Nothing But Xie » Birth http://xielanthia.com My apologies, whatever you think you're looking for, I assure you, you won't find it here... Sat, 28 Apr 2012 02:33:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Three Decades and all I got was this Lousey T-shirt… http://xielanthia.com/2009/08/04/three-decades-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousey-t-shirt/ http://xielanthia.com/2009/08/04/three-decades-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousey-t-shirt/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:06:29 +0000 Xie http://xielanthia.com/?p=405 Thirty. Fuck me.

Is there really anything more else I need to say at this moment?  Rhetorical.  Some of you have been here and the comfort is that all you young whipper snappers WILL join me… eventually.

Been around three decades and all I got was This lousey t-shirt!   Wisdom now etches my newly forming laugh lines… *cough*…  Now I can sit back in my rocker and curse at the top of my lungs “Hooligan!” and “Pull up your pants!”  *hack* .  Of course the one I’ve been waiting to say all my life “When I was your age….”  “… there was no Wikipedia!  We had to go to a library and look up books with the Dewey Decimal System!”  Now don’t get me started if you don’t know what that is… go Google it!!!

Lots to look forward to, Depends, walkers, Prune juice; it’s just to bad it also means becoming deaf, dumb and blind.

 

Yeah, this is what you get to look forward to, son…..  Don’t say I didn’t warn ya!

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  • Bee Gees with " Love you Inside Out "
  • Rod Stewart
  • Gloria Gaynor with " I will Survive "
  • Blondie with " heart of Glass "
  • Michael Jackson
  • The Eagles
  • Commodores
  • Pink Floyd
  • The Police
  • Village People
  • Boomtown Rats
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  • All My Children
  • Masterpiece Theatre
  • Old Grey Whistle Test
  • Are You Being Served? (UK)
  • Emmerdale Farm (UK)
  • M*A*S*H
  • The Price Is Right
  • The Waltons
  • Last of the Summer Wine (UK)
  • The Young and the Restless
  • Happy Days
  • Little House on the Prairie
  • Saturday Night Live
  • Charlie’s Angels
  • Family Feud
  • Quincy, M.E.
  • The Muppet Show (UK)
  • The Love Boat
  • Three’s Company
  • Dallas
  • Diff’rent Strokes
  • Mork amd Mindy
  • Taxi
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  • USSR Invades Afghanistan
  • Margaret Thatcher elected Prime minister in UK
  • Severe Atlantic Storm hits Fastnet International Yacht Race and a number of boats and crew are lost
  • Following the Burgess, Mclean, Philby and Sir Anthony Blunt Spy Scandal he is stripped of his knighthood
  • SALT II arms limitation Talks signed by US and USSR
  • Eleven fans are killed and dozens are injured at a WHO Concert at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Three Mile island Nuclear Accident after fire at reactor in Pennsylvania US
  • Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile and takes over the Iranian law enforcement, courts and government administration and Khomeini seizes power in Iran
  • 63 Americans are taken hostage in the American Embassy in Tehran
  • Iran’s government becomes Islamic Republic when the Shah of Persia is forced to leave
  • The Soviets invadeAfghanistan
  • A mob attack destroys the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan
  • The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes.
  • A tornado hits in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people
  • The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power and the countries name is changed to Zimbabwe,
  • Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country
  • President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President Saddam Hussein replaces him in Iraq
  • The first British nudist beach is established in Brighton
  • Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin sign the first peace treaty between an Arab nation and the Jewish state
  • Lord Mountbatten and three others assassinated by the I.R.A.. He was a British admiral, statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
  • 23 people die in Nice, France, when the coastal town is hit by a tsunami
  • 3000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages
  • China institutes the one child per family rule to help control it’s exploding population
  • The worlds first anthrax epidemic begins in Ekaterinburg, Russia following a biological weapons plant accident
  • The price of oil reaches a new record of $24 per barrel
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  • Superman The Movie
  • Every Which Way But Loose
  • Rocky II
  • Alien
  • The Amityville Horror
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  • Moonraker
  • The Muppet Movie
  • The Deer Hunter
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
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  • The General Knowledge Quiz Game Trivial Pursuit is Launched
  • The First modern Bungee Jumping performed by a group from the Oxford University Dangerous Sports club jumped from the Clifton Suspension Bridge joining England and Wales
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    First Commercial Cellular Network NTT

    The Sony Walkman Introduced Sony

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    - Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 838

    - Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 15.25%

    - Average Cost of new house $58,100.00

    - Average Income per year $17,500.00

    - Average Monthly Rent $280.00

    - Cost of a gallon of Gas 86 cents

    - Sony Walkman $200.00


    - Jox Trainers $14.99

    ]]>     http://xielanthia.com/1979/12/31/cost-of-living-1979/feed/ 0     1979 – Summery of the Year I was Born http://xielanthia.com/1979/12/31/1979-summery-of-the-year-i-was-born/ http://xielanthia.com/1979/12/31/1979-summery-of-the-year-i-was-born/#comments Tue, 01 Jan 1980 00:36:15 +0000 Xie http://xielanthia.com/1979/12/31/1979-summery-of-the-year-i-was-born/ For the first time in history a woman Margaret Thatcher is elected Prime minister in the UK. As technology becomes smaller Sony released the Walkman a worldwide success costing $200 which at that time was a significant amount of money. Also the first Snowboard is invented in the USA. The bombing by the IRA in England continues with Lord Mountbatten and three others assassinated. Following the return of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Iran becomes an Islamic Republic and 63 Americans are taken hostage in the American Embassy in Tehran

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    YouTube – UFOs Are Real (1979) — Government Files

     

     

    [YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVHhg67RVd4]
    YouTube – Life of Brian (1979) Trailer

     

    [YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah1KVJOvZ8o]
    YouTube – Broadcast Yourself.

     

     

    [YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpZXP5tigQs]
    YouTube – News at 545 with Leonard Parkin (1979) Part 1

    ]]>     http://xielanthia.com/1979/12/31/videos-from-1979/feed/ 0     1979 Technology http://xielanthia.com/1979/12/31/1979-technology/ http://xielanthia.com/1979/12/31/1979-technology/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 1979 20:59:19 +0000 Xie http://xielanthia.com/1979/12/31/1979-technology/ VisiCalc becomes the first spreadsheet program.
  • Sony introduces the Sony Walkman costing $200.00
  • Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter’s rings
  • The European Space Agency launches Ariane 1
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