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My relationship with peas started young...
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We used to prowl around the estate with a pea shooter in one hand and a box of dried peas in the other. Dark winter evenings were best because no-one closed their curtains... the look of shock when a salvo of peas hit the window!
It was all burning cow dung pies and knock and run up north.
Nothing more satisfying than a miserable old Dodger stamping out the flames on his door step only to walk a shoe full off dung onto his axminster carpet.
I had this TV control watch when I was 12 years old:
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You had to type in a different code to control each TV manufacturer so had to carry around the wee booklet to get the right codes.
I used to spy in the living room windows on my morning paper rounds to see what TV brands each visible tv had, as long as they left it on standby.
After about a week I'd sussed out about 30 TVs and used to switch them all on during my rounds. This went on for about a week before people started talking about this weird phenomenon so I knocked it on the head before they sussed me out.
I got kicked out of a few shopping centers too for turning up the volume on the display TVs in the window.
Got a detention for rewinding the bit where the woman gets starkers on Living & Growing videos over and over again.
Night times I used to creep up to people's windows and switch their TVs off.
When your ball's seen better days:
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But you've collected enough fake sponsors to get a new one.
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Not just a Mitre...
... a Mitre Delta 1000 ya beauty!
I think so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy
The last one I had was the 128k.
What a beast
^^
Forgot the gloves
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My dad got a beater 69 chev that he got for parts for its chopped and tubed one. It had an inline 6 3 on the tree. I wanted to see what it was like but the linkage was fuct up. We chopped a hole in the cab and had 2 levers instead. So I still cant say I've ever driven a 3 on the treeQuote:
Originally Posted by Headworx
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Party line phone on the kitchen wall.
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State of the art photo viewer.
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Fizzies. The things were awful.
^^I learned to drive in a 3 on the tree on a large property aged about 12. It wasn't just steering and brakes that had to be learned it was also a clutch and manual gearbox that didn't have syncro back to first, so double-declutching had to be mastered at the same time. A lot different to the cars of today that's for sure, an untrained chimp could jump in one and drive off smoothly on their first ever attempt these days.
That old phone reminds me. My mother, in her aged and demented state, got angry and hit me in the mouth with a cordless phone. First thing I thought was that I was glad technology had progressed and I did not get clobbered with one of those old heavy Bell handsets. I would have lost a tooth or two!
Well spotted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bogon
I wasn't much interested in playing in goals and thankfully the school team had a pretty good keeper, but I was later charged with 'assault with permanent damage' for smacking him in the nose 6 times, kneeing him in the nose 2 times then kicking him in the nose.
Your phone there is missing a 'Q' and a 'Z'.Quote:
Originally Posted by misskit
But, it had “operator.”
The coolest "toy" I ever brought back to the states. I stopped in Tokyo as a planned stop home on my 2nd trip here. Picked up one of these and was shocked at the reaction I got back in San Francisco when I used it out on the streets, buses, and cable cars going to work. 1979. Wish I still had it just to have it.
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browns, greens and yellows, the colours of yesteryear
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sadly we never had avocados
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A few from 70s at that period dad sold more handsets than anyone else in UK and we had a house full of different styles prototypes , the stylish TRIM phone a small triangle was so light it slid of the "PHONE " table. I'm sure the old timers recall using the pencil to rewind unspooled cassettes
Keep em coming many great sites to jog me out of Old Timers . Ill seek some later 1980s stuff for the "Yoof"
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I had a holden 3 on the tree - double the clutch crash it into gear.Quote:
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You could turn the steering wheel 180 degrees and it would go - straight.
when we stayed up all night to watch space missions in black and white.
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Hopefully you will have recuperated soon.Quote:
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Hope thats a surfa sam.
TV FIRST BLACK AND WHITE AND RTE PLUS A FEW UK CHANNELS HARLECH BBC ETC, COLOR CAME MID 70S FOR ME, GOLF AND SNOOKER WERE BROADCAST IN BALCK AND WHITE REALLY I KID YOU NOT.
UK TV LITTLE BETTER ENDLESS SOAPS CORONATION STREET , CROSSROADS MY FREND WAS IN A RADIO SERIES WAGONERS WALK, SOME LIKE BBC SOAP ARCHERS I BELIVE STILL RUNNING.
FAWLTY TOWERS PYTHON LAST OF 1946 SHOW WERE MUST WATCH AND TIZWAZ WITH LENNY HENRY , BOB CAROLGEES SPIT THE DOG , BONZO DOG BAND VIV STANSHALL BUT PRE VIDEO YOU OFTEN HAD ONE OP TO WATCH. LUCKILY WITH SO FEW CHANNELS IT WAS A NO BRAINER.
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OF THAT ERA ONLY PORRIDGE AND OPEN ALL HOURS STILL MAKE ME LAUGH EVEN PYTHNS SEEM STALE PERHAPS TASTE MATURES
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^ CAPITAL
Most motels in the US used to have these available in their rooms.
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I have one of these guys now.
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I have the Operation game in my bar.
My kids brought back Etch a Sketch from a holiday when they were 6. Used them till both broken around 9. Even learned to share when the first one broke. Good memories.
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Originally Posted by dirk diggler
Just got this for our upcoming holiday too...
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That brings back a long lost memory of when I was at school in the early 70's. In those days making explosives was in the chemistry books and putting theory into practice was a prerequisite for every avid chemistry student. Ammonia nitrate, diesel fuel and sugar were the ingredients and so we relieved the nearest farm of a couple of bags of fertilizer, diesel from the tractor, and someone helped themselves to a bag of sugar from the school kitchen. We assembled the ingredients on the kick-off divot of the school rugby field and ran to the sidelines. Nothing happened for what seemed like ages, and then, Kaboom!! Luckily, not contained so not a great deal of damage to the pitch.Quote:
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^ we used to make them and get hold of cast iron drain pipe and pack it in - quite impressive
Funnily enough, I refer to this game when talking about a specaiised aircraft application I've been working on over the last decade or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by S Landreth
First computer games played? For me it was in the 70's while studying Coral66 (CORAL - Wikipedia) a language I still used professionally well into the 90's.
The microcomputer computer/server we used in those days used to have two text base games. One was the Lunar Landing module (Eagle) game where you had to enter fuel burn each iteration to slow down the module for landing. The other, much more exciting game, was Star Trek where you used short and long range sensors to locate and destroy klingon space ships before they ganged up on you and took you out with coke cans.
This was easily my favourite game, anyone remember it?
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We put a Volkswagon engine block in the camp fire once. Then poured water on it. Its a good light show.
Yep. I recall both. I recently found an emulator to play the lunar lander again...but the magic was gone.Quote:
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Did boomers have the parachute in gym class? i wonder if they have it now
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Mom had those ^ This stuff was actually made in Canada. Amazing
But not these cups. But every other friends house I went to had these cups
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Roce Romes and K2 Fatties were popular too.
For hockey skates you were either a Bauer man or a CCM man.
Bauer Air 50's for me:
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