How long ago!!!!!!!!!

[gcol]

Just watching the original Superman on Sky One. It was released 28 years ago!!!!!! 28!!!!!!!! I was 3 when it was released .
It doesn't seem like long ago I was watching it for the first time.
Shame about Chris Reeve.
Still can't look at Ned Beatty without hearing him squeal like a pig. eeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

 

[johnny_t]

And its nearly 15 years since Freddie Mercury died.......

 

[gcol]

Yeah.
When the wife's brother in law hung his self about 5 years ago, the priest at his cremation said that he'd liked Queen and that they were gonna play a Queen track at the funeral. I was hoping and praying that he didn't play "who wants to live forever" but thankfully he played "the show must go on". Not a dry eye in the house. Oh well.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

And 20 years since the Chernobyl disaster.

 

[gcol]

Christ that's one cheesey ending to Superman. It only gets worse with time.

 

[RF Lighting]

Just stop it.

I feel old now

I remember watching the news of the death of Freddie Mercury

 

[crystal ball]

Yeah.
When the wife's brother in law hung his self about 5 years ago, the priest at his cremation said that he'd liked Queen and that they were gonna play a Queen track at the funeral. I was hoping and praying that he didn't play "who wants to live forever" but thankfully he played "the show must go on". Not a dry eye in the house. Oh well.

Reminds me of story I read in an australian paper

A ladies husband passed away around the time that Witney Houston was in the charts with the track from The Bodyguard.

The widow asked the funeral director to play the "bodyguard song" at the funeral

He duly obliged and played Denis Waterman singing the theme from Minder

 

[gcol]

No way!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's brilliant!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

True story #1:

My first full-time job, 1972.

Sitting around one day discussing what things we could remember.

Chief Programmer said "I can remember the coronation."

Operations Manager said "Which one? I can remember two"

 

[ban-all-sheds]

True story #2:

From a letter to a national paper a few years ago:

My paternal grandmother's mother's family gave haven to French emigrees fleeing from the revolution. Some years before she died in her nineties, in 1956, my grandmother recounted this vivid childhood memory. At one of her early birthday parties an elderly gentleman solemnly danced her around the room, then said: "Now, mon enfant, you can say that you have danced with a man who danced with the Queen of France."

He had been a page at the court of Marie Antoinette

 

[ninebob]

True story #1:

My first full-time job, 1972.

Sitting around one day discussing what things we could remember.

Chief Programmer said "I can remember the coronation."

Operations Manager said "Which one? I can remember two"

Yeah, but the earlier coronation was only 36 years prior to 1972!

 

[poshman]

Yeah.
When the wife's brother in law hung his self about 5 years ago, the priest at his cremation said that he'd liked Queen and that they were gonna play a Queen track at the funeral. I was hoping and praying that he didn't play "who wants to live forever" but thankfully he played "the show must go on". Not a dry eye in the house. Oh well.

would it be too morbid to ask what song they would like to have played.. me ? id go for.. tangled up in blue by bob dylan no particular reason only that it lasts for about 7 minutes so i can hang around a little longer before the curtain is finally closed on me

 

[Diyisfun]

Poshman.. I know I shouldnt but PMSL.. (BTW never heard of the song)

 

[johnny_t]

Yeah.
When the wife's brother in law hung his self about 5 years ago, the priest at his cremation said that he'd liked Queen and that they were gonna play a Queen track at the funeral. I was hoping and praying that he didn't play "who wants to live forever" but thankfully he played "the show must go on". Not a dry eye in the house. Oh well.

Reminds me of story I read in an australian paper

A ladies husband passed away around the time that Witney Houston was in the charts with the track from The Bodyguard.

The widow asked the funeral director to play the "bodyguard song" at the funeral

He duly obliged and played Denis Waterman singing the theme from Minder

Don't know if it was based on a true story, but it was also in the TV programme Roger Roger - probably the funniest thing I have ever seen was when that piano riff started up (beat Del Boy falling through the bar hands down).

Personally, I'd like to go in to something like Fire by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, or disco inferno, but I suppose I ought to spare a thought for those on the other side of the curtains.......

 

[ban-all-sheds]

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY - OCT 5th

• Ray Kroc (founder of McDonalds), Donald Pleasence, Bob Geldof and Michael Andretti were born.
• Leonard Rossiter died.
• Portugal became a republic, Edwin Hubble identified a variable star, The Beatles released "Love Me Do" and televangelist Jim Bakker was found guilty on 24 counts of fraud.

And 15 years ago, the following was posted to the comp.os.minix newsgroup:

[code:1] From: [email protected] (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT
Message-ID: [[email protected]]
Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men
and wrote their own device drivers? Are you without a nice
project and just dying to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to
modify for your needs? Are you finding it frustrating when
everything works on minix? No more all-nighters to get a nifty
program working? Then this post might be just for you
As I mentioned a month(?) ago, I'm working on a free version of
a minix-lookalike for AT-386 computers. It has finally reached
the stage where it's even usable (though may not be depending
on what you want), and I am willing to put out the sources for
wider distribution. It is just version 0.02 (+1 (very small) patch
already), but I've successfully run bash/gcc/gnu-make/gnu-sed
/compress etc under it.
Sources for this pet project of mine can be found at nic.funet.fi
(128.214.6.100) in the directory /pub/OS/Linux.
The directory also contains some README-file and a couple of
binaries to work under linux (bash, update and gcc, what more
can you ask for .
Full kernel source is provided, as no minix code has been used.
Library sources are only partially free, so that cannot be
distributed currently.
The system is able to compile "as-is" and has been known to
work. Heh.
Sources to the binaries (bash and gcc) can be found at the same
place in /pub/gnu.[/code:1]