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Rahenyrhythm 
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 Topic: Stories from your childhoodPosted: 05-November-2023 at 16:32 |
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😁 Men!
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Biker Pat
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Posted: 05-November-2023 at 15:20 |
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Dial 0 for free to call the operator.
"Is that the operator on the line?" "Yes" "Can you put me through to the Zoo please?" "Yes, who are you looking for there?" "Mr Lyons" Click !!! |
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Pogue Mahoney
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Posted: 05-November-2023 at 14:51 |
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Dial 0 for free to call the operator.
"Is that the operator on the line?" "Yes" "Well you better get off, there's a train coming" click! "Is that the operator on the line?" "Yes" "Can you take in the clothes, we are expecting rain? CLICK! |
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Biker Pat
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Posted: 04-November-2023 at 12:33 |
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Love it Gerry. 👍👍
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Rahenyrhythm
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Posted: 04-November-2023 at 10:56 |
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Great story Pat 👏👏👏 We never managed that trick, but we went through a phase of ringing random Irish numbers and telling whiever answered that we were from the Late Late Show, Quicksilver etc and trying to get them to answer mad quiz questions for a prize. Never worked of course, but we came close a couple of times!!! Mad the stuff we all did as young teenagers... 😁
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Biker Pat
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Posted: 04-November-2023 at 10:18 |
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This memory popped into my head when I saw a post on FB showing people queuing at a public pay phone back in the 50's.
Funny story from my childhood in the 60's. Where I lived in Dublin, Ireland we had a public phone box around the corner from us. Being young devils we were always trying to see if we could access the coin refunds by tapping on the receiver button. Sometimes we'd hit jackpot. But one day we discovered by accident that if you tapped the receiver button three times and hit some of the numbers it made a call free of charge. One day we hit so many digits we ended up talking to some lady in Australia. So we pranked a load of people worldwide. Then we spread the word about the scam and lots of people from our road were running around and queuing to make free calls to family, relatives and friends around the world. We were heroes for a while. Eventually the phone company copped on and that caper ended.
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Posted: 08-July-2021 at 12:22 |
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Yes, indeed, Pat!
Total & utter brainwashing at an early age by parents who had also been brainwashed in the 1920s and 1930s 😆✨ |
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The Universe is a void full of infinite possibilities
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Biker Pat
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Posted: 08-July-2021 at 07:30 |
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Those of us who grew up on the 60's might remember this.
Having to bless yourself every time you passed a Catholic church. Even if you were on the bus 😕😕 It was considered almost a sin if you didn't. |
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Rahenyrhythm
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Posted: 10-February-2021 at 08:37 |
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God Pogue, the Fosbury Flop! I remember watching it on the telly for sure.
My best mate - then and to this day - was a huge athletics fan - his Da was one of the founders of the Raheny Shamrocks Athletic Club - and so,our little gang was into all of the running, jumping, triple-jump, etc stuff as well as the usual football. So the Olympics was a huge deal for us, we used to have our own "Olympics" out on the street. Like in The Snapper !!! |
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Pogue Mahoney
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Posted: 10-February-2021 at 02:28 |
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And who among us could ever forget this 1968 Olympic event? It was a real "How come I never thought of that?" moment.
The Fosbury Flop is a style used in the athletics event of high jump. It was popularized and perfected by American athlete Dick Fosbury, whose gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City brought it to the world's attention.[1] Over the next few years, the flop became the dominant style of the event and remains such today.
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Biker Pat
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Posted: 09-February-2021 at 09:44 |
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We didn't get our first telly till 1965.
We also got our first car in the same year. A Fiat registration number VZH 351. For some reason I always remember the registration of our first car. My own first car was a Fiat Uno bought in 1976. Registration UNI 833. |
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Rahenyrhythm
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Posted: 09-February-2021 at 08:15 |
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Good stories above lads. I have no idea when we got our first telly, but the first time I remember watching anything was when RTE started, the music at the start and I think Dev - maybe? - was on it? It would have been around that time we got the telly, so whenever that was. I have a terrible memory for events of my childhood - indeed, events of yesterday too! - which really bugs me, as I feel I'm missing out on reliving many eventful times and events that I witnessed (even on telly) or was around for over the years. But there you go, can't be helped I suppose...
 
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Posted: 08-February-2021 at 22:28 |
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I remember the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, mainly because we got our first telly for the event. We were probably the last house on the road to get a TV. It also added an extra hour onto our day - Instead of going to bed at 8.30 our new bedtime was 9.30 to allow us watch the end of Wagon Train and Gunsmoke and Rawhide
Not quite as important as above but the 1964 olympics was the first to broadcast live by satellite (almost live for anyone outside the USA)... was the first olympics, with some events, shown in color and the first olympics with a mixed race South African team. Can't believe I was sent to bed at 8.30 when I was eleven. I remember watching the lads playing soccer from my bedroom window
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Posted: 08-February-2021 at 13:51 |
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I remember in the summer of 1964 at 11 years of age when the summer Olympics were held in Tokyo. My father sent me to the shops for the paper and I clearly remember on my way back from the shops the headline read on the cover in big print "Mc Court Wins Bronze". James Vincent McCourt is a former Irish boxer from Northern Ireland. McCourt won a bronze medal for the Ireland in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the lightweight division. |
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monarch
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Victor Manure as her was known in our house . 
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Victor Mature was the best actor of all time
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Posted: 17-May-2020 at 10:28 |
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Posted: 17-May-2020 at 09:09 |
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Nancy Balls and Bulls Eyes.
Now there's a memory. Add Bon Bons to that list. My favourites. |
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Posted: 17-May-2020 at 09:04 |
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You must have been rich Frank. I can remember Nancy Balls and Bull's Eyes being ten a penny and wrapped in a small cone of newspaper.... 6d? - that was three weeks wages
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Posted: 17-May-2020 at 09:01 |
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Sure do Frank on the few occasions I had 6D.😂😂😂
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