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What Were You Doing On June 4, 1986? (4 June 1986)
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I was bouncing on my dads sack while he was playing football (soccer)
I was bouncing on my dads sack while he was playing football (soccer)
I have been doing some research on the 80's, and been looking back at all the culture of the 80s, and it looked awesome to me. I wish I could have lived through that time. Been listening to some Bon Jovi and their album "Slippery When Wet" was released in 1986, so I picked that year. From what In addition, from what I understand the 80's culture was at it's height in 1986, and didn't taper off until 1991/1992. If you were to look at what culture represents the 80's, just go to 1986 (I could be very wrong, but that's what it looks like to me). Why June 4? I don't know, to be perfectly honest. I just like that date.
The 80's were definitely awesome (from what I could grasp, anyway)I was 21 and enjoying the awesomeness that was the '80s!
Cool...
It's also sorta relevant to this board in that 1986 was when the Mac Plus was released, which launched the Macintosh into the mainstream market, and when combined with the Apple Laserwriter and Aldus Pagemaker, pretty much single handedly created the desktop publishing industry.
I was in Corpus Christi, TX in flight school with the US Navy. It was an awesome time when all things seemed possible. I would have to check my log books but I may have had a flight that day and/or met my best buddy for some beers (a nearly daily event for a 25yr old Navy Pilot!!!!!)
Probably sharing my food with one of our dogs or running away with them into the woods.
Or I set fire to the waste basket in the bathroom.
I was four after all.
And this happened on that day too:
Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
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Or I set fire to the waste basket in the bathroom.
I was four after all.
And this happened on that day too:
Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
link
Well biologically I was half a sperm and half an egg...... i think..
and it wasn't till 1989....that I fused..
and it wasn't till 1989....that I fused..
I have been doing some research on the 80's, and been looking back at all the culture of the 80s, and it looked awesome to me. I wish I could have lived through that time. Been listening to some Bon Jovi and their album "Slippery When Wet" was released in 1986, so I picked that year. From what In addition, from what I understand the 80's culture was at it's height in 1986, and didn't taper off until 1991/1992. If you were to look at what culture represents the 80's, just go to 1986 (I could be very wrong, but that's what it looks like to me). Why June 4? I don't know, to be perfectly honest. I just like that date.
The 80's were definitely awesome (from what I could grasp, anyway)
I'll admit it as well. To date, the 80s and early 90s (up to 1992) have been the best times of my life. Like most kids, I didn't get into music really until 1987, and that was still in the high period of 'Metal goes pop', but it was just a great time. By that time, like you said, Slippery When Wet was just released, Dokken was 3 albums in, and, IIRC, Def Leppard played their first live since Rick Allen lost his arm in 1984. Should have been around that time, at Donnington. It would be another year before Hysteria was released.
Metallica would have just released Master of Puppets. Ozzy would have just started his comeback, and Motley Crue told us all about Girls.
Slipping back into 'true' pop (read: not bubblegum pop), Crowded House released their first album at that time, U2 was in the studio for the Joshua Tree, Mr. Mister was all over the place, and some unknown guy from Virginia named Bruce Hornsby all made us play air piano with The Way It Is.
Duran Duran was all over the place finding Views to a Kill, Madonna went through her first image change, and got the Pope pissed at her, a set of white rappers came up and showed us we needed to fight for our right to party, Huey and the News showed us it was hip to be square, and we couldn't figure out if Michael had grown breasts and morphed into Janet.. though by the end of that year, we knew she was Miss Jackson (if you're nasty).
On the R&B/rap tip, Jerry curls and mohawks and break dancing were out, flat tops, gumbys, and house parties were in. LL Cool J. was coming up, and
Cosby taught us how to live as a family (except those sweaters had to go!).
Should capture that year pretty much.. the date though kinda threw it off.. but for the 80s as a whole, 3 years you need to look at: 1983, 1984, and 1987. Those would tell you about the entire decade.
BL.
Most likely you were a whole egg (or close to) and your sperm did not yet exist.Well biologically I was half a sperm and half an egg...... i think..
and it wasn't till 1989....that I fused..
Ew! Not even close to the soundtrack in my head from the summer of '86. Must retreat to iTunes immediately to create a 1986 smart playlist to clear my palate.
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I'm curious too, but I'm not going to read ahead in the thread until I answer.
So. On June 4, 1986, I was sixteen years old and had just finished up my sophomore year of high school. I'm pretty sure my job that summer was working at Burger King, so depending on what day of the week June 4 was, I may have lugging one of those big bags of frozen french fries from the freezer in back to the deep frier.
Since that time, a lot has happened. Graduated from high school, college and graduate school. Married. Cycled through several jobs. Had a couple of surgeries. Wrote a couple of books.
