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Postby dbcunnz » Mon Sep 08, 2014 3:54 pm

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Postby steelsporran » Mon Sep 08, 2014 4:00 pm

So keep your mobile on in the cinema then?
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Postby Ian Warren » Mon Sep 08, 2014 4:27 pm

I caught that classic and peoples dumbness , least this women ... a major car-park directly onto a major intersection onto Wiamarri Rd to Riccarton Rd ... the dumbie was so engrossed with the cellphone held traffic up for three cycles ... Brain death obviously occurred , I do not own a cellphone .. I did write the plate down and reported to the Police soon as i got home ... 5 minutes away from my home... Would have been great to carry a camera then !
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Postby omitchell » Mon Sep 08, 2014 4:35 pm

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So keep your mobile on in the cinema then?


I carry a bag of small, hard lollies when I go to the movies and throw them at peoples heads when they use their mobiles in the theatre...
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Postby cowpatz » Mon Sep 08, 2014 4:40 pm

I had my mobile switched on in the movie theatre yesterday......but on silent, and only because I was on call for a small part of the movie duration.
Note to self: Wear hard hat to movies smile.gif
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Postby Ian Warren » Mon Sep 08, 2014 4:47 pm

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Note to self: Wear hard hat to movies smile.gif

biggrin.gif , Yeah the old trick .. Sunday Midnight Horrors ... ways back in the late 1970s at the top end of Riccarton road (hagley park end) .... Hard Hats had not been invented back then .. INCOMING rolleyes.gif
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Postby steelsporran » Mon Sep 08, 2014 5:15 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
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biggrin.gif .. Sunday Midnight Horrors ... ways back in the late 1970s at the top end of Riccarton road rolleyes.gif


I used to go to a similar thing in UK in the 60s and I kid you not, the usherette used to come down the aisle with a german shepherd excl.gif
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Postby cowpatz » Mon Sep 08, 2014 5:46 pm

I can recall at the old Metro cinema in Mangere East whereby we used to suck some of the hard shell off the jaffas and biff them at the screen or roll the hard ones down the wooden floor.
The seats were not bolted to the floor but instead would be attached about 5 seats to a plank so that they could be moved and the theatre used for dancing. Often idiots would rock back and forth in the seats and every so often there would be one hell of a crash as they went over.
I have lost count of the number of times that the lights would come on and the Manager would brave the jaffas to tell us all off.
Now that's back when the Sat matinee was 20c not $20 and a good sized bag of sweets was 5c.....and they had fake cigarettes and all the stuff banned by the PC brigade
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Postby Ian Warren » Mon Sep 08, 2014 6:14 pm

steelsporran wrote:
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I used to go to a similar thing in UK in the 60s and I kid you not, the usherette used to come down the aisle with a german shepherd excl.gif

Jimmy Jillickers ... would have been funny if the kids turned the dog into a softy .. , people going to the pictures with Dog treats smile.gif

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I have lost count of the number of times that the lights would come on and the Manager would brave the jaffas to tell us all off.
Now that's back when the Sat matinee was 20c not $20 and a good sized bag of sweets was 5c.....and they had fake cigarettes and all the stuff banned by the PC brigade

Yeah .. Death by Jaffa ! .. those were amazing days ... looking at the old style roofs in the buildings , Fake Cigarettes .. they were very tasty .. even the packet with .
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Postby emfrat » Mon Sep 08, 2014 6:52 pm

Six decades ago, we could get into the kids' Saturday morning show for threepence. In real money, that was either one lemonade bottle, or two two-pound jam jars, or six one-pound ones, or any combination that added up to threepence. You took them to the grocer and got cash in exchange, as a returned deposit paid on the full container. If we had any extra pocket money, the thing was to get an orange drink which came in a squarish plastic carton with a cardboard lid. If you were careful inserting the straw, once the drink was finished you could crush the carton and fire the wet straw about six rows forward laugh.gif
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Postby Ian Warren » Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:08 pm

Funny you look at it, when I was 6-10 I guess it was the early Sunday morning radio .. "Sparky and the talking train" and "Flick the little Fire engine" ...
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Postby deeknow » Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:21 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
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Funny you look at it, when I was 6-10 I guess it was the early Sunday morning radio .. "Sparky and the talking train" and "Flick the little Fire engine" ...

Now you're talking Ian, yeah I used to listen to that EVERY weekend when I was a kid, I swear it was just as riveting every time we listened to it smile.gif
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Postby Fozzer » Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:59 pm

omitchell wrote:
QUOTE (omitchell @ Sep 8 2014,5:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I carry a bag of small, hard lollies when I go to the movies and throw them at peoples heads when they use their mobiles in the theatre...


..... laugh.gif .... laugh.gif ....!

Wonderful!

My mobile phone is permanently switched off, wherever I am.

I just carry it to phone the breakdown service if my motorbike decides to sulk when I am out and about!

I only use my trusty, home, land-line phone, for all my other voice communications.

I can never get the hang of using a mobile phone.
Every time is dial it, and press a button, I find I only get a photograph of my left ear...
What a waste of bloody time!

I hate the bloody annoying things to bits!.... angry.gif ...!
I don't need to have someone mobile phoning me, whenever THEY feel like it!

The silence is wonderful!....Trust me!.... biggrin.gif ...!

Paul...The Destroyer Of Mobile Phones..... winkyy.gif ....!
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Postby dbcunnz » Mon Sep 08, 2014 9:01 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Sep 8 2014,8:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Funny you look at it, when I was 6-10 I guess it was the early Sunday morning radio .. "Sparky and the talking train" and "Flick the little Fire engine" ...

Is that where telecom got their SPARKS from ninja.gif
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Postby Ian Warren » Mon Sep 08, 2014 9:58 pm

dbcunnz wrote:
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Is that where telecom got their SPARKS from ninja.gif

Not to bright aye ..
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Postby Splitpin » Mon Sep 08, 2014 10:09 pm

"I used to listen to that EVERY weekend when I was a kid" .... me to , and dont forget little toot smile.gif "your a big toot now , little toot"
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Postby Fozzer » Mon Sep 08, 2014 10:36 pm

...and lest we forget Sparky's Magic Piano!...>>>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jo2iul54A4

Childhood memories....wonderful stuff!.... biggrin.gif ...!

I can remember my childhood back in the 1930's...!

(Now, I just wish I could remember where I left my car keys, 30 seconds ago!).... sad.gif ...!

Paul.... biggrin.gif ....!

..and I bet this will make you laugh...trust me!.... laugh.gif ....>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI1nPd7hezM
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Postby Ian Warren » Mon Sep 08, 2014 11:51 pm

Splitpin wrote:
QUOTE (Splitpin @ Sep 8 2014,11:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
"I used to listen to that EVERY weekend when I was a kid" .... me to , and dont forget little toot smile.gif "your a big toot now , little toot"

Help me Sparky , Help me sparky .... TOOT TOOT .. .. we live in the lost world !
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