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Adam Dorman Posted Mar 22, 2004
I saw a dodo for sale on a Notting Hill market stall a few months ago.
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The Groob Posted Mar 22, 2004
Pauline Collins
Her husband, John Alderton
Mills and Boon adverts on tv.
the Mills and Boon rose, is the rose of romance
Flea circuses
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The Groob Posted Mar 22, 2004
More something you don't hear than something you don't see, but you used to be able to hear the police walkie talkies on some frequencies on the radio (shortwave?). I haven't known that to happen for years.
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You can call me TC Posted Mar 23, 2004
John Alderton was in Calendar Girls.
He was really good, too.
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happyhappygirl Posted Mar 23, 2004
On my way home from work yesterday I was looking at the daffodils on the verges gently nodding their heads in the wind and it reminded me of those plastic flowers in pots that danced along to your radio/stereo.
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The Groob Posted Mar 24, 2004
Berni Inn
Pianos with the white keys black and vice versa
Graffiti like "Dean 4 Emma IDET INDET"
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The Groob Posted Mar 24, 2004
The 'boxing glove' style of door on tube ticket machines. They terrified us as kids.
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aonemantidalwave Posted Apr 9, 2004
Quattro
Spectrums
Shakin' Stevens
Robocop
Brother Beyond
Acker Bilk
Wham Bars
Members of the Dennis the Menace fan club
The Krankies
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Lizzbett Posted Apr 10, 2004
The Krankies are still about.
They were one of the 'entertainers' featured in the BBC documentary of the same name broadcast about a year ago. I once saw them in panto. I think they still play the holiday camp circuit.
I was listening to an old tape yesterday, so here are some musical artistes that seem to have disappeared:
Jimmy Summerville
Kim Appleby
Terrence Trent D'Arby
Was Not Was
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The Groob Posted Apr 13, 2004
The BBC atlas balloon.
Famous people dying from AIDS.
Dried out reservoirs.
Car phones.
TV series based on superheroes.
Professor Heinz Wolff.
Lesley Judd
Heather Cooper
Jermaine Jackson
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The Groob Posted Apr 13, 2004
Crown Court
On that note, TV shows with different music at the end and beginning.
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The Groob Posted Apr 17, 2004
Alanis Morisette.
Music for teenage girls who've just been dumped by their first boyfriend.
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The Groob Posted Apr 17, 2004
People contributing to this thread who aren't called SpinksSecret.
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dasilva Posted Apr 17, 2004
*Wont mention he bought an Alannis Morissette DVD this week...*
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The Groob Posted Apr 20, 2004
The Tripods.
The 'trilogy in two parts'.
I was saddened to read that the actor who played Beanpole - Ceri Seel - died in 2002.
Can anyone tell me how he died? This fansite is German.
http://www.thetripods.de/ceri_seel.shtml
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