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Topic: The What Year Game
sweetbilly's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:05 AM
Wanna play a game? Wanna learn a little something in the process? i'm not sure if it will take, but I will give it a shot.

I was thinking. How many people really know what happened the year they were born? Sure you may know a little based upon things that really impacted the world, but do you know the small stuff?

OKAY.... here's how you play. Without going back to the JSH profile of the person ABOVE YOU can you guess what year they were born based solely upon facts from the year they supply (or just an educated guess)? You can't cheat. You're not allowed to do any web searches based on the info they supply. You just have to make an educated guess. Then after you guess, research your own birth year and you will be surprised at how much you never knew. Then repost this bulletin to your friends.

Laugh a lot and Smile often,

Billy

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Let's play! Here goes.....

I share this birth year with celebrities like:

Will Smith, Halle Berry, Lucy Liu, Celine Dion, and Owen Wilson


Overlooked History (without obviously giving the year way)...

1. The London Bridge is sold for 1 million dollars and is later re-erected in Arizona.

2. Johnny Cash marries June Carter.

3. Jerry Lewis does his 3rd MDA Telethon.

4. The first heart transplant takes place.


Average Costs and Income:

1. Gas: 34 cents per gallon

2. Average New Car Price: $2,822.00

3. Average New House Price: $26,600.00

4. Movie Ticket: $1.50

5. Pay Phone: .10 cents

6. Hershey Chocolate Bar: .05 cents

7. A 6-Pack of Beer: .99 cents

8. McDonalds introduces the Big Mac and it sells for .49 cents

9. A First Class postage stamp is raised to .06 cents

10. Baseball minimum annual salary is $10.000.00 a year

11. The annual household income is under $8,000.00 a year.


Technology:

1. The first home video games are in prototype mode, a patent is obtained, and Atari and Pong do not hit the consumer market until four years later.

2. The first ever ATM machine is installed by the First Bank of Philadelphia.

3. The first Boeing 747 rolls out.

4. The first 911 emergency phone system is introduced in Haleysville, AL and begins operation 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Coincidentally, it was first called nine-eleven service, but caused too much confusion because people could not locate an 11 button on their phones (that is the honest to godness truth). Keep in mind that this same year The 10 digit phone was upgraded and the # and * symbols for future telecommunication advances were added. So this also confused people.

CAN YOU GUESS MY BIRTH YEAR?

TrueJedi's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:06 AM
1979

blankpage's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:07 AM
1963?

TheCaptain's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:09 AM
1975?

sweetbilly's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:10 AM
Okay.... looks like this might be a tough game.

Hint to Blank... it was the 60's. Try again.

TheCaptain's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:11 AM
1968?

sweetbilly's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:11 AM
Great job Captain! Okay... it's your go.

TheCaptain's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:19 AM
Okay. Here goes.

Hair opened in Amsterdam.
US population is at 293,200,000.
Marxists take over the Congo.
New York transit fare goes from 20 to 30 cents.
Boing 747 makes maiden voyage.
Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana.

blankpage's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:20 AM
1962

TrueJedi's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:20 AM
I know, but I am dis-qaulified laugh

blankpage's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:22 AM

I know, but I am dis-qaulified laugh


why? same year for you?

sweetbilly's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:22 AM
It is still 1968!

TrueJedi's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:22 AM
nope, I know his age, so that will give it away

TheCaptain's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:23 AM
Keep guessing..........

blankpage's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:24 AM
Maybe it's close billy..
I'll say:
1967

sweetbilly's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:25 AM
OK, I thought Hair opened in '68. Let's see....hmmm. Boeing 747 makes voyage. So, I will say 69.

TheCaptain's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:26 AM
Wrong way Blank.

It was also Jimi Hendricks first recording in New York.

sweetbilly's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:27 AM
1971?

blankpage's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:27 AM
Edited by blankpage on Sun 12/02/07 09:27 AM

OK, I thought Hair opened in '68. Let's see....hmmm. Boeing 747 makes voyage. So, I will say 69.


of course, it can't take flight until it's built (:wink:) changing my guess to 1970.

summerlady's photo
Sun 12/02/07 09:28 AM
How about 1965?

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