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August 12, 2009

I'm a 90's kid...



I found this on Tumblr and while I'm sure I read it before, it just made me smile. This is a shout-out to all the other kids who used to watch Duck Tails and even though you can't remember all the words you remember "Duck tails, WHOO HOO! Good times....
You’re a 90’s kid if:

  • You can finish this [ice ice _ _ _ _ ]


  • You remember watching:
    -Doug
    -Ren & Stimpy
    -Pinky and the Brain
    -AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!-Rockos modern Life.

  • You’ve ever ended a sentence with theword “PSYCHE!”
  • You just cant resist finishing this . .. “Iiiiiiin west philidelphia born andraised …”

  • You remember:
    -TGIF
    -Step by Step
    -Family Matters
    -Dinosaurs
    -Boy Meets World.


  • You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

  • You got super excited when it was OregonTrail day in computer class at school.

  • You remember reading “Goosebumps”

  • You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes toschool.

  • You still get the urge to say “NOT”after (almost) every sentence … not

  • when everyting was settled by:
    -rock paper scissors or
    -bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
    -daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.

  • when cops and robbers was a daily activity.

  • when we played Hide and go seek until our legs grew numb.

  • You used to listen to the radio all daylong just to record your FAVORITE songof ALL time. [there was no such thing as limewire/torrent back then...]

  • “Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?” was both a game and a TV game show.

  • Captain Planet. He’s a Hero.

  • You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.

  • You remember when Super Nintendos andSega Genisis became popular.

  • You always wanted to send in a tape toAmerica’s Funniest Home Videos … butnever taped anything funny.

  • You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 ,and 3 … and tried to pull the prankson “intruders”

  • You remember watching:
    -The Magic School Bus
    -Wishbone
    -Reading Rainbow on PBS
    - The Disney Afternoon: Gummy Bears, Duck Tales, Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles & of course Tail Spin

  • You remember when Yo-Yos were cool and you used to play hopscotch on the blacktop at school.

  • You were always wondering where Waldo was.

  • You remember eating Warheads and giant Pixie Stix.
  • You remember watching:
    -the 1st Batman
    -Aladdin
    - Might Ducks
    -Ninja Turtles
    -3 Ninjas movies. [ROCKY!!!! COLT!!! TUMTUM!!! ]
  • You wanted them to Free Willy and you wanted to play in the Sandlot

  • You remember Ring Pops.

  • You remember drinking Surge, and Tang.

  • If you remember when every thing was “daBOMB!”

  • When they made the new lunchables sothat you could make pizza AND tacos.

  • You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.

  • Making those little paper fortune cookie things, and then predicting your lifewith them.

  • You played and/or collected “Pogs” :)

  • You had at least one Tamagotchi,GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere.

  • … Furbies.

  • You haven’t always had a computer, andit was cool to have the internet.

  • And Windows 95 was the best.

  • You watched the original cartoons ofRugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja Turtles.

  • Michael Jordan was a king.

  • Trapper Keepers!

  • All your school supplies were “LisaFrank” brand.

  • You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always sold out…

  • You collected those Beanie Babies.

  • Carebears

  • Gak was the coolest stuff invented.

  • Lambchop’s song never ended.

  • The old dollar bills.

  • Silver dollars, which were cool to have.

  • You remember a time before the WB....

  • ....but there was Saved by the Bell and California Dreams!

  • You collected all the Troll dolls

  • If you even know what an original walkman is.

  • You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.

  • You’ve gotten creeped out by “Are YouAfraid of the Dark?”

  • You know the Macarena by heart. (ADMIT IT. You could do it for a million dollars.)

  • “Talk to the hand” … enough said

  • You always said, “Then why don’t youmarry it!”

  • You went to McDonald’s to play in theplayplace.

  • You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.

  • You remember the boy band explosion (New Kids on theBlock, N*sync,Backstreet Boys, 98 degrees, LFO, etc)

  • You always wanted to go on Guts!, Legendof the Hidden Temple, What Would You Do?, Double Dare, or Figure it out!

  • KIDS InCORPORATED & MICKEY MOUSE CLUB!!!!!

  • Before the MySpace frenzy …

  • Before the Internet & text messaging …

  • Before Sidekicks & iPods …

  • Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX …

  • Before Spongebob …

  • Back when you put off the 5 hours ofhomework you had every night.

  • When light up sneakers were cool.

  • When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.

  • When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.

  • When we recorded stuff on VCRs.

  • When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off of our walkman.

  • When checking out drawing books and that one book about the rainbow fish from the library was THE cool thing to do.

  • You had slap braclets!

  • Heathcliff & Garfield.

  • ...Before we realized all this wouldeventually disappear.

3 comments:

Jen said...

hahah. i thoroughly enjoyed this post! ice ice BABY. i loved oregon trail, except when i died from dysentery. choose ur own adventure Goosebumps was the best! as well as Sonic the Hedgehog on sega genesis. Let's bring back "da bomb!" hahah

Unknown said...

haha...fun memories. i don't remember what gak is/was, though?

tia said...

HAAAHAHAHAHA THIS WAS FUN!!!