The Oldies Thread

[peteblue]

Do kids still take geometry sets to school?
To be honest I didn't really know what you were supposed to do with half the stuff.
Mind you I do remember one lad opening his desk lid to find a dead rat pinned to the inside of lid with a compass

Ah, the old dead rat trick......

 

[summerisle]

Cool and Uncool in 1970, baby, or is it man, anyway :

No idea who Woot Steenhuis is or was. Whatever happened to Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band ?

 

[4737carlin]

The tension is akin to GOT in the summer.

Classic ...... ah'll see thee

 

[degsy]

Cool and Uncool in 1970, baby, or is it man, anyway :

No idea who Woot Steenhuis is or was. Whatever happened to Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band ?...Bonzo Dog / Spike Jones wannabies

Nude Ladies are almost always cool
Not too sure about Bill Cosby though

 

[Bilko]

Hardly seemed right to put the late Janet Leigh in the " fit birds " thread. Thought it would be better appreciated in here, mum to Jamie leigh Curtis.

 

[degsy]

Hardly seemed right to put the late Janet Leigh in the " fit birds " thread. Thought it would be better appreciated in here, mum to Jamie leigh Curtis.

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She said Hitchcock took 20 takes over week to get the shower scene how he wanted it and she could hardly take a shower for 35yrs

 

[chrismpw]

Cool and Uncool in 1970, baby, or is it man, anyway :

No idea who Woot Steenhuis is or was. Whatever happened to Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band ?

Shiver me jethro tull albums, no way has folk rock ever been uncool. What is this nonsense?

 

[peteblue]

Hardly seemed right to put the late Janet Leigh in the " fit birds " thread. Thought it would be better appreciated in here, mum to Jamie leigh Curtis.

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She has a wonderful pair


of eyes........

 

[gonetomorrow]

Fountain pens in school . With the jar of ink .

Quink.

 

[chrissyjack]

Quink.

That's the one

 

[No8Bally]

 

[roydo]

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You know what? In about 30 or 40 years, in some Oldie thread on here, or wherever the internet will be then, there will be a post of the latest Apple phone looking dead old fashioned and useless.

 

[Ducans elbow]

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You could tap the number in when you lifted the phone on the two pins

 

[No8Bally]

You could tap the number in when you lifted the phone on the two pins

We knew that, but dad didn't!!

 

[degsy]

I remember when there was no @Kurt to start rival threads