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Veritas · 07-20-2008 08:55 PM

What do you remember?

I was a five year old lil' stinker. Mom and Dad made me stay up to watch it. Couldn't make out much on the old B&W tv that was older than I. Our country needs more days like that. Sigh...

Thundersnow · 07-20-2008 08:56 PM

not alive.

Veritas · 07-20-2008 09:06 PM

Thundersnow wrote:
not alive.

I think the proper NPB term is "Just an itch in Daddy's pants."

Vagrant · 07-20-2008 09:22 PM

Veritas wrote:
Thundersnow wrote:
not alive.
I think the proper NPB term is "Just an itch in Daddy's pants." http://emoticons4u.com/crazy/1087.gif

Shit my daddy wasn't even old enough to itch yet.

dubfan · 07-20-2008 09:28 PM

I was alive, but don't remember it

I remember the later ones, though.

Veritas · 07-20-2008 10:52 PM

Where was Google?

http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html

dgm · 07-20-2008 11:22 PM

I did not exist in my current form.

tatange · 07-21-2008 04:50 AM

I was 2 months old. Probably sitting in a corner somewhere Shitting my pants.

Turd_Ferguson · 07-21-2008 06:40 AM

dgm wrote:
I did not exist in my current form.

Same here. I was nearly 12 years away.

glfredrick · 07-21-2008 10:25 AM

Making wedding plans and having a good time street-racing my Chevelle.

Here is a list of July 20 events in history that I can remember... Earlier is a bit fuzzy... I was 7 years old in '64.

1964 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City"
1967 Race riots in Memphis Tenn
1968 Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes the 1st heavy metal
song to hit the charts, it comes in at #117
1969 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
1970 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island
1974 Turkey invades Cyprus
1976 US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
1977 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pa, kills 80 & causing $350 mil damage
1982 Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks
1985 Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
1987 Don Mattingly ties 1st base majors fielding record with 22 put-outs
1988 Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee
1990 Justice William Brennan resigns from the Supreme Court after 36 years
1991 Kirk Cameron marries Growing Pains co-star Chelsea Noble in upstate NY
1991 Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant
1996 26th Olympic Summer games opens in Atlanta, Georgia

2.FOH. · 07-21-2008 11:44 AM

I was likely hungry, focused on a nipple & wailing on about the mess in my
shorts.

Funny how little has changed all these years.

Unka Bart · 07-21-2008 12:16 PM

I was either in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Vientienne or Saigon. If it's important, I could dig out my old passport and check. I was a callow youth of 30 at the time, and loving the fact that I was single, and most of my body parts still functioned. (all of them except for the right foot, which was permanently put out of commission by that bullet through the sciatic nerve back in '67.)

2.FOH. · 07-21-2008 12:24 PM

Unka Bart wrote:
(all of them except for the right foot, which was permanently put out of commission by that bullet through the sciatic nerve back in '67.)

Yikes.

We have a couple of members here with sciatic issues.
(myself included)

I don't -think- any stemmed from something quite as dramatic.

4nonymous · 07-21-2008 01:07 PM

Unka Bart wrote:
I was either in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Vientienne or Saigon.

Daddy???????

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Iron Sun 254 · 07-21-2008 02:20 PM

Not yet.

Dancer · 07-22-2008 02:27 AM

Not even thought of. My dad was still busy dodging bullets and my mother was half a world away, likely putting needles in someone's vein, or stuck in surgery for the 17th hour.

Crash6 · 07-24-2008 12:48 AM

My mom was still in junior high school school in North Seattle.

My dad was an Army Lt. at Fort Ord, California.

They hadn't even met yet.

Clova · 07-30-2008 10:25 PM

Why 39?

Why not 40?

4nonymous · 07-31-2008 12:46 AM

Clova wrote:
Why 39?

Why not 40?

Because on July 20, 1969 (39 years before the first post) we put a man on the moon.

Vagrant · 07-31-2008 02:10 AM

Crash6 wrote:
My mom was still in junior high school school in North Seattle.

My dad was an Army Lt. at Fort Ord, California.

They hadn't even met yet.

Wow.

Thundersnow · 07-31-2008 02:19 AM

Sounds like his dad liberated his mother from the cradle.

Crash6 · 07-31-2008 03:25 AM

Yup. Big point of contention early on in the marriage. My grandpa, the perpetually drunk yet pleasant Irish cop, HATED my dad for as long as I can remember.

My dad was 31 and my mom was 19 when they got married. They had me 8 months later. No, I was not premature.

Qwinn · 07-31-2008 04:14 AM

I was born 2.5 months after the moon landing, actually. So, yeah, I was alive, in the fully viable clump of cells sense of the word.

Qwinn

Karl Lazlo, Esq. · 07-31-2008 04:22 AM

2 BL*

*Before Lazlo

glfredrick · 07-31-2008 02:08 PM

4nonymous wrote:
Clova wrote:
Why 39?

Why not 40?
Because on July 20, 1969 (39 years before the first post) we put a man on the moon.

Yup... I watched it live.

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#1 07-20-2008 08:55 PM

Where were you 39 years ago today?

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