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I think it was a free gallon of white vinegar.
ETA:
In 1985-86, someone in town (at another high school) put out a 'zine called Nameless Generation.
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No Apple cider vinegar?
What good is it then!
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I’m old enough to remember The Well and young enough that I never joined because I didn’t have the money to pay for it.
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Thanks for this. I am going to look for a Canadian version.
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I’m aging right now!
(shoutout to Papasan)
ETA: I know there was some reason I entered this thread, but I can’t remember it now.
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I remember feeling a bit like a historical artifact in my 30s (a couple decades ago), when I was at the beach and a friend 10 years younger asked where I got that weird round scar on my shoulder.
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Just a quick “congrats” for chugging through law school.
I once heard a lawyer say something like “One thing that makes law school so hard is how boring it is. Everybody talks about just how boring it is. Nobody does it justice.”
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OMG, I’m taking Secured Transactions right now. It’s soooooooooooooo boring! It’s my last semester, though, so I’m almost done.
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“… it is a mystery of demographics, and much bandwidth has been filled with the question of why there was such a gap between the ‘Baby Boomer’ generation, and the ‘Millennial’ generation. It would seem obvious in hindsight that there must have been people born during that intervening period, but most of the surviving records attribute all achievements and activities to the ‘Boomers’, the ‘Millennials’, or both. There are some records of a group known as ‘Generation X’, but as other records assign their activities to other generational cohorts, or just omit their existence entirely, we must assume that they were just as real as the contemporaneous records of Bigfoot, Mothman, or the Loch Ness Monster. (Since the First Contact Event of 2190, of course, it is now known that reports of Extraterrestrial Aliens were, in fact, accurate.)”
— The 20th and 21st Centuries: A History (New New Jakarta, University of the Her Majesty’s Glorious Javanese Empire Publishing, 2252)
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‘Evelyn Couch’ had the most succinct assessment of the situation I currently find myself in as an ‘EST 1975’ Gen Xer:
"I’m too young too be ‘old’ and too old to be ‘young.’ "
It’s fucking annoying, but I still Towanda my way through it…
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Hey my favorite comedian Jen Kirkman’s last album Ok Gen-X is really great and all you old farts should listen to it! Paste mag 2022 comedy album of the year winner!
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The thing that did it for me was when I casually mentioned getting in to work and seeing the Challenger explosion on the front page of the paper and all the people around me asking “Hang on, you were working? We got told in school!”
Then I broke their poor little brains by pointing out that when I was born we hadn’t landed on the moon yet.
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I watched the moon landing on my grandma’s consol tv. Same set i saw the very first episode of Sesame Street and every Mr. Rogers episode. A little too young for the Kennedy assassination, but in college when the Challenger exploded and making rounds on 9/11. Lots of shit. And, hell, I’m still only 25! (In my head, at least.)
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I wasn’t quite three and a bit young to remember it, and even if I had it probably would have been overwhelmed by the arrival of my sister.
Second year of a BSc, in love with space missions and working nights at a hotel cocktail bar, I turned up to a friend’s place at about 1.00am still wearing my bow tie and jacket (“oh look, it’s James fuckin’ Bond”) where a group of us smoked some pot and watched the launch live. I was the only one who’d seen earlier launches and at some point when I was half asleep someone said “is that meant to happen?”
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I know you meant USA slavery, but there’s very much a lot of slavery happening around the world today. By some estimates, there’s more slaves today than at any point in history.
Yes, in this context we meant “legalized chattel slavery in the United States.”
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I was in the fourth grade, watching it live on tv.
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