Things we used to do
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Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
Izal was great if you had to rub down a rough iron casting.
Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
<cliché> Jumpers for goalposts! </cliché>
Playing 3 or 4 a side footy across a full-sized pitch, with rush goalies, until it got dark, then taking turns kicking the ball as high in the air as we could, to see bats change direction and chase it before they realised how big it was, and turned away.
Playing 3 or 4 a side footy across a full-sized pitch, with rush goalies, until it got dark, then taking turns kicking the ball as high in the air as we could, to see bats change direction and chase it before they realised how big it was, and turned away.
Jeyes toilet paper was also like that....shiny one side. You was better off with news paper lol
Mattonsea
Über Member
- Location
- New Forest
Green Shield Stamps , films being shown on a continuous loop at the cinema.
Padraig
Active Member
- Location
- St. Helens, Merseyside
Holding a broadsheet over the fire that was just lit to draw up the flames, I'd like to see what health & safety would say about now days
That takes me back to 1964. I was round at a friend's house. He'd just returned from a fortnight's visit to our twin town in France, and brought back his host's son with him. The scheme was that you went over there for two weeks, then the other boy stayed with your family for two weeks. The French boy, Henri, spoke absolutely no English. My French was as good as you would expect after having studied it for one year. It was a bit chilly in late August, and the fire was lit. They'd put a newspaper in place to draw it up, held there by the fireguard. I was aware that the paper was becoming a bit brown. I looked at Henri and, despite our communication deficiencies, it was clear that he'd also picked up on this. We shared a mutual unspoken delight as the paper, predictably, burst into flames and everybody scurried to deal with it. My French, I have to say, is rather better now.
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
Things we used to do....
- Invade countries and slaughter the indigenous barbarians who refused to share our religious ideals.
- Persecute the disadvantaged to feather the nest of the wealthy and privileged.
- Celebrate the success of those who took it upon themselves to murder, manipulate and corrupt their way to the "Top"
- Spread disease and pestilence
- Use high polluting internal combustion engines to fill the towns with smog and vile air.
Beginning of the film, surely. The end of the film was marked by an unholy rush for the doors.
graham bowers
Guru
- Location
- NW Leicestershire
Buy potassium nitrate and flowers of sulphur at the chemists.
Padraig
Active Member
- Location
- St. Helens, Merseyside
My recollection is that the national anthem was played at the end. It used to annoy me that, when I wished to see the cast and crew, my view was blocked by the aforesaid rush for the doors.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
Waiting for 7o'clock on a Sunday evening for the Saint starring Roger Moore to begin.
Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
Correct.
The last time I recall hearing it played was at the Odeon Leicester Square in the early seventies after the Rolling Stones film Gimme Shelter. As you can imagine, the audience was not exactly a national anthem type and people were practically climbing over the seats in the mad dash to get out before the opening bars.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I remember that. If you hadn't quite got to the door as the drums started to roll, you froze like a rabbit in some headlights and waited until The Queen had finished. It seemed perfectly normal.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Jeyes Hygenic, Izal. Wasn't there one that was "medicated"?
EDIT: Sorry, I wasn't paying attention to the previous posts from other enthusiasts.
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