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

yup yup uyup, me too.

(hockey balls spiky)

Hockey balls hurt lots!

Ear - you don't reckon that Ev was once George Blake do you?????

Do I sound like a George?

i used to know a george.

she had long blonde hair and the most beautiful bone structure.

and hands.

nothing wrong with george's. If it is good enough for zippy and bungle on rainbow its good enough for me!

Whatever happened to Rod, Jane and Fredyy from that show anyway? I always thought they looked slightly too comfortable on a kids programme if you get my drift.

Have you ever wished you'd never started something....................


like anything to do with the name George???

yes...................................breathing

George must be a good name if the marketting peeps at Asda or Tesco or whoever it is have chosen it

George is Asda's. Tesco's - for some reasen known only to themselves, do Fred and Florence stuff.

(And I can remember the days when Supermarkets used to close half days on Thursdays.... <zimmer&gt

do you remember the key markets and "international" supermarkets?? strange things I remember from my distant past.

We had a chinese takeway above the key market in our town, and I remember being chased out of it, down the stairs and round the precinct by an irate chinese chef weilding all sorts of kitchen implements. Cant remember what we did to upset him , some smart alec teenage comment I should think.. Oh happy carefree days...

yup yup and don't forget



MacFisheries

Don't remember either of those.... But then, mum thought Spar was too posh for us... we went to the RACS and damned lucky we were, too!

You had a share number which you had to quote after you'd done your shopping (ours was 387177 - funny, I haven't thought about that for... crumbs! Several decades, now I tot it up! Moving swiftly on...) and the cashier used to "peg" the number out on a strange metallic abacus. The Royal Arsenal Co-operative Store was very high tech, even in the early 60s!

What did the peggin do?? What was the purpose of it - or was it a pre-cursor to the loyalty cards that peeps use now??

Yeah... it was one of them - you chanted the number to the nice lady behind the till, and every so often, mum got her divi.

Well, that's what I was told... but I had a really odd childhood, remember?

Sorry Ev you have lost me totally!! RASC??? I thought that was either an acting company, motor breakdown group or one of them new superbugs they find in hospitals..

divi indeed!!

R = Royal
A = Arsenal
C = Co-operative
S = Stores.

It was a branch of "The Co-op" - not being smart, but do you have Co-ops you neck of the woods?

And divi was - far as I know, Dividend - something like a penny back for every pound you spent. (Not much difference from nowadays now I come to think of it)

Mind you... I did say I had an odd childhood. For all I know it may have been some form of adult shorthand about something I as a child shouldn't have known about!!!!

no rate gone down
1p from 240 £1=20 shilling=12 pennies
now .002%

but you get more nowadays loggy - 1% on non co-op stuff and 3% on own brand doodahs.

ah the good old RACS, i remember it well. we used it for the things Caters didn't sell.

MacFisheries eh? there's another blast from the past.

remember green shield stamps?

and knickerbocker glories...