O.J. Simpson -- dead

He still dead?

 

As is Francisco Franco.

 

Also on June 17.....Watergate break-in

 

He’s still crossed off.

 

A friend called me and said, "Hit the TV ... NOW."

We were 1,500 miles apart, and we watched it all together over the phone for three hours.

On a LANDLINE, too! (Kids, ask your grandma. And not by text for this one.)

 

Obligatory sidejack: How many of us still have a landline?

Not me. I dumped it 12 years ago after inheriting a house. ... How about you?

 

I happened to be out that night and when I got home, the big news was a police raid on the drug house a few doors down. Some kids I knew were there. I didn’t catch onto the OJ thing until a day or two later.

 

Long story short, I didn't catch up to the 9/11 story until the next morning. Great googly moogly, etc. ...

Also, I was driving across the country on an interstate all day, and long into the night, with no radio the day the Challenger blew up, so I guess that's a pretty good WTF daily double right damn there.

 

Got rid of it about five years or so ago. The only calls we were ever getting on the landline were junk calls.

My parents still have their landline plus their cells. Not sure how many calls they use it for. Old habits die hard, I guess.

 

I moved into my first apartment after college in 2006. I’ve never had a landline.

 

We had one until three years ago, when we moved into this house. The previous owners had gotten rid of the landline (this house was built in 1954) and we saw no reason to bring it back.

That being said, there still are occasions when I come home after being gone for most of the day and I briefly think about checking the answering machine …