Flashback Friday

Blue & White

@swazzle lol I just threw out my pog collection last year!!

LizzyTish88

@Swazzle POGS were the shit!! They got banned at my school. Them and 

bethsmiles

This video is hilarious and very fitting for this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm7Mcm0XLdM

LizzyTish88

@Bethsmiles I was going to say HitClips but I couldn't think of the name..Too funny!!

After watching the end of Princess Diaries one of my other favorite childhood movies was on:

Some other favorites

And Goonies was already mentioned! 

AlPacina

You know what I really miss?!?

Hand clapping games. "Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack, all dressed in black, black, black...."

Swazzle

What was that string that you wrapped around your fingers and made stuff like the Eiffel Tower with? I sucked at that thing but I loved it. 

bethsmiles

@Swazzle - You mean this?

I was so awful at it but had lots of fun trying!

AlPacina

Swazzle said:

What was that string that you wrapped around your fingers and made stuff like the Eiffel Tower with? I sucked at that thing but I loved it. 

Cat's Cradle.

I still remember how to do a bunch of them once I have the string on my fingers. It's muscle memory at this point.

knockonwood5127

@CocoBellaF YES I played that dogs computer game too!! Loved it!

@labro I still watch Boy Meets World! My siblings and I quote it all the time! The new show (Girl Meets World) is like a weird overly-Disney version of the original, but they bring back some of the original characters so I watch random episodes of it!

labro

AlPacina said:

Swazzle said:

What was that string that you wrapped around your fingers and made stuff like the Eiffel Tower with? I sucked at that thing but I loved it. 

Cat's Cradle.

I still remember how to do a bunch of them once I have the string on my fingers. It's muscle memory at this point.

I used to have a whole book of string games! Entertainment for hours!

@caseface5 I feel like I remember Pogs being banned at one of my schools as well. Not Magic though...everyone in my class had those cards and I just couldn't see what the big deal was.

knockonwood5127

@untouchablets I thought I was the only person ever to watch/read The Saddle Club!!! I had all of the books, and I used to record episodes and wake up before school to watch them! I didn't know it was on Netflix - I know what I'm doing this summer!!!

AlPacina

labro said:

AlPacina said:

Swazzle said:

What was that string that you wrapped around your fingers and made stuff like the Eiffel Tower with? I sucked at that thing but I loved it. 

Cat's Cradle.

I still remember how to do a bunch of them once I have the string on my fingers. It's muscle memory at this point.

I used to have a whole book of string games! Entertainment for hours!

@caseface5 I feel like I remember Pogs being banned at one of my schools as well. Not Magic though...everyone in my class had those cards and I just couldn't see what the big deal was.

I had one of those books too! It was from Klutz. I got tons of their books....... Seriously though, lady. Everything you've posted has basically been my childhood.

labro

@TwoDimes BrainQuest was our road trip staple! @southernpeach89 and I would quiz each other for hours!

speakeasy14

Cootie catchers, MASH, and the art of passing notes.

beanbot2002

GoldenPenguin said:

@minskat30 - YES!!! We had ALL the originals. Smurfs, Inspector Gadget, He-Man, She-Ra, JEM, Muppet Babies, the REAL My Little Ponies... 

Also, ALL the New Kids stuff.

I knew (still know...) ALL the dances, thanks to:

I had this one, because Joey was obviously my husband.

And this one:

If you didn't have this hat, I feel sorry for you, because it was obviously AMAZING.

Did I have the dolls? OF COURSE I had the dolls. Who are we kidding.

I had that video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was the best!!! At the beginning where Donnie Air Humps the crowd "Double Up UGH UGH!" Whatever horemones I had at 9...they went mad.

ETA: OMG I had both of those buttons. WE'RE THE SAME PERSON!

untouchablets

@speakeasy14 my best friend and I never bothered with the paper folding notes because i sucked at it lol, we just passed a notebook back and forth during class. We were so obvious about it that the teachers didn't care and as long as it wasn't during a test we never got in trouble lol

AlPacina

@speakeasy14 - I remember waiting with my college roommates for a midnight movie showing and we played MASH to pass the time. It's just as fun as an adult, I swear.

I bet you I could make it into some kind of game thread on this board. I'll have to think on it.

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AH! Completely forgot about Brain Quest! I totally memorized all those answers!

beanbot2002

OMG @goldenpeguin...I went back and looked at the 1st page and we had basically the same childhood. 

buddysmom80

beanbot2002 said:

OMG @goldenpeguin...I went back and looked at the 1st page and we had basically the same childhood. 

+1 minus some of the horse stuff, but pretty much all that @goldenpenguin posted was my LYFE back in the day!

GoldenPenguin

@beanbot2002 & @buddysmom80 - that's because we're the OLDS!!! 

beanbot2002

GoldenPenguin said:

@beanbot2002 & @buddysmom80 - that's because we're the OLDS!!! 

And Chris Pratt's Tootsie Roll completes the statement perfectly.

GoldenPenguin

RLOL @Beanbot2002 - FACTUAL.

Blue & White

@goldenpenguin I so do not think we are the olds!

@speakeasy14 but did your friends have code names for EVERYONE IN THE DAMN GRADE?  approximately...ya know so if someone read your notes they'd have no idea who the notes were about (cause there was more than one cute soccer player with 4 siblings in your class, right?!)  My crush's code name?  Michelle.  Yep.  Michelle.  Oh Michelle.  Who later got arrested for a terrorist plot in Colorado   WHY OH WHY couldn't I just like a normal, non-terrorist person?

Note: I married a perfectly respectable non-terrorist, thankfully.

Peaseblossom55

Yea definitely part of the olds on this one too.

AlPacina

TwoDimes said:

I think these raisin guys were in a commercial advertising raisins sometime in the 80s/90s. No idea why, but these guys freaked me the F out.

NO IDEA WHY?!? LOOK AT THEM!!!!!!!!!!! WITH YOUR EYES!

eilis1228

@AlPacina LOL they look like turdlets. 

speakeasy14

@blue & white hahaha code name Michelle, I'm dying. We used code names but not that awesome.  My crush was blue eyes. 

bethsmiles

TwoDimes said:

My sister and I were just talking the other day about how the McDonalds Happy Meal toys used to be freaking awesome. Does anybody remember these buckets they gave out around Halloween-time? PERFECT FOR HALLOWEEN CANDY!!!

False - those things never fit enough candy to go through all the neighborhoods my friends and I went to. Of course, I usually got so much candy on Halloween that there was still some left by the time it came around again.

@untouchablets - I couldn't do the cool note folding either I tried though but would just end up folding it a boring way after I got too frustrated. The other day I was going through an old backpack of mine and found a ton of notes from my best friend stashed away in the back pocket. Reading through them is like going reading through old Facebook posts - we were so lame lol but of course we thought we were the coolest.

LizzyTish88

BF has all the notes I wrote him in high school! I was a pro at folding notes.