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Is it acceptable to use as a base for a post a post that someone made in a friends-locked journal? The post in question was about a movie, so I don't think I'm violating anyone's confidence, and I know the circumstances under which the journal was locked, but normally I would say "As a result of so-and-so's post", with a link, but that seems unfair to do when the journal is locked.

*is polite*

It makes up for the comment on said post that was a disaster of epic proportions. Please, as a public safety act, do not let me drink lattes, coffee, or any other caffeinated beverages than soda. Otherwise, I will destroy the world as we know it. Thank you for your time.

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I'd just like to say, quickly, thank you to Darumaseye and Melpamene for the fabulous icons! They're great, thanks to you both!

*glomps Melpamene*

*glomps Darumaseye*

*squees off to look at icons*

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Ganked from Heathersy. I've been talking about this sort of thing for a while, and I'm glad someone else came up with the meme. I'd almost be tempted to add "when Kurt Cobain was found dead," but that's me.

I have to admit that my memory is suspect for 2-4 - my mother has insisted that I was at school when the Challenger blew, but I remember watching it on tv in the living room.

1. When John F. Kennedy was shot (11/22/1963)

Not even a gleam in anyone's eye.

2. When Mt. St. Helens blew (5/18/1980)

Standing by the car, ready to go somewhere, and wondering why there was so much gray stuff on it. This was before school, I think. (Slightly suspect - some of the coverage of things leading to the explosion seem familiar now, but I don't remember paying attention then.)

3. When the space shuttle Challenger exploded (1/28/1986)

Standing in front of the black and white television we used to have in the living room, cheering the flight on. (Suspect memory)

4. When the 7.1 earthquake hit San Francisco (10/7/1989)

Don't remember this one. I do remember seeing it on television, but somehow a road seems to figure in my memory. Yes, I have a crap memory for events.

5. When the Berlin Wall fell (11/7/1989)

In school, I think. There was a lot of discussion of it. I didn't really see much of it on television.

6. When the Gulf War began (1/16/1991)

*is embarrassed*
I blame this entirely on being 14. I was waiting for a movie to come out on video. I didn't even realise the impact (and the wrongness of the war) until a while later. I didn't see much of the coverage.

7. When OJ Simpson was chased in his White Bronco (6/17/1994)

The chase I didn't see at the time. I followed the coverage of the trial somewhat (my mother is a media-event junkie, so I saw a lot of the Iran Contra hearings too) and I was at school, missing the first part of my craptacular sociology class with about fifty other students, watching a portable tv in the events building for the verdict. As I recall, I skipped class that day.

8. When the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed (4/19/1995)

I was coming down the stairs, where my parents were packing to go to Canada to see the Phantom of The Opera. They canceled their trip.

9. When Princess Di was killed (8/31/1997)

Recovering from surgery the day before and drugged to the gills.

10. When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire on their classmates at Columbine High School (4/20/1999)

I was at Evergreen, from the date, but I really don't remember anything else about it.

11. When Bush was first announced President (11/7/2000)

Practically suicidal in front of the television.

12. When the 6.8 earthquake hit Nisqually, WA (2/28/2001)

Driving over the 1st Avenue South bridge in Seattle. I didn't have the radio on, so when the car shimmied, I thought I had a blowout (I've had one before and it was exactly the same). I panicked and drove very carefully and slowly to the side of the road, checked the car, and then drove carefully and slowly to the nearest auto parts store, where I checked all the tires again, and then home, where I found out it was the earthquake.

13. When terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center (9/11/2001)

In Alaska, staying at my brother's house with him and his girlfriend. I was supposed to take the bus from Fairbanks to Anchorage that day to catch a flight to Seattle, three weeks before I left for England. The radio came on to the sound of the second tower collapsing, and my first response (and my brother's) was to assume that it was some sort of joke. When it went on too long to be a joke, I called my mum at work and she told me it had happened.

No one knew what was going to happen with the airports, so I thought that I needed to get to the airport that day, since if they did reopen and they called my flight it would be my fault. We listened to the coverage all the way to Anchorage (and there is something sick that there were gorgeous three-side views of Denali that day, the first time I'd ever seen it), and as we got there it turned out no one knew when the airports would be reopened. Also, there was the scare with the KAL jet in Anchorage that they thought was going to try to take out the Pipeline, so the city was on high alert.

I spent a week at a friend of my brother's house. I should have gone to the airport and stayed there, as I could have gotten out pretty quickly, but waited for my rescheduled flight. And that was a bitch, since we'd bought a roundtrip and when I tried to reschedule, I didn't know that the date I was scheduling for was the same date I was supposed to fly back, which would have put me in Seattle for about four hours...you can see why they wouldn't let me do it, but instead called my dad (the credit card holder) and had him do it.

15. When Columbia disintegrated during re-entry over Texas. (1/2/2003)

In England. I had no idea it had happened until someone asked me what this would do to the American space program.