Code Name Warlord........
Discussion
Mungo, how old are you?
29. BUT there were TWO generations of Dan Dare before you say I must be really ancient.
The second Dan Dare was the originals great grandson and sported the same squigly eye brows but blonde hair as opposed to brown... he still kicked the Mekons arse though
I'm 27. I thought you'd be in your 30s because, well, on other threads it sounds like you've managed to pack in a lot of experience since being a um...consenting adult.
Sorry for the jab, could't help it-- there's just been all these rumors about birds and those pictures that were up a while back..I must be pretty sheltered is all. 
Was I the only sad git to ride his Raleigh Chopper down to the newsagent back in 1981 to buy a copy of Warlord and a couple of Commando books?
Are there any other children of the Seventies out there?
There is a guy down at our local karting track that fits 50cc bike engine to choppers they are great fun
mungo said:
seafarer said: mungo, this is off topic, but is the only way to post pictures is to embed them from a website? I got some funny stuff about rednecks (poor, rural southern Americans who are known to "make do" with what they have) but it's an e-mail attachment.
Just dropped you a mail
Just wrote you back. Let me know if you have trouble openning attachments.
Mungo, if you manage to open the attachments, Dale Earnhardt is a racecar driver (NASCAR) who died last year in a crash with a defective seat belt. He was a hero to rednecks as NASCAR racing is their sport (it's been called "rednecks turning left"). Lots of rednecks have his car number, or other car numbers, on the rear window of their pick-up truck, that may or may not also feature a gun rack and dog boxes.
Warlord? Commando books? Ee them were the days. Tho' I was into Fireball.... :cringe:
My kid bro was into 2000AD in a big way: now you know what happened to all the dinosaurs!
Hated those Grifters and Choppers: could never see the point (same goes for mountain bikes now) of wasting energy pedalling the extra weight. Used to build racers that were as light as possible - under 20 lbs and you were considered an aero engineer!
But then, I don't know if I'd want to risk cycling to Whitby these days: probably get killed on the Moors by some Max Tosser...
Ian
My kid bro was into 2000AD in a big way: now you know what happened to all the dinosaurs!
Hated those Grifters and Choppers: could never see the point (same goes for mountain bikes now) of wasting energy pedalling the extra weight. Used to build racers that were as light as possible - under 20 lbs and you were considered an aero engineer!
But then, I don't know if I'd want to risk cycling to Whitby these days: probably get killed on the Moors by some Max Tosser...
Ian
Whilst we're on the subject....I was a 70's child and therefore remember my first computer games console (well ok, we had an atari, comedore vic20 and a BBC console 
)
BUT! My proper first one was a NES (nintendo entertainment system)
Now, in an attepmt to claw my youth back I have been purchasing various oldsckool memrobilia but I am missing something........the Power Adapter for my NES...can anyone help?!?! PLEASE!!!
PS: i've done the ebay thing.....
) BUT! My proper first one was a NES (nintendo entertainment system)
Now, in an attepmt to claw my youth back I have been purchasing various oldsckool memrobilia but I am missing something........the Power Adapter for my NES...can anyone help?!?! PLEASE!!!
PS: i've done the ebay thing.....
S2N said: Whilst we're on the subject....I was a 70's child and therefore remember my first computer games console (well ok, we had an atari, comedore vic20 and a BBC console
BUT! My proper first one was a NES (nintendo entertainment system)
Now, in an attepmt to claw my youth back I have been purchasing various oldsckool memrobilia but I am missing something........the Power Adapter for my NES...can anyone help?!?! PLEASE!!!
PS: i've done the ebay thing.....
I have a spare one as U had two and one broke. Where do you live? I come from Milton Keynes.
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anarchystorm said:
S2N said: Whilst we're on the subject....I was a 70's child and therefore remember my first computer games console (well ok, we had an atari, comedore vic20 and a BBC console
BUT! My proper first one was a NES (nintendo entertainment system)
Now, in an attepmt to claw my youth back I have been purchasing various oldsckool memrobilia but I am missing something........the Power Adapter for my NES...can anyone help?!?! PLEASE!!!
PS: i've done the ebay thing.....
I have a spare one as U had two and one broke. Where do you live? I come from Milton Keynes.
OOH OOH OOH!
I live in West Sussex, but if you could post it i can send you a cheque!!! 
Was I the only sad git to ride his Raleigh Chopper down to the newsagent back in 1981 to buy a copy of Warlord and a couple of Commando books?
Are there any other children of the Seventies out there?
Wind back to '75 and that's me. Except I had a Raleigh Commando
because my Mum said Choppers were "death traps". Commando "war stories in pictures" had a generally higher standard of draughtsmanship than the rival "Battle Picture Library". From those books I learned that Germans are not without honour unless they are Nazis, and that Japanese should be shot on sight. This has affected my purchasing habits in subsequent life, and it galls that my entire home entertainment system, photographic gear, and in fact nearly everything I own relies on Japanese technology to work. I think I was the only boy in England to be afflicted with a Raleigh Commando. It featured a twist-grip gear change, which enabled me to inadvertantly select 3rd when going up particularly steep hills, and topple off. All the other boys laughed at it, because it looked like a Raleigh Shopper.
Whilst in confessional mode I'll admit to having been a member of the Airfix modellers club - patron Dick Emery.
I think I was the only boy in England to be afflicted with a Raleigh Commando. It featured a twist-grip gear change, which enabled me to inadvertantly select 3rd when going up particularly steep hills, and topple off. All the other boys laughed at it, because it looked like a Raleigh Shopper.
You're not alone on this one, I had a similar bike as a kid, my best mate still takes the p1ss about it now (don't you Geoffers!)
Chris
I think I was one of the lucky ones, I was born in 79 so I missed out that 70's I was lucky enough to be in the era when Raleigh BMX's were the in thing. I owned a Nightburner - it was wicked and I wish I still had it as my GT Lts DH has cost me in the region of £2000 over the past couple of years - Mountain Bikes are soo expensive these days!!
I was lucky enough to be in the era when Raleigh BMX's were the in thing. I owned a Nightburner - it was wicked and I wish I still had it as my GT Lts DH has cost me in the region of £2000 over the past couple of years - Mountain Bikes are soo expensive these days!!Gassing Station | General Gassing [Archive] | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff