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Duran Duran, The Police, Billy Idol, Cyndi Lauper - the 80's - certainly a unique time in music history. In order to get your groove on at our high school reunion, send us:
YOU'RE LOST BETWEEN A BABY BOOMER AND A GEN X'ER IF.. 1. You remember when Jordache jeans were cool. 2. In your 9th grade class picture you were wearing an Izod shirt with the collar up. 3.
You know by heart the words to any Weird Al Yankovic song.
4. Three words: Atari, IntelliVision and Coleco, sound familiar. 5. You remember Friday Night Videos before the days of MTV. 6. A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid. 7.. While in high school, you and your friends discussed elaborate plans to get together again at the end of the century and listen to Prince's 1999. 8. You remember when music that was labeled alternative, really was alternative. 9. You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan. 10. You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you. 11. You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phases:
12. You remember with pain the sad day when the Green Machine hit the streets and made our old Big Wheel quite obsolete. 13. The phrase "Where's the beef," still doubles you over with laughter. 14. You honestly remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possibly get better special effects than those in the movieTRON.
15. You miss Ted the photographer on The Love Boat.
16. Your hair at some point in time in the 80's became something which can only be described by the phrase,"I was experimenting". 17. You've ever shopped at a Benetton, but not in the last 5 years. 18. 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. 19. You're doing absolutely nothing pertaining to your major. 20. You remember trying to guess the episode of the Brady Bunch from the first scene. 21. You had a front row seat for Luke and Laura's wedding on General Hospital. 22. You're parents wanted you to attend medical school, but you decided it was pointless since Quincy got all the babes anyway. 23. You know who shot JR .
25. You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on after all. 26. You know all the words to the double album set of Grease. 27. You ever had a Dorothy Hammill haircut. 28. You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed 867-5309 to see if Jenny would answer.
29. "All skate, change directions", means something to you.
30. You owned a pair of Rainbow suspenders just like Mork used to wear.
31. You owned a preppy handbook. 32. You remember when there was only PG and R. 33. You remember when your cable TV box had a sliding selector switch. 34.Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those brick sized packages of Bazooka gum. 35. You remember Bo and Luke Duke. 36. VCRs cost $2,000. 37. There was nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together. 38. Rotary dial telephones. 39. You actually believed that Mikey, famed for his Life cereal commercials, died after eating a packet of pop rocks and drinking a Coke. 40. The theme song to Greatest American Hero still comes back to you on occasion (BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I'M WALKING ON AIR...) 41. If you saw a Van Halen concert with a lead singer named David Lee Roth.
42. Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the 43. Knickers and leg warmers were cool 44. You were afraid of the Sleestaks on Land of the Lost. 45. You learned to swim about the same time "Jaws" came out and still carry the emotional scars to this day. 44. You always wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar and choreographed "Dancing Queen" by yourself in your room. 45. You ever used the phrase "kiss mah grits" in conversation. 46. You could sing "99 Red Balloons" in English and in German. 47. Feathered hair. 48. You ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon. 49. You remember LeFreak by Chic. 50. You had a "Members Only" jacket and wouldn't wear it without the sleeves pushed up to your elbows. 51. You owned a pair of jelly shoes. 52. You thought the jump from 8-tracks to cassette tapes was a technological revolution.
54. You're starting to think that Corvettes really look good, and aren't really for guy's going through a mid-life crisis. That's not you. 55. You're finding that you just don't understand more than half the lingo used on MTV any more. 56. When somone mentions two consecutive days of the week, the Happy Days theme is stuck in your head for hours on end. 57. You ever used the phrase "don't make me angry... you wouldn't like me when I'm angry" when trying to frighten someone off. 58. You spent endless nights dreaming about being the Bionic Woman or Wonder Woman or the Six Million Dollar Man [well, maybe not being...]. 59. You remember "Hey, let's be careful out there." 60. You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Madonna, or Cyndi Lauper video.
61. Kids that work in restaurants and supermarkets are calling you sir or ma'am.
62. You owned a Rubik's Cube
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The IREM Bowling Event was a huge success! Check out the groovy photos
below!! Bowling Winners: Wacky Team Name:
The Bowling Stones (Komp Horticultural Service) To download a photo... 1) Left click on the image once to enlarge it in a separate window 2) Right click on the image and select "Save picture as" (and save to a location on your computer)
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24. This rings a bell:
"...and my name is Charlie. They work for me." .
53.
You used to hold in your head the thought that all those gold chains on Mr. T
actually looked kinda cool and the thought that he made millions seemed rational
to you at the time. 
