paulon 7:01 Thu Apr 22
Les McKeown has ceased Rolling
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Terrible band but can't argue with 120m records sold
Derek LONGMUIR
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ATBOG
12:42 Fri Apr 23
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Special lemon curd xmas edition?
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oioi
12:20 Fri Apr 23
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Don't beat around the bush, they were the Robinson's Gollywogs. I had one, he was holding a lemon. No idea why.
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Crassus
11:22 Thu Apr 22
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Moving on from Nursey's growler, anyone have one of those metal pin badges that the good people at Robinsons Jam would send you if you submitted a number of labels?
Wonder if i wrote a nice letter they would send me another for old times sake?
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wd40
11:20 Thu Apr 22
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Westham scarf on one wrist a tartan on the other walking into the south bank.
Who wants some!
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oioi
11:19 Thu Apr 22
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I worked with him for a day in 1979. He carried a load of signed pictures of himself to hand out to fans. He loved himself. I didn't like him.
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Nurse Ratched
11:17 Thu Apr 22
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Yep, that's another of my 'adverse childhood experiences'.
No off-colour remarks, please.
(I know what you're up to, Royal)
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joe royal
11:14 Thu Apr 22
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I did like the story of nurse joining the Dennis the menace fan club but never received her hairy gnasher.
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only1billybonds
11:05 Thu Apr 22
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Poplar Civic Theatre ( oddly on Bow rd) every Tuesday night circa 1974 for the disco. Tartan scarf,high waistband pin stripe strides and a tank top.
The 70's were fucking great.
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Crassus
11:00 Thu Apr 22
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Tony Gubba 10:16 Thu Apr 22
Outstanding, hehe
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WHU(Exeter)
10:24 Thu Apr 22
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Ag ag ag!...that's brilliant.
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Tony Gubba
10:16 Thu Apr 22
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A few years later than the BCRs but I recall going to school as an 8 year old in a Madness trilby and a home-made ‘Gertcha’ badge. I must have looked a right cunt.
The look was augmented by my riding an ‘outrider’ around the estate - this contraption being a cheap plastic bastardisation of a skateboard that you couldn’t actually stand up on. My old man got it from someone at the docks - ‘it’s new from America, it’s going to be the next big thing’. Cool kids took the piss as I shuffled off down the street like a limbless hobo on trolley platform.
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Nurse Ratched
9:47 Thu Apr 22
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I am enjoying this thread.
No offence, Les.
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riosleftsock
9:24 Thu Apr 22
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I remember me and my mates using our sisters make up to go out looking like Adam and the Ants.
Obviously I just rocked it.
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Nurse Ratched
9:14 Thu Apr 22
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I was a good kid, never in trouble. Doing well at school. I was just socially awkward.
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Crassus
9:11 Thu Apr 22
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Nurse
Genuine question, when you were a yoot, were you diagnosed and collectively acknowledged as a 'Sperg' (as you referred) or just a little shit?
We had lots of little shits but none classified with an 'ism' or such
Intrigued to know, was it just a symptom of my upbringing or did these tags appear after
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Mike Oxsaw
9:04 Thu Apr 22
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Nothing on the front page of the BBC website.
Too close to Jimmy Savile?
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Nurse Ratched
9:04 Thu Apr 22
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I've known my kids' dad since we were kids ourselves. A group of us were in the park and I watched him borrow a bike of another boy with the intention of doing a 'jump', Evel Knievel style, over the stream running through the park. For some reason we were all really surprised when he planted his head into the side of the bank, soaked from head to foot. He must have had at least half a dozen concussions as a child. It explains a lot.
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WHU(Exeter)
8:53 Thu Apr 22
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IT didn't stop there, somewhere in the middle of The Bay City Rollers and Happy Days fixation I can also remember the first time I learnt to ride a 'proper' bike, instead of some kids version. I was proud as punch to have done a couple of laps of some wasteland on a Chopper, only to then have it pointed out that I'd actually completed the course on the kids 'chipper' version of the real thing....that devastated me for days.
Imagine that happening to one of the Bay City Rollers or the Fonz?..just wouldn't happen.
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Nurse Ratched
8:45 Thu Apr 22
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Arf!
Right, who else was an embarrassingly rubbish kid with dodgy cultural instincts?
At least as a Sperg, I had an excuse.
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WHU(Exeter)
8:35 Thu Apr 22
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Nurse, I was about same age, 7 or 8 and remember trying to get my Mum to cut up a tartan dressing gown and then sew tartan squares onto my jeans. Thankfully she always refused.
A couple of years later I was also determined to save up enough money (mainly by turning settees up and down to find coins) to buy a black leather jacket from BHS...the plan then was to paint 'The Fonz' on the back in white paint.
The nadir to it all was reached a few years after that when I became a fully signed up member of Toyah's fan club.
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Mike Oxsaw
8:29 Thu Apr 22
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*dismisses forever any thoughts about posting on the "My first post" thread.*
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