Stories from your childhood

Indeed we do Joey

Could always be worser !!!

One of its legs is both the same

For the Vinyl and Retro lovers among us - or - How not to handle a vinyl record.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sff1cSCJO90

Anyone remember a comic called " Boys' World " ? .

https://www.google.com/search?q=boy%27s+world+comic&safe=active&rlz=1C1CHBF_enIE813IE813&sxsrf=ACYBGNSgEy7lZshI-_nGGbKHyrMtSK3N2A:1569971838431&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=irvPFmXnYnRDPM%253A%252C7H87h5vgKEBlWM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kRupFlASE4NvhaH_8JdWQmT0P0pfw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwilo_LtmPzkAhVRiVwKHZ1LC5YQ9QEwAXoECAoQBg#imgrc=irvPFmXnYnRDPM:

There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in

Back in the day £1 would get you $4 so 5/- was the equivalent of $1

and 2/6 was half a dollar .

Edited by monarch - 14-October-2019 at 15:18

There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in

There was something I wanted to post on this thread

but have forgotten what it was that's old age for you .

There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in

Biker Pat wrote:

Those were the days Frank.

I remember in Aer Lingus back in 1973 writing invoices in dollars when the rate was 2.6057usd to the pound.

That figure of 2.6057 has remained in my memory all those years later.

Must have written it 100's of times to have it implanted in the memory.

As a kid I had a bunch of relatives in the USA, so got sent the odd dollar every now and then. My mother always exchanged them for $3 = 1 pound. I knew she was up to something, the old crook.

When she died we found hundreds of 0.3943 pieces hidden in her mattress.

Forgot about scutting...where you hung from the bumper of a car. Old drivers would speed up if they knew a kid was hanging on back there.

I don't know if it is still a tradition, but there was a "GRUSH" at weddings, where the Best Man would throw a handful of coins in the air to keep the kids busy while the bride's car pulled away from the church. Otherwise the wedding cars would have about 50 kids hanging from them. HAR!

Great stories lads. I remember getting off the buses ok, and witnessing a much older (I was only a kid) "cool dude", who even then was clearly recognisable as a big eejit, doing the old "step backwards off the bus and run straight into the bus-stop" trick! Much better than the telly that day!

Me and Annette, who's from Finglas West, got married in the big church in Finglas - I think it's apartments now, or on way the to so being - and I had a load of coins and threw them to the waiting kids - this was June 1984. I have no idea how I knew to do that, I assume Annette or someone in her family advised me. But I have never seen or heard of it done before or since, until now when (was it Poguey or Pat) mentioned it...

...we went on a cruise few years ago with another couple, and I told them it's customary, when the ship is pulling out of port, to throw coins to the waiting peasants below on the dock! I actually had to stop one of them doing it then - you could hurt someone by lashing down washers on them from a couple of hundred feet! I think this was something that was done in years gone by - it must have been, else I dunno how I got the idea! Ah, the good old days...😆

One of its legs is both the same

Poguey called it a "grush" ? Other than that don't know any other expression for it, Pat?

One of its legs is both the same

Was walking on the seafront this morning and heard the geese honking and the expression " How The Geese Saved Rome " came to mind . This got me wondering where I got this expression from .It must have been from some books we has in our Library called " Pictorial Knowledge " a kind of version of Encyclopaedia Britannica .

There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in