Eric and Ernie

On 07/01/2011 21:56, Dry Gulch Pete wrote:
On Jan 6, 10:29 pm, wrote:
On 06/01/2011 20:16, Bill Wright wrote:

JNugent wrote:
On 06/01/2011 19:44, Bill Wright wrote:
GordonD wrote:
And Rolan Bolan, who IIRC is one of the few to actually use his given name
in everyday life.
I do.
Bill
You mean you call yourself "Rolan Bolan"?
Yes.
Rolan

:-)

That's Eric's wife not Ernie's, but you were close! :-D

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I'll have a pint of whatever you're on.

On Jan 8, 12:18*am, JNugent wrote:
On 07/01/2011 21:56, Dry Gulch Pete wrote:





On Jan 6, 10:29 pm, *wrote:
On 06/01/2011 20:16, Bill Wright wrote:

JNugent wrote:
On 06/01/2011 19:44, Bill Wright wrote:
GordonD wrote:
And Rolan Bolan, who IIRC is one of the few to actually use his given name
in everyday life.
I do.
Bill
You mean you call yourself "Rolan Bolan"?
Yes.
Rolan

:-)

That's Eric's wife not Ernie's, but you were close! :-D

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I'll have a pint of whatever you're on.

LOL

That gal was also in Lesbian Vampire Killers with James Condon!

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On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 12:05:03 -0800 (PST), allantracy
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Earlier, on the sandy beach, did anyone spot Eric's Webley Junior?


Yep, i had one, i wanted a .22 Premier for christmas but only got the
smoothbore .177 Junior

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Earlier, on the sandy beach, did anyone spot Eric's Webley Junior?

Yep, i had one, i wanted a .22 Premier for christmas but only got the
smoothbore .177 Junior


As a teenager of 16, I had a Christmas job at WH Smith and bought a
second-hand 177 Webley Senior with a rifled barrel in a junk shop -
pretty nifty, but the sight moved a tinsey-wincey bit every time you
fired it! :-D
At school, using v = u + ft and v squared = u squared + 2fs and the
muzzle velocity out of a book, I calculated I could hit low flying
aircraft, lol!
Applied Mathematics.

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Earlier, on the sandy beach, did anyone spot Eric's Webley Junior?


Yep, i had one, i wanted a .22 Premier for christmas but only got the
smoothbore .177 Junior


All I wanted for Christmas was a Dukla Prague away kit.
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Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."

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These are the sort I recall and referred to ones are on here.

http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/r...on+Sets,+1950s

Regards
David

Looking at the link above, the TV that Mum & Dad had when I was a nipper
waas similar to Picture Reference: 10252900 but was badged Decca

I know that the TV engineer had to call and take the set away to put some
tuning coils in the tuner. We were considered posh because we had only 1 of the 2 TV's in the street.

I also remember that when the picture went off Mum always used to give the
side of the cabinet a good old wallop to get it going again.

Jim

Our first TV was one of these, an HMV, model 1803 I think
http://rabstaff.99k.org/hmv.jpg

Then when ITV came along we stayed loyal to HMV with this 1871
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/hismasters_hmv_1871.html

This was probably the first set I ever did any work on. I certainly remember
replacing the "Fireball" tuner.


Turret tuner, surely? The Fireball came much later, around the same time as 110 degree
tubes IIRC ...

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Terry

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The programme was a delight. Victoria Wood was brilliant. But how come
this newsgroup isn't jam-packed with complaints about the technological
anachronisms? To name but a few:

The television set bought new by Eric's parents in 1954 was a late 1940s
model, I think. I remember relatives' tellys that were bought before ITV
started and none of them were less that 12".

There were still 9" sets being made by Bush in 1953 and 12" sets in 1954.

There is a useful history by manufacturer he

http://www.thevalvepage.com/tvmanu/tvmanu.htm#ManuP

The telly came in a cardbox box that just wasn't right at all.
The rabbit ears aerial didn't look at all right for the period. What's
more, at that distance from Holme Moss the dealer would surely have sold
them a proper outside aerial...

Whichever the transmitter, I'd agree ...

When the picture faded in and out the screen went to noise, like a UHF
analogue set would. The old sets just went to a dull slightly noisy
screen and the sound went silent.
The car that Vic Reeves picked Victoria Wood up in right at the end had
a wrong-looking tax disk. Could it have been a 'vintage vehicle 'disk?


Looked like the sort of tax disk used, with several variations, between 1923 and 1956.

I've deleted the recording but, if you can rember the colour, you can identify the year
he

http://www.britishtaxdiscs.co.uk/gallery.php

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On Saturday, January 8th, 2011 at 06:04:48h +0000, Steve Terry wrote:

i wanted a .22 Premier for christmas but only got the
smoothbore .177 Junior

ACHTUNG / AVERTISSEMENT / WAARSCHUWING -- 6,1 MByte MP3 file

http://www.archive.ORG/download/Dragnet_OTR/Dragnet_52-12-21_ep183_Twenty-Two_Rifle_for_Christmas.mp3

"You don't give a kid a gun for Christmas."
-- Sergeant Joe Friday

On 2011\01\08 16:27, J G Miller wrote:

"You don't give a kid a gun for Christmas."
-- Sergeant Joe Friday

Give the kid bullets, to incentivise him to earn the cost of the gun.

On Jan 8, 4:38*pm, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2011\01\08 16:27, J G Miller wrote:



* *"You don't give a kid a gun for Christmas."
* * -- Sergeant Joe Friday

Give the kid bullets, to incentivise him to earn the cost of the gun.

LOL, yeah, make 'im keen!