Age yourself.

[jcarlylew]

this is great!
When i was 13..

MSN continues to beta testing, and i could work my way around the whole system and find shut down chat rooms and access them. now i cannot program our stupid VCR or microwave.
Bill Clinton was president, and he was a studdmufin
Forrest Gump wins an Oscar. Jenny and Box of chocolate jokes continue to ensue.
Oklahoma bombing.
OJ Simpson Trial - and found not guilty.
Windows release its OS system

Top 13 songs
1. Gangsta''s Paradise, Coolio
2. Waterfalls, TLC
3. Creep, TLC
4. Kiss From A Rose, Seal
5. On Bended Knee, Boyz II Men
6. Another Night, Real McCoy
7. Fantasy, Mariah Carey
8. Take A Bow, Madonna
9. Don''t Take It Personal (Just One Of Dem Days), Monica
10. This Is How We Do It, Montell Jordan
11. I Know, Dionne Farris
12. Water Runs Dry, Boyz II Men
13. Freak Like Me, Adina Howard
--- this so brings me back to junior High!!

Top 13 Movies
1. Toy Story
2. Batman Forever
3. Apollo 13
4. Pocahontas
5. Ace Ventura 2
6. GoldenEye *sigh*
7. Casper
8. Jumanji
9. Seven - that movie freaked me out!!
10. Die Hard 3
11. Crimson Tide
12. Waterworld - i think i am the only person who still loves this movie
13. Dangerous Minds

 

[Lynnie]

When I was 13, OJ Simpson''s infamous white Bronco low-speed chase was televised. I remember it clearly; my family was at my cousin''s graduation party when it happened. All the adults were glued to the tube!

 

[DivaDiamond007]

When I was 13.......

- The year was 1995.

- Yahoo! is founded.

- Singer Selena is found dead.

- 4/19 - Oklahoma City bombing.

- Final original Calvin & Hobbes comic is published.

- Rapper Eazy-E dies of AIDS.



Top Songs:

1. Gangsta''s Paradise - Coolio
2. Boomtastic - Shaggy
3. Back for Good - Take That
4. You are Not Alone - Michael Jackson

 

[Lauren8211]

Glad there are so many 1982 babies! I can just read what happened here, instead of having to go look for it!

 

[AmberWaves]

When I was thirteen:

A gallon of gas cost $1.05
Ross Perot announced he was running for President
Mall of America was constructed (teenagers immediately made plans to travel to Minnesota)
Rodney King riots happened (very scary here in L.A.)
AT&T released the first video phone for $1,499.00!!
It was a leap year
Jay Leno took over the Tonight Show
Landers earthquake hit- 7.3
Brett Favre began his stint with the Packers
Sinead O''Connor ripped up a picture of the Pope on SNL (Then called Saturday Night Live)
Dr. Dre came out with his solo debut

Popular movies:

* Aladdin
* Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
* Batman Returns
* Lethal Weapon 3
* A Few Good Men
* Sister Act
* The Bodyguard
* Wayne''s World
* Basic Instinct
* Unforgiven
* Honey, I Blew Up The Kid
* Reservoir Dogs

Popular Songs

Color me Badd - All for Love
Boyz II Men - End of the road
Mariah Carey - I''ll be there
Madonna - This used to be my playground

Man, I totally remember all of this!

 

[VRBeauty]

Date: 5/5/2009 8:26:11 PM
Author: LostSapphire

Date: 5/5/2009 8:22:21 PM

Author: VRBeauty

This was one of the top 100 Bill board hits:

Judy In Disguise (With Glasses), John Fred and His Playboy Band


And all this time, I thought it was ''Judy in the Skies''

Robert Kenedy Jr. and Martin Luther King were shot.

JUDY IN DISGUISE???? since when? It''s always been Judy in the Skies, hasn''t it??


(geez, what else didn''t I get right?)


LS

LS -- I know, I know... I did a bit of a double-take when I saw that list too. Very embarrassing....

So I got to thinking --LS and I, we''re no dummies... we''ve been around the block a few times... that chart must have been wrong! So of course I hied me over to Google to check it out, and this is what I found:

[Judy in Disguise] was a parody of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," which The Beatles released a year earlier. Instead of the psychedelic sound of the Beatles song, this was Bubblegum Pop, but with similarly obtuse lyrics.

When the John Fred wrote this song, he thought that the Beatles song went "Lucy in disguise with diamonds". That lyric was not intended as part of the parody and by the time he found out how the Beatles song actually went, it was too late to change it. He still considers it a testament to his own stupidity. This is straight from his mouth.



I''m not feeling so quite as stupid now. (not about this, anyway!)

 

[musey]

Date: 5/6/2009 12:57:38 AM
Author: purrfectpear

Date: 5/5/2009 7:19:04 PM
Author: musey

Date: 5/5/2009 7:12:57 PM
Author: purrfectpear
When I was 13 gas was 32 cents/gallon, Twister had just been invented, and AstroTurf was showing up on every neighborhood patio

.

No self respecting trendy girl would be caught dead without her white vinyl go-go boots.

PP, I think you were born the same year as my mom and dad! 1953?

Yep. 1953, I just had my birthday on April 29th

Ask your mom if she ever got sent home for wearing too short of a skirt? We used to roll our skirts up at the waistband to make them shorter (scandalous huh?)

Too funny- she has the exact same stories! They had to kneel on the floor and if their skirt didn''t touch the ground, they were sent home.

 

[soocool]

Date: 5/5/2009 11:33:06 PM
Author: lulu
Only rich people had color tv. Girls set their hair with ''spoolies''. The Beatles were hot. No pantyhose in our neck of the woods-we wore garter belts and sanitary napkin belts.

I remember how much I hated these belts (they were always twisting)...I was 13 in 1969 and a few years later Stayfree pads came out. I was so happy!

I also watched tv at a friend''s house every Friday night. They had a color console tv.

 

[mrscushion]

When I was 13, grunge was on the way out, Kate Moss just ushered in "heroin chic" in fashion (bye-bye supermodels), and Loreena Bobbitt got away with the insanity defense.

 

[mirre]

When I was 13...

+Britney Spears was "not dating Justin Timberlake" and "a virgin"

+We had WebTV not a PC at my house

+I did not know the "wonders" of a monthly cycle and was wishing for it... apparently I was clueless

+Could not turn on the radio without hearing "My Heart Will Go On"

+Had never seen a cell phone in real life and only knew of the one that Zach had on Saved By The Bell

+Bill Clinton was president for the second time and accused of sexual harassment, Monica Lewinsky Scandal and Impeachment

+The Unabomber Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty

+Viagra was approved for use

+Jonesboro, Arkansas (my state) school shooting

+George Michael was arrested for lewd acts and "came out"

+Disney''s Animal Kingdom opened

+Charlton Heston becomes president of the NRA

+The first edition of Windows was released by Microsoft: Windows 98

+Google was founded (had no clue!

)

+Mark McGwire broke the home run record

+Exxon bought Mobil to become Exxon-Mobil

 

[KimberlyH]

When I was 13 I got my own bedroom for the first time. Voices That Care was sung at my 8th grade graduation. The First Time by Surface and I''ll Give All My Love to You by Keith Sweat were the song to slow dance to.

 

[got2goldens]

Date: 5/6/2009 1:52:45 AM
Author: SanDiegoLady

What happened in 1979?
Shah leaves Iran
Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II
Three Mile Island, Pa.,
Margaret Thatcher becomes new prime minister (May 3).
The Pittsburgh Pirates win the World Series, defeating the Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 3.
Superbowl XIII Champions: Pittsburgh Steelers
NBA Champions: Seattle SuperSonics
The Hotties: Farrah Fawcett, Suzanne Somers, Lynda Carter, Catherine Bach, Cheryl Tiegs, Iman, Christie Brinkley
''Rapper''s Delight'' by the Sugar Hill Gang
The Deer Hunter,
Album of the Year: Saturday Night Fever, Bee Gees
Song of the Year: ''Just the Way You Are,'' Billy Joel, songwriter
Nobel in Medicine: Allan MacLeod Cormack (U.S.) and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (U.K.),
for developing computed axial tomography (CAT scan) X-ray technique
US GDP (1998 dollars): $2,557.50 billion
Federal spending: $504.03 billion
Federal debt: $829.5 billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars): $16,461
Consumer Price Index: 72.6
Unemployment: 5.8%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.15
Fall of Cambodian capital Phnom Penh
In 1979, the first Post-it notes are invented
In recognition of her efforts, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 1979.
Pope John Paul II travels to the United States, the first time a pope has set foot on American soil.
Sony introduces the Walkman.
The Pac-Man arcade game is released to the Japanese market by Namco.
Top TV Shows:
1. 60 Minutes (CBS)
2. Three''s Company (ABC)
3. That''s Incredible! (ABC)
4. Alice (CBS)
5. M*A*S*H (CBS)
6. Dallas (CBS)
7. Flo (CBS) (I loved this show!)
8. The Jeffersons (CBS)
9. The Dukes of Hazzard (CBS)
10. One Day at a Time (CBS)
Top 10 Music Hits:
1. Y.M.C.A. - Village People
2. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
3. Don''t Stop Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
4. We Are Family - Sister Sledge
5. Old Time Rock and Roll - Bob Seger
6. Hot Stuff/Bad Girls - Donna Summer
7. Good Times - Chic
8. Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
9. Aint No Stoppin Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead
10. September - Earth, Wind and Fire

My house still had a rotary dial phone.. Life was really so much simpler back then..

SDL, you and I are the same age

~Kat

 

[luvthemstrawberries]

When I was 13, we didn''t have a cell phone - we had a "car phone" - in a big black bag the size of a phone book that sat in the floor of the passenger side and velcroed the phone into the bag.

 

[tlh]

Date: 5/8/2009 1:11:51 PM
Author: luvthemstrawberries
When I was 13, we didn't have a cell phone - we had a 'car phone' - in a big black bag the size of a phone book that sat in the floor of the passenger side and velcroed the phone into the bag.

I think our dad's hung out!

ETA: since that may not make sense, my dad kept his briefcase phone in his car... just like mentioned above. Luvem... I dont think our dad's actually hung out.

 

[luvthemstrawberries]

Date: 5/8/2009 2:03:42 PM
Author: tlh

Date: 5/8/2009 1:11:51 PM
Author: luvthemstrawberries
When I was 13, we didn''t have a cell phone - we had a ''car phone'' - in a big black bag the size of a phone book that sat in the floor of the passenger side and velcroed the phone into the bag.

I think our dad''s hung out!

ETA: since that may not make sense, my dad kept his briefcase phone in his car... just like mentioned above. Luvem... I dont think our dad''s actually hung out.

Ooooh, I get it!! Haha, I had a furrowed brow there for a few minutes, couldn''t quite figure it out!

Heheh you make me laugh.

 

[omieluv]

*The Cosby Show & Roseanne tied for most consistent TV ratings (in the US).
*Iraq invaded Kuwait
*Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
*The Hubble Space Telescope was launched
*The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed
*F. Hoffmann of La Roche Ltd. was fined $500 million, making him the top corporate criminal for that year.
*Arsenio Hall hosted the MTV Music Awards & the video of the year was Sinéad O'Connor "Nothing Compares 2 U"
*Manuel Noriega, ruler of Panama, surrenders to U.S. troops and is arrested on drug-trafficking charges
*Nelson Mandela freed from South African prison
*East and West Germany reunited
*Margaret Thatcher resigns as British Prime Minister
*Nolan Ryan pitches his 6th no-hitter

 

[reader]

Baby Jessica fell into a well. That should be enough right there to date me lol.

 

[VRBeauty]

Date: 5/9/2009 8:45:25 AM
Author: reader
Baby Jessica fell into a well. That should be enough right there to date me lol.

Oh my goodness... I remember that. Texas, right?

BTW Reader, isn't it time for you to upgrade your avatar?

*** runs off to google jessica baby well ***

ETA... well, turns out it wasn't all that long ago after all. No wonder I remember it!

 

[isaku5]

Date: 5/5/2009 8:14:49 PM
Author: Dancing Fire
when i was 13...
a candy bar cost 15 cents.
pay phone was 10 cents per call.
#1 songs were...''Maggie Mae'' by Rod Stewart...''It''s Too Late'' by Carole King.
a brand new WV bug cost $1,999

Wow, Dancing! You must be older than me!!! I feel better already.

When I was 13...

a candy bar cost 25 cents
pay phone was 10 cents per call
Elvis Presley was hot
Saddle shoes (only blue and white) were ''in''
"Time of the month" meant a long walk to a local pharmacy where you whispered your order to a kind-looking woman who wrapped the box sloooowwwwllllyyy with a torn off sheet of brown paper and tied it with real string.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 5/9/2009 11:23:46 AM
Author: isaku5

Date: 5/5/2009 8:14:49 PM
Author: Dancing Fire
when i was 13...
a candy bar cost 15 cents.
pay phone was 10 cents per call.
#1 songs were...'Maggie Mae' by Rod Stewart...'It's Too Late' by Carole King.
a brand new WV bug cost $1,999

Wow, Dancing! You must be older than me!!! I feel better already.

When I was 13...

a candy bar cost 25 cents
pay phone was 10 cents per call
Elvis Presley was hot
Saddle shoes (only blue and white) were 'in'
'Time of the month' meant a long walk to a local pharmacy where you whispered your order to a kind-looking woman who wrapped the box sloooowwwwllllyyy with a torn off sheet of brown paper and tied it with real string.

no way baby !!!

and a candy bar didn't cost 25 cent in the late 50's - early 60's. i remember cigs cost like 35 cents a pack in the mid 60's. by reading your post you must be getting too old. you are losing your momories.

 

[KimberlyH]

Date: 5/6/2009 12:57:38 AM
Author: purrfectpear

Date: 5/5/2009 7:19:04 PM
Author: musey

Date: 5/5/2009 7:12:57 PM
Author: purrfectpear
When I was 13 gas was 32 cents/gallon, Twister had just been invented, and AstroTurf was showing up on every neighborhood patio

.

No self respecting trendy girl would be caught dead without her white vinyl go-go boots.

PP, I think you were born the same year as my mom and dad! 1953?

Yep. 1953, I just had my birthday on April 29th

Ask your mom if she ever got sent home for wearing too short of a skirt? We used to roll our skirts up at the waistband to make them shorter (scandalous huh?)

My mom is a 1957 baby, but she and her sisters were labeled "The Wild [InsertTheirLastNameHere] Girls" for wearing short skirts and go-go boots to their very conservative church functions. No one would associate with them. If they could see her now, beautiful at 52, but wearing mom jeans (a habit I've been trying to break for a very long time).

 

[luv2sparkle]

when I was 13 I bought my first pair of hip hugger bell bottoms( OMG what I would give to wear them now), but I couldnt wear them to school because we
had to wear dresses (private school).

when you bought maxi pads- the boxes were so big that they stuck out of the brown paper bag about 10 inches, and I always went to the lady checker and
prayed she wouldnt yell out " Price check on Maxi Pads Aisle 10!". Then prayed I wouldnt see anyone I knew walking home!


I loved Sonny & Cher and Donny and Marie!

Was an 8th grade cheerleader

Loved to slow-dance with the boys!

 

[loriken214]

When I turned 13, my Mom threw a JAWS themed beach birthday party for me...the movie had just come out and it scared the you know what out of us! She even drew the picture of the shark going for the girl swimmer on the invitations.

Lori

 

[LadyBlue]

When I was 13 I had my first date, we went to see Romeo and Juliet.