Are these tomorrows good old days or were yesterdays yesterdays overated and why do teenagers think they've invented everything.....
etc etc etc

ummm sounds grumpy when i meant it to sound whimsical

Why do we have to wear clothes from the past? *w*

Because we can't wear clothes from the future.

Sometimes my clothes look naff one day then are trendy the next ergo trendy from the future....lol...?????????

Do you really mean metaphysical apparel lost soul?

It is a good practice to always wear different coloured socks on each of your feet every day. It allows freedom of expression and creativity.... *grin*...and also helps excuse all the ones with missing partners, and is totally cost effective.

NOW...here is a cool idea for those cold winter nights...and another use for odd socks.... Take several medium sized stones (about the size of a large grapefruit...heat at 120 degrees Celsius for about an hour...then place inside large knee length socks (be sure to use oven mitts for this job)...then place the sock covered heated stones into your bed! VOILA!...no need for electric blankets...no need for water wastage. Environmentally friendly and the heat will last a long time!

Consider it like an UMU oven...throw in a few spuds and some stuffing and half a cabbage and you will be almost cooked by the morning light. *grin* Breakfast is served.

Rather nostalgic that! *L*...takes me back to being a kid.

*L* No, Ludd...I was thinking more along the lines of how all the fashion now is stuff I wore when I was a teenager. And it was bad enough then! Who decides we need to go through that again???

BTW..Silk...I LOVE toe-socks. *L*

oh boy this is my kinda board...*dad-gum young whippersnappers....*
jaysus if I'd saved my bellbottoms I'd be a rich man now *lol

I found a few of my bellbottoms from the 70's a few years ago.
They didn't fit. I suppose they shrank in storage. Strange thing is, they didn't shrink lengthwise.

Never mind the quality feel the width............
irrelevant i know but a favourite line

Maybe you can try out the Belly bottoms. They fit the in-be-teen figures of the 70's. *in-be-teen 14 and 100*

Silk? Got any Bellyrolls in that bed? There seems to be a slight shimmy to it. Missing partners? *Looking under the covers for missing partner*

I need a cost effective excuse for lack of freedom of expression and creativity...

What did you say you were cooking? *turning up loud music* Is it a THREEHotDOGNIGHT in New Zealand? Sheesh, that is cold!

I TOEtally am STONED on Nostalgia!!!

Speak up now!!...*presses earhorn into earlug*...I'm rather 'ard o' hearin'...tink it might be these Jellyrolls I keep stuffed in my ears? :O

The perfect cost effective excuse for lack of freedom of expression and creativity simply does not exist unless you want it to exist. The choice is yours as to what barriers you build around yourself.

Nostalgia, like Guinness, is good for you!!!

Ah but these modern barriers aren't a patch on the old days...wanders of muttering............

*LOL*...Right on Ludd!...of course!!...the barriers of old were good STRONG BARRIERS...ones that would never crumble under pressure of namby pamby 'soul searching' twaddle or internal nagging and moaning!! Today's barriers?...pppfffft!...Mass produced, without any reinforcement whatsoever!

Just get out there and do it...today's mountains are tomorrows molehills. ;)

Luddie, Luddie, Luddie ... you used the word 'naff' ... ??? Have you TOTALLY lost your Australianism? Good Lord, man ... you need a Mintie!!

*It's moments like these you need ... Minities*

Can only roll my eyes at Celts 'dad-gum' ..... from my first 'in flesh' meeting with a Southern Gentleman of the United Sates of America I have desperately tried to truly understand the complex and varied meaning of that one simple phrase.

I have failed.

I have also failed at trying to pronounce it in all it's wonderful glory!!

Later this month, Luddie, I am going to a party that has a theme ... oh joy! The theme is '60's' ... original? *L*

Help me here, dear. Shall I go as Momma Cass and choke on my sanga before I get there? .. or Janice and bore everyone to death with my 'insight'? .. Maybe ... maybe .... hey, some help would be good ...

Lennon .... GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

To be serious though, Ludd - teenages think they have invented everything .. because THEY HAVE! It is all new to them. Let them invent ... sit back and smile.

They are inventing everything they are doing .. just as we invented everything we did .. like, not!

You are showing your age, man! And about time you did, too!! :-)

It is easy sometimes to see the past with a golden tinge it never had and the present as a period to get through to the equally golden future. Guess thats what i had in mind with this thread...guess which pop quote i am thinking of?????

POP quote?...is that when you rememember your Father's best advice, and wished you'd ACTUALLY LISTENED TO THE OLD PRIG?..*lol*

I'm thinking NZ comedian, Fred Dagg, may have had somthin' worthy in his quote..."We don't know how lucky we aaaarrrrrrrre Mate!"...*LOL*

well Lace, "dad-gum* is an old 19th century slang version (or inversion, actually) of "God d--n" which I suppose is what God-fearin'folks would have used instead.
Not really that obtuse, considering how mystifying the origins of those colorful Aussie phrases which most of us Yanks have not yet deciphered... ;)

hey am I King of the Run-On Sentences, or what? *L

Never, never, celt, try to work out the Aussie sayings .. I think my forepersons made them up three sheets to the wind!! About the only time I sit and ponder their meanings, too!!! :-)

I do love slang, though .. gives flavour to a language.

Hi people,

Just registered on these boards today, all the
way from Liverpool in the United Kingdom.
Hope everyone is well. :)

Welcome Makalai, we are virtually neighbours! I'm about 80 miles south of you!!
I've seen you speaking to Silk before and I can picture you bellydancing down the Dock Road!!
Hope to chat soon.
As for growing up......I've never seen the point!

*WIDE-EYED and bewildered*....I don't know Makalai! You sure you are not confusing Makalai with Malauna, Ghost?

But I'm always happy to meet someone new! Welcome Makalai. :)

Maybe we've met in another life Silk, who knows? Sounds like Ghost's been sitting in a Daisy Ring munching those mushrooms again ;) Anyway, nice to meet you all :)

Ghost, methinks the Fair Lady Silk doth have the right of it. Thou doest thinketh of the Lady of Mystery, Malauna.

Awwwww, come on! From one guest to another guest, Malauna could be a Gentleman of Mystery who belly dances? Silk would be the one you want to picture bellydancing down the Yellow Dock Road. *snickers and puns away quickly*

Welcome Makalai! I think Ghost is actually sitting on his donut-ring in the computer chair munching mustyroom discussions and was dreaming of his own Jeanie CAMEL-a-lot'n.

Hope you enjoy Tir and share a lot of fun times in your subsequent visits. *Camelwalking with sensual belly undulations and snake arms from the Inn*

Hey, Silk? Did you lose these two blow snakes coiled tightly around my arms? Snakes...I mean, Saints alive! Where is St. Patrick when you need him?

hmmm, Gentlemen of Mystery...good name for a band. Wonder if Fripp already has registered it?

If I had the heavens deep embriodered clothes..............................

He wishes for the clothes of heaven


Tread softly.................

One for Orin I think

William Butler Yeats.... Beautiful poem Ludd.

Hey yes go silk!!1
If you have not heard it there is a wonderful version put to music by a Group called Nervous on a whole album of similar yeats poems musicified(?)
check it out youll ,.love it

Thanks Luddie...will see if I can find it.

My Sister has a wonderful copy of Yeat's poetry set to music by Irish Musicians and Singers, which she bought in Sligo while we frolicking aboutst those parts in '97. It is absolutely awesome! Will check on the title for ya.

Getting up from the circle of daisies and wiping the remenents of those little mushrooms from his lips, Ghost realises that he has indeed mistaken Makalai for Malauna. Apologies and welcomes all around....... I guess I just tripped out for a second..........I havent been well ... ask Silk!

oh and I forgot the most famous line of all:NOSTALGIA THESE DAYS ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE.....................

What has posterity ever done for us??

What have the romans ever done for us?

Beware of Greeks bearing really old gifts.

Would an ancient EU have prevented the Trojan War...ah yes we had an ancient EU The Pax Romana

Not at the time of the Trojan War

Yes and even during its hey day there was a lot of wars

Aaaaarrrrrrrr Jim Lad!

I remembers when the United Nations used ta be united.
O' course, there was only two of 'em then ---- and they did fight a bit......

LOL@Acc

When I bought my first bottle of beer it was only 90c per quart bottle. It is now $7 per bottle!

I knew I shouldn't have stayed at the bar longer than an hour! Fkg Innkeepers! *L*

Patron: Ow much is the beer?
Innkeeper: It's 7 bucks mate!
Patron: It was only 90 cents when oi come in.
Innkeeper: That was 'appy hour.
Patron: Well oim not 'appy now.
Innkeeper: Stands to reason mate, 'appy hour's over.