Cut That Barbedy-Wire!

This all sounds rather vague and therefore dangerous. Ie. it sounds like something my Nana might do and make me eat, so I kinda hollowed my mouth and swallowed quickly. "A load of milk" - load? "Around blood temperature" - around? "Can't remember if you boil it first" - can't remember?? ""Can't remember what it is" - Can' remember again? "I dont think UHT would work" - are you sure? "Stick it in" has as much accuracy as "bung it in the oven".
I hope you were meaning to sound vague in a jokey way, otherwise you could be a menace to society. My Nana's Dandelion Wine had the same vague references I think that is why I am now a recovering alcoholic.
This is absolutely true: my Nana used to pick wild mushrooms to "economize" and had a cook/house servant and my Mum used to get him to feed the dogs with the mushrooms in their food just to make sure it was safe to eat. (Thinking of this, I realize she could've made HIM (the COOK) eat the mushrooms first - that is what I would have done)

Are we human or are we dancer?

Who do you think you're fooling? You probably have closets FULL of those red cone hat thingies.

OMG my mum did too. We had weird little tubs of souring milk all over the kitchen. I blame her for my current hang-ups about mould ...

Yes, but that is because I hero worship Tommy Cooper - who lived next door to my Dad when he was a kid.

Aside from the WWII era, the 60's fascinates me no end. So much of the music was the genesis for what is happening today, recording technology really began to expand. Yes, it was a mess politically and socially, but there was so much to explore and create new. Being born in 1970, I saw it through my older brothers' eyes. For good and bad it was an important decade in America's history. Oddly enough the Even numbered decades seem to have arguably the greatest significance in the shaping of 20th Century America.The 80's are also fondly remembered, being my teen age years and moving toward adulthood. It is also one of my favorite musical eras.

Well, I am still alive Sounds like your Nana never suffered too much from being vague either (and I am even vaguer when it comes to homemade wine ingredients). Sorry about all the "can't remember"s, I must be getting old

Well, you're not that much older than me, actually.

Maybe my problem with the 80s was that I sort of hit my stride at the very end of it, when the whole New Wave scene had become horribly overblown. It didn't appeal at all, really, whereas the 90s ... well, some of the 90s ... gestured back to the rawer and more political stuff that was happening in the Punk era. I find, as a general rule, that the music and style that appears at the end of every cultural era betrays its roots, because it becomes co-opted by the big cultural machine: the ad companies, the big record labels, Disney . . .

Parts of the 60s are very interesting. But I can't help smirking whenever I hear something like "The Times They Are A'Changin.'" It all seems so naive in retrospect. And they're all stock brokers now anyway.

And they're all stock brokers now anyway.

Yes, but that is because I hero worship Tommy Cooper - who lived next door to my Dad when he was a kid.

Pep ("Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off."

PS I *LOVE* this version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qyUEYolgs8

Yes, historical hindsight does afford us the luxury of smirking. I'm sure that, IF, SL exists a decade or two from now, those residents will be smirking at our naivete.

Pep ("Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off."

Pep, what are you doing here? It's beer o'clock in the UK - go and enjoy a bit of evening sun.

Are you reading your kid's silly joke book?

Actually, my sense of humour has got worse since I gave up drinking wine because I was worried it was becoming a bad habit, and now I just drink brake fluid.

Pep (It doesn't taste as good, but I can stop any time I like. )

*GROAN*

I think I prefer the image of you sobbing inconsolably, to this parade of execrable jokes. Careful, or Jig will accuse you of recycling them from your old Vaudeville days.

*GROAN*

I think I prefer the image of you sobbing inconsolably, to this parade of execrable jokes. Careful, or Jig will accuse you of recycling them from your old Vaudeville days.

They are jokes from his collection of Dandy, Beano, Beezer and Topper comics. (I actually am something of a retro-historian)
Although Pep sounds like a Valiant and Eagle fan.
The girls' comics of that day were amazingly simpering. No wonder we have had to fight for our credibility in real world.

...Parts of the 60s are very interesting. But I can't help smirking whenever I hear something like "The Times They Are A'Changin.'" It all seems so naive in retrospect. And they're all stock brokers now anyway.

But what do people think of removing their banlines just open up sl a little more than it is?

Are we human

Early 80s and yes I am 51 years old

It would be nice if they would do so. I believe it would make SL a better place overall.

On the flip side, it would also be nice if people respected the privacy of others. That would go a long way to making banlines unecesarry.

Humans respect the property rights and privacy of others, animals do not. Thank God for barbed wire and ban lines.

To quote Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino : "Get off my lawn! "

Humans respect the property rights and privacy of others, animals do not.