Monday Memory

• "All skaters, change directions" means something to you.

• This rings a bell: "and my name, is Charlie. They work for me."

• You remember when film critics were certain that no movie could ever possibly get better special effects than those in the movie TRON.

• Your jaw would ache by the time you finished one of those brick-sized packages of Bazooka!

• You remember having a rotary phone.

• You remember when your cable TV box had a sliding selector switch and your "cable or VCR remote" was connected to the TV by a CORD!

• You actually remember Mr. Bill.

• You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the mini-van and remember riding in the back of the station wagon trying to get passing trucks to honk at you.

• You remember Bo and Luke Duke, Daisy, Boss Hogg, or, worst of all - what Sheriff Roscoe's full name was. (Coltrain)

• You found nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together.

• Leg warmers were cool.

• Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you learned things like grammar, math and history.

• You learned to swim at about the same time "Jaws" came out... and still carry the emotional scars to prove it. (Guess that explains why I can't swim!)
  

• You ever had a Dorothy Hamill haircut or used Short and Sassy shampoo.

• You remember having to get off the couch to change the TV channel.

• If male: your first love was Marsha Brady, Jeannine, Samantha from Bewitched, Josie or any one of the Pussycat.

• You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on.

• You remember the days when "safe sex" meant "my parents are going out of town".

• Chevy Chase was really funny in those vacation movies.

• You actually believed that Mikey, famed kid on the Life cereal commercials, died after eating Pop Rocks and drinking a Coke.

• You were not allowed to see The Exorcist, The Omen, or The Blue Lagoon when they came out.

• The Brady Bunch Movie brings back warm memories.

• You tuned in regularly to the adventures of the Bionic Man and Woman, Wonder Woman, and/or the Incredible Hulk.

• A predominant color in your childhood photos is "plaid".

• You remember trying to guess the first episode of the Brady Bunch from the first scene.

• Your first musical purchase was an 8-track tape.

• Your parents paid $2,000 for a top-loading VCR that was almost the size of a coffee table.

• You ever owned a Donnie and Marie or Sonny and Cher poster.

• You remember wanting to stay up to see Mr. Bill on Saturday Night Live.

• You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar and choreographed "Dancing Queen" by yourself in your room.

• You know all the words to the double-album set of the "Grease" soundtrack.

• You thought that Shawn Cassidy was "dreamy", lusted after "Ted, your ship's photographer" on the Love Boat or Chachi.

• Most of the fillings in your mouth are directly related to Bazooka or Bubble Yum.
  

• You remember when there was only "G", "PG", and "R".

I cheated a little to put together this post today. Found this site and selected the relevant bits for me. Man, was it ever cool being a child in the 70's. Kids these days don't know what they're missing.