How long do you hold out against the tide of Christmas?

[Beef Oven!]

Yep - there were two "models": the posh one (which had a handle and a swivelling head so that left-handers could use it, and you didn't have to brush upwards to clean it) and the travel version (the one I have) with no handle, so you have to check where the arrow is to save making extra work for yourself. IIRC, we got it in 1974 - the same year as Mudd's lonely Christmas.

Good heavens! I hadn't realised we were middle class - I bought my mum the 'posh' one!!

[teamsaint]

I always did.

Remember the "Buttoneer"? Two prods with a plastic thingy and your button was sewn back on, or something...


EDIT: That was Ronco... http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/ronco/buttoneer.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN2ttNu3F_M

The buttoneer might do nicely in this Body piercing obsessed age. I wonder what body piercings Board Members have?

[teamsaint]

Good heavens! I hadn't realised we were middle class - I bought my mum the 'posh' one!!

Its not what you buy, its where you buy it.
Catalogue?
Xmas Club?
Woolies?
department store?
Market?

[Beef Oven!]

Good heavens! I hadn't realised we were middle class - I bought my mum the 'posh' one!!

And diversity-aware. Left-handed men (dad) could brush lint too!

[amateur51]

Its not what you buy, its where you buy it.
Catalogue?
Xmas Club?
Woolies?
department store?
Market?

Dodgy Trevor down the Broken Wicket?

[Beef Oven!]

Its not what you buy, its where you buy it.
Catalogue?
Xmas Club?
Woolies?
department store?
Market?

Some shop in Mare Street near St John's Church where I saw Tim Hecker and Biosphere recently (gratuitous plug for electronic music).

[Serial_Apologist]

... sewn back onto the shirt it had come off - and the vest you were wearing underneath, too. Hours of fun for the whole family

Passed me by completely. Gosh, think of time I could have saved trying to pass rich men through eyes of camels, tch!

[Nick Armstrong]

Hours of fun for the whole family

Is that an "organ in your pocket" or are you just glad it's Christmas?

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/stylophone.htm

[Serial_Apologist]

Is that an "organ in your pocket" or are you just glad it's Christmas?

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/stylophone.htm

Unfortunate timing, that link...

[vinteuil]

Is that an "organ in your pocket" or are you just glad it's Christmas?

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/stylophone.htm

... at this rate I ca'n't see our Caliban getting his place on a High Court bench - not only does he wear a tee-shirt and use tea-bags (is there some connection?), he seems alarmingly well acquainted with many aspects of popular culture....



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[Nick Armstrong]

Unfortunate timing, that link...

[amateur51]

"Can you see what it is yet?"

[Nick Armstrong]

.. he seems alarmingly well acquainted with many aspects of popular culture....

Just one word:

[Beef Oven!]

Just one word:

The health and safety fascists would lock you up for selling such a thing these days! How many broken wrists or deaths do you remember from this 'lethal' toy?

[pastoralguy]

I have worked the last 15 Christmas's on the trot since many of my colleagues have (or had) young children. However, if you worked Christmas Day you got Boxing Day off. I LOVED leaving a note at the nurses station that said '363 Shopping day to Christmas!'