OT: Where where you when Magic announced he caught teh AIDS?

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  1. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    20 years.

    I was in high school, I think freshman year. listened shocked in my friends car who was driving me home...it started off as one of my other friends came up and said "MICHAEL JACKSON CAUGHT HEPTATITIS", apparently lost in translation.

    [video=youtube;iSfy4AhDDnw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iSfy4AhDDnw[/video]
     
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    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    I was at work. I didn't believe the guy who told me (I thought he was joking), so I said, "That spells trouble for my Blazers; Magic's been fucking them up the ass for years."
     
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    Sophomore year. I didn't see the conference (wrestling practice), but I saw clips that night on the news.

    Probably b/c of that, I remember MJ's first retirement much more clearly. Even though I recognize the reduced significance
     
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    I was at a trade show for work. Needless to say that was the only topic of conversation for the whole time.
     
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    I was 19 and washing cars on the lot at Wallace Buick on NE 35th and Sandy! Me and all the brothers that worked with me ran into the break room and watch the news conference..... totally shocked!
     
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    I was in high school (junior year I think) and found out right before basketball practice. A guy on my team was a huge Laker fan and he was actually crying.
     
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    I was at work. Heard it live on the radio. I will never forget that



    I was going to go with a joke that I was in front of Magic on all fours when I heard the announcement, but decided not to
     
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    You're all so old :lol:

    I was only 2.
     
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    Frat house. Then some Orlando Magic highlights came on an hour or so later, and one of the dudes in the house who didn't really follow the NBA said "look, they're even wearing his name on their uniforms!"

    Um, no.
     
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    He didn't nor has he ever had AIDS. He was HIV positive. Big difference. I was a freshman at Michigan. I remember the media practically writing his obituary the next day.
     
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    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    note the use of the phrase "TEH".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teh

     
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  12. THE HCP

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    You may laugh, but when I first started on here, I kept seeing you guys type it...... I had to look it up!
     
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    This is correct.
     
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    I was shocked and saddened. Didn't know enough about the difference between AIDS and HIV, so thought that he might die from this. But, glad from a competitive standpoint that if he retired, he wouldn't be throwing no-look passes down court against the Blazers any more!!!! And he ends up stealing Clyde's MVP at the All-Star game in 1992.
     
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    I was getting ready for basketball practice (2nd grade) -- I thought he had two toes in the grave and was at deaths door.
     
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    I was 5. I don't remember.
     
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    That's exactly how it felt to me. I was at work and remember hearing and just getting a sick feeling in my stomach. People did see it as a death sentence back then.

    It was right at the end of the LA/Magic & Boston/Bird rivalry era and I remember thinking that basketball would never be the same again.
     
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    I was in my dorm as a Freshman at Northwestern. I remember having a conversation with a couple of other guys about it--it was hard to believe at the time.

    Ed O.
     
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    Holy shit, Ed O is almost 40?!?
     
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    ^Looks 45!
     
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