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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2013 at 10:55
It was all so much easier in our day!

No mobile phones, no internet, mum & dad never knew where I was when I was out playing (as long as I was in for tea it was fine), if I wanted to buy anything I went to a shop, the sun always shone, it always snowed at Christmas (which, incidentally started in December, not September), only 3 TV channels (although I just about remember only 2), dad could do all his own car maintenance despite not having a PhD in computer science (which didn't bloody well exist anyway), you could buy bangers in packs of 10 in toy shops specifically for bunching together & sticking in cow-pats, a laptop was your etch-a-sketch & dog poo was white!

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...and the kiosk in the bus-station would sell single cigarettes to school kids. (is it too soon to mention Spangles?)
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2013 at 11:21
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

...and the kiosk in the bus-station would sell single cigarettes to school kids.


No.6 or Kadets?

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Points: 20030 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 05 2013 at 06:42
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Similar quote to (I think) my favorite of Oscar Wilde's

...and this is apparently true, not filched from Python...

"I refuse to be a member of any club which would have someone like me as a member" (bad paraphrasing, I know)


I thought that was Groucho Marx?
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Quick heads up, I've just been talking to the famous prog musician Simon Godfrey and we thought it was about time we had another prog curry. It will probably be in October due to holidays etc, so watch this space.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 08 2013 at 02:35
Good call- may even make it this time...

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Bloody hell, it's hot & damned humid.

That is all

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That's a fair description of hell, bloody or otherwise.
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2013 at 14:44
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Bloody hell, it's hot & damned humid.

That is all
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2013 at 05:09
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:


Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Bloody hell, it's hot & damned humid.

That is all



27 degrees? Pah! That's cold.

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:


Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Bloody hell, it's hot & damned humid.

That is all



27 degrees? Pah! That's cold.

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We're going to have highs over 35 for much of this week.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 17 2013 at 02:02
Well, the water companies are ruling out hosepipe bans so far; probably means they'll be in within the next week... remember what happened last year the day after a hosepipe ban was put in?

Bye bye summer.

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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 17 2013 at 03:27
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:


Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Bloody hell, it's hot & damned humid.

That is all



27 degrees? Pah! That's cold.

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We're going to have highs over 35 for much of this week.
When you link to active weather information it gives the temperature now, not then. Now it is 28º in Philadelphia, probably because it's 4:30 am there at the moment. Tongue
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 18 2013 at 08:31
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:


Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Bloody hell, it's hot & damned humid.

That is all



27 degrees? Pah! That's cold.

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We're going to have highs over 35 for much of this week.
When you link to active weather information it gives the temperature now, not then. Now it is 28º in Philadelphia, probably because it's 4:30 am there at the moment. Tongue


Yeah, but right below is the forecast with highs and lows...
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Quick heads up, I've just been talking to the famous prog musician Simon Godfrey and we thought it was about time we had another prog curry. It will probably be in October due to holidays etc, so watch this space.
And just in case anyone missed it, I have interviewed the aforementioned Mr Godfrey about his Shineback project here - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=94521
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Points: 20030 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 23 2013 at 19:26
It says here it's a big birthday for Mr Garten. Happy birthday young sir.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2013 at 04:45
True, cheers, Alan - the birthday cake candles would be a bloody fire risk!

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

True, cheers, Alan - the birthday cake candles would be a bloody fire risk!
That's why I used "young" in an ironic way.
 
Just use two candles mate, one in the shape of a 0.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2013 at 09:32
OMG, it's the half-ton!  Shocked
I didn't realise that - welcome to The Over The Hill Gang Jim LOL
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Cheers Dean - only a matter of time now before the GP starts taking an unhealthy interest in my nether regions

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