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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #80 on: April 15, 2005, 09:01:11 pm »
Here's a slightly more recent one from "Not Another Teen Movie"....

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #81 on: April 15, 2005, 09:42:53 pm »
124. Partying ''like it's 1999'' seemed SO far away.

125. you had super hero underoos.

126. when somone mentions two consecutive days of the week, the Happy Days theme is stuck in your head for hours on end.

127. you ever watched Fraggle Rock

128. you thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye

129. after you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you couldn't stop saying "I know you are but what am I?"...

130. you hatch plots to break Murdock out of VA hospital

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #82 on: April 15, 2005, 10:52:00 pm »
I thought she was cute, rather than hot.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #83 on: April 16, 2005, 11:29:51 pm »
131.  You thought Ferris Bueller had a really good singing voice on that "Twist and Shout" song.

132.  A 5 MB hard disk drive was bigger than you could ever hope to fill.

133.  You remember floppy disks that were actually floppy.

134.  You still can't quite get used to that new guy singing for Van Halen.

135.  "Who you gonna call?"

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #84 on: April 16, 2005, 11:38:15 pm »
135.  "Who you gonna call?"
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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #85 on: April 17, 2005, 09:48:30 am »

137. If you can "See Better" with sunglasses that have paint splattered all over the lenses.


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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #86 on: April 17, 2005, 11:51:46 am »
138.
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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #88 on: April 18, 2005, 09:39:31 am »
I thought she was cute, rather than hot.

Even cute is stretching it some. She sure isn't hot.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #89 on: April 19, 2005, 01:54:37 am »
139. you owned a king sized Farrah Fawcett-Majors bean bag
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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #90 on: April 19, 2005, 03:46:13 am »
140. You had a booby Samantha Fox poster on the back of your door you could still sculpt in clay, but you can't remember the name of her song.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #91 on: April 19, 2005, 07:27:24 am »
140. You had a booby Samantha Fox poster on the back of your door you could still sculpt in clay, but you can't remember the name of her song.

There were a couple.  "Touch Me" was the most popular one, followed by "I wanna have some fun".

Do not ask me how I remember that.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #92 on: April 19, 2005, 08:05:05 am »
Do not ask me how I remember that.

I am not sure I wanna probe for this particular answer.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #93 on: April 19, 2005, 08:26:51 am »
I remember the poster but not the songs. ;D

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #94 on: April 19, 2005, 09:34:10 am »
141.  You see a man trying to show off as macho tough walking around with diamond stud earrings in BOTH ears and think to yourself:

"Buddy, you are making the wrong statement about "swimming to both shores" with that look!"

I was watching the new "Kojak" last night.  Ving Rhames had an earring in his right ear only.  As a child of the 80's...I was confused.

When did earrings lose their meaning?

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #95 on: April 19, 2005, 09:55:33 am »
Earring comment provoked this one.

142. Billy Idol was cool.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #96 on: April 19, 2005, 10:32:53 am »
When did earrings lose their meaning?

"Right is Wrong" is no longer a good way of reading earrings? 

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #97 on: April 19, 2005, 10:41:08 am »
When did earrings lose their meaning?

"Right is Wrong" is no longer a good way of reading earrings? 

Apparantly not. I work in a high school and I see boys with either one ear pierced (doesn't seem to matter which one) or more commonly with both ears pierced.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #98 on: April 19, 2005, 01:26:15 pm »
"Right is Wrong" is no longer a good way of reading earrings?

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #99 on: April 19, 2005, 01:36:57 pm »
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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #100 on: April 19, 2005, 01:42:48 pm »
#1 important rule of the mid 80's

under no conditions do you ever I repeat ever peirce your right ear.....

I didn't make the rules............

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #101 on: April 19, 2005, 02:10:16 pm »
Re: "right is wrong"

<Seinfeld> Not that there is anything wrong with that. </Seinfeld>  :angel:

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #102 on: April 19, 2005, 07:04:30 pm »
140. You had a booby Samantha Fox poster on the back of your door you could still sculpt in clay, but you can't remember the name of her song.

She was a singer?  :o
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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #103 on: April 19, 2005, 11:18:58 pm »
140. You had a booby Samantha Fox poster on the back of your door you could still sculpt in clay, but you can't remember the name of her song.

She was a singer?
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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #104 on: April 19, 2005, 11:24:57 pm »
Two different Samantha Foxes.

No.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #106 on: April 20, 2005, 02:32:54 am »
Two different Samantha Foxes.

No.
Yes.  I'd post a link to the porn star database, but it wouldn't be appropriate for this forum, so I'll quote from the first paragraph instead:

"One of the all-time porn greats, Porn Star Samantha Fox should not be confused with the vapid mid-80's pop singer of the same name. No, this Samantha Fox was a beautiful brunette sex kitten who starred in over 100 features between 1978 and 1984, establishing herself as one of the top stars in the industry."

The singer, though, did do topless "page three"-type shots, though.  Samantha Fox the singer was British, Samantha Fox the porn star was from New York.

Both Samantha Foxes have IMDB entries:

Samantha Fox the Porn Star
Samantha Fox the Singer

The research for this message was undertaken for the good of the community.  :)


Sorry dude you are wrong.

There may be a porn star with the same name, but the page girl three from the 80's also most definitely sang the previously mentioned songs.

I will wage my left testicle on this.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #107 on: April 20, 2005, 03:24:46 am »
There may be a porn star with the same name, but the page girl three from the 80's also most definitely sang the previously mentioned songs.
Yes she did, as noted.
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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #108 on: April 20, 2005, 04:05:38 am »
me needs to learned how to read more better good

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #109 on: April 20, 2005, 09:52:06 am »
I'll be darned. All this time I thought the two Samatha Foxs were one and the same. Wonder if the poster I had was of the singer or the porn star.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #110 on: April 20, 2005, 12:43:07 pm »
my poster was of the singer........

 :D  :D  :D  :D  :D

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #111 on: April 20, 2005, 12:44:45 pm »
143. A Commodore 64 or an IBM Compatable PC was the thing to get.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #112 on: April 20, 2005, 12:47:10 pm »
143. A Commodore 64 or an IBM Compatable PC was the thing to get.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #113 on: April 20, 2005, 12:49:39 pm »
Two different Samantha Foxes.

No.
Yes.

Technically, we're both correct.  I knew of the pr0n star, but since we were talking about the 'singer' and the b00bie picture poster, they were one and the same.  The pr0n star was practically 40 when these songs were popular.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #114 on: April 20, 2005, 12:56:54 pm »
Damnit!!!!

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #115 on: April 20, 2005, 02:05:08 pm »
Now where is my stress relieving "bang head here" sign?

These weren't available in the 80s.

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #116 on: April 20, 2005, 02:09:27 pm »
Damnit!!!!  Now I can't get "video killed the radio star" out of my head!!!!  Thank you very much ShapeD...   >:(
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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #117 on: April 20, 2005, 02:30:38 pm »
Now where is my stress relieving "bang head here" sign?

These weren't available in the 80s.

I think they came out shortly after the Rubix Cube.............

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Re: You Know You're A Child Of The 80's If...
« Reply #119 on: April 20, 2005, 02:34:50 pm »
Now where is my stress relieving "bang head here" sign?

These weren't available in the 80s.

I think they came out shortly after the Rubix Cube.............

Rubik's Cube ;)

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