Everyone loved Luke and Laura in the afternoon. Lady Diana became the People's Princess when she married Prince Charles. Nighttime soaps like Dallas and Dynasty ruled the airwaves. President Ronald Reagan ruled the United States. Kevin Bacon danced his way across the screen in Footloose. Gordon Gekko taught Wall Street whiz kids that greed was good. Cyndi Lauper showed her True Colors.



What decade was it?

We can only be talking about that terrific time period ? the excellent eighties.

Here are severalways for you to verify that you belong to (or belong in) the 1980's.

1.Breakdancing on the sidewalk looked like fun. Now it just looks like you might break something.

2.You know that Molly Ringwald was an original cast member on Facts of Life. (Now you're singing both of the show's theme songs.)

3.You and your friends made fun of the "Where's the beef?" commercials for Wendy's starring Clara Peller.

4.You think the word "like" in an integral part of every sentence and should be used as often as possible. Like this, "She was like, like why would I say that, that's not like me at all. Like who does she think she is, you know? Like, really!"

5.You know there was only one way Dorothy on the Golden Girls could make Sophia behave. She simply said, "Shady Pines, Ma, Shady Pines."

6.You've actually tasted New Coke. Extra points if you wrote to Coca-Cola and insisted they bring back the original formula.

7.You remember when television consisted of three networks ABC, CBS, and NBC.

8.Your parents were afraid you'd cut yourself putting on a snap bracelet.

9.You were inspired by Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female Supreme Court Judge.

10.Going to the video store to get movies about Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Michael Myers took up a lot of your time.

11.If someone says, "I don't know," you automatically cringe expecting the green slime to mysteriously fall from the ceiling.

12.You wore out your thumbs playing video games on any or all of the following consoles: Atari, Intellivision, Sega, Nintendo, and Coleco.