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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 12:11 AM
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Poll question: How old are you?
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achtung_circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 12:50 AM
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1. My Dad showed me the Echo satellite when I was 5.


Brightest star in the sky.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 10:04 AM
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5. Yeah, I remember being shown satellites. It was a really big deal.
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 01:03 AM
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2. why?
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 10:03 AM
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3. How could I possibly know why you are as old as you are?
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 10:04 AM
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4. Other...I sat on my dad's lap and watched the final people being
airlifted out of Saigon.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 10:13 AM
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7. What did you understand about what was happening?
I mean, beyond the fact that lots of people were eager to leave some far away place ...
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 10:07 AM
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6. The Beatles category might fit me, but it isn't true
My father has all the Beatles records and was a musician and performed the music at home and perhaps other places too.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 10:14 AM
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8. Does your father still use his turntable much?
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 10:20 AM
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11. He does occaisionally
He has kept it along with all of his records and does play it when he wants to listen to his older music.
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 10:17 AM
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9. I'm 25.
I remember being very young and telling my mom "Did you know Julian Lennon's dad was in a band?".
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 10:49 AM
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12. Bet your mom got a kick out of that question!
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 09:03 AM
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28. Oh yes. She brings it up every now and again.
She loves to tell stories about when we were kids and all the dumb stuff we said and did.
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 10:17 AM
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10. old enough to know better
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 10:52 AM
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13. So ... does knowing better always effectively stop you?
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 07:11 AM
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16. hell no
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 12:58 PM
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14. I am the big four-oh. Yes, that's right, I am 40.
But I use Joy dishwashing liquid, so everyone thinks I'm 20 instead of 40.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 01:07 PM
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15. How do ya use Joy to act like a 20-year old kid? Ya gargle it so ..
.. foam comes outta yer mouth or what?

I'm still embarrassed by how immature I was at forty. :D
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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 07:12 AM
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17. 36 today.
ugh.
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 10:27 AM
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29. Happy Birthday!
I'm in NC too (and I have a couple years on you, so chin up, lol).
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 07:13 AM
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18. 29 in 8 days....
Fuck...
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 07:17 AM
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19. 29, soon to be 30
Sigh.... x(
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Random_Australian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 07:18 AM
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20. Eighteen.
:)
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 07:18 AM
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21. other
I watched ET in the theater, and loved watching 80's cartoons...so in short, not that old!...:) :hi:
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YankeyMCC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 08:16 AM
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22. I had to get up to change the channel
but it wasn't that big a deal because there were only 3 major networks. :)

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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 08:18 AM
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23. 43. I remember the days before PCs, cell phones, and
video games. :P :rofl:
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haf216 Donating Member (911 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 08:23 AM
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24. 38 yuck!!!
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 08:24 AM
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25. 27 next month.
:D
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 08:29 AM
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26. We were streakin' through college.

I guess that makes me an old timer.
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MiniMandaRuth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 09:01 AM
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27. Fifteen soon...
I'm counting down...
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 10:48 AM
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30. 21
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 10:46 PM
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31. I still think the talkies are overrated
Hmph.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 10:55 PM
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32. And why did our town ever increase the speed limit beyond 10 mph?
Who really needs to go faster than that? :D
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MarianJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 11:45 PM
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33. When I Streaked...
...a lot of people strained their eyes from having to squint so hard!
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 11:50 PM
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34. 37
but still played strip foosball in college...
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 11:50 PM
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35. 56 going on 12
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