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How did YOU hear about this ?
I was just sitting in front of my PC when a pal contacted me over ICQ :
He told me that planes crashed into WTC and the Pentagon was burning.
I asked him if he watched INDEPENDENCE DAY or MARS ATTACKS again. It just sounded too ridiculous.
But he insisted it was true and I should turn on TV.
Yeah , then I saw it. Half an hour later I run over to a shop in my street . Some didn't hear it yet and I asked them : " Do you know the WTC with the two big towers in New York ? " They nodded and I said " Not existant any more. They are both destroyed and the Pentagon is burning "
They smiled ... they didnt believe me of course. Well , They went home to check TV.
He told me that planes crashed into WTC and the Pentagon was burning.
I asked him if he watched INDEPENDENCE DAY or MARS ATTACKS again. It just sounded too ridiculous.
But he insisted it was true and I should turn on TV.
Yeah , then I saw it. Half an hour later I run over to a shop in my street . Some didn't hear it yet and I asked them : " Do you know the WTC with the two big towers in New York ? " They nodded and I said " Not existant any more. They are both destroyed and the Pentagon is burning "
They smiled ... they didnt believe me of course. Well , They went home to check TV.
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at that exact moment, I got about 50 ICQ messages asking if I had heard. (Who knew so many people stayed invisible in ICQ?)
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[b]whitestar90: [/b]"it would give the computer a heartattack just looking at it" -
[b]Sanfam: [/b]"And Drazi didn't like it one bit.-
[b]Mr.Bungle: [/b][i]"So that's where the forum went..."[/i]-
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[b][i]ahhh, the good old days of HTML.[/i][/b]
Cherio.
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Catapvltam habeo. Nisi pecvniam omnem mihi dabis, ad capvt tvvm saxvm immane mittam.
Mater tva criceta fvit, et pater tvo redolvit bacarvm sambvcvs.
[This message has been edited by Shuup Nick (edited 09-12-2001).]
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"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a life time. But teach a man to BE a fish, and he can eat himself."
--Dennis Miller, Dennis Miller Live
I was absolutly floored.
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'The future is all around us' G'kar
'I have no surviving enemies! None what so ever!' Galen
Visit my B5 site at: [url="http://www.nialb5.com"]B5 site[/url].
OK it wasn't live, I saw it about 2h after the first crash.
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Born from silence, silence full of it
A perfekt concert my best friend
So much to live for, so much to die for
If only my heart had a home
-Nightwish:Dead boy's Poem-
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Life is full of surprises. The ones reserved for me usually come wearing brass knuckles.
Well, I was at the airport ready to fly. I heard about the first crach into the WTC building, and it was considered only an accident then. I was on the taxi way, almost to the runway, when ground control instructed me to taxi back to the apron because all flight have been suspended until further notice. When I got back into the flight ops building, all I could here was people talking about was that the white house and pentagon was on fire. Everything else I heard over the radio on the way back to the dorms and on tv while I was watching the news.
Hartsblade is NYPD? HAs anyone heard from him recently? Does anyone know if he's okay?
[This message has been edited by Canuck (edited 09-12-2001).]
I have my TV set to turn on automatically to the news station every morning, and stay on for 30 mins. (it's my alternative to an alarm clock). Needless to say, I was glued to the TV and ended up coming in to work later than usual. I still can't quite grasp the reality of what happened.
Of course, if it had been anyone other than my mum I wouldn't have believed them. So I numbly ate my toast (I did actually feel numb) while this sank in, then went and turned on the TV.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Needless to say, it has not been a fun couple days. I am enjoying it not at all.
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..And so it Begins
We actually setup a conference room for those who wanted to watch the continuing news coverage.
It was especially scary here in D.C. when we heard there was a second plane en-route here, which turned out to be the plane that crased in Pennsylvania.
It's a bit erie at work, with no planes flying into/out of Dulles overhead all day long. :\
My condolenses to those affected.
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Trust the Corps
It was my brother calling me in Toronto from Ottawa. He told me to get the *$@& out of bed and turn on my TV, because "the United States [was] under attack!" His exact words. I had no idea what to make of that, but the way he was freaking out sure got my ass to the TV in a hurry.
Sorry if I sound cold but I wasn't as stunned or shocked as everyone else here. Guess the fact that my brain was still asleep and that my life was already pretty screwed up acted as an anasthetic [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/frown.gif[/img]
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There are 3 things in life I never forget: my friends, my enemies, and my access codes.
Never put gasoline in a fire extinguisher.
"No government, no dictator can hold an imprisioned population by force of arms forever. There is no power in the universe greater than the need for freedom. Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies [i]cannot stand[/i]." - G'Kar, [i]The Long Twighlight Struggle[/i]
[url="http://www.globalserve.net/~archons"]www.globalserve.net/~archons[/url]
[b]I couldn't believe that some asshole in my P.E. class said "who cares".[/b][/quote]
And here I was thinking [i]my[/i] reaction was cold.
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There are 3 things in life I never forget: my friends, my enemies, and my access codes.
Never put gasoline in a fire extinguisher.
"No government, no dictator can hold an imprisioned population by force of arms forever. There is no power in the universe greater than the need for freedom. Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies [i]cannot stand[/i]." - G'Kar, [i]The Long Twighlight Struggle[/i]
[url="http://www.globalserve.net/~archons"]www.globalserve.net/~archons[/url]
I had just walked in to work and 20 people were crowded around a TV watching Tower 1 burning, I asked what had happened and all of a sudden the second plane slammed into the 2nd Tower, everyone just sat there, silent, watching the images unfold before our eyes....
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"To Think of My Beautiful City in Flames" Delenn
RIP WTC
She woke me up just after the first plane hit the WTC building.
The rest of course is history...
[b]I couldn't believe that some asshole in my P.E. class said "who cares".[/b][/quote]
I was sitting in the foyer of the School of Engineering a bit later that morning when a bunch of first years came in, laughing and joking about planes hitting the WTC and the Pentagon, and the WTC being destroyed. They thought it was really funny, and the coolest thing to happen in ages. I was so tempted to walk up to them, ask them why it was funny, then knock them all out one by one. People like that really piss me off.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras