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1. 1 — Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

   2 — I’ve never taken a class, but my neighbor tried to talk me into going to a “how to get voiceover work” class. I’m sure the class is helpful to someone with a nice voice, but my neighbor has a bizarre southern-ish accent despite living in New York his whole life. I don’t think voiceover work is in his future.

   3 — I found out my boss had been fired from his last job for embezzling a small fortune from the company. He went to jail, too. Not sure if our Human Resources department knows about The Google yet.

   4 — Never did. Would love to go anywhere now, though. Big regret.

   5 — Never owned a car, but I’m sure my first purchase will qualify.

   posted by Gerald on 9-18-2009 at 10:44 am

2. 1. First Movie I saw in the Theatre: Double Feature: The Goonies and Gremlins – I was 7 years old. I still LOVE the Goonies!!!

   2. ????

   3. I wasn’t snooping, but my idiot boss, sent out an email to my direct manager meant for him, but he hit “reply to all” on an email that I had sent requesting overtime on a project that was originally meant for O/T but I had been doing during work hours, and when it got busy again, I requested the O/T – he replied to all, and said “I am not likely to approve this, until Kim makes better use of her time during the day” – I was THE most productive person that division had ever seen. I quit immediately, grabbed all my crap(I always got to work before everyone else), and sent a letter of resignation to him, my manager, and HR – within 2 hours, the idiot got his ass handed to him, for fucking with me. They KNEW I was the best, and they begged me to come back.

   4. Never studied abroad, but did go to England and Paris when I was pregnant. My BEST trip ever, was following the Washington Capitals(my hometown hockey team) around Canada, watching them play in all 6 Canadian Hockey towns over a 2 week period. This was our Honeymoon. We took some extra days, and took the three day train from Toronto to Vancouver, then flew to Calgary and drove to Banff and stayed in the Castle, before beginning our Hockey Tour. It was AWESOME!!

   5. My very first car – I got when I was 16(1991) – It was a 1969 VW Bus – I never even got to drive it – my brother was driving it to get gas, and it made it 1/8 of a mile before the engine died completely! So I got my Mom’s Chevy Celebrity instead.

   posted by Kim Beaty on 9-18-2009 at 10:48 am

3. 1. My first theater movie was Disney’s Lion King. More memorable though, was the second movie i had ever seen in theaters, which was Jurassic Park. (I’m a youngin, I know.)

   2. There was a photography course being offered at a community college near my home at the time. I enrolled, and it was a thrilling class! I retained so much knowledge from that course. Unfortunately, it was non-credit, but I don’t care.

   3. The most shocking thing I’ve found while snooping has to be this little black book my mom owned. She used to be a bartender, which I didn’t know, and the book was a catalog of various drinks that she had written down during her bartending career. It was a plethora of mixes that you could easily find online on a drink website, but the amazing part was the date at which it was used. I asked how old the book was, and she told me it was dated around 1988. Back then, the vast knowledge of these various types of drinks had to be hard to come by, I think.

   4. I’ve never left the states (US Naval base in Newfoundland, Canada is still US territory in my mind).

   5. Seeing as how I’ve only ever owned two cars (a ’92 Mazda Protege and currently an ’02 Ford Ranger), I would have to say my current vehicle is the crappiest. I loved my Protege to death, until I nearly flipped it in a self-inflicted accident on the night before the night before Christmas in a mall parking lot (I was stupid at the time, but I laugh at it). Now I’m stuck with a vehicle I could live without. It requires so much maintanence and money to even pass inspection these days.

   reCaptcha: 1935 injuries That’s a ridiculous number of injuries! I would rather be dead at that point.

   posted by Steven on 9-18-2009 at 10:51 am

4. 1. “Jaws” (the first one) – I was 10 at the time and didn’t really understand what I was watching. I admit the movie made a lasting impression, however. Swiming in the ocean is a pleasure forever denied to me.

   2. I took a course in Broadsword at a community college a number of years ago. It’s like fencing, but heavier.

   3. Growing up in a full house, snooping was frowned upon. I did find a rather shocking array of adult toys while searching for Christmas presents one year…

   4. Never studied abroad. Not much at home for that matter.

   5. My FIRST car was the hands-down worst. A 1974 Vega station wagon. It was rusted almost to unusability and ran intermittently, at best.

   posted by Jack on 9-18-2009 at 10:54 am

5. Oops, I’m sorry, I have the two movies backwards. Jurassic Park WAS the first. THEN the Lion King. (Jurassic Park is still the better of the two.)

   posted by Steven on 9-18-2009 at 10:56 am

6. RE #1:

   I think the first movie I saw was one of the first “Star Wars” ones but I don’t remember it. My dad says he took me, even though I was only about 4 for the first one, because everyone was talking about it and he didn’t want me to feel left out at pre-school.

   The first one I REMEMBER is a tie between “Ragtime” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” because they came out the same year.

   RE #5:

   My first car was a Toyota Corona, yes, like the beer, and I bought it for $750 (well, split between me and my parents). It was horrible, it only started like 3-4 times a week and I ended up selling it for $250, and I felt it was over-priced, hahahh.

   posted by Sarah in CA on 9-18-2009 at 11:01 am

7. 1. What was the first movie you saw in a theater?

   Flash Gordon in 1980. I was 4, and my mother took my older siblings to see it and didn’t have a babysitter for me.

   3. What’s the most shocking thing you’ve found while snooping?

   Topless photos of a woman in my father’s car glovebox when I was 10. The woman was NOT my mother or anyone else I knew.

   5. What’s the crappiest car you’ve ever owned? Was it a clunker from the start, or did you simply drive it into the ground?

   I bought my sister’s 1982 Toyota Tercel in 1993 for $500. It had 110,000 miles on it and I spent about $400 a month on repairs…something was ALWAYS wrong with it. I received some money from a relative in 1995 and immediately used it to buy a brand new car. I then sold the Toyota to someone else…for $500!

   posted by Colleen on 9-18-2009 at 11:02 am

8. 1. Gone With the Wind. Not when it first came out, though!

   2. ?

   3. I have been known to be a snooper too. I try to curb my urges though because I have found things I don’t want to know about too many times. Examples, evidence of a relative’s adultery; information about co-workers; how some other people feel about me; pictures that make you want to burn your eyes out, etc.

   4. A 1960-something Chevy Nova. Looked bad, needed transmission work that I couldn’t afford, needed tires and brakes, and burned oil. But I just kept dumping oil in it and it just kept running. Sold it for $500 in 1982.

   posted by Hyacinth on 9-18-2009 at 11:20 am

9. 1. “Hot Lead & Cold Feet” with Don Knotts at a drive-in in Seymour, Indiana. I must have been about 5.
   2. I took an Interior Design class that was a total waste of time–could get the same info in magazines & HGTV.
   3. Nothing I remember.
   4. Never got to study abroad.
   5. My first car was a 1978 Toyota Corolla that my dad (who’s a mechanic) bought from a neighbor for $150 (it didn’t run). It was dirt brown, with torn seats, and an AM radio only, but I had a car! My next car was a 1972 Mercedes 300D (only a year younger than me!). It wouldn’t start in cold weather in less than 15 minutes. Luckily we lived in Longview, Texas at the time so that wasn’t too much of an issue, except in the very coldest part of winter. I had four different vehicles between the ages of 16 and 18, then kept the next one, a 1990 Honda Accord, for 13 years until it was destroyed by a hail storm! I loved that car!

   posted by Wendy on 9-18-2009 at 11:21 am

10. Also, the Nova was a clunker from the start. I drove crap for a long time before I could get something decent. Unfortunately it came with a car loan at 18%! It was the 80′s, what can I say?

    posted by Hyacinth on 9-18-2009 at 11:25 am

11. 1 – Flight of the Navigator. I’m told I saw Return of the Jedi but have no memory of it.

    2 – I got nothing

    3 – Not mine, but my best friend found out his wife had been cheating on him by accidentally reading a text when she left her phone on the kitchen counter. He then found her profile on some on-line dating service.

    4 – I actually did go to New Zealand the summer before my senior year. I spent a month at an outdoor adventure camp in Tongariro National Park hiking, camping, spelunking, rock climbing, whitewater rafting, bungy jumping, bushwhacking, etc. Quite the adventure for a young punk from rural Iowa. I spent the rest of my time doing conservation work in and around Wellington. While there I got to go to an All-Blacks vs. Wallabies (NZ vs. Australia) Rugby match. It blew my mind. I have never been to a sporting event that was that intense. It was amazing. The whole country is gorgeous and well worth the 15 hour flight.

    5 – My first car was a 1988 Plymouth Voyager Mini-van with a 5-speed on the floor with over 250,000 miles on it. It didn’t die. It was murdered by a flashy sports car that t-boned the “Dodge-Mahal,” as we called her, in Chicago when my sister had borrowed it from me.

    posted by AJ on 9-18-2009 at 11:27 am

12. 1. The H.R. Pufnstuf movie. I was three years old when it came out, and loved the TV show, so I hounded my mom until she took me to see it.

    2. It was summer school, not night school, but looking back, I’m very happy that I decided to take typing. It certainly has come in handy in the computer age.

    (skip to…)

    5. Without a doubt, it was a 1987 Plymouth Sundance. We bought it used when it was about 10 years old, and we spent three times as much keeping the car running for three years as we did purchasing it in the first place. It was an absolute piece of junk, inside and out.

    posted by Sandy Wood on 9-18-2009 at 11:31 am

13. #4 – I studied abroad in Ferrara, Italy for the first semester of my junior year. It was an amazing experience and I learned a lot – all the classes were taught at the Universita’ degli Studi di Ferrara IN ITALIAN (eep! scary!) and the exams were all oral, given in a class room with a bunch of other students watching and the teacher asking you questions about the lectures you had been sitting through. It was fun to navigate a foreign education system (no buying text books at a book store, everyone buys illegal photo copies from local copy shops!) and trying to find an apartment for a short term lease in an unfamiliar city. It taught me self reliance in a big way. I also got inspired to learn how to cook after eating incredible meals there. If I could do it again, I would stay for the whole year.

    posted by Adrienne on 9-18-2009 at 11:33 am

14. AJ,

    3. I got you beat. My sister found her husband was gay but reading his text messages. Eek.

    posted by Nancy on 9-18-2009 at 11:34 am

15. 1. Aristocats – I saw it in the 80s, but it was released in 1970 (thank imdb). I remembered hating and it spoiling it for my friends by complaining how bad it was.

    2. I love when the county offers the tours. I may be a miser, but I’m not really willing to pay $200 for a two hour bus ride where I have get up at 4:30 am.

    3. I was once looking around our shared drive at work and found a coworkers draft correspondence with their lawyer regarding their will where she was very explicit about leaving her brother out of her will. Another time I found an application for some hair prostesis another coworker had made.

    4. Never studied abroad.

    5. I bought a 1988 Chevy Corsica in 1987. The best amenities include a) peeling paint which happened to every Corsica they first year they were manufacture, b) a driver’s seat held in place by baling wire, c) no A/C, d) gummed up a passenger seatbelt that everyone who ever sat shotgun complained about, e)a driver side door with a broken lock. If you locked the door you couldn’t unlock it. My solution place duct tape over the lock and never lock it. When the good folks at Jiffy Lube decided to tear off tape and lock, I had to enter through the passenger side. It was either that or renact the Dukes of Hazzard (which I did regularly and then broke the interior vinyl and patched with more vinyl.

    posted by Martin on 9-18-2009 at 11:39 am

16. 1. The first movie I saw in a theater was “The Pink Panther Strikes Again” in 1976. However, the first movie I saw was at a drive-in in 1968. We watched Disney’s “Blackbeard’s Ghost” in my Mom and Dad’s 1964 Ford station wagon.

    2. I live in rural Southern Illinois. Nothing at the local colleges is in the least bit off-the-wall.

    3. While it wasn’t exactly snooping, I was seaching my uncle’s home for documents, bank records, ID cards, etc. in order to get medical care for him in the hospital. I came across some lewd pictures of him and his ex-wife (taken long AFTER the divorce). Can’t say the pictures did anything for me!

    4. I never studied abroad. In fact it took until I was into my 40′s before I even crossed over the border into Canada for a day trip!

    5. My crappiest car was a 1966 Ford Fairlaine 2-door sedan. It was bought new by my parents and I inherited it to drive in 1980. It was originally white, and had been repainted blue, which was beginning to fade. The dashboard and interior door panels were faded and cracked. The car burned oil like mad, and the engine had no power to speak of. On top of that I managed to run off the road the very first day I had my license and bashed up the front end.

    posted by Gordon Daily on 9-18-2009 at 11:39 am

17. 1 – My first movie was Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”. I was fairly sure I’d grow up to be just like Belle because I had brown hair and eyes too. It hasn’t happened yet (though I’m half-dating a fairly hairy man right now)

    2 – I took a babysitting course when I was 12. I got my certificate and to this day don’t know how to properly change a diaper.

    3 – I won’t go into much detail, but I’ll say this: never go through your mom’s nightstand.

    4 – I didn’t go abroad when I was in uni, but in 2008 I went to Melbourne to do the Comedy Festival and lived there for over a month. While there I learned a lot about what Australians find funny. That counts, right? I think that living abroad in one city for more than a month counts as learning.

    5 – The streetcars in Toronto are kinda crap.

    posted by Jenny on 9-18-2009 at 11:49 am

18. 1) I know my parents brought me to The Little Mermaid but I was 4 and have no recollection. The first movie I remember being at is the Lion King.

    2) I did ballet for 17 years, so I’ve taken some jazz/modern/hip hop classes through my local community college to see what else was out there.

    3) I was searching my parents room for a hair tie one day in high school and found a bunch of silly “love” notes my dad wrote my mom while they were dating. They weren’t flowery or anything, they were just filled with inside jokes and general cuteness. It was nice.

    4) I came really close to going to Australia and dropped out at the last minute. Huge regret.

    5) My parents got me an Accord when I turned 16, which I LOVED, then they traded it when I went to college to get themselves a new car and gave me their 10 year old minivan. It was horrible. By the end, the windshield wipers came on when you turned on the left turn signal. The only nice thing was that it carted all of my friends around so we never had to take 2 cars, and everyone drove it because no one cared about it. I got a new car when I graduated from college, but I have some nice memories of that van.

    posted by Caitlin on 9-18-2009 at 11:51 am

19. Movie – Sixteen Candles, when I was 4. Probably explains my lifelong love for John Hughes (RIP) and teen angst.

    Class – I’ve never done night school, but all of these posts really make me want to, especially the one about a broadsword class.

    Snooping – I’m not really a snooper but I was at a friends party once and one of my fellow partygoers and I were trying to fix the music situation by looking through our hosts iPod. This resulted in us finding a lot of Hanson and a couple of embarrassing motivational audio books. We both just looked at other feeling simultaneously amused and guilty, and put the iPod away.

    Study Abroad – I lived for about a month in Taganrog, Russia when I was in high school. It was an absolutely wonderful experience. I was in a group with 5 others from my high school, all of us staying with different families. We went to school where Anton Chekov matriculated, saw the tiny house he grew up in, and after a brief 22 hour train ride, got to spend some time in Moscow as well.

    Car- My first car was a 1991 Honda Accord which I got in 1996 so it sounds pretty stable but it had nearly been driven to death when I got it and I only made it worse. I absolutely loved that crappy crappy car. It finally went to live on a nice farm in the country toward the end of college.

    posted by Carrie on 9-18-2009 at 11:55 am

20. 1. The earliest movie I can remember seeing in theaters is the Little Mermaid. Its possible that it wasn’t the first movie I saw in theaters, but instead the first movie I paid attention to, as I still to this day have a hard time sitting through a movie.

    2. I’m currently taking a sewing class. There was a class on spiritual awakening and learning about past lives listed in the course book…not exactly my cup of tea.

    3. When I was little I’d snoop around my parents room just to pass the time. I remember finding my mom’s cervical cap, and with that find my days of snooping were over.

    4. I never had the money to study abroad, but I always said if I did that I’d go to Australia.

    5. Both \crappy\ cars that I’ve owned could be filed under \awesomely crappy\. My first car was an 89 Dodge Aries. Every week I’d have to get my car jumped because the fan wouldn’t turn off in the engine on a weekly basis. The car following that was an 89 oldsmobile. talk about a tank! i hit everything with that car and never received a scratch or dent. of course the front passenger window didn’t work, and the other windows would work sporadically. the car was basically a death trap. but it ruled!

    posted by Teresa on 9-18-2009 at 11:57 am

21. 1- The first movie I REMEMBER seeing in a theatre was Return of the Jedi. I was 10 years old at the time, so I assume I had seen others before that, but I don’t recall them.

    5- A red 1991 Mazda 323. I drove that car for a good 12 years. It was still in fine condition when I sold it. I would have kept it longer but I need something bigger for my expanding family.

    posted by Colin on 9-18-2009 at 11:59 am

22. #4 – I studied abroad three times in college. The first was just a two-week trip to France as part of an Engineering Industry Tour, so we got to go behind the scenes at different companies and learn how they worked (including a pork-processing plant!). Then I ran around Paris for a weekend, showing my friend the sights and waiting in line for 3 hours to get into the French Open.

    My second trip was a two-month session in Rome. We had an apartment right downtown IN Piazza Navona, which was a stroke of luck and incredibly amazing. I took two classes, one in digital photography and the other in architecture. We had all of our classes outside at different places around Rome. We also took field trips to Florence, Venice, Paestum, Tivoli, and Pompeii. I came home with over 6000 pictures.

    My last one was a semester spent in Leeds, England. I studied a full semester of engineering courses and joined the uni’s rugby team and spent my weekends traveling to Norway, Denmark, Germany, etc. So yea, my college experience was pretty awesome, and I’m forever embedded with the travel bug now. :)

    posted by Sally on 9-18-2009 at 12:13 pm

23. 1. The first movie I remember seeing was James and the Giant Peach, I was 7 maybe, and it was amazing!

    2. I have never taken a night class but I did take a day class for the credit hours on the American Judicial System as portrayed in the cinema. We just watched a lot of films, with no popcorn. : /

    3. I was a big snooper as a kid. I remember finding a lot of toys and clothing in my moms closet. I started crying because I thought she was hiding all of the great stuff, because she didnt want me to play with them. I later got them for Christmas like a month later and thats a totaly different story.

    4. I studied the flora nad fauna on the Galapagos Islands, it was by far the greatest moment in my life, so far. I saw with sea turtles, sharks, sea lions, and penguins and the giant turtles were amazing!

    5. The worse car I had was a 1996 Firebird. I was on its last leg the day I bought it and for two years and tons of money the clutch never worked right, thank God I hit a deer on my prom night.

    posted by Chris on 9-18-2009 at 12:20 pm

24. 1 – First movie I ever saw was “The Mighty Ducks 2″. I thought it was such a big deal at the time, but now I really can’t recall much of it…

    3 – I’ve made the email snooping mistake on my then boyfriend, now fiance…. He left the browser open, so when I went to use it, I glanced casually over his inbox and noticed an order confirmation. It was for my engagement ring. Oops. I still had to act surprised when he proposed a few days later. I’m never going to tell him this…

    5 – The first car I owned was a ’92 Lexus ES300. All of my friends were jealous because it was so much nicer than theirs…but little did they know how many issues the car had. By the time I was done with it, in addition to all of the engine problems, all of the dash lights were out, the heat didn’t work, I couldn’t turn on the radio for fear it would be stuck at the loudest possible volume, and it had four different tires with four different rims. I still miss that thing though.

    posted by Kimberlea on 9-18-2009 at 12:23 pm

25. My first movie was a drive-in double feature. parents put a crib mattress in the backseat of the car to turn it into a bed sleep in for later and to lift us high enough to see the screen.

    Raiders of the Lost Ark and Close Encounters of the Third kind.

    posted by Lewen on 9-18-2009 at 12:36 pm

26. #5 – My mother and I shared a Gremlin for a while (newly 16, that was the car I was priveledged to drive). My parents actually bought it new – it was orange! We later had the neighbor paint it a browinish metallic, not much improvement. It was built like a tank. I backed into a fire hydrant pretty hard once and there was just a teeny tiny scratch on the bumper. What an ugly car – but filled with some fun memeories.

    posted by sarah on 9-18-2009 at 12:57 pm

27. 1. Ooh—my parents took me to a couple when I was a baby, but what I remember was the drive in—a double feature of Gremlins and Ghostbusters—TERRIFYING.

    2. I love taking the ceramics classes. They’re awesome. You are totally correct on the way outdated computer courses!!
    3. I’ve found some news articles and arrests for a few of my students and coworkers…
    4. I didn’t study abroad, but I taught English in Mexico—it was awesome. My favorite part (I was teaching children) was getting my ass kicked in soccer every afternoon. By 6 year olds.
    5. 1963 Chevrolet Corvair—unsafe at any speed! This poor old car broke down all over southeast Michigan—and it is was still my favorite car I’ve ever owned.

    posted by Tavolini on 9-18-2009 at 12:57 pm

28. 1-My folks censored about everything possible for me and my siblings…I bet I didn’t see a movie in a theater that was PG-13 with out them, until I was old enough to go with my friends. I can’t remember what my first movie was, probably someting like Superman or a Disney Animated Film.

    2-Took three weeks of French Class for a French girl I was dating, borke it off, dropped the class.

    3-Found a few cigars in my dad’s upstairs bathroom, stole them cause he wasn’t supposed to have them either.

    4-Never studied abroad. I have studied a few broads though…anyone already say that, I haven’t ready the entire comment section?

    5-My first car was a ’76 Land Cruiser, it was awesome, but a total piece. Then a ’91 Exploder, total piece of crap, perfect for a 16 year old.

    posted by graham on 9-18-2009 at 1:05 pm

29. I agree with Jack about Jaws – saw it when I was about 8 and it ruined me for life.

    1) Some of my earliest movie memories are from when the parents used to take me to the drive-in. Saw many inappropriate movies for a 5-6 year old (cover your eyes! cover your ears!). I think Poseiden Adventure may have been the first.
    2) While in the U.S. Army, stationed in Kaiserslautern, Germany in 1987 I took a philosphy class at a branch of the U. of Maryland called “Logic in the English Language”. It was sort of weird, but kinda cool too.
    3) Not much of a snoop, I think I’m scared of what I might find – I would rather not know if you have some freaky secret.
    4) I’m actually studying a broad right now, and I think it’s making her uncomfortable. I’m sorry.
    5) Easy – my current vehicle. I’m shopping around now for something else, but until then I’m stuck with this 98 Saturn SL2. It was a heap when I bought it – missing interior lamp (not just the buld, the whole thing – just a couple wires hang down from the ceiling); only one of the power windows works (front passenger); the back windows slide down little by little with each speed bump/pothole – then I have to slide them back up by hand; the spare tire had a whole in it about the size of a small cat; only two of about a dozen buttons work on the radio. In the two years since, I have backed into the dumpster by my carport three times, denting up the fender, breaking and nearly ripping completely off the driver side mirror. Oh and a few months ago I came out to go to work and found the driver side window (which never rolled down) in pieces on the ground next to the car. It’s down now. There’s probably more but I now I feel like I’m rambling. Happy Friday!

    posted by St. James on 9-18-2009 at 1:11 pm

30. 1. I’m pretty sure it was \E.T.\. Although I do not remember this, my mother tells me they showed a trailer for \Poltergeist\ before the film that apparently terrified me. This probably explains the recurring nightmares I had about E.T. for about a year afterward.

    3. My father had an eye-popping collection of raunchy pornography.

    5. It’s probably a toss-up between the ’85 and a half Ford Escort Wagon and the ’84 Bonneville (both aquired more than 10 years after initial date of manufacture). However, the Bonneville was more entertaining because it had an electrical problem that caused the clock to buzz when the driver’s door was opened, and the interior light lit up whenever I honked the horn. It also had a smell that I could never seem to get rid of. I loved that car right into the ground, though.

    posted by Kate on 9-18-2009 at 1:12 pm

31. Sorry for the typo, meant bulb – not buld.

    posted by St. James on 9-18-2009 at 1:13 pm

32. 1. Don’t remember the first movie I saw, ever, but I do remember my first R-rated movie: Michael Collins. I was 11, and told my parents that because I was 100% Irish I wanted to find out more about the country my grandparents came from. They completely fell for it (and the look on my mom’s face when I finally told her about 6mo ago was PRICELESS).

    2. I take night classes for grad school, but they’re not really worth mentioning.

    3. Well, this wasn’t me, but when my fiance and I moved into our second apartment my parents came down and helped. My dad was taking the nightstand out of the truck and decided to open the drawer. He closed it pretty quickly.

    4. I went to NZ and Australia for 5 weeks my sophomore year. It was amazing. It was for a film class and a NZ/AUS lit class, but I more or less wound up studying the cities we were in and their bars. The profs, who were married, were awesome though. One class met in a pub in Aus. Took a helicopter ride above the Twelve Apostles. And when we were in NZ, we saw several sites where they filmed LOTR. Probably my favorite memory though was trying to stalk the King Kong set. We were in this very industrial area, wound up walking down a 2 lane highway, climbed up the side of a big hill (past NO TRESPASSING signs that were easily several decades old) only to sort of be able to see green screens and a NY movie marquee. I loved it.

    posted by Kate on 9-18-2009 at 1:24 pm

33. The first movie I remember seeing was at a drive-in (in Batavia, NY) in 1958, the seasonal release of “Babes in Toyland”, which was first released in 1934. I was 5 y/o. (yes, I’m over 50). I remember the march of the wooden solders and was in awe of them. My first in theater movie (In Sarasota, FL, where I could ride my bike to the matinee and it was only 25 cents)) was a serial viewing of “Flash Gorden” and “the Lone Ranger” but I don’t remember a movie. I was 7 y/o then.

    reCaptcha: $8,872,080 walnut, must be solid gold and weigh more than my truck

    posted by Owen on 9-18-2009 at 1:35 pm

34. 1. “Sleeping Beauty” the Disney animated classic. I was just a little kid and was terrified by the dragon.

    posted by PartiallyDeflected on 9-18-2009 at 1:40 pm

35. 1. Darby O’Gill and the Little People, I am so old, Sean Connery had thick, luxurious black hair. It scared the bejeezus out of me with the Banshee..I was chewing my shoestring licorice for hours… until I discovered it was actually my hoodie string! Disney does not always equal appropriate for small ones.

    2. I’ve taken everything from greek cooking to fencing, fortune telling and calligraphy… but the most fun was assertiveness training, listening to my fellow wieners whining…

    3. Marijuana while babysitting.. marital aids while babysitting… some really creepy porn stories while babysitting… I was a BAD babysitter.

    5. Bought my car for $1.00 from my BIL and drove it so far into the ground the brake pads were as thin as coffee filters. It was blue… a chevy?

    JASON! I want to know – has anyone ever abandoned a car by the side of the road? Why? What made it worth just walking away, and how did you deal with it?

    posted by Marion on 9-18-2009 at 1:41 pm

36. 1) BAMBI
    2)?
    3)I was looking for toothpaste at a “boyfriends” house and opened the med closet to discover about a dozen pain killer bottles…someone had an addiction. he referred to them as “party favors”. hmmm

    4) Study Abroad was the best time in my life (so far). I did it twice! Once in Prague for a summmer to study basics and once in Sweden for a semester fellowship on child development. My best memory was waking up one day and realiazing that i had finally gained a sense of self and independance. It was amazing and yes, EVERYONE SHOULD DO IT.
    5)1980 Volvo station waggon. puke green. air bag? nope. power stearing? nope. it was great…really…

    posted by Megan on 9-18-2009 at 1:57 pm

37. 1. The first one I remember was Aladin. We were going for another kids birthday and I remember thinking how cool that was. I’ve been told I saw The Little Mermaid before that, but it scared me so much that I’ve blocked it out.

    2. The only “for fun” class I’ve taken is Recreational Latin Dance. Which was fun and I learned a lot. There are a lot of other ones I’d like to take though, if I could find the time/money.

    3. I’m an absolutely horrible snoop. I look through medicine cabinets, emails left open, anything really I can get my hands on; I would never take anything, though. I know it’s a bad habit but I’ve got this burning curiousity that just makes me insanely interested in knowing about everything. However, when I was working at a hotel, it was detered for a little bit after a guest called and said he needed a bag he’d left there overnighted to him immediately. Of course, I had to look in the bag and see what was there. It was a used colostomy bag. Ick.

    4. During summer of 2005 I went to Germany and worked in a lab there on an internship, if that counts. It was the absolute best experience of my life and I loved it. Not only did it make me want to go back and visit for fun sometime, but it also made me want to travel the world. I found a scholarship which paid for my trip, but sadly I have not yet found a way to fund any of the other travelling I want to do.

    5. My hatchback Daewoo Lanos. It wouldn’t start if the temperature dropped below 15 degrees (and I live in Alaska) and seemed to have things go wrong with it on a daily basis. Yet because it was my first car, I still loved it and miss it kinda.

    posted by Moth on 9-18-2009 at 2:11 pm

38. 2. I did a belly dance class with community ed a few years ago- it was a ton of fun and taught by a geologist.

    4. I went to Australia for a semester and it was awesome! I was a geography major in college, but we just took general stuff and the life lessons that happened along the way, and drinking. The best memory from was swimming with sea lions in the Indian Ocean near Perth on the western side. I also enjoyed walking around Sydney’s CBD and the Manly beach areas. We went to New Zealand at the end of the trip and did a hang glide outside Queenstown, and scored a paraglider ride for free when the wind died during the hang gliding. I don’t know if I would go somewhere different, but I definitely wish I had done a second trip to Europe somewhere for a summer or J-term class.

    5. ’87 red Audi 5000 that somehow ended up in my possession. Rear passenger door duct taped shut, radio playing one station, heater went out in February in Minnesota. But it had a moon roof!

    posted by Ashley on 9-18-2009 at 2:14 pm

39. 2. Calculus, just last spring. It was… ok. I was able to follow what was going on (more or less)

    4. Berlin, Summer 2006 – I studied modern architecture (there’s a lot of it… can you guess why?). It was the coldest May in 100 years, and we idiot Texans had failed to bring coats/scarves/etc. (it was 90+ degrees when we left Texas, so it must obviously have been warm in Germany, right? Right?). So we went on a shopping spree at H&M and bought warmer clothes. The architecture was INCREDIBLE and the assignment we were given by our architecture professor was great, too – design a youth hostel based on your experiences staying in them in Germany.

    @Marion – Recaptcha “O’Connor ascribe” and I loved Darby O’Gill and the Little People, too! The banshee scared the crud out of me, too… still does.

    posted by Megan on 9-18-2009 at 2:23 pm

40. 1. It’s a toss up between It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at an old theater and The Apple Dumpling Gang at the drive in. I remember bits and pieces of both but not which one came first.
    2. I took a crocheting class a couple of summers ago and loved it. Now my family has lots of blankets. :)
    3. My boss was on vacation after I came back from mine and I found her application for a different job and a very unflattering review of me! Needless to say, I was glad she moved on.
    4. Never studied abroad. Would have loved to, tho.
    5. I’ve never really had a crappy car. My dad is a mechanic and used to restore cars, so I drove lots of different ones. They all ran well tho. I did get stranded once on the highway when driving my boyfriend’s Ford Escort. Talk about scary! The electrical system died, I lost the stearing and brakes, then coasted to a stop in the fast lane. I was sure I’d be killed, but a good samaritan saved me.

    posted by Kelly on 9-18-2009 at 2:26 pm

41. 1. The earliest one I remember was at the drive-in, it was Peter Pan. We went in my mother’s 1973 Datsun B-210, so it had to be no later than the summer of 1975 (when the car was traded for a 76 Skylark), that would make me about 2 1/2 years old.

    5. Bought a 2002 Saturn S series brand new–worst car ever. Traded it in in 2006 on a 2002 Chevy S-10. The #1 cylinder was shot, among other major problems with the piece of crap.

    recaptcha: bandit $8.176-billion

    wish I could steal as much!

    posted by Wayne on 9-18-2009 at 2:34 pm

42. 1) First movie I saw in the theater was was Disney’s Robin Hood.
    2) I don’t have a catalog handy but I recently took a photography class at night.
    3) The only interesting thing I’ve discovered while snooping was evidence of my significant other’s infidelity after nearly 15 years together. That was 2 years ago and we’re still untangling our lives from each other. Good times!
    4) My college offered a year in London for my major, but I couldn’t afford to go. I’ve always regretted not figuring out a way to get the money together. Parents saving for and paying for their kid’s education is a rich-person thing as far as I can tell.
    5) The crappiest car I’ve owned was a 1997 Saturn SC2. It lasted about 65,000 miles before the repair bills were higher than the Blue Book value.

    posted by JitterBugs on 9-18-2009 at 3:10 pm

43. 1. Either Bambi or The Land Before Time.

    2. Took a web design course. I was the younger student there easily by ten years, so I felt a little awkward.

    3. I’m not much of a snooper, but I remember a friend and I finding his dad’s Playboy calendar.

    4. Traveled abroad, but never studied. Still one of the biggest regrets of my college experience.

    5. My first car, a 2000 Pontiac Grand Am, was actually pretty nice. Only when it turned four did the turn signals decided to not work sometimes.

    posted by Vanessa on 9-18-2009 at 3:15 pm

44. 1) I think it was a My Little Pony movie, but I also have vague memories of Return of the Jedi.

    2) I took Japanese for a year. I also take ceramics over and over again so that I have a studied to work in.

    3) I don’t snoop much. I guess half of me is afraid I’ll be caught, and the other half doesn’t want to know.

    4) I studies abroad in Bhutan in my junior year. It was an amazing experience, and I am now addicted to traveling. I don’t think there’s a place on the planet I wouldn’t go. (OK, maybe one or two…)

    5) A Nissan Pulsar that I owned for only two days before the fuel lines burst. Boo:(

    posted by Becky on 9-18-2009 at 3:37 pm

45. Sorry-#4 should be “studied abroad”

    posted by Becky on 9-18-2009 at 3:38 pm

46. My old choral director in my high school had the “share” setting turned on on his computer. It was password protected, but his password was his first name so, needless to say, we hacked into his computer. We were originally just looking for recordings of our last few concerts, but we found some interesting stuff along the way–his tax returns, myspace-y photos of him at parties, and documents about how to quit smoking. My friend has it all saved on his flashdrive somewhere…

    posted by Claire on 9-18-2009 at 3:38 pm

47. 1. Song of the South
    2. Darkroom photography. It was really cool printing my own photos.
    3. I suspected a coworker of having an affair with a married coworker. She accidentally left an email visible on a community computer screen when she went to a meeting. I read it. She was. (having the affair)
    4. Never studied abroad
    5. Pontiac T-1000. Smelled something funny one Sunday that was making me ill. On the way to the shop the next morning, saw flames spurting from the tape deck. Bailed out (during rush hour on April 15th with Tax returns on the back seat) and watched the sucker burn. Entire dash burned and melted inward; extensive engine damage. Totaled. Did run back through the smoke (billowing out the windows) to rescue tax returns.

    posted by Fran on 9-18-2009 at 4:40 pm

48. I studied abroad the first semester of my senior year. It was called Term in Asia and it was six months of traveling around Indonesia, Hong Kong, China and Thailand. I took out a loan to afford it, and it was hands down the best money I’ve ever spent. There were 18 students from my school plus a professor and his family. He was a history prof and we studied Asian history and Buddhism and the culture/history of the country we were in. We also studied Chinese art while in Hong Kong, but the real eduction was exploring the cities we were staying in and having fun. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.

    posted by jen on 9-18-2009 at 5:32 pm

49. 1. I believe mine was Aladdin. Then a year later I “met” Jasmine at Disneyland. For a six year old girl it was like meeting Elvis.

    3. I haven’t found anything too exciting, but one of my friends was at the apartment of one of our mutual pals and found a gallon-sized jug of personal lubricant and some interesting BSDM equipment under the bed. That was certainly a side of her we hadn’t known before.

    4. I unfortunately never studied abroad.

    5. I drove a used, silver Mazda Protege for a few years. I can’t remember what year it was, but it was a great little car!

    posted by Claire on 9-18-2009 at 5:40 pm

50. 1. The Great Muppet Caper. I recall being only 3 or 4 and I started crying and demanded to leave. Mom and dad started arguing about this – dad wanted to stay, mom wanted to go. Mom won out.

    2. Never took a course. Mother/daughter French Braiding always struck me as a bit odd. I have a son, so maybe I just don’t understand the whole mom/daughter bonding thing.

    3. I choose not to incriminate myself on this one ;)

    4. Never studied abroad. My sis-in-law spent a semeseter in Italy and was able to take a course in wine tasting. Can you say LUCKY???

    5. We bought a used Honda Accord from a relative that had well over 100,000 miles on it. Curious thing: it would stop running in the rain. We were traveling through the mountains of PA during a particulary bad thunderstorm one evening, going up the mountain, and the car just shut off. Nice.

    posted by Lori on 9-18-2009 at 5:50 pm

51. 1) The Little Mermaid
    4) Germany: best memory is running through alleys to get from the Hofbrauhaus to Marienplatz for the fireworks on New Years Eve
    5) I got my 2nd car my junior year of high school: a 1988 Taurus. I got it for $125, and yes, it needed some work; but I drove it for six years until a week before my college graduation when the transmission was so far gone it wouldn’t even get into first gear.

    posted by Mary on 9-18-2009 at 11:45 pm

52. #1: Star Wars (1977) First release of the classic.

    #2: Never been to night school.

    #3: After I found my mother’s “bedroom toy” as a teen I never snooped again.

    #4: Never studied abroad. It was not an option when I was at school.

    #5: I’ve only ever owned two cars – my current one is a 2004 Toyota Camry Altise, and I love her – and the one I traded for her was a 1997 Kia Mentor. while not the sexiest car in the world, she didn’t skip a beat until a couple of months before I traded her in – 9 years after I bought her (I couldn’t afford to fix her compression problem, but someone else did ^_^).

    Geez my life is/was/has been boring…

    posted by PrincessKessie on 9-19-2009 at 4:20 am

53. 1) Can NOT remember
    2)No real interesting ones.
    3)My Dad told me to look in his car for some Percy Sledge album, I looking in his glove compartment, and I found a gun.

    posted by Sara in AL on 9-19-2009 at 11:09 am

54. 1. The first movie I saw in the theater was “E.T.” when I was 3 years old. I saw it with my mother, and brought a stuffed E.T. doll that she had given me. When the movie was re-released in 2002 for its 20th anniversary, Hershey had a promotion where you could get free tickets by sending in Reese’s Pieces proof-of-purchase. So I bought enough to get 2 free tickets, and used the tickets to go with my mom and see the movie again.

    posted by Jaclyn McKewan on 9-19-2009 at 1:47 pm

55. 1. The Little Mermaid is the first I remember.
    2.
    3. I go through my parents house whenever they go away.
    4. Didn’t study abroad, but did go on a Euro vacay for my graduation present
    5. I’ve been driving my first car now for 10 years. Toyotas are forever.

    posted by Teresa is amazing on 9-19-2009 at 8:59 pm

56. 1. The first movie was Cinderella, my sister took me for my birthday.
    2. Never taken anything not required for a degree.
    3. I love to snoop. But never found anything really juicy.
    4. Never studied abroad.
    5. A green 1979 Ford Fairmont. Bought it for $800.

    posted by Purple on 9-20-2009 at 4:59 pm

57. I am Way older than your other responders! The first movie in a theatre was Wizard of Oz ~ and mom had to take me out Sobbing because the tornado scared me so. I didn’t see the entire movie until I was an adult.

    posted by Susan Mix on 9-20-2009 at 11:55 pm

58. 1. Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (the Gene Wilder one, by the way)

    4. Spent a year in France when I was 16 as an exchange student. Lived with a family as “one of the kids”. I didn’t study anything specific, just went to their version of what we call “high school”. I wouldn’t trade the experience for the world…

    5. A Plymouth “Champ” — I called it the “Chump”.

    posted by PJ on 9-24-2009 at 3:00 pm

59. 1.I think I remember my Dad telling me it was ‘Karate Kid’ in 1984 ( I was five).

    2. While taking classes for my mba the least memorable night class was an advanced economics class. It was deadly. The most memorable was business law because some of the laws were pretty interesting.

    3. I once decided to google my little cousin (he’s in college now) and the first thing that came up was an article about him rating Trojan condoms in the student newspaper. I almost died.

    4. I studied abroad in Aix en Provence, France. One of the best years of my life. I would do it again in a heart beat. Best memories were the best food, wine, weather, spending the day at cafes and on the beach. Being from the Midwest I remember laying on a raft in the med on Halloween thinking this is the life!I am swimming in the med and getting a tan while everyone back home is freezing.

    5. A Plymouth Neon. Was bought from a dump, fixed up and then drove it into the ground.

    posted by Emma on 10-16-2009 at 2:21 pm

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