Wednesday, December 12, 2007

You might be a 90's kid if:

You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"

You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey on "Blossom" and that "How Rude!" comes from Stephanie on "Full House"

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.

You remember "Goosebumps."

You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, wax off"

You have pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.

You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.

You remember the craze, then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books.

You remember when everyone said "NOT" after (almost) every sentence and you still get the urge to do it...Not...

"Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?" was both a game and a TV game show.

When playing power rangers with friends you fought over who got to be who............and everyone still ended up being Tommy.

You remember when super Nintendo's became popular. Super Mario 3!!!!

"I've fallen and I can't get up."

You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates.

You never got injured on a Slip 'n' Slide

You wore socks over leggings scrunched down (oooo!)

You played: "Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back, back" She asked her mother, mother, mother for 50 cents, cents, cents to see the elephants, elephants, elephants jump over the fence, fence, fence he jumped so high high high he touched the sky sky sky and he didnt come back back back til the forth of july ly ly he jumped so low ow ow he stubbed his toe toe toe and thats the end end end of the elephants show show show

You remember boom boxes vs. cd players

You played and/or collected "Pogs"

You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere

You watched the original Care Bears, My Little Pony, Ninja Turtles, Wishbone, Magic School Bus, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Full House, Pinky and the Brain, The Wonderful World of Richard Scary, Ghostwriter, Mr. Rogers.

You knew Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys were the best mystery books ever, and topped your Christmas wish list.

You loved the Little Mermaid

You cried when Mufasa died in the Lion King.

You remember Happy Meals where you chose a Barbie or a Hot Wheels car.

You remember getting the privelage to sit in the front seat of the car, (and you better believe it was a privelage!)

You remember Capri Suns, and Kool Aid.

"Campbells makes everything Mmm Mmm Good!"

You were part of dinosaur craze, or you were intimately connected with it.

You remember Alladin...before the trilogy.

Sailor Moon.

You knew Snick (?) & Nick @ Nite with I Dream of Jenie, I Love Lucy, The Cosby Show.

Your parents read Little Bear (I love those books still)

You remember Busy Town--books, the show, songs, Lowly and Huckle

Under the Umbrella Tree

You remember PEE-WEE!!! ...and other things 90s kids would like to deny.

Yikes pencils and erasers were the stuff!

All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.(pencils.notebooks.binders.etc.)

You remember when the new Beanie Babies were always sold out.

You used to wear those stick on earings, not only on your ears, but at the corners of your eyes and on your forehead.

You know the Macarena by heart.

You always said, or always heard, "Then why don't you marry it!"

You remember the slinky craze.

You remember when light up sneakers were cool.

You remember when you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.

You remember gas being $0.91 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.

Your family recorded stuff on VCRs & paid $3.50 for a movie.

You remember when camcorders were about as big your little sister, and almost as heavy.

You remember when computers were big, white, ugly, slow as molasass , and pixelly...and you weren't allowed to touch it.

When $5 seemed like a million, & another dollar a miracle. $10 made you rich and happened only once a year.

When Toys R Us overuled the mall.

Go back to the time when:
Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'.
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming 'do over!'
'Race issue' ment arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was banker in 'Monopoly.'
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'best' friends.
Being old referred to anyone over 20.
Scrapes & bruises were kissed & made better.
It was a big deal to finally be tall enought to ride the 'big people' rides at the fair.
When playing Nintendo was the hardest thing ever.
When Ninja Turtles ruled the world.
When Aladdin was new, before the trilogy was complete.
Sockem Boppers

When we were younger:

Before the MySpace...
Before the Internet & text messaging...
Before Sidekicks & iPods...
Before MIKE JONES...
Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX...
...Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night....or not...you might have played or done:
-Cops and Robbers!
-Tag. (Freeze, chinese freeze, and normal)
-Hide-n-Go Seek at dusk. Or, even better, Ghost in the Graveyard.
-Red Light, Green Light.
-Heads Up 7 Up.
-Playing Kickball & Dodgeball until your porch light came on...or you couldn't see the ball anymore.
-Hopskotch.
-Simon Says and Mother/Father May I. (we didn't have role confusion back then)
-Tree Houses.
-Hula Hoops.
-Hot wheels!
-Furbies.
-Running through the sprinklers...the neighbor's, not yours.

And "all good things must come to an end..." so died the 90s, along with pogs, nitendo, etc.

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