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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:01 pm    Post subject: It was fifty years ago.... Reply with quote

Linky goodness.

I can still plainly remember listening to (bits of) this on steam radio as a spotty thirteen year-old, and even further back remember Prof. Bernard Lovell reporting on the "Beep...Beep...Beep..." from Sputnik I.


Happy days.


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You HAD 13 year old SPOTs !! Shocked

No wonder yer teeffs got Dents ! Rolling Eyes

Stop bostin' about yer age and grow up !! Sheesh - you will be complainging next about the SpotNik bus-pass (Rugby term to Yank readers) being "Bleeping" out off this world . I counted them all out , and them ALL back in , so I know's what I am talking about . So There .

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's tell 'im Grizz!

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 4:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've seen Coronation street on tv too!
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

50! Wow! I wasn't even a seedling in my mother's shrubeyery yet!
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, half of you were, it's just your mother wasn't pollinated yet.

Um, how far are you taking this analogy. Razz


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gemjunkie wrote:
Well, half of you were, it's just your mother wasn't pollinated yet.

Um, how far are you taking this analogy. Razz


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Not nearly as far as you took it... Shocked
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