What makes you feel old?

[Archev]

Isn't Dexter a bread of cattle?

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I knew farming came into it

 

[T1 Terry]

I think I must have been 7 or 8 yrs old. Dexter was married with kids, lived in the average .... I'm guessing American neighbourhood and got into all sorts of troubles by completely reading the situation wrong, generating quite funny scenarios.
His neighbour was one of those types that had a way to fix everything, that always went completely wrong right at the end .....

T1 Terry

 

[securespark]

I think we have all pulled some crazy feats and looked back years later and thought "Did I really do that?"

I know I have.

Like me delivering stuff. Once went to London and back twice in quick succession, without much more than a meal break.

Wouldn't do that again!

I remember as a kid, sitting around the speaker of the radiogram listening to radio shows like "Life with Dexter"

 

[Archev]

I knew farming came into it

Spelling problem !
The tractor was the Ford Dexta

 

[Black estate]

Who also gets nostalgic when this tune comes on , Cliff mitchelmore and crew and later Jill Dando

 

[T1 Terry]

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So it was Australian ... well, there ya go ..... it started airing 2 yrs before I was born
We didn't get a TV until after my father died, I'd just turned 11 then .... we must have had it by July '69 because I stayed home from school to watch the first steps on the moon ..... one of those significant events that burn into the brain .... flash bulb memory they call it
Watching TV early hrs of the morning and seeing live, the second plane circle and plough into the Twin Towers and the sound and sight of people hitting the concrete after jumping out of windows, then watch the buildings around it collapse because the fire underground was so intense with all that aviation fuel pouring down the lift wells ......
Initially, I thought it was a very well staged SiFi movie .... but when there were no cuts to the hero and heroine love scene ... the shock that it was for real chilled me to the bone ....

T1 Terry

Who also gets nostalgic when this tune comes on , Cliff mitchelmore and crew and later Jill Dando

Must be a very British thing, I've never heard it before .....

T1 Terry

 

[Archev]

Who also gets nostalgic when this tune comes on , Cliff mitchelmore and crew and later Jill Dando

Jill aye - Cliff - not so much

 

[m4rmite]

I'm surprised none of you old farts have mentioned torchy the battery boy

 

[Ian Key]

I'm surprised none of you old farts have mentioned torchy the battery boy

Probably because we're not as old as we appear

I remember Noggin the Nog though.

"In the Lands of the North, where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long, the men of the North Lands sit by their great log fires, and they tell a tale..."

 

[siteguru]

I watched play school , Rainbow , Charlton amd the wheelies , bod ,mr Ben , Mr men , rhubarb and Custard
Looney tunes , tom and Jerry etc

You called?

 

[Rolfe]

So it was Australian ... well, there ya go ..... it started airing 2 yrs before I was born
We didn't get a TV until after my father died, I'd just turned 11 then .... we must have had it by July '69 because I stayed home from school to watch the first steps on the moon ..... one of those significant events that burn into the brain .... flash bulb memory they call it
Watching TV early hrs of the morning and seeing live, the second plane circle and plough into the Twin Towers and the sound and sight of people hitting the concrete after jumping out of windows, then watch the buildings around it collapse because the fire underground was so intense with all that aviation fuel pouring down the lift wells ......
Initially, I thought it was a very well staged SiFi movie .... but when there were no cuts to the hero and heroine love scene ... the shock that it was for real chilled me to the bone ....

T1 Terry

It wasn't so long ago. Nearly 25 years though, I suppose. My godson was shopping in London and saw what he thought was a "Towering Inferno" type film on a TV in a shop. Then he realised a woman standing next to him was crying, and it was the News...

 

[Black estate]

I'm surprised none of you old farts have mentioned torchy the battery boy

I'm only 50 not 100

Jill aye - Cliff - not so much

Jill was a stunner , shame what happened

It wasn't so long ago. Nearly 25 years though, I suppose. My godson was shopping in London and saw what he thought was a "Towering Inferno" type film on a TV in a shop. Then he realised a woman standing next to him was crying, and it was the News...

I used to work with a bloke who came from Cumbria and his mother told him she was out in the car when he was a toddler and saw a bright flash in the sky , which unbeknown to her was the Pan Am Jumbo jet exploding over Lockerbie

 

[5teep]

The grunts - if you know you know..

Getting in and out of my old MG5 did it.

My cousin's daughter got married not long ago and her first child is on the way, I was thinking what? but she's only knee high to a grasshopper and carries a teddy bear?

 

[Black estate]

The grunts - if you know you know..

Getting in and out of my old MG5 did it.

My cousin's daughter got married not long ago and her first child is on the way, I was thinking what? but she's only knee high to a grasshopper and carries a teddy bear?

Same as my Niece , she's 32 been married 7 years in may has 2 kids one is 6 1/4. the other is 2 1/2
I can remember my brother bringing her in the house in her carry cot

 

[Archev]

I'm surprised none of you old farts have mentioned torchy the battery boy

Range anxiety- can’t see him

 

[Black estate]

Range anxiety- can’t see him

He didn't have an LED bulb so was a bit dim

 

[Rolfe]

I used to work with a bloke who came from Cumbria and his mother told him she was out in the car when he was a toddler and saw a bright flash in the sky , which unbeknown to her was the Pan Am Jumbo jet exploding over Lockerbie

Don't start me.

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I see they've got to the point of demanding silly money because the first print run is almost all sold. I really need to get the second edition to the printer.

 

[securespark]

You called?

Are you bod on other fora?

 

[siteguru]

Depends which other fora.

 

[Rolfe]

I really hesitate to ask why.