events of our time ?
with regard to the mary rose really, I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers when it was lifted out of the sea..the 9 or 10 ?!? year old version of me was expecting a far better / complete version of the ship.
I do remember we went to the isle of wight the year it happened, and on the way back went to see it. with the timbers being sprayed with water.
where did the 30 years go though ? :)
we also saw the space shuttle get launched at school live one afternoon, in 1982-83, can't recall if it was discovery or challenger though.
I do remember we went to the isle of wight the year it happened, and on the way back went to see it. with the timbers being sprayed with water.
where did the 30 years go though ? :)
we also saw the space shuttle get launched at school live one afternoon, in 1982-83, can't recall if it was discovery or challenger though.
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on that note I distinctly remember being sat in my gran's living room watching tv when they had to stop the live kid's program being shown (which iirc was called 'Splash') to go straight to news when the challenger exploded in 1986. I would've been 9 at the time...
I remember at junior school watching the first ever Shuttle launch in 1981. The thing I most remember is the launch being delayed, and the teacher switching over channels to the snooker and letting us watch that for a while.
It must be a strange experience for Scots, seeing the sun! :D
I saw that one pass along the Dutch coast.
Also I saw the launch of the Challenger live exploding.
These kind of things you will remember, but the nice things aren't so recalled in memory.
I remember that. We used to holiday in Hayling Island all the time, so we went to see it on display in Portsmouth. It was basically a big hut with a log in it - it's nice to see 30 years on they decided to fish out the rest of her.
I was only 10 in 1984, but Eric Morecambes death and seeing Tommy Cooper pass away on TV left a massive impression, they were permanent fixtures on our TV for as long as I can remember. Not a good year, that.
I remember watching Tommy Cooper die on live TV. He collapsed and they dragged the curtain around him, then cut to the adverts. I can even remember the first ad that played, as it was quite a shock and the family were wondering what was going on: it was the Super fresco one with the tune "What goes up must come down. Super fresco makes it easy, it's by Graham and Brown". Whenever I heard that advert again, it always reminded me of Tommy Cooper.
I hated that advert, there was another equally annoying Graham and Brown brand wallpaper advert the paper was called something like Moonstone or Moonlight? I can remember the awful jingle but not all the words thankfully :lol:
That did happen then! I have a memory of it but I've never been sure if it actually happened or it was something I dreamt.
If we're going for the sport one, Michael Owen's goal against Argentina in WC 98. As soon as he picked the ball up I turned to my mate and said "he's gonna skin these". I have no idea what happened for the next couple of minutes in that bar we were in though! Alcohol-fueled ecstasy is the best description I can give!
I was living in a scummy 3-room flat in Bedford at the time, and my girlfriend was staying over. For some bizarre reason (probably related to alcohol) we'd set the alarm for 5:30am so we could watch Hong Kong Phooey which was being repeated on Channel 4. I honestly thought it was April Fool's day when I turned on the telly.
We never did get to watch Hong Kong Phooey :sad: We must've been the only two people in Bedford not to be swept up in DiMania* though, I've never seen the streets so empty on the day the funeral was broadcast. My in-laws, who until then had given the impression of being perfectly sane and reasonable people, bloody taped it!
*future CGC entry no. 1347
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I can still remember the first thought in my head when it was first announced. It was along the lines of hoping we didn't descend into WW3 as it might mean I wouldn't get to see Fellowship of the Ring! The second was thinking I was there only a few months earlier.
I took the wife to see NYC a year later. Ground Zero is easily the eeriest place I've ever been to. It was if every bit of joy had been sucked out of the air - you'd have felt guilty smiling.
as was the hoff being a megastar in germany :)
want to wind up a german , bring that up .. I do that all the time with my friends from there if they annoy me ;)
I remember being at work on 9/11 and the radio suddenly announcing "There has been a suspected terror attack in New York" and putting 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' on repeat.
It's odd but when I watched the footage on the internet it just didn't seem "real" to me - as if I was watching a film - although I can't explain why really. I couldn't get my head round what had happened until I got home and put on the news.
Can't believe it's almost 12 years ago, it seems like yesterday.
How is the ex wife?
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I was at work for that... when I found out, it was only one plane, and people were convinced it was an accident. Got home, found out about the second, and you're response was pretty much how we all felt.
I might get stick for this, but Freddy Mercury's death was not good either. I was upset, but it's not often I see my old man cry...
Freddie's death was bad they didn't tell you to sit down they had bad news before the news story :(
Richard Whitely popping his clogs was pretty bad too, but at least he went out with a 9-letter word (pneumonia).
Blimey! What company do you work for?
Awesome! Who'd want to watch a shuttle launch when there's snooker on?!?!
Hope it was a White vs Higgins, or Higgins vs Werbeniuk match involving loads of booze-guzzling and smoking? :D
Another company that was killed off by Sony...
We did all get to go to the pub at lunchtime for the England-Argentina game in World Cup 2002 as well - obviously we stayed in the pub all day and went out in the evening as well ;) Shame the England-Brazil game was an 8AM start...
When 9-11 happened, I was in Edinburgh and wondered why the internet cafe was filling up with Americans as I was leaving...wasn't until about 8pm that night that my mate phoned me and told me turn on the news. Flicked it on to see the 2nd plane hit, and it was again all very surreal and I was worried about what was going on and what it meant for the world....
Can remember Challenger exploding too...and when Company Of Wolves was interrupted to announce the start of the Gulf War...oh, and that eclipse! And being sat in a van waiting on my mate to come out of a shop when Kurt Cobain's death was announced on the radio....
And yeah, I was another one who can remember being slightly disappointed with the state of the Mary Rose! Can't remember where I was when the Berlin Wall was pulled down though....