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Willow Zander
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08-16-2005 07:30
Probably more of a brit thing... but I am sure the other countries can relate to half of these too!

I miss the 90s. What the list forgets is the countless Sundays spent recording the charts, and trying to time it so that you didn't get theMark Goodier's voice at the beginning. Ah, so many tapes.

You know you've lived in the 90's when......................


1) You once used Wella Plum mousse or Sun In in your hair that youthought was totally original and stylish
2) You thought blue mascara looked good on EVERYONE
3) You could do or tried to do the ProdigysteP
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" on it
6) Hour long debates on who was better? East 17 or Take That
7) You judged a girl on who she fancied from Take That! Robbie: youwere cool, Gary Barlow: you were not!
8) For all you die hard East 17 fans: "Outside it's raining, inside It's wet!"
9) You owned a pair of Nike Air Max
10) Going into town with £5, getting the bus there and back,lunch and a top with it!
11) Running on the spot dancing
12) You wore leggings/cycling shorts with long t-shirts
13) You owned a Bennetton / NafNaf / Ton sur Ton jumper
14)You owned scrunchies in an array of colours
15) You went to or dreamed about going to a Smash Hits concert
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 watched Sweet Valley High after school
19) Then on a Saturday afternoon you watched Catchphrase, Gladiators,generation Game, Noels House Party and then Casualty
20) You wore black opaque tights with a wrap round skirt
21) Just 17 and More magazines had the best problem pages
22) 10p crisps!
23) A grey Fruit of the Loom jumper was a must have
24) Sharkie & George were the crime busters of the sea
25) Puffa jackets
26) You used the line "it's a free country" every day
27) Do the Bartman "I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything"
28) Impulse body spray
29) Woodies Alco pops were the best thing EVER!
30) Don't forget your toothbrush and Big Breakfast with Chris Evans
31) You had at least one troll
32) You know the dance to Macarena and Saturday Night. You also tried to scat like Scatman John!
33) You watched Baywatch and longed for the day that Eddie&Shauna got together! You fancied Eddie (Billy Warlock) too!
34) You watched Byker Grove
35) You went into Body Shop to put on Vanilla or White Musk perfumes
36)Shellsuits & bum bags!
37) You longed to live in Beverley Hills 90210
38) Fruit shaped soaps that usually came from Body Shop for your birthdays
39) You owned the TLC 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 could get drunk for £2 by drinking MD 20/20 in Strawberry,Orange or Kiwi and Lime Those were the days!!!!
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Ingrid Ingersoll
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08-16-2005 07:39
Hey, I still love my black, puffy jacket. Exactly what are you implying? ;)
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Willow Zander
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08-16-2005 07:46
I bet you look LE SEX :p

I am ashamed to admit, nearly all of those, I remember doing.
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Blayze Raine
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08-16-2005 07:46
I did number 44.....and its amazing what color you puke after you drink the Strawberry and Orange MD 20/20. :/ *shudders at THAT memory*
Willow Zander
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08-16-2005 07:52
From: Blayze Raine
I did number 44.....and its amazing what color you puke after you drink the Strawberry and Orange MD 20/20. :/ *shudders at THAT memory*


LMFAO!!!

I did that once, and my mum had to come and pick me up from a party after I was violently sick over my friends mum, oh the shame.
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Blayze Raine
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08-16-2005 08:09
Yep but doesn't it come out the prettiest shade of bright pink??

LMAO I don't know about over there, Willow, but we have some other C A *cheap ass* wine over here called Boonsfarm. At least that didn't taste like flavored gasoline like MD 20/20 does...

Ok maybe just a little. hahahahah
Arcadia Codesmith
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08-16-2005 08:19
About the only thing I miss from the 90's is getting high-paying gigs in the booming Internet sector. Finish a project, move on to the next, each paycheck getting fatter and fatter...

Oh yeah, I miss Ultima Online when it was sort of a collaborative project between a couple thousand users and a dev team that was actively engaged with the community. I remember somebody making a suggestion to a developer in chat and the developer dropping out of the conversation to code and deploy the suggestion in a matter of minutes. Does that make for sloppy, buggy code? Yep. Does it make for a sense of community engagement in the development process? You betcha!

But what you can do with 2000 users you can't with 20,000 or 200,000. Sigh.
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Quartie Biggles
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08-16-2005 08:40
Gladiators, are you bloody kidding me?!?!?! OOOO what a classic!!!!!!! 'Jet, you will go on my first whistle'...

OOOO a big happy togetherness over teh '90s, loving it.

You forgot 45.) Arranged you and four girl mates into the appopriate Spice Girl alter-ego's

:P:P:P :D:D:D

And .. erm.. how about a whole troop of trolls?? Does that count??

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Neehai Zapata
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08-16-2005 19:02
I wish I could remember more of the 90s. Insane amounts of cocaine have wiped out major parts of my memory. :)
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Kate Hanks
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08-16-2005 19:29
Oh my god, blue mascara and Impulse spray!! I wish my memory of that was wiped out! :D
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Euterpe Roo
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08-16-2005 20:47
<--Is now weeping inconsolably. <sniffff> Are you sure you are not talking about the '80s? Am I that freakin' old? <sniff>

Every party I attended in the 90s featured the 'Gipsy Kings.' I didn't need a fake ID. <sniff> I had an unrequited love affair (OK, he didn't even get to know me) with Seal (OK, OK I stalked Seal) <sssnnniff> I got my first tattoo--a tasteful one on my shoulder <snnniff> I bought my first pair of used Doc Martens. <whimper> Had the first season of 'Red Dwarf' on tape. Would yell 'smeghead' at inopportune moments <niffle> Played Nick Lowe's "Party of One" until the cassette tape wore out.

I did own a scrunchi, though. :D Feeling a bit better.
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Eggy Lippmann
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08-17-2005 00:45
What's with people and decades? I lived through the 80s and 90s and I still look and dress more or less the same... I guess I'm not a "trendy" type :P
Selador Cellardoor
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08-17-2005 02:52
Are people getting nostalgic about the *nineties* now?

Blimey - that really makes me feel old. The nineties are yesterday afternoon for me.
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08-17-2005 18:22
The 90's are the 80's minus Atari. :D
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Kathmandu Gilman
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08-17-2005 20:55
Ummm what language are you speaking? The only thing I recognised was #27, Baywatch, 90210 and and Air Nikes but did not do any of those things. I'll go crawl under my rock now...
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