You're lost between a baby boomer and a gen x'er if ...

• You owned a Jordache anything, or you remember when Jordache jeans with a flat handle comb in the back pocket were cool.
  
  
• In your class picture, you're wearing an Izod shirt with the collar "up."
  
  
• You know by heart the words to any Weird Al Yankovic song.
  
  
• You ever rang someone's doorbell and said "Landshark!"
  
  
• Three words:  Atari, IntelliVision, and Coleco.  Sound familiar?
  
  
• You remember the days when "safe sex" meant that your parents were gone for the weekend.
  
  
• You remember the premier of MTV, in fact, you remember the Friday Night Videos before the days of MTV.
  
  
• A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid.
  
  
• While in high school, you and your friends discussed elaborate plans to get together again at the end of the century and play Prince's "1999" until you passed out partying.
  
  
• You remember when music that was labeled alternative, really was alternative.
  
  
• You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan.
  
  
• You rode in the back of the station wagon facing the cars behind you in the "tail gunner" position.
  
  
• You've ever conversationally used the phrase, "Jane, you ignorant slut!"
  
  
• Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language.
  
  
• You're starting to view getting carded to buy alcohol as a GOOD thing.
  
  
• You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Madonna, or Cyndi Lauper video.
  
  
• The first time you ever kissed someone at a dance came during "Crazy for You" by Madonna.
  
  
• You remember with pain the sad day when the Green Machine hit the streets and made your old Big Wheel quite obsolete.
  
  
• The phrase "Where's the beef" still doubles you over with laughter.
  
  
• You honestly remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possibly get better special effects than those in the movie TRON.
  
  
• You had a crush on either Ted the photographer on The Love Boat, Gage from Emergency, or Ponch the motorcycle cop from CHiPs.
  
  
• Your hair at some point in the 80's became something which can only be described by the phrase, "I was experimenting."
  
  
• You've ever shopped at a Banana Republic or United Colors of Benetton, but not in the last five years.
  
  
• You're starting to believe now that maybe having the kids go to school year round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
  
  
• You're doing absolutely nothing pertaining to your major.
  
  
• U2 is too popular and mainstream for you now.
  
  
• You remember trying to guess the episode of the Brady Bunch from the first scene.
  
  
• You had a front row seat for Luke and Laura's wedding on General Hospital.
  
  
• Your parents wanted you to attend medical school, but you decided it was pointless since Quincy got all the babes anyway.
  
  
• You know who shot JR.
  
  
• This rings a bell:  "...and my name is Charlie.  They work for me."
  
  
• You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on after all.
  
  
• You know all the words to the double album set of Grease.
  
  
• You ever had a Dorothy Hamil haircut.
  
  
• You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed 8-6-7-5-3-0-9 to see if Jenny would answer.
  
  
• "All skate, change directions," means something to you.
             
• You owned a pair of Rainbow suspenders just like Mork used to wear.
  
  
• You bought a pair of Vanns and wanted to order a pizza in history class so you could be just like Jeff Spicoli.
  
  
• You owned a preppy handbook.
  
  
• You were too young to go see the Blue Lagoon so you just had to settle for second hand reports.
  
  
• You remember when there was only PG and R.
  
  
• You learned to swim about the same time "Jaws" came out and still carry the emotional scars to this day.
  
  
• You remember when your cable TV box had the three rows of numbers and you had to move the selector switch accordingly.
  
  
• Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those "brick sized" packages of Bazooka gum.
  
  
• Bo and Luke Duke.  (And Daisy Duke doesn't describe only SHORT shorts!)
  
  
• VCRs cost $2,000.
  
  
• There was nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together.
  
  
• You remember rotary dial telephones.
  
  
• You actually believed that Mikey, famed for his Life cereal commercials, died after eating a packet of pop rocks and drinking a Coke.
  
  
• The theme song to Greatest American Hero still comes back to you on occasion.  (BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I'M WALKING ON AIR...)
  
  
• "Members Only" Jackets ... say no more.
  
  
• You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phases: When I was younger... When I was  your age... You know, back when...
  
  
• You wore anything Izod, especially those windbreakers that folded up into a pouch you could wear around your waist.
             
• You almost keeled over with asphyxiation due to the tightness of your Jordache jeans.
  
  
• You remember the original "Le Freak" by Chic.
  
  
• You actually know who Rick Springfield is.
  
  
• You ever said "Gag me with a spoon!"
  
  
• Knickers and leg warmers were cool!
  
  
• You ever wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar and choreographed your own dance moves ala Jennifer Beals in "Flash Dance" by yourself in your room.
  
  
• You were afraid of the Sleestaks on "Land of the Lost."
  
  
• You ever used the phrase "kiss mah grits" in conversation.
  
  
• You could sing "99 Red Balloons" in English and in German.
  
  
• You had feathered hair.
  
  
• This timeline appropriately describes actual events in your life: .....Star Wars opens, you are still in single digit ages, and you think the creatures are WAY cool.
  .....Empire Strikes Back opens, you are now in early double digit ages, and you are convinced that the special effects are much better, the characters are cool, and you want one of every collectible out there.
  .....Return of the Jedi hits the theaters, you are now a teenager and you cannot get your eyes off Princess Leia's breasts or Han Solo's butt