The FOC thread.

Blue Mist said:
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 !
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Sunday night was bath night in front of the coal fire in a tin bath from the back yard. We had a bath once a week whether we needed it or not.:-)
 
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AliBobbyJ said:
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.
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We used to call it the Football Echo - if you were lucky you'd get a few mentions in it, always a thrill for a 11-year-old.

My local team was Sholing Sports, playing in the Hampshire League and the reporter would sometimes take suggestions from those around him to use as copy.

Mum was really chuffed once when I could tell her in advance that the description of Sholing's equaliser would read 'and Keith Darnton rose majestically...' - I'd actually plagiarised something I'd read in my comic (Wizard?) in a strip with brothers Jack and Jimmy Chelsey playing against each other in the Castleburn derby, if that rings a bell with anybody?
 
When is someone officially an FOC? I always thought it was when you start making trumpet noises when you blow your nose, which I haven't started doing yet. But that seems like the best litmus test to me. Any other signs I should be looking out for?
 
ballbag said:
When is someone officially an FOC? I always thought it was when you start making trumpet noises when you blow your nose, which I haven't started doing yet. But that seems like the best litmus test to me. Any other signs I should be looking out for?
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Walking into a room and you can't remember why you went in there.
 
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