Happy Tuesday - jokes that make you feel old.... :P

[Charean]

You're Lost Between the Baby Boom and Gen-X If .....

1. You remember when Jordache jeans with a flat handle comb in
the back pocket was cool.

2. In your 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. 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.

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 United Colors of 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. Your 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. "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.

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.

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You're not old UNLESS you can remember .....

Being sent to the drugstore to test vacuum tubes for the TV.

When Kool-Aid was the only drink for kids, other than milk and sodas.

When there were two types of sneakers for boys.

When boys couldn't wear anything but leather shoes to school.

When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up.

When all your friends got their hair cut at the kitchen table.

When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there.

When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.

When a dime was a decent allowance, and a quarter a huge bonus.

When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.

When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then.

When your mom wore nylons that came in two pieces.

When all your teachers wore either neckties or had their hair done, everyday.

When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, for free, every time. And you got trading stamps to boot!

When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box.

When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him, or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.

When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.

When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and did!

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.