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The FOC thread.
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mexico1970
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Amended for accuracy.There’s more foc on here than I thought, hip hip replacements
Bill Walker
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I thought they'd just made it so small you could no longer see it.The loss of the dark chocolate bounty is the biggest travesty of modern times
Bill Walker
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It's okay you can join in as you look about 68.I’ll be back in sept
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And you mention it far too often.You mention I was on a certain TV quiz show far more than I mention it!
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Mad Eyed Screamer
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If you actually look back, I don’t! It’s everyone else who brings it up! Honest Guv!And you mention it far too often.
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I tried listening to that back in the day, with my tranny perched on the radiator next to my bed, but I got so pissed off with the way it faded in and out, I'm still happy to grumble about it today.Radio Luxembourg was my preferred source of music 'under the bedsheets' when I first got my hands on a transistor radio. Radio Caroline was really patchy.
On the subject of 'the Emperor', I met Rosko briefly at a party somewhere in North London in about 1972. Seemed a nice bloke. He arrived with two very young girls, chatted with a few of us for a while, before he and his young friends 'retired' to a bedroom, never to be seen by us again... I wonder if they're still in there?
Radio Luxembourg was shit.
10 seconds of music followed by 30 seconds of listening to background radio waves from the big bang.
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Bill Walker
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Oh yeah right...If you actually look back, I don’t! It’s everyone else who brings it up! Honest Guv!
And who's the 'local celebrity ' you casually mentioned in the school letter thread ?
I bought a Japanese transistor radio from a small ad in NME by a tiny new company called Sony. Paid for it with Postal Orders.Radio Luxembourg was my preferred source of music 'under the bedsheets' when I first got my hands on a transistor radio. Radio Caroline was really patchy.
On the subject of 'the Emperor', I met Rosko briefly at a party somewhere in North London in about 1972. Seemed a nice bloke. He arrived with two very young girls, chatted with a few of us for a while, before he and his young friends 'retired' to a bedroom, never to be seen by us again... I wonder if they're still in there?
It was very small and the model is now in a Japanese museum as an early example of miniturisation.
Radio Luxembourg through an earpiece while ‘sleeping’: Teen and Twenty Disc club (host Saville, liked a teen so they said), D-E-C-C-A, Stayblonde and Brunatex, ‘Bidex because’….
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I wonder what some of our younger brethren make of this thread.
-What’s Button B?
-Were you all criminals then?
-What’s a Postal Order?
-You mean you had to go down the street for a crap?
-Were City in the league then?
-What was a communal bath house and why pine needles?
-Was @Mad Eyed Screamer on What’s My Line or Does the Team Think?
Young guys, it’s all a long time ago in a different world.
-What’s Button B?
-Were you all criminals then?
-What’s a Postal Order?
-You mean you had to go down the street for a crap?
-Were City in the league then?
-What was a communal bath house and why pine needles?
-Was @Mad Eyed Screamer on What’s My Line or Does the Team Think?
Young guys, it’s all a long time ago in a different world.
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johnny crossan
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Re #4 I needed an urgent number 2 in O'Connell Street, Dublin and the public convenience consisted of a long plank with holes every two feet on top of each was a large Irishman with his pants round his ankles. My dad came and persuaded somebody reading his paper to let me on. Anybody else visit those facilities in the 50s?I wonder what some of our younger brethren make of this thread.
-What’s Button B?
-Were you all criminals then?
-What’s a Postal Order?
-You mean you had to go down the street for a crap?
-Were City in the league then?
-What was a communal bath house and why pine needles?
-Was @Mad Eyed Screamer on What’s My Line or Does the Team Think?
Young guys, it’s all a long time ago in a different world.
Blue Maverick
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Youre a billionaire make your own ;)The loss of the dark chocolate bounty is the biggest travesty of modern times
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Are you going to take the money or open the box?
Yes.
I mean No.
Oiks that we were, we boys would chant “Take the money! Open your legs! Take the money! Open your legs!”
Eleven-year-old humour, guys. Make allowance for it…
hip hip..... replacementThere’s more foc on here than I thought, hip hip hooray
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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The loss of the dark chocolate bounty is the biggest travesty of modern times
That fact —incontrovertible — sends me to one of the greatest self-empowering lines ever penned in the history of rock and roll: “I'm gonna take my problem to the United Nations.”
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Lovebitesandeveryfing
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If you actually look back, I don’t! It’s everyone else who brings it up! Honest Guv!
Did I mention I'd been on Eggheads?
Yep, one of my favourites. And Milky Way is hardly a bite full these days.The loss of the dark chocolate bounty is the biggest travesty of modern times
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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I tried listening to that back in the day, with my tranny perched on the radiator next to my bed, but I got so pissed off with the way it faded in and out, I'm still happy to grumble about it today.
Radio Luxembourg was shit.
10 seconds of music followed by 30 seconds of listening to background radio waves from the big bang.
Well I don't know, yes, it was frustrating — but that was all part of the mystery of it. Mary Wells and “My Guy” fading in and out over the airwaves. It was as if it was being beamed from another planet, the Planet of Pop Music.
Remember that the BBC was resolutely hostile initially to all pop and rock. We had the fucking BBC Light Service, Bud Flanagan and Ray Conniff to chew on! It was the pirate radios that forced them to wake up to the fact that people were no longer speaking like Winston Churchill (if they ever did) and wearing morning dress and toppers…
remember arthur mann
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I blame the Americans.
Until they started sending us proper comedy we had the likes of Harry Worth.
Oh how we laughed when he used his reflection to make it look like he was raising 2 feet in the air.
6pm Sunday evening.
Sat around the coal fire, ice on the windows, eating tinned peaches listening to Songs of Praise from a church we'd never heard of and were never likely to see.
And they say things have got worse !