Things that time forgot.

[vinteuil]

Conversations with total strangers on trains.



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.... ah, but you have to be careful -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangers_on_a_Train_(film)

[Alain Maréchal]

The jetfoil service from Oostende to Dover. A civilised crossing, with a train from Cologne via Aix, Verviers, Liege, Leuven, Bruxelles, Gand, Bruges and then the boat train to Victoria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VeLinx126k

[vinteuil]

... welfare orange juice

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/81/ed/c4/81edc4a2b66a1d02b93e512d8d4c77c6.jpg

[P. G. Tipps]

The family budgerigar, Jocky, who fell off his perch suddenly and unexpectedly in 1968 ...

[Beef Oven!]

The family budgerigar, Jocky, who fell off his perch suddenly and unexpectedly in 1968 ...

Pets were cheaper in those days. We had a budgie and tortoise, but no indoor toilet or a bathroom - I think my dad had his priorities right!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The jetfoil service from Oostende to Dover. A civilised crossing, with a train from Cologne via Aix, Verviers, Liege, Leuven, Bruxelles, Gand, Bruges and then the boat train to Victoria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VeLinx126k

This one passed me by, but when I lived on the Isle of Wight, I travelled on the Cowes-Southampton hovercraft regularly.

What happened to that particular invention?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What happened to that particular invention?

The Channel Tunnel, chiefly.

[teamsaint]

This one passed me by, but when I lived on the Isle of Wight, I travelled on the Cowes-Southampton hovercraft regularly.

What happened to that particular invention?

there are two scheduled Hovercraft services, AFAIK.
Portsmouth to Ryde.
and one in Sierra Leone.

[Serial_Apologist]

there are two scheduled Hovercraft services, AFAIK.
Portsmouth to Ryde.
and one in Sierra Leone.

The second one of which would be no good for crossing the Channel.

[teamsaint]

Boards in WH Smith which had the top 20 singles and albums on.

The boards had holes, and the titles were made up of plastic letters rearranged every week into the new chart.
Those type of boards must have had a name.

I guess that is what inspired the title of Blondie's second album.

[teamsaint]

Paper sheets pinned up on the wall in The bookies, with the runners for each race.
And some daft sod walking along , listening to the tannoy and writing the odds out in marker pen .
In a thick haze of fag smoke.

[Pulcinella]

Boards in WH Smith which had the top 20 singles and albums on.

The boards had holes, and the titles were made up of plastic letters rearranged every week into the new chart.
Those type of boards must have had a name.

I guess that is what inspired the title of Blondie's second album.

Surely these still appear (though often with letters missing) in pubs, chip shops, take-away joints?

Reminded me of John Bull printing kits though. (Might have been mentioned before.)
They seem to have died, but something similar is still available:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shiny-S-200-Printing-Character-Height/dp/B002QQM5TK/ref=pd_lpo_21_tr_t_2/280-6016090-9342144?ie=UTF8&refRID=BZC73GATWRMR4JYJMQ0D

Didn't we all go through a phase of stamping our names in our books?

[MrGongGong]

The second one of which would be no good for crossing the Channel.

Surely that depends on the wind speed and direction?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Surely these still appear (though often with letters missing) in pubs, chip shops, take-away joints?

They used to be very popular in Cine Clubs - amateur film-makers putting titles on their Super-8 holiday films. (I think Super-8 has already featured on this Thread.)

Didn't we all go through a phase of stamping our names in our books?

Yes, but kids in our school used Letraset (which I think has been mentioned. We were poor - I had to use a potato, which had the vantage of being chippable once the requisite initials had been universally stamped.

[Dave2002]

Surely these still appear (though often with letters missing) in pubs, chip shops, take-away joints?

Reminded me of John Bull printing kits though. (Might have been mentioned before.)
They seem to have died, but something similar is still available:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shiny-S-200-Printing-Character-Height/dp/B002QQM5TK/ref=pd_lpo_21_tr_t_2/280-6016090-9342144?ie=UTF8&refRID=BZC73GATWRMR4JYJMQ0D

The circular logo feature of the new kit seems neat, but otherwise it looks expensive, and one could ask why one would want/need one.