Nick and Cabbage and me are all 1973 babies. Goo.
― Tom, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Who's the youngest here? More to the point, who's the oldest?
― David., Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Pete, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Graham, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Emma, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sarah, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― N., Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― dave q, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― David, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Fact: I joined sinister for about 2 weeks in 1997...
― Nicole, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― DV, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
My faulty '73 factory installed memory fails me here.
― chris, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Nicole, why do you torment me so?
― jel, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I was a sinisterine (briefly) in 1998 and then resubscribed in May 2000 and have never looked back.
― MarkH, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Anna, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Then Pete remarked "I - like an awful lot of us - was born in 1973" Ulp. 17 year gap.
But I am on Sinister (& have been for nearly 4 and a half years)
― Kim, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Michael Bourke, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Eeep sorry Cabbage I didn't mean to offend if I was going that way - it's just that it makes me angry the way some people have been treated and... well let's just say that there was a time when if anyone had said to me 'it's just a mailing list' I would have laughed - and now I've reached the time where that's JUST what it is and it's a big, BIG relief.
Then again I am constantly in an existential crisis! What fung!
But I guess it would have to have been an indie advice column so I was mistaken all the same.
― Mandee, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Samantha, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
sidethread. 73 is the year of the Ox- I know a story about how the chinese years got numbered - Rat comes before Ox. I haven't got a clue what happens after that. what I got told is that Buddha called all the animals and asked them to come to him, like a race. So Ox, being all strong and that, is making great headway and looks like he's going to win when, at the last, he comes to a river in which is the island where buddha sits. Ratty hitches a lift on Ox's shoulders, and hops off on the other side and so wins the race. I like this story cos I love all things Rat, but I'd like to know the rest of it. I am sure each animal has a story relating to where they came in the race. If anyone knows it I'd like to hear.
― misterjones, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tim, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jonnie, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
thanks!
(also Alicia Keys but I prefer to keep quiet about that one...)
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 21 January 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)
― Miles Finch, Friday, 21 January 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)
― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)
― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)
But it's such an inbetweeny year for music. Even my beloved Tom Waits broke off his album-a-year tradition to wait for 1983's Swordfishtrombones. I never could get into the whole post punk thing and it seems all the important stuff got going about 1981/82 anyway.
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)
FACT: I was born May 24, 1971, exactly 30 years after Bob Dylan.
Eat THAT, hometoast.
― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)
Hey, who you callin' 'old' (upthread)? 40 is the new 30. Specially for us flower children.
― Yr3k (dymaxia), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)
― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)
My beloved was born in 1978 and a lot of our conversations about the past ultimately devolve around the problem that I remember the seventies and she does not.
― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 21 January 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)
which is great because monkeys are the best! intelligent, mischievous, influential, but um, easily confused. also if you are a rat (1972, 1984) or a dragon (1964, 1976) we should get together and have sex because we get along well. but if you are a tiger (1974 or 1986) it means we should not get together or have sex because we are incompatible. sorry markc
― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)
― KeithW (kmw), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)
― John (jdahlem), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)
I have (stained) underwear older than some of you punks.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)
I imagine you saying this in the accent of Aberdeen.
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)
FACT: My birthday appears in the lyrics of a Bob Dylan song. Not only that, my sister's birthday (not the same day) does as well (different song).
mmm, marmalade-y
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)
― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)
phil thank you v much but CAN WE HAVE SEX
rudi bahktiar is really hot
― John (jdahlem), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)
Pretty slim pickins celeb-wise:
Maureen (Marsha Marsha Marsha!!)McCormick born on August 5, 1956
Tawny Kitaen (aka the girl on the jaguars in the whitesnake video who went on to beat up her MLB pitcher husband and take one of the ten scariest mugshots of all time) born on August 5, 1961
Patrick Ewing born on August 5, 1962
Jonathan Silverman born on August 5, 1966
Also Neil Armstrong and Loni Anderson...ugh.
― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)
Odd.
I find, increasingly, that I'm part of an in-between generation that:
a) is old enough to have grown up on our parents' classic rock recordsb) is young enough to have embraced house, techno, hip-hop, indie, grunge, punk, etc.(Check all that apply.)c) is generally overeducated and underpaidd) is the prototype for a certain kind of "all-about-me" middle-class cluelessness that is even more prevalent in our younger brothers and sisters
... all of which would explain why I hang out online as much as I do.
Anyway, cheers, Pears.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 21 January 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)
Not a great virtue, but still better than "all-about-me" upper-class viciousness.
But yeah. I'm right there with you.
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 21 January 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)
I am so glad that there are not too many born after that. Those who are, you make me feel old.
I'm exactly the same age as Andy Roddick, to the day. I'm not proud of that.
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 January 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)
July 6, 1972
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)
Teeny and I have Nancy Reagan, GW Bush and Sylvester Stallone.
OH THE MOTHERFUCKING HUMANITY.
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)
― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)
Kind of sort of. I don't remember the decade, but I remember some things from the 70s -- I remember waiting in line for gasoline, and riding my Big Wheel around the driveway while they talked about the hostages on the radio, although I guess that was actually 1980 -- and of course, in the early 80s the half of daytime television programming that wasn't soap operas was made up of syndicated 70s television. So I grew up watching The Courtship of Eddie's Father and The Hardy Boys and whatnot.
And my parents were in their late 30s when they adopted me, so the kids I spent most of my time with when I was very young (my parents' friends' kids) were all much older than me, so I was exposed to a lot of Shaun Cassidy posters and got hand-me-down Keep On Truckin' T-shirts and whatnot.
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)
― stephen morris, Saturday, 22 January 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 22 January 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)
― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 22 January 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)
Same Birthday, only 1953. (Jesus H.!!)
― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 22 January 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Saturday, 22 January 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)
Oh, and 1986?!?!?! I used to babysit kids who were born in '86!!
(Ha ha ha ha, I know it's such a comparatively tiny gap age-wise, but, um, damn, I'm not used to the whole "I used to babysit kids your age and now here you are, all grown-up and stuff" thing.)
― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 22 January 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)
― youn, Saturday, 22 January 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)