Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[KarmaDope]

West Brom keeper John Osborne having a ciggie during a league game in '72.

Was he taking time out from his other job with Black Sabbath?

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How about these for wonderful 'photos?

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I love the one of the leopard seal ppppicking up a penguin.

I didn't realise they were so big. (Leopard seals, not ppppenguins) 

[tikay]

I love the one of the leopard seal ppppicking up a penguin.

I didn't realise they were so big. (Leopard seals, not ppppenguins) 

I think it's more a case of penguins being much much smaller than we imagine them to be.

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I love the one of the leopard seal ppppicking up a penguin.

I didn't realise they were so big. (Leopard seals, not ppppenguins) 

I think it's more a case of penguins being much much smaller than we imagine them to be.

Yes. They are definitely massively smaller than they were when I was a lad.

[tikay]

Something not quite right about the term massively smaller.

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Something not quite right about the term massively smaller.

Well I got it from one of the top three blonde wordsmiths. (It wasn't Tal or Ralph)

[tikay]

Something not quite right about the term massively smaller.

Well I got it from one of the top three blonde wordsmiths. (It wasn't Tal or Ralph)

Yes, I sensed something nirvane-esque about it. I avoid tangling with him, way too erudite for me.

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Something not quite right about the term massively smaller.

Well I got it from one of the top three blonde wordsmiths. (It wasn't Tal or Ralph)

Yes, I sensed something nirvane-esque about it. I avoid tangling with him, way too erudite for me.

Nirvana is to erudition as Norman Borlaug is to wheat.

[Rod Paradise]

I love the one of the leopard seal ppppicking up a penguin.

I didn't realise they were so big. (Leopard seals, not ppppenguins) 

I think it's more a case of penguins being much much smaller than we imagine them to be.

Up to about 11.5 ft - so big buggers. Only one recorded case of them killing someone, a snorkeller was dragged about 70m deep.

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I do miss the old pounds, shillings & pence. Saw this today on Danny Baker's Twitter;



Last echoes of a vanishing way of speech. Talking of a record he should have bought, friend of mine just said,

"Bloke on the stall wanted 4 and 6 for it but I only had 3 and 8 and he wouldn't budge."

Folks under 30 would have no idea what that meant.

[tonytats]

I do miss the old pounds, shillings & pence. Saw this today on Danny Baker's Twitter;



Last echoes of a vanishing way of speech. Talking of a record he should have bought, friend of mine just said,

"Bloke on the stall wanted 4 and 6 for it but I only had 3 and 8 and he wouldn't budge."

Folks under 30 would have no idea what that meant.

I still  talk about 2 Bob n a pickled onion
Ten Bob
17 n 6 for a loaf of bread
Half a crown - they were massive coins to an 8-9 year old
Thruppenny bits

[Simon Galloway]

Thruppenny bits

Plenty of those still in circulation to marvel at.

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Thruppenny bits

Plenty of those still in circulation to marvel at.

Ha, I wondered who'd be in first with that. I had Marky as 1/3 favourite.

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I do miss the old pounds, shillings & pence. Saw this today on Danny Baker's Twitter;



Last echoes of a vanishing way of speech. Talking of a record he should have bought, friend of mine just said,

"Bloke on the stall wanted 4 and 6 for it but I only had 3 and 8 and he wouldn't budge."

Folks under 30 would have no idea what that meant.

Don't flatter yourself. My 40yos don't know what it means.

They can't work out why he needs an extra 10 pence to make 3 and 8 into 4 and 6.