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Offline cpxxx

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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #45 on: February 20, 2012, 10:13:10 AM »
Quote from: Penguin on February 19, 2012, 10:24:19 AM
At that point I was nothing more than some potassium, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen.......
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Actually a little egg that later partly became you was sitting inside your Mother waiting for the day. And it was female. :aok

As for me, I played and played and played and went to the big Easter commemoration parade where the almost the entire Irish army marched past and the entire Irish Air Corps flew past. It didn't take long as you can imagine. They vehicles were all painted a peculiar light green colour. Later in the year I made my First Holy Communion. Most importanly I collected about £7 from relatives and friends in honour of the day.

As I did so I was unaware that 140 miles away my future wife had just been born but was critically ill in hospital, not expected to live.     :uhoh Inside her little body were two tiny eggs which later led to the two little boys sitting near me watching cartoons. Only now do I realise how close I came to losing them all.

'66 was a lucky year for me.
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Offline MiloMorai

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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #46 on: February 20, 2012, 10:17:37 AM »
Graduated high school and bought my first motorcycle, a Yamaha Twin Jet.
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Offline Xtrepid

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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #47 on: February 20, 2012, 10:30:27 AM »
At Age Nine, Watched The Chicago Bears Lose To The Green Bay Packers In Wrigley Field 17-0.

Chicago Coached By "Papa Bear" George Halas And A Few Notable Players... Gale Sayers, Dick Butkus, Mike Ditka, Ed O'Bradovich.

Green Bay Coached By Vince Lombardi And A Few Notable Players... Bart Starr, Paul Hornung, Ray Nitschke, Willie Davis.

Green Bay Went On To Win The Super Bowl... I Still Hate The Packers!  :bhead


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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #48 on: February 20, 2012, 10:34:43 AM »
3 years too early for me.
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #49 on: February 20, 2012, 11:19:13 AM »
That year I got stuck with a little sister.
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #50 on: February 20, 2012, 11:52:36 AM »


I was 19 years old and working in exciting places lika Pleiku, Kontum, Dakto and a myriad of LZ's scattered about the Central Highlands.  :salute
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #51 on: February 20, 2012, 08:28:23 PM »
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #52 on: February 21, 2012, 12:09:24 AM »
During that time I was hanging out in Las Vegas with my mom who was five.
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #53 on: February 21, 2012, 02:01:09 AM »
Quote from: rpm on February 19, 2012, 04:25:26 AM
What you don't realize is there almost was no 1966, ergo no late '80's, no older sisters, no you.  :headscratch:


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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #54 on: February 21, 2012, 10:29:55 AM »
I was 7 and we were stationed at McCoy Air force base (now Orlando international airport) I used to sit at the end of the runway in the fenced playground and watch the B-52s and KC-135s roll out during the many ORIs that were run. The world wasn't as ainal as it is now so it was nothing for the families to visit their Dads outside the underground bunker.

I remember sitting there watching them load bombs and fuel like it was just a normal day thing. We didn't wear helmets to ride our bikes, having honor was't just a cliche, the presidency wasn't a joke, we spent more time outside than inside, Johnny Carson was the best show, and your word was your bond.

Average cost of a new home was 14K, new car 2500, and the average income was 7K. It was a great time to grow up.

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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #55 on: February 21, 2012, 01:54:13 PM »
Pushing out my screen window in the middle of the night so I could play at the playground that was 200 feet from the window.

Lemoore was a pretty safe place back then.
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Offline FiLtH

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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #56 on: February 21, 2012, 10:31:17 PM »
I was only sleeping. 


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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #57 on: February 22, 2012, 09:04:19 PM »
Quote from: cpxxx on February 20, 2012, 10:13:10 AM
Actually a little egg that later partly became you was sitting inside your Mother waiting for the day. And it was female. :aok

As for me, I played and played and played and went to the big Easter commemoration parade where the almost the entire Irish army marched past and the entire Irish Air Corps flew past. It didn't take long as you can imagine. They vehicles were all painted a peculiar light green colour. Later in the year I made my First Holy Communion. Most importanly I collected about £7 from relatives and friends in honour of the day.

As I did so I was unaware that 140 miles away my future wife had just been born but was critically ill in hospital, not expected to live.     :uhoh Inside her little body were two tiny eggs which later led to the two little boys sitting near me watching cartoons. Only now do I realise how close I came to losing them all.

'66 was a lucky year for me.

Well, if I'm the egg, then you forgot that half of me was in the atoms of my dad's sperm.  It depends on where you draw the line between lump of cells and person.  At that point, I'd say that I hadn't become a person yet, so my description was pretty accurate.

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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #58 on: February 22, 2012, 11:08:25 PM »
I was being concieved on NYE 66/67
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Re: What did you do in 66
« Reply #59 on: February 22, 2012, 11:09:33 PM »
Quote from: lyric1 on February 18, 2012, 07:58:47 PM
Played with my train set.

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I had piles of that stuff Lyric, I think most of it got straffed and napalmed as I got older.
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