day of celebration
Oct. 20th, 2004 03:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baratronToday is a special day for me. Something important in my life happened on 20th October 1983.
What was it?
Answer in comments, all comments screened until someone gets the right answer.
Hint: Think about how old I was in 1983.
Update: No one has it yet, although![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alexmc's assertion that I was seven years & four months old may be relevant (the seven years part at least). Quite a few people clearly had no idea how old I was in 1983, which is amusing as my full date of birth is on my userinfo (I figured everyone would cheat and look at that first!).
Further update (as still no one's got it): What can little girls (specifically girls) do at the age of 7 that they can't do before their seventh birthday?
What was it?
Answer in comments, all comments screened until someone gets the right answer.
Hint: Think about how old I was in 1983.
Update: No one has it yet, although
alexmc's assertion that I was seven years & four months old may be relevant (the seven years part at least). Quite a few people clearly had no idea how old I was in 1983, which is amusing as my full date of birth is on my userinfo (I figured everyone would cheat and look at that first!).Further update (as still no one's got it): What can little girls (specifically girls) do at the age of 7 that they can't do before their seventh birthday?
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Date: 2004-10-20 03:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-20 03:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-20 03:57 pm (UTC)Hmmmm.
You passed your A'Levels?
Here is a cartoon from that date
http://www.geoffhook.com/joh/get_gallery.cgi?image=jeff201083
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Date: 2004-10-20 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-20 04:07 pm (UTC)(Seems a bit late in the year, but I don't know how the British school calendar works).
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Date: 2004-10-20 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-20 07:30 pm (UTC)You got your first e-mail address.
You took a bus by yourself.
You rode a bicycle.
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Date: 2004-10-20 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-20 08:07 pm (UTC)First release of Pokemon in Japan?
Release of IBM Dos 2.1?
It wasn't that Richard was born then, was it?
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Date: 2004-10-20 08:49 pm (UTC)First asthma attack?
Those don't sound right - I think it would be you realised something important. First met another geek?
Or first used a computer?
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Date: 2004-10-20 10:14 pm (UTC)He says he's quite chuffed - he's walking round the house saying "I have the body of a 21 year old"!
No, it was definitely something that was important to me at the time.
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Date: 2004-10-20 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-21 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-22 12:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-22 03:01 pm (UTC)Specifically, 20th October 1983 was the day I made my Brownie Promise, i.e. my Brownie Birthday.
More about this to come later.
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Date: 2004-10-22 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-22 03:03 pm (UTC)But you've given me an idea for a livejournal poll :)
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Date: 2004-10-22 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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