You might be an X-er if...

 

You owned a Jordache pocket book (or several of them), or you remember when Jordache jeans were cool.

In your fifth grade class picture, you're wearing an Izod shirt with the collar up.

You were afraid of the Sleestaks on Land of the Lost.

You know, by heart, the words to any "Weird" Al Yankovic song.

Three words: "Atari" "IntelliVision" and "Coleco". Sound familiar?

You remember the days when "safe sex" meant "my parents are gone for the weekend."

You remember "Friday Night Videos" before the days of MTV.

You see teenagers today wearing clothes that show up in those childhood photos, and they still look bad.

While in high school, you and all your friends discussed elaborate plans toget together again at the end of the century and play "1999" by Prince over and over again.

You remember when music that was labeled "alternative" really was.

You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the mini-van.

You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you.

You've ever conversationally used the phrase "Jane, you ignorant slut."

You watched HR Puffenstuff as a child, but now that you're older you really understand that it would have been much better had you known about drugs at the time.

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..."

- "Just can't (fill in the blank) like I used to"

Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language.

You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Madonna, or Cyndi Lauper video.

The first time you ever kissed someone at a dance came during "Crazy for You" by Madonna.

The phrase "Where's the beef?" still doubles you over with laughter.

You read the "Hot Video Games Player's Secrets" guide for Mortal Kombat just so you could find the hidden screen, and play Pong again for old time's sake.

(girls) You thought Sean Cassidy was "dreamy", lusted after "Ted, your ship's photographer" on the Love Boat and Chachi, or, to keep it fair to the comically interested, thought Fred was just a hunk on Scooby Doo.

You freaked out when you found that you now fall into the "26 - 50" age category on most questionnaires.

Your hair, at some point in time in the 80's, became something which can only be described by the phrase "I was experimenting."

You're starting to believe (now that it wouldn't affect YOU) that maybe having the kids go to school year-round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.

Going to keg parties no longer involves hiding out in the woods when the cops show up.

You ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon.

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

You ever pretended to be Bo, Luke or Daisy and jumped into the car through the window.

You ever solved a Rubik's cube.

You ever used the phrase "kiss mah grits" in conversation.

You spent endless nights dreaming about being the Bionic Woman or Wonder Woman or the Six Million Dollar Man.

You remember "Hey, let's be careful out there."

You remember the first release of Star Wars and had all of the toy figures including the Darth Vader carrying case.

You're parents wanted you to attend medical school, but you decided was pointless since Quincy got all the babes, anyway.

You know who shot J.R.

This rings a bell: "and my name, is Charlie. They work for me."

You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar.

You ever had a Dorothy Hammill haircut.

You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed "8-6-7-5-3-0-9" to see if Jenny would answer.

"All-skate, change directions" means something to you.

You owned a pair of Rainbow suspenders just like Mork used to wear.

You were too young to go see the Blue Lagoon so you just had to settle for second hand reports.

You remember when there was only "G, PG and R", none of this PG-13 crap.

You learned to swim about the same time Jaws came out and still carry the emotional scars to this day.

Wonder twin powers, activate! Form of a an iceberg, shape of a hammer.

You remember when your cable TV box had the three rows of numbers and you had to move the selector switch accordingly.

The ABC After School Special "My Mom's Having A Baby" actually taught you stuff you didn't know.

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

VCR's cost $1,000.

Mattel Electronics Baseball, Basketball and Football were state-of-the-art.

"Come on give it a try....we're gonna show you just why...we're gonna teach you to fly, high!"

Rotary phones.

There was nothing strange about Bert n' Ernie living together.