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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2008 at 12:28
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

OK, OK, OK....

Does anyone remember exactly how the interior of a 1950s/1960s car smelled on a hot day?

Oh Yes!

The smell of plastic coated 'walnut' dashboard and hot moulded plastic fittings added to the faint odour of Shell 4 Star and melting Rolos that had fallen down the back of the rear seat.That's one Proustian rush that I don't mind never experiencing again.


You guys create a very pleasant image of how old cars used to smell. I seem to remember my dads Triupmh(Dolomite?) and his 1973 Austin Allegro smelling vaguely of stale cup-o-soup, and cigarettes. The Allegro rotted fronm the inside out, if I remember rightly. That was a bloody awful car!


In my case, it was initially an old Ford upright Poplar, followed by a 1963 Ford Anglia (LUR 374C as I remember ); both notoriously unreliable, rusty & (similarly to Andy's memories) smelling vaguely of cigarettes... and I loved them both


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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2008 at 12:32
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

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Worse still... socks with sandals!
They're Jim's. I'll bet he was wearing them at Cropredy. In fact they're probably mandatory there.


You're kidding - if I'd worn socks with sandals last weekend at Cropredy, I'd have spent a majority of my time there on my arse in the mud!

I never, ever wear socks with sandals!

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Points: 1065 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2008 at 12:38
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

You're kidding - if I'd worn socks with sandals last weekend at Cropredy, I'd have spent a majority of my time there on my arse in the mud!

I never, ever wear socks with sandals!

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Well, if you did, you'd be in good company...
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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2008 at 12:49
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

OK, OK, OK....

Does anyone remember exactly how the interior of a 1950s/1960s car smelled on a hot day? Cloth seat trim doesn't have that certain something as good old leather or crackled vinyl & certainly doesn't have the same effect when hot as the old materials used to have on school-shorts clad 5 year old legs...



Oh Yes!

The smell of plastic coated 'walnut' dashboard and hot moulded plastic fittings added to the faint odour of Shell 4 Star and melting Rolos that had fallen down the back of the rear seat.That's one Proustian rush that I don't mind never experiencing again.



You guys create a very pleasant image of how old cars used to smell. I seem to remember my dads Triupmh(Dolomite?) and his 1973 Austin Allegro smelling vaguely of stale cup-o-soup, and cigarettes. The Allegro rotted fronm the inside out, if I remember rightly. That was a bloody awful car!

Certainly was, until Clarkson got his hands on them.Wink
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Points: 20030 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2008 at 14:35
Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

I'd liek to make it clear that I am NOT scared of thunder.................... but it's been thundering for about an hour now, it's as dark as night and the rain is coming down like stair rods!
 
and I'm on my own............. what do I do if the water starts getting higher?
 
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! that was a big one, felt the house shake that time!
 
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It absolutely peed down here this morning, fortunately it stopped just before I had to leave for work. The entrance to Hornchurch station, which floods if someone sheds a tear in the forecourt, was under water, as was the road going past. I had to take a detour to get in the station, it was either that or take the shoes and socks off and paddle in. All the t**ts with their 4x4s were driving past at 30mph just to show off, causing tidal waves that soaked a few pedestrians. Apologies to anyone here with a 4x4 but you don't really need them in Hornchurch.
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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

 what do I do if the water starts getting higher?
 
Shocked
 
don't worry Rachel, it'll just be God washing Swindon free of all its sins...
 
...and he might be some time....Wink


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Well luckily for Rach and I, we don't live in Swindon then. Wink
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2008 at 19:19
I still remember my father's car when I was young, it was one of these:



Except it was darker blue than this one.
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Points: 1497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:16
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

And just in case anyone missed it, the next Prog Curry night is this Friday. Probably best to PM me for details as the arrangements are in a state of flux at the moment.
 
It'll be something else in a state of flux on SaturdayLOL
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Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:



An idea for a new name?

 


The Shed Room

edit:  silly redundancy, really, maybe just "The Shed".  Tongue
 
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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

^^quite right David; open up a new room and it becomes a Censored free-for-all
 
where are our more senior Greys when we need them to stamp the boot of decorum and authority into the soft, fleshy, unprotected groin of youth??.............Pinch
 
Can we not put an age filter on viewing and posting to keep the children out?
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:21
Originally posted by Heavyfreight Heavyfreight wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

And just in case anyone missed it, the next Prog Curry night is this Friday. Probably best to PM me for details as the arrangements are in a state of flux at the moment.

It'll be something else in a state of flux on SaturdayLOL


Ah yes - eleventeen pints of real ale & a curry; certain to cause a commotion in the nethers & consternation in the khazi (not to mention a certain degree of discombobulation 'neath the duvet)

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Originally posted by Heavyfreight Heavyfreight wrote:

Can we not put an age filter on viewing and posting to keep the children out?


They'd just lie about their age to get in.

Mind you, Dean and I are both Admins, so could use our arcane powers of deletion every time we see a post by an undesirable...

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Points: 19327 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:27
Originally posted by Heavyfreight Heavyfreight wrote:

 
Can we not put an age filter on viewing and posting to keep the children out?
 
I believe Dean installed one of those before...the problem was, the kids were somehow able to 'reverse' the filter, which just ended up keeping the oldies out...Confused
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Oh well, just as long as we don't start seeing Arctic Monkeys posters on the wall.  I prefer the teak panelling and claret paintwork to stay unfettered.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:32
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by Heavyfreight Heavyfreight wrote:

Can we not put an age filter on viewing and posting to keep the children out?
I believe Dean installed one of those before...the problem was, the kids were somehow able to 'reverse' the filter, which just ended up keeping the oldies out...Confused


Hmmm - I noticed that a couple of pages ago.

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Originally posted by Heavyfreight Heavyfreight wrote:

Oh well, just as long as we don't start seeing Arctic Monkeys posters on the wall.  I prefer the teak panelling and claret paintwork to stay unfettered.


I don't mind posters of The Arctic Monkeys, so long as they are photographed in the middle of being hung, drawn & quartered until they're really sorry for pretending to be in any way, shape, form or manner talented.

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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:35
Bugger - I'm talking to myself again.

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Points: 1497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:42
It's the diet coke!
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Points: 19327 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2008 at 04:02
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:



I don't mind posters of The Arctic Monkeys....
 
forgive me Jim, but I don't think there are any monkeys in the arctic...the last surviving one had their Censored frozen off in the late 18th century...
 
...are you sure they're not albino ones on the posters??
 
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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

I don't mind posters of The Arctic Monkeys....

 

forgive me Jim, but I don't think there are any monkeys in the arctic...the last surviving one had their Censored frozen off in the late 18th century


Now that's an idea.Let's send the Sheffield Indie Pap combo to the Arctic to have their nether-regions frozen off...Doh! It won't work. Bl**dy Global Warming.

Edited by Man Erg - August 13 2008 at 08:30

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