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
our parents' 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 great
white artists, songs, and videos
that even non-white audiences
loved like the Eurhythmics,
ABC, Men at Work, DeVo, Cyndi
Lauper, Billy Idol, Madona, 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 in the series.
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 III?
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 as simply LACOSTE....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 [with
the doors that raised up---later
staring in Back To The Future]?
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 peanut farmer
& Georgia Governor]
Do you remember President Ronald
Reagan [former actor & former
California Governor]?
Do you remember the Cold War?
Sports:
Do you remember when the USA
boycotted the 1980 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?
