I spend Sunday trying to get caught up, and Monday being tired from Sunday, so if we could go Sat., Sat., Sat., Tue., I’d be happy.
re: graffiti graffiti: I love going by the rail yards or watching trains go by at crossings. Some of the taggers are just brilliant. I’ve often thought that if owned a building with a big blank wall I’d go looking for some of those guys to decorate it.
G’day Jason, Dry, Ottod, JFri, Barb and all Meggsie’s mates.
Perhaps I would settle for 14 Satd’y arvos (Oz for Saturday afternoons) in a week but they would have to be as they were when I was Ginger’s age. That would mean 14 matinees at the flicks with only half a day to worry about what will happen to The Green Hornet or Hopalong Cassidy in the serial. It would also mean 14 threepence worth of chips wrapped in newspaper afterwards.
As things are now, one Satd’y arvo a week is sufficient because that’s when the lawn gets mowed. A block of units is going up where the picture theatre was and chips cannot be bought without fish. It is also illegal to wrap them in newspaper. Pity - they tasted better out of newspaper than just white paper and it had the magical property of producing just one more chip after it seemed all were gone.
A building near the theatre, outside of which was a horse trough, has just been demolished. I guess the kid we dumped in that trough one Satd’y arvo because he mucked around during the matinee would have settled for only one in his lifetime. We did that because Meggsie did the same thing to a pesky kid around that time. That episode is somewhere in my collection of thousands of Meggsie’s Saturday newspaper supplements - thousands of real Satd’y arvos.
Ah gee, there’s an Oz expression I miss. Quids was the slang expressions for Pounds (as in money). It meant there was no was no price on giving life away.
Here in Oz there was a couple by the name of George and Annis Bills who recognised the plight of horses and erected water troughs for the benefit of the those that conveyed us without complaint.
http://www.whitehat.com.au/Australia/Philanthropy/Bills.asp
The trough into which we dumped that unfortunate lad was one of them. Of the many hundreds, if not thousands, of such troughs that existed, I am not aware of any that remain as a testimony to the thoughtfulness of George and Annis Bills.
COWBOY7 about 14 years ago
You’ve got a good point there, Ginge!
Good Morning and G’Day to Jason, Ladywolf, Ottod, & ALL the Meggsie fans!
COWBOY7 about 14 years ago
The graffiti is very true today. I never was much into graffiti.
ladywolf17 about 14 years ago
No no no! I got to have my Thursdays. That’s when I get paid from my work.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member about 14 years ago
Or Sunday! G’day Jason, usfellers, JFri, ottod and all Meggsie fans far and wide!
ottod Premium Member about 14 years ago
Morning.
I spend Sunday trying to get caught up, and Monday being tired from Sunday, so if we could go Sat., Sat., Sat., Tue., I’d be happy.
re: graffiti graffiti: I love going by the rail yards or watching trains go by at crossings. Some of the taggers are just brilliant. I’ve often thought that if owned a building with a big blank wall I’d go looking for some of those guys to decorate it.
usfellers about 14 years ago
G’day Jason, Dry, Ottod, JFri, Barb and all Meggsie’s mates.
Perhaps I would settle for 14 Satd’y arvos (Oz for Saturday afternoons) in a week but they would have to be as they were when I was Ginger’s age. That would mean 14 matinees at the flicks with only half a day to worry about what will happen to The Green Hornet or Hopalong Cassidy in the serial. It would also mean 14 threepence worth of chips wrapped in newspaper afterwards.
As things are now, one Satd’y arvo a week is sufficient because that’s when the lawn gets mowed. A block of units is going up where the picture theatre was and chips cannot be bought without fish. It is also illegal to wrap them in newspaper. Pity - they tasted better out of newspaper than just white paper and it had the magical property of producing just one more chip after it seemed all were gone.
A building near the theatre, outside of which was a horse trough, has just been demolished. I guess the kid we dumped in that trough one Satd’y arvo because he mucked around during the matinee would have settled for only one in his lifetime. We did that because Meggsie did the same thing to a pesky kid around that time. That episode is somewhere in my collection of thousands of Meggsie’s Saturday newspaper supplements - thousands of real Satd’y arvos.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member about 14 years ago
usfellers LOL! Love your tales!
usfellers about 14 years ago
Dry: I tell ya mate, wouldn’t be dead for quids.
Ah gee, there’s an Oz expression I miss. Quids was the slang expressions for Pounds (as in money). It meant there was no was no price on giving life away.
Here in Oz there was a couple by the name of George and Annis Bills who recognised the plight of horses and erected water troughs for the benefit of the those that conveyed us without complaint. http://www.whitehat.com.au/Australia/Philanthropy/Bills.asp The trough into which we dumped that unfortunate lad was one of them. Of the many hundreds, if not thousands, of such troughs that existed, I am not aware of any that remain as a testimony to the thoughtfulness of George and Annis Bills.
The Duke 1 about 14 years ago
A late hello to usfellers & Dry! BTW, I wouldn’t want to spend ANY Saturday at school!
COWBOY7 about 14 years ago
Speed bump!