80's kids

You might be a child of the '80s if...


You remember 'Tiger, Tiger, Jellimeat for dinner.'


You remember the 'Ma-na-ma-na' song of the Muppets.


Twenty cents worth of mixed lollies could last you hours and 50 cents, well only older kids could afford that much.


You collected bottles to swap for lollies.


Popsicles were 20 cents.


You decided against rushing out and buying a CD player because you objected to the fact that you were being forced to change your collection.


Picture this... after your nightly bath, dressed in your poncho, ug boots or kung-fu shoes and leg warmers, you sit in a bean bag with your Milo, ready to watch Ready to Roll.


Summers were long and hot.


Mello Yello made you feel so good so fast.


Hey, hey, hey, it's Fat Albert time.


You wondered how the Coke girls and boys got inside that big clear beach ball.


You remember the advent of AIDS and Ecstasy.


You remember spending the whole day at the beach with no sun block at all and what's more, you didn't get burnt - much.


You wore a leather band around your wrist and believed that any boy or girl that broke it, you had to sleep with.


Basketball was only played by Americans.


Sneakers in general were sneakers and not more advanced than your fridge.


Doctor Who scared you silly.


You remember the first space invaders. (Someone in your street had an Atari, right?)


You queued up to see The Village People Movie.


You felt a bit of a thing for Jeannie and Samantha... or better yet Tabitha, or for the girls in Maxwell Smart or Hogan (Hogan 's Heroes) who were adorable.


You saw Grease and ET at the movies.


The Mickey Mouse Club was soooooo cool -'M I C etc.'


You hated missing an episode of M.A.S.H.


You had a $50 Walkman that had fat headphones and chewed tapes after the first three days.


Matchbox cars or Barbies were essential to your development.


You had cardboard dolls (or your sisters did) that came with books of paper clothes that you tore out and stuck on the doll.


The kid with the pool was your best friend... until someone got an in-ground pool.


The only place you could get a pizza was Pizza Hut and it was expensive.


You played dress-ups in your parents' funky clothes that you would kill to get your hands on now.


Floppy disks were actually floppy.


You actually went through at least one pair of Jandals a year because you wore them so much.


You remember when the first people in your street got a video machine. It was top loading and there was no such thing as a remote control.


Beta vs VHS wars.


You remember a few years later they developed a remote control that was attached by a cord to the video. It was always too short to operate it from the lounge anyway.


Fags were called 'fags' and nobody batted an eyelid when eight-year-olds walked down the street with a lolly cigarette hanging out their mouth.


You knew Tommy Lee only for his musical abilities, not the ones shown in the video with Pammy Lee.


You weren't old enough to go to Aliens.


'Oh Mickey you're so fine...'


'I love rock 'n' roll, so put another dime in the jukebox baby...'


'It's the final countdown da na na na...'


Any or all of this rings a bell.