PTO Today

My dad made me watch the Nixon impeachment trials.... "It's history in the making!"

The most interesting version of the moon landing I ever saw was in A Walk on the Moon. Mmmmmm Viggo Mortensen.

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“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.”

I remember seeing Reagan being shot and not understanding what the big deal was and why they would put cartoons back on.
Teh best memory was when I was 7 and they announced on CBS that Elvis died. We were at a friend's home and Mom was quilting with 10 other women. I went into the room and asked who was Elvis PResley because some guy said he died. The room was so quiet then they all just began to cry. I thought I did something wrong!

The worst was Columbine. The shootings began at lunch time and here in Denver it was like the coverage of 9/11. I finally turned off the TV and went to the school but there I couldn't get in because of the lock down as the "other school on the list" was down the hill from our school. Never again would I ever want to move back to Des Moines.

Anyway, BBQ for 100+ tomorrow, should get back to work. ugh....

I had to explain to my son why we "dial" a phone when there's no dial, roll down a window when there's nothing to roll, and why a CD is called a Record. On that last one, he actually asked me if it was hard to listen to them in the car?!?!?!?!?

I'll get my revenge when he tries to explain PCs and Ipods to his kids! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I was born in '68. I remember the Bay City Rollers and bell bottoms. My aunt was an Elvis fan. I remember her being upset when he died. I loved the 80's.(still do)and yes, I owned a pair of parachute pants. Here's something I received in my in-box:
Just something to make you laugh...seeing that we are all getting old!

Just to make you feel old....

You know you grew up in the 80's if......
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> 1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "SIKE."
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> 2. You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" and can do the
"Carlton."
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> 3. Girls wore biker shorts under their skirts and felt stylishly sexy.
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> 4. Two words: Hammer Pants.
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> 5. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
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> 6. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in
a
knot on the side.
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> 7. You wore stone washed Jordache jean jackets and were proud of it.
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> 8. L.A.Gear....need I say more?
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> 9. You remember reading "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and all the
Ramona
Quimby books.
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> 10. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF."
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> 11. You ever wore fluorescent clothing. (Some of us...head-to-toe).
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> 12. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell
off
and his cheeks shifted.
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> 13. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence.
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> 14. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes (and probably in neon colors,
too).
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> 15. After you saw "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" you kept saying "I know you
are,
but what am I?
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> 16. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up."
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> 17. You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline
skates.
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> 18. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.
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> 19. You have played with a Skip-It.
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> 20. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.
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> 21. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
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> 22. "Don't worry, be happy."
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> 23. You wore, like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top
Reeboks.
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> 24. You wore socks scrunched down (and sometimes still do).
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> 25. You remember boom boxes.
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> 26. You remember Alf, the li'l furry brown alien from Melmac.
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> 27. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool.
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> 28. You know all the words to Bon Jovi's "SHOT THROUGH THE HEART."
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> 29. (You just sang those words to yourself.)
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> 30. You remember watching Magic vs. Bird. Oh yeah............it will never
be
that good again
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> 31. Homemade Levi shorts... (The shorter the better.)
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> 32. You remember when mullets were cool!
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> 33. You had a mullet!
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> 34. You still sing "We are the World."
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> 35. You tight rolled your jeans.
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> 36. You owned a banana clip.
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> 37. You remember "Where's the Beef?
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> 38. You used to (and probably still do) say "What you talkin' 'bout
Willis?"
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> 39. You had big hair and you knew how to use it.
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> 40. You're still singing "Shot through the Heart" in your head, aren't
you!!!

I remember when my 14 yr. old was about 5 and asked what kind of cds are those. (meaning my records) When you're going through your photos of growing up and your kids laugh at how you dressed.

[ 05-05-2006, 07:10 AM: Message edited by: Renee S ]

Renee S, LIKE OH MY GOSH!!! isn't that the truth? It's funny how looking back makes me feel "LIKE TOTALLY RAD!!" lol I love it!!!

tubular!

i forgot all about that one! you know all day today i was reminising(i think that's how you spell it) after i got off the boards this afternoon. how about that "brat pack"? i think i could still watch sixteen candles or st.elmo's fire a couple hundred more times! seems like yesterday!

Ooooooo, I'm old!! I remember my kid sister being like this but I was an old married lady by then.

I'm more of the Brady Bunch, bike w/banana seat and sissy bar, collecting and returning pop bottles to buy candy at the 7eleven generation I saw original episodes of Get Smart, Dragnet and Happy Days. And I wanted to be Lori Partridge when I grew up. Well, it turns out I'm Mrs. Brady instead! At least that's what my sisters call me.

And it never even occured to my dad that a tv could use a remote control because he had six kids. "Wanda, turn it up; Sam, change the channel, no wait, turn it back. Tammy, turn it down. Don't even get me started on the Vertical and Horizontal Hold buttons!!!!!

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“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.”

OMGh!! Dad just finally figured out it's okay to have the TV, VCR, and dish all on the same remote and hooked up together! Then again my sibblings and I got them a VCR a few years back and my daughter taught Dad how to use it! She was 10!

Now she is 15 and CORRECTS ME about artists from the 80's! Okay, I rocked out to WHAM! not a big KISS fan and she is but still!!!

horizontal hold....we would mess with the color tint so Mom's soap hottie looked green! HA!

Oh that reminds me!! Dr. NOah Drake on General Hospital was back for a while!! I thought i was going to die then my husband reminded me that Rick Springfeild is....old. jerk, I didn't care.