The FOC thread.

[hallsteve62]

Ooh, real lovely women! Don’t fancy the blokes much.

Are you sure they're blokes? Or even real women for that matter? ; )

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

I watched the "Lassie" series as a lad during the 50's. Apparently, the dog in the films was actually a male called PAL. Hollywood thought the male Collies looked better on film.

 

[noseve]

It’s currently stopping my fly fishing :-(

Steady mate - you don't want to lose use of your eyes as well!

 

[Saddleworth2]

Steady mate - you don't want to lose use of your eyes as well!

Any fly fisher will tell you, sun glasses are a crucial bit of kit. :-)

Irrespective, one of my mates once had to go to A&E to get a fly extracted from his pupil. Ouch.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Any fly fisher will tell you, sun glasses are a crucial bit of kit. :-)

Irrespective, one of my mates once had to go to A&E to get a fly extracted from his pupil. Ouch.

Yep, always thought there was a lot of posing in fly fishing, until when I cast one day the line stopped dead in it's tracks, couldn't understand why until I felt the hook stuck firmly in my scalp. Good job it wasn't a barbed one !

 

[Vienna_70]

Remember getting a hundred lines in school?
"I must not talk in class
I must not talk in class."
(Ridiculous part of schooling, by the way, what a waste of effort.)
Kids used to change the words to relieve the tedium, teachers rarely noticed and just stuffed the pages in their desk.
"I must not write in the snow on a teacher's car window" was another one, albeit a bit more interesting.

My sister and her mate had Punctuality is the keynote in an educational establishment.

 

[noseve]

My sister and her mate had Punctuality is the keynote in an educational establishment.

Or "education is important, but discipline is importanter"






Ok, ok - yes, I made that up :-)

 

[noseve]

Any fly fisher will tell you, sun glasses are a crucial bit of kit. :-)

Irrespective, one of my mates once had to go to A&E to get a fly extracted from his pupil. Ouch.

Sounds nasty - but a confession: I was actually making an infantile joke about another type of 'fly fishing'... :-)

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Goodnight children…
…everywhere.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

I think that they came free with these style icons:View attachment 163816

and giant coloured glass ashtrays that took up half the table top - or was that just in our house?

Trimphone dials glowed because they were radioactive. True that.

Radiation

 

[AliBobbyJ]

My sister and her mate had Punctuality is the keynote in an educational establishment.

Bit posh, that.

 

[Vienna_70]

Bit posh, that.

The teacher, who handed out those lines, was a twat!

 

[flook]

Clive Lloyd and Faroukh Engineer to have stands named after them at the real Old Trafford. Two of the stars of Lancashires one day game domination in the late 60's early 70's

 

[sir baconface]

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Doing some surfing on a shopping site and came across this. The great smell of Brut!! Does anyone still use this?

 

[Bill Walker]

Just made up some concluding lines...:)

Although my days are numbered
And he's turning very shy
I'll love my little todger
Until the day I die.

 

[NPBlue]

Doing some surfing on a shopping site and came across this. The great smell of Brut!! Does anyone still use this?
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I used it a few times back in the day when I was a teenager, never thought it was a pleasant stench, so never used it again.

I received a bottle of this for Christmas about the same time. The name was enough to put me off it and I don't think I even opened the bottle to sniff it.

I've never put scent on me since.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Remember the Football Pink photographers taking pictures of the crowd before the start of a match, always one local football and one rugby league game. The paper put a circle round the faces of half a dozen people in each picture and if you were one of them you went into the M/cr Evening News office on Cross Street and they gave you a guinea.

 

[NPBlue]

Remember the Football Pink photographers taking pictures of the crowd before the start of a match, always one local football and one rugby league game. The paper put a circle round the faces of half a dozen people in each picture and if you were one of them you went into the M/cr Evening News office on Cross Street and they gave you a guinea.

I remember that. A circle around your face and you could claim a prize. The prize had advanced to £5 by the early 70's when I started reading it.

I remember the Football Pink lorry at Maine Road printing off copies with half the results missing, and the queues of people, myself included, waiting at newsagents for the paper to be delivered. Someone would be looking down the road and would shout out 'it's here' when the yellow van appeared.

Papers like the Pink were a major source of football news in those days, and not just in Manchester. We visited an uncle in Bristol at Easter in 1972, and after we returned home from watching Bristol City v Luton Town, I went to the local newsagent and joined the crowd in similar fashion waiting for the Football Green (?) to be delivered.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

I remember that. A circle around your face and you could claim a prize. The prize had advanced to £5 by the early 70's when I started reading it.

I remember the Football Pink lorry at Maine Road printing off copies with half the results missing, and the queues of people, myself included, waiting at newsagents for the paper to be delivered. Someone would be looking down the road and would shout out 'it's here' when the yellow van appeared.

Papers like the Pink were a major source of football news in those days, and not just in Manchester. We visited an uncle in Bristol at Easter in 1972, and after we returned home from watching Bristol City v Luton Town, I went to the local newsagent and joined the crowd in similar fashion waiting for the Football Green (?) to be delivered.

Portsmouth had an evening paper that showed Pompey's result with a drawing of a sailor at the top of the page putting his thumb up, down or sideways for a win, loss or draw.