Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
Class Of 1990
Fun Stuff
Just a few fun things to remind us all of "the good old days." 
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A Note to Today's Kids from the Over 35 Crowd
Author Unknown
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up....what with walking 25 miles to school every morning.
Uphill.... barefoot...
BOTH ways.
Yadda, yadda, yadda.
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way l I was going to lecture my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of 35, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a darn Utopia!
You kids today truly don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we couldn't just "Google It"! We had to go to the library and look it up ourselves...in the card catalogue!! Or try to find the answer in one of our World Book encyclopedias!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen!
Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents spanked us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our asses! Nowhere was safe!
There were no MP3' s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and often the tape would come undone and if we couldn't roll it back in by turning that little white wheel, it was ruined forever!
We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting ! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal! That's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600 ! With games like ' Space Invaders ' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever!
And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to actually get up and walk over to the TV to change the channel! And we only had 4 stations! There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning . Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove ..... imagine that!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or before !
Regards,
The over 35 Crowd
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YOU KNOW YOU GREW UP IN THE 70'S IF...
"Members Only" jackets...say no more.
A predominant clothing feature in your childhood photos is plaid.
Chevy Chase was really funny in those vacation movies.
If male: your first love was Marsha Brady, Jeannine, Samantha from Bewitched, Josie or any one of the Pussycats.
In any of your class pictures, you're wearing a shirt with the collar "up".
It was a major accomplishment to get to the "Chase" scene in Ms. Pacman.
Leg warmers were cool.
Most of the fillings in your mouth are directly related to Bazooka or Bubble Yum.
Schoolhouse Rock played a huge part in how you learned things like grammar, math and history. (A big hint here is if the only way you can recite the Preamble to the Constitution is by singing it.)
The Brady Bunch Movie brings back warm memories.
You can remember the words to the theme song of "The Greatest American Hero." ("BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I'M WALKIN' ON AIR... I NEVER THOUGHT I COULD FEEL SO FREE-EE-EE...")
There was nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together.
This rings a bell: "My name is Charlie, and they work for me."!
You actually believed that Mikey, famed kid on the Life cereal commercials, died after eating Pop Rocks and drinking a Coke.
You actually remember Benetton.
You owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a basket.
You even owned roller skates with metal wheels.
You ever asked to be gagged with a spoon.
You ever had a Dorothy Hamill haircut or used Short and Sassy shampoo.
You ever owned a set of "Pop-Wheels", that handy little combination of shoe and roller skate that lasted about a year on the open market.
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 know who shot J.R.
You know, by heart, the words to Weird Al Yankovic's songs.
You learned to swim at about the same time "Jaws" came out... and still carry the emotional scars to prove it.
You owned a Jordache anything, or you remember when Jordache jeans were cool.
You recall when Love's Baby Soft was in every girl's Christmas stocking.
You collected Garbage Pail Kids trading cards.
You remember "Friday Night Videos" before the days of MTV.
You remember Bo and Luke Duke, Daisy, Boss Hogg, or, worst of all - what Sheriff Roscoe's full name was. (Coltrain)
You remember having a rotary phone.
You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape player up to the speaker.
You remember having to get off the couch to change the TV channel (between channels 4, 7, 9, and sometimes 20 if you were lucky (usually fuzzy, right?).
You remember that music that was labeled "alternative" really was.
You remember the days when "safe sex" meant "my parents are going out of town".
You know all the words to the songs on "Free To Be You and Me."You owned a Betamax.
You remember wanting to stay up to see Mr. Bill on Saturday Night Live.
You remember when film critics were certain that no movie could ever possibly get better special effects than those in the movie TRON.
You remember when there was only "G", "PG", and "R".
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 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 tuned in regularly to the adventures of the Bionic Man and Woman, Wonder Woman, and/or the Incredible Hulk.
You were not allowed to see The Exorcist, The Omen, or The Blue Lagoon when they came out.
You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on.Your mom drank Tab.
Your first musical purchase was an 8-track tape.
Your jaw would ache by the time you finished one of those brick-sized packages of Bazooka!
Your parents paid $2,000 for a top-loading VCR that was almost the size of a coffee table.
Your parents wanted you to attend medical school, but you decided it was pointless since Quincy got all the babes anyway.
You're currently employed doing something that has absolutely nothing to do with your college major.
You're starting to believe that having the kids go to school all year wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
You've ever owned a pair of rainbow suspenders like the ones Mork used to wear.
You wore a rainbow shirt that was half-sleeves, and the rainbow went up one sleeve, across your chest, and down the other.Your Holly Hobbie sleeping bag was your most prized possession.
You wore a poncho, gauchos, knickers, and/or miniskirt sets.
You begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon.
You spent hours out back on your metal swing set with the trapeze.
You had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable color.
You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole & the buckle).
You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad; you wore that Little House on the Prairie-inspired plaid, ruffle shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture; and you despised Nellie Olson!
You wanted your first kiss to be at the roller rink.
Your hairstyle was described as having "wings" and you kept it
"pretty" with the comb you kept in your back pocket.
You know who Strawberry Shortcake is, as well as her friends, Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie.
You carried a Muppets lunch box to school.
You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of
Hazzard was your boyfriend.
Every now and then "It's a Hard Knock Life" from the movie,"Annie" will pop into your brain and you can't stopsinging it the whole day.
YOU had Star Wars action figures, too.
It was a big event in your household each year when the "Wizard of Oz" would come on TV. Your mom would break out the popcorn and sleeping bags!
You even asked your Magic-8 ball the question: "Who will I marry? Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, or Rick Springfield?"
You completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Fame soundtrack albums.
You tried to do lots of arts and crafts, like yarn and Popsicle-stick God's eyes, or those potholders made on a plastic loom.
You couldn't wait to get the free animal poster that came when you ordered books from the Weekly Reader book club.
You learned everything you needed to know about girl issues from Judy Blume books (Are you there God, It's me,Margaret.)
You thought Olivia Newton John's song "Physical" was about aerobics.
You wore friendship pins on your tennis shoes, or shoelaces with heart or rainbow designs.
You wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer.
You had a Big Wheel with a brake on the side, and a Sit-n-Spin.
You had subscriptions to Dynamite and Tiger Beat!!
