Webbo

Thats a bit like Thurcroft miners welfare, there was a little group of retired miners who always sat in a corner near the bar, they rubbished everything and anybody while they played crib or dominoes, 2 of them were always chewing baccy. Their usual answer to anyone who did a bit of moaning about life in particular was "tha shud av bin born when we were, then tha can moan". But thinking about it most of the working mens clubs were all nearly the same regarding members. webbo

Ride a white swan---------------T Rex

Riders on the storm----------------Doors

The 2 phrases that should be banned forever are the "royal ""WE""" and "I'VE JUST HAD A THOUGHT", my wife uses them a lot. The first one "I think WE should decorate", I remove and replace the funiture, remove the old wallpaper, paint strip and repaint, the wife then repapers. When she says "I'VE JUST HAD A THOUGHT", I just cringe with anticipation. webbo

Yes I remember it now. Problem is, they did many memorable scetches and you tend to forget a lot of them. webbo

I am a Yorky and I'm not too young, can't think what the reference is unless it's the three ridings. webbo

Aren't childood memories brilliant, if we wrote a book giving all the incidents/wrong doings etc, it would never get published without massive deletions. Mine from 1950 when I was 4 to 1969 when I got married and tried to settle down to an adult life, (still trying), would amount to about 2 or 3 pages. webbo

Electric avenue--------------Eddie Grant

We conned our chemistry master into showing us how to make gunpowder just before guy fawkes night. webbo

Remember it well. Making a swing in the trees overhanging our local river at the lower end of a farmers field, swinging out and dropping off into the river, swimming back and doing it again, this was done skinny dipping, we didn't want to get our clothes wet. The kids can't do it now even if they wanted to because it's under the M18. We lived in a pit village and most of the streets were of terraced housing, we played football, coats etc for goalposts and cricket, dustbin lids for the wickets, if you hit the ball through the gas lamp it was a six. Going to the colliery where there was a reservoir and skinny dipping in the summer holidays. What I want to know is what would the kids do now if there was a total electrical breakdown over the country for a week or two. To be honest though we was brung up in an age when there was hardley any perverts about and we were safe. I'm not going to put the extra thoughts down in writing, but it entails a rope, a piece of wood with 3 holes in it and some sapling. webbo

The laughing gnome------------David Bowie

See what you mean. This one will carry on from Bowies Fashion. Fashion crisis hits New york---------------- Frank and Walters Webbo

Run to you----------Bryan Adams

Fashion------------David Bowie

A new fashion-------Bill Wyman

I am a retired motor mechanic and in the "old days" during my appernticeship and in the years after, up to about 1975 most things on vehicles were repaired. I.E. water pumps, steering ball joints, suspension legs and shock absorbers, brake shoes were re-riveted, engines, gearboxes, back axles, steering boxes, starter motors, dynamo's,alternators, the list is nearly endless. What you could remove from the vehicle could be repaired. Now we are in the "recycling age" everything on a vehicle is throw away including the vehicle. Nothing is repaired by the new superhuman technitions, they don't have a clue how to do it. A few years ago a friend of mine had been restoring an MGB with a technition, he took it for a test drive and the ign light came on. The tech said it wanted a new alternator costing about £30, I was there at the time and asked him to remove the alt, I stripped it down and tested it, then got some new brushes at the cost of £4 and fitted them, the tech put it back on the car and the light went out, he was gobsmacked, he didn't know they could be repaired. I could ramble on giving other examples but you would only get bored. It is not only the motor trade but all the other similar industries. webbo

Battle of evermore-------------Led Zep

Roll away the stone---------------Mott the Hoople

The phrase I cringe at is "cos we are/you are worth it", it's in quite a lot of adverts for womans things. Another one is "at the end of the day it's -----------". The sports quote I had to smile at was when Brian Johnston said "he couldn't get his leg over" when Ian Botham trod on his wicket. Alan

Shake rattle and roll-----Bill Haley and his comets

Hang your head---------Deacon Blue

High voltage-----AC/DC

The only thing that looks good on me is you-----Bryan Adams

A few years ago I had to travel to Bristol for a meeting, caught the plastic train at Sheffield. Because I had to "gen up" I chose the quiet coach, there were only 5 other people in the coach, after I got seated a woman boarded and sat in front of me. I had already started reading my paperwork before the train departed. When we were about 5 mins out of the station she phoned someone and the conversation was loud, after passing Chesterfield she was still on the phone. I gave my paperwork up as a bad job and got my cd player out, put in a deep purple cd turned the vol to max left the earpieces out and started to play. Guess who was the only one to complain, saying she couldn't hear her conversation, I pointed out that she had been on the phone loudly since leaving Sheffield and this was the quiet coach, I would turn off if she would, this was met by a mans voice saying "nice one mate", she realised why I had done it and apologised, after that it was a pleasantly quiet journey, and I finished my genning up. webbo

Dude (looks like a lady)--------Aerosmith