# Ok, let me try this again... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 26, 2000, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153 "2000-04-26T01:53:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/1 "2000-04-26T01:53:00Z")
I tried this in MPSIMS, and it didn’t work out to good. So I’m trying it over here. I have a final coming up for Honor’s History. yes it’s important, yes I wish to get an A on it. I realize in the scheme of things it’s not the most important thing ever, but right now it is to me. So bear with me. I need someone who has a first hand experience with a signifigant historical happening. I don’t care what it is as long as you were PHYSICALLY THERE, it’s interesting, and it had some part of history. Please, either message here, or send me an email at [pepperlandgirl@yahoo.com](mailto:pepperlandgirl@yahoo.com) I’m going to need a LOT of info, so don’t respond if you don’t want to spend some time emailing me and talking to me etc etc. Thanks again! * * * “The bitch, oh the bitch, the bitch is back…I’m a bitch cuz I’m better then you, it’s the way that I move The things that I do…” Elton John “People try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend…” The Moody Blues “To start, press any key. Where’s the any key?” Homer Simpson. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Marini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/278dde/32.png) [@Dave\_Marini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Marini)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/2 "2000-04-26T02:02:00Z")
I was there at the JFK assasination. I seem to remember I was crouching behind a grassy knoll… ---
**Author:** ![Dystopos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@Dystopos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dystopos)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/3 "2000-04-26T02:43:00Z")
I saw Michael Jordan hit his first double in professional baseball. Also from a grassy knoll… ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/4 "2000-04-26T04:06:00Z")
I was there when **pepperlandgirl** started her first historical inquiry. * * * Work is the curse of the drinking classes. (Oscar Wilde) ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/5 "2000-04-26T09:38:00Z")
Pleased to meet you, pepperlandgirl. Here’s my credentials : I stuck around St. Petersberg When I saw it was a time for a change Killed the Czar and his ministers Anastasia screamed in vain I rode a tank Held a general’s rank When the Blitzkrieg raged And the bodies stank I watched with glee While your kings and queens Fought for ten decades For the gods they made I shouted out “Who killed the Kennedys?” When after all It was you and me Oh wait, that was someone else. Maybe you should ask Mick Jagger for help on the project. panama jack ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/6 "2000-04-26T12:48:00Z")
I suppose that watching the 45 MPH OJ Simpson car chase on TV doesn’t count. * * * -Dragwyr “If God had meant for man to eat waffles, he would have given him lips like snowshoes” -Rev. Billy C. Wirtz ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/7 "2000-04-26T13:23:00Z")
## Real events here. Interesting? Up to you to decide: [ul][li]Pres. Bush’s Inaugural ceremony, 1/20/89.[/li][li]Gorbachev’s first visit to the US. I stood outside the Soviet Embassy to see if I could glimpse him. Sadly, I didn’t.[/li][li]NARAL rally on the DC Mall with a couple of hundred thousand people.[/li][li]The first Beach Boys concert on the Mall, 7/4/84[/ul][/li] You must unlearn what you have learned. – Yoda ---
**Author:** ![Squid\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Squid\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squid_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/8 "2000-04-26T13:27:00Z")
Well, I watched the Challenger explode (from the ground). Unfortunately (for you) people who saw it on T.V. probably know more about it than I do. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/9 "2000-04-27T05:22:00Z")
panamajack: Lay off my turf, dig? * * * Yer pal, Satan [http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif](http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif) _I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR: Two weeks, three days, 15 hours, 22 minutes and 20 seconds. 705 cigarettes not smoked, saving $88.20. Life saved: 2 days, 10 hours, 45 minutes._ ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/10 "2000-04-27T05:25:00Z")
Umm…I was outside the couthouse when Timothy McVeigh was convicted. But that wasn’t very interesting… * * * “One more anal-probing, gyro, pyro, levitating, eco-plasm, alien anti-matter story and I’m gonna take out my gun and shoot somebody.” – Fox Mulder ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/11 "2000-04-26T18:03:00Z")
Oh, wow, **Satan** is actually Mick Jagger! ## That is so cool. 😃 “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/12 "2000-04-26T19:30:00Z")
I believe OpalCat was actually watching the Challenger take off in person. I could be wrong, though. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/13 "2000-04-26T21:50:00Z")
“NARAL rally on the DC Mall with a couple of hundred thousand people” AWB, this seems interesting. What and when was it? * * * “The bitch, oh the bitch, the bitch is back…I’m a bitch cuz I’m better then you, it’s the way that I move The things that I do…” Elton John “People try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend…” The Moody Blues “To start, press any key. Where’s the any key?” Homer Simpson. ---
**Author:** ![ATTGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@ATTGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ATTGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/14 "2000-04-27T00:00:00Z")
The First Lady of Botswana visited my father’s chicken farm as a part of an agricultural exchange back in the '80s. Until then, I had no idea they grew chickens in South Africa. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Too](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ce7236/32.png) [@Karen\_Too](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Too)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/15 "2000-04-27T00:35:00Z")
I was on the field during The Play. … Of course, I didn’t see much. Too much Stanfurd Band in the way. * * * -k- Karen Lingel, Physicist ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/16 "2000-04-27T00:46:00Z")
I was within 11 miles of the prison, when Jeffery Dahmner was killed. My best friend comes from the town where Ed Geine made his furniture and suits. Their family refused to exhume any of their close relatives, fearing what might not be there. ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-let-me-try-this-again/11153/17 "2000-04-27T02:32:00Z")
I saw the Ramones at CBGB’s in the 70s. The Cramps were there, too. I feel rather shy about being interviewed, though. But if you’d just like my autograph…