I just wish I could help him. 
I always feel best when I can help someone. I try to at least be there for people.
Besides Orville and Wilbur Wright, there were five witnesses nearby: John Daniels (who took a photograph of the flight), A.D. Etheridge, and W.S. Dough, all from the local life saving station; W.C. Brinkley, a salvager; and a boy from Nags Head named Johnny Moore. Others back at the life saving station watched through telescopes.
A few years back, I was watching the Super Bowl with some friends. During the halfitme show, I turned away from the tv to talk to someone and became the only person in the room, and one of the few in America, to miss Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction.”
mobo85’s post reminded me of the guy I was in boot camp with, who claimed to have invented the characters in Strong Bad, and that his buddy in high school stole his ideas and that guy now runs the cartoon. He presented a convincing argument, imitating each character’s voice perfectly and telling the stories of the people who inspired them: Marzipan’s inspiration was a hippie girl classmate, rare in a Georgia high school; Coach Z’s was a Russian teacher, etc. He also said that he’d prove it to me when we were both out of there. I called him on it a year later and he said he couldn’t prove it, and if he could he would’ve sued the guy a long time ago.
Though he isn’t much of a boaster or habitual liar, he is an imaginative fellow with a penchant for storytelling and imitations. (His Old New York Hassidic Jew imitation was a real killer.) I would still believe him if it weren’t for the facts that (a) he’d waffled on his promise to prove it on the outside and (b) nobody responded to the email I sent to Homestar Runner about it. Of course, that could mean that a legal battle is at stake, but since the whole enterprise probably doesn’t make any money, why wouldn’t the guy just give credit where it was due?
Actually the whole enterprise makes enough money to support the guys who created it.
Merchandise sales pay for all of the costs of running the website as well as living costs of the creators, whose retired parents managed many of the business aspects. Today, their sister Karen Wagner takes care of the business. - cite
I was the first poster to crack wise in the 1920’s Death Ray thread.
I’m sorry.
No I’m not.
I saw the 9/11 events on TV when they happened, and I am pretty sure it was a live coverage.The part with the 2nd plane at least. It was in the afternoon here, maybe 3 or 4 o`clock.I just got back from school and my mother was watching a TV channel who, at that time, had a contract with the American CNN for our country, and they got the news ASAP.
I was in Corleone , Italy when the police arrested Bernardo Provenzano, the Capo of the Cosa Nostra.Not much action or display of forces, but that would probably have alarmed the Don.Actually nobody in the town knew what was going on.Only after the arrest, they notified the local police and carabinieri forces.
When I arrived in Palermo, all the people in a bar/restaurant were celebrating his capture and cursing his name.
That is pretty much all big news that I was close to.
Oh, my grandfather was cut at the face and ear with a sword by a cossack when he was 12.And we weren`t in the war then.Crazy times.
What does that mean? He’s killed one person for every time he’s gotten killed? Sounds believable to me.
I assume it means one kill for every shot fired. Pretty much an impossible ratio.
According to NASA Neil Armstrong’s watch is in the Smithsonian (though he did leave it in the Lunar Module during EVA’s). However, Buzz Aldrin’s was stolen on route to the Air and Space Museum and it’s location is currently unknown… so maybe the salesman jerk in question stole Buzz’s…
I do have a first printing of the second issue lol (and every issue after that into the 20s). I almost got the first issue but I was a poor boy in the 5th grade and I thought it was a one shot so I put off buying it. When I went back for it it had sold out and was already on to the second issue. sigh But I did see and look at a shelf copy, and it was available at my local comic shop which was in New York, not New Hampshire. 3000 copies goes a long way when you only have 2 or 3 copies in a comic book store, which does happen for less popular comics.
My Dad was at the original Woodstock. I did not see the challenger explosion live, it was announced on the loudspeakers at school. I did see the second plane crash into the WTC live on TV. One cousin and one friend were in the building at the time but both escaped. I had a sculpture in the building that I assume is dust now. Had some other friends that were nearby but I don’t think they witnessed the actual crashes.
I saw a demo of tetris long before anyone else I knew but I didn’t own it.
I worked with and occasionally hung out with Jeremy Dean, the keyboardist for Nine Days before they got signed with Sony. After which they had a big party and he quit his day job with me, then disappeared for awhile, and then one day I saw his face (with the band) on giant posters in every music store. It was quite surreal lol.
My Boba Fett had an annoyingly fixed missile lol. I do have the original death star play set with the garbage compactor with foam ‘garbage’ and grabage monster action figure. I still have a bunch of original Star Wars, transformers, smurfs, etc. But they are all out of their boxes and have been played with so I doubt they are worth anything. I did see the Star Wars Christmas Special when it aired.
My friend was a guest on the Opie and Anthony show a few times.
I did go to Burning Man but hey, who hasn’t, and who still can’t if they want to? 
I think the sheer number of possible brushes with famous things is so great that the average person is bound to have several.
I did NOT see it live- I was the first one in my class I am aware of to have seen it, however, as I had a hall pass to the library in the middle of my health class and the television in the library was replaying it over and over.
When I returned to class, nearly immediately (and before I had time to tell anyone) the speaker came on and the principal announced it. I hadn’t ever heard of Christa Mcauliffe before that day. No one had bothered to mention the whole program in my presence.
Heh…I live in central Florida. I saw it LIVE live, not televised. Not close up, but I saw the explosion and saw the exhaust clouds hanging in the sky like a tombstone for a couple hours afterward. It was damned creepy.
Wow, just realized this was a VERY old ressurected thread…
I posted in it back when it was new!
Wasn’t it creepy? I felt ill all day. We were on the “Space Coast” so we were relatively close though not like “at the launch site” close.
I was working at my first job…someone’s mom called and told them that the shuttle was launching so we walked outside. From our town, you can see the flare of the rockets and the smoke from the exhaust. We didn’t realize it had exploded until the mom called back…we knew something was different, but weren’t sure what had happened.
I had two copies of The Uncanny X-Men #94, which introduced the new X-Men (well, new for 1975) and two copies of the Giant-Size X-Men #1. In 1983, I actually sold one of my 94s for, well, food. $72. After a far-ranging conversation at work sometime last year, I looked up what the remaining three are worth, and the prices were in the $800-$1500 range on E-bay. You may not touch them, and I’ll only show them to you if you bring along Geraldo Rivera and a film crew.
As for my personal experience with once-in-a-lifetime-though-not-very-famous events, I was working at Edwards Air Force Base the day Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager finished their around-the-world flight on the Voyager (the first non-stop, non-refueled circumnavigation by an airplane). We couldn’t do our tests while they were around, so we just watched them through binoculars. We were mildly surprised that after a trip that long (nine days), they took the time to circle the runway once before landing. Not exactly Woodstock, but no one else is going to be the first in history to do what they did.
We were watching the Challenger launch live–I was in seventh grade and all our teachers had been talking about McAuliffe for weeks. One of my G/T teachers had even made it pretty deep into the teacher-astronaut selection process before being cut.
So there were three or four seventh grade classes grouped together in the commons area and they had a TV set up for us to watch. At first we weren’t sure what had happened. As it became clear the shuttle had exploded, the teachers began quietly crying.
Oh, and I have a copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1.
(the Image Comics revival of TMNT counts, right?) 
Sounds like he got his training from the movie “Sniper” 
You know, “One shot. One kill. No exceptions.”
“One shot one kill” has been the motto of military snipers for at least the 20 years I’ve been in and I’m sure a lot longer than that. The movie got it from reality.