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Are You Old School? Here Are A Few Questions To Confirm...

Sooooo...do ya think you qualify as "Old School" in our book?
Let's see how many of these QUALIFYING QUESTIONS you can hit:
[of course, it's all relative...and in good fun]

Music:

Do you remember record stores actually selling "RECORDS?" [actual wax/vinyl]
Do you remember saving up your money and buying your very first 45 record or that really special "LP"?
Do you remember the little adaptor/insert that we used to have to use so our 45s would work on our turntables?
Do you remember Oran Juice Jones said: "you just a squirrel tryin' to get a nut"?
Do you remember who sang "Brass Monkey....That Funky Monkey"?
Do you remember that year when we heard about 15 different versions of "Roxanne, Roxanne" on the radio?
Do you remember Colonel Abrahams?
Do you remember Jack Master Farley?
Do you remember Le Freak...from Chic?
Do you remember The Ohio Players?
Do you remember Earth Wind & Fire?
Do you remember Parliment Funkadelic?
Do you remember Car Wash...from Rose Royce?
Do you remember Disco Inferno...from The Tramps?
Do you remember Turn The Beat Around...from Vici Sue Robinson?
Do you remember Shake Your Groove Thing...from Peaches & Herb?
Do you remember the Fat Boys?
Do you remember Kid N' Play?
Do you remember De La Soul?
Do you remember when TuPac was down w/ the Digitial Underground doing the Humpty Dance w/ Shock G?
Do you remember Ready for the World?
Do you remember DeBarge?
Do you remember Jody Whatley?
Do you remember Pebbles?
Do you remember Lisa Lisa?
Do you remember Soul II Soul?
Do you remember when LL Cool J said "I can't live WITHOUT MY RADIO !!"
Do you remember DJ FRANK SKI on WDCU on his show: "Breaker's Delight?"
Do your remember V-103 had "The Fresh Party" and that was the only time you could hear hip-hop on that station [8p-10p]?
Do you remember Egyptian Lover, Planet Rock, The Beat Goes On, and Cheap Thrills ?
Do you remember all those white songs and videos you like but never admitted to watching like the Eurhythmics, ABC, Men at Work, DeVo, Billy Idol etc.
Do you remember jammin' to Full Force, The Time, Vanity 6, Kool Moe Dee, Heavy D & The Boys, The Jets, and Terence Trent D'arby?

T.V. & Movies:

Do you remember when Janet Jackson was cute little "Penny" on Good Times [tryin' not to get burned by the iron]?
Do you remember watching Speed Racer?
Do you remember Mighty Isis?
Do you remember Ultra Man?
Do you remember The Love Boat?
Do you remember Fantasy Island?
Do you remember That's Incredible?
Do you remeber The Great Space Coaster?
Do you remember Captain Kangaroo?
Do you remember The Electric Company?
Do you remember when Star Wars was the "original"....before they told us that we had NEVER SEEN "episode one" nor "episode two" yet [to confuse us even more, the STAR WARS we saw is actually EPISODE 4 since Episode 3 is yet to come, eh?]
Do you remember BEAT STREET the movie?
Do you remember Tubbs & Crockett on Miami Vice? [and we're talking about Don Johnson & Philip Michael Thomas---not Jamie Foxx & Colin Farrell]
Do you remember when the lead actors from MIAMI VICE tried to be Pop Music stars?
Do you remember Sara Jessica Parker [many years before Sex & The City] when she was on a TV show called "Square Pegs"?
Do you remember Clubber Lang [Mr. T.] saying: "Prediction??? Pain!!!!" in Rocky II?
Do you remember WAR GAMES?
Do you remember PURPLE RAIN?
Do you remember Different Strokes?
Do you remember 227?
Do you remember Three's Company?
Do you remember Good Times?
Do you remember FAME [movie & TV show]?
Do you remember Krush Groove?

Fashion:

Did you ever wear IZOD...back in the 1980s? [now it's BACK in style....funny, eh?]
Do you remember when Coca-Cola had a clothing line that was a lot like Benneton?
Do you remember wearing Skidz?
Do you remember girls wearing those "jelly" shoes?
Do you remember Cross Colors?
Do you remember the FIRST Air Jordans by Nike?
Did you ever wear a MEMBERS ONLY jacket?

Technology & Entertainment:

Do you remember ATARI 2600 Game System?
Do you remember the Commodore 64?
Do you remember the Apple II Plus or the Apple IIe?
Do you remember when computer modems required you to place the phone receiver on a cradle device to begin connecting?
Do you remember Space Invaders? Or Frogger? Or Galaga? Or Defender, Donkey Kong...OK....how about PONG?
Do you remember when touch tone phones were NEW?
Do you remember when CALL WAITING was NEW?
Do you remember when BETA video recorders were "all that"?
Do you remember the first WALKMAN?
Do you remember when cable TV was NEW to your neighborhood?
Do you remember when FAX Machines were considered very hi-tech?
Do you remember the first mobile phones being carried in a BAG w/ a shoulder strap [huge & heavy]?

History, Society, Life & Culture:

Did you ever use the word "fly"?
Do you remember postage stamps being ten [10] cents?
Did you ever have a hi-top fade hair style?
Did you ever have your barber cut diaganol parts in your hair or other designs like logos, initials, etc?
Do you remember Pop Rocks?
Did you ever have a Rubik's Cube?
Do you remember "NEW" COKE?
Do you remember the unfortunate Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy?
Do you remember the US hostages in Iran?
Do you remember when riding the MARTA train was only 75 cents?
Do you remember getting some old cardboard and trying to spin on your head and your Mom thought you were going to break your neck?
Do you remember the Ford Pinto?
Do you remember Eastern Airlines?
Do you remember Woolworths?
Do you remember when McDonald's had only served about 15 million...and it was exciting to see them UPDATE the sign outside of the restaurant [before they got lazy and just decided to post "Billions and Billions Served"]?
Do you remember when millions of people woke up @ 5AM [USA Eastern Time] to watch Prince Charles & Lady Diana get married in London via live TV?
Do you remember that really cool car called DELOREAN?
Do you remember when the YUGO hit the US market and was the only NEW car around going for only $3,840.00?
Do you remember the gas shortages during the 1970s oil embargo?
Do you remember President Jimmy Carter? [former Georgia Governor]
Do you remember President Ronald Reagan [former actor]?
Do you remember the Cold War?

Sports:

Do you remember when the USA boycotted the Olympic games in Moscow?
Do you remember DR. J battling against Larry Bird [actually scrapping & punching]?
Do you remember Michael Jordan & James Worthy beating Patrick Ewing for the NCAA Championship?
Do you remember when MAGIC JOHNSON was a rookie and he had to play CENTER for the Lakers in the NBA Championship when Kareem was injured?
Do you remember when Magic Johnson [Michigan State] and Larry Bird [Indiana State] battled for the NCAA Championship?
Do you remember the NFL teams being Cardinals in St. Louis or The Baltimore team being the Colts?
Do you remember the Boston Garden, The Philadelphia Spectrum, The Omni in Atlanta, or the Forum in LA?
Do you remember Reggie Jackson?
Do you remember Tony Dorsett?
Do you remember Warren Moon?
Do you remember Doug Williams?
Do you remember Nolan Ryan?
Do you remember Bill Russell?
Do you remember Wilt Chamberlain?
Do you remember Mean Joe Green?
Do you remember Terry Bradshaw?
Do you remember Joe Montana?
Do you remember Pete Rose?