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25th August 2022, 05:35 AM
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How goods your memory ?
About 9 months ago I received a card made up from snippets out of newspapers for the year 1962 as these were actual snippets and before the reader points out the obvious mistakes such as Queen Elizabeth 11 any Scotsman up in arms about false info. Take it up with the news media of the time. Anyhow this collection of facts is Titled 1962 and marked up as 4d. Limited Edition .
Highlights. World Population. Chinese Zodiac
Monarch Q.E. 11. 3.15 Billion. Year of the Tiger
Pope John XX111
P..M. Harold MacMillan
Pres. John F. Kennedy
Headlines
The Sunday. Times is the first
Paper to print in colour. And Panda
Crossings are introduced causing
Confusion for drivers and pedestrians
Due to their complexity. Beatles play
Their first. Session at Abbey. Road .
First showing of Quiz show University
Challenge. John and Gwenneth are
Married 27 January 27 January .
Average Prices
House 2670 pounds
Newspaper 1.5 p
Salary 799 pounds
Pint 11.5 p
Petrol gallon 25 p
Pint of milk 6.5 p
Famous Births Tom Cruise, Steve Irwin, Jon Bon Jovi, Jodie Foster, Suzanne Collins,
Oscar winners Best Picture West Side Story, Best Actor Maximilian Schell, best Actress Sophia Loren,Best Director Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.
Sporting News Football League Ipswich Town. Five Nations France, Wimbledon Rod Laver/ Karen Hantze Susman. Masters Arnold Palmer
Christmas number 1 .. Return to Sender. Top Films . Dr. No, the Longest. day , Lawrence of Arabia, In Search of Castaways , The Music Man, Lolita.
Number 1 27 January The Young ones Cliff Richard.
Movie Quote ..You Never Understand A Person Until You Consider His Point Of View/ To Kill A Mockingbird .
That just about covers the Headlines, Celebrities , Sports, TV, Movies , Music For a person living ashore. Cos it says so in the newspapers
JS
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25th August 2022, 06:01 AM
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Re: How goods your memory ?
Remember most John, when i first joined the Fire Service 1964, a petrol station right opposite, a Jet station, petrol 22p or in those days 4/6 per gallon, now Uk petrol very near £10 a gallon.
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25th August 2022, 06:30 AM
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Population now some 8 billion.
Do recall most of those facts, but there are some missing.
Such as I got totally stoned out of my mind in Del Monico had to be carried back to the ship.
Cliff Richards went on a Summer Holiday and Smiths crisps still had the little blue paper with salt in it.
UK went to liters and Kilos after joining the EU, but for some odd, or mad reason, they still use miles, feet and inches and pints of beer.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
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25th August 2022, 06:33 AM
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And oxo cubes were still 1d. JS
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25th August 2022, 08:56 AM
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And this still cost you a penny,
Here I am broken hearted,
Paid a penny and only farted.
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25th August 2022, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by
Fouro
And this still cost you a penny,
Here I am broken hearted,
Paid a penny and only farted.
Fouro.
Just as well as there was never any clean toilet paper in public toilet cubicles.
Fouro.
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25th August 2022, 12:10 PM
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Who ever used a farthing, a silver 3 D what was on the opposite side of a halfpenny coin.
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25th August 2022, 12:27 PM
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Tails or heads take your pick. JS
Last edited by j.sabourn; 25th August 2022 at 12:28 PM.
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26th August 2022, 01:27 AM
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No wonder thee was confusion at the crossings, they were all waiting to see a Panda cross, Boom Boom.
Des
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26th August 2022, 04:01 AM
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#7 The silver Three Penny Bit was called a “Threpny Joey”. On my way to school around 1943 I would buy a little Bread Twist at the Bakery Shop for a Farthing. On a day flour was available that is.
Last edited by Keith Adams; 26th August 2022 at 04:04 AM.
Reason: It was #7 not #3.
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