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Re: Age average
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lugnet.people
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Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:20:22 GMT
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In lugnet.people, Christopher Lannan writes:
> In lugnet.people, Jeff Stembel writes:
> > In lugnet.starwars, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > Dennett wrote:
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> > > > On 11/11/1999, at 2:54 PM, Steve Bliss wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > In lugnet.people, Dennett wrote:
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> > > > > > There are still a few of us under 20. I'm 15(four months to bday and
> > > > > > I can't wait :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Don't worry. You'll be 16 in plenty of time for the UCS X-Wing Fighter
> > > > > and TIE Interceptor. ;)
> > > >
> > > > OK, you going to buy it for me?? :) I'd love to have it but it's that
> > > > thing called $$$$$, and I'm trying to get the system sets.
> > > >
> > > > > > This thread really ought to be moved to lugnet.people in fact I'm
> > > > > > posting it there as well, so set followups to there only, as ages of
> > > > > > readers has nothing to do with SW.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ha-ha! So you think!
> > > >
> > > > Forgive me, I lied, I'm not 15, but all I'm going to tell you about my
> > > > real age is that I was born a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away :P
> > >
> > > Ugh. I'm 28. I remember seeing Gerald Ford as a child.
> > >
> > > *trip* THUMP
> > >
> > > LFB.
> >
> > I feel old *and* young, and I'm only twenty! ;) The earliest major event I
> > can remember was the Challenger Explosion, when I was six. Up to that point, • I
> > had wanted my mother (she is a teacher) to be on that launch.
> >
> > On a related note, it's really unnerving to hear for the first time about new
> > music groups composed of people younger than oneself. Not only that, but I
> > like "oldies" music! Ya know, that stuff from the '80s? :) Heck, I • remember
> > when MTV only played music videos! *Gasp!* :)
> >
> > Jeff
> I remember when HBO started at 5:00 pm each day, and they showed MOVIES!!
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> Chris
I remember having to use an antenna to get a total of 5 channels if you were
lucky. We even had a black an white TV! Oh the humanity... :)
I also remember when if you asked someone if there would ever be a PC in your
home they would have locked you up in a mental institution.
All that and I am only a month from being 30 :). Imagine what our older
friends have seen (or hadn't seen for that matter).
Eric
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
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| Eric Kingsley <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message news:FLAnty.CyE@lugnet.com... (...) were (...) Not too much. Before 1983 we had only one TV channel (TRT1, one and only, state owned) and having a color TV was not making much difference since it (...) (27 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) Yup. The phrase '3 channels' sticks in my mind for some reason. Oddly, the first channel in Tampa (as I recall) was 38/UHF. Broadcasted from the pier in downtown St. Pete. And phone numbers always started with two letters. Which is why I like (...) (27 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) I (...) I remember when HBO started at 5:00 pm each day, and they showed MOVIES!! Chris (27 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.people)
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