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I joined the US Navy 55 years ago today. What were you doing?

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  • 11149

    I think I was pretending that I was a hippy so I could meet hippy chicks. Cheers!

      December 17, 2024 12:50 PM MST
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  • 23637
    Of course, I thought of this song to which you introduced me - - I love  it.  "Hippy Chick" by Soho.

      December 19, 2024 5:07 PM MST
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  • 11149

    Thought I would add that the movie Billy Elliot shows why someone would have no flower for someone’s gun and why they shouldn’t make love to change someone’s mind. Cheers!

      December 20, 2024 8:25 AM MST
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  • 23637
    I admit I've only seen the movie once, and your details didn't click my memory about the movie. I had to look the movie up, even; didn't remember the movie's details by title alone. Only that I knew I had seen it. 
    Then I remembered seeing it when I read about it.

    And I see they've made it into a musical (of course, ug!).



    Back to my plan to making 1968's original "Night of the Living Dead" movie into a musical. 

      December 21, 2024 12:22 AM MST
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  • 3819
    I had recently moved into my first apartment, working in a law firm as a legal secretary and was dating a guy, but it wasn't working out that well and not long thereafter, we split up. 
      December 17, 2024 1:45 PM MST
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  • 34428
    I was not alive yet. 
      December 17, 2024 1:45 PM MST
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  • 10661
    Reading stories to a Kindergarten class. 
      December 17, 2024 3:01 PM MST
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  • 17611
    I was in high school, probably about to start Christmas holidays.  I worked at a department store for those weeks of Christmas holidays from school.  It was welcomed and a fun time.  My aunt worked at an exclusive department store downtown and that where I got to work during the two weeks and loved it.   
      December 17, 2024 5:16 PM MST
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  • 23637

    Probably reading author John Russo's novelization of George Romero's  1968 movie "Night of the Living Dead."

    Ah, loved it! It started it all for me.


      December 19, 2024 5:05 PM MST
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  • 34428
    So the book was 2nd, that is a switch.  Normally,  the book is always better than the movie, did that switch too?
      December 19, 2024 5:35 PM MST
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  • 23637
    Very cool to me - - author of the novelization John Russo co-authored the movie screenplay with movie director George Romero. So, since he helped create the movie itself, Russo captures the movie wonderfully in book form, too! And the book works very well on its own.

    What STILL scares me so much about the movie (and book) : This is, in a very realistic manner, just a story of seven very ordinary, everyday people simply trying to figure out what is going on and how to survive. I care so much about the people themselves -- that's what scares me the most. Not so much the "living dead" (though they're scary, too.)

    And the book cover up there still remains one of my favorite book covers. It's the cover of the book I read.
    :)

    Oh, yeah -- your questions, ha! The movie is first, yes. And I find both the book and movie superlative. :)


    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at December 19, 2024 7:15 PM MST
      December 19, 2024 5:55 PM MST
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  • 7795
    Somewhere just being born.
      December 19, 2024 6:30 PM MST
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  • 16821
    Cutting my first tooth. I was six months old.
      December 19, 2024 8:45 PM MST
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  • 3124
    Staying at the house and playing around?
      December 20, 2024 4:37 PM MST
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  • 23637
    And 55 years later, I respect you and thank you for your decision and work.


      December 21, 2024 12:34 AM MST
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