Thread: Strange ideas you had as a small child.

^ and now you're battling the harridans of Phuket!


(Yes, I used to love reading stories about far-off places as well . . . even though I was living in them. )

Originally Posted by Happyman

Used to lie in bed reading tales of adventure ( all in Boys Own Magazine ), far off places, brave redcoats beating off foreign dusky soldiers, exploring up the Amazon or down the Nile, Fuzzy Wuzzy attacks in Sudan , Ju Ju men in central Africa, Opium wars, the mysteries of the East , headhunters in Borneo etc etc etc .

Never thought I would go to all these places !

Only got one GCE at school - Geography - just as well - never got lost !

That's so awesome.. never got lost? Ever?

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As a youngster, and even up past university, I used to hang out with many people of various ethnicities, and ask them so many questions about where they came from etc.. I never knew at the time, I'd get to travel to some of those places, and actually experience firsthand what they were talking about.

Originally Posted by Happyman

and now you're battling the harridans of Phuket!

Nah !
My FB from KL is coming on thurs and that will put me in intensive care for a week or so !

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Had a disturbing crush on Frank Zappa...

didyou eat the yellow snow?

Originally Posted by November Rain

My parents took them to the Furama Hotel's revolving restaurant

I took my wife to one in the KL tower for a romantic evening

I did not tell her that the restaurant was revolving though

after about half an hour she said she felt sick for some reason

oh, how we laughed

Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee....

When I was a child I thought the vapour trails in the sky were made by sky scrapers.

When my parents had friends round for an evening meal and I was supposed to be tucked up in bed, came down stairs wearing on old type sanitary towel with a loop on each ear asking ''is this for tooth aches Mum''

Originally Posted by S Landreth

if you were to ask my younger sister what she wanted to be when she grew up,…….she would have said, a fire truck.

I know a gal like that, she was a polish firemans sister in Portland Oregon and all the firemen rode on her at one time or another.

I have lived exactly as I had wanted to do since I was very young, roam around the world doing exactly as I wanted to do, become an alcoholic and have a fine sailboat and cruise and have lots of women and booze and work on some big jobs and enjoy life.
I have done all of these things, maybe not in the order that they should have been, but did complete them.
Now when I die I will have left no stone unturned.
I only regret that I did not become as good a man as my dad was, but then I could not stand to live my life on a 1/2 acre of land on the edge of a small town in the high desert area of the Pacific Northwest and be happy there, so I did what was best for me, So now my ashes will be 1/2 way around the world from where my dads ashes are buried.

Originally Posted by blackgang

small town in the high desert area of the Pacific Northwest and be happy there....

Can I ask what town, BG?



Thanks if you'll answer. You know, our roots are from the same neck of the woods.

Originally Posted by Attilla the Hen

there would always be a huge TO LET sign. I thought there was some guy who couldn't spell toilet correctly

I also thought this.

Originally Posted by panama hat

Just about dusk when the moon is visible while the sun is still out . . . I thought it was the sun's bum. I now know this to not be the case as the sun is Asian and has no bum.

When I was young my older sister told me that this (day moon thingy) was a lions cage and that if you looked at it the lion would escape and come to eat you. I spent most of my younger life walking around late afternoon with my hand above my eyes shielding them from the moon. Idiot.

Originally Posted by blackgang

I have lived exactly as I had wanted to do since I was very young, roam around the world doing exactly as I wanted to do, become an alcoholic and have a fine sailboat and cruise and have lots of women and booze and work on some big jobs and enjoy life.
I have done all of these things, maybe not in the order that they should have been, but did complete them.
Now when I die I will have left no stone unturned.
I only regret that I did not become as good a man as my dad was, but then I could not stand to live my life on a 1/2 acre of land on the edge of a small town in the high desert area of the Pacific Northwest and be happy there, so I did what was best for me, So now my ashes will be 1/2 way around the world from where my dads ashes are buried.

i think that we were all born to do that, but somewhere, the brainwashing of the old education systems, plus the perception that one has to "conform to fit into society" (or just the old safety net most of out parents tried to create for us), robbed many of us of becoming our own persons.
you lived a full life, bg, and it sounds as if you still do.
according to your own rules and principles .
it takes balls to be your own person; is never the easy way out:
BUT TO LIVE ANY OTHER WAY, IS TO BE A PROSTITUTE!

When I was a child, I was sure that I was the center of the universe... Now, I'm not so sure...

Originally Posted by Milkman

You know, our roots are from the same neck of the woods.

Your wives are from the same village?
What are the chances..........?