How Old Were You When... (meme-ish)
Mar. 17th, 2004 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wispfox(looks US-centric, as y'all may have guessed)
Kinda fun, it's here.
Younger than:
Walter Cronkite
Barbara Walters
George W. Bush
Bill Gates
Yoko Ono
Bob Dylan
Mick Jagger
Eric Clapton
Madonna
Jon Bon Jovi
Mariah Carey
Alanis Morissette
Whoopi Goldberg
Robin Williams
Tom Hanks
Jamie Lee Curtis
Eddie Murphy
Jennifer Lopez
Older than:
Prince William (who?)
Britney Spears
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Haley Joel Osment (who?)
and you were:
23 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
22 years old on the first day of Y2K
19 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
17 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
16 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
15 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center (only vague memory of this. I think I may have been in Spain at the time)
13 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
12 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
8 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
I don't remember any of these things:
6 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
5 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
3 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
2 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
(There's also Top 40s, TV, and Movie milestones, but I tend to not be aware of these things, for the most part)
Kinda fun, it's here.
Younger than:
Walter Cronkite
Barbara Walters
George W. Bush
Bill Gates
Yoko Ono
Bob Dylan
Mick Jagger
Eric Clapton
Madonna
Jon Bon Jovi
Mariah Carey
Alanis Morissette
Whoopi Goldberg
Robin Williams
Tom Hanks
Jamie Lee Curtis
Eddie Murphy
Jennifer Lopez
Older than:
Prince William (who?)
Britney Spears
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Haley Joel Osment (who?)
and you were:
23 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
22 years old on the first day of Y2K
19 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
17 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
16 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
15 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center (only vague memory of this. I think I may have been in Spain at the time)
13 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
12 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
8 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
I don't remember any of these things:
6 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
5 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
3 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
2 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
(There's also Top 40s, TV, and Movie milestones, but I tend to not be aware of these things, for the most part)
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Date: 2004-03-17 09:27 am (UTC)Prince William = Chuck and Di's eldest brat.
Haley Joel Osment = The Sixth Sense little kid.
:P
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Date: 2004-03-17 09:29 am (UTC)[re-reads some of the dates in your post] Holy CRAP, you jailbait you!!
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Date: 2004-03-17 09:53 am (UTC)No, I'm just young! (well, when I think about it, I'm young. I don't usually think about it)
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Date: 2004-03-17 09:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-17 09:56 am (UTC)I'm only about 7 years older than you, but as such, I pretty clearly remember all of things you've forgotten.
(???)
Yeah.
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Date: 2004-03-17 09:59 am (UTC)[continued from previous response]
I mean I don't remember EVERYthing you've forgotten. Just all of things on this list. Like, I don't remember your old high school locker combination, if you've forgotten that. I wouldn't remember your first love's phone number or anything. I was just referring specifically to that list.
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Date: 2004-03-17 10:06 am (UTC)Using that date, it says that she was:
27 years old when the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 was launched
23 years old at the end of the Korean War
15 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
11 years old at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
5 years old in the year radar was invented
Going even further afield, if I put in my grandmother's birthday, it tells me that she was:
42 years old in the year radar was invented
37 years old when the American stock market crashed
34 years old in the year of the first talking motion picture
23 years old at the time of the sinking of the Lusitania
22 years old when the First World War began
20 years old at the time of the maiden voyage of the Titanic
14 years old during the great San Francisco earthquake
The most interesting item on that list is the second one from the bottom. My grandmother had a ticket for that maiden voyage, but cashed it in for passage on a later voyage when her mother got sick.
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Date: 2004-03-17 10:25 am (UTC)Whoa. Now _that_'s crazy.
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Date: 2004-03-17 10:26 am (UTC)Wait. So you mean I can rummage around in your head for all my missing memories?!
Neat!
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Date: 2004-03-17 10:26 am (UTC)But... the phrasing was great!
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Date: 2004-03-17 10:28 am (UTC)I anticipated this response. See my other response, below.
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Date: 2004-03-17 10:39 am (UTC)But I _want_ to be able to search through someone else's head for my memories...
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Date: 2004-03-17 11:45 am (UTC)Ah ... such a naif little girl....
Would you really WANT some of your secret, lost, and intimate memories from your past running through MY head? Would you really want to give me access to those?
You really don't want to imagine how I could ABUSE that kind of power... [evin grin]
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Date: 2004-03-17 12:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-17 12:50 pm (UTC)I'd HAVE to. How else could I make sure they'd be safe?