haven't outgrown toys, and I have two mini-popples in my room somewhere that I got at a garage-sell several years back.
43. "Don't worry, be happy!"
Oooooh, oh oh ohohoh ooooh ohohoh
I could never stand the song myself (it caused the same boiling anger in me that "If You're Happy and You Know It", when you were forced to clap your hands, did. Fuck you, I'll be happy when I damned well feel like it! I was a very jaded little kid. It was all that destitution.)
44. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks.
You know, some of these are just making me as angry and depressed as I did in the actual time period. Do you know how much a pair of Reeboks cost you jerk? I got *one* new dress a year, to look nice for Christmas. Everything else I had was what my mom could find for a buck or less at garage sells. We were too poor for fucking *thrift stores*, let alone to wear out my all my socks eight times as fast with a pair of goddamned Reeboks for some stupid fashion craze. To this day I can't stand buying clothes new, even though it's no longer a matter of, you know, survival, just because my brain will always whisper to me that it's a horrible waste of money to buy any clothing that costs more then $5.00 tops. My prom dress cost $40.00, and that was an extravagance the likes of which has never been matched for me clothes-wise.
I'm sorry, I'm being all angry and venty. It's just that the questions about all stuff that I couldn't to have are digging up a past left well behind.
45. You wore socks scrunched down.
Remember saying I wouldn't wear out my socks that fast? Well, maybe it should be amended to say if I wore them, since I didn't and I don't. Back then I didn't even wear shoes if I could help it. I don't like my feet feeling contained.
46. "Miss MARY MACK MACK MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK!"
With silver BUTTONS BUTTONS BUTTONS, all down her BACK BACK BACK! Though isn't this really from prior to the eighties? I clearly remember it being in the traditional folksongs section of the music book my class used.
47. You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.
I know what this is talking about, though I've always hated the term "boom box"
48. You remember watching both "Gremlins" movies.
No. I knew of the movies, but I never wanted to see them. Really, when I was a kid unless something aired on TV or my aunt or grandma provided a tape the only movies I ever saw with fluffy cartoons on fridays and R-rated action and horror movies (yes, the girl who was afraid of The Goonies grew up on a steady diet of horror movies. But, having watched them since I was literally in the cradle slasher flicks and monster movies didn't effect me that much) every other night of the week if we rented something. It's strange that I grew up to hate most action and horror movies but to this day crave fluffy cartoons. I think I reached my saturation point for them.
49. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!!"
I actually grew up always thinking that they said "Care Bears Care!" It was only a few months ago that I saw it written down for the first time and realised the truth. The movies are some more things that I want to hunt down, especially the creepy one where everyone gets trapped in crystals.
50. You remember watching Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales
Yes! And in a weird coincidence just yesterday I downloaded the My Little Pony movie on a whim. I was so incredibly happy to find a copy for download, since it was my favorite movie growing up but then I brought the tape that had it, Sleeping Beauty, and a bunch of weird disney music videos on it over to a friends house to watch when I slept over the night before she moved far far away. Then I left the movie there (along with Matilda, which was my favorite book at the time) and never saw it again.
Imagine my crushing disappointment when I found that someone had apparently randomly chopped large hunks of the movie out of the file. The whole thing was chopped down to something like twenty out of the ninety minutes, with ever last one of the major sceens cut (no Lickety-Split getting emberassed, no rainbow of light failing and dream castle being covered, no Lickety-Split and Spike getting trapped behind the waterfall by the Smooze, no meeting the flutter-ponies only to find them refusing to help, and pretty much none of the ending. And, worst of all, the Nothing Can Stop the Smooze song was hacked out, and that was the most vivid memory I have of the movie!) I watched it all though, and it was really weird. I couldn't remember a damn thing really, except at the same time somewhere in the back of my mind there's a part that still has it memorised but which I can't consciously reach, and because of that it was like I had a constant feeling of deja vu.
So, that's another I'll have to hunt down, and I also desperately want a copy of Rainbow Bright: The Beginning of Rainbowland. I loved that movie just as much, but didn't own it so I only saw it when we rented it. Unlike MLP though, this one had parts that badly frightened me, but which drew me back for more. Finding Starlight frozen alive was the biggest scare for me, along with the two headed dragon that had Canary Yellow (Crush! I also had crushes on both purple girls, and Lala Orange. And Wisp in those two episodes, though once she becomes Rainbow Brite it left. Yeah, I was crushing all over this show.) captive.
51. You thought Doogie Howser was hot.
Not in the least.
*coughs*
I though Vinnie was hot.
52. You remember Alf, the lil furrybrown alien from Melmac. (Alf is still awesome!!!!)
I remember him, my family used to always watch the show and I can't believe how much I liked it considering how much I adored my cat.
53. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool.
I remember them mostly because I hated them, and that ticked all the girls in my class off. So I pretended to have a crush on the one in the red jacket (no damn clue then or now what his name is or anything about him) on a folder I got out of the folder vending machine at school.
I never heard any of their songs that I know of, but I was actually a fan of their cartoon series (along with the M.C. Hammer cartoon, which I forgot about when talking about him.)
54. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on Saved by the Bell ", the ORIGINAL class.
No, that's another of the many things on this list that I hated. I knew who Screech was, because who didn't? But I never watched the show.
55. You know all the words to Bon Jovi's - SHOT THRU THE HEART.
I don't know all the words to *any* Bon Jovi song. I don't know any Bon Jovi songs. As far as I know I've never heard his music before in my life, even though I know who he is and I know that there must have been some on the radios or movies or something, I just wouldn't know it if I heard it.
56. You just sang those words to yourself.(didn't you)
I think we've settled the fact that I don't.
Yeah, I'm also still a bit ticked over the complete lack of anything resembling modern music in my childhood. Couldn't even listen to popular music on the radio since the only one we had was in the car, and that was always tuned to oldies station. So I was always so far out of the loop when it came the music that you couldn't even *see* the loop from where I was.
Of course, I probably wouldn't have the strange, nonsensical taste in music I have today if this wasn't true, so maybe I should be glad to have not had my brain polluted early on by the crappy pop I would have listened to if I tried to match my classmates tastes.
57. You remember watching Magic vs. Bird.
No, I hate watching sports. I'm fine with playing basketball, but watching it bores me to tears.
I did watch Magic Johnson's talk shoe every night though. Of course, this is because I'm nocturnal, I didn't have cable, and the majority of stations were already off the air by the time the airing I watched was on so I just watched whatever I could.
58. You cut your t-shirts in half and wore it with your homemade Levis shorts.. (the shorter the better)
I couldn't afford to waste clothing that I would need come winter like that.
59. You remember when mullets were cool!
What strange backward planet did you come from where mullets were ever cool?
60. You had a mullet!
You will die for that insult, and so shall all that you love.
61. You still sing "We are the World "
I only actually know the chorus, but yes I do.
62. You "Pegged " your pants ritually. (You're still singing shot through the heart in your head arent you!!!)
I've never heard of this, so I went to check the fashion section of Yesterdayland to but they didn't have it, and I did a quick search but couldn't find anyone actually describing them (admittedly, I didn't look hard) or a picture, just that it's apparently a guy style and it was a big style in the fifties. Then I did an image search, and unless it's wearing your pants tucked into your socks that's not helpful since none of the pants look similar. Then I realised that if the style's originally from half a centery ago maybe I should look further back on Yesterdayland then the eighties, but still nothing. Then I got bored.
I'm gonna say I never did it, since it sounds like another thing that would ruin my pants. And get off the damned song, would you?
63. You tight rolled your jeans.
No. I'd roll up the bottom of my pants when they were too long for my legs (which they usually were since I was a really short kid) to keep from walking on the cuffs, and that was it.
Fucking Reeboks *spits*
ETA three hours later: Out of curiousity I just copied and pasted the cut portion of this entry into word web to see how long it was.
Almost six-thousand words. *smacks self silly* See, if I'd just spent all that time working on the next chapter of That Most Lonely Thing, or writing up the Draco/unidentifiedWeasleyTwin hatesex smutbunny that's been poinging around my brain it would be done now.
