Okay, okay. 80s meme

[sabotabby]

1. How old were you in 1980?
I was one.

2. How old were you in 1989?
Math is hard!

3. Were you a Toys R' Us kid?
I was not. You're going to get a sense of just how much my mother resisted advertising by the end of this meme. Oh yes.

4. Did you watch Transformers?
I did, but not as much as some. Giant robots were a good time, but cars were boring.

5. Did you see E.T. on the big screen?
I did. I cried. This was before I lost my soul.

6. Did you own a Lite Bright?
I don't think so, but I rather liked them.

7. Who is your Favorite Golden Girl?
The old curmudgeonly one.

8. When someone says " Who you gonna call? " You think?
I start humming reflexively.

9.What was your favorite toy?
A stuffed elephant.

10. Did you have a Pogo Ball?
No, but I had a friend who did.

11. Did you listen to New Kids on the Block?
No, and I was quite proud of that. Not that the music that I did listen to—80s metal—was much of an improvement. But I had the distinction of being the only girl out of the six girls in my class who did not catch the New Kids on the Block hysteria. That also meant that they didn't want to hang out with me, so I hung out by myself and drew pictures of "New Kids Under the Block."

12. What New Kid did you have a crush on?
I didn't.

13. Did you play M.A.S.H?
Yes. I always ended up living in a shack with the shittiest guy in the class.

14. Did you watch The Care Bears?
Yep.

15. Did you have Jelly bracelets?
I might have.

16. Did you ever own a slap bracelet?
No. I thought they were ugly, rightly so.

17. The Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles?
Heathers. Okay, The Breakfast Club.

18. Did you have a crazy hair style?
I had awful hair throughout the 80s. When I was little, my mom did that thing where she'd stick tape across my bangs and cut. Only instead of cutting above the tape, she'd cut below it, and then rip the tape off. Accordingly, I hated getting haircuts. Later on I got layered white trash hair.

19. What was your first bike?
Presumably a trike. I don't remember it. Later on I got a really nice dark blue mountain bike, but there was nowhere to go.

20. Name one thing you still own from your childhood?
My sense of dissatisfaction with the world around me.

21. Did you have a Cabbage Patch Kid?
No.

22. Rainbow Brite or Strawberry Shortcake?
Rainbow Brite, though I liked both.

23. Did you watch Miami Vice?
I probably caught it once or twice.

24. Did you own a Trapper Keeper?
No. I don't think we had them here.

25. Atari or Nintendo?
We didn't have video games in my house until my father, at some point, got a computer. Then I sometimes secretly went through his floppy disks in search of games. Sometimes you'd get something really good. Sometimes you'd get cow porn.

26. Did you play Pac-Man?
I'm sure I must have.

27. Which was better: Jem and The Holograms or Barbie and The Rockers?
Jem and the Holograms, as it had the Misfits. I didn't really like either, though.

28. He-Man or She-Ra?
I doubt I watched either, but that didn't stop "She-Ra" from becoming my nickname when people found out what my middle name was.

29. What movie scared you the most?
Pet Sematary scared the shit out of me, but it might have been '90 by the time I actually saw it.

30. Did you try to dance like Michael Jackson?
I tried not to dance as a general rule.

31. What Is The First Thing That Comes To Mind When You Hear "flux copassitor"
That I think the meme is spelling it wrong. It's "capacitor," and I thought those movies were awesome.

32. What other colors did Pepsi come in?
I was a Coke girl. This was before I found out about the Colombian unionists.

33. Roger Rabbit Or Howard The Duck?
Roger Rabbit.

34. Did you ever beg your parents to have your school picture taken with the 'LASER' background?
I don't know what this is. I mostly begged my parents not to make me get my school picture taken.

35. Do you know what the Ninja Rap is?
No clue.

36. Do you know why people cringe when they hear the word BUCKNER?
Apparently not.

37. Can you name the family members from National Lampoons Vacation movies?
No, though I must have seen them at some point.

38. Did you have pump sneakers?
My mother was unwilling to spend extra money on trendy shit. It's not like I was particularly athletic to begin with.

39. Did you own HYPER COLOR shirts?
This was probably the worst idea in the history of fashion. It's bad enough when you have sweaty armpits, so why would you make a shirt that accentuates them? Fortunately, I never succumbed to this trend. I might have been the only kid in my class who didn't.

40. Did you watch Smurfs?
Smurf smurf.

I am so glad that I was shielded from the worst of the 80s by virtue of my family not having a hell of a lot of money. Now I get to be indie and superior.