Sharing the Torture

[kelliem]

An evil friend of mine sent me here:



My score: You were probably working in a bank in the 80's. 15% handicap on the GenXers. 5 point bonus for telling me where you saw this. Thanks! Final Score: 57.325

Not sure why it thinks I'm a GenXer, but you can sure tell I wasn't much into Metal or Hair. :)

Comments

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

Heh. My score was 70, but I got the same icon. I think it thought I should have done better considering I was in high school during that period of drek. I just ran through them as quickly as possible, but it's scary how many I probably could have come up with if I really thought about it...

[bluster.livejournal.com]

Well, as you said, you're excused since you were raising a child. Some of us didn't have anything better to do than watch MTV. :-D

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

I watched quite a bit of MTV until she was ... oh... two or so. Then it was Bye Bye Free Time. :)

[bluster.livejournal.com]

This is why I didn't want kids. I'm a real fan of my own free time.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Hmm. According to my score, I am a Pop Junkie, and I scored 82.5. However, the test concludes I worked in a bank for much of the 80s.

The reality is that I knew all the lyrics from the "soft" bands - Human League, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Men at Work, etc. etc. and virtually nothing from a hair band. Whitesnake? AC/DC? Aerosmith? Like, huh?

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was pretty much my bete noire too, though I did get a couple of the better-known HairBand songs. How can anyone NOT know "Dude looks like a lady!"? :-)

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

I know, me too. :P I was just not into that. Why no Elvis Costello?? I know 'em ALL -- I can still sing along.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Really! Man, Elvis was great! Is great. You know he married Diana Krall recently, right?

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I heard about that! I thought it sounded like a really interesting combination.*g*

When I was 21, I thought Elvis was God. I used to walk by his studio door when I was on semester abroad (we stayed in Acton, of all places) and sigh, hoping for a glimpse. I never did see him on the street -- ore even in the bars, for that matter -- but at least I managed to get to a concert. It was in, like, a high school gymnasium about the same size as the one in the tiny hick school I went to grades 1-12 in. Which meant that standing up by the band was REALLY up by the band. It was probably more fun than the concert I couldn't go to that was in Albert Hall! However, I was too chickenshit to ask him for his autograph anyhow.

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

I received a "Mom bonus" of 20 points.

(...and *still* only scored a 79.5 *g*)

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

You still did better than me! I'm even a REAL mom and I didn't get a mom bonus!