2.  Any photograph of you shows you wearing an Izod shirt with the collar turned up.

3.  You know any "Weird Al" Yankovic songs by heart. My favorite is "Eat It"!

4.  You've ever rung someone's doorbell and said "Landshark!" I still do!!

5.  You were once bowled over by the technological excellence of such products as Atari, IntelliVision, TelStar and Coleco. Anybody for pong?

6.  You remember the premier of MTV--or worse yet, you remember its predecessor, "Friday Night Videos." How about the network tv premier of "Thriller"?

7.  You and your friends ever discussed having a reunion at the end of the century and playing Prince's "1999." Of course!  Some of you were the ones I discussed it with!!

8.  A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid. with red leather double buckle shoes.

9.  You remember when music that was labeled "alternative" really was alternative, and when "alternative comedy" was really funny.

10.  You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan.

11.  (Related to #10)  You rode in the back of the station wagon facing the cars behind you.

12.  You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phrases: "You know, back when...," "When I was your age...," or "When I was younger..."   or suddenly Bill Cosby's "Himself" routine is incredibly pertinent to your present life!

13.  Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you learned things like grammar, math and history. (A big hint here is if the only way you can recite the Preamble to the Constitution is by singing it.)   Who could forget the words to "Conjunction Junction"?

14.  You ever dressed to look like someone in a Madonna, Cyndi Lauper or Duran Duran video.   I still have a pair of lace bobby socks floating around here somewhere.

15.  You remember your first kiss with someone having happened while either "Leather and Lace" or "Crazy for You" was playing. 

16.  You remember with pain the day the Green Machine hit the streets (or the sidewalks), instantly making your Big Wheel obsolete.

17.  The age-old question "Where's the beef?" still makes you laugh.

18.  You remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possibly have more advanced special effects than "TRON."

19.  You had a crush on Ted the photographer on "Love Boat," Gage from "Emergency," or Ponch from "CHIPS." or maybe Shaun Cassidy or Parker Stevenson from the "Hardy Boys"

20.  Your hair at some point in time in the '80s could only be described by saying, "I was experimenting."   I still sport the pink braid I acquired then!!

21.  You've ever shopped at Benetton.

22.  You're starting to believe that having the kids in school year-round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.

23.  You're currently employed doing something that has absolutely nothing to do with your college major.

24.  U2 is too popular and mainstream for you now.

25.  You remember trying to guess which episode of "The Brady Bunch" it was by the first scene.

26.  You had a front-row seat (i.e., blew off one or more classes) for Luke and Laura's wedding on "GH." I don't think I even went to school that day!

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 J.R.

29.  You recall when Love's Baby Soft was in every girl's Christmas stocking. Ah, the smell of adolescence!

30.  This rings a bell:  "My name is Charlie, and they work for me."

31.  You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on.  (Related item: you were sure that "New Coke" would NEVER catch on.) I even sent a letter to Coke asking for my regular Coke back--they sent me a coupon for a case of New Coke-yuck.

32.  You know all the words to the double-album set of the "Grease" soundtrack. and most of the lines. 

33.  You've ever had a Dorothy Hamill haircut. Was there a girl on earth who didn't?  How about a pixie?  I had that haircut too!

34.  You sat with your friends on any given Friday night circa 1982 and dialed 867-5309 to see if Jenny was actually there. ah, caller id has ruined all those great phone pranks from when we were kids.

35.  "All skate, change directions" means something to you. Happy Wheels-the local roller rink is now a bingo parlor!

36.  You've ever owned a pair of rainbow suspenders like the ones Mork used to wear. Or a pair of white leather Nikes with a red swish and heart shoelaces!  How about a Bermuda handbag?

37.  You bought a pair of Vanns and wanted to order a pizza in history class so you could be just like Jeff Spicoli.  (Related item: if you've ever smacked yourself in the head with a shoe and exclaimed, "I'm so wasted!"  um, this is of course before Christ.)
38.  You owned a Preppy Handbook.  Or if you weren't really a prep a copy of  "Valley Girl" by Moon Unit Zappa and saw Valley Girl the movie in the theaters at least twice!

39.  You were too young to see "Blue Lagoon," so you just had to settle for the second-hand reports. I think my friend from my town was my source of information on this one.  she got the scoop for us on all the stuff we didn't know and wanted to.

40.  You remember when movies were only PG and R.

41.  You learned to swim at about the same time "Jaws" came out....and still carry the emotional scars to prove it. Still don't like to go above my knees and I read the book!

42.  You remember when your cable TV box had a sliding selector switch... and your "cable remote" was connected to the TV by CORD!

43.  Your jaw would ache by the time you finished one of those brick-sized packages of Bazooka.

44.  You remember Bo and Luke Duke, Daisy, Boss Hogg, or--worst of all--what Sheriff Roscoe's full name was. Roscoe P. Coltrane ;-)

45.  Your parents paid $2,000 for a top-loading VCR that was almost the size of a coffee table.

46.  You found nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together.

47.  You remember having a rotary phone. and only having to dial the last four numbers if I was making a phone call in my town!!

48.  You actually believed that Mikey--famed kid on the Life cereal commercials--died after eating Pop Rocks and drinking a Coke.

49.  "Members Only" jackets...say no more. or Barracuda jackets

50.  And lastly, I'll make a song stick in your head for the rest of the day:...you actually remember the words to the the theme song of "The Greatest American Hero."   I loved the tv show!  Which goes to show there is no accounting for taste!  I guess my excuse is that I was fourteen.  Any of you with a fourteen year old now know this is a perfectly valid excuse for just about any lapse in judgment at that age!!

 This is what I remembered:

Look at what's happened to me,
I can't believe it myself.
Suddenly I'm up on top of the world,
It should've been somebody else.

Believe it or not,
I'm walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free-.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me.