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chrissy
06-10-2001, 09:55 AM
YOU KNOW YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL OF THE 70'S IF:

1. You wore that rainbow shirt that was half-sleeves and the rainbow went up one sleeve, across your chest and down the other.

2. You made baby chocolate cakes in your Holly Hobbie Easy Bake Oven.

3. "Oh Mickey you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind Hey Mickey!" was your first favorite pop song.

4. You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad. You wore that Little House on the Prairie-inspired plaid, ruffled shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture.

5. You wanted your first kiss to be at the roller rink.

6. You tried to make sure that no boys would grab the comb out of your back pocket and skate away at the roller rink.

7. Your hairstyle was ever described as having "wings".

8. You thought Shaun Cassidy actually wrote the songs "Da Do Run Run" and "Hey There Lonely Girl".

9. Strawberry Shortcake and her friends Blueberry Muffin and
Huckleberry Pie.

10. You couldn't wait to be old enough to wear high-heeled
shoes....the one's called "Yo Yo's" with the plastic heel with a hole through it!!

11. You carried a Muppets lunch box to school.

12. You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazard was your boyfriend.

13. You memorized every song on the "Annie" movie and know at least one person who immediately went out and got the Annie afro.

14. You had Star Wars action figures, too.

15. You thought unicorns were real.

16. It was a big event in your household each year when the "Wizard of Oz" would come on TV. Break out the popcorn and sleeping bags!

17. Light as a feather, stiff as a board.

18. You loved The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe so much you got the whole Chronicles of Narnia series for Christmas but never read the other books.

19. You crawled in a wardrobe somewhere and actually believed for a few seconds that you were on your way to Narnia.

20. You completely wore-out your Grease and Saturday Night Fever soundtrack albums.

21. You tried to do lots of arts and crafts things, like yarn & popsicle sticks or those weird potholders made on a plastic loom.

22. Shrinky-dinks! What was so appealing about these? I loved the Raggedy Anne & Andy shrinky dinks. I still remember how the oven smelled when they were "baking".

23. You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your miniature tape recorder up to the speaker.

24. You couldn't wait to get the free animal poster that came when you ordered books from the Scholastic book orders your teacher would give you. Remember? The order catalogs looked like miniature newspapers.

25. You learned everything you needed to know about sex and your period from Judy Blume books

Jenny
06-10-2001, 11:40 AM
Originally posted by crabbie
YOU KNOW YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL OF THE 70'S IF:


2. You made baby chocolate cakes in your Holly Hobbie Easy Bake Oven.

5. You wanted your first kiss to be at the roller rink.

9. Strawberry Shortcake and her friends Blueberry Muffin and
Huckleberry Pie.


17. Light as a feather, stiff as a board.

18. You loved The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe so much you got the whole Chronicles of Narnia series for Christmas but never read the other books.

22. Shrinky-dinks! What was so appealing about these? I loved the Raggedy Anne & Andy shrinky dinks. I still remember how the oven smelled when they were "baking".



Oh man, I was born in '76. So some of those were beyond me, (like the high heels and stuff. :) ), but these few are perfect! LOL God, I can remember having a slumber party and doing this: "Close your eyes, and think to yourself while we say it, 'Light as a feather, stiff as a bored'." LOL OMG! And I loved the oven shrinky things! hehehe so much fun! It's amazing what wholesome fun we had back then. Kind of worries me about my own kid/s.

Kim
06-10-2001, 01:58 PM
ok, now I feel really old...I remember all of that, lol.

Speedfreak
06-10-2001, 02:50 PM
DOH!.... I did this. :disa:

18. You loved The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe so much you got the whole Chronicles of Narnia series for Christmas but never read the other books.


Shut up.



NO... I DIDN'T do this..

19. You crawled in a wardrobe somewhere and actually believed for a few seconds that you were on your way to Narnia.




[Edited by Speedfreak on 06-10-2001 at 02:52 PM]

Tuvi
06-10-2001, 08:18 PM
i have star wars action figures, but i wasn't a child of the 70s fortunately..
thats the only thing i can identify with or even remotely recognize on that list.

MadCool
06-10-2001, 10:06 PM
Originally posted by crabbie
YOU KNOW YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL OF THE 70'S IF:

18. You loved The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe so much you got the whole Chronicles of Narnia series for Christmas but never read the other books.

19. You crawled in a wardrobe somewhere and actually believed for a few seconds that you were on your way to Narnia.

24. You couldn't wait to get the free animal poster that came when you ordered books from the Scholastic book orders your teacher would give you. Remember? The order catalogs looked like miniature newspapers.


LOL!! I loved the The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe! And Book orders... Oh man i remember being excited when the box comes and the teacher would call out our names and stuff... The memories... But all this happen in the 80's for me!

DizzyT
06-11-2001, 06:00 AM
Originally posted by crabbie
YOU KNOW YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL OF THE 70'S IF:

1. You wore that rainbow shirt that was half-sleeves and the rainbow went up one sleeve, across your chest and down the other.

2. You made baby chocolate cakes in your Holly Hobbie Easy Bake Oven.

5. You wanted your first kiss to be at the roller rink.

6. You tried to make sure that no boys would grab the comb out of your back pocket and skate away at the roller rink.

7. Your hairstyle was ever described as having "wings".

8. You thought Shaun Cassidy actually wrote the songs "Da Do Run Run" and "Hey There Lonely Girl".

10. You couldn't wait to be old enough to wear high-heeled
shoes....the one's called "Yo Yo's" with the plastic heel with a hole through it!!

15. You thought unicorns were real.

16. It was a big event in your household each year when the "Wizard of Oz" would come on TV. Break out the popcorn and sleeping bags!

17. Light as a feather, stiff as a board.

21. You tried to do lots of arts and crafts things, like yarn & popsicle sticks or those weird potholders made on a plastic loom.

23. You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your miniature tape recorder up to the speaker.



Oh my GOD! These were just GREAT! Born in 1969 (yes - I'm VERY old!). You can find me in at least one old photo sporting my old rainbow shirt, my easy bake oven was the coolest (that lightbulb really never got too hot!), my first kiss WAS at the rollerrink and it was from a boy who had actually swiped my comb from my back pocket, I had shaun Cassidy posters plastering my walls, could NOT wait to wear high-heeled shoes, actually begged my father for a unicorn for X-mas, loved Wizard of Oz times with family, played light-as-a-feather plenty of times, mom STILL has plenty of lopsided popsicle stick thingy's from me on the christmas tree every year and I think I still have my very first home-made tape from my tape recorder from my sisters stereo.

Hey Crabbie - Thanks for the memories!

topane
06-11-2001, 07:19 AM
Originally posted by Tuvi
i have star wars action figures, but i wasn't a child of the 70s fortunately..
thats the only thing i can identify with or even remotely recognize on that list. Damn, I wasn't feeling old until reading this :laugh:

fakesurfers
06-11-2001, 07:54 AM
Originally posted by crabbie


15. You thought unicorns were real.



I thought unicorns were extinct in the 70's ??

wrkngirl
06-11-2001, 12:27 PM
I had prairie skirts... I had wings... I watched Fantasy Island and thought that someday, if I was really lucky, I'd get to go there... My first boyfriend asked me to "go with him" while we were couple skating to "Hard to say I'm Sorry"...
I'm too young to be old!!! :)

Jihforce
06-11-2001, 02:42 PM
I live in denial so I'm never going to be old. Haahaa.
:P

jujubees
06-11-2001, 03:01 PM
Originally posted by crabbie
22. Shrinky-dinks! What was so appealing about these? I loved the Raggedy Anne & Andy shrinky dinks. I still remember how the oven smelled when they were "baking".

I never got shrinky-dinks, no matter how many times I begged :bawl: