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YOU'RE LOST BETWEEN A BABY BOOMER AND A GEN X'ER IF....

1. You remember when Jordache jeans were cool.

2. In your fifth grade class picture you were wearing an Izod shirt with the collar up.

3. You know by heart the words to any Weird Al Yankovic song.

4. You ever rang someone's doorbell and said "Landshark!"

5. Three words: Atari, IntelliVision and Coleco, sound familiar.

6. You remember Friday Night Videos before the origin of MTV

7. A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid.

8. You actually believed that Mikey, famed for his Life cereal commercials, died after eating a packet of pop rocks and drinking a Coke.

9. You remember when music that was labeled alternative, really was alternative.

10. You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan.

11. You rode in the back of the stationwagon and you faced the cars behind you.

12. There was nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together.

13. Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE partin how you actually learned the English language.

14. You ever dressed to emulate aperson you saw in either a DuranDuran, Madonna, or Cyndi Lauper video.

15. You remember when your cable TV box had a sliding selector switch.

16. You remember with pain the sad day when the Green Machine hit the streets and made our old Big Wheel quite obsolete.

17. The phrase "Where's the beef," still doubles you over with laughter.

18. You honestly remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possible get better special effects than those in the movie TRON.

19. You miss Ted the photographer onThe Love Boat.

20. Your hair at some point in time in the 80's became something which can only be described by the phrase, "I was experimenting".

21. You've ever shopped at a Benetton, but not in the last five years.

22. You're starting to believe now that maybe having the kids go to school year round wouldn't be sucah a bad idea after all.

23. You're doing absolutely nothing pertaining to your major

24. U2 is too popular and mainstream for you now.

25. You can guess which episode of the Brady Bunch is on from the first scene.

26. You had a front row seat for Luke and Laura's wedding on General Hospital.

27. Rotary dial telephones.

28. You know who shot JR.

29. This rings a bell: "...and my name is Charlie. They work for me."

30. You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on after all.

31. You know all the words to the double album set of Grease.

32. You ever had a Dorothy Hammill haircut.

33. You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed 867-5309 to see if Jenny would answer.

34. "All skate, change directions," means something to you.

35. You owned a pair of Rainbow suspenders like Mork used to wear.

36. You bought a pair of Vanns and wanted to order pizza in history class so you could be just like Jeff Spicoli.

37. You remember Bo and Luke Duke.

38. You were too young to see The Blue Lagoon so you had to settle for second hand reports.

39. You remember when there was only PG and R.

40. You learned to swim about the same time Jaws came out and carry emotional scars to this day.

41. VCRs cost $1,000.

42. Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those brick sized packages of Bazooka gum.

43. The theme song to Greatest American Hero still comes back to you on occasion. ("Believe it or not, I'm walking on air")