Fun Stuff

Mr. Rutz's Geography Class
Geographic representation of where our class members are living today

Mr. Zull's History Class
1980's Timeline and Time Capsules for 1983-1986

Mr. Griesbach's Band Class
Listen to the PNHS Fight Song (also available in Full Version).

The '80s Server
Fun 1980's web page

Humor: You Just Might Be From Michigan If...

• you define Summer as three months of bad sledding...
• your definition of a small town is one that doesn't have a lake...
• your family breaks into violence during the UofM-MSU game (any sport)...
• snow tires came standard on all your cars...
• you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week...
• you can identify an Illinois accent...
• owning a Japanese car was a hanging offense in your home town...
• you learned to pilot a boat before the training wheels came off your bike...
• you think Alkaline batteries were named after a Tiger outfielder...
• you point at the palm of your right hand when telling people where you grew up...
• someone asks you you've ever been to Europe, and you answer, "No, but I've been to Ann Arbor..."
• "Down South" to you means Toledo...
• traveling coast to coast means going from Port Huron to Muskegon...
• you refer to your relatives in southern Michigan as "Trolls"
• the "Big Three" can mean either Ford, Chrysler and GM or Dominos, Little Caesar's and Hungry Howie's...
• the Big Mac is something you can drive across...
• you have no problem spelling Mackinac Island...
• you have as many Canadian coins in your pocket as American coins...
• your kids' baseball and softball games have ever been snowed out...
• the trees in your backyard have spigots...
• you know that a place called Kalamazoo actually exists...
• you bake with "soda" and drink "pop"...
• you know what a pastie is...
• you drive 70 on the highway and always pass on the right...
• you have a favorite hockey team...
• you don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Vernors...

 

Humor: You Must Have Lived Through the 80's If...

• you know what a "burnout" is...
• you owned/operated a 'Trapper Keeper'…
• you know what "Psych" means...
• once, while spending hours in the arcade, you actually lined up quarters on the top panel of the game -- to "reserve" your spot...
• you know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off"...
• you know that another name for a keyboard is a "Synthesizer"...
• you can name at least half of the members of the elite "Brat Pack"...
• you know who Tina Yothers is...
• you wanted to be a Goonie...
• you felt ashamed when Rob Lowe got in trouble for sex with minors and videotaping it, because you liked him...
• you had top-of-the-line Commodore 64s in your junior high computer lab...
• you know who Max Headroom is...
• you ever wore fluorescent, neon if you will, clothing...
• you could breakdance, or wish you could...
• you wanted to be The Hulk for Halloween...
• you Believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power"...
• you thought partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away...
• you thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye...
• you can, right now, hum to yourself the theme to 'Inspector Gadget'...
• you wanted to be on Star Search...
• you can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose job...
• you wore a banana clip at some point during your youth...
• you owned a doll with 'Xavier Roberts' signed on its ass...
• you knew what Willis was "talkin' 'bout"...
• you HAD to have your MTV...
• you remember when Kramer was on a show called 'Friday's'...
• you hold a special place in your heart for "Back to the Future"...
• you know where to go if you "wanna go where everybody knows your name"...
• you thought Molly Ringwald was REALLY cool...
• you actually thought "Dirty Dancing" was a REALLY good movie...
• you heard of Garbage Pail Kids...
• you knew "The Artist" when he was humbly called "Prince"...
• you actually saw Ted Danson as the MacDaddy he played "Sam" to be...
• you remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system...
• you own(ed) any 'cassette singles'...
• you were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living on the moon...
• you remember and/or own any of the Care Bear Glass collection from Pizza Hut...
• you were freaked out by the movie "Poltergeist"...
• you carried you lunch to school in a Gremlins or an ET lunchbox...
• you have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf...
• you know what a 'Doozer' is...
• you wore bike shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish...
• you ever had a Swatch Watch...
• you remember when "Saturday Night Live" was funny...
• you had WonderWoman or Superman underoos...
• you know what a "Whammee" is...

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