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Title: Jeeves and Wooster
Post by: on July 25, 2005, 09:18:08 pm
Just bought this on DVD.  All 23, 50 minute episodes for £49.99 from HMV.  I liked the series when it was shown on Sunday evenings in the early 1990's, but watching it again brings home just what a fine and polished piece of television this was.  Deliciously whacky acting, rip roaring yarns and a laugh a minute, the heady atmosphere of the early 30's is captured wonderfully.  Great stuff.
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Post by: loulou on July 25, 2005, 09:39:06 pm
If I had £49.99 I'd buy shoes and chocolate.
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Post by: on July 26, 2005, 08:37:45 am
I'm with you on the chocolate, although I did buy some new trainers last week.  Nike Air-cushioned.  They're red and silver, everybody looks at them.
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Post by: oldspice on July 26, 2005, 09:59:23 am
Does anyone remember a time when there were no trainers for ordinary folk? We used to wear plimsols and if a boy was very trendy he would wear plimsol-type boots made from soft material up to the ankle with a black and white rubber patch over the ankle. I can't remember what they were called - bobby boots or something. Goldencup? Maggiemay?
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Post by: goldencup on July 26, 2005, 10:27:04 am
Er, well we called them baseball boots!
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Post by: goldencup on July 26, 2005, 10:27:51 am
And of course Dunlop Green Flash tennis shoes were the height of cool!
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Post by: oldspice on July 26, 2005, 10:32:21 am
Yes! I remember those. Also, do you remember those boy's shoes with a compass hidden in the heel/ They were made by Tuf Shoes. I wanted a pair! I was a real tomboy but my mother never allowed me to be anything other than ladylike. 
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Post by: goldencup on July 26, 2005, 10:39:02 am
Yes!  I wanted them too!  And those others (Pathfinders?) with footprints of different animals on the sole?
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Post by: oldspice on July 26, 2005, 10:45:46 am
 We're going back a bit there! My mother never allowed me to wear trousers but I longed for a pair of those slacks with the bar that went under your foot. I wanted an anorak too!!! Sadly, she died when I was 10 and a kind aunt finally bought me the trousers and anorak. When I wore them I felt very disloyal.
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Post by: goldencup on July 26, 2005, 10:49:32 am
My mother wasn't like that so I lived in my trousers and baseball boots!  I was always climbing trees and playing football.  I can be quite girly now though can't I Loulou?
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Post by: robbie on July 26, 2005, 11:56:38 am
If I had 49.99, I would put it towards a T-Shirt.
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Post by: loulou on July 26, 2005, 01:06:04 pm
That's right goldencup.You have gone girly on us.I am very girly, love anything pink, love my high heels and dresses. I had three older brothers and was a right tomboy when I was younger(have the scars to prove it) .I never owned a dress or anything girly.Then it all changed at 16 (something to do with fancying the lad who used to collect the milk money each friday and thinking if I prettied myself up he would ask me out)
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Post by: smurfboy on July 26, 2005, 02:29:43 pm
And did you get a free pint of Gold Top for your trouble?
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Post by: loulou on July 26, 2005, 02:30:54 pm
Got nothing
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Post by: smurfboy on July 26, 2005, 02:34:48 pm
You should have flashed your udders
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Post by: loulou on July 26, 2005, 02:35:16 pm
I did
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Post by: chocolate chick on July 26, 2005, 03:16:58 pm
Does anyone remember the shoes which had a key in the sole. They were
around when I was at infants school so it would have been around 1990.
The shoes were for little girls. I always wanted a pair but mum never
got me them.



I have always been very girly. I love everything pink too Lou!


Title: Jeeves and Wooster
Post by: smurfboy on July 26, 2005, 04:02:15 pm
My sister had those! Magic Keys I think they were called? They were an absolute must-have for little girls at the time.
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Post by: chocolate chick on July 26, 2005, 04:05:09 pm
That name seems to rings a bell. I always wanted a pair!
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Post by: loulou on July 26, 2005, 04:14:56 pm
I want some now.
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Post by: smurfboy on July 26, 2005, 05:59:40 pm
So do I
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Post by: goldencup on July 26, 2005, 06:02:48 pm

Well I still want Tuf Pathfinders!

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Post by: chocolate chick on July 27, 2005, 10:33:40 am
I never got a Cabbage Patch Doll either. Every Christmas and Birthday I
longed for one. But it never arrived. The reason being, my mum thought
they were ugly! 
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Post by: smurfboy on July 27, 2005, 10:37:58 am
My mum wouldn't buy me a Big Yellow Teapot because she said I was too old. Then when I was about 15 this little mini version came out and she bought me that as a joke for Christmas
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Post by: oldspice on July 27, 2005, 03:44:28 pm
I longed for an Etch-a-Sketch and i got one when I was 11. It took be twenty minutes to get bored with it and return to pencils and paper which were more flexible.
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Post by: smurfboy on July 27, 2005, 03:45:43 pm
Who had a Lights Alive?
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Post by: goldencup on July 27, 2005, 05:41:56 pm
I've still got a Lights Out 2000 which I think was the updated version - I often take it on journeys!
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Post by: smurfboy on July 27, 2005, 05:42:53 pm

Quote from: chocolate chick
I never got a Cabbage Patch Doll either. Every Christmas and Birthday I longed for one. But it never arrived. The reason being, my mum thought they were ugly! 


My mom felt the same about a My Pet Monster. She gave in though.

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Post by: goldencup on July 27, 2005, 05:45:31 pm

I always wanted one of those little pedal cars..... 


I did have an original Chopper bike though!

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Post by: oldspice on July 27, 2005, 07:00:54 pm
My friend Diane had an original Chopper! It was yellow. I had a second-hand Raleigh Shopper!
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Post by: goldencup on July 27, 2005, 07:19:43 pm

My Chopper was red.  Although totally different, Choppers and Shoppers were both very hard work to ride!  It was years before people sussed that big wheels and a light frame were the way to go!

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Post by: on July 27, 2005, 07:50:26 pm
I had an Etch-a-sketch but then one day my mum stood on it and all this sandy stuff came out and knacked it!
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Post by: loulou on July 27, 2005, 11:00:33 pm
That's sad bounty and reminds me of the day I smashed my snowstorm of the kerb so I could see what was in it.
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Post by: on July 28, 2005, 09:48:18 am
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Post by: loulou on July 28, 2005, 01:40:15 pm
Speaking of snowstorms I got one for £5 yesterday in the Disney store. It has eeyore inside.
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Post by: Cherry_Ripe on July 28, 2005, 02:14:15 pm

Quote from: bounty hunter
Just bought this on DVD.  All 23, 50 minute episodes for £49.99 from HMV.


Bounty, it's £37.49 at Amazon ... you could have spent the £12.50 on chocolate or something


I never buy any DVDs on the high street any more. New release CDs I only buy from Tesco. All my DVDs and the rest of my CDs come from online shops, they are so much cheaper and (for me, at least) easier to get to and with better choice.

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Post by: smurfboy on July 28, 2005, 02:59:23 pm
CD WOW is good for new releases too Cherry.
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Post by: oldspice on July 28, 2005, 03:30:43 pm
New release CDs and DVDs are outrageously expensive. I can't see the point of DVDs but I am out numbered in my family as they would all rather watch a DVD than a video. As we have rather an old, analogue, non-wide screen TV (I refuse to have a cinema in my living room) the difference between DVD and video is negliable.
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Post by: chocolate chick on July 29, 2005, 01:04:47 pm

Quote from: Cherry_Ripe

I never buy any
DVDs on the high street any more. New release CDs I only buy from
Tesco. All my DVDs and the rest of my CDs come from online shops, they
are so much cheaper and (for me, at least) easier to get to and with
better choice.





I totally agree Cherry Ripe. I never
pay more than £10 for a CD album. I use Tesco, CD Wow and Play.com for
CDs and DVDs. I use eBay for old CD's. Recently got Kylie Fever for
99p. Was about 2.00 with postage.

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Post by: loulou on July 29, 2005, 07:23:03 pm
I buy a lot of CD's and books from ebay and get them so cheap.
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Post by: Bunny on July 29, 2005, 08:12:31 pm
Car boot sales are good for books and valuable LPs. Nobody thinks about the value of some Lps just because everybody buys CDs now. A few weeks ago I picked up a David Bowie LP released in 1967 for 75p and it's worth over £100.
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Post by: loulou on July 29, 2005, 08:13:53 pm
bargain