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sabbie
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for the ten years between the gulf war and the twin towers
i'll start:
Kurt Cobain suicide
The O.J. Simpson Trial
The X Files
The L.A. Riots
Columbine High
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Terminator 2
Clerks
TV Smash Hits
Tiannamen Square
Under The Bridge
Heathers and Pump up the Volume
Christian fucking Slater
Wyona Ryder
Flannies
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daria
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trent. the downward spiral intitated tons of teenagers to the world of angst.
the beautiful people by marilyn manson
firestater by progy
faith no more, the real thing.
tv shows we all watched. 90210 and simpsons. both came out around the same time.
buffy.
clinton and his cigars.
monica lewinski.
saddam hussain
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everybody on the internet
millenium paranoia
the matrix
the return of heroin chic
the advancing uselessness of MTV
teletubbies
nintendo
sega
playstations
xbox
"reality TV"
DVD
the end of the Soviet Union
Bosnia
Chechnya
Jeffrey Dahmer
"generation X"
seventies nostalgia
eighties nostalgia
(and the 80's were barely over when the nostalgia started)
punk rock for shopping mall kids
the proliferation of cell-phones
the assasination of Yitzhak Rabin
Oklahoma City bombing
the murder of Matthew Sheppard
doctor kevorkian
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beavis and butthead
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ren and stimpy
dolly the clone sheep
mad cow disease
ebola virus
NYPD Blue
wwjd
the LA riots
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stevie wonderbread
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dairyland and crackpipes
moo
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Anna Nicole Smith
The Osbournes
AOL
Survivor
Loraina Bobbit
Puff Daddy's evolution of music videos
Napster
Beanie Babies
Hanible
El Nino
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sabbie
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bob hawlk and paul keating
banana republic and recalctrant malasian PMs.
and the johnny howard puppy bounding around bush's ankles yipe.ing "me too! me too!"
why am i defined by a series of polititions today?
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silentbob
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i will take no part in Kurt Cobain's death as DEFINING any part of me.
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sabbie
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it was something that happened in your lifetime
something that affected lots of the people around you
lot of the people your age(ish)
so even if it didnt define you-bobby, i would argue that it helped define your-generational society
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bethany
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laser disks
ford taurus
perscriptions for everything
rosie o'donnell
roseanne (property of tom arnold)
gays on primetime
everybody doing gay jokes on cable coz its a ratings boost
the millenium food shelter
swiffer
body by jake
ebonics
south park
daily show
whackin off in apple pies
what... pot is illegal?
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silentbob
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but i want no part of this generation. or any. a lot of the things on this page make it so.
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yenaldlosi
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Some food for thought, some perspective from my own generation. Maybe not a ten-year period, but all the stuff i was around to see before i reached an age where the world was prepared to call me an "adult" (i started school late because i was sickly as a child and didn't graduate Highschool until 2 months before my 20th birthday in 1971
Duck and Cover
"I like Ike"
Leave it to Beaver
Ozzie and Harriet
Hula Hoops
Widespread Uranium poisoning among mine-workers on the Dine' rez (Navajo)
Wallace and Ladmo
[you had to have been a kid in Arizona between 1954 and 1989 to know about that one]
The birth of Rock and Roll
Drive-In Movies
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Kennedy Assassinations
Vietnam
The Manson Family
Woodstock [i wanted to go but i was just a broke high-school kid]
Sputnik
Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first and only man to score 100 solo points in an NBA game
The first Superbowl
Cassius Clay becomes a champion
Cassius Clay becomes Muhammad Ali
First human in space
first american in space
first man on the moon
Draft Cards ... and still spreading an extra bit of corn pollen to the four directions in thanks that my number never came up
Ed Sullivan
The Beatles
Jimi Hendrix
The Stones
The Doors
(Aunt and Uncle actually let me go see them play a really terrible live set at Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Jim was beyond wasted... but then so was everyone else there so we didn't really care. My first concert)
Easy Rider
Nixon's first term
Janis, Jimi and Jim, Rest in Peace ...
so i can relate to how many of you felt when Kurt Cobain died, that made me sad too, i did the "cool dad" thing and took my youngest and middle daughters back down into Phoenix to see Nirvana when they played the AZ State Fair the year before he died. I found a funny kind of deja vu later in thinking that my first concert involved a band who would never play through town again because their lead singer died young and that i had taken my children to see a band who would never play through town again for the same reason in the same concert arena
The Kent State Massacre
"We will Bury You!" Nikita Khruschev banging his shoe on his desk in front of the UN General Assembly
There are things i would trade or give up, and there are things that i wouldn't, but it is my guess that one of you will say this very same thing to another generation in another time when you are as old as me
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the matrix
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sweetheart of the song tra bong
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the Macarena
boy bands
spice girls and hanson
I'm going to go put toothpicks in my eyes for dredging up those memories
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girl_jane
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Can't forget having a president win by electoral votes-NOT popular vote...
It's only the second time in the country's history that that happened...
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Clinton (president) Cheating
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pete
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my generations *laughs* the rise of horrible horrible pop music, as well as the generally apathy, quickly transformable into political rage if motivated
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jane
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flannel
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i'd_give_it_all_away
eeeewww__mother__fucker_
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