GenX-Ms: Fun Stuff

GenX-Ms A Special Interest Group (SIG) of American Mensa

You might be Generation X if...
(by various anonymous GenXers)

You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed "8-6-7-5-3-0-9" to see if Jenny would answer.
You wore anything Izod, especially those windbreakers that folded up into a pouch.
You remember when Jordache jeans were cool.
You know, by heart, the words to any "Weird" Al Yankovic song.
The Brady Bunch movie brought back memories.
Three words "Atari" "IntelliVision" and "Coleco". Sound familiar?
You remember "Friday Night Videos" before the days of MTV.
A predominant color in your childhood photos is "plaid."
While in high school, you and all your friends discussed elaborate plans to get together again at the end of the century and play "1999" by Prince over and over again.
You remember when music that was labeled "alternative" really was.
You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the mini-van. You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you.
You watched HR Puffenstuff as a child, but now that you're older, you really understand that it would have been much better had you known about drugs at the time.
Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language.
You remember when Madonna was just hitting the scene.
You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Rick Springfield, Madonna,or Cyndi Lauper video.
You remember any of the following: Echo and the Bunnymen, Cutting Crew, Scritti Politti or Orchestral Maneouvers in the Dark.
The first time you ever kissed someone at a dance came during "Crazy for You" by Madonna.
You remember with pain the sad day when the Green Machine hit the streets and made your old Big Wheel quite obsolete.
The phrase "Where's the beef?" still doubles you over with laughter.
Your hair, at some point in time in the 80's, became something which can only be described by the phrase "I was experimenting."
You're doing absolutely nothing pertaining to your major.
You ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon.
U2 is too "popular" and "mainstream" for you now.
You remember trying to guess the episode of the Brady Bunch from the first scene.
You spent endless nights dreaming about being the Bionic Woman or Wonder Woman or the Six Million Dollar Man.
You know who shot J.R.
You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar.
You know all the words to the double album set of Grease.
You owned a pair of Rainbow suspenders just like Mork used to wear.
You bought a pair of Vanns and wanted to order a pizza in history class so you could be just like Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
You were too young to go see the Blue Lagoon so you just had to settle for second hand reports.
You learned to swim about the same time Jaws came out and still carry the emotional scars to this day.
Wonder twin powers, activate! Form of a an iceberg, shape of a hammer.
You actually believed everything Leonard Nimoy told you on "In Search Of..."
Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those "brick-sized" packages of Bazooka gum.
There was nothing strange about Bert n' Ernie living together.
Rotary dial telephones.
You anxiously awaited "That's Incredible" with Fran Tarkenton and John Davidson on Wednesday nights.
You actually believed that Mikey (famed for his "Life" cereal commercials) died after eating a packet of pop rocks and drinking a Coke.
The theme song to "Greatest American Hero" still comes back to you on occasion.....
Your "dressy" wardrobe centered on pastels and linen blazers - guys included.
"The Reflex" was a cool song.
You remember "Battlestar Galactica".
You remember the days that hooking your computer into your television wasn't an expensive option that required gadgets, it was the ONLY option!
You thought "Weird Science" was a masterpiece.
Chevy Chase was really funny in those vacation movies.
You jammed to the Miami Vice theme and thought Jan Hammer was cool.
You wanted to move to Hawaii because that's where Magnum lived.
For the girl crazy bunch: your first sexual dream occured to thoughts of Jeannie, Marsha Brady, Samantha from Bewitched or for those hardcore comic fans, Daphne from Scooby Doo or Josie or any of the Pussycats.
For the boy crazy bunch: you thought Sean Cassidy was "dreamy", lusted after "Ted, your ship's photographer" on the Love Boat, Chachi or to keep it fair to the comically interested, thought Fred was a hunk on Scooby Doo.
You remember when a guy piercing his ear was radical to the max.
You owned a Trapper Keeper.
You remember when there was only "G", "PG" and "R", none of this "PG-13" crap.
You ever rang someone's doorbell and said "landshark".
Three words: "Atari," "Apple," and "Pong."
You remember the original version of Windows: Macintosh.
"All-skate, change directions" means something to you.
You wore Birdwell's Beach Britches, or anything made by OP.
You remember that video by A Flock of Seagulls.
"Thriller", "Beat It", or "Ebony and Ivory" was your top request on the radio.
Remember "Tainted Love"?
One word: Corduroy.
You are a Remington Steele fan.
You saw the Stones' *first* farewell tour.
You know the Fonz's full name.
You decided to take up golf after you saw "Caddyshack."
Cheech and Chong were really cool, man.
Go, Speed Racer, go!
Rocky and Bullwinkle, Speed Buggy, Underdog, and Get Smart were yourfavorite TV shows, right after Gilligan's Island.
You remember all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song.
You went around humming Manfred Mann's "Do Wah Diddy" for two weeks after you saw "Stripes."
You've ever shouted, "I wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day!"
You still watch "The Jeffersons," and you're waiting for "Good Times" to come out on video. (Dyn-O-Mite!)
Sesame Street and Star Trek played important roles during your formative years.
You know what "Nanoo, nanoo" means.
You know where the line "Yo, Adrian!" came from.
The video for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" was almost as badass as Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing."
You remember Sting as the front man for the Police. You got sick of hearing George Michael's "Sex" over and over on the radio, kinda like Def Leppard......
You wore your jeans tight, not baggy like all your friends do now to hide their flabby backsides.
You actually remember Spuds McKenzie, Alex from Stroh's, and the Swedish Bikini Team.
Dennis Miller, for just an instant, was actually as funny as he thought he was.
You're starting to view getting carded to buy alcohol as a GOOD thing.
You remember when your cable tv box had the three rows of numbers and you had to move the selector switch accordingly.

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