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Author Topic: It's been ONE year since I quit smoking cigarettes  (Read 6319 times)

Offline Kaiaatzl

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Re: It's been ONE year since I quit smoking cigarettes
« Reply #15 on: December 29, 2011, 06:25:03 PM »
He probably just looked it up.

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Re: It's been ONE year since I quit smoking cigarettes
« Reply #16 on: December 30, 2011, 10:44:37 PM »
He probably just looked it up.
That's probably so.

WillyP was thinking of the time when he graduated high school (’79) and I graduated in '81 so...

In 1979...
  • Cost of a first-class stamp:    $0.15 
  • Cost of a gallon of regular gas:   $0.86 
  • Cost of a gallon of Milk:   $1.62 
  • President of the United States: Jimmy Carter
  • The Three Mile Island incident had happened and anti-nuclear rallies were happening everywhere
  • Mahammad Ali "officially" retires.
  • Top movies that year included "The Amityville Horror", "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", "Apocalypse Now", and "The Muppet Movie"
  • Voyager sends photos of Jupiter

In 1981 (just two years later)...
  • Cost of a first-class stamp:    $0.15 ($0.18 as of 3/22/81; $0.20 as of 11/1/81) 
  • Cost of a gallon of regular gas:  $1.38 
  • Cost of a gallon of Milk:  $2.22 
  • President of the United States: Ronald Reagan
  • New games: Donkey Kong, Ms. Pac Man and Asteroids. 
  • 288K memory chip is launched from IBM 
  • "Raiders of the List Ark" and "On Golden Pond" are the top grossing movies

Those were the days...

 

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