h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This will do!
*swims round happily and waits for others*
*sings*
"Caroline, the sound of the nation...."

Oh luverly! A baby boomer pool! *Dives in making flobalobalob noises*

Hope no one has weeeeeeed in it.
*ROFL at own wonderful joke*
Hey, what's in the pool anyway? I need some refreshment after my long story.
*spots red and white stripey straw appearing from behind a large rock*
Humphrey?

Ahh, the 60's. Sex, drugs and rock and roll. Viet Nam, assassinations, civil rights and puberty. Those were the days. ~nostalgic sigh~

Can I just point out here that although I am, of course 400 million years old, in the 60's I was quite a young fish.
*Tries not to look like an old trout*

*Gwennie (looking like an old trout) and still rembering "Bill & Ben" paddles across to Coely with a conspiratory grin on her face*

Nice crack with the weeeeeeed...... *Thinks of flower pot men...* It had POTentialSo, do you reckon Bill and Ben were gay? Perhaps that's why Mary Whitehouse had it in for 'em! And what about the Woodentop's gardener (what WAS his name): do you reckon Mrs Wooden Top and him were ....... *whispers* doing it??

*Notices Mari-rae and remembers that the US in the 60's was vastly different to the UK and doesn't want her to feel left out of the conversation.......*

I can remember as a kid hearing about Kennedy's assasination and my parents let me stay up and take a day off school to watch the moon landing!

What about Andy Pandy getting into the basket with Teddy at the end of the show then? Looby Loo seemed a little too *straight* to be interesting to either of them! Far too sensible!
shazzPRME

The British Invasion was a happening in the 60's. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Dave Clark Five, Chad and Jeremy, etc. I know we've got this in common, at least!

Most definately I remember watching the scnes when the beatles arrived in theUS with amazement!! They were big here... but not THAT big at the time! I actually saw The Who at the Trade Hall in Watford before they *hit* the big time... they were just as manic then... oh... and you kindly sent us Jimmi H
shazzPRME

What does anyone else think about the PC version of Bill and Ben that is supposed to be in production?
I actually don't recall TV being that big a part of my childhood. If there was a programme you wanted to watch (and Dr Who was one I remember) then you planned that day, and thats when the set went on (well a few moments before to let it warm up). The next day it was a shared reference point.
Music, and particularly pirate radio stations were a much bigger part.
Can someone build us a time machine to go back there for a forum visit? h2g2 is such a wonderful place I'm sure we have the expertise. What would we need? I'll go and get the sticky backed plastic.

oh yes! Hours spent with the old *tranny* tuned to 'Radio Car-o-liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine'!All the pocket money going on batteries, and
pretending to be asleep whilst listening *under the covers*
Ahhhhh, those were the days... (Mary Hopkin anyone? LOL)
shazzPRME

TV in the 60's. Hmmm... Laugh-In, Mitch Miller, Bonanza, Huckleberry Hound, the Flintstones. To name a few out of the foggy depths of my mind.

Don't forget Tommy Steel

Who said - Who ?

There are children's videos for sale of all the 60's kids' television programmes..... The trouble is, my kids won't watch 'em... *sulks and sucks thumb!*

Still, I have got my little boy hooked on the Magic Roundabout!

Magic roundabout!! Yaaay, proper TV, totally surreal

And Bod! Anybody else remember Bod? He/she/it was cool, very very odd.

H&K
Z

Bod! Oh yes!
Pogles Wood anyone?

Mr Ben... and the Clangers?... *insert whistling here*
shazzPRME

Mary Mungo and Midge

I'm bewildered. I give up.
*Rolls over and takes a nap*

We're so sorry to have left you behind there! Do wake up and tell us a story of your own.