Blast from the past - remind us of a thing

[98elise]

Purosangue said:

now thats a blast from the past..............one brother was influenced by " Stan Boardman" ..........the other ...well err .

It was a bizarre look for a sucessful pop star. I doubt he had many groupies.

[dickymint]

98elise said:

Purosangue said:

now thats a blast from the past..............one brother was influenced by " Stan Boardman" ..........the other ...well err .

It was a bizarre look for a sucessful pop star. I doubt he had many groupies.

I forgot to say his look was based on Charlie Chaplin not the German guy

[cuprabob]

Purosangue said:

now thats a blast from the past..............one brother was influenced by " Stan Boardman" ..........the other ...well err .

You've just reminded me of this...

[Super Sonic]

Purosangue said:

now thats a blast from the past..............one brother was influenced by " Stan Boardman" ..........the other ...well err .

Inspector Blakey's let himself go a bit!

[nobrakes]

cuprabob said:

Purosangue said:

now thats a blast from the past..............one brother was influenced by " Stan Boardman" ..........the other ...well err .

You've just reminded me of this...

Introduced her as an ‘actor’, aye right mate.

It’s weirdly hypnotic.

Edited by nobrakes on Saturday 15th March 01:55

[Catweazle]

dickymint said:

The only other band on my bucket list of 'not seen' would be DEVO

I've heard that they once performed a thirty minute long version of Jocko Homo just to annoy the audience.

[nobrakes]

Ah!

Horizontal wallpaper strips of cars etc. about 6” or 8” high. I recall similarl ones with planes and boats etc.

[loskie]

Just back from a work trip and stayed in the Abyss sorry Ibis Crewe. It has this but trains.

[AstonZagato]

Soloman Dodd said:

dickymint said:

My parents wouldn't buy me a piano but they did relent and got me one these when I was 12................



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I can remember the advert spokesman.

[dandarez]

Bought new in the 60's for my first car. I still have it (tarted up a tad) for my classic, the 'Starlite' (trade name) No. 1293.
Needed back in the day for parking in the street in the evening ...while out, or at the pub!

Made then by Birmingham company W. J. Hill - prior to which they'd been famous for making bicycle lights.
Rear (red) lights had become compulsory to fit from 1st Oct 1955.



They then entered the motoring scene utilising the same plastic red/clear bicycle lens for their 'car' parking light (clip over car passenger or driver side window).



Fast forward to today and no need for additional parking light.
However, I'm reminded daily of that old Springsteen song, made a massive hit by Manfred Mann's Earthband:
'Blinded by the Light'

...every new car appears to have a million LED's, all on, even in daytime and in full on sunshine,
lit up like an fking Xmas tree in the middle of an airfield landing strip.

[WrekinCrew]

I remember being amazed by the other "Starlite" when it was shown on Tomorrow's World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlite

[DickyC]

The high-bake bits of high-bake water biscuits used to be black instead of the beige they are now.

[Chauffard]

Ron Mael was the last hope for the rehabilitation of the toothbrush moustache, but sadly the damage done by Charlie Chaplin and his terminally unfunny and twee films makes it impossible to imagine any return to facial hair popularity for the cheery, chirpy upper lip growth

[DickyC]

Chauffard said:

Ron Mael was the last hope for the rehabilitation of the toothbrush moustache, but sadly the damage done by Charlie Chaplin and his terminally unfunny and twee films makes it impossible to imagine any return to facial hair popularity for the cheery, chirpy upper lip growth

Off Topic - Eric Sykes made an interesting comparison between Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy. He said Chaplin was an ordinary man trying to do funny things, but Laurel and Hardy were funny men trying to do ordinary things.

[zb]

Not this film per se. The actor Robert Ginty popped up on one of my feeds, and I was racking my brain where I knew him from, one IMDB trip later and the penny dropped on this VHS cover.



That was the blast from the past, the ice cream van that came round in the early 80s hired out various b-movie/straight-to-video numbers and "video nasties"; ghoulies, driller killer, cannibal apocalypse, basket case etc.

[Strangely Brown]

zb said:

Not this film per se. The actor Robert Ginty popped up on one of my feeds, and I was racking my brain where I knew him from, one IMDB trip later and the penny dropped on this VHS cover.



That was the blast from the past, the ice cream van that came round in the early 80s hired out various b-movie/straight-to-video numbers and "video nasties"; ghoulies, driller killer, cannibal apocalypse, basket case etc.

I have that on the shelf.

"If you're lying, I'll be back" - He said it before Arnie.

[generationx]

zb said:

Not this film per se. The actor Robert Ginty popped up on one of my feeds, and I was racking my brain where I knew him from, one IMDB trip later and the penny dropped on this VHS cover.



That was the blast from the past, the ice cream van that came round in the early 80s hired out various b-movie/straight-to-video numbers and "video nasties"; ghoulies, driller killer, cannibal apocalypse, basket case etc.

Unwitting star of innumerable Red Letter Media “Best of the Worst” episodes!

[nigelpugh7]

This is literally a blast from the past.

You used to be able to buy a shtotgun from the Kay’s catalogue back in 1976.



Amazing how times and attitudes have changed.

[bobtail4x4]

you only needed a shotgun ticket from the post office, ( a bit like a dog licence) unlike now its the thick end of £200, a doctors approval and a grilling from the police,

simpler times?

[hidetheelephants]

DickyC said:

The high-bake bits of high-bake water biscuits used to be black instead of the beige they are now.

Acrylamides. It's why you can't get burnt things anymore, they'll give you cancer or something.