You know what else happened in 1995?

by highlandhalo on Aug 4, 2008 7:17 PM PDT

A lot of dickheads walked around HB wearing Zubaz pants and did a lot of steroids.
Jacques Chirac was elected president of France
My girlfriend went psycho and decided she wanted to have sex outdoors or in public or not at all, becoming an ex-girlfriend.
Congress passed an act making it illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to appear in porn films.
There was a massacre in Srebenica. Not much attention was paid to it in SoCal.
A bunch of people got killed in a train crash in Toronto, and Alison Hargreaves, a British climber, tried to climb Mt. Everest and croaked.
Seemingly, a million Starbucks opened.
Mississippi became the last state to officially ratify the 13th amendment and abolish slavery.
"You Oughtta Know" by Alanis Morrissette topped the Rolling Stone readers' poll for best single.
Women started to get more tattooes and shave more things than they were meant to shave.
Windows 95 came out.
Howard Cosell died, and so did Elizabeth "Bewitched" Montgomery. So did Wolfman Jack, Jerry Garcia, Orville Redenbacher, and bless his heart, Dean "Little Old Wine Drinker Me" Martin".
There were a few baseball games as well, one of in which Mark Langston flopped on his back, and none of which have anything at all to do with 2008.

Can we finally put that season to rest folks?

This Fan-Post is authored by an independent fan and may or may not be a reflection of human evolution, divine enlightenment or nine cans into a 12-pack.

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Soooo.....

Whats this ex-girlfriends number?

by docescobar07 on Aug 4, 2008 7:33 PM PDT 0 recs

LOL...

Whodathunk we would be rooting for a former Ranger come August...?

by K3YEROUT on Aug 4, 2008 10:52 PM PDT up 0 recs

Sometimes, I wish I remember dude ...

Sometimes I do

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on Aug 5, 2008 9:49 AM PDT up 0 recs

I'm pretty sure that 1995

was when Snake saved Planet Earth from Metal Gear. Everything else pales in significance.

Francisco Rodriguez: 191 career saves. 2 career Panthers, tied with Hector Carrasco.

by Stirrups on Aug 4, 2008 7:39 PM PDT 0 recs

WIN.

load the spaceship with the rocket fuel... load it with the warriors...

by gdog009 on Aug 4, 2008 10:03 PM PDT up 0 recs

Two Words:

CHRONO TRIGGER.

/thread

by shiftyeyedgoat on Aug 5, 2008 4:11 PM PDT up 0 recs

You Oughtta Know is a good song dude

Your friendly neighborhood placekicker.

by butthol on Aug 4, 2008 9:42 PM PDT 0 recs

bummer for you, then

The Northwest if full of great music, and yet you choose Alanis. Then again, your screen name was a brilliant choice, too.

by yeswecan on Aug 4, 2008 10:28 PM PDT up 0 recs

I didn't say it was the best song

I listen to a bunch of bands that > Alanis by far, just singling out ‘95 there.

Built To Spill’s first album has a bunch of good songs too.

Your friendly neighborhood placekicker.

by butthol on Aug 12, 2008 11:55 PM PDT up 0 recs

My sister marry my cousin and give birth to siamese twins same year.

They also adopt siamese cat for pet.

by 44FAN on Aug 4, 2008 10:30 PM PDT 0 recs

I remember going to CompUSA

at midnight to get Win 95 with my dad.

Really not a great year.

by TheTypingFiend on Aug 4, 2008 10:49 PM PDT 0 recs

OK...

Fill me in. I’m a professional software developer. I’ve been using computers since 1975.

What, pray tell, is the motiviation to stand in line at midnight just to get a piece of software?

Angels fan since '67

by red floyd on Aug 5, 2008 8:19 AM PDT up 0 recs

You always want to get your software fresh. Nobody likes to be served day-old MS bugs.

Francisco Rodriguez: 191 career saves. 2 career Panthers, tied with Hector Carrasco.

by Stirrups on Aug 5, 2008 9:05 AM PDT up 0 recs

LOLZ

I CAN HAZ VIRUS?

Witty .sig goes here.

by scareduck on Aug 5, 2008 12:13 PM PDT up 0 recs

I was 9 at the time

I just enjoyed th opportunity to stay up late.

by TheTypingFiend on Aug 5, 2008 9:30 AM PDT up 0 recs

Dino's been gone 13 years now?

Ain’t that a kick in the head.

". . .and the young lions will lock horns!" -- Ron Fairly, from an Angels telecast

by rspencer on Aug 4, 2008 10:52 PM PDT 0 recs

Yep, seems like he never left us

And really, he hasn’t … any one of us who likes a smoke, a drink, a song, and the company of fine women has a piece of Dino in us always.

Also one of the only singers who mentions “Napoli” in one of his lyrics, proving that 1995 is indeed DFA’ed.

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on Aug 5, 2008 9:44 AM PDT up 0 recs

DFA 1995! DFA 1995! DFA 1995!

Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.

by vladtheimpaler on Aug 4, 2008 11:05 PM PDT 0 recs

1995 - The Year Elizabeth Berkley's burgeoning career died

But ‘twas the year Gina Gershon’s career rocketed!

You ever feel as if your mind had started to erode?

by PieceOfAase on Aug 5, 2008 12:08 AM PDT 0 recs

A total waste of a truly fine pair of legs.

Francisco Rodriguez: 191 career saves. 2 career Panthers, tied with Hector Carrasco.

by Stirrups on Aug 5, 2008 9:04 AM PDT up 0 recs

1995

OJ Verdict.

by Rev Halofan on Aug 5, 2008 12:27 AM PDT 0 recs

After the season though

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on Aug 5, 2008 9:44 AM PDT up 0 recs

1995

with bad luck in 1995 and 2005 does this mean the angels are cursed in 2015?

by linkbruin on Aug 5, 2008 1:15 AM PDT 0 recs

2005 was a great season, no luck or collapse required.

We just got jobbed by Doug Eddings.

by shiftyeyedgoat on Aug 5, 2008 4:15 PM PDT up 0 recs

2005

was a great year. i would say getting jobbed is bad luck since we really had no say in the matter.

by linkbruin on Aug 6, 2008 2:00 AM PDT up 0 recs

Zubaz....

.....the parachute pants of the day.

But worse.

by ViolaHalo on Aug 5, 2008 6:32 AM PDT 0 recs

HB dudes just replaced the Zubaz pants with Tapout shirts. Still the same dudes though.

That girlfriend one is too funny.

Whatever dude.

by Mayheminthehood on Aug 5, 2008 8:58 AM PDT 0 recs

They are also getting more tatoos,

and shaving things that were never meant to be shaved… (See arms, legs, etc)

by MidwayCityLivestock on Aug 5, 2008 9:08 AM PDT up 0 recs

Hahaha. Nice.

Whatever dude.

by Mayheminthehood on Aug 5, 2008 9:19 AM PDT up 0 recs

I'm sure they're still the same dudes

Just out of prison a couple times since, gots mo money now

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on Aug 5, 2008 9:48 AM PDT up 0 recs

I was also a Freshman in high school.

Whatever dude.

by Mayheminthehood on Aug 5, 2008 9:36 AM PDT 0 recs

So you might just remember the wonders of growing natural womanhood

Before the days when they all had to have a tat of a shark on the small of their backs

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on Aug 5, 2008 9:47 AM PDT up 0 recs

Yes. I was a fleeing refugee on top of the Saigon embassy of growing natural womanhood, hanging onto the rails of the last chopper out of there before the clippers and wax took the city.

Whatever dude.

by Mayheminthehood on Aug 5, 2008 12:36 PM PDT up 0 recs

Mayhem, please email me at:

jim@thehaloislit.com

Thanks.

I was uncool before uncool was cool.

by WiHaloFan on Aug 5, 2008 9:54 AM PDT up 0 recs

I'm kinda dating someone.

But i’ll email you still if you want.

Whatever dude.

by Mayheminthehood on Aug 5, 2008 11:46 AM PDT up 0 recs

I left one off!

In 1995 Casey Kotchman began growing his goatee

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on Aug 5, 2008 9:49 AM PDT 0 recs

And Garret Anderson perfected his Eddie Murphy mustache

Don't call me Desmond

by highlandhalo on Aug 5, 2008 9:54 AM PDT up 0 recs

A lot of dickheads walked around HB wearing Zubaz pants and did a lot of steroids.

CLASSIC

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Aug 5, 2008 10:43 AM PDT 0 recs

Funny

I never even knew the name of the brand. We always called them “muscle pants.”

Mayheminthehood is right though – today it’s Tapout and more recently Affliction. People, if you wear Affliction you are not Chuck Liddell. You are a wannbe. And probably a douche bag.

by Higz on Aug 5, 2008 10:54 AM PDT up 1 recs

Agreed

Rec’d

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Aug 5, 2008 11:19 AM PDT up 0 recs

Your avatar is money...........

Ersty taking out Johnny Estrada in Atlanta a few years ago. So sick! , I watched that on the angels top plays archives a thousand times and it never gets old. Aaaah, good ole Erstad. Saw him get a hit off Harden just today. Damn I miss him…...... Great pic.

What in the wide wide world of sports is a goin on here?

by AlohaHalofan on Aug 5, 2008 2:26 PM PDT up 0 recs

Thanks dude

For the record, I also think CORR is better than NASCAR

by Higz on Aug 5, 2008 2:49 PM PDT up 0 recs

Hit me up if want to go to a race

Im good friends with the cheif of operations for CORR. Pomona is in two weeks.

What in the wide wide world of sports is a goin on here?

by AlohaHalofan on Aug 5, 2008 7:25 PM PDT up 0 recs

right on

by Higz on Aug 6, 2008 11:28 AM PDT up 0 recs

its things like that make me glad i dont live in HB anymore

i pledge alliegance... to mike Scioscia
and the angels way of baseball
and to each pennant and ring we are sure to win.
one fanatic, under the halo, unwavered
with in n out and world series rings for all

by halofan4life on Aug 5, 2008 11:39 AM PDT up 0 recs

I think they were meant to shave that stuff.

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

Kobe tell me how my ass tastes

by hauldog on Aug 5, 2008 10:46 AM PDT 0 recs

I'm sure as hell not going to tell them to stop.

Sometimes I just spray some of that Nair stuff on her when she’s sleeping. It’s actually easier to explain then waking up with shaving cream on her lower half.

We take serious...comedically.

by Versolt on Aug 5, 2008 11:24 AM PDT up 0 recs

Agreed

I was puzzled here until hauldog spoke up, thinking that all you guys were bush leaguers.

I swear, if one more person tells me to "work smarter, not harder"...

by Rally Manatee on Aug 5, 2008 2:58 PM PDT up 0 recs

I gave up my journalism career for music

Obviously turned out well.

by mattwelch on Aug 5, 2008 2:19 PM PDT 0 recs

You must be a stud on Karaoke Night.

Francisco Rodriguez: 191 career saves. 2 career Panthers, tied with Hector Carrasco.

by Stirrups on Aug 5, 2008 2:23 PM PDT up 0 recs

Pros don't do karaoke!

Though there was that one afternoon at the Garlic Festival in 1993, with Ken Layne and Jeff Whalen, where the three of us were sh*tfaced longhairs in a redneck bar, all the cowboys eyeing us with open hatred, when Layne broke the ice by doing a drop-dead perfect & heartbreaking version of “Stand By Your Man”.... Hoo boy, was that fun.

by mattwelch on Aug 5, 2008 3:14 PM PDT up 0 recs

Dude, "The Blues Brothers" was already well entrenched in popular culture by '93.

The proper response in that situation is the main theme from Rawhide!

Doing that particular Tammy Wynette tune should only have worked if the chaps the cowboys were wearing in that bar were all a little too tight for practical purposes…

Francisco Rodriguez: 191 career saves. 2 career Panthers, tied with Hector Carrasco.

by Stirrups on Aug 5, 2008 3:28 PM PDT up 0 recs

THAT'S why it was so brilliant

Table in front of us had a mustache dude who at the beginning of the song was all “Oh man, that just ain’t RIGHT!”, and seemed to be headed for violence. But the version was so stunningly, knowledgeably rendered (and Layne has a deep voice, too), that by the end of it even he had to admit “That was pretty damned good, though.” We went from assault victims to toast of the bar within the space of three minutes.

by mattwelch on Aug 6, 2008 6:42 AM PDT up 0 recs

Awesome!

Francisco Rodriguez: 191 career saves. 2 career Panthers, tied with Hector Carrasco.

by Stirrups on Aug 6, 2008 9:06 AM PDT up 0 recs

how about "Heart of Glass" in rural Illinois

Beer and prodding made me do it, and our group subsequently high-tailed it outta there before all the redneck boyfriends could kick our sissy asses.

by yeswecan on Aug 5, 2008 4:09 PM PDT up 0 recs

I graduated high school

and took the reigns of a red ‘71 Mercury Capri. I say “took the reigns” because I named it Tea Biscuit. Anyone remember that Porky Pig episode where he accidentally buys an old broken down race horse?

I swear, if one more person tells me to "work smarter, not harder"...

by Rally Manatee on Aug 5, 2008 3:02 PM PDT 0 recs