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bleed_black_orchid
biff and chips
awww Dirty Dancing I love that film..I have it on video dvd I have the soundtrack and all related cd's including MORE dirty dancing
and Im not ashamed to admit it
and Im not ashamed to admit it
Strangelight
steak(knife) no more
off with her bollocks!bleed_black_orchid said:
Seriously though, why are girls obsessed with that film?
Falconspirit
I Died A Little
1986
World Events
World Statistics
Population: 4.932 billion
population by decade
Nobel Peace Prize:
Elie Wiesel (US)
Spain and Portugal join European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in US (Jan. 8). US planes attack Libyan "terrorist centers" (April 14).
Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France (Feb. 7).
President Ferdinand Marcos flees Philippines after ruling for 20 years; newly elected Corazon Aquino succeeds him (Feb. 26).
Union Carbide agrees to settlement with victims of Bhopal gas leak in India (March 22).
Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarms world (April 26 et seq.).
Ex-Navy analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, guilty as spy for Israel (June 4).
World Court rules US broke international law in mining Nicaraguan waters (June 27).
More History...
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
President: Ronald W. Reagan
Vice President: George Bush
Population: 240,132,887
Life expectancy: 74.7 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 54.8
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 48.6
More U.S. Statistics...
US Supreme Court bars racial bias in trial jury selection (Jan. 14).
Space shuttle Challenger explodes after launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla., killing all seven aboard (Jan. 28).
US Supreme Court reaffirms abortion rights (June 11).
Senate Judiciary Committee approves William H. Rehnquist as Chief Justice of US Supreme Court(Aug. 14).
House votes arms appropriations bill rejecting Administration's "star wars" policy (Aug. 15).
Secret initiative to send arms to Iran revealed (Nov. 6 et seq.); Reagan denies exchanging arms for hostages and halts arms sales (Nov. 19); diversion of funds from arms sales to Nicaraguan Contras revealed (Nov. 25).
More History...
Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $4,422.20 billion
Federal spending: $990.34 billion
Federal debt: $2120.6 billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars): $24,897
Consumer Price Index: 109.6
Unemployment: 7.0%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.22
More Economics...
Sports
Sports Links
Pro Football Summary
Pro Basketball Summary
Pro Baseball Summary
Super Bowl
Chicago d. New England (46-10)
World Series
NY Mets d. Boston Red Sox (4-3)
NBA Championship
Boston d. Houston (4-2)
Stanley Cup
Montreal d. Calgary (4-1)
Wimbledon
Women: Martina Navratilova d. H. Mandlikova (7-6 6-3)
Men: Boris Becker d. I. Lendl (6-4 6-3 7-5)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Ferdinand
NCAA Basketball Championship
Louisville d. Duke (72-69)
NCAA Football Champions
Penn St. (12-0-0)
World Cup
Argentina d. W. Germany (3-2)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
Music: Wind Quintet IV, George Perle
Oscars awarded in 1986
Academy Award, Best Picture: Out of Africa, Sydney Pollack, producer (Universal)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
1986 Emmy Awards
1986 Tony Awards
Grammys awarded in 1986
Record of the Year: "We Are the World," USA for Africa
Album of the Year: No Jacket Required, Phil Collins (Atlantic)
Song of the Year: "We Are the World," Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, songwriters
Miss America: Susan Akin (MS)
More Entertainment Awards...
Events
Barry Diller, head of News Corp., creates Fox, the fourth television network. Fox offers 10 hours of prime-time programming a week.
The Television Bureau of Advertising announces that the average American household watches television for more than seven hours a day.
The Oprah Winfrey Show hits national television.
The Academic American Encyclopedia is available on CD-ROM. It is the first reference work published in this medium.
Nintendo video games introduced in U.S.
Movies
Platoon, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Color of Money, The Mission
Books
Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
Alice Munro, The Progress of Love
Peter Taylor, A Summer to Memphis
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Dudley R. Herschback, Yuan T. Lee (both US), and John C. Polanyi (Canada), for their work on reaction dynamics
Physics: Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig (both Germany), and Heinrich Rohrer (Switzerland), for work on microscopes
Physiology or Medicine: Rita Levi-Montalcini (dual US/Italy) and Stanley Cohen (US), for their contributions to the understanding of substances that influence cell growth
K. Alex Müller (Switzerland) and J. Georg Bednorz (Germany) discover superconductivity in a ceramic material at -397ºF, a higher temperature than ever before.
Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager make the first nonstop flight around the world without refueling. The Voyager flew around the world (24,986 miles) from Edwards AFB, California, returning in 216 hours, 3 minutes, and 44 seconds (Dec. 1423). Background: Famous Firsts in Aviation
The first genetically-engineered vaccine, for hepatitis B, gains FDA approval. Background: Health & Nutrition
The Voyager 2 probe passes Uranus in January, returning images and data on its moon, rings, atmosphere, interior, and magnetic field. Background: US Unstaffed Planetary and Lunar Programs
Halley's comet yields information on return visit (April 10). Background
World Events
World Statistics
Population: 4.932 billion
population by decade
Nobel Peace Prize:
Elie Wiesel (US)
Spain and Portugal join European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in US (Jan. 8). US planes attack Libyan "terrorist centers" (April 14).
Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France (Feb. 7).
President Ferdinand Marcos flees Philippines after ruling for 20 years; newly elected Corazon Aquino succeeds him (Feb. 26).
Union Carbide agrees to settlement with victims of Bhopal gas leak in India (March 22).
Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarms world (April 26 et seq.).
Ex-Navy analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, guilty as spy for Israel (June 4).
World Court rules US broke international law in mining Nicaraguan waters (June 27).
More History...
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
President: Ronald W. Reagan
Vice President: George Bush
Population: 240,132,887
Life expectancy: 74.7 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 54.8
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 48.6
More U.S. Statistics...
US Supreme Court bars racial bias in trial jury selection (Jan. 14).
Space shuttle Challenger explodes after launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla., killing all seven aboard (Jan. 28).
US Supreme Court reaffirms abortion rights (June 11).
Senate Judiciary Committee approves William H. Rehnquist as Chief Justice of US Supreme Court(Aug. 14).
House votes arms appropriations bill rejecting Administration's "star wars" policy (Aug. 15).
Secret initiative to send arms to Iran revealed (Nov. 6 et seq.); Reagan denies exchanging arms for hostages and halts arms sales (Nov. 19); diversion of funds from arms sales to Nicaraguan Contras revealed (Nov. 25).
More History...
Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $4,422.20 billion
Federal spending: $990.34 billion
Federal debt: $2120.6 billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars): $24,897
Consumer Price Index: 109.6
Unemployment: 7.0%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.22
More Economics...
Sports
Sports Links
Pro Football Summary
Pro Basketball Summary
Pro Baseball Summary
Super Bowl
Chicago d. New England (46-10)
World Series
NY Mets d. Boston Red Sox (4-3)
NBA Championship
Boston d. Houston (4-2)
Stanley Cup
Montreal d. Calgary (4-1)
Wimbledon
Women: Martina Navratilova d. H. Mandlikova (7-6 6-3)
Men: Boris Becker d. I. Lendl (6-4 6-3 7-5)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Ferdinand
NCAA Basketball Championship
Louisville d. Duke (72-69)
NCAA Football Champions
Penn St. (12-0-0)
World Cup
Argentina d. W. Germany (3-2)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
Music: Wind Quintet IV, George Perle
Oscars awarded in 1986
Academy Award, Best Picture: Out of Africa, Sydney Pollack, producer (Universal)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
1986 Emmy Awards
1986 Tony Awards
Grammys awarded in 1986
Record of the Year: "We Are the World," USA for Africa
Album of the Year: No Jacket Required, Phil Collins (Atlantic)
Song of the Year: "We Are the World," Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, songwriters
Miss America: Susan Akin (MS)
More Entertainment Awards...
Events
Barry Diller, head of News Corp., creates Fox, the fourth television network. Fox offers 10 hours of prime-time programming a week.
The Television Bureau of Advertising announces that the average American household watches television for more than seven hours a day.
The Oprah Winfrey Show hits national television.
The Academic American Encyclopedia is available on CD-ROM. It is the first reference work published in this medium.
Nintendo video games introduced in U.S.
Movies
Platoon, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Color of Money, The Mission
Books
Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
Alice Munro, The Progress of Love
Peter Taylor, A Summer to Memphis
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Dudley R. Herschback, Yuan T. Lee (both US), and John C. Polanyi (Canada), for their work on reaction dynamics
Physics: Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig (both Germany), and Heinrich Rohrer (Switzerland), for work on microscopes
Physiology or Medicine: Rita Levi-Montalcini (dual US/Italy) and Stanley Cohen (US), for their contributions to the understanding of substances that influence cell growth
K. Alex Müller (Switzerland) and J. Georg Bednorz (Germany) discover superconductivity in a ceramic material at -397ºF, a higher temperature than ever before.
Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager make the first nonstop flight around the world without refueling. The Voyager flew around the world (24,986 miles) from Edwards AFB, California, returning in 216 hours, 3 minutes, and 44 seconds (Dec. 1423). Background: Famous Firsts in Aviation
The first genetically-engineered vaccine, for hepatitis B, gains FDA approval. Background: Health & Nutrition
The Voyager 2 probe passes Uranus in January, returning images and data on its moon, rings, atmosphere, interior, and magnetic field. Background: US Unstaffed Planetary and Lunar Programs
Halley's comet yields information on return visit (April 10). Background
bleed_black_orchid
biff and chips
dont take my metaphorical bollocks.. I just like the music really its the same with grease. dont laugh I know all the words.
bleed_black_orchid said:
Dirty Dancing is one of my fav films too! I also love the music! I know almost all the words.
Last year I spent one night in Edinburgh and went to a disco. They played a medley of the soundtrack and it was the best part of the night!
MoonsOfJupiter
freckled warrior maiden
Lord_Of_This_World
refer to manual.
Strangelight said:
i had to buy that for my missus from wh smith over the phone, the fucking fella was nearly laughing when i told him what i wanted. i tried to explain why i was buying it, dont think he believed me though.
Lord_Of_This_World
refer to manual.
1973:
VAT is introduced to Britain
First black newscaster in Britian - Trevor McDonald
Driving is banned on Sundays in Holland to save petrol reserves
The longest solar eclipse is visible from the Sahara desert
There are only 950 windmills left in Holland!
The disposable lighter is invented
British TV networks introduce first teletext system.(the pikeys internet)
VAT is introduced to Britain
First black newscaster in Britian - Trevor McDonald
Driving is banned on Sundays in Holland to save petrol reserves
The longest solar eclipse is visible from the Sahara desert
There are only 950 windmills left in Holland!
The disposable lighter is invented
British TV networks introduce first teletext system.(the pikeys internet)
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