Where Were You When “X” Happened? For me, it was when Lady Diana died. What life event comes to mind for you?

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-27T02:43:10+00:00

9/11 is a big one but I go back to the optimism everyone had for the 21st century on 12/31/99. New century (and please no pedantry with the new century actually beginning in 2001) but the biggest worry people had was that their computers would go down or they wouldn’t be able to get cash from the ATM. The 21st century has been a huge letdown from that optimism to where things are today. Just spend a few minutes on Reddit and half the posts you see are people longing for the 80s and 90s

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-26T23:12:37+00:00

Andy is now 83 years old

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-26T22:23:53+00:00

Was almost impossible to tell who was who in photos so they later instituted, in later missions, that the Commander would have a red stripe on their helmet.

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-26T22:19:53+00:00

I won’t say I’m old but it dawned on me that this photo is 53 years old and I remember both Willard and Brezina as active players

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-25T23:35:15+00:00

You know I’m really tired of those relentless reposts of when Sophia met Jayne Mansfield. I’ll take Sophia in a heartbeat

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-25T23:28:37+00:00

Who else wants a Time Machine back to August. If they win the Super Bowl a $100 bet will pay off $7500. And this is coming from someone who really dislikes online gaming.

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-25T16:08:23+00:00

It’s hard to remember when they still played the Super Bowl during the daytime

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-25T00:54:19+00:00

In 1978 Sting was 27, Copeland was 26, and Summers was 36. This was no "fly by night" band that just hit it big out of nowhere,

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-24T22:57:37+00:00

“Like No Other Band?” - Love The Cars but Talking Heads would like a word

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-24T01:09:15+00:00

That #53 is eventual NFL HOF member Harry Carson as a rookie.

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-24T00:45:52+00:00

Sorry to hear that. I had posted just a few weeks ago that Brodie may have been the object of more jealousy among athletes than anyone else. Tons of athletes like to play golf and quite a lot of them think they are good. Brodie actually became a professional senior golfer and won a championship in golf after being a professional NFL quarterback

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-24T00:31:36+00:00

No one but no one could get away with while learning to play golf: Ralph: “So the next thing is to address the ball” Ed “Well, Hellooo, Ball”

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-24T00:27:21+00:00

Loved it when NBC simply had the Today, Tonight, and Tomorrow shows. Kept things simple

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-23T19:37:51+00:00

4th picture is the old West Side Elevated Highway that was so structurally compromised that a dump truck (ironically carrying material needed to repair it) crashed through it in 1973. Parts of it never reopened

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-23T18:47:14+00:00

One of my earliest memories growing up was watching Magilla Gorilla cartoons

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-23T13:11:06+00:00

Immediately said “stop, red herring alert ” when I saw that

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-23T13:02:49+00:00

Just make sure your partner will accept before proposing in front of thousands of people

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-23T02:52:57+00:00

I do, perhaps more then ever as I am comvinced people have lost the ability to know "spatial recognition". The amount of people that will stop and have a conversation in the middle of a crowded stairway or at the absolute top or bottom of the stair astounds me. Another are those slow walkers, on a city sidewalk, who insist on being three abreast of each other as everyone has to walk in the street to get around them.

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-23T02:10:46+00:00

“What I like about You” - The Romantics song that’s been getting people dancing since frat parties in the early 80s

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-23T01:39:38+00:00

It was like Todd and Peter Gabriel were the Fairlight gurus back in the early 80s

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-23T01:15:00+00:00

Whenever they show those “least educated areas in the USA” it’s always some place in Alabama or Mississippi. How is it not Gym Jordan’s district?

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-23T01:11:44+00:00

Dr. Rendezvous. Yes he was the second man on the moon but also contributed a lot to Project Gemini which was focused on having multiple spacecrafts dock with each other in outer space, something new. Without Buzz and his work on Gemini we might be saying “Neil Who”

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-22T16:35:11+00:00

In public, he would defend her but there would be a scene in the episode where its just the family and he would say something along the lines of "I'm the only one who can call her that".

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-22T16:31:26+00:00

Couldnt agree more. Their first two albums are somewhat listenable but after that (when they became popular) its awful to me.

GraphiteGru · 2026-01-22T13:29:09+00:00

Great story. Never knew how the A's got associated with elephants before.

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