Things that time forgot.

[umslopogaas]

That's right, Pulcinella, as far as I recall ... though it was a long time ago! And now someone has mentioned it, I can recall the cod liver oil capsules and at one time I use to take them: I think my mum probably switched to them because it was easier to get the kids to take them than spoonfuls of oil.

[Richard Tarleton]

Tippex.

Pub quiz question - who invented Tippex and who was her probably more famous son?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Pub quiz question - who invented Tippex and who was her probably more famous son?

Ah, stop monkee-ing around!

[P. G. Tipps]

Pub quiz question - who invented Tippex and who was her probably more famous son?

Nope, not mammy and me ...

[french frank]

I would be tempted to give no marks: rubric infringement!

The nicest rubric infringement I had was a student continuing a line right out into the margin. Then, presumably noticing the rubric 'Do not write in the margin' he drew a balloon round the offending words and an arrow pointing them all back into the writing space. Nice try, but they were still in the margin….

[Gordon]

What about Concorde?

Tomorrow, as it happens, will be the 40th anniversary of Concorde's first commercial flight out of Heathrow, BA300 at 11.40 on January 21st 1976. Heading for New York you might think but no, it was off to Bahrain where it was very welcome.

After the Paris accident in 2000 - caused by runway debris - the whole flight was grounded for good in 2003. Technological marvel for its time but commercially rather dubious and of course the Yanks hated it [NIH] as did many others.

My company used to have an office on the Bath Road quite close to the North runway and around 11 am we'd stop and watch it take off - not because we could not work with the noise simply because as Engineers we never tired of looking at it.

[teamsaint]

What about Concorde?

Tomorrow, as it happens, will be the 40th anniversary of Concorde's first commercial flight out of Heathrow, BA300 at 11.40 on January 21st 1976. Heading for New York you might think but no, it was off to Bahrain where it was very welcome.

After the Paris accident in 2000 - caused by runway debris - the whole flight was grounded for good in 2003. Technological marvel for its time but commercially rather dubious and of course the Yanks hated it [NIH] as did many others.

My company used to have an office on the Bath Road quite close to the North runway and around 11 am we'd stop and watch it take off - not because we could not work with the noise simply because as Engineers we never tired of looking at it.

I'm not a keen flyer, but there was something about Concorde....

Very popular subject in print, and I did a bit of work related research, ( well actually I was just interested ) about the commercial reasons for the ending of flights.

There are many theories of course, but the most convincing was just that BA thought they could make more money selling first class tickets on Jumbo jets

So odd to think that this technology has been and gone commercially, for now at least.

Did somebody mention Ekranoplans?.......

[LeMartinPecheur]

What about Concorde?

Tomorrow, as it happens, will be the 40th anniversary of Concorde's first commercial flight out of Heathrow, BA300 at 11.40 on January 21st 1976. Heading for New York you might think but no, it was off to Bahrain where it was very welcome.

After the Paris accident in 2000 - caused by runway debris - the whole flight was grounded for good in 2003. Technological marvel for its time but commercially rather dubious and of course the Yanks hated it [NIH] as did many others.

My company used to have an office on the Bath Road quite close to the North runway and around 11 am we'd stop and watch it take off - not because we could not work with the noise simply because as Engineers we never tired of looking at it.

I feel privileged to have heard its sonic boom for a good while after we moved to Kernowland. Wouldn't say we set our clocks by it, but it was some sort of reference (reverence?) point in the day...

[Bryn]

I feel privileged to have heard its sonic boom for a good while after we moved to Kernowland. Wouldn't say we set our clocks by it, but it was some sort of reference (reverence?) point in the day...

Damned noisy, fuel-guzzling monstrosity. I was glad to see/hear the last of it (though the rusting hulk of one was very much on show at Hatton Cross last year).

[LeMartinPecheur]

Damned noisy, fuel-guzzling monstrosity. I was glad to see/hear the last of it (though the rusting hulk of one was very much on show at Hatton Cross last year).

Happily, one of the prototypes (002) is treated with greater kindness at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton...



...even though the carrier version never quite got off the drawing-board...

[EdgeleyRob]

Spot the ball
Football rattles
Half time scoreboards like this

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Mass produced British cars.

[teamsaint]

Spot the ball
Football rattles
Half time scoreboards like this

I tried and failed to post a piccie of a scoreboard the other day.

At the Dell the board was along the side of the pitch,and the scores weren't very easy to see, so you really just had an estimate of the score at other games.
i assume the point was to make you buy a programmes for the key to the fixtures.....

[EdgeleyRob]

I tried and failed to post a piccie of a scoreboard the other day.

At the Dell the board was along the side of the pitch,and the scores weren't very easy to see, so you really just had an estimate of the score at other games.
i assume the point was to make you buy a programmes for the key to the fixtures.....

yes,that was the only way to crack the code !

[french frank]

Talking about sausage dogs and draught excluders earlier, anyone remember that "sausage dog" on television - I think they used to manipulate his throat a bit and he would growl: "Shoshidges" ? Perhaps the Esther Rantzen programme … ?