By Anne Cohen January 16, 2014

Throwback Thursday (#TBT, for those who don’t know) is the perfect time for celebrities show us (carefully chosen) snippets of their past on Twitter and Facebook. This week, Mayim Bialik wins the cool kid contest with a picture showing a 10-year-old (and too adorable for words) Mayim casually hanging with Cyndi Lauper.

for #tbt, here’s me w/ @cyndilauper. i was 10 (pre acting). she was shopping on melrose a block from where i grew up. pic.twitter.com/E8gwarBhoU

ampmdash; Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) January 16, 2014

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The “Big Bang Theory,” in which Bialik stars as quirky neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler, would probably have a long-winded theory about past encounters influencing future stardom in the cosmic universe of something or other.

We’ll just quote Cyndi and say, “Girls just want to have fun.”

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