Are you a Gen Xer?


You might belong to Generation X if:

  • You wore anything Izod, especially those windbreakers that folded up into a pouch you could wear around your waist.
  • You owned a Jordache anything, or you remember when Jordache jeans were cool.
  • You know, by heart, the words to a "Weird" Al Yankovic song.
  • You remember when Madonna was just hitting the scene.
  • "The Reflex" was a cool song.
  • You remember "Battlestar Galactica."
  • Three words: "Atari," "Apple," and "Pong."
  • You remember the original version of Windows: Macintosh.
  • You remember the days when "safe sex" meant "my parents are gone for the weekend."
  • You remember "Friday Night Videos" before the days of MTV.
  • You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the mini-van.
  • You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you in the "tail gunner" position.
  • You actually know who Rick Springfield is.
  • You remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possibly get better special effects than those in the movie TRON.
  • You jammed to the Miami Vice theme and thought Jan Hammer was cool.
  • For the girl crazy bunch: Your first sexual dream occurred to thoughts of Jeannie, Marsha Brady, Samantha from Bewitched or, for those hard-core comic fans out there, Daphne from Scooby Doo, Josie or any one of her Pussycats
  • And for the boy crazy bunch: You thought Sean Cassidy was "dreamy", lusted after "Ted, your ship's photographer" on the Love Boat and Chachi, or, to keep it fair to the comically interested, thought Fred was just a hunk on Scooby Doo.
  • You're starting to believe (now that it wouldn't affect YOU) that maybe having the kids go to school year-round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
  • You're doing absolutely nothing with anything pertaining to your major degree.
  • You ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon
  • You remember when there was only "G, 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 spent endless nights dreaming about being the Bionic Woman/Man or Wonder Woman/the Incredible Hulk.
  • You know all the words to the double album set of Grease.
  • "All-skate, change directions" means something to you.
  • You ever rang someone's doorbell and said "Landshark."
  • 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 wore Birdwell's Beach Britches, or anything made by OP.
  • You remember that video by A Flock of Seagulls.
  • "Thriller", "Beat It", or "Ebony and Ivory" was your top request on the radio.
  • Remember "Tainted Love"?
  • Every time you see one of those big military rescue helicpters, you think of the "Screaming Mimi" from "Riptide."
  • You saw the space shuttle launch in shcool and thought "Wow, cool."
  • One word: Corduroy.
  • You are a Remington Steele fan.
  • You saw the Stones' *first* farewell tour.
  • When you saw Dana Plato's layout in Playboy, it didn't match the fantasies you had from watching her on "Diff'rent Strokes."
  • You remember when Eddie Van Halen and Hugh Heffner were both single. "Van Halen just isn't the same without Dave."
  • You remember when Rush was a heavy metal band, and Geddy Lee's voice could shatter glass.
  • You saw the first "Less Filling/Tastes Great" commercial.
  • You know the Fonz's full name.
  • You decided to take up golf after you saw "Caddyshack."
  • Cheech and Chong were really cool, man.
  • Go, Speed Racer, go!
  • Rocky and Bullwinkle, Speed Buggy, Underdog, and Get Smart were yourfavorite TV shows, right after Gilligan's Island.
  • You remember all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song.
  • Redd Foxx was great as Fred Sanford.
  • Sonny Bono as mayor still wigs you out.
  • You went around humming Manfred Mann's "Do Wah Diddy" for two weeks after you saw "Stripes."
  • You've ever shouted, "I wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day!"
  • You remember when OJ was famous for running through airports in Hertz commercials, or for playing football.
  • Carroll O'connor was Archie Bunker, not that hick cop from Georgia.
  • You still watch "The Jeffersons," and you're waiting for "Good Times" to come out on video. (Dyn-O-Mite!)
  • It's sad to see Jimmie Walker, Evel Knievel, and Eddie Munster in those Little Caesar's ads.
  • The words "How about a nice Hawaiian Punch?" and "Where's the beef?!" bring back fond childhood memories.
  • Sesame Street and Star Trek played important roles during your formative years.
  • You really liked the car in "Hardcastle and McCormick."
  • You know what "Nanoo, nanoo" means.
  • Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder really knew how to make an entrance into a prison cell. ("That's right, we bad....")
  • You remember Velvet Jones, Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood, and Gumby, dammit!
  • Before "NYPD Blue," it was "Hill Street Blues." And before that, it was "Baretta," "Columbo," and "Starsky & Hutch."
  • You know where the line "Yo, Adrian!" came from.
  • You watched ZOOM on TV.
  • You took a date to see "St. Elmo's Fire."
  • The video for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" was almost as badass as Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing."
  • You remember Sting as the front man for the Police.
  • You got sick of hearing George Michael's "Sex" over and over on the radio, kinda like Def Leppard......
  • You remember anything Bruce Springsteen did before "Born in the USA."
  • You watched "Cagney and Lacey."
  • You zaw zoze Zima commerzials on ze TV. ("Nice hat.")
  • You know that the "Queen of Rock and Roll" is Rod Stewart.
  • You know who Tennesee Tuxedo was.
  • You used to watch "Hollywood Squares" because it was on between "Gomer Pyle, USMC" and "Batman ."
  • You wore your jeans tight, not baggy like all your friends do now to hide their flabby backsides.
  • "Funky Cold Medina" was cool.
  • You actually remember Spuds McKenzie, Alex from Stroh's, and the Swedish Bikini Team.
  • You remember when Joe Camel made his first appearance, on the 75th birthday comemorative pack.
  • You remember when Patrick Duffy went from being "The Man from Atlantis" to Bobby Ewing.
  • You know who shot JR.
  • Before he starred with Lou Ferigno in "The Increduble Hulk," Bill Bixby played in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father." (After he did "My Favorite Martian," of course.)
  • Remember "Real People" and "That's Incredible"?
  • Dennis Miller, for just an instant, was actually as funny as he thought he was.
  • You were afraid of the Sleestaks on Land of the Lost.
  • You remember the days that hooking your computer into your television wasn't an expensive option that required gadgets - it was the ONLY WAY to use your computer!
  • "IntelliVision" and "Coleco". Sound familiar?
  • You see teenagers today wearing clothes that show up in those childhood photos, and they still look bad.
  • You remember when music that was labeled "alternative" really was.
  • You, yes you, sat down and memorized the entire lyric sheet to "It's the End of the World as We Know It".
  • You've ever conversationally used the phrase "Jane, you ignorant slut".
  • You watched HR Puffenstuff 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're starting to view getting carded to buy alcohol as a GOOD thing.
  • 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.
  • This rings a bell: "and my name, is Charlie. They work for me."
  • You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar.
  • You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on, after all, look at Tab.
  • You remember when your cable tv box had the three rows of numbers and you had to move the selector switch accordingly.


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