Prove to me that you were alive in 1983

Flight KAL007 was shot down, and the next day (Friday) my science teacher asked what everyone was doing that weekend. I said "It won't matter, we'll all be dead"

Why the hell would Karen Carpenter listen to Howard Stern's show?

Oogie wrote:

I learned that Karen Carpenter had died of anorexia while listening to Howard Stern's afternoon radio show on WNBC New York.

Right after the Super Bowl, the A-Team premiered. Pretty much the high water mark of western civilization. Don't remember who played or who won that Super Bowl, but I sure as hell remember the A-Team.

The day OF that bombing was the day Dixon caught Smith late and won New York. There were news reports cutting into the race, but so few you'd not even notice.

Lost a high school friend in this bombing.

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Really? No I mean really? wrote:

Why the hell would Karen Carpenter listen to Howard Stern's show?

Oogie wrote:

I learned that Karen Carpenter had died of anorexia. I learned this while listening to Howard Stern's afternoon radio show on WNBC New York.

Fixed it, remember kids. This is why wording matter.

Bekele was literally a year old. I bet he could crawl was faster then rojo's baby

Reagan signed off on the Marines and Sailors there in Beirut. Reagan micro-managed the operation. Marines and Sailors were in the middle of highly intense environment, but Reagan would not allow Marines to chamber a round without his direct order. The young Marines on post called the Officer of the Day. It's app. a dozen different phone calls from a lance corporal on post to US President.

They grow there own trees, don't they? wrote:

Bekele was literally a year old. I bet he could crawl was faster then rojo's baby

Literally I bet he could've ran a 5 minute mile at age five.

I think this was when Celtics fans invented the "Beat LA" chant.

HS.......1967..............bought a house 1981...........daughter 1987........I am still running you dorks!

mwh wrote:

I think this was when Celtics fans invented the "Beat LA" chant.

I'm sure there were at least a few Boston Celtics fans chanting, Beat LA" during 1962 Celtics v. L.A. Lakers NBA final.

I delivered a VW bus from Bellingham to L.A., then hitched to Joshua Tree to climb for a month, where I improved my leading from 10a to 11b in one visit. "Twist and Crawl" by the English Beat was the cassette I played for that 11 on my friends portable player.

Then hitched back to B-Ham in 4 days with way too many different rides (a few sketchy). Later I found out that a serial killer later credited with 67 kills was active targeting hitchhikers along I-5 in Cali at that time. I never hitched after that.

Darryl Strawberry and cocaine.

I wasn't around in '62, but in the early '80s it was a fond sendoff to the victorious Eastern Conference opponent (76ers) by the fans in the Boston Garden, not a statement of the obvious to the home team (as it's misused today).

Hope someone else remembers “The Runner” by Manfred Mann. Finally YouTubed the video recently.

Ezekiel bread wrote:

They grow there own trees, don't they? wrote:

Bekele was literally a year old. I bet he could crawl was faster then rojo's baby

Literally I bet he could've ran a 5 minute mile at age five.

Your not me

Wahoowa? wrote:

Joe Wolfpack wrote:

North Carolina State won the NCAA basketball tournament.

I was in Charlottesville when NC State beat UVA in the elite 8, something like 62 to 63, that year. There was a huge crashing, shattering, breaking sound from the next door fraternity on Rugby Rd, then absolute silence: the end of the Ralph Sampson era.

I ran the Raleigh Relays. I don't remember my time or even the event I ran so it must have been a poor effort.

Leaving the meet we got held up, all hell broke loose; cars honking and driving everywhere with people hanging out and shouting. People and alcohol everywhere. The basketball team had just upset UVA by one in regional final. I know that regional celebration was partially due to being over a rival who was heavily favored but the place must have been crazy for the semi-final and final.

It was a better time.

Generally speaking, there were no mobile phones for the general public.

There were three channels on the TV (England).

People didn't sit inside their homes on laptops and ipads, glued to the TV.

No social media. People used the landline to talk to each other.

You met your friends in town more. People were on time. If you said meet at 6, you were there at 6. People didn't text to say they were late.

We would play out in the street after school until it got dark. You don't see that now.

There was just less indoor time. People were always out and about doing things. Spending an evening in was viewed as boring.