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HeyManThatsCool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-05 11:57 PM
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It's January 1995. Where are you?
Climb Aboard the "Way Back Machine" Express.


I was 21. And probably at a bar right around this time.
LoL. Making good use of my first LEGIT ID
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Biased Liberal Media Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-05 11:58 PM
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1. I was 16 years old
and acting like a stupid teenager looking for a father figure.

It's a time I'd rather forget. :(
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HeyManThatsCool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-05 11:59 PM
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2. Sorry : -( n/t
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Biased Liberal Media Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:00 AM
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5. No worries!
Hakuna Matata!

Hey, that came out around 1994, right??
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-05 11:59 PM
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3. I was in grad school, working on my Ph. D.
Finding out right about then exactly what an evil monstrosity my advisor was.
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Dastard Stepchild Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:00 AM
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4. I was 19 and dating a real winner....
In May of 1995, this was not the case, however. :)
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democracyindanger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:00 AM
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6. 26
And working at my dream job.

Unfortunately, it turned into a nightmare a few years later.
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BamaGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:01 AM
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7. I was 23
and in the Army.
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:01 AM
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8. I was 8 soon to be 9 and probably playing with my Barbie's or something.
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HeyManThatsCool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:03 AM
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10. Rub it in. Your still young.
Waaaahhhhhh
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:32 AM
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25. wait what
you turned 9 in 95!?!?.
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HeyManThatsCool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:02 AM
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9. I was also in school
not doing as well as I could or should have b/c I was so busy being social.

Hindsight & all that.
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:03 AM
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11. I just turned 26
And was in the second year of my crappy marriage.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:04 AM
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12. Germany
Having a fucking ball
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greendog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:04 AM
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13. Martin Luther King Parade - Atlanta, GA
36 years old - built and ran floats for the '95 King Parade.
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:06 AM
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14. 15, freshman in high school
Man, that fucking sucked.
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Biased Liberal Media Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:07 AM
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16. LOL I was a sophomore that year
i take it you're class of 1998 then right??

Yeah, high school sucked.
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 02:00 PM
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48. yeah, class of '98
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:07 AM
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15. I was a Project Manager for a job my company was doing in Houston.
I was designing and implementing the Audio Control Room for NASA TV at the Johnson Space Center.

I was also greasing the rails in order to get a job at NASA. By April...they hired me. By October....I had moved my family to Houston.

(We moved back to Chicago in '01)

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Spacemom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:11 AM
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17. I was 23 and fixing
to concieve my first son. :D
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HeyManThatsCool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:12 AM
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18. Awwww
Happy Memories
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ellie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:12 AM
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19. I was living in Boulder, CO,
wandering around, doing nothing.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:12 AM
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20. Talking to drunks on the telephone
I was answering the phones at a cab company back then.

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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:13 AM
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21. Khon Kaen, Thailand
Serving in the US Peace Corps
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Susang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:16 AM
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22. 1 month away from getting engaged
Though I didn't know it at the time. :-)

And 4 months away from my 30th birthday.
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Carson Donating Member (560 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:20 AM
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23. I was 21, going to college and living above a bar with my then S.O. nt
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PROGRESSIVE1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:32 AM
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24. It's already been ten years since then!
My, it seems just like yesterday. I was in middle school then.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:33 AM
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26. I was 28 years old. I was living in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
I was afternoon DJ/music director for a radio station there. I'd just been dumped by my boyfriend, but was happily distracted planning a trip to Vegas with the station.
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ofrfxsk Donating Member (817 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:38 AM
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27. 23 in Milwaukee, trying to find a way out
I did. :)
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shesemsmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:39 AM
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28. I was 37
and just learning to fight BUCK the political machine here. Repuk City Hall..... who says you can't beat them We took down so good ones, some who will still cross the street or leave the room if I come in. No, I don't turn my back on them either. But 1995, now those were the GOOD OL" DAYS
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youngred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:41 AM
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29. 12 years old
7th grade. loving my American history class and hating all the rest of my school, reading a book a day and paying increasing attention to politics
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Lenape85 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:42 AM
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30. I think I was snowed in, I was 10 at the time
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:42 AM
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31. failing grade 11 I presume
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:42 AM
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32. probably still bitter over the damn baseball strike oh and 7.5 then
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:44 AM
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33. 29 yrs old and probably really cold
Edited on Sat Jan-15-05 12:47 AM by tk2kewl
It was a very snowy winter as I recall, and I didnt have a car. My BMW R100 with a Jawa sidecar as my only means of transportation. I would show up to work with a few inches of snow on my shoulders each morning.

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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:46 AM
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34. Volunteer treasurer for my son's preschool coop
and working free-lance.
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President Kerry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:47 AM
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35. 17y.o. in high school in NYC. Barely speaking English (immigrated
in '94). not the most fun time in my life.
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outraged2 Donating Member (306 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:49 AM
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36. 1995
I was 24 and on a Friday night around midnight I would be closing down a restaurant I worked at and heading to the bar across the street to spend every dime I made during my shift.
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Revillusion1 Donating Member (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:55 AM
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37. Freezing my ass off...
Was spending my first winter in Colorado, after moving from Louisiana. I was 24 and decided to make the move after vacationing there in October of '94.
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:56 AM
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38. middle of second year of law school at UCLA
...living in west LA north of Wilshire and west of Sepulveda.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:57 AM
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39. In Portland, Oregon
finally starting to get some real work as a translator.
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pres2032 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 12:58 AM
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40. 11 years old and in 6th grade
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 01:07 AM
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41. I was unhappy.
My friend Tim had commit suicide three weeks earlier.
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 01:09 AM
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42. 26.
Broke. Broken up. About to get kicked out of my apartment. In a shitty job.


And three months away from meeting my wonderful wife. Ask me again in three months. :-);-):-)
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all.of.me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 01:10 AM
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43. january 14, 1995
it is my 41st birthday. i'm living at 720 n. 7th ave in tucson with my two girls and their dad (now it's just me and the girls). this is my most favorite house i've ever lived in. there is a door to the outside from every room. there is a palm tree flanking each side of the big stone porch out front. the back yard is all fenced, wherei have a vegetable garden and a great dog named dot, chow/black lab. dumb as shit, but sweet and kid friendly!

the weather is warm, which is why we spent the winters in tucson. we're getting ready to go to the gem show and buy supplies for jewelry making and bead selling all summer.

so today, 1/14/05, is my 51st birthday. no kids, no old man, different dog, different house that we actually own, freezing my ass off in northern new mexico, and celebrating with good friends.
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 01:13 AM
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44. In elementary school...
5th grade, probably playing with pogs or something...I can't believe that it has been 10 years, man does time fly!
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 01:14 AM
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45. Winnemucca, NV, Winners Casino, bartender, main bar n/t
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 01:34 AM
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46. Oh that's easy
I had a very very young baby. I was nursing and changing diapers and being puked on.

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smbolisnch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 01:37 AM
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47. A freshman in high school!
Thank god that's over!
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LeftPeopleFinishFirst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 02:02 PM
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49. I was 8
if it was a weekend i was probably skiing or if it was weekday, i'd be kickin' back in the 3rd grade.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 02:11 PM
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50. I was stumbling thru life, drifting, lost, and alone
5 months later I met this cute, funny, interesting, smoking hot redhead in a bar. Now we have been married 8 years and have 2 kids.

Whoodathunkit?

RL
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Butterflies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 02:13 PM
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51. Pennsylvania
and kinda depressed.
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fluffernutter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 02:18 PM
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52. on a ski trip in Utah. incredible, beautiful and fun.
Edited on Sat Jan-15-05 02:18 PM by fluffernutter
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 02:20 PM
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53. Probably Amsterdam. Maybe Anchorage.
I was an airline pilot. Those were a couple of towns I spent a lot of time in.
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AngryLizard Donating Member (488 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 02:30 PM
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54. Working at UCLA Extension
22 years old, 2 years out of college, happy to be working and no longer a child genius. Aimless. I think this was around the time I'd been put in charge of a program series because everyone else in the office had quit. Very into happy hours.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 02:31 PM
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55. 18 at Nassau Community College
And I was dating some chick from HS.
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-05 02:45 PM
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56. Senior Year High School
Counting down towards graduation.
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