A GENERATION IN BETWEEN
After all those jokes about from the Boomers, finally here is one
for those folks in between.
You're stuck between the Baby Boomers and Generations X'ers if...
1. You remember when Jordache jeans with a flat handle comb in
the back pocket was cool.
2. In your class picture (any year) you were wearing an Izod shirt
with the collar up.
3. You know by heart the words to any Weird Al Yankovic song (Just
eat it, eat it, don't make me repeat it...)
4. You ever rang someone's doorbell and said "Landshark!"
5. Three words: ATARI, IntelliVision and Coleco, sound familiar.
6. You remember the premier of MTV, in fact, you remember the
Friday Night Videos before the days of MTV.
7. A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid.
8. While in high school, you and your friends discussed elaborate
plans to get together again at the end of the century and play Prince's
"1999" until you passed out partying.
9. You remember when music that was labeled alternative, really
was alternative. And when alternative comedy really was funny.
10. You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan.
11. You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the
cars behind you.
12. You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following
phrases: When I was younger...When I was your age...You know, back
when...
13. Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually
learned the English language (Conjunction junction, what's your
function...).
14. You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran
Duran, Madonna or Cyndi Lauper video.
15. The first time you ever kissed someone at a dance came during
either "Crazy for You" or "Leather and Lace"
16. You remember with pain the sad day when the Green Machine hit
the streets and made our old Big Wheel quite obsolete.
17. The phrase "Where's the beef?" still doubles you over with
laughter.
18. You honestly remember when film critics raved that no movie
could ever possibly get better special effects than those in the
movie TRON.
19. You had a crush on either Ted the photographer on The Love
Boat, Gage from Emergency or Ponch the motorcycle cop from CHiPs.
20. Your hair at some point in time in the 80's became something
which can only be described by the phrase, "I was experimenting."
21. You've shopped at a Benetton.
22. You're starting to believe now that maybe having the kids go
to school year round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
23. You're doing absolutely nothing pertaining to your major.
24. U2 is too popular and mainstream for you now.
25. You remember trying to guess the episode of the Brady Bunch
from the first scene.
26. You had a front row seat for Luke and Laura's wedding on
General Hospital.
27. You're parents wanted you to attend medical school, but you
decided it was pointless since Quincy got all the babes anyway.
28. You know who shot JR.
29. Loves Baby Soft was in every girls' Christmas stocking.
30. This rings a bell: "...and my name is Charlie. They work for me."
31. You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on after all.
32. You know all the words to the double album set of Grease.
33. You ever had a Dorothy Hammill haircut.
34. You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed
867-5309 to see if Jenny would answer.
35.The phrase "All skate, change directions", means something to you.
36. You owned a pair of Rainbow suspenders just like Mork used
to wear.
37. You bought a pair of Vanns and wanted to order a pizza in
history class so you could be just like Jeff Spicoli.
38. You owned a preppy handbook.
39. You were too young to go see the Blue Lagoon so you just had
to settle for second hand reports.
40. You remember when movies were only PG and R.
41. You learned to swim about the same time Jaws came out and
still carry the emotional scars to this day.
42. You remember when your cable TV box had a sliding selector
switch.
43. Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those brick-sized
packages of
Bazooka gum.
44. You remember Bo and Luke Duke. Not to mention Daisy.
45. VCRs cost $2,000.
46. There was nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living
together.
47. You remember rotary dial telephones.
48. You actually believed that Mikey, famed for his Life cereal
commercials, died after eating a packet of pop rocks and drinking
a Coke.
49. The theme song to Greatest American Hero still comes back to
you on occasion (BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I'M WALKING ON AIR...).
50. "Members Only" Jackets, say no more.
