How Old Are We?

Speaking of age-
You know you’re from the 90s when…

…You’ve kept a Giga Pet alive for a month or more.
…”Doc Martin” refers to your shoes, not your family physician.
…You asked for more allowance by saying “Show Me The Money!!”
…You had more eyebrow rings than a shower curtain.
…You wore your underwear higher than your jeans waistband.
…3 words: Ice Ice Baby
…You remember people calling radio stations top bid on a “Tickle Me Elmo.”
…You had a pager but no phone.
…You can remember when Michael Jackson was black.
…You searched everywhere for retired Beanie Babies.
…Hearing “I Love You…..You Love Me” still pisses you off.
…Vinyl refers to clothes, not music.
…The openings at the bottoms of your pants were wider than the opening at the top.
…You have seen the movie Titanic more than 5 times, in the theatre.
….You know the names and color of the Power Rangers.
…You know that Pogs and Slammers are toys, not alternative bands.
…”The ultimate comebacks were….”What If”….”As If”…”Whatever.”
…Your first sexual experience was “Online.”
…If you ever instructed anyone to “Talk to the Hand.”
…If you were asked to open a window and you went to a computer.
…You still know the dance moves to the Macarena.
…Leonardo, and Michaelangelo remind you of Turtles instead of classic painters
…You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on the way back to bed.
…You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
…You start using smileys in your snail mail.
…Your hard drive crashes. You haven’t logged in for two hours. You start to twitch. You pick up the phone and manually dial your ISP’s access number. You try to hum to communicate with the modem…and you succeed.
…You find yourself typing “com” after every period when using a word processor.com
…You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading
…All of your friends have an @ in their names.
…You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
…You religiously watched 90210, Melrose Place, Party of Five, and My So-Called Life.
…You wore big hoop earrings
…You watched Dial MTV, and remember who Nelson, Slaughter,Warrant, and Winger were.
…You remember when they played “I’m Proud to be an American” every 15 minutes during the Gulf War
…Your bangs were at least 4 inches high, and you thought it looked good
…You had any “No Fear” or “B.U.M.” clothing
…You wore overalls with only one side connected.
… You wore your sweatpants pulled up to your knees.
…You said, “SIKE!” or “WAY!”
…You saw “Wayne’s World” at least 2 times at the theater.
…You wore jeans pulled up to your belly-button.
…All of your clothes were “baggy”
…You owned a pair of biker shorts.
…You wore “water shoes” into the pool.
…You had a boom box, or your stereo was a weird color like pink.
…You bought tapes instead of CDs.
…You never missed “Fresh Prince”.
…You remember when TLC weren’t divas, and they dressed like they were in the circus.
…You thought “I’m Too Sexy” was such a cool song.
…You “busted a move” while C&C Music Factory was playing.
…You remember when Mark Wahlberg was part of “Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch”.
…You owned a silk shirt, which you tucked into your jeans.
…You had jeans in various colors, like green, brown, black…
…You had a Ren and Stimpy t-shirt.
…You thought long-haired heavy metal bands would never go out of style.
…You were addicted to Nintendo, you knew that blowing into the system and the game cartridge always made it work, and Mario 3 was cutting edge.
…There were multiple rubber bands on your pony tail.
…You gave the “peace” sign all the time.
…You loved Beavis and Butthead.
…If you were a guy, you had your hair shaved underneath and you parted it down the middle
…You could never wear too much eye shadow.
…Like, was like, every second word, like duh!
…Salt n Pepa’s “Lets’s Talk About Sex” was the most controversial song you’d ever heard.
…You remember when the whole lip synching scandal was exposed. (Milli and Vanilli gave their Grammys back)
…Asking some one out was a huge drama. “Ask her friend to ask her if she’ll go out with me.” “Tell his friend to tell him… maybe”
…You never went anywhere without hairspray, 4 flavours of Lip Smackers and a Brush.
…You spent hours trying to figure out what “licki boom boom down” meant.

I remember the old He-man… Boy, am I old. 😮

I’m 19….and apart from growing another limb…nothing much has changed

Wow, that list covers about my entire life…

Here’s a few more additions to that original list!

1. Ricky Nelson, Marvin Gaye and Laura Ashley have always been dead.

2. The New Kids on the Block are over the hill.

3. They want to be PHAT but not fat.

4. IBM electrics are antiques.

5. Thongs no longer come in pairs and slide between the toes.

6. God has not necessarily been a “he” in all churches.

7. Hard copy has nothing to do with a TV show; a browser is not someone relaxing in a bookstore; a virus does not make humans sick; and a mouse is not a rodent (and there
is no proper plural for it).

8. Recording TV programs on VCRs became legal the year they were born.

9. The Royal Family has always behaved badly.

10. There has always been Diet Coke.

11. Artificial hearts have always been ticking.

12. The Social Security system has always been on the brink.

13. There have always been warnings about second-hand smoke.

14. They have never experienced a real recession.

15. A hacker is not just a kid who won’t stop fooling around.

16. They were born the same year as the PC and the Mac.

17. One earring on a man indicates that he is probably pretty conservative.

18. CDs have always been labelled for explicit content.

19. Lethal Weapon in one form or another has always been “at the movies.”

20. Boeing has not built the 727 since they were born.

21. Sarajevo was a war zone, not an Olympic host.

22. They don’t remember Janet Jackson when she was cute and chubby.

23. There has always been a hole in the ozone layer.

24. They have always used email.

25. Liverpool have never won the Premiership

26. Pubs have always been open all day

27. The precise location of the Titanic has always been known.

28. They have probably never used carbon paper and do not know what “cc” and “bcc” mean.

29. Lasers have always been marketed as toys.

30. Major newspapers have always been printed in colour.

31. Beta is a preview version of software, not a VCR format.

32. They have never known exactly what to call the rock star formerly and presently known as Prince.

33. They are the first generation to prefer tanning indoors.

34. “Survivor” is a TV show not a rock group.