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re: Where were you in 1988?
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:01 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:01 pm to SaintlyTiger88
In 1998 I was 13. Best time of my life. Life was just different back then or so it seemed. I was riding bikes in the neighborhood, playing baseball, collecting baseball cards, and watching the Cubs on TV. Harry Caray was still in the broadcast booth so we all thought he was the greatest. Cortana mall was hopping. Music was by far the best and you could still watch music videos on MTV. Thats about the time my parents bought a camp on a private lake in Mississippi. Spent a lot of times out there catching fish. Great time to be alive, sure do miss those days.
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Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:03 pm to SaintlyTiger88
living the life in Sherman, Texas
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:04 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Bar back/waiter at a NOLA uptown bar near Tchoup and Jefferson before junior year of college. Good times. We ended each weekend shift with a Mind Eraser.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:05 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I turned 20 in 1988.
Finished my 2nd year of college. Worked construction that summer. Was an idiot.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:05 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Chatsworth, Georgia. I was 11. Life was f'n nuts at the time.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:07 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Seeing Metallica live for the first time, which was pretty much the greatest thing ever.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:07 pm to Bustedsack
quote:I don't believe you. You're 99?
I just turned 65 in 1988
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:08 pm to WinnPtiger
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my father's nutsack
Not if you weren't born that year or at most a couple of months into 89.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:10 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Helicopter mechanic offshore. South Marsh Island 131.
Loved the work, didn’t like being offshore.
Loved the work, didn’t like being offshore.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:11 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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where were you in 1988?
LSU
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What was your life like
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Do you remember anything in particular about your life that year?
Seriously?
Rumor has it that that play set off a small nuclear explosion on campus...
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:22 pm to SaintlyTiger88
In middle school at Istrouma Middle Magnet, where the 'preps' vs 'the headbangers' was on ongoing fued.
It snowed that year for the first time in my life. I remember it on our lunch break, entered the cafeteria with no snow, left cafeteria an there was 3 inches on the ground.
Now, it probably didn't really happen that way, but it's how I remember it.
It snowed that year for the first time in my life. I remember it on our lunch break, entered the cafeteria with no snow, left cafeteria an there was 3 inches on the ground.
Now, it probably didn't really happen that way, but it's how I remember it.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:26 pm to SaintlyTiger88
finishing the first year of high school
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:26 pm to SaintlyTiger88
June 88, in between Junior and Senior year of high school. Buddy had a condo in Sandestin and we spent about a week there having an awesome, mostly unsupervised time. Man that was fun.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:31 pm to momentoftruth87
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Where were you in 1988?
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Posted by SaintlyTiger88
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A baby maybe just a couple of months…
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by momentoftruth87
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All of this checks out.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:37 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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This post was edited on 6/21/22 at 2:25 pm
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:38 pm to SaintlyTiger88
11 years old, having just moved from the desolate little town of Youngsville, La. to Baton Rouge in the Garden District. Got a ten-speed for my birthday, and rode that thing all over the lakes/LSU area. Visited with LSU football players after pre season practices. Met Chris Jackson, Tommy Hodson, and Eric Hill. Fell in love with what BR was at that time. Funfair park, the bike paths/lakes, Cortana Mall, 99 cents huge boiled crawfish at Country Corner store on Perkins, walking the tracks under the Perkins overpass to get to walmart to do shady things with the gang, seafood dinner from the caterie, playing my Sega Master System, a summer of nonstop Poison, GnR, and Def Leppards Hysteria album, learning about NWA/EazyE, the earthquake game, etc.
Was a wonderful time.
Was a wonderful time.
This post was edited on 6/21/22 at 1:40 pm
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:39 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Sweating my arse off playing little league In Opelousas. Only white kid on my team, yo.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:41 pm to SaintlyTiger88
1988:
I was finishing my sophomore year at LSU in the spring/beginning junior year in the fall. Reagan was president and the economy was on the upswing.
Met Vice President Bush when he came to LSU to campaign for the Republican nomination for president. He was the first president I ever voted for. (Come to think of it, Biden ran against Dukakis in the Democrat primary that year and had to drop out because of his propensity to plagiarize damned near everything he said.)
Worked for my dad's natural gas company that summer back at home in eastern Kentucky. That was a particularly hot summer with a ten day stretch of blistering weather with highs above 100. I think the hottest day of that stretch had the thermometer at the bank reading 112!
Def Leppard was a regular the PMAC for concerts in those days. Also went to see YES. Don Henley and Joe Walsh released some good music around that time as well. I wasn't a real fan of some of the other stuff like Richard Marx and the like that were coming out at the time.
Went to the Auburn game that year and thought the seats we had sucked because we were stuck in the north end zone and couldn't see the action from my normal perspective. Eddie Fuller caught THE TD pass from Hodson about forty or fifty feet away from where we sat in the student section. That made it worthwhile for sure. I'll tell the story that we were sitting in the first row by the field, but truth be told, we were in the third row up but right in front of that catch. Good times!
'88 was a pretty decent year overall. Times, people, and attitudes were different and a little more friendly back then. Of course, I reckon every generation thinks the same regarding their younger years.
I was finishing my sophomore year at LSU in the spring/beginning junior year in the fall. Reagan was president and the economy was on the upswing.
Met Vice President Bush when he came to LSU to campaign for the Republican nomination for president. He was the first president I ever voted for. (Come to think of it, Biden ran against Dukakis in the Democrat primary that year and had to drop out because of his propensity to plagiarize damned near everything he said.)
Worked for my dad's natural gas company that summer back at home in eastern Kentucky. That was a particularly hot summer with a ten day stretch of blistering weather with highs above 100. I think the hottest day of that stretch had the thermometer at the bank reading 112!
Def Leppard was a regular the PMAC for concerts in those days. Also went to see YES. Don Henley and Joe Walsh released some good music around that time as well. I wasn't a real fan of some of the other stuff like Richard Marx and the like that were coming out at the time.
Went to the Auburn game that year and thought the seats we had sucked because we were stuck in the north end zone and couldn't see the action from my normal perspective. Eddie Fuller caught THE TD pass from Hodson about forty or fifty feet away from where we sat in the student section. That made it worthwhile for sure. I'll tell the story that we were sitting in the first row by the field, but truth be told, we were in the third row up but right in front of that catch. Good times!
'88 was a pretty decent year overall. Times, people, and attitudes were different and a little more friendly back then. Of course, I reckon every generation thinks the same regarding their younger years.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:42 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Third year at SLU, still wondering what in the hell I was going to do with my life (between beers).
Posted on 6/21/22 at 1:43 pm to SaintlyTiger88
1988 was the best year of my life. I'd recently met my future wife. Had a new job that let me travel the world. Lived in Baton Rouge, lots of exercise, fishing, new football season tickets, good friends. I'd come a long ways in a few years.
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