The FOC thread.

[Kinkybyname]

I did that for about a month back in the mid 70's - along Ashton Old road, through Droylsden, Guide bridge, Denton, then back down Hyde road. Costs went up the later it got, as drinkers would pay it, esp the Midland Lakes pubs at Belle Vue!

"Seafood y'all!"

 

[Bill Walker]

Or the didgeridoo.

 

[noseve]

Yer mean a clothes rack! We had one of these. They're all the rage in North London these days.

We've had one for years. Well, ok, it's actually a multigym, but it does the same job.

Mum's Avon lady had this Isetta bubble car in which she'd occasionally take me round the block. Face about 6 inches from the non-strengthened windscreen. I'd be terrified in such a death-trap today.

Favourite scrumping technique - climbing onto Grunter's (never knew his real name) garage and eating his pears, without picking them but leaving the core on the tree.

 

[noseve]

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen

Resurrected by Python as:
"Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore,
Is not in this bit!"

In terms of danger though (along with my Gat Gun)

I was impressed by my uncle squeezing the gat shut between his hands - much cooler than pushing it against the ground.
First time I tried it was at halftime during '74 World Cup Final and I still have the scar from pinching my skin between the barrel and the casing.
I remember screaming, holding my hand out with the gat dangling down. Like a hand version of zipping yourself!

 

[johnny crossan]

Resurrected by Python as:
"Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore,
Is not in this bit!"

I was impressed by my uncle squeezing the gat shut between his hands - much cooler than pushing it against the ground.
First time I tried it was at halftime during '74 World Cup Final and I still have the scar from pinching my skin between the barrel and the casing.
I remember screaming, holding my hand out with the gat dangling down. Like a hand version of zipping yourself!

nasty :-(

 

[noseve]

The 1950s and early 60s were dire for British comedy. It was full of second raters from the music halls. Harry worth, Jimmy Edwards, Ted Ray, Terry Thomas, Jewel and Warris, Archie Andrews, Arthur Askey, the Clitheroe Kid, The Navy Lark, and a host of others I forget.
Archie Andrews summed it up: a ventriloquist star of a radio show!

Agree with all these examples - having said that, 'Round the Horne' on BBC Sounds can be hilarious...

Edit: or 'Beyond our Ken', always mix those up

 

[noseve]

@Onholiday(somemightsay) I notice everyone has ignored you. Probably because they forgot your question.
I propose the following
60-65 Junior FOC (my category)
66-70 Mainstream FOC
71-75 Senior FOC
76-80 Grandmaster FOC
80+ @oakiecokie FOC

I second this, purely on the basis that it's nice to be classed as a 'Junior' anything these days...

Maybe guest memberships for anybody else who has to get up twice a night?

 

[KS55]

Agree with all these examples - having said that, 'Round the Horne' on BBC Sounds can be hilarious...

Edit: or 'Beyond our Ken', always mix those up

Both were decent in a sea of mediocracy.

 

[noseve]

Tuning into Radio 1 at 5 on a sunday evening for the top 40. Finger poised over the record button on your cassette recorder

I used to get really miffed having pressed it thinking that the DJ had finished talking, only for the rotten git to add a final word or two.

In my mind I still say these bogus words at the start of some 60s/70s classics, having listened to my c90s so many times during my formative years.

 

[KS55]

I used to get really miffed having pressed it thinking that the DJ had finished talking, only for the rotten git to add a final word or two.

In my mind I still say these bogus words at the start of some 60s/70s classics, having listened to my c90s so many times during my formative years.

Alan Freeman made a point of never talking over a track

 

[Vienna_70]

Alan Freeman made a point of never talking over a track

Not ‘alf, pop pickers!

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Not ‘alf, pop pickers!

 

[normskih]

I raise you this beauty.

Cor, pineapple Alpine, just the most thirst quenching drink as a youngster:)

 

[hallsteve62]

Cor, pineapple Alpine, just the most thirst quenching drink as a youngster:)

Those bike lamps used to rust like fuck!

 

[mexico1970]

Cor, pineapple Alpine, just the most thirst quenching drink as a youngster:)

It was as exotic as it got at the time :)

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Those bike lamps used to rust like fuck!

Especially when the battery leaked inside it.

 

[Bill Walker]

Alan Freeman made a point of never talking over a track

I never knew he (fluff) was an Aussie, until I knew.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Just to round it all off, it's 9:30 pm and you've had a few jars and someone comes through the doors looking like an ice cream man but it's not ;-)

We used to ask the woman every week in the pub (1980 - 82) "do you have any sperm whale?" and thought we were hilarious.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

We used to ask the woman every week in the pub (1980 - 82) "do you have any sperm whale?" and thought we were hilarious.

Have you got crabs or do you always walk like that?? My, how we laughed!!

 

[Lavinda Past]

I never knew he (fluff) was an Aussie, until I knew.

He was 100% Aussie....

Not half!