Hands Across America - did it accomplish anything?

[Taverner]

Other than a bunch of people holding each others' hands?

[Parche]

1. Wait, Was That A Hand I Was Holding?

:woohoo: :woohoo:
:rofl:

:hi:

[Bullwinkle925]

11. you are a . . .

very naughty boy . . .

[Parche]

18. Yes I Am

Top Pev?

:woohoo:
:hi:

[lost-in-nj]

2. I'm still waiting for my certificate

my town had bus loads going to where we could participate
at a price (donation)

had a good time

but

no

not a damn thing



lost

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. It gave us something to do...

between looking for Halley's Comet and attending Expo '86.

[Taverner]

4. And watching "Up With People!" at SuperBowl half times

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. There was that...

if you weren't watching the TV screening of Captain EO over on ABC.

[Forkboy]

5. It gave a bunch of people colds.

[orleans]

16. i would think so!

[Deja Q]

7. If nobody washed their hands with antibacterial soap beforehand,

lots of illnesses being spread and cross-multiplied to produce stronger variants!

:party:

[sammythecat]

8. No, I don't think so.

Nothing I've heard about anyway. :shrug:

[Lyric]

9. The traumatization of my grade-school music class

with that horrible "Hands Across America" song that we were FORCED to sing.

I still have nightmares.

[HughBeaumont]

10. It spawned one of the shittiest songs known to mankind.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAANDS across AmericAAAAAAAA!

:puke:

[Taverner]

12. You mean this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZorfXa5pBc

[Ptah]

13. Might be a coincidence, but on May 26, 1986

Bangladeshi double decked ferry Shamia capsized Meghna River, southern Barisa, Bangladesh, killing at least 600.

[Taverner]

14. And Benny Goodman died

[crimsonblue]

15. most. retarded. thing. ever

I shit my pants when I learned that people actually did that... :rofl:

[Skittles]

17. no n/t

[skygazer]

19. What was it supposed to accomplish?

I've forgotten. Was it like a new mail system - you handed a note to someone and they passed it on until it reached the recipient? Kind of like the pony express only without ponies?

[Taverner]

20. Well - I think that was part of its uselessness

It was supposed to raise $50 Million for Poverty (it was put on by the USA For Africa guys) and there would be a human chain of people coast to coast (each would pay $10 to join). It cost $19 million to put on, and they only pulled in $20 million so they ended up not doing much.

At the time, the ads were everywhere (this may have been what cost the $19 million) and the usual string of self-absorbed boomer-era camera hogs showed up to participate (see "We are the World")

More proof that "they got the guns but we got the numbers" was a fallacy

[LeftinOH]

21. I witnessed it (but did not participate) in Washington DC... I saw Ronald and Nancy

..and Mary Lou Retton holding hands in front of the White House. It didn't accompish anything.. just an empty feel-good gesture.

[LynneSin]

22. I wanted to join but couldn't get off of work

Our church group was slated for someplace in Western PA which was too much time away from work