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Okay, this is kind of random, but I have about twenty more minutes to kill before I can go home. So, my group at work had a team meeting today. Yesterday, our supervisor had to watch some movie about the different generations of people working in the court system and how we all work together/differently. (I think that's what it was about anyway. I may not have been paying very close attention.) In the film, they said that the decade that most defines us is the decade in which we turn 9 years old. Then, they had them do an exercise where you think of that particular decade and remember 2 major events and 2 television shows (or, if you're old, radio shows ;D) that first come to mind.
I kind of cheated because my two events didn't actually happen in the decade when I was 9 (which was the 80's). Anyway. . .
My first one was at the end of the 80's, and that was the fall of the Berlin wall (which, if I'm being honest, stands out mostly because my brother made me turn off General Hospital so he could watch the news report).
The second one was actually early 90's, and would be Desert Storm.
It's funny, though, because those were the first two things that came to mind, but when everybody else started saying their's, there were a bunch that I couldn't believe I had overlooked. But I won't tell them now because I want to see what other people on here say.
My two tv shows were:
The Cosby Show and The Hogan Family (I know, that's wierd, right? But it was the first one I thought of after the Cosby Show).
Anyway, I thought it might be interesting to hear other people's response to this. . .
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Post by stallion pt. 2 on Sept 7, 2007 16:08:50 GMT -5
Turned 9 in 88.
Events: Space Shuttle Chellanger explosion ('86) (our entire 1st-grade class watched those astronauts die) Iran Contra hearings ('87) These are the first current events I remember watching on TV.
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
Defining moments (bear in mind I grew up in the UK):
- 1973 The three-day week. Due to coal miners' strikes, the government put much of the country on three days' work per week (for three day's pay). I didn't understand whose side I was on, but knew it was surely a strange way to run a country. - 1977 The Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen reaching Number One in the week of the Queen's jubilee and the mainstream media's refusal to recognize the fact.
TV
- The Good Life (shown here on PBS as Good Neightbors) and those strange feelings I got when Felicity Kendall used to flick her hair like 'that'. - Fawlty Towers, every episode still a complete masterpiece
Camp David Peace Accords Shooting of Ronald Reagan
Happy Days/ Laverne & Shirley Donnie and Marie/Incredible Hulk/Dukes of Hazard ...sorry for the cheat. watched a lot of tube before i discovered music !
...and really from the days just prior to the extreme target marketing of today ! I damn near commented on the tuesday friday thing as well ! karma astute one !
A buddy and former roommate of mine used to scam BMG, Columbia House, and several book clubs in the 80s-90s using all sitcom character names from the 70s. Twas a great day when a package would arrive for Ralph Firley or Arthur Fonzarelli !!
I heart Jack Tripper. Why Janet, Chrissy, Cindy, and/or Terri never had a thing with him is beyond my comprehension.
Anywho, I was 9 in '86 and I can't remember anything from the 80's. I guess I wasn't a very worldly kid. Early 90's though - the Waco fiasco, Gulf War, Ryan White - that stuff sticks in my mind.
I guess I do remember watching early MTV with my sister - Adam Curry's huge hair, the cheesy animations, the dead air when someone was changing the tape. Hardly an "event" in comparison with the Challenger or the Berlin wall, neither of which I remember.
-Nintendo 64 came out! ;D -death of Princess Diana
TV Shows:
almost positive that was the year South Park came out! [my brother & i used to sneak to watch it cus my mom didn't think it was appropriate! haha] and i watched nickelodeon ALOT, and i think that was the year of angry beavers?
-Nintendo 64 came out! ;D -death of Princess Diana
TV Shows:
almost positive that was the year South Park came out! [my brother & i used to sneak to watch it cus my mom didn't think it was appropriate! haha] and i watched nickelodeon ALOT, and i think that was the year of angry beavers?
First, this makes me feel old because (1) I remember when the original Nintendo (the Nintendo Entertainment System) came out in '85, and (2) I was in college when Princess Di died in '97.
Also, South Park did come out in 1997. I worked at a t-shirt store in 1998, and South Park t-shirts were HUGE that year.
^^ Think of how old all this makes me feel. I move out of my parents house the year the Atari 2600 game system came out (remember Pong) and I'm still playing my original Nintendo.
Well, I may be old but not too old to BONNAROOOOOOOO!
1. The Challenger. I can recall the moment perfectly. I was walking past the school library and they had a TV right in the window/entryway and saw it. It was my birthday. 2. Pro-Choice rally. I think it was the first rally I ever attended.
As for TV...
1. Love Boat 2. Barney Miller (my parents were addicted and other than Mystery! and PBS shows it seemed to be the only TV they ever watched)
We treat mishaps like sinking ships and I know that I don't want to be out to drift Well I can see it in your eyes like I taste your lips and They both tell me that we're better than this
