The Gunpowder treason and plot.
I see no reason the gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot
Barring September 11, what is the most unforgettable historical event of our young lives? The one that will never be 'forgot'?
The other day's question: I'm going to give this one to Matty even though he crossed up the actual name-Screen Actors Guild-with the Matt Stone / Trey Parker satire from Team America. Or at least failed to acknowledge that he knows the difference. Oops. Oh well. It worked for the joke, and that, i'm sure, is why he did it.
Matty:
George Clooney. He's pompous, full of himself, a leader of Film Actors Guild (FAG) and apparently *ahem* takes that membership literally in his personal life. So if we're talking who's full of shit, he is literally and figuratively because he spews nonsense and has his packed regularly.
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The Red Sox winning the World Series in 2004, hands down. There was so much build up and for a kid who grew up on the east coast, we'd been raised in the shadow of bill buckner and have the agony of 86 years passed down to it. We'll all remember when the curse was reversed.
Also HAPPY GUY FAWKES DAY!!! This time last year I was drinking Guinness in a field in jolly old England.
While I do love the Red Sox and will never forget living in Kenmore square when they won, I don't feel like everyone outside of New England will tell their kids "I remember when the Red Sox won the Series."
In terms of monumental changes, I'm gonna go with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Talk about something with monumental importance. When the wall came down Eastern Europe fell apart over the next 15 years. That event contributed to all the instability in the region and continues to have an impact on our lives in terms of global politics: something our generation in particular will be responsible for fixing along with the environment. Thanks, mom and dad.
C'mon Matty...no way you personally remember everything going on with the Berlin Wall...what were you, five?
Personally, as of yet, nothing has come remotely close in this manner as 9/11. I was gonna say Princess Di, but I'm pretty sure I just pulled a Barry. 'Oh drag' and continued eating a sandwich, so that'd just be lying to try and win.
I'll go with the death of Kurt Cobain. I was 13 years old, which was an age when Nirvana (and other music) started taking on a much bigger part of my life, as I explored feelings of alienation and angst that just weren't there when I was not a teenager. It felt really weird to have this man who's voice spoke to me gone, to know things could fall apart for a man who seemingly had so much, so quickly. I felt sad for his daughter, who has to go through life with Courtney Love as her sole parent, and most likely this distorted, weird view of who her father was.
I didn't say I personally remember it, but that wasn't the question. The question was what happened in our lifetime. Berlin Wall.
I'll take this in the literal sense that "our" refers to those of us here to answer the question. And without a doubt, the most important event in our lives would have to be the birth of one Ray DiSanza. You see without him, we wouldn't be crossing paths here on a daily basis and pondering the questions of our lives, the world, and sheer existence itself. His birth marks a watershed moment in the history of internet camaraderie and we should all be thankful that has given us the opportunity to take part in it.
In a distant second place (although still very important), would be the moment the Batman movie franchise was made relevant again by one Christian Bale. After suffering though Clooney and Kilmer, Bale was akin to a rebirth of classic Adam West on the big screen.
Ray DiSanza and Christian Bale, pioneers of our generation if I do say so myself.
In our short life times, excluding 9/11 and then after the awesomeness that is ray and christain bale I'm gonna have to say the Clinton impeachment. It has just enough historical significance plus naughtiness. Although students of our era will think we had some severely messed up ideas of what a sexy lady looks like.
Christian Bale and Ray DiSanza.
I can't really beat that.
Does Global Warming count?
But really, in all seriousness, the bombing of Iraq was pretty big.
Honorable mentions: the Rwandan Genocide and Darfur.
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