Reggo
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I finally finished mine just as Pahana posted the sign up thread.
You're probably right... I dunno when Bradman was playing exactly, but my dad was born in 1926. I'll ask him if he ever went to a game where Bradman played...
*awaits barrage of "" faces*
Incidentally, it is NOT CHEAP to turn dirt roads to bitumen. The road behind my parents' place is gravel, and a fairly steep hill (dunno how much that would affect the price)... various residents of said road have asked the council to bitumenise it, and the council basically said the residents would have to pay for it themselves... at $10,000 each, or something frightening like that. (I think that's for the frontage of an acre block.) Needless to say, most of them decided they could live with dusty laundry and washed-out gutters...!
I've been up for hours working on my Desert Island list. It's actually proving to be kind of stressful but also a hell of a lot of fun. Have you guys already finished your lists?
Parents are good at that.
My dad told me once, as a joke, that those little twinges you get in your leg or whatever are caused by random cosmic rays that just happen to intersect your leg at that moment.
I was an impressionable child. I believed it and was convincing other people that this was true until one day in year 12 (aged 17), I realised it was utter BS.
Oh hi!
O hai!
o high. This thread location kicks ass.
I've been up for hours working on my Desert Island list. It's actually proving to be kind of stressful but also a hell of a lot of fun. Have you guys already finished your lists?
Hell no. I'm currently wondering if I can/should slot the Rolling Stones into mine somehow.
Hi GAF
Ohai, GAF. I finished my DI list way back in late May! It came to me in a burst of inspiration and I've been happy with it ever since.
Another perspective of the popularity and regard of the Don - here in Adelaide, one of the highways is called the Sir Donald Bradman Drive.
Not that I care about cricket in the least, but you have to admit he was pretty fucking insane.
It's always jarring when you first realise your parents are not only fallible, but that they lie, and you fell for it.My father works in banking, and one day when I was about seven or eight, he told me that they were thinking of introducing a $7 note because people so often bought things worth about $7 and were sick of carrying around $5 notes plus change. I took it hook, line, and sinker and believed it until he told me later that it wasn't true.
Ohai, GAF. I finished my DI list way back in late May! It came to me in a burst of inspiration and I've been happy with it ever since.
Wow, good work. Yeah, it seems with creating these lists that it's hard to stop going once you get in a good rhythm.
Hey, that's funny because I actually was wrestling with the same thing earlier. and I ended up finding the perfect spot for the Stones in my list.
It's always jarring when you first realise your parents are not only fallible, but that they lie, and you fell for it.
I'm seeing where wireless headphones would be useful now. I want to keep listening to my list, but I badly need to pack a bag and get ready for bed, and all my housemates are asleep.
SANTA CLAUS.
Actually, I don't even remember when I found out Santa wasn't real, but it was at a very young age. Judging by what I can remember, there wasn't one single moment and I just figured it out for myself gradually. By the time I was five or so, both my parents and I were concscious of it just being some fun make-believe at Christmastime.
Spock!I was about 2 and I told my mum "You know, Santa just isn't logical."
One of my primary school teacher's father met the Don when he was a kid, and got his autograph. Still has it somewhere, I think.
I was about 2 and I told my mum "You know, Santa just isn't logical."
Spock!
I love Spock.
I don't remember ever believing in Santa Claus, but I know I stopped believing in him before a friend of mine, and we got into an argument about it in grade three or something when the class was watching some Christmas kids movie.
I do remember realising the Tooth Fairy wasn't real. See, my tooth fairy used to leave notes along with the 50c - and one day I noticed that the tooth fairy wrote her capital "I"s the same way my mum did, with this funny little loop at the top...
Who is this Santa? Is he anything like Father Christmas?
It seems that my brain finds random, inconsequential things I saw on TV at age two to be memorable, but not Christmas!
... I can't quite figure out what that has to do with Santa.
I also knew there was no Tooth Fairy - in fact, when Mum introduced the concept to me when I lost my first tooth, I think I call it out as a silly idea - but I was more than happy to play along and milk it for money.
I'm trying to remember some of my early Christmases... the best I can do is remembering dad doing his annual battle with the christmas lights for the tree. Every year, he'd go to plug them in and they wouldn't work... which meant one of the little blubs had blown, which made the whole thing not work. So he would have to go through and test every single light bulb individually to see which one needed replacing, and it was invariably one at the opposite end of the string from where he started.
I remember THAT, but not the actual Christmas itself!