YOU'RE LOST BETWEEN A BABY BOOMER AND A GEN X'ER IF...

by unknown author

You remember when Jordache jeans were cool

In your fifth grade class picture you were wearing an Izod shirt with the collar up

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

The Brady Bunch movie brought back cool memories

You ever rang someone's doorbell and said "Landshark!"

Three words: Atari, IntelliVision and Coleco, sound familiar

You remember the days when "safe sex" meant that your parents were gone for the weekend

You remember Friday Night Videos before the days of MTV

A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid

While in high school, you and your friends discussed elaborate plans to get together 
again at the end of the century and play Prince's "1999" until you passed out partying

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

You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan

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 Puff'nStuff 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 phases:
When I was younger...
When I was your age...
You know, back when...

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

You're starting to view getting carded to buy alcohol as a GOOD thing.

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

You remember with pain the sad day when the Green Machine hit the streets and made 
your old Big Wheel quite obsolete.

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

You honestly remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possibly get better
special effects than those in the movie TRON

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

This timeline appropriately describes actual events in your life:
Star Wars opens, you are still in single digit ages, and you think the creatures are 
WAY cool.  Empire Strikes Back opens, you are now in early double digit ages, and you 
are convinced that the special effects are much better, the characters are cool, and 
you want one of every collectible out there. Return of the Jedi hits the theaters, you are
now a teenager and you cannot get your eyes off Princess Leia's breasts or Han Solo's butt.

You've ever shopped at a Banana Republic or Benetton, but not in the last five years, okay

You're starting to believe now that maybe having the kids go to school year round 
wouldn't be such a bad idea after all

You're doing absolutely nothing pertaining to your major

You ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon

U2 is too popular and mainstream for you now

You ever used the phrase "Kiss mah grits!" in conversation

You remember trying to guess the episode of the Brady Bunch from the first scene

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

You had ringside seats for Luke and Laura's wedding on General Hospital

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

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

You know who shot JR

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

You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on after all

You know all the words to the double album set of Grease

You ever had a Dorothy Hammill haircut

You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed 867-5309 and asked for Jenny

All skate, change directions, means something to you

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

You bought a pair of Vanns and wanted to order a pizza in history class so you could 
be just like Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High

You owned a preppy handbook

You can clap along to "Mickey" with the best of them.

The cop, the sailor, the biker, the cowboy, the Indian, and the construction worker.

You remember when leg warmers were the thing to wear.

Some of your favorite commercials involved Count Chocula, Frankenberry, and Boo-Berry.

You tried dancing like the gopher on CADDYSHACK.

"Come On Eileen" will always have a place in your heart.

You remember cigarette commercials on TV.

You can relate to most outfits worn on American Bandstand reruns.

You can name at least 6 Superfriends.

"PUPPY POWER!!" means something to you.

You always wondered why the professor could make a damn car with bamboo, 
but he could never build a boat to get them off the island.

You know by heart the theme songs to "Happy Days", "Laverne and Shirley", and "Three's Company"

You get fond memories watching "Muppet Show" reruns.

You remember Michael Jackson as a black man.

Parachute pants

You needed one glove just like Michael.

One word - breakdancing.

You remember running around outside, pointing up in the sky, yelling "Da plane, da plane!!"

You could never believe the things you saw on "That's Incredible".

You know at least 10 Helen Keller jokes.

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 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

You remember when your cable TV box had a sliding selector switch

You actually believed everything Leonard Nimoy told you on "In Search Of..."

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

Bo and Luke Duke

VCRs cost $2,000

There was nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together

Rotary dial telephones

You actually believed that Mikey, famed for his Life cereal commercials, 
died after eating a packet of pop rocks and drinking a Coke

The theme song to Greatest American Hero still comes back to you on occasion

"Bueller? Bueller?"

Please pass this on to all who can relate!