Found this

[NickyEng]

Is it a link pin for a flux capacitor?

 

[Seadog]

Normally fits between the wangleflange and the interossiter.

Interossiter! Are you an alien by any chance Wedg1e?

 

[Migmac]

Great! I've been looking for a right hand one but only ever seem to find left hand ones at the side of the road. Can I offer you £50 for it, Migmac?

You can offer me £50 but I'll refuse. Must be worth more since it's so rare!

 

[skotl]

You can offer me £50 but I'll refuse. Must be worth more since it's so rare!

Nah - too rich for my blood. I'm out.

 

[Wedg1e]

Interossiter! Are you an alien by any chance Wedg1e?

Splundig vurr thrigg

 

[skotl]

Splundig vurr thrigg

Cripes! That takes me back! Did you remember that or did you have to google it?

"Greetings, earthlings"

 

[Wedg1e]

Cripes! That takes me back! Did you remember that or did you have to google it?

"Greetings, earthlings"

I remembered it as 'Splundid' so googled it to check
My younger brother bought the very first edition of 2000AD, I bet he wishes he'd kept it. It was confiscated by the old dear as she thought dinosaurs being cut up by chainsaws was unsuitable reading material for a 9 year old
My other brother bought 'Warlord' from day 1 and I used to get 'Bullet'... anyone else remember the 'tached dude called Fireball? Yes, I was in the club

What the old dear doesn't know to this day is that when my dad used to work from home fixing cars for impecunious British Steel and ICI workers, if we couldn't get in the house we'd climb into the cars to shelter from the rain. A lot of those middle aged blokes kept even less suitable reading material for kids in their glove boxes... THAT was an education, I can tell you!

 

[dannyp]

thats the spare fuse for my old buzzbox , wonderd where it'd got to

 

[Migmac]

thats the spare fuse for my old buzzbox , wonderd where it'd got to

Just need to get a buzz box with a blown fuse and I'm sorted

 

[123hotchef]

thats the spare fuse for my old buzzbox , wonderd where it'd got to

we call them suicide fuses

 

[skotl]

I remembered it as 'Splundid' so googled it to check
My younger brother bought the very first edition of 2000AD, I bet he wishes he'd kept it. It was confiscated by the old dear as she thought dinosaurs being cut up by chainsaws was unsuitable reading material for a 9 year old
My other brother bought 'Warlord' from day 1 and I used to get 'Bullet'... anyone else remember the 'tached dude called Fireball? Yes, I was in the club

What the old dear doesn't know to this day is that when my dad used to work from home fixing cars for impecunious British Steel and ICI workers, if we couldn't get in the house we'd climb into the cars to shelter from the rain. A lot of those middle aged blokes kept even less suitable reading material for kids in their glove boxes... THAT was an education, I can tell you!

Happy days. Remember Action Comic, that got banned? It had Hook Jaw on the cover on issue#1 and a Hook Jaw transfer that I got my mum to stick on a T-Short for me

 

[Cobbler]

[QUOTE="Wedg1e, post: 772586, member: 5725]

What the old dear doesn't know to this day is that when my dad used to work from home fixing cars for impecunious British Steel and ICI workers, if we couldn't get in the house we'd climb into the cars to shelter from the rain. A lot of those middle aged blokes kept even less suitable reading material for kids in their glove boxes... THAT was an education, I can tell you! [/QUOTE]


In company I worked for in the early 70s, one of the lads had a what now would be called soft porn mag. One of the customers came in & said "that's no good this is what you want" the man was a certain Mr West, my mate was somewhat shocked as well you could imagine.

 

[Migmac]

Happy days. Remember Action Comic, that got banned? It had Hook Jaw on the cover on issue#1 and a Hook Jaw transfer that I got my mum to stick on a T-Short for me

I remember it, got the transfer. Didn't know it had been banned though

 

[skotl]

I remember it, got the transfer. Didn't know it had been banned though

Turns out it was threatened with a ban, and they had to tone all the stories down to stop this happening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(comics)

Happy days

 

[Migmac]

Don't recall it being that over the top, maybe I was a wee thug and did worse things

 

[Wedg1e]

In company I worked for in the early 70s, one of the lads had a what now would be called soft porn mag. One of the customers came in & said "that's no good this is what you want" the man was a certain Mr West, my mate was somewhat shocked as well you could imagine.

Gloucester you say... we dealt with a Graham Manufacturing down that way a few times... their manager was a proper Jekyll and Hyde character. He'd ring up and in best BBC English "Ah, good afternoon, Graham Manufacturing here, we seem to be having a spot of bother with our equipment...". So I'd jump in the car and drive for four hours and when I got there he'd be "F*****g fix the b****d pile of p****ng sh*** you c***...".
Me: "Errr... can I speak to the bloke who rang up earlier..."

Funnily enough, earlier today I passed through the area of Sheffield where one P. Sutcliffe was finally apprehended. Nursy used to go to the nearby comp and daily walked past the alley down which Sutcliffe was found lurking...!

From the lad mags... what I couldn't figure out aged 10 was why that lady had decided to get undressed AND make a telephone call while sitting on that gentleman's lap - and surely it would have been good manners to be facing him

 

[Cobbler]

Funnily enough, earlier today I passed through the area of Sheffield where one P. Sutcliffe was finally apprehended. Nursy used to go to the nearby comp and daily walked past the alley down which Sutcliffe was found lurking...!

From the lad mags... what I couldn't figure out aged 10 was why that lady had decided to get undressed AND make a telephone call while sitting on that gentleman's lap - and surely it would have been good manners to be facing him

As you can guess from the later events F West got involved in his photos were pretty shocking by anyone's standards. I'd long left the company when the investigation was taking place, but I discovered that he had told one of the receptionists he was going to take her down the cellar. No wonder she handed in her notice & went quickly.

The local sick joke at the time was if you wanted your garden dug over just spread it about that Fred had built the patio.