I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
aha
Union power was important in achieving wages high enough for that.
I was listening to some npr thing yesterday where Carl Rove trashed unions. He told the story of some math major at Harvard who could only teach in a charter school. The unions drove down standards. It was pure 1890s drivel. It ignored the economic realities of teaching. I taught high school for four years and I got paid crap. I had wonderful colleagues. Like me, they all moved on (xcpt for one remarkable person). We all got PhDs or found some skills that paid better. The reason that charter schools and catholic schools can do well is that they pay shit and can select their students. Rove said as much. "Why leave the door open to everyone?" I had elementary teachers in Dayton, Ohio in 1959 who worked to open the doors to everyone. This fucking Ayn Rand semi-religious notion of self-determination is reptilian. Reagan was a lizard, and Bush is a better lizard. A concerned conservative is a lizard on a warm rock rubbing its cloaca against Ann Coulter's face.
Wait, that's not her face!
I claim this thread for watertiger!
ok. home run. where is ql?
Naughts!
Renegade!
The ohs.
The nills.
ChimpCheneypeach!
All hail fearless leaders!
Not the Naughts!
Where's Dunbar?
how about remember that fucking decade when that total jackass Bush lead us into the shitter?
The Lost Decade
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Nullsets.
ok. home run. where is ql?
spinoza
Here I is.
Exchange with Preston Glidden on Planned Obsolescence
Back in the 20th century, it was the Naughts because there were no computers so zeroes hadn't been invented yet.
http://www.thegatheringforjustice.org/
Blatant repost.
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The Lost Decade
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QuentinCompson |
The Ten Bad Years.
I'm so old, I remember as a child, our dishwasher didn't have a satellite TV built into it.
The Dire Early Years
The Lost Decade
I'm pretty sure I know where it is, but I'm moving it to thank dark, dank corner of the basement in my mind.
I am still confused why Walter Cronkite was broadcasting about the 20th century when I was in 1965. And why do mirrors reflect left to right and not up and down? And did NTodd actually eat thers' bacon while tap dancing in front of their 247 children?
Naughty By Nature?
The Dark Decade
There is something to be said for calling this decade the zeroes, I guess, but I would have preferred the "naughts" precisely because of its homophonic closeness to "nots."
Why no outrage over the "We will not allow the DOJ to prosecute contempt charges"?
Some of the heaviest rainfall in living memory deluged southern Britain yesterday, inundating places with up to one sixth of their entire annual rainfall in less than 24 hours.
Downpours knocked out satellite communications, cut power, forced schools and homes to be evacuated, and badly disrupted roads and railways.
Emergency services were severely stretched, while one wedding party was last night preparing to bed down in a church after they were surrounded by rapidly rising floodwaters.
London saw its luck run out after having avoided the worst of the recent downpours, while north-east England, parts of which are still suffering from June's monsoon conditions, braced itself for more damage as the rain moved north.
The wettest part of the UK was Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, which received 121.2mm of rain from midnight Thursday until 5pm yesterday - three times its average rainfall for July and a sixth of what it would expect for the whole year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
weathe...2131580,00.html
me and my mum got caught in a downpour coming back from seeing Harry Potter, got soaked through.
I hate this weather, it sucks big time!!!!!!
I call em the seroes or the 2000s
As the big Dave™© Blog fundraiser continues, we've got an extra-special cinema classic treat for all you anti-war types...
A little shaky, but well worth sitting through!
19-Naughty-3
oh god until I came over to Eschaton I had mananged to forget that Cheney is throned for the day. fuck.
Indeed. It's so wet out here that I almost expect to see Kevin Costner swim past my window.
Oh-oh's
I gots a Busy saturday/sunday
what with the exhibition and a wakeboardu=ing provincials
Italian police have arrested three men suspected of running a "school of terror" in the city of Perugia and are searching for a fourth suspects.
The three men, all Moroccan, were accused of running the school in a mosque, and included the mosque's imam.
Police said they found evidence of in-depth training in explosives and poisons, and instructions on flying a Boeing 747 airliner.
The fourth man is now believed to be in another country.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europ...ope/
6909961.stm
the double o's?
Is Raquel Welsh riding around inside Chimpy in a tiny submarine?
Oh-oh's
Thieu
*
heh
that gets my vote.
Most of my freshmen students were born in 1989. They don't remember the first Iraq war.
The bad old times which is best not spoken of.
Why no outrage over the "We will not allow the DOJ to prosecute contempt charges"?.
Leahy and Waxman should take apart this government piece by piece. Their measured reluctance to do so makes me furious. We need a legislature that makes laws, not just rubber stamps the warm shit of a coporate hack.
I like the zeroes.
"Hey Herm, remember the bad old days, back in the Zeroes, when you went bankrupt and my daughter's legs were blown off in Iraq?"
Spanish police were ordered to raid newsagents across the country yesterday to remove copies of a satirical magazine deemed to have offended the country's royal family by publishing a cartoon of the heir to the throne having sex.
The cartoon on the front cover of El Jueves magazine showed Crown Prince Felipe and his wife Letizia in the midst of an ardent session of love-making.
A speech bubble issuing from the prince's mouth makes a joke about the amount of work done by the royal family and a government decision to give families €2,500 (£1,680) for each new child.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/
...2131498,00.html
Most of my freshmen students were born in 1989. They don't remember the first Iraq war.
Thieu Uy Troutsk
that makes me feel old
being born in 1975 and all, and still remembering being a university freshman
like the Decider:
the diddly squats.
(Also hope he's squatting in excruciating pain about now)
Raquel Welsh
Raquel Welch's stunt double.
I like the idea of the Nots. As in Not equal to.
"Most of my freshmen students were born in 1989. They don't remember the first Iraq war."
mine too. really they didn't know a lot about 9/11. Most that watched it believed that movie that blamed it all on the clenis.
I remember the first Gulf War
but i still have read lots of altenative histories of it
i decided I must be getting older, when I read this line - (Kate) Nash, who last week turned 20, has emerged from nowhere this summer to become the hottest thing in pop.
isn't it the case when pop stars start getting younger and younger?
I now have a headache after trying to hold raquel and that in my head at the same time.
Raquel Welsh
Raquel Welch's stunt double.
MP
srte
Hey, Vicki - did you get my email?
that makes me feel old
being born in 1975 and all
Oh crap, I don't stand a chance, then. I was born during Ike's administration.
will return in a bit 
How about the Long National Naughtmare?
that makes me feel old
being born in 1975 and all...
(reaches for loaded pistol, puts to head)
Dave,
Just now!
Thanks! I was taking a nap!
I like Ike.
I like the idea of the Nots. As in Not equal to.
smalfish,bikerider
Or not rational, not compassionate, not responsible, not democratic, not honest, not corrupt...
How about the Long National Naughtmare?
That assumes an end.
Oh to hell with this accursed epoch!
Let's go back to the 60's!
1965 in point of fact.
At the Silver Factory.
Raquel Welsh was great in the first "Bedazzled" with Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore.
How about the Long National Naughtmare?
Been done.
"Oh crap, I don't stand a chance, then. I was born during Ike's administration."
Mee too - at the end.
Or not rational, not compassionate, not responsible, not democratic, not honest, not corrupt...
Zactly!
Thanks! I was taking a nap!
Hope that wakes you up!
Oh crap, I don't stand a chance, then. I was born during Ike's administration.
MP |
Dood, I also felt old when the kids who were freshman when i was in grade 12 graduated
I have a long history of feeling old, when i am not even old
I think we need to get rid of zeros entirely, because they are Islamic.
CNN's Blitzer tackles interviewees ready to put up a fight
Blitzer has skirmished with Dick Cheney, Lynne Cheney and Michael Moore
CNN anchor says he asks serious, occasionally awkward, questions
Says he does not want to fight his guests, but refuses to give them a free pass
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If their still trying to dig their way out, there must have been some serious backlash.
Raquel Welsh was great in the first "Bedazzled" with Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore.
spinoza
Wasn't she the one jumping for Jesus?
Eh, you kids don't know from old.
And get offa my lawn.
I'm also according to some the only 30 year-old who frequently uses the term "pish Posh"
Why no outrage over the "We will not allow the DOJ to prosecute contempt charges"?.
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a friend's perspective:
An act, or acts of violence” Ryan reads this to mean the following: “an act of violence, or acts of violence” meaning of course that this executive order is intended to curb violence.
But as any first year law student will tell you….that is not what it says…. It says “an act” OR…..MEANING THE WORD “ACT” STANDS ON ITS OWN….. So if one rereads the line with the work “act” standing alone…..
Have you “committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act that has the purpose or effect of (A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or (B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people”? Or otherwise provided material aid to those who have?
Some of my posts could be considered to undermine Dick Cheney’s plan for economic reconstruction, especially if they were successful in stifling Cheney’s grab for Big Oil by pointing public scrutiny to his hand in the Big Oil cookie jar……therefore I have some worries….as well as should many of you. Even you Ryan, have responded to Jason with a couple of comments that say you do not fully support the Iraq War. Should you ever be hauled off to the Gestapo, you too would have some serious dancing to do……
Anyone contributing to any political candidates who does not wave the war effort flag, is, by this executive order, eligible to have their fund frozen without warning or oversight…….
Not worried?
Wasn't she the one jumping for Jesus?
Sadly, no. She played "Lust".
that makes me feel old
When I was about 32, I met a 19-year-old girl who developed some inexplicable crush on me. We were talking about going to see a movie...she was shocked to learn that movies had been made as early as the fifties, and that some of them were even in black and white.
"Eh, you kids don't know from old."
Well I remember people saying "now you're cooking with gas"
When I talk with my younger employees, I am amazed at how little history then know at all. The failure to teach history to our young students may be the true cause of this county's demise.
Wasn't she the one jumping for Jesus?
The Leaping Berylians or whatever. They had her boot in a glass case.
My age is a classified secret, but I did see the end of the Vietnam War from the inside while very clever people tried to kill me.
Sadly, no. She played "Lust".
dave™©
Right, that was in my dream.
Oh crap, I don't stand a chance, then. I was born during Ike's administration.
Hell, I was born during Truman's.
e...she was shocked to learn that movies had been made as early as the fifties, and that some of them were even in black and white.
Phila, Pizen Sarpin
yes, the problem is I missed my twenties sucked ass, I had fun, But I'm not where i wanted to be at 32, I'm over that now, but it took a while to deal with that little neuroses
Not naught ought...you know like thirty ought six. So that would make the year 2000 Two Triple Ought...pass the acid.
"Wow! You can really name all four Beatles Mr. Troutski?"
Well I remember people saying "now you're cooking with gas"
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Nothing a little elbow grease couldn't fix.
"The failure to teach history to our young students may be the true cause of this county's demise."
I agree. main problems are 1. whose history do you teach? Who decides what perspective to take? 2. most high school classes stop 30 to 50 years before the present.
and 19-year old women are an atttainable goal as a 32-year old, just for having fun with
Hell, I was born during Truman's.
Same here.
Um "if they're..." Yeesh.
I was born during Trudeau's
"But I'm not where i wanted to be at 32, I'm over that now, but it took a while to deal with that little neuroses"
47+ and still a work in progress. you might have to get sued to this one.
You're only as old as you feel. Which puts me somewhere in Simels' league.
"Ya see them hills over there? Well, I was here when they come."
Good news: Preznit's asshole survives.
2. most high school classes stop 30 to 50 years before the present.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
History ends the year your teacher was born
FDR was still Prez when I was born.
she was shocked to learn that movies had been made as early as the fifties, and that some of them were even in black and white.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint
We all lived in grainy black and white when I was born, but I don't remember much of it. I grew up in a world of over-saturated color.
Well I remember people saying "now you're cooking with gas"
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Feh! You child.
The correct phrase is "now you're cooking with Crisco."
hell, at age two I was held up to behold god (FDR) pass by in 44.
I was born when Nixon was debating Kennedy.
and 19-year old women are an atttainable goal as a 32-year old, just for having fun with
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I gave it a miss, which is just as well. She was a trifle...unstable.
Hello again
I was born in 1986, so spent the 1990s growing up heh
"you are my Leif Garrett"-David Broder to 43
I was hoping for the "aught naughts", but "the zeroes" is catchy and fitting.
"19-year old women are an attainable goal as a 32-year old, just for having fun with"
when I was in college as an older student I would sometimes go out with a classmate for a drink of a cuppa coffee. used to really upset people, as they were 20 while I was 42.
No shit, I clearly remember when producers felt the need to conspicuously announce that their shows were "in color". That Girl is one example.
I was born in 1986, so spent the 1990s growing up heh
Moonbootica, Graduated
I was born in 1957, so spent the 1990's growing up *mostly*
I was born during Eisenhower's presidency, and the first politician I remember is Nixon, who my father supported. I was the first person at my school to know that Kennedy was shot, I was waiting to see the principal (always in trouble) and there was a radio in the office turned down really low. Nobody believed me because I was pretty much full of shit all the time anyway...
"I clearly remember when producers felt the need to conspicuously announce that their shows were "in color""
Living color, you mean. the peacock and all that.
My first real memory of the news was the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991.
I was born in 1946 and am still trying to figure out what I'm gonna be when I grow up.
My president was Nixon. My first political memory was his saluting as he got onto Marine One on one lovely August day...
BTW, if you haven't checked out that latest at the big Dave™© Blog telethon, we're screening an anti-war classic from our friends to the north...
Also, scroll down for previous visits from our celebrity friends... including a comedy classic from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
(BTW, if you're a Little Feat fan, here's a great show from '75 you can download...)
when I was in college as an older student I would sometimes go out with a classmate for a drink of a cuppa coffee. used to really upset people, as they were 20 while I was 42.
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The wife's 12 years younger, but looks about 20. We've gotten the occasional nasty comment.
I was born in 1957, so...
Finally! Someone older than me!
Aside from Simels, I mean...
. most high school classes stop 30 to 50 years before the present.
That and the total lack of, for want of a better term, "social studies" make our young citizens ripe for the kind crap that this administration puts out.
My first real memory of the news was the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991.
Moonbootica, Graduated | Homepage | 07.21.07 - 2:02 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
Mine was Cronkite reporting on Vietnam, when I was three or so. I had a couple of nightmares about him back then.
You's some old motherfuckers!
I was born when Nixon was debating Kennedy.
I guess that's better than being conceived while Nixon was etc...
I was born in 1946 and am still trying to figure out what I'm gonna be when I grow up.
Lindsay, clean fucking hippie |
Yeh, you and me both.
Actually, I've decided against adulthood. It looks too complicated and fraught with danger these days.
"My first real memory of the news was the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991."
My mom would not let us watch the news as little kids so I had to wait till something intruded on my world. Happened to be the 1967 arab israeli war. I grew up in a 60+% Jewish town and in school it was all anyone talked about.
My first real memory of the news was...
I definitely remember the Kennedy assassination.
I was pissed when "My Favorite Martian" got pre-empted. How my mother kept from strangling me...
During the 90s I went to see Taxi Driver during it's 20-year anniversary re-release. Saw a couple of my students in line and mentioned that I saw the movie when it came out. When was that, they asked. 20 years ago, of course, I said, and the look on their face was priceless (OMG you are SO OOOOLD)
No to cultist wackadoodle dog torturing pigshit Like Mitt "EL Fucktardo II" Rommney.
Living color, you mean. the peacock and all that.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom comes to mind, also.
"the total lack of, for want of a better term, "social studies" make our young citizens ripe for the kind crap that this administration puts out."
or what they get is designed to make the vulnerable to it.
I say this as a social studies teacher.
The first political contest I remember is the 1960 presidential election. That was the year I realized, at the age of nine that I was a Democrat. I don't remember why exactly (other than that even then there was something about Nixon that I didn't like).
It was more the case I watched the news but not really concerned about about it.
I mean playing with ones Barbie dolls with the next door neighbour was like the priority then heh
My mom would not let us watch the news as little kids...
We always had the news on during dinner.
My parents were big Huntley-Brinkley fans.
And we would actually watch the Presidential Conventions!
I was born in 1946 and am still trying to figure out what I'm gonna be when I grow up.
Lindsay, clean fucking hippie |
I was born in 1951. I decided long ago to never grow up.
That and the total lack of, for want of a better term, "social studies" make our young citizens ripe for the kind crap that this administration puts out.
dmark | Homepage | 07.21.07 - 2:04 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
And civics...seems like mine was the last generation to get taught any of that. My younger siblings learned exactly nothing about it.
They learned nothing worth mentioning about WWII, and nothing whatsoever about the Vietnam War, either.
dave, I'm older than you. (1955)
I definitely remember the Kennedy assassination.
That is my first political memory. Although it was the funeral.
"I was pissed when "My Favorite Martian" got pre-empted."
some special in 68 knocked my cartoons off the air. debate or some such goddam thing.
No to cultist wackadoodle dog torturing pigshit Like Mitt "EL Fucktardo II" Rommney.
You're supposed to repeat this eight or nine times, followed by the admonition to "Vote (Color) NOT (Color)".
A reference to Hitlery is also required...
well moonbats I am going to go read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
catch you all laters
My president was Nixon. My first political memory was his saluting as he got onto Marine One on one lovely August day...
NTodd for Naught
I was a tot, but my first sense that something had gone dreadfully wrong with the adults, was the drumbeat telecast of JFK's funeral procession.
Gomez tells me that when he was ten, in 1968, he was glued to the Democratic National Convention.
Apparently, his parents were worried that he would grow up to be - gasp! - a liberal.
"I was pissed when "My Favorite Martian" got pre-empted."
You and me both.
Hail to the chief and long lines of Lincoln limousines back in 63
dave, I'm older than you. (1955)
Sallyh
* I am Dec. 1957
(tom waits/k. brennan)
When Im lyin in my bed at night
I dont wanna grow up
Nothin ever seems to turn out right
I dont wanna grow up
How do you move in a world of fog
Thats always changing things
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I dont wanna grow up
I dont ever wanna be that way
I dont wanna grow up
I think my first political memory was the Kennedy assassination, although my first current events memory was the Gemini spacecraft.
I was pissed when "My Favorite Martian" got pre-empted. How my mother kept from strangling me...
dave™©
Did you have a thing for Loralie Brown?
Gomez tells me that when he was ten, in 1968, he was glued to the Democratic National Convention.
Apparently, his parents were worried that he would grow up to be - gasp! - a liberal.
Vick
*
and to think, it has once again become a dirty little word
Seems like folks turn into things
That theyd never want
The only thing to live for
Is today...
Im gonna put a hole in my tv set
I dont wanna grow up
Open up the medicine chest
And I dont wanna grow up
I dont wanna have to shout it out
I dont want my hair to fall out
I dont wanna be filled with doubt
I dont wanna be a good boy scout
I dont wanna have to learn to count
I dont wanna have the biggest amount
I dont wanna grow up
I remember standing in my living room as a wee tot, watching the moon landing and telling my talking parents, "Shut up and pay attention! Something historical is happening right now." I was such a sweet kid...
Well when I see my parents fight
I dont wanna grow up
They all go out and drinking all night
And I dont wanna grow up
Id rather stay here in my room
Nothin out there but sad and gloom
I dont wanna live in a big old tomb
On grand street
I probably got a weirder spin on the news than most kids were lucky enough to have; my parents' context of politics was very, very different than most native borns in our area.
And we would actually watch the Presidential Conventions!
Of course. That was all that was on the toob.
My first memory of news-type stuff was Sputnik.
I remember walking into the bathroom in the early morning. My old man was on the throne, smoking a cigarette, reading the paper and commenting on that.
When I see the 5 oclock news
I dont wanna grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I dont wanna grow up
Stay around in my old hometown
I dont wanna put no money down
I dont wanna get me a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I dont wanna float a broom
Fall in love and get married then boom
How the hell did I get here so soon
I dont wanna grow up
Dad put me on his shoulders to film Kennedy's casket being carried to the grave site. 8mm color, no sound with a wind up camera.
Nancy, what day in December? I'm St. Nicholas Day.
My students do seem interested with my memories of king's assassination. they ask to hear it all the time
mie was definately JFK's funeral. I kept thinking as we watched the line of mourners wind through the rotunda that his poor family would miss him at Thanksgiving dinner
When I hear "The Zeros" I will always ALWAYS have a picture of Bush and Cheney in my head.
Uncle Blodge, mine can't get over that I saw the original Star Wars when it first came out.
I think my first political memory was the Kennedy assassination
I was in study hall in the 7th grade when my science teacher came in and announced "the president has been shot." We were all stunned. We were told to go back to our home rooms. On the way, some asshole student (whose parents were obviously republicans) was gloating. My math teacher grabbed him by the throat and threw him against a locker.
Shit.
CNN:
Troops mourn teenage comrade who insisted: 'I ain't no baby'
FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY, Iraq (AP) -- Army Spc. Christopher D. Kube was memorialized Thursday in a packed theater at this outpost in east Baghdad. Another fallen soldier. Another reminder, far from the public spotlight, of the grief that hits not only families of this war's casualties but also their comrades in arms.
He was 18.
He was a newlywed.
He was killed on July 14, eight months after he arrived in Iraq on a deployment that made him nervous from the start, as one fellow soldier remembered. Back at his home station, Fort Carson, Colorado, he drew attention for being so young, so short, so slight and so cheerful
"mine was definitely JFK's funeral."
Mine might have been, but my parents liked Kennedy about as much as we all like Bush.
They were by no means happy when he died, but they were also not devastated.
Good news: Preznit's asshole survives.
So, Rove continues to blight the universe with his existence, eh?
Oh you are one of many Christmas Capricorns I have the pleasure to know. I am the 16th. Ain't life a bitch when you get the combo presents birthday - slash - santa
Nancy, no, I'm on the 6th. St. Nicholas Day is early in the month, and a customary celebration day in Europe.
Good news: Preznit's asshole survives.
So, Rove continues to blight the universe with his existence, eh?
Apprentice to Darth Holden *
I was in study hall, too, when news of Kennedy's assassination came through.
The next period I had to take an English test. I didn't do very well on it.
Nobody gives two sheets what Atrios thinks.
I remember standing in my living room as a wee tot, watching the moon landing and telling my talking parents, "Shut up and pay attention! Something historical is happening right now." I was such a sweet kid...
puppethead
That was a fond memory of mine. The entire world was transfixed on the accomplishment.
shoot, II had a feeling that I was missing something - so fellow Sagg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did you have a thing for Loralie Brown?
Not at that age!
I liked how the little antenna came up out of Ray Walston's head...
The nuns sent us to chapel when Kennedy was assassinated. It was very strange.
My parents were Adlai Stevenson Dems and pretty much hated the Repubs, although they had a grudging respect for Eisenhower because they were dedicated anti-fascists and he had fought the Nazis. My mother told me in 1960 that I was never to get sucked into war in Vietnam. I was nine.
I liked how the little antenna came up out of Ray Walston's head...
dave™©
I still wish I could levitate by twirling my index finger.
My first memory of politics was very dim, but it involved my socialist father watching part of the Republican convention which nominated Eisenhower.
My first actual teebee memory is of Milton Berle in drag.
shizzles
"Oh you are one of many Christmas Capricorns I have the pleasure to know."
you talkin to me? 12/25/1959
"Ain't life a bitch when you get the combo presents birthday - slash - santa"
indeed - and relatives coming back an hour later saying happy birthday. "this counts for both" yeah right - not that i'm bitter, you understand.
seriously - every year was a cue for my father to go off "jesus christ what a mess that was! Damn doctor was bitching that he didn't have his tree up" cue my grandmother to tell what a hassle it was as my sisters chimed in. the result is I do not celebrate my birthday. and yes than you I AM bitter about it.
My memory of the Kennedy assassination was that all us little kids were put on bussess early that day to go home. I was in the first grade.
The nuns sent us to chapel when Kennedy was assassinated. It was very strange.
Sallyh for Hussein, Grandmere
I'm the youngest, and I remember being confused that Friday, that my older siblings were home long before the regular time, and nobody would explain to me what was going on.
That was a fond memory of mine. The entire world was transfixed on the accomplishment.
MP
*
I was a summer camp at the Girl Scout compound on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake, Camp Grove Point.
Every kid tromped over to the dining hall in pjs over twigs and stumps to set up in sleeping bags and watch on the teevees set up throughout the large hall. It was neat to have that communal thing going.
My late bff (12 years my senior) retold his experience largely based on sex having coped a session at a girls house to watch while the parents were out.
Good news: Preznit's asshole survives.
Since he's 100% asshole, that's just redundant.
My first actual teebee memory is of Milton Berle in drag.
Diane C. Barking-Mad | Homepage | 07.21.07 - 2:17 pm
I can remember Uncle Milty live.
Man, this is one of the few places where I feel young...
My first memory of the news was the Challenger explosion in 86. Before that, it's just bits and peices of hijackings and my dad bitching about Reagan and the October suprise.
the result is I do not celebrate my birthday. and yes than you I AM bitter about it.
Uncle Blodge,
OY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember watching the moon landing on TV, and then running outside and looking at the first quarter moon and thinking "They're up there right now walking on it."
Now when I look at a first quarter moon in July I can only think "There are supposed to be fucking cities up there right now. Shit, we're pathetic."
My first actual teebee memory is of Milton Berle in drag.
Diane
*
did it scare the bejebus out of you?
"OY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Yeah - there's more but that's enough I think. Seriously - being born on Christmas sucks. show your id and everyone's got to comment "OH a CHRISTMAS BABY!!" with a big smile. yeah - like I look like a fuckin elf.
sheets/owls/drapes
Now when I look at a first quarter moon in July I can only think "There are supposed to be fucking cities up there right now. Shit, we're pathetic."
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Nah, there's a huge difference between sending a fragile tin can with a few people inside vs. a self-sustaining colony. I didn't expect us to get that far in this short of a time.
But then NASA's proposed trip back to the Moon in a decade with a slightly larger version of Apollo is kinda pathetic. We need to be further along with manned spaceflight and exploration, but not that far yet.
Dare I say it ... Mars, bitches!
In school I had an art teacher that was completely shocked that I knew some black and white movies. She was really surprised the day I told her I spent the night before watching a Marx Brother marathon on AMC. She couldn't believe I even knew who the Marx Brothers were, let alone point out which one was which.
My first TV memory is from 1952, the day our first set was delivered.
It was a Saturday, about 12:15. And the first thing I saw was the Sealtest Big Top, a kid's circus and cartoon show hosted by ringmaster Jack Sterling.
Man, I'm old....
"In school I had an art teacher that was completely shocked that I knew some black and white movies."
I loved it when one of mine told me he loved Casablanca.
Uhhh, sheetses.
This decade should be known as the "dreadnaughts".
damn. I was backing "aughts"
I still like "The Uh-Ohs".
Two sweet fuck all sweet fuck all sweet fuck all.
Two sweet fuck all. sweet. fuck all. sweet fuck, all.
Two: sweet, fuck all. sweet fuck, all. sweet fuck all.
Two sweet, fuck. all sweet, fuck. all sweet fuck, all.
Two sweet fuck, all sweet fuck; all sweet, fuck all.
...wut wur we talkin aboot agin?
I've been calling it "The Decade Which Must Not Be Named" for several years now.
How about "00zies" for this decade (those are zeros in front.)
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