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The Old Coots Lounge

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adamswish

16:54 / 20.01.06

I of course meant throat

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:00 / 20.01.06

Your throat was protected with clingfilm?

Don't remember that particular trend AT ALL.

Quantum- even better was going into Boots and making all the Spectrums say

I'M CHEAPER IN DIXONS over and over again.

Or there was a Poke which made the border go all flashy like a game was loading- it was a super jape to pick the name of the bestest bestest top-of-the-range game that everyone wanted to play, and print "Loading (insert name of game here)" and then watch to see how long the assembled kids would stand there waiting for it.

Quantum

18:48 / 20.01.06

Heh, kids have got no initiative these days.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:51 / 20.01.06

If I ever have kids, though, I'm gonna have to invent something much edgier for when they ask "daddy, what did children do before drive-bys?"

Quantum

19:00 / 20.01.06

Remember Voltron? Here's a fantastic spoof of the big multipart robot dude with the magic sword. Every episode, man, every single episode would finish by forming Voltron and hacking up the villain with the sword. Why not do it to start with?

Brigade du jour

01:00 / 21.01.06

I remember making my own Optimus Prime out of lego because we could neither find nor afford the real toy. It was a work of engineering genius, considering my meagre age, and if I hadn't dropped the damn thing so many times I could probably be working at Audi by now.

'Vorsprung durch technik, and roll out!'

Papess

11:19 / 21.01.06

I remember the Bay City Rollers.

*cringe & weep*

Mon Oncle Ignatius

15:35 / 21.01.06

Ouch. I had forgotten them. Until a few moments ago, that is.

Then to cheer myself up, I remember hearing "The Model" and "Autobahn" on the radio when they were pop music; in the charts and everything

Saveloy

08:34 / 23.01.06

Blimey, "Bay City Rollers" conjurs up a very specific memory for me: my family are visiting my friend Paul's family. We're sat in their living room watching the telly. Paul's older sister is arguing with my brother about the Bay City Rollers:

Paul's sister: "I love them, they're brilliant. They're the best thing in music now."

My Brother: "Ack! They're *rubbish*! Pop rubbish! You should listen to Emerson Lake and Palmer."

Meanwhile, we're watching a programme about performance art. An upright vacuum cleaner - or a larger than life model of one - is moving round a gallery floor. A human arm sticks out the front, picking bits of paper off the floor and pulling them in to the vacuum cleaner.

My mum: "Ack! What a load of rubbish! It's all a con!"

----- end of reminiscence -----

I'd love to see that vacuum cleaner again. Anyone know who it would have been?

Mon Oncle Ignatius

12:40 / 24.01.06

Now I remember when there were sheep on th' Thames

Mon Oncle Ignatius

23:05 / 31.01.06

NEVER DID RECEIVE A TELEGRAM STOP NOW I NEVER WILL IT SEEMS STOP ENDIT

grant

02:28 / 01.02.06

I SIGNED FOR ONE ONCE OR TWICE STOP THIS WAS BACK IN THE HEADY DAYS OF THE EARLY 90S WHEN TELEX MACHINES WERE YOUNG AND THE WORLD WAS STILL LARGE STOP THEY CAME ON SPECIAL YELLOW PAPER OR MAYBE THAT WAS JUST THE BORDER STOP IT WAS LIKE CARBON PAPER AND MIMEOGRAPH SHEETS STOP CRINKLY STOP AND THAT SMELL STOP

YOURS SEALED IN AMBER

FULL STOP

-XXX-

Bed Head

12:28 / 02.02.06

Dear Black Type,

I was perusing ‘ver Hits in the vague hope of being “entertained” by the swoonsome antics of Dame “Carl” of Barat and Sir “Petey” of “Doherty”. But! The Dame is well and truly down the dumper these days, the clot, and meanwhile Petey is looking tres spook and has invented a swank new band for the crafting of top pop “tunes” while he spends his nights courting swizzlesticks and being sick into a cowboy boot (or something!!????) So, ‘Ver Shambles: are they any cop, then???!? Enquiring minds need to (Sniiiiip! enough of this “piffle”- BT)

Yours, etc,
Evan Dando’s comfort sock

Bed Head

12:30 / 02.02.06

Er, by which I mean: RIP Smash Hits. It might have already been down the dumper, but still, it was Smash Hits and therefore ace.

Also: is that Sylvia Patterson still alive, or what? She pretty much was Smash Hits when I was reading it (ie ages ago). Whither her corksorilliant prose now?

Ariadne

12:52 / 02.02.06

I'm sad about the demise of Smash Hits too. I remember Neil Tennant leaving for the Pet Shop Boys. I also remember finding it hilariously funny, and insisting on reading out choice bits to my poor, long-suffering mother.

Katherine

13:17 / 02.02.06

*sits on the upstairs landing listening to the old coots*

*giggles*
[whispers] Bay City Rollers [/whisper]
*giggles*

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:19 / 02.02.06

Off to see Bauhaus tomorrow (with Lilly and TangoMango) where I will no doubt get all nostalgic about the LAST time they reformed.

trouser the trouserian

13:21 / 02.02.06

Keyboards and screens are for kiddies - whatever happened to Punchcards?? I used 'em with at polytechnic for a couple of years.

Ariadne

13:44 / 02.02.06

Oh dear. I'm not only old, but curmudgeonly.

There are workmen in at my offices, and one of them is more of a workboy - about 15, by the look of things. And he keeps getting text messages.

Now, I get text messages too - but not at the rate of one every 48 seconds. The bipping is doing my head in. I want to go and throw something at him. And how does he manage any work? Though I don't suppose he spends any more time on texting than I do on the internet. But the internet doesn't go beep-beep beep-beep.

Grumble. Young people...

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