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I'd taken the morning off from work to watch the lift off. 
/ravi
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I was a freshman in high school. At the beginning of math class, the teacher had wheeled in a TV and we were watching the coverage after the explosion (didn't see it happen real-time as I was out on the football field when that took place).
As soon as class started, the teacher came to me and told me my parents were waiting at the front office. At first I was quite embarrassed thinking "Seriously? Yeah this is a tragedy, but you don't need to pull me out of school over *this*".
Then I got to the front office and found out my grandma had died that morning.
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I remember.
We were shopping at the MetroCenter Mall (in Phoenix) and just walked past the upper floor entrance to Sears. There was a small TV/Audio store just outside the Sears entry and they had the launch on display on one of their TV's. We stopped to watch. What a sad disaster.
Dave.
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When it happened, we had just GOTTEN a pen plotter at work, and the most popular image to print was the space shuttle.
The day after it happened, someone printed two pen plotter drawings of the shuttle. A normal on, labeled "BEFORE", and an exploded view labeled "AFTER". I thought it was funny, but management blew a fuse over it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I was in the student center between classes during the freshman year of my first college attempt when I saw the broadcast. I remember standing in disbelief that it was actually happening. What a tragedy. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Kevin Marois wrote: Do you remember?
Yup.
I had quit my job at Northrop, was spending a week off before starting work at TRW, and was gardening in my yard in Crestline, PRC. The radio was on loud so I could listen to music while trimming the shrubs and planting spring bulbs. When I heard the initial announcement my plans for the day were cancelled, and I spent the rest of the day glued to the one eyed idiot, hoping for some discovery of survivors...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I was actually at home in front of the television. I was playing hookie from school (which I almost never did) just to see the live broadcast. Still remember the shock when it exploded! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Are internet trolls ogre-rated?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Are internet trolls ogre-rated?
I'd say yes, they keep repeating the same stuff ogre and ogre again.
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Prolly not, they're goblin up a lot of time online.
Life is too shor
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These are not the ogres you are trolling for 
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
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That's a fairy bad pun 
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No, they became ko-bolder with time.
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
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Nish Nishant wrote: Which may mean we may see a high end top of the line Surface phone by next year
... or re-branded Nokia stuff. 
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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I doubt that. The Lumia-models are the Nokia ones. This will be designed from scratch like they did with the Surface tablet/laptop.
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Nish Nishant wrote: This will be designed from scratch like they did with the Surface tablet/laptop.
Psychic?
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Just a best guess
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I still think MS (or anybody else) will need something totally revolutionary in order to push another mobile OS into the Android / iOS duopoly. From what I've seen of Windows Phone OSes they don't have it yet.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Squee!!! Another mobile platform so we can learn a whole pile of new proprietary information to develop an app.  It will be simple, of course.
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Well if you write an Universal Windows App, it will run on the phone, the tablet, the laptop, and any other supported device
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And...
I have ocean-side property for sale in Arizona and quite a few stock picks for you to invest in immediately.
You're virtually guaranteed to get rich. Virtually.
Also, here are the next winning Powerball numbers...
34 27... 
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You will be unsurprised to hear that that went straight to the "probable spam" list!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I know. I saw that as soon as I posted it, then it disappeared.
I've been censored!! That's a really robust spam-checker there.
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