Clarification, with more information than any of you really need: I didn’t care as much when Dale Earnhardt died as I did when Greg Moore died. When Moore was killed, I was a sixteen-year-old girl with a 3-years’ crush on him, and it was really my first experience with the death of anyone or anything that had even the barest bit to do with my life. It also happened to have occured at a time when I was depressed. It chucked me into a tailspin of having to deal with the mortality of my heroes, my friends, my family and myself, all just because this one hot Canadian guy crashed his Indy car and landed upside down in a wall.
Dale Earnhardt’s death, on the other hand, had a much greater impact on the sport of NASCAR than Greg Moore’s did on CART. That’s completely indisputable. But it had almost no personal impact on me, because I learned on Halloween of 1999 not to invest any emotion in race car drivers or similar people who aren’t investing any emotion in me. I was surprised, sure, but I just didn’t care the way I did when Greg Moore died.
(BTW, I’m flattered that you consider me a ‘well respected poster.’)
I guess I have a clarification of my own as well. When I said “well respected poster”, I meant I respected you. I’m not so sure of the other dopers! ;o) Sorry I just had to throw that shot in there…
It was sort of the same thing when Dale Earnhardt died. HE was the reason I started watching racing, HE was the reason I continued to watch racing, and HE was the reason I decided to start racing at the local track when I was 15. It just didn’t seem right that he died, it was like a giant part of racing died.
Takes lurker hat off and throws it away
I guess instead of checking the SDMB once a day, it will have to be 4 or 5 now huh?
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I’m not old enough to have actually seen that one live (I think), but I have seen it on tape and it was definitely one of Carson’s funniest moments
As for what I saw:
OKC 4/19/95, I was driving back to MWC from Choctaw and saw the plume of smoke. The KRXO DJ came on after a song and broke the news. As okielady said, we got near-constant TV coverage for about four days. Later that summer, I was working for Cox Cable and all of us that could went out on the east side of the building and watched the demolition of the remains of the Murrah building. The CSRs watched it on TV from inside.
Cosell’s “little monkey” remark, check
Theisman’s leg, check
Drew’s flash of Dave, check
Don’t forget Dave’s subsequent faux marriage to Drew
Crispin Glover’s kick at Dave, check
Norm’s SNL slip, check
Apollo 11, check, at least according to Mom (I was 9 months old)
Apollo 13 splashdown, check, ditto on the Mom verification
Apollo 17, and I remember that one
The fall of Saigon, people grasping at helicopters and helicopters being pushed off the carrier into the sea
The return of the POWs from Hanoi
Nixon’s resigination speech, check
Fall of the Berlin Wall, check, on AFN when I was stationed in Germany
One no one’s mentioned yet, in the spirit of the OP
Dan Ackroyd’s “Jane you ignorant slut”, my brother and I didn’t miss many of the early SNL episodes, including the premiere. The “ignorant slut” comment is probably the most enduring the show has ever produced.
I guess most of my “live” moments have been related to the Oklahoma City bombing incident. I also saw the implosion on television as it was happening. I got up early that morning on purpose so I could watch it. I’m glad I was working the day of the bombing, though, and couldn’t get to a television. Seeing edited footage of what happened in those first hours is bad enough; watching unedited footage as it’s happening is something I don’t think I could have handled.
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Sewalk, do you still live in the area? I live in MWC now. At the time I lived in Blackwell (up around the Ponca City area.)
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While in college, the Reagan shooting interrupted an incredibly important TV event - Luke and Laura’s wedding. All the folk gathered in the TV lounge in the union were mighty pissed.
Jim McKay at Munich.
The Watergate hearings.
Elvis stopping mid-song on SNL to launch into “Radio, Radio.”
Saw most of that stuff, too, but sadly the one that sticks in my mind the most was the night that Lucy Lawless (Xena) sang the national anthem at a Red Wings/Mighty Ducks game and popped her top at the end on live national tv. Damn, if I only had recorded that game. I just remember sitting there, watching her boobs start bouncing around in all their glory and saying to myself, “Man, did that just happen?”
And of course, she’s standing there with her arms in the air and tit’s to the wind and who takes a quick skate right by her? Sergie Federov!! Hahaha!!
McLoud now. See this thread. I’ll add you to the notification list for the next OklaDope (we just had one at Eskimo Joe’s on the 9th while Qadgop was in town).
I walked in the door from a night with friends the instant CNN announced Diana had died. I didn’t even know there had been an accident. I don’t think my jaw has ever dropped so hard.
I was home on Easter Vacation one day when a little blurb showed up on the bottom of the screen in CNN: “Explosion reported in Oklahoma City.”
I was up when the Olympic Park Bombing happened andstayed up until sunrise watching how the various channels covered it.
Same for TWA flight 800… it was the same summer.
I stayed up 26 HOURS from 7:30 a.m., Nov. 7, 2000 to about 9 a.m., Nov. 8, 2000. And for the next 36 days, I watched nothing but the three 24-hour news channels. As a burgeoning political journalist, it was simply Nirvana.
Speaking of, I saw Nirvana’s first performance on SNL, pretty much their coming-out party, and the single event that got me interested in music.
I remember waking up one weekend morning early for some reason to hear a little plane had disappeared near Martha’s Vineyard. I woke up my mom (as I always do during big news events if she’s sleeping… she’s always mad at first… but only at first). I woke her up before I even knew who was in the plane. We let out a collective gasp when we realized what had happened.
Jessica McClure getting pulled out of the well.
Things I regret not seeing (that I’m old enough to have seen and understood)…
I was on the toilet when the Gulf War started.
Missed the LA riots completely for some reason.
I missed Lloyd Bentsen’s “you’re no Jack Kennedy” remark. Who would think a vice presidential debate would be good watchin’?
The Nirvana apearance on SNL, was a big influence on me as well.
As for the OP, did anyone see the Bud Dweyer suicide. My mother made me leave the room when he was appologizing for whatever he did. He stepped back, started sounding funny and my mom screams " I think you should go in the kitchen" I never saw it. Not that I’ld want to, but did anyone actualy see him put a bullet in his head?
Mine’s kinda pathetic. But one time I was listening to the radio, and it happened to be a Sunday. “Loveline” (Adam Carolla(sp), Dr. Drew) was on, and to my knowledge it was the first time this local radio station had played Loveline on a Sunday. Coincidentally, it was also the first time they accidentally let Adam say the word “Fuck.”
(It was a great moment, too; “Do the Dew, Slam some Pringles…Jesus Christ! It’s junk food! You don’t have to turn junk food into a fucking sport! … …uh…Mike? Did you get that? … He’s shaking his head…”)
The May 3rd, 1999 Oklahoma City tornado. Not just live on TV but IRL live, first out my back door and then out the front door. I was living in Del City and it just missed us by about 1/4 mile. I had my gf get in the central closet with all the pillows and blankets while I kept watch for it as it approached from the south. When I saw it was going to slide east of us, I ran around to the front door and saw it approach and cross I-40.
I was watching the baseball game in Detroit when Steve Lyons pulled his pants down after he got to first. He was brushing dirt out of his pants because he slid headfirst and unbuckeld his belt, and wham, pulled them down. He immediately pulled them back up, realizing what he had done.
—In 1984, and my mom booted me out of bed early so I could see the Sesame Street episode where Big Bird finds out Mr. Hooper died. “He is gone…and we will miss him.” My mom sniffled a little, but I was 14, so I just opened my eyes very very wide.
—In 1991, I was in my college dorm room making out with a guy I was just getting to know. The TV was on for whatever reason, and we’re hearing the word “Iraq” a lot, even more than had been usual the last few weeks. Eventually, Jason (forget his last name) zipped my dress back up and turned his full attention to the TV. We never got cozy again, maybe because the association between missiles and my boobs was too strong.
—Radio, not TV. Two days after the OKC bombing, I was in my car, running an errand for work and listening to KABC when the announcement came on that a suspect had been arrested. Got back to the office and said, “Did you hear that latest from Oklahoma City?” Supervisor gives me a narrow look and says, “You mean the bombing?” “No, they caught the guy.” The announcer had said that “the suspect” was a member of “the Michigan Militia”. I had never heard of militia groups until that moment, and I assumed it was another way of saying he was or had been a state trooper.
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notcynical Omigawd! I’ve only seen pixillated versions of that!
javaman: I hear you. I saw Martin Lawrence on SNL in '94 or early '95, when he was talking about oral sex and women’s hygiene. I got the gist of it, but they muted every other word, practically. Also, it looked like someone off camera gave him the guillotine sign, judging by the way he excused himself.
<<I remember the Saturday morning my cartoons were interrupted to announce the Tiananmen Square protest. I also remember the tanks rolling in.>>
Same here. I remember the first camera footage of the tops of helmets. It happened to be the same morning that little 6-year-old me had decided to try taping the “Flintstone Kids” for posterity. Odd timing, and a new family heirloom, eh what?
I also saw the Mars Pathfinder land (Well, not in PERSON). I remember the excited murmering when the first black and white test pictures started coming in…Then the first picture of the horizon, with two hills visible jutting out in the distance. The cheers were just wonderful.
I also was watching the (Almost) landing of the Mars Polar Lander…And the notable mix of nervousness, dissapointment, and horror on the mission control people’s faces.
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