Read this, it will take you back but be careful cause it will also
make you realise that you are now actually OLD!!

Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo

Friendship bracelets were ties that couldn’t be broken.

You know all the words to Ice Ice Baby.

You wanted to be on Jim’ll Fix It.

You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before he had plastic surgery.

You had one of those T-shirts that changed colour with heat (Global Hypercolour).

You know the profound meaning of Wax on, Wax off.

You were upset when She-ra, Princess of Power and He-Man got cancelled.

You can remember watching Saved by the Bell

You remember Madonna in her cone stage outfit.

You knew The Artist when he was humbly called Prince.

You wore fluorescent-neon clothing… (if you can call it clothing!)

You could break dance (ok, you wished you could)

You remember when Amiga was a state of the art video game system.

You remember M.C. Hammer.

You can still sing the rap to Fresh Prince of Bel Air….

You can remember when it was Jazzy Jeff and The fresh Prince and NOT just plain Will Smith!

You own any cassettes.

You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins, ALF or ET lunchbox.

You have ever pondered on why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.

My Little Pony, Gummy Bears and Transformers are familiar to you.

You had a Swatch Watch.

You actually spent countless hours trying to perfect the Care Bear stare.

You believed that By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power!

Big wheels and BMX’s were the way to go.

With your pink (or blue) portable tape player, you sang to Kylie and Jason!

You owned Polly Pocket or Micro Machines.

You made Ken fall in love with Barbie.

Partying like it’s 1999 seemed SO far away.

You knew that Transformers were more than meets the eye.

You wore a banana clip at some point during your youth.

You actually thought Dirty Dancing was a REALLY good film.

You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we’d all be living in space.

You know what leg warmers are and probably had a pair.

You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish.

You had to change into play clothes after school.

You recorded songs off the radio with your boom box.

You wore those wide, colourful shoelaces.

You still don’t like going in the sea because of Jaws.

You never questioned why the A-Team were always imprisoned in places that had sufficient tools to build an armoured tank.

Dungeons Dragons was your favourite programme.

You said bright light, bright light in a strange high-pitched voice.

You fell out with friends during heated arguments about the relative merits of Matt Luke.

Cerise pink, electric blue and banana yellow have ever featured in your wardrobe or make-up collection.

You did the top toggle of your coat up around your neck without having your arms in the sleeves, and you knew you looked like a superhero.

Your new winter coat was best used to demonstrate that your wings were like a shield of steel.

Yu still remember when the A-ha video was the pinnacle of modern technology and you can still sing all the words.

Your best party dress was either a ra-ra or puff-ball skirt.

You remember watching a house inhabited by a jester, a pantomime horse and a woman who sneezed, and thinking that this was perfectly normal.

You tried to convince your Dad to fit a strip of red lights on the front of a Capri so it looked like KITT.

You had more than 10 sweets in a 10p mix-up.

You hid behind the sofa whenever you heard the word Exterminate!.

Girls - You owned a pair of Pixie boots, generally worn with leg warmers.

Boys - You owned a pair of pale grey slip-ons, generally worn with white towelling socks.

You held a chicken in the air or stuck a dckchair up your nose.

You wore legwarmers tried to do the splits while jumping in the air while singing you were going to live forever.

You remember Fingermouse and Dangermouse (not forgetting his trusty sidekick Penfold!)

You know all the words to Hey Mickey(well, nobody knows past the first verse anyway).

Your best mate had a Soda Stream at home and you were jealous.

Any elderly Scottish lady sounds like Supergran

You remember playing British Bulldog,

When ‘Computer’ Tennis, Pac-Man and Donkey-Kong ruled

You remember hearing the tune then running out to buy an ice cream cone on a warm summer night - 99’s, screwballs or a cider lolly.

You got up extra early, especially to watch Saturday Morning cartoons

You were occasionally allowed to stay up late for Howard’s Way, Dallas, Dynasty or Minder.

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.

You remember when 25p was decent pocket money and you’d reach into a muddy gutter for 10p.

Important decisions were made by going eeny-meeny-miney-mo.

Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better and taking drugs meant

I HAVE A HYDROPONICS SYSTEM WITH FLUORESCENT LIGHTING. I KEEP THE LIGHT ABOUT 3-5 INCHES AWAY FROM THE TOP OF THE PLANT AND I HAVEN’T SEEN ANY PROGRESS IN SIZE. CAN IT BE THAT I HAVE TO ADJUST THE LIGHT EVERY WEEK OR SO OR IS MY LIGHTING NOT STRONG ENOUGH?

I have a fluorescent shop light and the circuit board inside is fried. I believe its just to control the day light sensor but didn’t know if it reduced the voltage from 110. What I’m wondering is can I just bypass and cut out the circuit board and wire 110 direct to the connector for the canopy fixture? Heres the fixture I’m talking about.

http://lightsofamerica.com/Products/9385.aspx

Any advice would be appreciated!
Whats the ballast look like? All I can see is a circuit board inside.

Hey, I’ve been sick for almost 2 days now and i’m worried i’ve contracted swine flu but i don’t exactly think that’s the case. I think I might be being a hypochondriac/paranoid and just have some other sickness. I felt it yesterday late at night when i was in the city (Brisbane, Australia). The main symptom is fatigue; I just feel really really tired/ kinda dizzy and it’s hard for me to think or remember things. My senses are more stimulated by things like light (i.e city lights, computer monitor, the tv ..) all looks brighter/ fluorescent and noises aswell. I don’t have any stomach pains; I can still eat and my digestive system feels fine. I feel worse after I’ve had a smoke (I’m not a frequent smoker, cuz I just started like a month ago and the most I have in a day is like 6, though 0-2 a day is what I have most of the time. So I should hold that off until I see a doctor tomorrow. I don’t have a headache either and I haven’t been vomitting or diarrhea (i did have diarrhea 4 days ago but that’s probably unrelated and coincindental). I don’t have a running nose, my throat isn’t sore and I have only coughed or sneezed a couple of times, very rarely. Last thing, when people talk to me it sounds like they’re saying something slightly different than what they actually said.. it’s hard for me to listen (i am like this usually, a bit deaf, but it’s much worse). I hope it’s nothing bad, please have your say on the matter. Thanks

Every rare once and a while my fluorescent lights give of incredible bright white flashes that blind you for a mere split second. It usually happens once or twice a day and only when they are turned on.
Why do they do this and is it something I should be worried about?

AND I HAVE T5 FLUORESCENT LIGHTING AND MY CILANTROS AREN’T GROWING TOUGH STEMS. WHY IS THAT?

Incandescent, bioluminescent, phosphorescent or fluorescent?

For example, going shopping in stores like wally world where the lights are so bright you practically need sunglasses - do you find that you forget what you came in for? Has it ever gotten severe enough where you feel like you’re walking around in a dreamlike state? I believe the medical term is depersonalization. If you answered yes, how do you deal with it, since it’s nearly impossible to avoid fluorescent lights. They’re everywhere from schools to hospitals, stores, etc. Thanks for any feedback!

I am only fourteen, so I do what I can, but it’s very little. But why do you be environmentally conscious? Or not conscious? Is it a political issue?

My reasons are like this: I believe that Mother Nature is letting us live. She has control over us. Nature is smart, that’s why we have epidemics to kill us, the Earth is so overpopulated. So, even though I alone cannot make a difference, I feel a little better about myself when I recycle and turn off the lights and dream about what I will do in adulthood. I believe that Nature is bigger than us, and the least humans can do is try to care for the Earth that gives us life, because the Earth would be perfectly fine here without us…

Give me your reasons or opinions?
I do not believe that I can change the world, no. But I refuse to sit back and cause more harm to the world, at least without feeling guilty. I have faith in Mother Nature. And I think when I die, that will be what counts.

This is a previous question asked by jdagger however i had a further part to this riddle. my story is a little different.

We built my room when we moved into our new house, the basement was unfinished and decided to build there. we installed a drop ceiling with recessed incandescent lighting fixtures. after the first bulb burnt out two years ago the dimmer stopped functioning, i replaced the bulb with the exact same bulb from the same pack of bulbs as the rest still nothing. since then i have switched from flood lamps to the compact fluorescent. could the dimmer switch have been fried and is there anything i could do to fix the switch besides buying a new one.

A CFL bulb in a lamp broke. I cleaned up all the large pieces, and told my 4 year old son not to touch anything. I removed all the pieces and sealed them in a bag. Then, I unwittingly vacuumed the spot where the bulb had broke with my son in the room. Am I being a hypo, or should I seek medical attention?

inverter flows 100v curent.pc battery is damaged.what should i have to add in inverter so that i can use laptop without over load in inverter.it can light 4 cfl bulb of 5watt.(inverter:set of battery,charger and inverter).

“This is what happens when you get caught out cruising the net at work”

Seems more and more ads are showing men in less than positive roles in the home. Seen as inept and needy when in actuality we cook, clean, and take care of the home quite well. While some men choose not to do this, it seems the media lumps us altogether. Real men wash clothes and dishes and mop the floor, etc. It seems the media does that well: showing people in a negative light.

please don’t not read this because it’s long.

so this has happened several times to me, and I’m going to explain best i can. i see blue flashes of light on rare occasions in my room and hall way. the 1st time was when i had my door cracked and i was peering out of it, and at complete random i saw a blue flash come from the hall.

2nd time was similar to that, expect then i saw it while my brother had the bathroom light and computer on. i assumed that since the hall was dark that i just saw the computer shut off. but a week later i did see it shut off and it just made things darker….

3rd time was when i was sick in bed. i just turned the lights out an hour ago and i saw the same flash, except this time it was in a corner of my room. it was clear outside though.

4th time was again that night, well actually 5 in the morning. this one is the weirdest. i was flipping through channels on the TV because i sneezed every 30 seconds and ***** fall back asleep. but i was watching the dog whisperer on the national geographic channel. they went to a commercial so i went down the channels, when i got to the discovery channel, a haunting was on, but i dont really like that show so i just flipped by it, but i heard 2 words, bad cold and then i saw the blue flash again in about the same place as the night before.

then recently i saw it again towards my nightstand.

none of these times was their any lightning outside or electrical device on, (except for the TV that one time but it was across the room) so am i going crazy or is their something causing this?

oh, and to all you insane people, nobody ever died in my house…..

thanks

Its on the that new bud light commercial or beer commercial and it on the movie What happens in Vegas or w/e its called when the male hires someone to tell the wife the counceling was canceled and then she fonds out and they race to the place. It goes 123 baby your so fine do do duh do doo dooo or something. plz help!

it was by a female probably the late or early 90’s i remember the song was on a commercial about this country CD and her song was on it and you know how they show the videos and blah blah blah but she was walking threw some curtains while singing i think i remember them being a light tan color curtains idk if you know or have a clue please help sorry i wasnt more detail but your guesses will help thanks

I am looking to start building up a project car and i am probably going to buy a light weight salvage car to work with.
What commercial cars would be good for this?
lightweight being between 1500-2500 lbs stock as the car still has to be heavy and sturdy enough to withstand massive torque.
Please no kit cars or tiny cars from the 60s that would explode with a modern day engine.

Thanks.

Initially it wouldn’t start. Interior lights would come on but the engine wouldn’t do anything. After replacing the starter w/ a new one, it now cranks,but cuts back off. I feel like the Now What? commercial. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am tired of fixin’ this myself with a Haynes manual…..

The commercial has been playing lately a fair bit.
It starts with the green light from a traffic light zooming out and being absorbed by a car…
Then a guy is walking down the street and his earphones fly from him and are also absorbed into the car…
Then training wheels off a bike…
Anyway, the lyrics to the song are something like, I know you’re into me, you know you’re into me…
I’m worried that this song was written specifically for the commercial, but i’m hoping not.
A google lyric search didn’t turn up anything.
It’s not Take Me to the Backseat by the Donnas.