nostalgia thread

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Playing in the park everyday
Waking up early every Saturday to watch cartoons (when cartoons were actually good)
Coloring assignments for homework</p>

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<ul>
<li>Riding my bike a little past my mom’s borders when I was 5</li>
<li>Pogs</li>
<li>Sega</li>
<li>Adventures</li>
</ul>

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<p>Wait hold on, What is nostalgio?</p>

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<p>You’re a 90’s kid if:</p>

<p>You can sing the rap to “The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air”</p>

<p>You know that “WOAH” comes from Joey from “Blossom” and that “How Rude!” comes from Stephanie from “Full House”</p>

<p>You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.</p>

<p>You remember reading “Goosebumps”</p>

<p>You know the profound meaning of “Wax on, wax off”</p>

<p>You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.</p>

<p>You danced to “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls, Females: had a new motto, Males: got a whole lot gay-er. (so tell me what you want, what you really really want.)</p>

<p>HELLO…HOT WHEELS!!!
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<p>You remember the craze, then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books.
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<p>You still get the urge to say “NOT” after (almost) every sentence…Not…</p>

<p>Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? was both a game and a TV game show.</p>

<p>You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together.
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<p>You remember when super nintendos became popular.</p>

<p>You remember watching home alone 1, 2 , and 3…and tried to pull the pranks on “intruders”</p>

<p>“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”</p>

<p>You remember boom boxes vs. cd players</p>

<p>You remember New Kids on The Block when they were cool</p>

<p>You knew all the characters names and their life stories on “Saved By The Bell”
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<p>You played and/or collected “Pogs”</p>

<p>You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere</p>

<p>You watched the original Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Ninja Turtles</p>

<p>NANCY DREW AND THE HARDY BOYS WERE THE BEST MYSTERY BOOKS</p>

<p>Yikes pencils and erasers were the stuff!</p>

<p>All your school supplies were “Lisa Frank” brand.(pencils.notebooks.binders.etc.)</p>

<p>You remember when the new Beanie Babies were always sold out.</p>

<p>You used to wear those stick on earrings, not only on your ears, but at the corners of your eyes.</p>

<p>You’ve gotten creeped out by “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”</p>

<p>You know the Macarena by heart.
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<p>“Talk to the hand” … enough said</p>

<p>You thought Brain would finally take over the world</p>

<p>You always said, “Then why don’t you marry it!”</p>

<p>You remember when everyone went slinky crazy.</p>

<p>You remember when razor scooters were cool.</p>

<p>When we were younger:</p>

<p>Before the MySpace frenzy…</p>

<p>Before the Internet & text messaging…</p>

<p>Before Sidekicks & iPods…</p>

<p>Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX…</p>

<p>…Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.</p>

<p>When light up sneakers were cool.</p>

<p>When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.</p>

<p>When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.</p>

<p>When we recorded stuff on VCRs & paid $3.50 for a movie.</p>

<p>When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off our walkmans.</p>

<p>When the Chicago Bulls were the best team ever.</p>

<p>Tag.</p>

<p>Get Over Here!!! means something to you.</p>

<p>Hide-n-Go Seek at dusk.</p>

<p>Red Light, Green Light.</p>

<p>Heads Up 7 Up.</p>

<p>Playing Kickball & Dodgeball until your porch light came on.</p>

<p>Hopskotch.</p>

<p>Tree Houses.</p>

<p>Hula Hoops.</p>

<p>Captain Planet.</p>

<p>Running through the sprinklers.</p>

<p>That “Little Mermaid”</p>

<p>Crying when Mufasa died in the Lion King.</p>

<p>Happy Meals where you chose a Barbie or a Hot Wheels car.</p>

<p>Getting the privilege to sit in the front seat of the car.</p>

<p>Drinking Sqeeze It “Squeeze The Fun Out Of It”</p>

<p>Or what about:</p>

<p>Hey Arnold.</p>

<p>Rugrats.
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<p>The Secret World of Alex Mac.</p>

<p>Rocco’s Modern Life.</p>

<p>Are You Afraid of the Dark?</p>

<p>Doug.</p>

<p>Magic School Bus.
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<p>Aladdin.
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<p>Pinky and the Brain
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<p>Sailor Moon.</p>

<p>Blossom.</p>

<p>Beavis & Butt-Head</p>

<p>Wishbone.
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<p>Bill Nye the Science Guy</p>

<p>MR RODGERS!!!</p>

<p>Where everyone wanted to be in love after watching The Wonder Years.</p>

<p>Under the Umbrella Tree</p>

<p>PEE-WEE!!!</p>

<p>The Big Comfy Couch</p>

<p>Kool-Aid was the drink of choice.</p>

<p>Class field trips.</p>

<p>When Christmas was the most exciting time of year.</p>

<p>When $5 seemed like a million, & another dollar a miracle.</p>

<p>When you begged to go to McDonalds for dinner everyday.</p>

<p>When Toys R Us overuled the mall.</p>

<p>Go back to the time when:</p>

<p>Decisions were made by going ‘eeny-meeny-miney-moe’.</p>

<p>Money issues were handled by whoever was banker in ‘Monopoly.’</p>

<p>Being old referred to anyone over 20.</p>

<p>A chance to skate as a couple at the local roller rink was like winning the lottery.</p>

<p>When Ninja Turtles ruled the world.</p>

<p>When Aladdin was new, before the trilogy was complete.</p>

<p>Before we realized all this would eventually disappear</p>

<p>Who would have thought you’d miss the 90’s so much!!!</p>

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<p>eating circus peanuts
having picnics with my friend in my room on a blanket blocking the “sun” w/ an umbrella
buying a toy from toys r us
days when glancing at my brother’s algebra made me nervous about middle school
raffles in second grade bilingual class
my aladdin velcro light up tennis shoes</p>

<p>and from high school:
my history teacher, the queen of the universe
co2 bombs in chem
entering the gym in the dark hours to decorate it
hide and go seek at midnite
calculus saturday school =]
calculus sleepover
free food on workdays
food runs before rehearsal
tuesdays-every single one of them LOL</p>

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<p>Tom and Jerry.</p>

<p>Man I miss that show.</p>

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<p>Pokemon
Gameboy link-battles
Yu-Gi-oh
Starcraft (still play occasionally)
Xanga</p>

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<p>neopets, power rangers, enjoying the good old times when i was a child skipping in a warm summer day and eating $1.00 Mr.Softie from the ice cream truck. oh and ofcourse, the Spice Girls lol.</p>

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<p>Britney Spears was hot
Nickelodeon didn’t suck(Kenan and Kel FTW)
History Channel didn’t suck(Please cancel all the new reality shows)
20 oz bottle of soda cost $1.00
Pokemon was cool</p>

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<p>Lol, I remember in the 5th grade my friend was talking about which college he was gonna go to (his parents probably told him about their legacy in passing), and I was like, “but isn’t college so far away?”</p>

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<p>Pramirez! I had a feeling someone was going to post that!</p>

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<p>yes it’s one of those things that are posted here every month or so</p>

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<p>Yea and during the whole myspace era I read it like 8 times and now over and over again on facebook.</p>

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<p>transformers (the old skool anime)
POWER RANGERS!
pokemon
getting lost in grocery stores and department stores!
the beach
a hot day with a hot breeze
riding trains</p>

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<p>Getting the new Harry Potter Books
The old Dumbledore in the movies
Pokemon
Eating Lunchables for Lunch
Looking up at the world</p>

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<p>How about Zoobooks with the BONUS ELEPHANT ISSUE!</p>

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<ul>
<li>That show where the kids solved mysteries with the help of a ghost. Ghostwriter?</li>
<li>Cheap movie tickets </li>
<li>Lunchables!</li>
<li>When all the “drama” people had was when someone stole another person’s crayon</li>
<li>Pokemon. The OLD pokemon. Bulbasaur, Vulpix, Ninetales…</li>
<li>Being a kid in general</li>
</ul>

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<p>haha lunchables! - my friend who’s also my age still eats those!</p>

<p>i loved the jetsons and all those old toons. and i rememeber playing age of empires! influenced by my brother…</p>

<p>and the days when doing online chat stuff was taboo</p>

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<p>I loved Hey Arnold! I always watched it before dinner lol…</p>