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Default OT: Getting old - WAS: There's Hope for Us Yet Down Under

On Sun 26 Mar 2006 07:12:26p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Dyna
Soar?

> Tricia wrote:
>> Old Mother Ashby wrote:
>>> I can remember, in the 1960's, going with my brother in the billycart
>>> and a couple of saucepans to get Chinese. People in those days were
>>> still suspicious of Chinese restaurants, which were accused of
>>> substituting rabbit for chicken. A generation earlier they were
>>> accused of substituting cat!

>
>>> You people are all just youngsters! I can remember watching the first
>>> moon walk in 1969, so there...

>
>>> Christine

>
>> As do I..Grade 6

>
> You're all just babies:-))


LOL! As are you!

> I listened to the radio broadcast of the first moon landing sitting in
> my car outside our GP's surgery. My wife as in with the doctor who gave
> her the news that she was preggies with our number 4 daughter (who was
> born on 15th March 1970). We then went home and watched the rest of the
> broadcast on TV.


I remember radio and TV coverage of the launching of Russian sattelite,
Sputnik, on October 4, 1957. I was in 7th grade.

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