I bet you thought you were going to find an archive of my previous blogs. Sorry, those are actually available on the sidebar to your right…if you are interested.
Instead, this is a place for more important historical record. This page is very much a work in progress. So I apologize in advance to the 2, maybe 3, people who ventured here.
With that, here are some serious (and not-so-serious) historical moments:
- 1978: Space Invaders was released in Japan, which signaled the beginning of video games as we know it. Yes, Pong was released earlier…but that game sucked balls and doesn’t count.
- February 22, 1980: The United States olympic hockey team pulled off the “Miracle on Ice” against the Soviet Union squad.
February 17, 1981: Heaven’s gift to comedy was hatched. Fitting that this walking trainwreck was born so close to Valentine’s Day, because she would eventually dedicate her life to spreading love all around the world.- August 1, 1981: Video killed the radio star.
- December 2, 1981: Birth of Britney Spears. Might also be the day music died.
- Sometime between 1981-1982: Dennis DeYoung flipped his gourd, and said “I have an idea for a song about a man enslaved by robots”. Sadly, his bandmates did nothing to stop him.
- May 25, 1986: An estimated 7 million people held hands for about 15 minutes during the heavily publicized charity event - “Hands Across America”. Then shortly afterwards, everyone realized that holding hands with a stranger on the road like an idiot doesn’t really do much to fight world hunger. Go figure!
- April 19, 1987: The Simpsons made their first appearance on The Tracey Ullman Show.
- At just the right time in 1989: Harry met Sally.
- September 9, 1990: At the age of 19, Pete Sampras defeated Andre Agassi in the U.S. Open Final to earn his first Grand Slam victory.
- January 16, 1991: Operation Desert Storm was launched.
- November 18, 1992: George Costanza became the Master of his Domain.
- March 29, 1995: The Howard Stern Radio Show premiered on WCKG in Chicago, Illinois.
- November 1995: Bill Clinton started to love him some Lewinsky.
- December 13, 1996: Some white dude walked out of a theater, and didn’t realize how stupid he sounded while continually repeating the phrase - “Show me the money!”
- April 1997: A 21-year old golfer named Eldrick Woods won The Masters by an incredible 12 stroke margin, becoming the youngest to ever win the tournament.
- January 17, 1998: Hillary Clinton placed her husband’s man marbles in her purse for permanent safe-keeping.
- July 1, 1998: Bruce Willis saved the world from certain destruction.
- January 1, 2000: Prince was wrong, the world went on…and all those panicked Y2K bastards looked like a bunch of dumb-asses.
- July 2003: Roger Federer won his first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon, and would begin one of the most dominant reigns in the history of tennis.
- February 1, 2004: Janet Jackson’s right tit made a surprise appearance at the Super Bowl, at about the same time that conservatives across the country officially lost their sense of humor.
- November 2, 2004: George W. Bush “won” a 2nd term as President of the United States. This was an especially impressive feat, considering he didn’t even win the election the first time around.
More to come…
In 1985 I passed the boards while packing wood.
Don’t let the boys loose in Accounting after a couple(6) beers. No telling what they will say.
Hi
I’m to lazy to check, have you added anything lately?
Or did your record keeping skill diminish after you had to scrape all of those “Kerry-Edwards” bumper stickers off of the Vega?
I haven’t…but it just may be time. I was still waiting for a few Roger Clemens’ details to come out so I could fill in the timeline. My guess is that he plunked Wynonna Judd somewhere in the early 90’s before she turned to the taco.