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26-08-2009, 09:16pm
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(26-08-2009, 07:55pm)Volvi Wrote: Do you remember when - filling up your Holden HQ Monaro LS Coupe V8 308 cost less then $5 for a full tank? Super @5.9c a litre, I do.
Shit yeah..... I had a 253 HG. I drove it to work every day & out to my GF's place almost every night. Would have been a total of around 450klm per week. Used to cost me $25/wk in fuel. My old man was horrified  at how much money I spent on fuel........
That same car I raced at Surfurs paradise against Victor Bray - & beat him.... 
Was a loooong time ago......
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26-08-2009, 10:53pm
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... and what about the TV shows....
Lost in Space
Lone Ranger
The western series with Clint Eastwood (forgot the name)
Paladin
Flintstones - oooohhh Wilma...  ! (I was young!)
I Love Lucy
The Honeymooners
Rin Tin Tin
Shintaro
Munsters (first show in US history to show a husband and wife sleeping in the same bed - true!)
Adamms Family
(I'd like to point out that I've only heard of some of the older shows *cough*)
nice reading guys
Shintaro...wow that took me baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.
:-)
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How about:
Lassie
Six Million Dollar Man
Skippy
Land of the giants
I remember playing Hop-scotch on the road, catching the train to Cabramatta and to Luna Park without fear of 
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I REMEMBER.....................MONKY MAGIC..................H R PUFF N STUFF.........THE PHANTOM.................DR WHO
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(26-08-2009, 10:53pm)Astro Wrote: ... and what about the TV shows....
Lost in Space
Lone Ranger
The western series with Clint Eastwood (forgot the name)
Paladin
Flintstones - oooohhh Wilma... ! (I was young!)
I Love Lucy
The Honeymooners
Rin Tin Tin
Shintaro
Munsters (first show in US history to show a husband and wife sleeping in the same bed - true!)
Adamms Family
(I'd like to point out that I've only heard of some of the older shows *cough*)
Rawhide. (Crint Eastwood)
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27-08-2009, 07:30pm
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(26-08-2009, 10:53pm)Astro Wrote: ... and what about the TV shows....
Lost in Space
Lone Ranger
The western series with Clint Eastwood (forgot the name)
Paladin
Flintstones - oooohhh Wilma... ! (I was young!)
I Love Lucy
The Honeymooners
Rin Tin Tin
Shintaro
Munsters (first show in US history to show a husband and wife sleeping in the same bed - true!)
Adamms Family
(I'd like to point out that I've only heard of some of the older shows *cough*)
The Banana Splits - Fleegle, Drooper, Bingo and Snorky. Same show "OH OH CHONGO It's Danger Island"
Green Acres
Point of View - Bob Santa-Maria
Cisco Kid
World Championship Wrestling
Epic Theatre
Deadly Earnest
Wild Kingdom
The Samuri (Shintaro) with Tombay his ninja mate!
The Green Hornet - With Bruce Lee as Kato
Woman,where's my wallet?
And whats for tea?
Bob Santa-Maria and Deadley Earnest.
Deadly used to scare the crap out of me.
I searched a while back for pics but nothing to be found...:-(
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Welcome to the Hayabusa Owners Old Folks Home. You guys are dragging up memories so old you should have dementia by now and have forgotten them all.
If it's too loud....You're too old!
If it's too fast....You're too old!
If it's too sexy....You're ???
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(27-08-2009, 03:24pm)kawasuki Wrote: (26-08-2009, 10:53pm)Astro Wrote: ... and what about the TV shows....
Lost in Space
Lone Ranger
The western series with Clint Eastwood (forgot the name)
Paladin
Flintstones - oooohhh Wilma... ! (I was young!)
I Love Lucy
The Honeymooners
Rin Tin Tin
Shintaro
Munsters (first show in US history to show a husband and wife sleeping in the same bed - true!)
Adamms Family
(I'd like to point out that I've only heard of some of the older shows *cough*)
Rawhide. (Crint Eastwood)
Ahhh... that's it Ray... Rawhide! Head 'em up move 'em out Raw hide!
How good is the internet.
Everything you wanted to know about deadley Earnest and more.
There's even a 3 min Youtube old vid of him!
Now I can show my kids waht I have been talking about all these years!!
:-)
http://au.geocities.com/rocket42au/deadly/DE-MEL1.html
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Ok - I'm old, but I'm not old enough to remember any of this stuff.
It is pure history though from around the 1500's.
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water.
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying. It's raining cats and dogs.
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a thresh hold.
(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat.
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a ...dead ringer.
And that's the truth. Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! !
"If time catches up with you. You're going too slow!"
Regards BUSGO
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Remember when you worked on a building site without OH&S!!!!!!
Woman,where's my wallet?
And whats for tea?
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(30-08-2009, 06:38pm)Gassick Wrote: Remember when you worked on a building site without OH&S!!!!!!
Yes, but people cared and had the time to care about what they were building, materials were of a better quality, asbestos was not known to be a killer.....oh how things have changed. 
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(30-08-2009, 07:52pm)BabyBusa Wrote: (30-08-2009, 06:38pm)Gassick Wrote: Remember when you worked on a building site without OH&S!!!!!!
Yes, but people cared and had the time to care about what they were building, materials were of a better quality, asbestos was not known to be a killer.....oh how things have changed.
$8 to fill my old EJ stationwagon
Paid $24 a week as a 1st year apprentice.
As the sage saying goes "The older I get, the better I was!?
Good weather, good woman, good road, good bike, good-bye!!
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