How to know if you've experienced the 90s!
1) 10p Mr Frosty Ice Pops on long summer days!
2) Gordon the Gopher!
3) You could do or tried to do the Prodigy step. 'You're no good 4 me....'
4) You owned or longed for an Adidas three stripe tracksuit
5) You owned a compilation tape with TOP TUNES such as "Mr Vain", "What
is love" and "Rhythm is a dancer" and 'How Bizarre, How Bizarre"
6) Girls thought Blue Mascara was cool!
7) Girls actually fancied Garry Barlow more than Robbie Williams
8) The Racoons! (nuff said)
9) You owned a pair of Nike Air Max, and wore them to death
10) Mr Motivator (What ever happened to him?)
11) Running on the spot dancing!
12) You wore leggings/cycling shorts with long t-shirts
13) You owned a Bennetton, NafNaf, sweater shop jumper or waistcoat
14) Girls owned scrunchies in an array of colours and tacky headbands with
their names written on in thick glitter
16) You bought Smash Hits for the song lyrics and the immense amount of
stickers that you would stick everywhere!
17) You had a pen pal
18) You could only watch the Simpson's on sky
19) On a Saturday afternoon you watched Catchphrase, Gladiators, Generation
Game, Noels House Party and then Casualty
20) You taped the Pepsi Chartshow from the radio and tried in vain to pause
the tape before the annoying guy talked and ruined the whole thing.
21) Cans of Coke were 25p
22) 10p Space Raiders Crisps
23) A grey Fruit of the Loom jumper was a must have
24) Sharkie & George were the crimebusters of the sea
25) Puffa jackets
26) You used the line "it's a free country" every day
27) The Sky Sports Blimp!
28) Impulse body spray for girls
29) Hooch Alcoholic Lemonade (where's it gone?!)
30) 'Don't forget your toothbrush', 'TFI' and Big Breakfast with Chris
Evans
31) You had at least one troll
32) You know the dance to Macarena and Saturday Night. Youalso tried to
scat like Scatman John! Bi bat ba ba da bo...
33) You watched Baywatch and longed for the day that Eddie & Sharni
got together!
34) You watched Byker Grove 'ha ha ha whatcha laughin at!' (the themesong
ending), and saw PJ get shot in the eye with a paintball!
35) PJ and Duncan not Ant and Dec! Dodgy Pop Not Dodgy Presenting!
36) Shellsuits & bumbags!
37) You longed to live in Beverley Hills 90210
38) Home and Away was a prime time ITV programe watched by millions
39) You owned a Spice Girls album
40) Fruit salads and black jacks!
41) Strike it lucky on a sunday night with Michael Barrymore when he was
straight & married
42) Chain letters
43) You had fake ID
44) You remember Todd Landers in Neighbours
45) You religiously watched Saved by the Bell on a Saturday morning!
46) You more than likely lost/nearly lost a wobbly tooth on a wham bar!!
47) CK one (probably the fake one from the market)
48) Going Live, then Live and Kicking was the place to be on a Saturday
Morning - you know you remember the number 0181 811 8181
49) You knew every word to the theme tune from Fresh Prince of Bel Air
50) You collected Premier League Stickers and did swoops at playtime
51) Girls wore crappy lipstick such as - coffee shimmer, heather shimmer
and birthday suit!
52) You wore kickers and wallaby's with the tags hanging from them
53) You thought saying - "I know you are, you said you are but what am
I" to every cuss that came your way!
54) "love got the world in motion" with the John Barnes Rap
55) When you used to run away from some thing and shout ' leg iiiiiitt'
56) For all you die hard East 17 fans: "Outside it's raining, inside it's
wet!"
57) You went to or dreamed about going to a Smash Hits concert
58) Just 17 had THE best problem pages
59) You went into Body Shop to put on Vanilla or White Musk perfumes
60)You
played and or collected "Pogs"
61)You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere
62) You wore a ponytail on the side of your head
63) You wore fluorescent clothing.
64) You had a snap bracelet!
65)You still get the urge to say "NOT " after every sentence
66)You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged
handmade friendship bracelets
67) You owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes
68) You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds
69) You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool... and don't
even flinch when people refer to them as "NKOTB".
70) You made your own denim shorts from old jeans
71) You remember Count Duckula, Through the Dragons Eye, The BBC version
of the Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, Through the Trapdoor, Finders Keepers, Fun House
72) Slouch socks - every girl had a pair!!
73) Dont push me, push a push pop!!
74) You owned a skip-it
75) Tiny little backpacks!
76) Who likes orange soda? Kel likes orange soda! Is it true? I do I do
I do oo!
77) Alex Mack!
78) Bermuda shorts
79) Woof - the boy who turned into a dog!
80) Crystal Maze with Richard O Brian...it was
never the same after Ed Tudor Pole (???) took over :(
81) Right Said Fred
82) James - Sit down - how cool did we looking sitting on a dance floor
- not!!!
83) Bodysuits (with press stud fasteners)
84) Trousers with skirts over them!??
85) Boom Boom Boom.... Let me hear you say Wey o!......Wey o!
86) You knew all the word to Captain Planet
87) You wanted to be on "Jim'll Fix It
88) You owned cassettes
89) You got a screwball scramble for xmas
90) Ed the duck was in the broomcupboard
You loved the 90's!!
