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jwhouk:
I remember seeing (not in person) Crippen and Young take Columbia up for its first flight.

I vaguely remember Apollo 17, but mostly remember Apollo/Soyuz and Skylab.

The last time any sort of "splashdown" occurred of a NASA-launched vehicle was 24 July 1975, when Apollo/Soyuz Test Project landed in the Pacific.

I was actually a bit giddy about this whole thing when I got up this morning.

hedgie:
As much as Mana claimed to have invented the whole "gothic lolita" thing, I'm pretty sure that Strawberry Switchblade did it first.

Method of Madness:
Are those people?

GarandMarine:

--- Quote from: hedgie on 05 Dec 2014, 21:38 ---As much as Mana claimed to have invented the whole "gothic lolita" thing, I'm pretty sure that Strawberry Switchblade did it first.

--- End quote ---

I honestly don't think there's a traceable origin point for Gothic Lolita. Somewhere deep in Shinjuku ward, or perhaps Harajuku itself.

hedgie:
Mana is/was a Japanese musician and clothing designer, who coined the term.  Strawberry Switchblade was a Scottish musical duo in the '80s.  The latter came first, and generally went for the frilly monochrome dresses, hair ribbons and gawth makeup.  The former made it a bit more formalised, as in the looking "cute" instead of "sexy".

SS:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRIR24UQmDQ
The latter is Mana from Malice Mizer:



--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 05 Dec 2014, 22:50 ---
--- Quote from: hedgie on 05 Dec 2014, 21:38 ---As much as Mana claimed to have invented the whole "gothic lolita" thing, I'm pretty sure that Strawberry Switchblade did it first.

--- End quote ---

I honestly don't think there's a traceable origin point for Gothic Lolita. Somewhere deep in Shinjuku ward, or perhaps Harajuku itself.

--- End quote ---

See above, I think SS did it first, and they were out of Scotland.  Edit:  They were also a lot bigger in Japan than they were back home, so they may have had more of an influence there.

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