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pbar wrote:Classic :) Even the novelty records back then were more memorable.
Just for you mate :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI

As it was linked to the above, I couldn't help but put this up too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2-ukrd2VQ Absolute classic :lol:
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What can you say, but superb :D
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pbar wrote:What can you say, but superb :D
:agree: I loved anything with Ronnie B in it.

Don't recall this one :? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbGMS5jQFcs
6.10 onwards.....I would have done that 6 minutes earlier :lol:
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Very funny :D They were brilliant at those sketches. Yes Ronnie Barker was a class act, they both were. Been watching Porridge recently, tremendous.
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pbar wrote:Very funny :D They were brilliant at those sketches. Yes Ronnie Barker was a class act, they both were. Been watching Porridge recently, tremendous.
Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement wrote some classics......Porridge, Going Straight and Auf Wiedersehen Pet especially.

What have we got on T/V now? Mostly Reality Bull :turd: :roll:
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Whatever happened to these rain hats, used to be very commonplace. But now they seem to have completely disappeared!

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andyd wrote:
pbar wrote:Very funny :D They were brilliant at those sketches. Yes Ronnie Barker was a class act, they both were. Been watching Porridge recently, tremendous.
Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement wrote some classics......Porridge, Going Straight and Auf Wiedersehen Pet especially.

What have we got on T/V now? Mostly Reality Bull :turd: :roll:
They also wrote the brilliant Likely Lads for those that can remember that far back.
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Paul G wrote:
andyd wrote:
pbar wrote:Very funny :D They were brilliant at those sketches. Yes Ronnie Barker was a class act, they both were. Been watching Porridge recently, tremendous.
Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement wrote some classics......Porridge, Going Straight and Auf Wiedersehen Pet especially.

What have we got on T/V now? Mostly Reality Bull :turd: :roll:
They also wrote the brilliant Likely Lads for those that can remember that far back.
:whistle: :lol: Never really got into that programme at the time....
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Paul G wrote:
They also wrote the brilliant Likely Lads for those that can remember that far back.
I've recently been watching that as it's been shown on one of the Freeview channels (the second version, i.e Whatever Happened To....). It's one of those shows which I have missed really. Very good, like it a lot :)
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Now this is what you call hot. The summer of '76.

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Oh yes hot indeed, Stand pipes in the street.......

That Allaggro was new......And Michael Fish :D
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Look how happy they all are though. Everyone is grumpy now, even without the stand pipe!
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I remember 1976 well even though I was only 14 then. Hosepipe bans (expect we'll get one in 2017 if this keeps up any longer), strikes galore and 3 day week with Red Robbo and co running rampant, Bjorn Borg won Wimbledon and the Windies thrashed us at cricket with their legendary team. Mt sister was mad about the Bay City Rollers and I letched after Abba's Agnetha.

My dad got his first of the then brand new space age Rover 3500 SD1 and I remember him picking me up from school in it and all my pals making :wank: signs at me!

Life seemed so much simpler and more pleasant then.
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pbar wrote:Look how happy they all are though. Everyone is grumpy now, even without the stand pipe!
:agree: The great British Spirit seems to have long gone...... :(
Paul G wrote:I remember 1976 well even though I was only 14 then. Hosepipe bans (expect we'll get one in 2017 if this keeps up any longer), strikes galore and 3 day week with Red Robbo and co running rampant, Bjorn Borg won Wimbledon and the Windies thrashed us at cricket with their legendary team. Mt sister was mad about the Bay City Rollers and I letched after Abba's .

My dad got his first of the then brand new space age Rover 3500 SD1 and I remember him picking me up from school in it and all my pals making :wank: signs at me!

Life seemed so much simpler and more pleasant then.
Abba were a good group, I know what you mean about Agnetha, and soon to follow Debbie Harry :D

The SD1 must have seemed really strange back then, as did the Sierra in 1982......I still get the :wank: sign now :lol:

Simpler times as a child/ teenager for certain.....Too much technology nowadays, and kids are more moody for sure.
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I remember well

My Nan & grandad with there 1.6 JPS and me

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And me with my dad in his new cortina mk 3

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They got new cars 75 & we went to Scotland in the summer of 76 and I always traveled in the Capri my grandad had a new one every year because he worked at dagenham fords and he was 93 on Sunday just gone .
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Jasonmarie wrote:I remember well

My Nan & grandad with there 1.6 JPS and me

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And me with my dad in his new cortina mk 3

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They got new cars 75 & we went to Scotland in the summer of 76 and I always traveled in the Capri my grandad had a new one every year because he worked at dagenham fords and he was 93 on Sunday just gone .
Your family had a good taste in cars :D Are we there yet? :lol:

Always got car sick when I was young, probably the comfortable vinyl seats in the 70's :sarcasmalert:
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and also when you was a sleep in the back and the car stoped fast you would end up on the rear floor . As them seats you could slip of so fast .
Coming from a ford family made me a ford nut and a Capri fan .
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Dad never owned a Ford, so I don't know where I got my liking for them :headscratch:

Early 70's, the building labourer doing our loft conversion had a Maroon Mk1 Cortina and I was fascinated by it. He would let me sit in the driving seat :D I was 18 at the time :lol: :lol: :lol: Actually about 6 IIRC.

Some good memories of that decade :)
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andyd wrote:Dad never owned a Ford, so I don't know where I got my liking for them :headscratch:
Mine was never a Ford fan either. Got my :ford: bug from older cousins , one had an orange mk 1 Escort Mexico (still want one), the other had a mk1 1600 XL Capri, this was in the late '70's . Although they both reckoned at the time that the Escort was the better car, it was a Capri I wanted & did end up owning a 1600 XL for a while. Still fancy a mk1 Escort & would love a mk3 Cortina too. Ah, it's nice to dream .. 8-)
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pbar wrote:Now this is what you call hot. The summer of '76.

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Remember those stand pipes as a Kid, don't remember those extras off 'Last of the Summer Wine' with the buckets though ;)
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