Ask Lemmy

I'm not old, according to the guy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that Arthur called "old woman."

Biggest crush on Winona Ryder starting in high school, when Heathers came out.

Before that, Peter Weller inspired me as hard rocking neurologist, Buckaroo Banzai.

First programming was in Pascal on a Hydra machine (reel to reel computer stack serving 30 stations).

I was using 5,25″ discs.

Rainbow Brite was one of my favorite cartoons growing up.

I was born in 1978

Maybe tomorrow I’ll want to settle down, until tomorrow I’ll just keep moving on.

Crash Bandicoot was my first game.

Did you know that it released closer to the moon landing than to today?

I'm as old as the NES.

My first tv was black/white and had 8 dials to tune the 8 channels.

Silver hawks was my favorite saturday morning cartoon.

I was in my mother's womb when Chernobyl was melting down.

My childhood pics are Polaroids.

I was born a few weeks after the beginning of the TET offensive.

I look almost the same as I did when I was twice as young as I am right now and I understand that during this decade I'll probably leave the age bracket where this is possible.

Accrington Stanley? Oo are they?

I was born in the year Princess Elizabeth became Queen. Also, Evita died that year.

That poll was revealing, was not expecting average of 30-40 :0 Good idea though!

When I was born, the United States wasn't involved in a war.

I watched the Challenger disaster on the wheelie TV cart

I was in middle school when I got an n64 for Christmas.

Old enough to watch the moon landing, but too young to remember it.

My mom watched the Watergate hearings while she was pregnant with me.

My first modem was 2400 baud.

AIM away messages and the passive flex of who has the best 'buddyprofile' that may or may not link to a livejournal or xanga page

Younger than the iphone 👶

I had Empire Strikes Back bed Sheets

As a kid, I thought Trailer Park Boys was an accurate, contemporary documentary about the world I lived in (or at least that of my friends who lived in the trailer park down the way).

Edit: Oh, and you had to go to a Chris Brothers store to buy Chris Brothers pepperoni - Sobeys didn't carry it yet. It was glorious every time.

Older than 9/11, but not by enough to remember much more than the stories about going balls to the walls on acting assimilated to the country I was living in so we wouldn't stand out as Americans because the consulate was worried some locals might try taking hostages to support the terrorists.