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06/11/2008 07:31:24 AM · #51 |
I was still in the armed forces, just finished a 2 year active duty tour of Northern Ireland, came back to England and met my future wife.
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06/11/2008 07:39:34 AM · #52 |
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06/11/2008 07:42:51 AM · #53 |
| I took my Guitar, jumped on my Moped and headed off to the hills to get stoned with the hippies. |
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06/11/2008 07:49:45 AM · #54 |
Originally posted by karmat:
I was 8, naive, and a more than a bit clueless.
Actually nothing has changed that much, except my age. |
snap, except trying to adjust to being a little english girl in smocked dresses in jeans and t-shirt canada. yah, that went over well...
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06/11/2008 08:25:24 AM · #55 |
Sophomore Year in High School. Steely Dan's "FM" was a big hit. So was Eddie Money's "Baby Hold Onto Me." Just started driving and loved the freedom of taking the family land barge (a '72 Chrysler Town and Country Station Wagon) anywhere I wanted. Gas was around 50 cents per gallon. Jimmy Carter was president.
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06/11/2008 08:34:21 AM · #56 |
| I had a two-year old daughter and was pregnant with a second daughter (who is getting married in two weeks)....husband was finishing a Ph.D. and I was pretty much sole support of the family. I think my take-home pay was about $550 a month. House payment was $127.98. We drove a silver Chevy Vega which was sporting an already replaced clutch and engine (aluminum piece of junk). I worked until noon the day my daughter was born, and ended up actually taking a call from the office in the recovery room after she was born. I was generously granted two weeks off for maternity leave. I remember being pretty much exhausted most of that year. |
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06/11/2008 08:58:28 AM · #57 |
| Presumabely I was swimming around in my dad's sack. How gross is that? :P, How long does sperm stick around anyway? I was concieved in '79 and born in '80 so maybe I wasn't in existance yet. |
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06/11/2008 09:00:14 AM · #58 |
Originally posted by jaded_youth:
Presumabely I was swimming around in my dad's sack. How gross is that? :P, How long does sperm stick around anyway? I was concieved in '79 and born in '80 so maybe I wasn't in existance yet. |
Holy crap, that's the grossest thing I've heard all year. Congratulations! ;-)
Edit: anyway, who's to say people aren't mostly egg as opposed to sperm before conception? :P
Message edited by author 2008-06-11 09:01:18. |
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06/11/2008 09:03:26 AM · #59 |
I was 6 and wearing piggy tails.
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06/11/2008 09:03:41 AM · #60 |
Originally posted by Louis:
Originally posted by jaded_youth:
Presumabely I was swimming around in my dad's sack. How gross is that? :P, How long does sperm stick around anyway? I was concieved in '79 and born in '80 so maybe I wasn't in existance yet. |
Holy crap, that's the grossest thing I've heard all year. Congratulations! ;-)
Edit: anyway, who's to say people aren't mostly egg as opposed to sperm before conception? :P |
ROFL. grossest all year? Wow, you need to get out more. ;) |
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06/11/2008 09:10:28 AM · #61 |
Ah yes, 1978, I remember now... I was having great fun as an embryo back then... :)
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06/11/2008 09:14:00 AM · #62 |
one of the sickest and funniest things i've heard this year...good stuff LOL!
Originally posted by jaded_youth:
Presumabely I was swimming around in my dad's sack. How gross is that? :P, How long does sperm stick around anyway? I was concieved in '79 and born in '80 so maybe I wasn't in existance yet. |
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06/11/2008 09:21:54 AM · #63 |
Originally posted by love:
Hmmm well I was a child/teen of the 70's and there is a pretty big difference between the early 70's and late 70's... |
My thought exactly. In the early 1970s I went (as an observer) to a "Smoke In" on the lawn and steps of the State Capital building. Remember, this was only a year or two after Woodstock!
By 1977-78 I was listening to Patty Smith and wearing out Elvis Costello's first album on my roommate's turntable.
But yeah, in between I had a Saturday Night Fever haircut and a poster on my wall of Farrah Fawcett in a red one-piece swimming suit.
PS: NO fair, the title of this thread was changed to a specific year! ;-/
Message edited by author 2008-06-11 12:44:43. |
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06/11/2008 09:23:22 AM · #64 |
Originally posted by Dr.Confuser:
1979 actually ... working in the nuclear power industry when Three Mile Island nuclear plant had its historic accident. |
I was in the nuclear power industry as well that year not such a fun place to be but I stayed in the same industry until just a couple of weeks ago! |
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06/11/2008 09:37:05 AM · #65 |
I was 11.
Switched elementary schools for the 6th grade. I can't remember why. Living in So Cal. Tormenting my 7 year old sister. |
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06/11/2008 09:44:48 AM · #66 |
sorry - i was a fetus. :)
But if I was alive, I would have been going to the disco for sure! |
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06/11/2008 09:45:49 AM · #67 |
| I was putting my mom through hours and hours of labor...I don't really remember much..sorry :( |
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06/11/2008 09:59:49 AM · #68 |
I was 12, in grade 7, a scrawny stick figure suffering through primary school (we didn't have middle schools back then, just primary k'garten-grade 8, then high school grade 9-13).
But the 2nd of my three brothers was just discovering punk and starting to get into trouble, so when he got kicked out of the house I found his stash of Heavy Metal and Hustler magazines, carefully left in plain view atop the garbage bins...very interesting reading!
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06/11/2008 10:11:41 AM · #69 |
| I was graduating college as a Computer Analyst/Programmer at a time when computers that took up entire rooms of space didn't have any more power (and sometimes less) than the ones you can now carry around with you. A disk drive was the size of a washing machine and didn't store very much data. Magnetic tape was the be all for data storage and input compared to punched cards or paper tapes with holes in it. I got my first job as a COBOL maintenance programmer for a Financial institution making $888 per month. I got married two months after graduation and then we lived off my salary while my husband went through college studying Electronic Technology. (we're still together by the way...don't know how he has put up with me all these years!) |
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06/11/2008 10:11:56 AM · #70 |
| flunking out at first try at University |
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06/11/2008 10:12:50 AM · #71 |
| God I'm old!! I was 25 and was working for a welding supply company delivering oxygen and acetylene. That was the year I started dating my wife. |
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06/11/2008 10:15:39 AM · #72 |
| In high school! Going to concerts, hanging out with friends, juggling boyfriends, wearing weird clothes, smoking on the street corners, lol, those were the days! |
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06/11/2008 10:20:10 AM · #73 |
I was 7, and enjoying the good life near Tampa, FL. We'd ride our bikes all day, or wander around the palmetto thickets & creeks & cypress swamps. If the mosquitoes were too horrible, we'd just jump in the water... clothing optional at that age! (Heck, we were miles from anyone, so nobody cared.)
The middle of the day was just too hot, so we'd camp out at someone's house & play board games or watch Saturday morning cartoons. Of course, there was no cable or satellite, so we spent a lot of time making up things to do & using our imagination.
OH! I remember going roller skating @ the local rink, guys with really long hair, and getting my first stereo that year for Christmas! We'd been shopping at JCPenny's and I saw a copy of "KISS - Live!" on the rack, and just had to have it. Dad said "No, you don't need to listen to that garbage." Hehe - then I unwrapped it on Christmas morning, and listened to that vinyl record for three days straight!
Whew... this makes me want to abandon work & take off for an adventure :D
Enjoy your party Erica! |
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06/11/2008 10:23:39 AM · #74 |
| I was raising 3 kids and we just bought our first house. We moved from Ft. Calhoun, Nebraska to Bennington, Nebraska. Seems like a life time ago. :P |
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06/11/2008 10:27:03 AM · #75 |
| I was 7 and making mud pies, riding around on my bike |
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