Alan Dugdales Moustache
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I occasionally bought my dad 10 woodbines for his birthday when I couldn't think of anything else. Terrible really.
I occasionally bought my dad 10 woodbines for his birthday when I couldn't think of anything else. Terrible really.Both my mum and dad were big smokers (killed them in the end!), but always remember their discussions about which ciggies to smoke. Both Embassy and Kensitas had a gift catalogue which they would pore over to see which were the best coupons to collect. How strange to think now that then you were rewarded to smoke!
Haven’t heard it for years myself not sure if it was a Cov saying or not?So did mine. "Yer dad's gone bloody yampee " I'd completely forgotten about that. I bet that's almost completely died out now.
I've never heard anyone say it ourside of Cov. A bit like going up "the entry" around the back of the houses . Very Cov. I live in Rugby these days and if ever I say it the the locals ask me what I'm talking about.Haven’t heard it for years myself not sure if it was a Cov saying or not?
I used to hate getting fags for my mum and dad as a kid.Mum an dad used to live on Chesterton road and I remember being sent to get 20 silk cut for me mum when I was 5 years old.
Yes. I also remember baseball shoes/boots. They're now converses. More expensive and utter crap.Remember when we wore 'pumps' rather than 'trainers'?
We had this one posh teacher at St Mary's insisted on calling them 'plimsoles' and a raincoat was a 'Mackintosh'.Remember when we wore 'pumps' rather than 'trainers'?
My wife calls them plimsoles. She's a cockney and says she'd never heard of pumps.We had this one posh teacher at St Mary's insisted on calling them 'plimsoles' and a raincoat was a 'Mackintosh'.
My wife calls them plimsoles. She's a cockney and says she'd never heard of pumps.
I used to collect bazooka Joe cards."Drawing the fire"
Cov Fortnight
Forecourt attendants
Cinema Usherettes
Sweet cigarettes
Rag & Bone man
I think it was plimsoll not plimsole.We had this one posh teacher at St Mary's insisted on calling them 'plimsoles' and a raincoat was a 'Mackintosh'.
I rememberd kids doing that. Kids use cigarette cards (you used to get different picture cards in packs of cigarettes).I know what you don't hear any more : in our street at least in the 1970's we'd get a peg and a piece of cardboard and attach it to the rear of our bike frame with the card sticking in the spokes and then speed off thinking it sounded like our very own motorbike. We got through a lot of card.
I left there in 78"you're a fucking mong " said by everyone about everyone at Whitley abbey school in the 1970s.
Please tell me that's now died out.......
You must have gone to Whitley !That was ACE!
LOL I did indeedYou must have gone to Whitley !
This reminded me of the album "Monty Python - Live at Drury Lane". In the sketch where Eric Idle asks Eastern World Leaders questions (Karl Mark and the like), he asks "Coventry City last won the FA Cup in what year?" Silence. He asks again, "Coventry City last won the FA Cup in what year?" More silence. then, "I'm not at all surprised you didn't get that! It was indeed a trick question! Coventry City have never won the FA Cup!""Wouldn't it be great if City won the F.A. Cup."
Scratchings at the chippy - they call them crispy bits here in Norfolk which is a bit twee.I once asked a girl on the deli counter if she had any pork scratchings and she looked at me like I was from a different planet or something!
This reminded me of the album "Monty Python - Live at Drury Lane". In the sketch where Eric Idle asks Eastern World Leaders questions (Karl Mark and the like), he asks "Coventry City last won the FA Cup in what year?" Silence. He asks again, "Coventry City last won the FA Cup in what year?" More silence. then, "I'm not at all surprised you didn't get that! It was indeed a trick question! Coventry City have never won the FA Cup!"
I used to get bloody angry at that sketch! And when they did at last win it, I shouted out " In your face, Eric Idle!" People thought I was nuts!
Where I grew up in the North East I used to have six penorth of chips with salt, vinegar and batter.Scratchings at the chippy - they call them crispy bits here in Norfolk which is a bit twee.
Yep! A tanner of chips wrapped in newspaper! Bloody lovely! I used to get mine from Whales on the corner of Howard St and Stoney Stanton Rd, where the Health Centre is now (or it was before I left Cov!)Where I grew up in the North East I used to have six penorth of chips with salt, vinegar and batter.
And here it is, opposite the pub...Yep! A tanner of chips wrapped in newspaper! Bloody lovely! I used to get mine from Whales on the corner of Howard St and Stoney Stanton Rd, where the Health Centre is now (or it was before I left Cov!)
Anything to do with Coventry was a standing joke for the Monty Python crew.
Almost everyone is wearing a hat or a cap, men, women and even the little kids. In those days, you were undressed without one.And here it is, opposite the pub...
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