The FOC thread.

noseve said:
DOH! In our house, we always used to call Herman's Hermits 'Herman and the Munsters', just for the hell of it. One of those in-jokes that became a part of natural conversation, where you don't even realise that you're saying anything unusual.

Not so funny last year, when we missed out on a £250 quiz night play-off after my partner lapsed into auto-pilot answering the question 'Which 1960s band had Peter Noone as their lead singer?'

She'll never live it down :-)
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How the long winter nights must have flown by............. ;-)
 
Bill Walker said:
Really miss 60s music. :)

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Agreed - funny how songs I wouldn't give a second listen to today, are still so evocative when I hear them.

Last week, channel-flipping in unfamiliar waters (Coventry) I heard 'Excerpts from a Teenage Opera' (the Grocer Jack song). A wave of emotion hit me, not having heard it for 40 years or more. The house was full of music then, and I remembered all my 'aunties' and 'uncles' (just neighbours, really) jigging around in their gaudy 60s and 70s gear. Every one long since gone, of course.

Mum and dad had this song on an 8-track, followed immediately by Matt Monroe's 'We're gonna change the world' . I can never hear one without thinking of the other.
 
Lavinda Past said:
I was thinking this morning... I've woken up more than 25,000 times in my life.

Just imagine how many times us FOCs have done other mundane things in our lives....

(This thread could go downhill quite quickly...)
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I’ve farted 168,630 times at 6 per day. On average people expel four and a half pints of gas per day. Why farts are measured in pints I do not know. Some people are genetically incapable of farting, their guts simply do not produce gas.
 
KS55 said:
I am told that Peter Noone was once paged at the BBC as ‘Peter No-one’.
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I seem to recall his father was with Granada TV and was able to use his influence for PN's music career.
A friend of mine went to the same school as PN (I think it was St Bedes?). I went to meet him one day and we sat outside the school eating fish & chips. We got talking to Noone, seemed OK. I was going to ask him "red or blue" but I chickened out.
 
Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
I seem to recall his father was with Granada TV and was able to use his influence for PN's music career.
A friend of mine went to the same school as PN (I think it was St Bedes?). I went to meet him one day and we sat outside the school eating fish & chips. We got talking to Noone, seemed OK. I was going to ask him "red or blue" but I chickened out.
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The Hermits were surprisingly successful in America. They had 11 top ten hits there including two number ones.
 
bladdered said:
Where did you see your first X rated film? The Fleapit in Levenshulme for me.
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York cinema in Hulme, long since demolished.
Every Friday night my dad's sisters (3 off them) came round for an evening's gossip with mother. The York always showed Hammer House of Horror film on Friday evenings, I was 15 but had no trouble getting in. The cinema was filthy and I always kept an eye out from dodgy looking FOCs.
Scariest films were "The Pit & The Pendulum" and "Tell Tale Heart" and a really scared one was "The Three Stooges Meet the Mummy".

NB: 15 years of age was far to young to be watching a nude Ingrid Pitt!

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KS55 said:
The Hermits were surprisingly successful in America. They had 11 top ten hits there including two number ones.
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I think I heard recently that they were the second most successful of the British Invasion groups of the sixties in the States.

Peter has a regular Saturday evening / afternoon - depending on where you live - show on Sirius XM satellite station from 5:00-8:00 Eastern Time.

He recounts stories from growing up in Manchester and his time with the Hermits during their successful years.
 
Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
York cinema in Hulme, long since demolished.
Every Friday night my dad's sisters (3 off them) came round for an evening's gossip with mother. The York always showed Hammer House of Horror film on Friday evenings, I was 15 but had no trouble getting in. The cinema was filthy and I always kept an eye out from dodgy looking FOCs.
films were "The Pit & The Pendulum" and "Tell Tale Heart" and a really scared one was "The Three Stooges Meet the Mummy".

NB: 15 years of age was far to young to be watching a nude Ingrid Pitt!

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I think my first X film was Caligula. Quickly followed by The Stud with Joan Collins...a bit more like it!
 
KS55 said:
I’ve farted 168,630 times at 6 per day. On average people expel four and a half pints of gas per day. Why farts are measured in pints I do not know. Some people are genetically incapable of farting, their guts simply do not produce gas.
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On sentences one and two - you’ve not met my wife.
On sentence three. You cannot be old enough to question why farts are counted in pints:-)
 
KS55 said:
I’ve farted 168,630 times at 6 per day. On average people expel four and a half pints of gas per day. Why farts are measured in pints I do not know. Some people are genetically incapable of farting, their guts simply do not produce gas.
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It shouldn't go on just quantity but it can be measured by their quality. how fast it can clear a room and how many children and old people it can make cry because they can't get out of ground zero fast enough.
 
bladdered said:
I think my first X film was Caligula. Quickly followed by The Stud with Joan Collins...a bit more like it!
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Oliver Tobias' career never recovered from the fact that everybody could see his weapon wasn't actually as big as it had looked in Arthur of the Britons...
 
RadcliffeRick said:
It was called Donkey Stoning from what I remember, or was that it Spain?? Getting old and keep forgetting things!! :-)
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