When Were You Born?

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When were you born?

The 1940's or earlier	0%	[ 0 ]
The 1940's or earlier	0%	[ 1 ]
The 1950's	4%	[ 26 ]
The 1950's	4%	[ 27 ]
The sixties	5%	[ 35 ]
The sixties	5%	[ 37 ]
The 70's	6%	[ 45 ]
The 70's	7%	[ 47 ]
The 1980's	14%	[ 102 ]
The 1980's	15%	[ 108 ]
1990-1999	19%	[ 134 ]
1990-1999	20%	[ 142 ]
In the 21st century	1%	[ 7 ]
In the 21st century	1%	[ 7 ]

Total votes : 718

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20 Nov 2009, 6:01 pm

When were you born?

Willard
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20 Nov 2009, 8:21 pm

1959, which I kind of consider being born in the sixties, since by the time I was old enough to be cognizant, it was the sixties. On the other hand, many might not consider the sixties to have officially begun until 1964, when the Beatles first landed in America...

The song at the top of the charts was "Come Softly to Me" by the Fleetwoods (not to be confused with Fleetwood Mac, who came much later).

NASA selected the Mercury Seven astronauts, Hawaii was about to become a state, The Dalai Lama Fled Tibet, Early Rock stars Richie Havens, Buddy Holly & the Big Bopper died in a plane crash, The US and USSR agreed that Antarctica would thereafter be a scientific preserve and both Barbie and The Twilight Zone debuted, and the best picture Oscar went to (yawn) Gigi).

I'm as old as The Twilight Zone. Kewl. :wink:

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20 Nov 2009, 9:29 pm

I was two months old when this was in the news.

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20 Nov 2009, 10:08 pm

Willard wrote:

[b]1959 ... Oscar went to (yawn) Gigi).

Gigi won Best Picture for 1958. '59 went to Ben-Hur (Charleston Hesterson, yay!).

In fact, it won 11 Academy Awards.

For 1965 (my uneventful birth year), it was The Sound of Music (which I refer to as "The Sound of Muzak"), which won only 5 Academy Awards.

So you've got six years and six more awards on me. I hate you. :twisted:

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20 Nov 2009, 10:46 pm

1990.

iquanyin
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20 Nov 2009, 11:58 pm

born in january, 1960.

always easy to know how old i am, lol!

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21 Nov 2009, 12:13 am

1989. The Berlin Wall was torn down when I was about 9 months old and the Loma Prieta Earthquake struck my hometown (Santa Cruz) when I was 8 months old.

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21 Nov 2009, 10:41 pm

CTBill wrote:

Gigi won Best Picture for 1958

31st Academy Awards Ceremony FOR films released during '58...awards show held April 6th, 1959...

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