Step back to 1980

It 'was the decade of decadence. It was glitz and glamor and balls, bracelets and beads.

Everyone loved Luke and Laura in the afternoon. Lady Diana was the People's Princess, since she married Prince Charles. nighttime soaps like Dallas and Dynasty ruled the airwaves. President Ronald Reagan ruled the United States. Tom Cruise was the need for speed. Michael Milliken was the Junk Bond King. Gordon Gekko taught Wall Street child prodigies that greed was good.Material Girl Madonna made her musical debut.

What decade?

the eighties excellent - we can only talk about the big moment.

Here are 21 ways to make sure you are (or are) 1980.

1. Breakdance on the sidewalk looked like fun. Now it seems like you might break something.

2. You can still recite dialogue from any movie with Molly Ringwald.

3. "Mobile phones" the phone is meant to be used when peoplehave their "call" in prison.

4. They were one of the following: a Cabbage Patch Kid, the man of action-figure He, a Rubik's Cube, Pac-Man or something with a logo on it.

5. Do you remember a lot of titles for the Human Genome Project, which was the complete mapping of human DNA. They also remember how it was supposed to lead the eradication of the disease.

6. Do you remember the day when thousands of radio stations from around the world played "We Are TheWorld "at the exact same time. (Well, sing!)

7. Their first album was a vinyl 33 and you laughed your parents because they wanted to play to 45 friends and 8-track tapes.

8. Do you know who Oliver North in the news and why.

9. Someone in your street or neighborhood sent his life savings in a later discredited televangelist.

10. You go with your friends at the mall, particularly in the Arcade, where they exchanged hard-earned quarters toToken.

11. You know that "glasnost" or openness and transparency means of "perestroika" means economic restructuring.

12. You and your friends around the 'I've fallen and I can not get up "lady. (The imaginary woman named Mrs. Fletcher and the product was the life of an emergency service call.)

13. They added "as" liberal and unnecessary in your sentences. In this way: "What that was, like, the toughest test we've ever had so after class, I was very similar to the question of.Master, and it was because it was not difficult if you have studied. Then I like is that it was so bad rude or what? "

14. could know, just gave a way to make Dorothy in The Golden Girls Sophia behave. He said simply: "Shady Pines, Ma, Shady Pines."

15. You actually liked New Coke. Extra points if you wrote to Coca-Cola and insisted that restoring the original formula.

16. Remember, if there is no such thing as CNN, E! or MTV.

17. Your parentsfeared it would cut dress a bracelet with a snap.

18. They were Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman Supreme Court judge, Sally Ride, the first woman astronaut and Geraldine Ferraro, the first inspired by (and as this paper only) female vice presidential candidate.

19. Rent a horror movie sequel to Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, and took a lot of time.

20. She opposed the sketches and green slime on You Can not Do That OnTelevision.

21. He played Atari, Intellivision, Sega, Nintendo and Coleco, have been deaf to your hands.