back in the day when i was young, i'm not a kid anymore!! LOL

[TrueGreekLove]

I recently stumbled over some old junior high school pictures of me, needless to say I was cracking up the whole time at the styles back than, I thought I was the bomb, but now these styles seem so silly looking to me.

My question to you guys is, what styles would you bring back whether it be fashion, music artist, a particular dance etc....and what styles do you hope never come back! And lastly, are there any current styles out that just make you question "what the hell were they thinking?"

I hope gumby's and big bamboo earrings never come back in style...as for current trends...I am not for the hairstyles that look like cake decorations!

[DELTABRAT]

I PRAY big dookey rope chains (think Run DMC/Slick Rick) never re-surface. I can also do without the basket weaves, the bob (like several layers, not just one), the cellophanes (not hair color/highlights...but BURGUNDY cellophanes). I can do without the Gucci/Loius Vuitton wear (the sweatshirts and stuff). I can do without leather colored bomber jackets. I can do without cuorduroy pants (girls in my hood used to rock the TIGHT http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif ones with Fila shoes and the shirt to match. I can do without rings on EVERY finger. I can do without feather cut hairstyles. I can do without that fuschia colored lipstick every young black girl THOUGHT was cute. Everything else was okay...I think.

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[Sexy Mocha]

DeltaBrat, although I usually agree with your posts I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree with you on something this time around http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/frown.gif...because those leather colored bomber jackets were the BIZZOMB!!! I had like every flavor! and the yellow ones...Oh my God!! I would definitely bring those joints back. (Yes, I said joints) But if I never see door knocker earrings, MCM jackets,and jelly shoes again it would be too soon. What about that hair style which consisted of a part going down the middle of your head, with the two corn braids on each side (God forbid there was a bang)? I am all for bringing back old skool rap (Krs-1, Roxanne Roxanne...all 30 of them...the pre-"In the House" L.L. Cool J...Yall know "I need Love", Big Ole Butt") Speaking of big ole butts...remember "Doing the Butt" I loved that song, even though they never mentioned my name. I loved all the suede pumas (every flavor)...Hey! Where you guys live, has anything recently went out of style? By recently, I mean like within the last year or two. Like I know in Brooklyn it's considered the eighth deadliest sin to rock high top Reeboks any more. And those down filled "Bear" jackets...definitely a no-no. Oh my God! remember those Michael jackson "Thriller" jackets?!? I had the pleather ones...Somebody stop me...I can go on about this all day!!

[onesavvydiva]

I have posted a lot today, so for this, I only have one comment...

Gold/Red Lipstick with thick, black lipliner!
UGGHHH!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/mad.gif

[TrueGreekLove]

Sexy Mocha,

Girl you are a straight up and down trip...your post had me laughing! Suede pumas are the bomb and definitely ol school rap is a thousand times better than the stuff they got coming out today. Hey remember ellesse sneakers and when LA Gears first came out with the two different color shoe laces....what about the triple fat goose...and speaking of old dances...does teh cabbage patch and pee wee herman bring back memories or what!?

[Serenity]

Remember those blue or green listicks that changed color according to your karma/body chemistry? Boy, I couldn't tell you how many times I got suckered into that one. They all turned red/reddish and stained your lips. My lips would be soooooo dry, but they were like bright red. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif Needless to say, grandmother was not pleased.

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[thatgirl]

Let me get into my Back In The Day mode......

Watch out nah! If I never see another *Aigner Riding Boot*
*Stacked Hairstyle*
*Denim Skirt with the Lace Ruffles*
*Pair of Used or Cross Colours Jeans*
*Head full of scrunchies to match the outfit*
*Biking Outfit (shorts and top)*
*Pair of College Brogues*
*Suede Bucks w/the Flap on 'em*
*Red Lipstick*
*Turtleneck for every pair of pants*
*Car With the Words on the Chrome*
*Bodysuit*
*Black Bart Simpson t-shirt*

goodness gracious...somebody STOP me

[Wynna]

Yall going there?? Lord knows I just knew I was too fine in my fuscia lipstick that I got from the dollar store.

Oh, what about wearing the different color socks on each leg. You know, if you had on a red shirt and blue shorts you would wear a red sock and a blue sock (in that order) on the right leg and then a blue sock and a red sock on the left leg.

Remember Lotto shoes where you could remove and exchange the colored symbols?

Blue eyeliner anyone???

Remember the short tight suede skirts that everyone would wear with the silk tops?

What about biker shorts (knowing you ain't riding nobody's bike or doing anything athletic for that matter)!

[Sexy Mocha]

Hey! Did you ladies have that one shop in your neighborhood that sold all the fake stuff? It was where all the wanna be's bought they're fake ass four-finger rings and bamboo earrings. They had "gold" chains on a big old round spool looking thing and it cost like 50 cents an inch. Here's how you buy it:
Pookie: I'd like to purchase a dope ass chain, you know...like the one RunDMC and nem be wearing
Shop Owner: What lenghth?
Pookie: Oh, give me 18 inches of that...and make it Panamanian "Gold" *wink, wink*
There was this girl i went to school with that lived up in that store. She had the "gold" teeth and everything. She rocked the Gazelle glasses with the phat "Damaged" suit all the time! Those sure were the days!

[BFulton]

Oh my.... the list is long!

Things I hoped I would never see again that have resurfaced:
-bell-bottoms (sorry, still don't like them!)
-clogs
-those baseball-shirt style t-shirts (sorry, don't know the name - the ones where one color is the body, and the sleeves are another)
-hair parted down the center and really, really flat
-platform shoes

Things that don't seem to have come back around (and I sure hope they don't! lol)
-culottes
-knickers
-"prairie-style" blouses (the kind with big ruffles down the front or sides)
-parachute pants (especially worn super-tight!)
-"mall hair" - sprayed until it stood up about six inches from the forehead
-leg-warmers worn over jeans (though something tells me I may have seen this at the mall not that long ago)
-those late 80s/early 90s "sorority bows" - big flat bows on a barrette (sorry - I had to go there - I had them to!)

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[TrueGreekLove]

one word: KANGOLS! and what was up with standing at the bus stop sucking on a lollipop for awhile blow pop was selling like hot fire on my neighborhood! lol....wearing your clothes backwards like Kris Kross...carhart jackets...bubble jackets ( i hated those made you look like MICHELON MAN)....and oooooooh when everyone was sporting madallions..not gold ones but the ones that were shaped like africa and had the red, the black, and the green!

[darling1]

DIE ACID WASH DIE!!!!!! LOL

[humblebumblebee]

As for fashion, I only have three things to say:
1) USED
2) DAMAGED
3) CROSS COLORS!
It is a wonder we didn't all go blind!!!!

As for hairstyles: Does anyone remember the hairstyle girls wore that looked like popcorn... you know the one made using a fishnet hair scarf? How about the hairstyle that had your hair shoulder length on one side and touching the top of your ear on the other? Guys with the Kid (from Kid 'n Play) hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh top "box", and later Bobby Brown's "steps" (Don't be Cruel)!!! And last but not least, NAMEPLATES, which consisted of having your name on you herringbone, four-finger ring, or HUGE earrings {do y'all remember the earring with the key Janet (Miss Jackson if your nasty) made popular?}
That's all Folks.
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[tickledpink]

Ok, what's with the Laverne & Shirley hair bandanas that EVERYONE is wearing this summer? Also there is a flowery, frill edged skirt that I remember from looking at 60's movies that has also resurfaced.

Now, I absolutely love platforms!

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Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised... Proverbs 31:29-30

[prettygyrl]

I remeber British Knights like it was yesterday. I can def do with out guys wearing tigh jeans or jean that are real baggy and hanging down to their knees. I saw some people mention fuschia lipstick and feather haircuts (yuck). LoL What about those big ole leather belts girls used to put around those ugly dresses. oooooo and drop crotch pants from the M.C Hammer phase. Or those shiny patent leather shoes that AL B. Sure once wore. Dag do yall remember Al B. Sure? http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif I remember when I was in junior high we would roll our jeans up all high and stuff. LOL What about writing all your friends names all of your clothes with markers? Turtlenecks with cardigans ? WOW. ooooo I remember girls that would use lipstick for their lips, cheeks, and eyes. LOL. I could go on for days. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

[prettygyrl]

oooo did anybody ever make those friendship bracelets? We used to floss those big time this way. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

[etienneSAI]

oh the wonderful, iniocent days of our youths...how about this:

*skidz
*pegged pants
*jeans that had the criss crosses down the sides with the ZIPPERS and BOWS at the bottom...acid wash, of course.
*banana clips
*two words: AQUA NET!
*BK dymacels
*starter jackets (like we ALL loved football...)
*hypercolor shirts (you know, the ones that changed color with your "mood")
*can't forget the pump sneakers!
*bicycle pants UNDER skirts...

oh my lord....

etienne


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[humblebumblebee]

I forgot about the LA Gear shoes that had red lights in the soles. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif
Yuck.
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[Wynna]

Someone mentioned lollipops. Remember the blowpops in the ponytail?

Remember the china doll haircut? I used to have my hair shoulder length on one side while the other is cut up to my ear. That was the bomb.

Remember when the "wrap" hairstyle first came out? I remember telling my friend "What? You don't have to roll it?"

[Wynna]

Remember coming to school and you go to the bathroom and all the girls are in the mirror applying the makeup their parents won't allow them to wear?

What about the "gumby" haircuts on guys? I hope that NEVER resurfaces!

Does anyone remember UTFO? I know I'm not THAT old! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/frown.gif

[equeen]

Ugh....out with late 70s/early 80s fashions!! But keep the music. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Sexy Mocha]

Oh no you guys did not go there with the Black Bart Simpson t-shirts! ACID WASH??? LOTTO SNEAKERS??? Yall some sick people!! I had forgotten all about those things! O.k. now...we need to get this out of the way....Stop frontin....Who had a jerri curl? Unfortunately, I had one. What the hell was going through our minds back then?!? I used to walk around with a mini bottle of S-curl activator. Did someone mention Kangols? believe it or not brothers are trying to bring them back here in New York. The word wack is also making a come back.

[DELTABRAT]

I am sorry Sexy Mocha but the bomber jackets weren't the bomb here. Yeah I remember the store with all the cheap stuff, it was called the Compton Swapmeet http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

What about the candy house. Everyone had a house on their block that sold ALL the bomb candy you couldn't find at the store. Like sour pickles, not dill, but sour. Hell, pickled eggs, fire jolly ranchers, the little bag of sunflower seeds (cuz no one NEEDS like 500 sunflower seeds). Blue acrylic fingernails. Fluorescent socks and accessories a la Madonna. Creepers, tapered Dickies and turtlenecks (people from LA remember dance groups sporting these like, KODs, SexJerks, etc. 1986-89...damn I'm old). The rap music WAS the bomb, what I wouldn't do to hear some Dougie Fresh and Slick Rick/ Real Roxanne, Roxanne Shante/ MC Lyte/ LL Cool Jay before he became TOO sexy / Biz Markie/

I KNOW y'all remember Ready for the World (we called them ready for the Curl)/ Force MDs/ Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam with Full Force/

Cabbage PAtch/Robocop/Smurf/PeeWee HErman/ The Guess/ The Prep (a la Janet Jackson in her 80's videos...I can't remember which one).

Yeah, Michael Jackson was FINE and no one cared he had a curl...those were the days http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

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[tickledpink]

Mocha, down here too. I saw a brother with suede "Kangol" shoes on...

[Wynna]

Sexy Mocha,

We going there with Jheri Curls? What about the hair pick with the handle that was a spray bottle where Jheri Curl wearers put their activator?

Aw man, the Compton Swapmeet? That's where I would go to buy my Jordana fuscia lipstick and blue eyeliner in junior high school.

Does anyone remember karate shoes? What about Atari 2600...the pinball game, pitfall?

[Wynna]

Remember the different colored "alligator" belts with the reversible buckles?

[blu_theatrics]

Why ya'll gotta play like that

You know I had a jerry curl and then I had the key earing that Janet had.

L.A. gears with the two different color laces.

combat boots (jodeci boots)

The socks (three different colors /different order on both sides....lol)

And you know it was hard as heck to grow out those hairstyles...one side of my hair still grows longer than the other.

Now lets go way back...remeber on them winter days when you had four sweaters (one of which you swore was really a boys sweater) the snow suit and two pairs of socks on just to go outside and play.

And Micheal Jackson......remember when it useto be like a movie premier when his videos came out. Thriller was like a family event..everyone had they popcorn and stuff sitting around the TV

[TrueGreekLove]

speaking of lisa lisa my favorite song was "all cried out" now that was the jam!

remember crush groove, and break dancing...i used to be in love with that break dancer named shabba doo...

remember l l cool j's "i need love" "When I'm alone in my room, sometimes i stare at the wall and in the back of my mind i hear my conscience call...."

remember 10 cent sunflower seeds, penny gums called big ball...ring candies that you wore as jewelry before giving in and eating them....

oh god! remember "bo-bo's bo-bo's make your feet feel fine..bo-bo's bo-bo's cost a dollar ninety nine!"

[dpherlove]

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE PURPLE SHIRTS THAT SAID RIPE (IN FLORESCENT COLORS) ACCROSS THE FRONT AND ACCROSS THE BUTT. mAYBE IT WAS A BRONX THING. THANKS!

[SigEpYoda]

Man, this is kewl. I used to own a Ewing shoes (hey, I'm a die hard Knicks fan). Those things were the heaviest shoes I have ever worn. I have no idea how I played basketball with them. Although the Cartoons were better back then. GI Joe, He-Man, Transformer, Go-Bats (I know, they were Transformer imitation). What about Atari and Nintendo with that Robots. Geez, I'm going to find my toys and play with 'em.

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-Jamiriqua

[Cookee]

You all have me cracking up. Somebody please don't bring back the hairstyles with the different color hair pieces. You know the "ponytail" that you put on rollers and ZAP in the microwave to make your style last longer!

Also, will somebody please get rid of these CLAW acrylic nails with the neon colors and the palm trees!

Cookee

[Cookee]

You all have me cracking up. Somebody please don't bring back the hairstyles with the different color hair pieces. You know the "ponytail" that you put on rollers and ZAP in the microwave to make your style last longer!

Also, will somebody please get rid of these CLAW acrylic nails with the neon colors and the palm trees!

Cookee

[Cookee]

I forgot........does anyone remember Punky Brewster??? Or the Smurfs? The first cast from Saved by the Bell? When Different World and the Cosby Show weren't reruns??? Those were the days...

[thatgirl]

awww....*sniff*....now I'm getting sentimental. I LOVE "A Different World". Me and my mom had the biggest fallout about that show. The church youth group used to meet on Thursday evenings at 7:00pm. I was like 'Nooooooooo. Can't make it. Can't miss Cosby. Can't miss A Different World'. Who did I think I was talking to?

Needless to say, I missed out on at least two seasons of my favorite show. They JUST started showing the reruns here. They come on at 7 and 7:30 am. Needless to say, I cut it close every morning just to watch my show. I almost cried the other day when they showed the one where Dwayne Wayne goes to Whitley's wedding and breaks it up. Aaahhh. Damn, they need to do 'A Different World 2000'. Let's work on that

[Corbin Dallas]

I used to have the Thriller jacket. Remember shaving stripes into your hair? I remember when I finally got to sit in the back of the school bus. I knew I had arrived http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were the bomb! I remember when Nintendo came out and it was sooo much better than anything else! Oh to be a kid again! I remember complaining about having homework in elementary, you know when you had to look up vocab. words, and do some multiplications. To have homework that easy again!

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Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

[preppie]

I loooooooooove Whitley! Shes the perfect 80's/early 90's "black pants sorority girl!!

[Sexy Mocha]

Wynna, what hair pick with the attached bottle of activator?!? Girl, I wish I knew about that...when my hair dryed out in school, I just casually went by the water fountain when no one was there and sprinkled some water on my curl! O.k., why yall had to go there with "Different World"? I'm all choked up now! *sniff* I told you guys about making me cry! I absolutely adored that show! Is there any channel that plays it in re-runs? What about "Good Times"? Man, that was the Sh*t! J-J and Michael was like how old (??) sleeping together on that pull out couch! Why did all of J-J's girlfriend's names rhyme? Like Vanessa-the-undresser...Boy! Those were the days...we may have dressed, acted, looked TACKY AS HELL...but we sure did have a lot of fun!

[DELTABRAT]

Okay...

I KNOW everyone (at least in Cali) remembers Egyptian Lover songs...like Technicolor and all the "breathy" sounding songs (uh...aah, uh...aah...okay y'all who know get the picture).

What about the LA Dream Team...is in the house.

Finally I KNOW everyone was down with the Beastie Boys...Hold It Now/Brass Monkey, and the bombest song (I can't remember the name) was the one where the music is being played backwards. The Beastie Boys were the shiznit!!!


OKAY and why are we all reminiscing about the hip-hoppish jams...y'all know you loved some Tina Marie (she was the first Black/White woman on the scene with the nose pierce and she gets MAD love).

What about Rick James (don't act like y'all wasn't down before he and his girl burnt old girl with the crack pipe).

Mary Jane Girls was awight.

Morris Day and The Time... Eryboday Walk

Do I HAVE to say PRINCE (every Black girl wanted to be Vanity)

Remember when videos FIRST came out on BET and stuff or MTV for that matter (I'm OLD).

With videos like Carribean Queen
JErmaine Stewart (you don't have to take your clothes off...I didn't like the song, but the memories of when things were sooo much easier is still good.)

Sh*% I KNOW folks remember Herbie Han****'s video with the "legs" walking around with no body.

Remember Fat Boys are Back and you know they can never be wack.

I can't even front...Duran Duran/Spandau Ballet/Tears for Fears/Depeche Mode/

How come no one cared Boy George was a transvestite (not transexual...transvestite...cross dresser)...I LOVED Boy George.

Aaah...the good ole days.

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[DELTABRAT]

Okay, I just noticed and I am literally in tears LMAO that when I type Herbie's name the computer automatically censors the part of his name that sounds like a slang term for male genitals. You know what I mean. Han****,Han****, Han****...see.

That is too funny.

[Corbin Dallas]

Originally posted by DELTABRAT:
Okay...

Finally I KNOW everyone was down with the Beastie Boys...Hold It Now/Brass Monkey, and the bombest song (I can't remember the name) was the one where the music is being played backwards. The Beastie Boys were the shiznit!!!

OKAY and why are we all reminiscing about the hip-hoppish jams...y'all know you loved some Tina Marie (she was the first Black/White woman on the scene with the nose pierce and she gets MAD love).

Remember when videos FIRST came out on BET and stuff or MTV for that matter (I'm OLD).

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What are you talking about "The Beastie Boys were the shiznit!!!"? They still ARE. Granted they've grown up...A LOT, They still rock! I do love Liscence to Ill the best though! "Girls" is a house favorite. It works wonders, kinda like "The Thong Song"

My folks went to Black Expo (don't ask me!) saturday and saw Earth Wind and Fire and Tina Marie. They had a good time, even though as my dad said, he felt like "a marshmellow floating in a cup of hot chocolate" He's all right, for a dad!

Speaking of Herbie Han****. I noticed that it gets bleeped when you say ****tail too! That's some funny $h1t!!

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Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

[DELTABRAT]

Corbin Dallas:

That is too funny. A marshmallow in a cup of hot chocolate http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Yeah, the Beastie Boys are still cool although I am NOT familiar with much of the new stuff except "Intergalactic" if that was the name of it.

The ****tail thing is too funny for words. Hmmm...I wonder what other words get censored?

I watched Baretta and he had a ****atoo. Little birds that look sorta like ****atoo's are ****atiels http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Okay, I'm going overboard now.

PEACE

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[blu_theatrics]

I think we live near each other because it comes on here at 7 and 7:30 on the superstation, but it also comes on at 2:00 on Fox, channel 32 on regular tv ( the channel martin usto come on..dang.lol)

But you know I be taping the reruns, like they the real thing

Originally posted by thatgirl:
awww....*sniff*....now I'm getting sentimental. I LOVE "A Different World". Me and my mom had the biggest fallout about that show. The church youth group used to meet on Thursday evenings at 7:00pm. I was like 'Nooooooooo. Can't make it. Can't miss Cosby. Can't miss A Different World'. Who did I think I was talking to?

Needless to say, I missed out on at least two seasons of my favorite show. They JUST started showing the reruns here. They come on at 7 and 7:30 am. Needless to say, I cut it close every morning just to watch my show. I almost cried the other day when they showed the one where Dwayne Wayne goes to Whitley's wedding and breaks it up. Aaahhh. Damn, they need to do 'A Different World 2000'. Let's work on that

[etienneSAI]

time to take it back once more....

TV shows: i KNOW y'all remember head of the class (with dennis, simone, eric and janine), josie and the *****cats, snorks (saturday mornings, baby!), wuzzles (butterbear, rhinokee...you know you remember that...)

music: debbie gibson, paula abdul (that video where she danced with the cartoon cat!), tiffany (i wanted to BE her), lisa lisa and cult jam (which was already said, but still fantastic) and of course...the JETS! you KNOW you remember the jets!

one thing we haven't discussed yet was language. slang...let's go there, shall we??

dag! dudical, radical, far out, wooooah, chillin' like a villin' on penicillin', GAG me with a SPOON! someone chime in now....

etienne
sigma alpha iota-the hartt school of music

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"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck." - Tori Amos

[blu_theatrics]

How ya'll go talk about the beastie boys and not mention "you gotta fight for your right to party"

And while we are talking about songs and videos remeber when MTV actually played videos..lol

Why ya'll got make me pull out another one of my list now here goes...

Ways To Tell If You're Stuck in the 1980's

1. Your fondest childhood memory is when Skippy got his head stuck in the banister
2. You relax by putting on your legwarmers and dancing to the Footloose soundtrack
3. You think the two Coreys are "totally awesome"
5. Punky Brewster is your hero
7. You still resent your parents for not installing a dumbwaiter in your house like Webster's
8. The only video games you play are Frogger and Pac Man
9. You're building your own Clockwork Smurf
10. Your summer attire is Jellies and Jams
11. A-Ha's Take on Me is still your favorite video
12. You consider yourself truly, truly, truly outrageous, much like Jem and the Holograms
13. You wonder why more people don't wear high heels, tight jeans, and lacy ankle socks
15. Every time you go to the beach you look for Snorks
16. You're still upset Madonna and Sean broke up
17 You know who Stinky Sullivan is
19. You want to be Molly Ringwald when you grow up
22. You think there should be a Kids Incorporated original cast reunion
23. You think of Janet Jackson as "that girl who used to date Willis"
24. You can sing the theme song to Small Wonder
25. Every time you see a fountain you want to dance around it and yell "Fame!"
26. You still have a shoebox full of Garbage Pail Kid cards
27. You write your congressman asking him to introduce a bill to make Born in the USA the national anthem
28. You still use your Snoopy Sno-Cone machine
29. You know it's not "comma, comma, comma" it's karma
32. You still practice your Care Bear Stare
34. You can name all of the Wuzzles
37. In your spare time you are writing The Breakfast Club 2
67. You can name all of the Thundercats
73. You organize weekend tournaments of tv tag
76. When you're stuck in traffic you tell your car to “engage Turbo Boost” and are surprised when it doesn't talk back
77. You remeber when Venessa sang "locaomation" in karaokee
82 You still use your hair crimper before going out on a hot date
85. You have We Are the World on 45


That was rather long, sorry guys

but I do have another one somewhere I if can find it....it's a little better



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[thatgirl]

blu!!!!!!!!!! Girl, dang, I had forgotten all about Small Wonder:

She's fantastic
Made of plastic
Microchips here and there
She's a smaaaaall wonder
And she'll make your heart beat ????

What the hell are the rest of the words? Hmm. It's too late to be callin people up like "Ay, you remember the words to that show with the robot girl? Li'l white girl. Don't act like you don't know the song...."

Okay. Blu.... lemme borrow those Different World tapes.

Damn, all the Wayans were on there the first season. Y'all peep that?

[Rhoyal Blue_22]

Let's see, things I hope never come back:
1)Baby hair-you know how females slicked the edges of their hair-yuck!
2)fat laces in the sneakers
3)the human beat box-or as I call it, the human spit box
4)high top fades!
I do however wish the wop would come back-I loved that dance as well as the robot. I wish the whole care free attitude of the 80's would come back. You know, when you could wear your favorite shirt, with your favorite pants-even if it didn't match-you just felt good. Everyone's too caught up in the superficial things. I know in the 80's, I didn't care!

[blu_theatrics]

1)Baby hair-you know how females slicked the edges of their hair-yuck!


Why did I have a special toothbrush to brush down that baby hair..knowing by the end of the day it would be all sweatty and knappy

And remeber those two braids you got in your hair right in the front of your head one on each side to hold down that hard to tame hair....ya'll know you gotta picture with them

And when you had to stay up all Saturday night before Easter to get your hair braided until you got old enough to actually get those bannana curls in them....and we ain't even go get on Easter outfits..lol

[bklyndelta]

I'm going to have to jump on this bandwagon too......

DO YOU REMEMBER ( some of you may be a little too young)....

-LEE jeans, and you had them in every color: denim. pin-stiped, black, burgundy, etc......
-Name Belts
-MCM suits and velour sweatsuits
-Sheepskins (for those of us who grew up in the colder regions of the U.S)
-Leg-Warmers
-Bally suede shoes
-Vasco, Gloria Vanderbilt and the "original" Sergio Valente jeans
-Two-toned jeans (black and gray, blue and gray)
-Pro-Keds
-The original Fila sneakers that were white with a red and blue stripe
-Gucci sneakers
-Black "Chinese" slippers with one strap and practically NO SOLE!
-the Nikes for girls that came in pastel colors:baby blue, pink, and yellow
-The Facts of Life with, Tootie, Jo, Natalie, and Blair. Don't forget Mrs. Garrett
-The TV show "227" with Mary, Sandra, and Rose
-Stacey Lattisaw and New Edition, when they were Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, and Mike
-KRS-1, Scott LaRock and Ms. Melody
-Johnny Gill had a Jherri Curl
-The Mary Jane Girls
-Nameplate earrings
-pineapple curls and crimped hairdos!!
-Finger waves, although some, MEN and WOMEN still wear them.
-ColecoVision

Whew!!! Glad I got that off my chest!

[tickledpink]

Here, Good Times comes on TBS at 5:00 am.

[Spotlight4Delta]

A Diffrent World come on TBS at 7 and 7:30 am yes in the morning, but if you live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, it comes on at 8 and 8:30 on channel 27, and on Sat. and Sun. it comes on at 4-6pm with the cosby show. Good Times comes on Channel 21 at 1pm in the afternoon. But..does anyone remember the Cortez shoes? You know those Nike's with the velcro fastening! Now those were the bomb. What about the Zion shirts-the alligator logo? Or the MC Hammer pants with the pantent leather shoes? Y'all trying to get my started!

[SigEpYoda]

Hey, anybody remmember this song:

Belive it or not
I'm walking on air
(can't remmember this part)
Belive it or not
It's just me.

I think it's from that show "The Greatest AMerican Hero." That song is stuck in my head last year and I can't figured out where it came from.

[someblueguy]

-whoooooooooooa!!! man, i HAD to egt in on this one!

-Wynna, i was feelin you on that Atari 2600. i had pacman, digdug, indy 500 [with the special racecar controllers], combat, space invader, ALL the classics! damn!

-why somebody had to bring up british knights! dog, i had the white and blue one's, and i just thought i was the shit! nobody couldn't tell me nothin. i was too clever for everybody. uh, uh, uh.

-cartoons! i was a FAITHFUL watcher of thundercats, g i joe, he-man, transformers, all that. i had the toys too. mad g i joes, he-mans and skeletors. man!

-oh yeah, i almost forgot, hairstyles. why ain't nobody brought up ducktails!!! i used to get mine braided every other night! it was longer than anybody's on the block, i mean that was it back in the day, shit i was the man back then. and what about get your name or something cut in to the back of your head with a razor -- i KNOW everybody remembers that one. folks used to get their name or a nike sign or their girlfriends name, an then they would get a big-ass part in the front of their head. man!!!

-y'all, this is too much.

-i'm out

[etienneSAI]

she's fantastic
made of plastic
microchips here and there
she's a SMALL WONDER
and she's make your heart (take flight)??

i think that's what it is...

do you remember...

charles in charge
of our days and our nights
charles in charge
of our wrongs and our rights
and i want...
charles in
charles in
charles in charge of ME!

did anyone ever watch nickelodeon's "you can't do that on television?" I DON'T KNOW...(slime) i was never allowed to watch that show. my mom thought it had no point (which it didn't, but did THAT really matter)

ooh ooh, i just thought of something else: did any of you have spokey-dokes on your bikes? you put them on your bike pegs and they made noise? them, and did you stick a baseball card in your back pegs so it'd flutter around and sound like a motorcycle? you KNOW you did...

etienne
sigma alpha iota-the hartt school of music

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"red is the color of music and has been since the very earliest of times. the caps of faeries and musicians are well-nigh always red."~*~w.b.yeats

"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck." - Tori Amos

[Serenity]

Originally posted by DELTABRAT:
Remember Saturdays at the kitchen stove getting your hair pressed out. It was hot and when your mama pressed parts that were hella greasy, it burned like hell, but you couldn't move or make a sound...you had to be hard...suck it up.

How 'bout this DELTABRAT. I remember once I was scrunching down in the chair because I could feel the heat real close to my ears. I hated feeling that heat so close to my skin. Anyway, my grandmother (who raised me) dropped the hotcomb down the back of my shirt trying to pull me up. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif She felt soooooo bad. (Yeah, I milked it for a week) http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif Unfortunately, the next Saturday after she washed my hair, I was back in the chair.

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Sigma Lambda Upsilon: Sincerity, Loyalty, Unity http://www.sigmalambdaupsilon.org

[This message has been edited by Serenity (edited July 21, 2000).]

[MaMaBuddha]

i am not even gonna tell ya'll i had the..

-door knocker earrings with my name spell in the middle of them.

-the big goofy name belt that spelled Kimberly all around my waist.

-the four fingered ring that i had confiscated in school cause the teacher said they were brass knuckles (i thought they were gold)

-the fly ass jerri curl, that i use to wet before i went outside so i could like doug e. fresh

-my name and my picture painted on my pants and jean jacket

-the ewings, when they first came out(red, white and blue)...yo...i wore like three pairs of socks all mismatched.

-yo...remember theblock parties and you and the girls on the block use to practice the latest dances to songs like "top billin'" and "it takes two"

-remember the girl with the one sided pony tails.

-please don't bring back acid wash or lottos

-wearing sweat pants with one leg up and the other down.

-remember sitting on the stoop or the corner and rapping the latest songs.

-remember UTFO...roxanne shante...roxanne's grandmother...they had like 8 versions of roxanne's song.

i can go on and on...

holla it you here me....

remember tupac in juice...he had a gumby with his pointed head...

[MaMaBuddha]

i am not even gonna tell ya'll i had the..

-door knocker earrings with my name spell in the middle of them.

-the big goofy name belt that spelled Kimberly all around my waist.

-the four fingered ring that i had confiscated in school cause the teacher said they were brass knuckles (i thought they were gold)

-the fly ass jerri curl, that i use to wet before i went outside so i could like doug e. fresh

-my name and my picture painted on my pants and jean jacket

-the ewings, when they first came out(red, white and blue)...yo...i wore like three pairs of socks all mismatched.

-yo...remember theblock parties and you and the girls on the block use to practice the latest dances to songs like "top billin'" and "it takes two"

-remember the girl with the one sided pony tails.

-please don't bring back acid wash or lottos

-wearing sweat pants with one leg up and the other down.

-remember sitting on the stoop or the corner and rapping the latest songs.

-remember UTFO...roxanne shante...roxanne's grandmother...they had like 8 versions of roxanne's song.

i can go on and on...

holla it you here me....

remember tupac in juice...he had a gumby with his pointed head...

[MaMaBuddha]

hey i got carried away..peeps

[prospectiverushee]

Hey MaMa,

I think you're too late with wearing sweat pants with one leg up and one leg down. That seems to be coming back in style. It seems like all guys here in Louisiana are doing the one leg up/one leg down thing.

My roommate and I took a strool down memory lane just the other day. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Does ANYbody remember a cartoon called Kid Video or am I the only one?

We can forget Alf,Diff'ert Storkes,Webster,and New Kids on The Block in the mix!

And yes i watched You Can't Do That on Television! I loved that show sooo much.

[Monique]

lol..lmao..Yall got me crying over..I really don't wanna see the pink lipstick,MCHammer pants, those shiney black shoes, wearing different socks to match your clothes along with the twistas in ya hair to go along..lol.. what the hell was i thinking..
Does anyone remember jjfad SuperSonic or Boom i got your boyfriend. What about easy bake ovens..I still play with my easybake..and it be rollin

[Monique]

and how could i forget ...Jerhi Curls...please leave that where ever it is..that smell makes me sick to my stomach..lol.. u can always tell when u are in the room with someone with a curl..lol

[DELTABRAT]

Hmm, not only the smell but the greasy residue on pillows, car seats, clothes, not to mention your face )if you had a boyfriend, like me with one)...remember the LONGER the better. I had a boyfriend whose curl was waaaaaayyyy down his back. I can't believe I thought that sh*% was cute.

Ugghh.

[etienneSAI]

BOOM i got your boyfriend...i got your man now
BOOM i got your boyfriend...i got your man!

no you didn't just take it there...

i remember kid video! but here's my ultimate 80's test. there was this show on TV that ran for a short period of time. i was in fourth grade at the time and it was called "beverly hills teens". i know there was a girl on the show named lark, and i think another named veronica or vanessa (something with a V). VERY few people i know remember them.

hey, does anyone remember popples and nosy bears? popples you could turn almost inside out and smack the shit out of someone else with them...and nosy bears, i believe you squeezed thier tummy and thier nose did something. i know i still have my nosy bears lunchbox and thermos. (took it to my summer class last night where EVERYONE was crackin' up...talk about a trip in the way-back machine...)

etienne
sigma alpha iota-the hartt school of music

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"red is the color of music and has been since the very earliest of times. the caps of faeries and musicians are well-nigh always red."~*~w.b.yeats

"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck." - Tori Amos

[DELTABRAT]

Dang...I saw the taping of Charles in Charge and thought I was the sh*%.

Okay, I know this isn't far back enough but I know I am old because it still qualifies (10 years ago).


De LA Soul
X-Clan...To the east blackwards sissyyyyyyyy!
Public Enemy


I saw a sistah with hella baby hair just yesterday. It wasn't really baby hair though because it started like, in the middle of her scalp but she had it lllaaaiiiddd.

Yeah, the baby hair toothbrush was all brown and crunchy, but we didn't care as long as it did the trick.

Remember the two cornrows down either side of your head and getting your hair braided sooo
tight, your eyes were slanted back and you had a headache (my mom is real heavy-handed).

Remember the ORIGINAL Guess Jeans with the zippers on the sides of the leg (at the bottom) with the matching denim jackets.

Remember Saturdays at the kitchen stove getting your hair pressed out. It was hot and when your mama pressed parts that were hella greasy, it burned like hell, but you couldn't move or make a sound...you had to be hard...suck it up.

Remember when your mom used to put the tight a%* curls in your head that never moved...ever...they were greasy and lifeless...maybe? Perhaps it was just me http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

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[blu_theatrics]

Hey yall guess what I'm watching.....A Different World.

It's the one when Kim thinks she is pregnant by Robert....(second season I think)

I love the part when Lettie starts hollering at her and can't think of anything to call her but a TEENAGER


And the part when Walter (sinbad) was like "You didn't use your Walter Oaks date pack!"
and lettie's "Lettie be ready date pack"

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[mgdzkm433]

Things I WISH would come back:

1) Ok, some might hate me, but I was big time 'New Kids on the Block' fan. I STILL listen to the music.

2) Jelly shoes. I loved those things.

3) Monster 80's love songs. Have any of ya'll ever seen the "Monster 80's" sound track they advertise on TV? I want that soooo bad!

4) Respect. When I was in school, we respected our teachers/parents/adults. Nowdays, the schools are sooo out of control. So that's one thing I wish would come back.

5) Atari. If I HAD to buy a video game, I'd want atari. I loved those things.

6) Being allowed to play with murcury in classes. I know it's bad for you now, but I always loved playing with murcury.

7) Big Earings. I had soooo many huge earings. Actually, I still have them, sitting in my jewelry box. I'd love to break those bad boys out.

8) I loved those little friendship pins. We put little colored beads on a safety pin and attach them to our shoe laces. Those things were so cute.

Things I could really do without:

1) Jelly bracelets all the way up your arm

2) Jeans with writing all over/slashed knees

4) two words BIG HAIR

5) different colored socks. The obcession in the 80's was to have every color BUT white, now I try hard to never wear colored socks. Black and white are the only 2 colors I own.

6) Biker shorts. OMG--what the hell were we thinking?

7) Anything PINK. That movie "Pretty in Pink" with molly ringwald (sp?) did it for me, my entire wardrobe was PINK! If I never wear pink again, I'd be lovin it.

8) Hypercolor shirts. The one's that changed colors when your body temperature
changed.

9) Stickers that you could put on your arm like a tatoo. I used to wear those things ALL the time.

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[mwedzi]

Thatgirl,

the rest of the words (the last part) are as follows:

Microchips here and there
she's a smaaaalll wonder
brings love and laughter everywhere!

I can't believe I remember that.

[mwedzi]

Okay, I had to say more. Now I know at least some of ya'll remember the hand games we played. This sound familiar?:

*feet stomping, hands clapping*
My name is Nikki and my color is blue,
I stole your boyfriend cuz he did not want you
And that ain't all for today
the butt is stinky but the back is okay.

what the h%!@ was I talking about?!? I was like nine years old. I didn't have no man!

Or this one:

tetherball (pronounced "tedaball"), tetherball I said "aoosha asha"
tetherball, tetherball I said "aoosha ash"
My name is Nikki (tetherball)
I'm super cool (tetherball)
You mess with me (tetherball)
You a fool (tetherball)
I got this n!#@! (tetherball)
On my mind (tetherball)
Yes mess with him (tetherball)
And I will kick your behind (what?)
Kick your behind! (uh!)

And I was saved from the jheri curl, but my cousin wasn't as fortunate. And I didn't go in with that brown toothbrush everyone used for their hair, but I wasn't saved from the pressing comb. Or this little-toothed comb my father used to call "Combaloo." "Come in here and bring Combaloo," and I'd be like "no, Daddy!" * http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif So glad I went natural and comb my hair with nothing but a pick!

[etienneSAI]

skipper was barbie's little sister!

man, in my house, barbie was SUCH a whore! she was a femme lesbian, one was a butch lesbian *my sister and i had no ken doll, so we hacked off the hair on a barbie, named her nevada and she was the "ghetto" ken*. baebie would give these office presentations and jump ken right in the meeting...

maybe i shouldn't be saying this.... did anyone else have twisted adventures in barbie-land? PLEASE tell me i'm not the only one....

etienne
sigma alpha iota-the hartt school of music

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"red is the color of music and has been since the very earliest of times. the caps of faeries and musicians are well-nigh always red."~*~w.b.yeats

"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck." - Tori Amos

[DELTABRAT]

etienneSAI:

Naw, you weren't the only one. My Barbie wasn't a lesbian, but she was a B****, extraordinaire.

She'd whip anyone's ass who even attempted to get near Ken's a**..regardless of the fact that he hadn't any genitals.

And don't let her lose one of thoe hard to find a** pumps of hers...she was all over the whole neighborhood ready to beat down whomever had the shoe. Regardless of the fact that they never really fit her feet anyways.

Same went for the diamond stud earrings of hers (they had to be like 8-10 karats...when you think of them in relation to the size of her ears).

That's right, Skipper WAS her little sister.
My Barbie beat her down too, for trying to get with Ken. It woulda helped if there were some other men in the neighborhood...damn...Ken was the only testosterone (barely) for miles.

Yeah, Barbie had some adventures...

Wow you and your sis were pretty creative to create a butch Barbie named Nevada.

I never thought of that.

[Monique]

lol..lol..lmaooo..What..Ghetto Barbie..Gay Ken..lol.. yall sick..Some of u didn't have anythingelse to do with your dolls..that shit was tooooooo funny to me!!lol

[etienneSAI]

deltabrat....

no you didn't just go there with the earrings and pumps! what about that huge-ass ring on her finger! you lost that and it's like she had a flesh wound...big hole through her hand.

god forbid someone try to steal barbie's car *i had the 57 chevy*. that bitch would HUNT you down and kill you once she found you. she'd dismember the guilty barbie *usually nevada...* and put the head in the trunk of the car as a "trophy" to show anyone in the neighborhood what happened if someone messed with her.

wonder if any of that rubbed off on me....

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"red is the color of music and has been since the very earliest of times. the caps of faeries and musicians are well-nigh always red."~*~w.b.yeats

"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck." - Tori Amos

[All the way AKA]

I know exactly what lipstick you are talking about. The one from Wet n Wild :-)
Originally posted by DELTABRAT:
I PRAY big dookey rope chains (think Run DMC/Slick Rick) never re-surface. I can also do without the basket weaves, the bob (like several layers, not just one), the cellophanes (not hair color/highlights...but BURGUNDY cellophanes). I can do without the Gucci/Loius Vuitton wear (the sweatshirts and stuff). I can do without leather colored bomber jackets. I can do without cuorduroy pants (girls in my hood used to rock the TIGHT http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif ones with Fila shoes and the shirt to match. I can do without rings on EVERY finger. I can do without feather cut hairstyles. I can do without that fuschia colored lipstick every young black girl THOUGHT was cute. Everything else was okay...I think.

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[Sexy Mocha]

O.k., now that's some sick sh*t that you ladies did to Barbie! Just what was it that Barbie did for a living anyway?!? I mean a mansion, fancy cars, a beach house...I tell you what I think...I think she had mob ties (what was her last name anyway???) Either that or Ken was part of a drug cartel. Nobody owns all of that fly sh*t without doing something shady. Hmmm...

[etienneSAI]

sexy mocha,

yeah, i think you're right. or maybe barbie was the "heidi fleiss" of mattel, inc. she had all her girls dressed to the nines...ken at her beck and call. shady, shady activity going on there in the barbie mansion. mocha, i think you're onto something!

etienne
sigma alpha iota-the hartt school of music

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"red is the color of music and has been since the very earliest of times. the caps of faeries and musicians are well-nigh always red."~*~w.b.yeats

"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck." - Tori Amos

[DELTABRAT]

Remember Pop Rocks...

They were bomb until the story came out that someone swallowed some and their vocal cords got shredded to pieces. Damn. Why do people tell kids stories like that?

CArs:

Jeep Gran Cherokees
VW Cabriolet (I wanted one sooooo bad)
VB Beetle Bug (The original ones)
Cali folks...think car clubs/Crenshaw

El Caminos
Nissan Trucks
Nissan Sentras
Suzuki Jeeps with hella airbrush on them
like people's babies daddy's and stuff http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif
Forget it...yeah, I'm from Compton

6-4 Impala on Datons with the hydraulics
(this is when I got "fast")
Cadillacs with the same


Cazelles (Sun glasses)
Ray-Bans (the O.G ones...they're still in style but not the OLD style)


I had an Ice Cream doll (the big head ass doll with yarn for hair).


Why ain't nobody say the OG Doll...

BARBIE's RICH ASS!!!!

I had hella Barbie's
Ken
Skipper
The Dream House
The Corvette
The pool
You name it.

I knew I was in trouble when Ken started trying to get some from Barbie (humping)...although he was androgynous when you took his pants off.
That's why Barbie has so many friggin jobs, she's horny...Ken ain't right http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

She didn't ever have babies.

Was Skipper her cousin, friend, niece, neighbor?

Hmmmm...maybe Skipper was her...nevermind http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Sorry, I have lost my mind once and for all up in here.

Goodbye.


Oh yeah, and the Farrah Fawcet doll with the hellllla loooooonnnngggg nails and eyelashes.

[DELTABRAT]

I think Barbie was an undercover madame,myself. As stated earlier, how could she have all that fly stuff and chill all day. The doctor/lawyer/equestrian stuff were all fronts for her illegal pimpstress activities. Then she went to jail (around the time we all stopped giving a damn about her), now she's back and she has like 12 jobs. She also has a belly-button, now. Ain't that some sh**.

Well, let me continue with some other stuff...

I KNOW everyone remembers Rubik's Cube.

Remember when you'd peel the stickers off and arrange them so it "appeared" as if though you really figured the sh** out.

Remember that snake thingy where you could twist and turn it into different shapes.

WOW...games...

Remember Twister
The Oiuja Board (in my neighborhood, most Black fols wouldn't TOUCH that type of stuff)
Remember "Light as a feather...stiff as a board" at the slumber parties...everyone would lift up one person with two fingers only and they'd (supposedly) float to the top of the ceiling.

Remember "Bloody Mary" in the girls bathroom.
Someone would end up with scratches on their body.

Hell...Hide and go seek/ Hide and go get it (ghetto version with all the horny little neighborhood boys)...I NEVER played that...I really didn't.

Tag and hopscotch (of course)

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[etienneSAI]

hide and go get it, deltabrat? hmmm...sounds shady, if you ask me!

tell me you guys had hungry hungry hippos..that game was SO damn loud!

yeah, i had the rubik's cube...

i remember catching fireflies in a jar at dusk in my neighborhood *but only if i let them go, my mum said*

remember jailbreak? man, i played that around my whole neighborhood...it was awesome! hopscotch was cool until it rained. and remember bubbles? i ALWAYS played with bubbles. my parents say one of thier fondest moments of my childhood was when i'd play bubbles all day and the next time it rained, the driveway foamed!

etienne
sigma alpha iota

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"red is the color of music and has been since the very earliest of times. the caps of faeries and musicians are well-nigh always red."~*~w.b.yeats

"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck." - Tori Amos

[heatherh1981]

Hey yall forgot something. NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK! yall remember them? ohhh what about the Mchammer pants? Oh and the Macauly culkin cartoon that came on saturdays? (i'll admit it i watched it). The slap braclets they hurt whenever you put them on your wrist. Those BIGO bows that mom would put in your hair, your bow would be bigger then your head. LOL! Ohh and what about staying up to 3am having your friend call the boy YOU liked.... I always liked watching full house, and when i got older i liked 90210 (the 30yrs in H.S. now that i look back they looked way to old for high school students)
and i loved the wonder years... Oh and just to let you know i'm 18 and i feel really old! I also bought my first greatest hits cd the other day. New Kids on the block--- http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif ~ok that was fun~

[TrueGreekLove]

DeltaBrat,

Are you serious about someone getting scratched by the Bloody Mary game? I was always too afraid.

Hey guys remember that game "Operations" and a slinky, a slinky! UNO, remember when rollar skates were the bomb! How about hand ball, and those ugly stretch pants that had the elastic part that went under your feet? What ever happened to Big Daddy Kane, and MC Shane?

[DELTABRAT]

Hey:

No, that was the supposed "myth" surrounding the game. One girl did have scratches but we all assumed someone else in the restroom (besides the dead Mary Quenn of Scott) did it.

Yes, Slinky was cool. The stretch pants were hideous. Big Daddy Kane fell off after that rumor that he had AIDS...remember. MS Shane...who knows.

Operation is ABSOLUTELY my favorite game. I JUST bought one for my son (yeah, right) last X-mas. The loud buzzing noise is too much for him to handle right now, though. That friggin' Adam's apple is a b**** to get out...damn!!

[Sexy Mocha]

AAAAAHH! Not the Bloody Mary game! I am a grown ass woman and the mere mention of that game sends chills down my back! The first time I tried that "game" I ran out of the bathroom crying right in the middle of it...needless to say that was the last time I ever played Bloody Mary! As for "Operation", I would never get it for my child! The game almost gave me a nervous breakdown when I was a kid! I acquired the "shakes" trying to hold that little red tweezer looking thing trying to save that man's life! And oh God when the dam thing buzzed...it's just too much pressure on a kid! Well what do you know? I'm not the only one who used to collect fireflies in jars...unfortunately I did not let the little buggers go. I kept them in the jar until the next morning ...at which time I gave them a proper burial. (Yes, I was a morbid kid...but it's no worse than what some of you did to poor Barbie. I won't name any names!) My favorite games were Life and Monopoly. I was always the shoe...God forbid someone tried to be the shoe. Let's just say it was not pretty!

[Wynna]

Speaking of roller skates...remember when your grandma would make you some roller skates out of an old pair of sneakers? Am I old?

[Texas Alum]

Y'all, this thread is the funniest thing I have ever read in my WHOLE life.

I have been CRYING reading it - what were we THINKING?

I can't believe nobody mentioned:
Debbie Gibson, Chuck Taylor Converse, Coca-Cola shirts, Ghostbusters, leather ties, pegging the cuffs of your jeans by pinching them and folding them before you roll them, stretchy lace headbands (or socks), Rainbow Brite, Friday Night Videos, switching the heads on Barbie and Ken...

I knew every word to "All Cried Out" by Lisa Lisa. Then again, I am so old that when they play "White Lines" on the "retro hour" on the radio, I know all the words.

Don't get sick... but have y'all heard that re-make of "Boys in the Hood"? One day at work, the original came on the radio, and I was singing the whole thing, even the @#$% parts, and my employees (all still in college) thought I was insane. They said "we didn't know this was a cover". They had never heard of NWA.

Personally, I want big hair to come back - it makes my waist look smaller. ;-)

[TrueGreekLove]

Hey remember when Michael Jackson's hair caught on fire in the pepsi commercial, and when he started wearing surgical masks everywhere he went, how about when the rest of his family tried going solo...Rebbie Jackson with "Centipede", Jermaine Jackson with "Do what you Do", Janet Jackson's "Control" how about that music video that was like a cartoon...I don't remember the name of the group but it was a rock group...remember when girls used to dress like Madonna? Oh my god! What about MoonWalking! Turning the fire hydrant on in the summer and running through it! Freshman day at school where all the freshmans got beat up! Whitney Housten's pre-Bobby days! Wow I didn't think this thread would run this long....could you imagine if we did this again for the late ninety's and two thousands what we would come up with 20 years from now?

[etienneSAI]

oh the things we all remember. it's funny to see that everyone's childhoods might have been different but we have SO much in common. i really think the 80's were totally cool"...hair and all. i mean, we were in junior high school, just starting to REALLY date, figuring out ourselves, our bodies, our friends...god, i'm starting to sound like oprah winfrey or a REALLY BAD afterschool speacial.

anyway, yeah...reminiscing is awesome. that's all...

etienne


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"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck." - Tori Amos

[soror6]

Originally posted by onesavvydiva:
Gold/Red Lipstick with thick, black lipliner!
UGGHHH!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/mad.gif

OK!!!! LMAO
<<soror6 on the podium with a mic>> Attention, attention....you are to wear NO lipstick with any other color liner than the color of the lipstick!!! Attention, attention....there is no such thing as black lipliner!! please use that on your eyes it's called EYELINER! That is all. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

[soror6]

Originally posted by Hootie:
Okay, my turn!
One of my coworkers is stuck in the 80's! She wears styrrup pants with the elf shoes...you know! The ones that are black, kinda tight, with that annoying elf-like flap. They're just short enough to show the styrrup! LOL.

Oh God No!!! Can you still get those? Hootie, you've got me LMAO!
<<soror6 grabbing her walkie talkie...>>
Fashion Police...It's Officer 6....I think i'm gonna need backup for a 212 stirrup/elf infraction....stat!

[WhiteCoKlate]

LMAOOO..i think yall covered all the bases..what about she-ra..he-man's sista or friend,lol. then theres break dancers, dance offs, the name game.ex tammie tammie tammie phonfanny banana fanna fo fammiena fe fi folamee tammie..lol..lmaoo what about.. what about new edition when they had* kool it noww..u've got to slow it downn..slowww it down.. before you fall in love.. what about u being special because you had a friend who had the biggggg boom box he use to carry around all the time...mannnn i miss the old days..

[MsDetroit1920]

What about Family Ties, Putting kool-aid in your hair because your mom wouldn't let you get your hair dyed because you were too young(might have just been a Detroit thang)....better yet peroxide....MC Hammer & 357 Turning This Mutha Out....Did anyone ever wear those Top Gold gymshoes with the gold chain....Remember your father or uncle with the pack of cigarettes rolled up in his sleeve or better yet the spare behind his ear.....What about Kwame and the polka dot outfits or Salt-N-Pepa with the Salt-N-Pepa Leather Jackets....JJ Fad and Supersonic....Wonder Woman and the Polka Dot Door
Oh Lawd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Somebody stop me!!!!!!!!!!

MsDetroit1920
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc

[lilmama_26]

LMAO!!!!
I had to bring it back to the top!

[Hootie]

Okay, my turn!
One of my coworkers is stuck in the 80's! She wears styrrup pants with the elf shoes...you know! The ones that are black, kinda tight, with that annoying elf-like flap. They're just short enough to show the styrrup! LOL. She still perms her hair (although I heard that's coming back in style). Her sweaters or shirts are usually MULTIPATTERNED and BRIGHT! It's just totally 80's. She even puts on an 80's radio statation at work http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif! The only GOOD thing is she doesn't wear BLUE eyeshadow and RED lipstick! THANK GOD FOR THAT ONE!
Sisterly Love,
Hootie

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