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Offline SOB

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« Reply #30 on: July 05, 2006, 08:59:00 AM »
I imagine I was learning to walk.
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« Reply #31 on: July 05, 2006, 09:00:04 AM »
I was in the hospital with an expired kaiser card and a re attached leg and 8 more broken vertebre and various other broken bones trying to explain to the doctor (who was jewish) why I needed to have at least a maintenance level of alcohol every day to go along with my morphine and.... to please ignore the ss tats.

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« Reply #32 on: July 05, 2006, 10:27:58 AM »
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I was in the hospital with an expired kaiser card and a re attached leg and 8 more broken vertebre and various other broken bones trying to explain to the doctor (who was jewish) why I needed to have at least a maintenance level of alcohol every day to go along with my morphine and.... to please ignore the ss tats.

lazs


A leg re attachment?? I got nothing

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« Reply #33 on: July 05, 2006, 12:09:43 PM »
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How do you have a flood during a Blizzard? Thought a blizzard was a lot of snow and it would be freezing out? If there was water wouldn't it be frozen?

Just curious how this would happen is all.


I was 13 during the Blizzard of '78, remember it well. Many coastal towns suffered severe tidal surges, killed several people.... plus, as Captain Virgil says, all that snow had to go somewhere when it melted. It was a bad storm, we were out of school for 2 weeks.
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« Reply #34 on: July 05, 2006, 12:23:43 PM »
running around with a crappy diaper on..

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« Reply #35 on: July 05, 2006, 12:33:01 PM »
I'll never know. I was 3 years 4 months old. Only child with a single mother who has since passed... I'd like to think we went and saw the parade a few blocks away, and the fireworks, but I recall a bit as a kid I was scared of fireworks for a while.


Oh well, a milestone of our "generation" but I don't remember it.
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« Reply #36 on: July 05, 2006, 12:40:10 PM »
on holiday in Spain.

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« Reply #37 on: July 05, 2006, 01:09:28 PM »
I was living in Ireland at the time. Missed it all.
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« Reply #38 on: July 05, 2006, 04:01:34 PM »
I made my first solo flight on July 4th, 1976 in a Piper Cherokee 140 (N6864W).   I hadn’t even thought about it until I saw this thread – I should have gone up to the old airfield to make a commemorative flight!

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« Reply #39 on: July 05, 2006, 04:03:56 PM »
Learning not to **** on myself.

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« Reply #40 on: July 05, 2006, 04:18:06 PM »
Riding a Big Wheel and stealing sips of whiskey sour from my uncles.

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« Reply #41 on: July 05, 2006, 04:30:15 PM »
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I was 13 during the Blizzard of '78, remember it well. Many coastal towns suffered severe tidal surges, killed several people.... plus, as Captain Virgil says, all that snow had to go somewhere when it melted. It was a bad storm, we were out of school for 2 weeks.


I was in Revere, not quite 13 yet(april), and yes, a major tidal surge. It was a full moon combined with a very high tide and storm surge. Our street was 6 feet under the sea. We spent over a month at a hotel by the airport(the old ramada on 1A).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_1978
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« Reply #42 on: July 05, 2006, 05:58:07 PM »
30 years ago? HMMM...Probrably learning to walk
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« Reply #43 on: July 05, 2006, 06:15:08 PM »
Probably making good use of the diaper i was wearing, as well as spraying puke on, and laughing at people as they made goo goo, ga ga noises at a 1 year old.
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« Reply #44 on: July 05, 2006, 06:44:40 PM »
The family went to Ocean City Maryland on vacation.

I was 12.
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