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April 23, 2012 By 28 Comments

This week’s assignment from the League: “When I was 12…”

stand by me

Since this is the League’s 12th week, I thought the topic should have something to do with that number. Some great ideas were suggested on Twitter by Claymation Werewolf and others, but I think we’ll go with one submitted by Jeremy from Geek Chunks–this week’s league topic:

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Grab Rufus and head to the phone booth, because this week, we’re going back in time! Dial up the year you turned 12, and revisit the last official year of your “childhood.”

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Cue the air guitar, and…BEGIN!!!

Once you put up a post on your site, add a comment below with the URL. Next Monday, I will put up a post here on Cool & Collected with a list of all the contributing blogs. Once that list is posted, if you haven’t already done so, try to incorporate at least three of your fellow League members’ links (but more would be great!) into the article you wrote on your site.

League of Extraordinary BloggersBy cross-posting like this, we will help each other out by sending new readers to each other’s sites. Have fun!

 

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  1. Kevin Hellions says

    April 23, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    I might go a little crazy with this

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    • Brian says

      April 23, 2012 at 4:10 pm

      Please do. 😉

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  2. leftylimbo says

    April 23, 2012 at 3:19 pm

    Awesome! Some of the best times of my life from that year. Time to get writing!

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    • Brian says

      April 23, 2012 at 4:11 pm

      I’ve been loving your nostalgic looks back in time, so this week should be pretty good!

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  3. christopher tupa says

    April 23, 2012 at 4:36 pm

    Looking forward to reading what everyone has to say about this. My memory is pretty bad/hazy, I may have to skip this one, all my years tend to blend together…

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    • Brian says

      April 23, 2012 at 4:39 pm

      I have the worst memory of anyone. I think I’ll check the wikipedia to see what happened that year and go from there. Maybe something will spark.

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  4. fong sam says

    April 23, 2012 at 8:07 pm

    This is going to be a tough one for me, but I’m looking forward to cruise down everyone else’s memory lanes.

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  5. Memoriesoftoymorrow says

    April 23, 2012 at 11:19 pm

    Breakin my cherry on this one. I hope I do the League justice.
    Heres the link:
    http://memoriesoftoymorrow.blogspot.com/2012/04/league-of-extraordinary-bloggers-weekly.html

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    • Brian says

      April 24, 2012 at 8:14 am

      Hey Mike, that’s a great introduction to the League! Glad to have you with us this week.

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  6. Ashley says

    April 25, 2012 at 9:13 am

    Here we are When I turned 12. http://www.lifewithfandom.com/2012/04/league-year-i-tunrned-12-and-cheap-neon.html

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    • Brian says

      April 26, 2012 at 11:02 am

      “My 12 year old me would have liked me I think. ” <-- Such a great line. i want that on a t-shirt. 😉

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  7. Dex (@Dex1138) says

    April 26, 2012 at 10:52 am

    I spent way too much time doing this and the real meat of it was already written! I pulled a Claymation Werewolf and time traveled to a post I did back in August.

    When I Was 12…
    http://aeiouwhy.blogspot.com/2012/04/league-when-i-was-12.html

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    • Brian says

      April 26, 2012 at 11:00 am

      Great post, Dex! Man, that commercial really took me back.

      Reply
  8. leftylimbo says

    April 26, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    Here you go! http://www.leftylimbo.com/2012/04/when-i-was-12-in-1982/

    I’ll add the links in a bit!

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    • leftylimbo says

      April 27, 2012 at 6:10 am

      linkage up! LoL Dex and I referenced the same site to see the goings-on in ’82!

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      • Brian says

        April 27, 2012 at 8:27 am

        Ha! I actually checked out that site in researching my 12th year too. 😉 Still working on it.

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        • leftylimbo says

          April 27, 2012 at 3:47 pm

          It’s both amazing and scary how our memories decay and get blurry with time. I probably wouldn’t have associated half those memories with my 12th year if I had no references. Well, there’s another thing that I can thank the internet for.

          What’s also cool is that, as collectors/geeks, I believe it’s in our nature to research and ensure our information is correct/accurate. =D

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          • Shawn Robare says

            April 27, 2012 at 5:43 pm

            That’s one of the things I love about pop culture, these movies, music, and toys really help to give us vivid memories that put the more personal stuff in a timeline context. It also doesn’t hurt that it’s so popular that we all have a sort of shared history, even if we never met, though it still manages to be unique…

          • Brian says

            April 27, 2012 at 5:53 pm

            I know it. This week’s responses are really tugging on the old nostalgia heart strings. My 12th year was a bit longer ago than many of you guys, but I’m going to do my best. 😉

  9. Shawn Robare says

    April 27, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    The end of the 80s was also the end of my childhood…

    http://brandedinthe80s.com/this-is-how-my-childhood-ends-not-with-a-whimper-but-a-bang-

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    • Brian says

      April 29, 2012 at 4:49 pm

      Driving the big yellow Twinkie through the rough side of town–awesome. That should have been an 80’s cartoon.

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  10. TL says

    April 27, 2012 at 5:44 pm

    I was an 80’s Kevin Arnold.

    http://mattandtimfunny.blogspot.com/2012/04/80s-kevin-arnold.html

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    • Brian says

      April 27, 2012 at 5:51 pm

      Excellent job Tim! 2 points for the nerf hoop mention, and 2 more points for getting “She’s Like the Wind” stuck in my head.

      Reply
  11. Brian says

    April 29, 2012 at 2:11 pm

    Whoops, i almost forgot to mention my post here. I wrote a two-parter this week, so you can start here:
    https://www.coolandcollected.com/1984-possibly-the-greatest-year-in-pop-culture-history/

    Reply
  12. Claymation Werewolf says

    April 29, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    Post Is Up!
    I’m With you Brian had some rare autibiographical stuff in this one. Considering how much I use “creative reality” in most of my posts, it felt pretty weird. Still it might give a little insight into the weirdo that I became…heh heh. Great Topic Sir!
    http://claymationwerewolf.blogspot.com/2012/04/1992-banner-year.html

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    • Brian says

      April 29, 2012 at 4:47 pm

      CW–I never know what’s fact or fiction in your work, but I’m assuming this one was all fact–and it was fantastic!

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  13. Stacey Rader says

    April 29, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    Here’s mine: http://www.pendragonspost.com/2012/04/29/league-of-extraordinary-bloggers-when-i-was-12/

    Reply

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