Whatever happened to......?

[Segilla]

How I wish it were possible to ask what had happened to Jock McWoffle who regularly irritates the nation on the Radio 4 Today programme.

[Segilla]

Kensitas.

Some packets of which (20's?) had a compartment glued to the sides:-

... and four for your friends.

Nowdays I imagine it would read:-

... and four for your enemies.

[scottycelt]

World-class Scottish footballers ...

[teamsaint]

World-class Scottish footballers ...

this has been bothering me !!why? back in the day (60's /70's for me) you always had a few top class ones, and the league was full of good scottish Pros...the Saints always seemed to have 2 or 3 at least.

There is something very wrong with the production line up there...........why do you think this is?

[mangerton]

no, really ???

(X-ray machines in shoe shops)

Yes! I remember them. You climbed up two steps, stood on a platform, and put your feet (encased in your possible new shoes) into a hole at the bottom. You looked down on to a green cathode ray (TV type) screen and you could see your toes. There were two other viewing windows, one for the shop assistant, and one for your mother*. You would then be instructed to "wiggle your toes" to ensure there was enough room in the shoes.

These machines were removed when the dangers of high exposure to X-rays became better understood.

* Not sexist - that's how things were in the fifties.

[scottycelt]

this has been bothering me !!why? back in the day (60's /70's for me) you always had a few top class ones, and the league was full of good scottish Pros...the Saints always seemed to have 2 or 3 at least.

There is something very wrong with the production line up there...........why do you think this is?

I don't think anyone really knows, teamsaint.

So many theories have been put forward. The Republic of Ireland and Wales now produce better footballers than Scotland which was certainly not the case in my youth. Then we used to go to places like Spain and win 6-2 ... now it's much more likely to be the other way around. Admittedly the Spanish and other countries were much weaker then but they've progressed and we Scots have taken mighty leaps backwards

There are a lot of foreign players (second, third-rate) north of the border and some say that might be a reason (excuse), but my own feeling is that is merely a symptom of the national problem.

If I were those in the SFA I'd employ a few Dutchmen to advise/set-up youth systems that they successfully run in Holland. If a small country like that can produce such good players it's time we learned a thing or two from the experts and stopped constantly wringing our hands over this current embarrassing failure ...

[umslopogaas]

#65 Angle

Teeth
Eyes
Taste
Everything

#75 mercia

"The Bard of Mersey"


Would that be Roger McGough? It sounds to me more like Samuel Beckett. "Endgame" page 16:

HAMM: Nature has forgotten us.
CLOV: There's no more nature.
HAMM: No more nature! You exaggerate.
CLOV: In the vicinity.
HAMM: But we breathe, we change! We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom! Our ideals!
CLOV: Then she hasnt forgotten us.

[amateur51]

Matthew Kelly

Dmitiri Alexeev

Matthew Kelly is very much alive & kicking having gone back to his acting roots. He's done lots of theatre work ( Trevor Griffiths' Comedians and Steinbeck's Of Mice & Men' and Beckett's Waiting for Godot all in London in the last 4 years I think) and he's done some impressive TV stuff too. Worth watching out for

[mercia]

#65 Angle

Teeth
Eyes
Taste
Everything

#75 mercia

"The Bard of Mersey"

Would that be Roger McGough?

erm no, I was referring to our Mr Angle coming from Liverpool - Bard of Avon / Mersey - sort of ...........All the world's a stage ............

[mangerton]

#65 Angle

Teeth
Eyes
Taste
Everything

#75 mercia

"The Bard of Mersey"


Would that be Roger McGough? It sounds to me more like Samuel Beckett.

Is it not Jacques from "As You Like It"?

"Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."

(Crossed posts - as mercia has just said)

[Flay]

What happened to caterpillars in lettuces?

[Serial_Apologist]

What happened to caterpillars in lettuces?

I suppose their absence, if that is what it is, is ascribable to a general dwindling in numbers of insects, especially butterflies - of which I only spotted five all this year, despite our having three buddleia in our garden.

[umslopogaas]

#85 mangerton

"Is it not Jacques from 'As You Like It'?"

Oh, you literary people do set the bar rather high. You must have done it for 'O' level. I did 'Julius Caesar', but not very well, we science types didnt have much time for serious literature, we were too busy with the anatomy of the dogfish. Yuk, the smell of formaldehyde! And those damn cranial nerves are VERY difficult to reveal satisfactorily.

I think it could be, I dont go there often but just to check, I got out the family Shakespeare and indeed, in 'As You Like It' Act 2 Scene 7,

"Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."

I expect Beckett had read it.

[ahinton]

I think it could be, I dont go there often but just to check, I got out the family Shakespeare and indeed, in 'As You Like It' Act 2 Scene 7,

"Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."

I expect Beckett had read it.

Ah, yes, les sept ages - as truncated / abbreviated some 2½ centuries later by Alkan in his magnificent (if somewhat immature) Grande Sonate, Les Quatre Ages...

[Vile Consort]

(X-ray machines in shoe shops)

Yes! I remember them. You climbed up two steps, stood on a platform, and put your feet (encased in your possible new shoes) into a hole at the bottom. You looked down on to a green cathode ray (TV type) screen and you could see your toes. There were two other viewing windows, one for the shop assistant, and one for your mother*. You would then be instructed to "wiggle your toes" to ensure there was enough room in the shoes.

These machines were removed when the dangers of high exposure to X-rays became better understood.

* Not sexist - that's how things were in the fifties.

When you think about all the performance there is at the dentist's when they take an X-ray of a tooth - which uses a much lower power X-ray source than those machines in the shoe shops, and only operating for a second or two ... those machines must have caused a lot of deaths.