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Wednesday, December 21, 1988
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The Headlines
Troubled Grapes? Call the Wine Doctor
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Poison
#1 at the box office
Twins
$8,958,675
The must-have
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Figures
On This Day
A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. This is to date the deadliest air disaster to occur on British soil.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Emmanuel Macron (1977)
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804)
- Mikheil Saakashvili (1967)
- Hu Jintao (1942)
- Heinrich Böll (1917)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
awesomebodaciouscheesychill
Valley Girl
as ifbarf me outgag me with a spoongrodytotally
Hip Hop
baddefdopeflyfreshword
Yuppie
greed is goodpower lunchnetworking
Tech Check
Fiber Optic Cables (Transatlantic), Doppler Radar & Digital Cellular.
Cost of Living (1985)
Loaf of Bread
$0.55
Gallon of Gas
$1.12
Average Home
$84,300
New Car
$12,650
Time Elapsed
13,680 days ago
(37 years, 175 days)