Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 29th, 2008
This was a staple favourite of my local kiddy disco - the Royal Order of the Association of the Buffalo Club (or Buff Club for short!!!) Once a month, the local townies, scallies and neds would gather round to train up for their eventual admittance to Tall Trees, Cream or the Ministry of Sound. […]
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Posted in 1990s, Music, Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2008
Another great hit from 1993, “The Rhythm of the Night” was a hit for Corona. I don’t know how she danced around so much with those gigantic gold earrings but I love this track. Reminds me of fairgrounds and junior discos.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2008
In line with their striking pedigree of hit adverts and soundtracks, Levi’s took TV by storm once more with a montage of twisty dancers throwing their limbs about and doing Exorcist-style tricks with their necks to the wonderful sound of Pepe Deluxe “Woman in Blue” otherwise known as “Before you Leave” - shown below the […]
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Everyone remembers the spontaneous emotion displayed by the last governor of Hong Kong -Chris Patten. He was upset to leave the place he loved and it showed. He later left the Foreign Office.
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Blue mascara and other brightly coloured eye mascara was de rigeur in the early nineties. My friend was ahead of everyone with her bright orange eye makeup, whereas I lagged behind with blue eye-liner and blue mascara. Teamed with small plastic stick-on diamante “jewels”, these beauty tips could make the hottest teeny-bopper in town.
It really […]
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Posted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Australia & New Zealand, Rest of World, UK & Ireland, US & Canada, Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2007
I love having mobile phones but there was a time before, when people could be unavailable, dates had to speak to the parents who answered the family phone and mates had to agree a time and place to meet.
Landline phones meant that nights out on the town were a nightmare to organise. If someone missed the […]
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Posted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Anything Else, Australia & New Zealand, Fashion, UK & Ireland, US & Canada, Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2007
The whole reason we have 999 -the circular dial telephone took aaaaages to return to start before you could turn the next number in. People didn’t make so many phone calls because it was actually less effort to run round to your mate’s house or write a letter to your granny. I’m not quite of […]
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O-Zone shot to #2 in the UK charts with Dragostea Din Tei in 2004.
The cheesiest song and pop video ever. Sheer brilliance. I especially like the white jeans and tie dye top involved in this little ensemble. The tie dye took me back a few years. Does anyone know […]
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Posted in 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Australia & New Zealand, Cartoons, Children's T.V., Movies, UK & Ireland, US & Canada, Uncategorized on Oct 2nd, 2007
Donatello, Michaelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo -the heroes in a half shell. Their mentor Splinter is a mutated rat and Shredder and Brains their enemies. Owing to the controversy surrounding whether these cretins were Heroes or Ninjas I have left the title ambiguous for now. Now all together:
Teenage Mutant Heroe Turtles
Teenage Mutant Heroe Turtles
Teenage Mutant Heroe […]
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I used to live about 300 metres from a Safeway’s store and most of the teenage population of my town worked there. In addition to picking up the groceries I could obtain the entire month’s gossip in the time it took to scan the bread and vegetables.
However, when Morrisons took over, not only did they […]
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Pretty girl, great jeans and an intergalactic advert with the best soundtrack anyone had ever heard. We all rushed out to buy the CD and were sorely disappointed when, a minute into the track it all slows down and goes goth with some weirdo roaring into the microphone. What […]
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