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How Well Do You Remember the 1980s!! Take our Eighties Challenge!!

Were you a child of the eighties? Or are you too young? Or are you too old? Or are you desperately trying to forget? Take the Eighties 100 challenge, see do you score high or low, or you eighties are not? Do you know this stuff? Can you remember this stuff? Do you agree with this stuff? Score less than 20, you are some other decade. Score between 20 and 40 you were there or thereabouts. Score 40 to 60, you lived it. Score 60 to 80, you were a symbol of the decade. Score over eighty and you wish you were still there…admit it. So take a deep breeat, yes, yes, here we go!

1. You know how to play kerbs.

2. You can sing the theme tune to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

3. You know who Uncle Travelling Matt is and what’s more you respect him.

4. You thought treble laces in LA Gear were the future.

5. You played Tip the Can.

6. You spent hours on a Lolo ball.

7. You risked losing an eye playing Garden Swing Tennis.

8. You thought Larry Bird was the greatest basketball player to have ever lived.

9. You fancied or wanted to be Denise in The Cosby Show.

10. You sincerely believed M.C. Hammer was trendy.

11.  You got up early to watch Top Cat.

12. You went through The Magic Door on Bosco.

13. Wanderly Wagon freaked you out.

14. You are trying to remember The Magic Door rhyme.

15. You built go-carts from scrap, then trundled down ridiculously steep hills.

16. You believed the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 were the space age.

?           17. Hungry Horace, Frogger and Chuckie Egg were the         
new Pac-man.

18. Hula-Hoops and Lilt was an exotic lunch.

19. Ten Johnny Blue, a box of matches and two golf ball chewing gums was £1.

20. Snickers was Marathon and Starbust were Opal Fruits.

21. First improper contact was made through Spin the Bottle.

22. You were ate alive by midgets every single night of the summer.

23. You stockpiled pairs of Sizzlers runners.

24. You watched weird government health and safety ads - Where’s Granddad? Boy falling into barrel -eek!

25. Ah! The Bould Ceann on Bagpuss!

26. You screamed Caaaaaptaaaaainnnnnn Caaaaaavvvvvemaaaaaaannnnn!

27. You thought yourself a tad strange for fancying the pants off the Cadbury’s Caramel Rabbit.

28. You walked home from the public pool munching Meanies and stinking of chlorine.

29. You watched Charlene and Scott get married before they became Kylie and Jason.

30. Soda Streams were an enviable Luxury.

31. You steeped your conker in vinegar, bore an old shoe lace through it, slung it over your shoulder and headed to the nearest Conker competition.

32. You swapped stickers in the playground.

33. You robbed orchards.

34.  You read 2000 AD and marvelled that we would be living like that in two decades.

35. You know Scrabby ruined Scooby-Doo.

36. Yoda was the perfect grandfather.

37. Gentle Ben was the perfect start to a Saturday morning.

38. Your uncle drove a  Volvo 340.

39. Your auntie drove a Citreon 2CV.

40. Connect 4 made for a good Sunday afternoon.

41. Your first psychedelic experience was We’re off to Button Moon.

42. Ozone and Turbo were the men.

43. You walked the dog with a yo-yo before rocking the cradle! Oh dear…

44. Top Gun expanded your vocabulary - Your ego is writing checks your body can’t cash; The list is long but distinguished; You don’t have time to think up there. If you think you’re dead; You can be my wing-man anytime; The need for speed; I’m not goanna sit here and blow sunshine up your ass…again, oh dear….

45. You owned a copy of Slippery When Wet…admit it….

46. Early thrill? Jamie Lee Curtis’ naked flesh in Trading Places.

47. Rubik’s Cube drove you nuts….and your ripped and replaced stickers.

48. Your wealthy cousin had an At-Tat and the Millennium Falcon and you hated him for it…and still do….

49. He also had a Raleigh Vektar, which you wanted to kill him for and still do.

50. You love the smell of burning Scalextric in the morning!

51. Remember the local Arcade?

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52. The  Equaliser was hardcore and bad-ass.

53. Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

54. You can’t believe Molly Ringwald is 41.

55. You are devastated to learn that Kelly McGillis has come out.

56. You foolishly thought Air Jordans would give you an extra three of four foot on the court.

57. Cherry Coke was a frightening but yet compelling concept.

58. Mexico ‘86 was like it was being beamed from Mars.

59. You remember all the Man U fans been Liverpool fans.

60. Grange Hill was where it was all happening. God bless ya Tucker!

61. You stayed up to watch Dennis Taylor somehow beat The Nugget.

62. You remember snow in winter….we even built sledges!

63. You remember the peril of one screen cinemas and the month long wait for new films, four months for anything decent and the beauty of it.

64. Having a local boozer when you were fifteen.

65. Slow sets at discos.

66. Chicken curry being served at discos.

67. Clothes shops with no changing rooms.

68. The VCR taking up half of your sitting-room.

69. Older siblings disappearing to London, Boston and Perth the second they’d finished the Leaving Certificate.

70. Drinking water from the tap.

71. Atlantic 252.

72. When Samantha Fox appeared to be the only sex symbol that we were aware of.

73. The mass hysteria of the moving statues….simpler times.

74. The incomparable joy of a Wibbly Wobbly Wonder on a summer’s day and the incomparable mastery involved in eating one.

75. Seven hour games of soccer/rugby/football on estate greens that involved hundreds of people from everywhere.

76. The joys of being left alone with a Gobstopper for the whole day,

77. Kicking and screaming for a skateboard after seeing Back to the Future, getting one and never using it because our roads were shoddy and our paths were none the better.

78. The agony and the ecstasy of the annual summer jaunt to the bog.

79.  When giving someone a crossbar was the surest sign of friendship.

80. You robbed rhubarb.

81. Picking mushrooms was a lucrative earner.

82. Caddying was a career.

83. When Subbuteo and the PC were still vying for supremacy.

84. When dynamite was available and apparently legal during Hallowe’en week.

85. Bob-a-Job

86. When Simon Geoghegan beat England single-handedly,

87. When the sun shone in the summer.

88. When Houghton stuck it in the English net.

89. Moonwalk anybody?

90. MTV played music.

91. When we laughed at Americans for their daft obsessions - stuff like poodle parlours, Oprah, confession culture, PC and crap food.

92. Hacky Sack was going to take over from soccer.

93. Shoulder pads, stone washed jeans, fingerless gloves, parachute pants, perms, leotards…oh dear what were we thinking…never again or so we thought….

94. Asking horrified shop-tellers for a hundred penny sweets.

95. As a child, falling asleep in smoky bars…God be with the days.

96. Collecting frogspawn.

97. Playing war - is that still done?

98. Building forts and tree-houses.

99. The Walkman

100. Michael Jackson - King of the decade.

About the Author

Russell Shortt is a travel consultant with Exploring Ireland, the leading specialists in customised, private escorted tours, escorted coach tours and independent self drive tours of Ireland. Article source Russell Shortt, http://www.exploringireland.net/self-drive-page.html http://www.visitscotlandtours.com/tours/self-drive-tours.html

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