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On Jan 8, 4:27*pm, J G Miller wrote:
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_Tw...

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Thanks - I shall enjoy listening to that! :-)

On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:47:36 -0800, Dry Gulch Pete wrote:

Thanks - I shall enjoy listening to that! :-)

Incidentally, if Film24 has not stopped broadcasting because of going bankrupt,
they were showing the Dragnet TV series at night, along with other ancient
black and white low cost low picture quality prints of shows (Bonanza, The
Lucy Show, Sherlock Holmes etc).

Hmm, Film24 no longer appears at Lyngsat, so they must have finally
ceased broadcasting, and their spot has been taken over by a SONY
Entertainment pay service I think.

J G Miller wrote:

Hmm, Film24 no longer appears at Lyngsat, so they must have finally
ceased broadcasting, and their spot has been taken over by a SONY
Entertainment pay service I think.

Why do you always capitalise 'Sony' ?


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On Jan 8, 6:21*pm, J G Miller wrote:
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:47:36 -0800, Dry Gulch Pete wrote:
Thanks - I shall enjoy listening to that! :-)

Incidentally, if Film24 has not stopped broadcasting because of going bankrupt,
they were showing the Dragnet TV series at night, along with other ancient
black and white low cost low picture quality prints of shows (Bonanza, The
Lucy Show, Sherlock Holmes etc).

Hmm, Film24 no longer appears at Lyngsat, so they must have finally
ceased broadcasting, and their spot has been taken over by a SONY
Entertainment pay service I think.

Freeview viewers know their place! :-D

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On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:24:44 +0000, Mark Carver wrote:

Why do you always capitalise 'Sony' ?

Probably because of staring for years at SONY in capitals on the
front of TVs.

Example -- http://www.100ideashouse.com/images/Sony-TV.jpg

It seems that they have replaced SONY with BRAVIA on some models.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bill Wright
saying something like:

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?

To be right in the period, it would have had a Guinness label.

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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bill Wright
saying something like:

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?

To be right in the period, it would have had a Guinness label.


Indeed, half the cars were like my dads often was with "Tax in post"
written on the back of an envelope stuck on the windscreen.
A ploy that worked fine cos you did nothing until a plod pulled you up
and told you off for no tax disc, then next day you'd go down the
post office and buy one to make sure they didn't do you next time
they saw you.

Sometimes you could get away without buying one for months.

Easy days long gone.

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In article ,
Terry Casey writes
In article , says...

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

Comparing the recording to those in your link it certainly appeared to
be a genuine looking tax disc for 1954 with the correct shape of central
symbol in blue on an off-white background.

Of course it could have been a 1927 or 1931 disc which were the only
others which would have looked similar under those lighting conditions,
but if they went to the trouble of getting it close, I am sure they did
it right.
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In article , says...

In article ,
Terry Casey writes
In article , says...

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

Comparing the recording to those in your link it certainly appeared to
be a genuine looking tax disc for 1954 with the correct shape of central
symbol in blue on an off-white background.

Of course it could have been a 1927 or 1931 disc which were the only
others which would have looked similar under those lighting conditions,
but if they went to the trouble of getting it close, I am sure they did
it right.

Many owners of preserved cars display period tax discs as well as the current one - which
can easily removed for authenticity when required, as here.

There would be no point in buying[1] a 1927 or 1931 disc unless the vehicle is of that
vintage.

The site I linked to is licenced by the DVLA to issue replica tax discs - you can find a
lot more information about the history and details of tax discs on their site.

[1] £25 each + £1 postage.
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In article , Steve Terry wrote:
Indeed, half the cars were like my dads often was with "Tax in post"
written on the back of an envelope stuck on the windscreen.
A ploy that worked fine cos you did nothing until a plod pulled you up
and told you off for no tax disc, then next day you'd go down the
post office and buy one to make sure they didn't do you next time
they saw you.

Sometimes you could get away without buying one for months.

Easy days long gone.

Indeed, but now that they have a computer that *knows* whether or not
your tax is up to date, and where you live, it seems superfluous to have
to bother fiddling about with little circular bits of paper.

Rod.
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