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I found tonight, a few old Annuals from when I was a kid, one of which was Fame.

I loved the show as a kid,anyways I thought what a find 1984 Annual must be worth a few quid.
So I type it into ebay Fame Annual 1984,and there are selling for a whopping 99p lol

Am sure most of you are to young to remember the show but it brought back some nice memories

Shelly xx

Is that the dancing one , shelly?.   

It was hun, your far to young to remember am sure

I remember FlashDance .  I think that was around the same time, but i may be wrong  :D.  I was 4 going on 5 when your Fame annual came out.  I can kind of  remember the show...lol    Kids never forget things at that age.  My mind becomes weaker every year I age. 

I remember it well....all that dancing & singing in the streets, where are they now!!! they were going to live forever, can you remember there names?

Fame was brilliant...remember it well.

I took my youngest sister to see it at the pictures for her birthday and we went for a wimpy afterwards with a knickerbocker glory for puddin'

My sister says she will never forget it as it was the first time i had been nice to her  :D

Does anyone remember the Ian Allan Trainspotters Books.

We used to underline the numbers of every steam engine we kopped. Well edgy stuff.

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Tonji
I most certainly can..


Leeroy,Bruno,Danni,Coco,Julie,Elizabth,Professor shorofsky,Doris,Lydia

But I have had the Annual to look at lol

Rigged lol

Well where do we start with this post?   ;D       Steam engines?  Weren't they prominent in the Victorian age?

Tikay the trainspotter eh?  Well I never.......although must have been tricky not to misread those engine numbers !!   :)up

Sorry couldn't resist......

Its quite interesting what sells on ebay and what doesnt.

I have quite often dug out something from the back of a cupboard thinking it must be worth a few bob only to find its totally worthless. Memories are more precious.

Moving swiftly back onto topic!   ;)

I remember Fame too although I didn't watch it much.   The music from the series was very popular I recall.

Seem to remember a particularly sad episode/song about Mr Shorofsky ..........was it Starmaker ?   :(

Really tugged at the heartstrings...but then I'm an old softie!

Ian Allen ABC train book used to cost 10 bob, a lot of money in the fifties

My eyes were better in those days. I was younger I think..

was it Coco who had the long frizzy hair?  i had a crush on her :D

I think mine was 5 bob Tom. My main chrissie pressie.

Tikay don't say your one of those guys (its always men) who stand at the end of platforms with a notebook!!!! Please explain your fascination, I've never understood it

Ahhh, i remember (with some shame) the legwarmer fashion born out of fame..............

high fidelity, high high fidelity, high fidelity, high!

Great stuff, they don't make em like that anymore! Leroy and Bruno were my faves.

I want to live forever, I wanna learn how to fly.HIGH


If you want fame you've gotta work for it...etc etc


Debbie Allen was the ver so slighlty hot to a teenage boy dance instructor

i do remember a little pocket book called the observer book of trains, I had as a kid, chock full of black and white pictures and details about the locomotives.

Loved that book, wonder what happened to it....

When we were little boys, my brother Tracy and I got a Timex watch each as a main chrissie pressie. Tracy lost his soon after.

Many years later, we moved back on to the same camp, and he found it. It still works to this day

You were lucky, we were so poor if you weren't a boy you had nothing to play with on Christmas morning  ;hide;

Extraordinary!

Tick-a-tick-timex.

Fascination? It's not fascination. It's love. And lust. I want to have congress with a train. WONDERFUL things. Even today, going on a train jourmey gives me that nice feeling down below.

Was this it?




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Ok, FAR too much information Tikay!!!   ;yellowcard;

There is a medical term for that Tikay...bus drivers and train drivers get it....its to do with all that jigging around all day.

Not sure Tom. It was A5 size I think - about half the size of normsl A4 paper, & just contained lists of all the different types of Steam Locomorive in groups of "types", plus Diesel Railcar numbers. No pics, just numbers.

I used to take it to bed with me, it was my most treasured possession, & I had it for years & years.

No bobby, it's the anticipation that gets me worked up. Even Railway Stations, I adore them. I want to marry Derby Railway Sidings.

OMG - i was kids from fame's biggest fan

even saw them in concert at wembley arena

danny was my hero - i used to play Friday Hight on my record player all the time.  I must have been 9-10 so about 1983?

how sad am i?

anyone remember body language?  what a song

i can just about remember all the words to starmaker and who sang them!!!

I have some of the early copies of the Thomas the Tank Engine books. There is about 9 in the collection.  Three are in great condition, the other six are abit torn. One of them was attacked by a savage horse and ripped badly.  I was told by a collector they would be valuable to people interested in that sort of thing.

how on earth did a savage horse get hold of your reading material Sark? 

Let's get this clear Sark. Your copy of Thomas The Tank Engine was attacked by a savage horse....?

You are the best, you really are!

I hereby Promote you to Jen status - Officially Loopy. But Lovely Loopy.

Care to explain how this savage horse, presumably passing by at the time, came to attack Thomas The Tank Engine? And if you tell us a Bike Race was involved.......

Please, tell me more


Rolling around the floor here Sark, I love you.

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Sark, I love you!

I posted that without seeing Tighty's post

Look to your laurels Tom, you have a rival.

er, sorry (strange minds think alike and all that)

we've all just been saying the same in our game chat!

schtop schtop...you are killing me.

One Christmas I received an annual with the 'Billys boots' story in it, I must have read that story every night for a year until I got a new one the next Christmas.....thankfully I managed to keep all savage horses away from it tho I did spill porridge over it one day.

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The books are about 50 or 60 years old.  They belonged to my Uncle, he gave them to me in perfect condition when I was about six or seven ( always a bad mistake to give a Kid expensive things ) .  I took them on holiday with me to St. Andrews in the caravan. One day I was messing around and carrying the books about with me. I couldn't read very well at that stage and was abit later than other kids at learning, so I just used to look at the pictures.  A horse was in the field next to the caravan, I leaned over and said  " nice horsey, look at Henry he is the Green engine ".  The horse must have thought it was an apple and bit it and walked off.  The Lady ran and got it of the Horse. But half of it was already gone.

Post of the DECADE. Give it it's own child baord.

Im crying here.....

what a savage!!!!

Sark for Prime Minister

Sark....love the comments!!    Keep them coming!   rotflmfao

the horse looked at a green illustration in a small book and thought it was an apple...........


Oh jeez, someone stop me bursting

I once had a horse, (a Shetland pony) that would grab your fingers between it's teeth, it didn't bite them hard, but it wouldn't let go. the only way to escape was to bite it's ear. It would roll it's eyes around and shuffle from foot to foot as you bit down harder and harder, then suddenly it would release you.

I used to get some very strange looks from passers by.

lol

I know Sark, completely ridiculous isn't it?


Tom, did you discover the ear thing by trial and error? what did you do before you discovered the ear thing?

Sark, I will be laughing at the image of a savage horse all night, you're bloody mental!

 rotflmfao I've not laughed so much in ages!

I was in a BAD mood, but Sark has cured me.

So, this horse mistook a Thomas The Tank Engine book for an apple, then, that what we saying.......?

As for Tom's story, this is just getting too silly. By what basis did you deduce that biting the Pony's ear would work, or did you think the Pony's ear was a Thomas The Tank Engine book? Which one would bite. Obviously.

It's actually a recognised way of calming skittish horses, the old blacksmiths used to do it. It has much the same effect as putting a twich on their nose, it's a sort of exquisite cross between plesure and pain that prevents them thinking about anything else

Sounds like poker......

So thats why i like getting my ears nibbled  rotflmfao

You may laugh, but yes, it's the same thing.

Oooooooo eeerrrrrrr...you learn something every day.

Next time a horse attacks your Thomas Tank nibble its ear  8)

lol  No I am a vegetarian.   

I said nibble...not eat it  ::)

yea I will try it  :D

I just found this article


It was a pretty common thing for people to have problems getting a saddle cinched up, or getting on the horse once saddled, because they were afraid, the horse sensed it, and would shy, or sometimes kick out. So dad would put his big arm over the horse's neck, lay his palm on the head with his fingers down the forehead, and bite the horses left ear. Not hard, mind you, but firm., the horses ear tight between dad's canines.  Now the owner could get in the saddle, or get the belly band cinched properly, and after a couple of times the owner got over his/her apprehension. I always figured they called guys like dad horse whisperers because of the ear thing. I guess it did look like dad was whispering to the horse- he was always careful never to let the owner see him bite. Maybe that's a trade secret I've given away, I don't know.

PLEASE PLEASE carry a camara at all times in future...we want photographic evidence  :D

I watch the Horse Whisperer and was amazed....you have shattered my illusions Red :-(

Ok, but you have to do the same when you get your ears nibbled

Long time since I have had my ears nibbled but I always have my trusty brownie on hand...just in case

A girl who worked for me came into the office one day with the biggest love-bite you ever saw, on her neck.

She had to deal face to face with customers, so I asked her to cover up her love-bite with a high-neck blouse, or scarf, or whatever.

She said it was not a love-bite, a horse had bitten her on her neck.....

I decided not to investigate any further.

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Her Dad worked for me too, & I had occasion to give him a final Warning for persistent lateness. (You could reprrimand, even sack people, in those days...).

He arrived late once too often, so I called him in.

Sorry John, I said, but this is too much, you are on a week's notice.

Nooo, he said, I can explain. I lost my false teeth on the train.

You did WHAT, I said, how that happen?

"I was sick, on the tube train, & as I threw up, my teeth fell out".

"Not buying that", I said, you could have just picked them up.

"No, you don't understand", he went on, "I  threw up out of the window, so my teeth fell into the tunnel, & I had to ask the Station Staff to collect them for me".

Well, if anyone remembers the opening windows on London Tube Tains - little 6" tall things, that opened about 3", at head height, you'd know it was just impossible to throw up via a tube train window.

But for the sheer ingenuity of his excuse, he kept his job. Many years later, he had THE most fearful & bizarre accident when working for me, so bizarre that it topped the train/teeth story by a mile, but this time it was, sadly, true. He recovered eventually (minus his manhood), & I got successfully prosecuted by the Health & Safety Executive for failing to supply him with bicycle clips....!

Work THAT one out.

You wern't breeding ferrets were you?

 :D  I am not going to ask.  It sounds too painful...    I don't want to have nightmares.   



ok.  go on then    explain.   bicycle clips?

Cleaning drains, actually.

Trust me Sark, you WOULD have nightmares of I told you the story. It was ghastly. I can think of no worse nightmare than what happened to this guy.

High pressure water up the pants leg?

ok.  It is probably better that way...  :D


good night

Trousers caught in compressor flywheel?

False teeth in pocket?

lol

Bicycle clips are worn at the base of the trouser.

They prevent your cloth getting caught up in the spokes and allow you to walk amongst ferrets in relative safety.

I used to spend a lot of time with a gamekeeper, on day, he went into a public toilet with his shotgun, and...BANG!

eeeeeek!!

Yes, he shit himself.

Got it in one Tom.

He was jetting a blocked drain with a high pressure - 4,000 lbs p.s.i - drain jetter. The nozzle on these rotate at high velocity, thrust forward by water pressure.

He was stood astride an open manhole cover, feeding the pipe down the drain, when it encountered a tough obstruction, & the pipe turned back on itself. At great speed, it exited the manhole, straight up his baggy trouser leg, right up to his groin, & the rest can be left to the imagination.

The accident occurred in Great Yarmouth of all places - what a pain THAT is to get to - & we ferried his wife across there daily to visit him in hossie for 8 weeks.

The HSE investigated, & I assumed we'd be cleared, it was one of those freak accidents. But they "found" against us, said we should have anticipated such an occurrence (what?) & fined us £3,000.

Accidents in Industry are not only painful, they are expensive.

We brushed up on Safety after that, & won the ROSPA Gold Award for Safety 7 years running.

eeeeeek!! :o

I saw a blokes thumb cut off by a pin-hole sized jet of hydraulic fluid

I have done many H&S courses and the general rule is that if you are hurt in the course of doing your job the company IS responsible, they then decide to what degree.

We have some of our alloys cut with water jets, i'm talking about 12" by 6" blocks of material resistant to heat, distortion etc. etc. and the water jets slice it like hot knives through butter.
Incredible technology.

Do you have any scrap?

One of our guys in the Joiners Shop somehow nailed himself to a full-sized sheet of plywood with a nail gun. We had a helluva job getting him in the ambulance, (he remained attached to the plywood) & eventualy the Fire Brigade arrived & reduced the sheet of plywood to a more manageable size. Painful experience for the poor fella.

Oh yes but you couldn't get rid of it!

That's abouit the size of it Ian. Even if the Operative manually over-rides the safety devices, the Employer is deemed responsible because the guy COULD.

I bet I could

A fella i knew who knew a fella la di da di da that got on a forklift truck he knew to be faulty, had an accident and the poor chap died.
Damages of around £100k were awarded to the family but he was deemed to be 75% responsible as he had knowingly operated a faulty truck, therefore the family got £25k.

Not legally!! :D
We use highly specialised alloys, some special mixes. Stuff such as:-
titanium, hastX, inco718, waspalloy, some of these contain as much as 50% nickel.
Nickel is a very expensive material but also a highly dangerous one if not handled correctly, it's a known carcinogen actually whereas tobacco isn't!!

I was once carrying a sheet of plywood accross a yard on a windy day. Suddely a huge gust caught me and I found myself running down the middle of a main road between two cars, all three of us were doing about 40 mph.

Funny, it never occurs to you to let go...

You didn't say it had to be done legally :(

Funny, in a former life i was a sheet metal worker and now work with extremely heavy rings (up to half a ton), one of the first things i learnt was to let go :D

Hey if you can get rid then i can get it, how about copper alloys?

This thread is becoming incriminating. Theres never a mod around when you need one!

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There's usually one lurking..........

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ello ello ello, what's going on here?

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I can't get over it

Sigh............Missing him already had to go for a wee trip.


For anyone wondering about references to savavge horses.

Superb Thread. Now, what was the ORIGINAL topic!!!