July 09, 2003
From the desk of Jane Galt:Department of Good News
A man in Arkansas has awakened from a coma after 19 years. Can you imagine going to sleep in a Madonna world and waking up to Brittany?
Posted by Jane Galt at July 9, 2003 11:12 AM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksCan you imagine going to sleep in a Madonna world and waking up to Brittany?
All the time. ;)
Posted by: Thorley on July 9, 2003 11:29 AMGee, that means he also missed 9/11 and 8 years Bill Clinton.
Posted by: Starhawk on July 9, 2003 11:41 AM"You mean that two prequels to the Star Wars Trilogy are out? I can't *WAIT* to see them! They've got to be tons better than the first ones as Lucas has only grown in his craft!"
Posted by: Jaybird on July 9, 2003 11:59 AM"Jesus, hasn't ANY road repair been done since 1984!?"
Posted by: Will Allen on July 9, 2003 12:24 PMOther things he missed out on:
Random:
Iran Contra
Windows 3.1
2 space shuttle disasters
dot-com boom & bust
collapse of Soviet Union
OJ trial
Lord of the Dance
TV:
Twin Peaks
X-Files
Star Trek TNG through Voyager
Seinfeld
Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Music:
hair bands
Spice Girls
the Macarena craze
Kurt Cobain
old school rap
Movies:
Forrest Gump
When Harry Met Sally
Dumb and Dumber
Jurrasic Park
Usual Suspects
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
First two installments of Matrix, Lord of the Rings & Terminator
Schindler's List
Amazing. According to the article the mother was waiting at his bedside when he regained consciousness. After 19 years. Even more remarkable, his wife, who was probably around 20 when he went into the coma, was still married to him and waiting for him. Now that's loyalty.
Posted by: Sean E on July 9, 2003 01:03 PMI think I'd be even more confused that anyone knows who Madonna is, 19 years later. It's something that confuses me as it is.
Posted by: David Perron on July 9, 2003 01:51 PMOh my, go to sleep worrying about Soviet missiles, wake up to find us more-or-less friends and Arafat a Nobel Peace Prize holder instead of being kicked out of Lebanon and Libya as a troublemaker.
Jaybird,
"Where in the hell are the flying cars?"
The future sure ain't what it used to be! ;o) Here we are in the 21st century, and not only aren't we living in space colonies, we haven't even been back to the moon.
Posted by: dangermouse on July 9, 2003 04:17 PMOr like in the Simpsons:
"Cher won an Oscar and Sonny's a Congressman".
Thud, flatline.
When the man went into a coma in 1984, Bill Clinton was in the midst of his tenure as Governor of Arkansas. Imagine waking up in 2003 to be told that Clinton had been President for two full terms, and that Mrs. Clinton was now a U.S. Senator from New York -- the combination is shocking enough to send one back into a coma.
Posted by: garyatlarge on July 9, 2003 07:13 PMAnd the essential difference between Madonna and Brittany would be what, exactly?
Posted by: Jack Rich on July 9, 2003 07:15 PMThe article doesn't mention that it was, coincidentally, Wear an Ape Suit Day at that rehab center.
Posted by: LAN3 on July 9, 2003 07:22 PMMy God. Think of it. This man has never seen an episode of The Simpsons and has never heard of the Internet. Germany is one country again, and France is our greatest European adversary.
Maybe most shocking of all: blacks are no longer the largest minority group.
Wow.
Posted by: Sage on July 9, 2003 07:48 PMMy God. Think of it. This man has never seen an episode of The Simpsons and has never heard of the Internet. Germany is one country again, and France is our greatest European adversary.
Maybe most shocking of all: blacks are no longer the largest minority group.
Wow.
Posted by: Sage on July 9, 2003 07:48 PMGood one, LAN3. But maybe he never saw that movie.
Posted by: David Perron on July 10, 2003 09:28 AMActually, I think you mean "Britney."
Gawd, you don't know how much I loathe myself for knowing that.
Posted by: Too embarrassed on July 10, 2003 10:37 AMFrom today's National Post:
"And his mother has not yet found a way to tell him his wife, Sandi, is living with his younger brother." Guess she didn't wait around for him after all.
Posted by: Sean E on July 10, 2003 11:36 AM"Maybe the best way for him to learn about it is for him to read it in the National Post."
Posted by: Jaybird on July 10, 2003 01:24 PMThe guy has to look at all this information and think, "What a cruel, elaborate practical joke."
Posted by: Bob Hawkins on July 10, 2003 01:42 PMMy favorite thing about our Jane is that she doesn't know how to spell Britney. At least, she didn't until now.
Posted by: Brian on July 10, 2003 05:10 PMMy favorite thing about our Jane is that she doesn't know how to spell Britney. At least, she didn't until now.
Sorry. Now I really loathe myself.
Posted by: Still too embarrassed on July 12, 2003 12:39 PMMy favorite thing about our Jane is that she doesn't know how to spell Britney. At least, she didn't until now.
Sorry. Now I really loathe myself.
Posted by: Still too embarrassed on July 12, 2003 12:40 PMWow, when he was last awake, actors and models weren't anorexic, and "AIDS" was only used in context with "BAND-"...
But hey, according to the fashion cycle of 20 years, his clothes are now uber-cool 'retro.' "The bad news is your wife is now essentially your sister-in-law... but your clothes look great!"
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