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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
February 1, 2016 at 12:27 pm
I don't remember where I was or what I was doing, but I was about 15 at the time. I do clearly remember being in my Eng Lit class at some point afterwards, when a born-again friend of mine declared in all seriousness and without any shame, to the whole class, that "God" literally reached down and sabotaged the shuttle because "He" didn't want any humans snooping around heaven - I shit you not. Then he got all confused and offended when everyone, including the teacher Mr Gardner, couldn't stop laughing at him.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
February 1, 2016 at 12:35 pm
(February 1, 2016 at 12:27 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I don't remember where I was or what I was doing, but I was about 15 at the time. I do clearly remember being in my Eng Lit class at some point afterwards, when a born-again friend of mine declared in all seriousness and without any shame, to the whole class, that "God" literally reached down and sabotaged the shuttle because "He" didn't want any humans snooping around heaven - I shit you not. Then he got all confused and offended when everyone, including the teacher Mr Gardner, couldn't stop laughing at him.
Good case for home schooling there. (Assuming stupid is contagious.)
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
February 1, 2016 at 12:42 pm
Was that for Challenger or Columbia? Sorry, I probably manhandled the thread.
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
February 1, 2016 at 1:23 pm
(February 1, 2016 at 9:39 am)Mr Greene Wrote: A few of the farms near where I am are still under quarantine due to fallout, also every year a group of children from Ukraine come for a few weeks with a charity.
Curious. Why do the children come? What is the purpose?
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
February 1, 2016 at 2:09 pm
(February 1, 2016 at 12:35 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: Good case for home schooling there. (Assuming stupid is contagious.)
Last I heard he was director of public relations at (I think) Lichfield Cathedral, about fifteen stone larger and 90% balder. He pops up on telly occasionally, as a mouthpiece for whatever scandal they need to paper over at the time.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
February 1, 2016 at 2:11 pm
I was pre-alive.
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
February 1, 2016 at 2:16 pm
(February 1, 2016 at 2:11 pm)Pandæmonium Wrote: I was pre-alive.
Ask your mom. Or do the past lives regression thing. (hehe)
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
February 1, 2016 at 5:18 pm
I was shooting pool in the student union at my university. There were several televisions nearby, all with live coverage of the launch. When the vessel exploded, you could have heard a pin drop in the place.
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
February 1, 2016 at 5:27 pm
By the way, and not to derail this thread, but it's almost exactly 35 years since Reagan got inaugurated. Do you know where you were then?
It was my graduation year at our equivalent of high school and I remember a classmate saying, great, now they have a president that wants to solve everything by taking the boom, boom-approach.
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
February 2, 2016 at 12:03 am
(February 1, 2016 at 12:27 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I don't remember where I was or what I was doing, but I was about 15 at the time. I do clearly remember being in my Eng Lit class at some point afterwards, when a born-again friend of mine declared in all seriousness and without any shame, to the whole class, that "God" literally reached down and sabotaged the shuttle because "He" didn't want any humans snooping around heaven - I shit you not. Then he got all confused and offended when everyone, including the teacher Mr Gardner, couldn't stop laughing at him.
I'm gonna guess that you were born in 71.
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