From:	Michael Broadwater <neon@******.BACKBONE.OLEMISS.EDU>
Subject:	Re: What's on the Trid?
Date:	Mon, 4 May 1998 17:37:56 -0500

At 10:25 PM 5/4/98 +0100, Spike wrote:
>And verily, did Michael Broadwater hastily scribble thusly...
>|Spike, you're 40? Gurth was talking about the _first_ gulf war (which was
>|in '80).
>
>Eh? That wasn't CALLED the Gulf War. That was the Iran/Iraq war.
>
>Please! I'm old enough as it is without people making me 10 years older!
>:)

That's what I thought. But then, Gurth had said:

>> (who remembers the beginning of the *first* Gulf War, long before CNN was
>> a glimmer in Ted Turner's mind.)
>
>I wasn't paying too much attention to the news when that one started...
>(For the record, I was about 6.)

and you said:

>And verily, did Gurth hastily scribble thusly...
>|I wasn't paying too much attention to the news when that one started...
>|(For the record, I was about 6.)
>
>SIX!?
>Oh my aching bones...
>I was 22 when it started.

So I was curious.


Mike Broadwater
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