15 Ways To Tell If You're A 90's Kid
#10 All The Cool Kids Wore Ring Pops
Every time you went into the store to also pick up Bazooka Joes, Tootsie Rolls and peach rings, you made sure to grab a ring pop or two and put it right on your finger. Looking back though, you never ate them, but simply exchanged them once dog hair or grass were stuck to them.
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You Swear By The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air
Chances are you know the close-to-a-minute theme song for The Fresh Prince and you ain't ashamed of it. You even have your own special handshake also and aren't afraid to get jiggy with it.
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You Know Every Nickelodeon Show By Heart
From Hey Arnold! to Rocko's Modern Life, you swore by Nickelodeon when it first started and always will. And sometimes your friends say you have a football head too.
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Goosebumps Was Your Favourite Book Series
When teachers told you to read a book, the first thing you grabbed was the new Goosebumps book that just came out so you could prove to your friends you weren't scared of stories and because you also just liked how the cover felt.
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Everything Gets Settled By Rock Paper Scissors
Even up to now, you still settle rent, bills, chores, homework and movie choices by rock paper scissors. It's the only way. That is, until someone brings out the bazooka.
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You Listened To The Radio To Make Your Own Tapes
Dance party tapes, going outside tapes, relaxing in your room tapes, Valentine's Day tapes - for every single one, you sat next to the radio eagerly waiting to hear a song you wanted to record, even if it took one month to finish your own radical mix.
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All The Cool Kids Wore Ring Pops
Every time you went into the store to also pick up Bazooka Joes, Tootsie Rolls and peach rings, you made sure to grab a ring pop or two and put it right on your finger. Looking back though, you never ate them, but simply exchanged them once dog hair or grass were stuck to them.
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Having The Coolest Slammer Was The Greatest Thing Ever
Even if you were in kindergarten, you'd still be schooling kids in Grade 5, taking their slammers and adding them to your endless collection. When you felt bad for some of your opponents, you gave them your ugliest ones, just to keep being cool.
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You Know The Macarena By Heart
Chances are you were taught the macarena in school and were forced to do the dance with all of your friends. Secretly you loved it though and still do it in your bedroom whenever no one's home.
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You'll Always Remember Your First Boombox
It may have created dents in your shoulderblades, but the boombox was your theoretical baby. You carried it everywhere in hopes of going to the center of the crowd, putting it down and blasting everyone's favourite song (this never happened).
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You Always Dreamed Of Being Slimed
They were never nightmares but always sweet dreams. Getting slimed was the ultimate goal that even Chuck E Cheese and Wonderland/Six Flags couldn't fulfill. Plus you also wanted to know what the green stuff tasted like.
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You Had At Least One Tamagotchi
If you didn't buy one yourself, you stole your sister's just to hit the reset button or purposefully not feed her Tamagotchi. And even if they ran away all the time, you always made sure you had three or four.
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Everyone Wanted Your Dunkaroos At Lunch
Dunkaroos were the most awesome snack of all time because the icing was a sugar rush that was flat out addicting. But everyone always wanted yours when you had the one with sprinkles (chocolate tasted weird).
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You Secretly Wished Jumanji Was A Real Game
You were hooked on everything - the fake board game, the movie, the cartoon television show. Jumanji ruled your life and if you didn't turn into a monkey over night, you caused a fit and hoped the babysitter would disappear.
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You Only Remember Renting VHS Tapes
Before DVDs, Blu-Rays and even mini-discs, there was the VHS tape which you loved dearly. The only issue was renting a movie and noticing the last person didn't rewind the tape, making you sit for at least 5 minutes until it was done rewinding.
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Saturday Mornings Meant Cartoons
While today's television networks believe a few shows every Saturday morning will do, six to eight hour lineups existed in your day, filling you in on everything Recess and Pokemon until it was lunch time.
