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    Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia

    Who Is The Liz Phair Of The New Generation?

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    Image of wednesdayam wednesdayam
    07/24/09

    In reply to Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia
    I claim Gen X. It's one of those things that seems to be defined by whatever source you're pulling from, but according to William Strauss and Neil Howe's 1991 book "Generations" (which tends to be the closest thing to a definitive answer), they call Gen X the "13th Generation" and define the birth years as 1961 to 1981. Therefore, by measure of my birth being at the beginning of 1981 (early enough that I was a Carter baby), and by the fact that I tend to honestly identify with more Gen X icons than Gen Y, I claim Gen X.

    Though Wednesday is always awesome (as such, that's why her name is part of my own here). But the boy bands, Brit Brit, Spice Gilrls, Power Rangers... I never got on board with that stuff. Gimme my 80s New Wave, Pee Wee's Playhouse, my Crow graphic novel, and my awful early-90s fashion choices.
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    Image of Elle O. Elle Elle O. Elle
    07/23/09

    In reply to Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia
    I had a skirt like that, but they were full on leggings instead of bike shorts. Black and white stripes and a black skirt. I wish I could find a grown-up version of that ensemble.

    I miss Delia's catalogs. I know they still exist (and I ordered stuff from there today instead of working) but it's just not as cool as flaming yoga pants.

    Powerpuff Girls
    Batman the Animated Series
    My first pair of roller skates, quad skates, not blades, and they had ice cream cones on the ankles.
    The Raccoon Care Bear Cousin
    Going to Service Merchandise and buying Swan's Crossing dolls.
    Dancing to "Brass Monkey" at cheerleading camp.
    The Pinball Song: One two three FOUR five...
    JNCOs
    Watching Sailor Moon after school.
    Arcade birthday parties
    90210 dolls
    Karen Brewer
    Being allowed to stay up late enough to watch Conan and Politically Incorrect during school breaks.
    Brad Renfro
    Surge
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    Image of thequeenofstartingover thequeenofstartingover
    07/23/09

    In reply to Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia
    Oh, where to begin...I quite miss:

    *TLC & The Spice Girls (real girl power bands)
    *90's R&B...or really music in general
    *Reading Bop, Tiger Beat and ripping out the pictures of Andrew Keegan and later *NSYNC
    *Anything that had to deal with Clueless
    *scented body glitter
    *hair mascara
    *Bop-Its
    *collecting Goosebump books like a sport
    *Tamogatchis/Giga Pets/Nano Babies
    *Polly Pockets with the lights
    *Nick cartoons/shows: Rugrats (when they were babies), Doug, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life/All That, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Clarissa, Salute Your Shorts et al.

    Dang. I have some nostalgia to catch up on!
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    Image of notheretomakefriends notheretomakefriends
    07/24/09


    @thequeenofstartingover: Take That, Diana King, Shola Ama, Craig David, Boys II Men and the garbage pail kids
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    Image of rah29 rah29
    07/23/09

    In reply to Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia
    You make a good point about the music. I was actually saying to my boyfriend the other day that the late 1990s were a veritable wasteland for mainstream rock music; the development of 'nu-metal' was a sad, sad day for us all. I hope that neither Creed nor Limp Bizkit will ever again see the light of day.
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    07/23/09

    In reply to Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia
    Here are the things I miss from my younger days.
    The Reconstruction
    Robber Barons
    Linen Bloomers (so comfy!)
    Typhus
    Godey's Book for Ladies
    All the conspiracy theories surrounding whether or not Mrs O'Leary's cow was really born in Chicago.
    The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887.
    Dress Boots that only went up your ankle halfway! SEXAY!
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    Image of alouette alouette
    07/23/09

    @TheUptightMidwesterner: I would add to this, but despite reading Little House on the Prairie et al lately, I've got nothing. You win.
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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    07/23/09

    In reply to Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia
    One word: POGS.
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    Image of andromache andromache
    07/23/09

    In reply to Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia
    it's not officially Christmas for me until I listen to the Chipmunks' Christmas album.
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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    07/23/09

    In reply to Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia
    You guys, I have the stupidest grin on my face right now. WHY DOES THE CURRENT DECADE SUCK?
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    Image of Alys Brangwin can't stop the beat Alys Brangwin can't stop the beat
    07/23/09

    @hellosunshine: George W. Bush.
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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    07/23/09

    @Alys Brangwin knows who's bad: Touche!
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    Image of letitcrash letitcrash
    07/23/09

    In reply to Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia
    wednesday on halloween costumes: "you could be a homocidal maniac... they look like everyone else."
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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    07/23/09

    @letitcrash: "Would you like a Girl Scout cookie?" "Are they made from real Girl Scouts?"
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    Image of Spacegirl goes home Spacegirl goes home
    07/23/09

    In reply to Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia
    I used to substitute teach for Middle and High School. I knew I was officially Old when this happened:

    Them: "OMG! Green Day have albums before American Idiot?"
    Me: "Yeah, Dookie was one of the first albums I bought."
    Them: "Wow Miss, we thought you were way younger!"
    Me: *dies a little inside*
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    Image of Alys Brangwin can't stop the beat Alys Brangwin can't stop the beat
    07/23/09

    @Spacegirl.goes.home: I worked with a group of high school students in a Spanish class when I was a senior in college. They had to bring in a souvenir and do a presentation about it. One girl brought a ticket to the first concert she ever saw. It was an NSYNC concert. When she said, "I remember it well even though I was only six," I inaudibly gasped, remembering too well the fights on the school bus about which boy band was more talented and cuter. She was six! I was old!
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    Image of rah29 rah29
    07/23/09

    @Alys Brangwin knows who's bad: The worst thing is being around undergrads all the time and having to explain that no, i'm not their age, I'm a creepy old grad. The kids starting in October were born in 1991. They're fetuses.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    07/23/09

    In reply to Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia
    My sister had Creepie Crawlies. Oh, how I begged to makes some for myself. Oh, how I was rejected.

    Also, the 500 largest American cities? What the fuck? Because Asheville, North Carolina was totally about to bomb the shit out of Moscow.
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    Image of meritxell: an erotic life meritxell: an erotic life
    07/23/09

    In reply to Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia

    ORBITZ:
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    Image of GreyEminence GreyEminence
    07/23/09

    @meritxell: I always wanted to like Orbitz. Classic example of something that looks cool, but tastes disgusting. See also: fondant-covered wedding cakes.
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    meritxell promoted this comment Edited by GreyEminence at 07/23/09 4:22 PM GreyEminence was starred GreyEminence was unstarred
    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    07/23/09


    @meritxell: And Squeeze-It!
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    Image of meritxell: an erotic life meritxell: an erotic life
    07/23/09

    @hellosunshine: And Ecto Cooler!
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    Image of stacyinbean stacyinbean
    07/23/09

    @meritxell: Remember this stuff?! It had a phone number you could call and they would tell you really stupid stuff.
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    Image of meritxell: an erotic life meritxell: an erotic life
    07/23/09

    @stacyinbean: Jeez, did Daniel Clowes design the packaging?!
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    Image of gluechirp gluechirp
    07/23/09

    @meritxell: Yes, and the vending machines they came in featured his art also. My friend and I had a plot to steal the one in Mountain Home Arkansas that was around forever, but alas it never came too fruition....
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    Image of hatepaperdoll hatepaperdoll
    07/23/09


    @meritxell:
    Also:
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    Image of mirrorghost mirrorghost
    07/23/09

    @hellosunshine:

    oh my god i loved those so much. and capri sun.
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    Image of CarsonDial CarsonDial
    07/23/09

    @meritxell: Yes. There were 4 different types of cans. He designed 1 of the 4. I have a case in my dad's basement still, and stealing a Clowes OK poster off the T in Boston is one of my favorite mother-daughter bonding moments. The number was 800-I-Feel-OK.
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    Image of alltheteainchina alltheteainchina
    07/23/09

    @hellosunshine:

    dude my roomie and i found MONDO last semester. we almost COMPLETELY lost our shit.

    give me some of that, a go-gurt and an episode of global guts and i'm ALLLL SET, summer @ my grandma's house circa 1997 style.
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    Image of thequeenofstartingover thequeenofstartingover
    07/23/09

    @meritxell: Do I remember that! I remember a kid in my class choked on those ball things to get out of test...fun times. Disgusting drink, though, right up there with Mondo which literally scratched the throat with one sip.
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    Image of Spangles Spangles
    07/23/09

    @meritxell:
    Sweet Jebus! I had a consistent diet of Orbitz, Mountain Dew, Pixy Stix, Caffeine pills, chocolate-covered espresso beans and Bubble Yum in my teenage years. All while listening to No Doubt and wearing JNCO's and ringer t's. It's amazing that I don't have diabetes or totally destroyed my sense of fashion.
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    Image of Gina323 Gina323
    07/23/09

    @meritxell: I was just thinking of Ecto Coolers the other day! I hated when my mom got them instead of regular Hi-Ci because I hated orange, but I REALLY wanted one a few days ago! Oh nostalgia.
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    Image of meritxell: an erotic life meritxell: an erotic life
    07/24/09

    @thequeenofstartingover: OMG... Mondo!
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    07/24/09

    @meritxell: And Charles Burns! It's selloutastic! (I mean, not really, everybody needs money - it's just funny that someone at Coke was like, "You know what we can use to sell soda? There's this great comic book called 'Black Hole.'")
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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    07/23/09

    In reply to Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia
    Holy Hell, I barely made the cut off.

    What the Times failed to acknowledge was the awesomeness that was SNICK in the 1990's. I mean "The Adventures of Pete & Pete," "The Secret Life of Alex Mack" and "Roundhouse" were like my favorite things to watch on TV.
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    Image of KiddyKat KiddyKat
    07/23/09

    @Trulymadlyme:OMG, I loved and still mourn "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" which was actually pretty creepy sometimes.
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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    07/23/09

    @KiddyKat: Salute Your Shorts, anyone?
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    Image of GreyEminence GreyEminence
    07/23/09

    @Trulymadlyme: The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, anyone? I think I miss that one most of all. Plus it had Pat Morita from "The Karate Kid" in it.
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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    07/23/09

    @Trulymadlyme: And Hey Dude!! I want all of these shows on DVD.
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    Image of GreyEminence GreyEminence
    07/23/09

    @hellosunshine: When I was little, the fact that a girl could be named "Brad" was shocking and fascinating to me.
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    Image of meritxell: an erotic life meritxell: an erotic life
    07/23/09

    @hellosunshine: It's a little wild and a little strange, when you make your home out on the range...
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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    07/23/09

    @meritxell: Yippie-kay-yay-what?
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    Image of hfree hfree
    07/23/09

    In reply to Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia
    This is going to make me sound so Canadian considering my last post (I'm not), but did anyone else see that Barf from You Can't Do That on Television just died? A part of my childhood may have gone with him.
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    Image of meritxell: an erotic life meritxell: an erotic life
    07/23/09

    @hfree: I guess now he'll be part of the hamburger...

    RIP Barf
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    Image of hfree hfree
    07/23/09

    In reply to Creepy Crawlers, Chipmunks, & Days Gone By: A Gallery Of Generation Y Nostalgia
    Um, I spent last weekend watching Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel. 80s Nostalgia for the win!

    (Also, as someone born in 1980, I refuse to believe I'm the in the same generation as a 6 year old, someone young enough to be my child.)
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