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Post by delaplume on Feb 1, 2021 12:18:28 GMT
Quality control seems to be lacking there somewhat methinks !!.............LoL !!
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Post by chester on Feb 1, 2021 18:38:25 GMT
In the seventies my work jeans ended up like that
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Post by norfolkandgood on Feb 3, 2021 18:22:58 GMT
I really must give you the name of my tailor old man! ...... This is from someone who always looks like 'the accused' in his funeral suit! Guy
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Post by chester on Feb 3, 2021 18:35:14 GMT
In the seventies money was tight and once you wore something for work the smell of suds oil NEVER left them and the overalls they supplied were full of patches as well.
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Post by norfolkandgood on Feb 3, 2021 22:10:15 GMT
At one time, for exceptionally dirty jobs, we were given reconditioned boilersuits, as you say Chester, patches in the usual wear points. These overalls also sported the logos of more enlightened firms that provided its employees with free issue boilersuits on return of the damaged/worn out sets, hence the market in reconditioned garments. I sported a natty line in Rolls Royce 'casuals' for a few months much to the amusement of all and sunder. Guy
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Post by dscott on Feb 3, 2021 23:44:52 GMT
NATTY DRESSING. For the several on here who have met Lily know she loves RED. Ever so wonderful when she matches the transport being photoed. And again. Dearest Captain Baxter on the Bluebell Railway just after a lovely journey in the Observation Carriage giving a footplate view of proceedings. David and Lily.
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Post by lesstoneuk on Feb 4, 2021 14:00:15 GMT
In the seventies money was tight and once you wore something for work the smell of suds oil NEVER left them and the overalls they supplied were full of patches as well. My period of a Freight Guard at Oxford saw my uniform go from a tidy blue/grey to a grey/black with grease, oil and crap. They were waterproof. I did have a few comments once after I collected a rake of mk1s from Old Oak Common. I had been provided with a taxi from Paddington to OOC....it was a pretty new Mercedes complete with cream leather seats.
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Post by cplmickey on Feb 5, 2021 10:34:46 GMT
I sported a natty line in Rolls Royce 'casuals' for a few months much to the amusement of all and sunder. Guy Yes I have a Rolls Royce workshop smock and Rover overalls. People seem to expect great things from you even though they were just bought off a market stall.
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Post by norfolkandgood on Feb 5, 2021 17:55:19 GMT
For many years I used to like bib and brace overalls and a short jacket, known hereabouts as a kytle. I've look around for such a combination with no luck. Guy
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Post by mbrown on Feb 5, 2021 20:23:07 GMT
You can get replicas of the British Railways bib and brace and jacket combination from various sources - the North York Moors Railway shop does them as well as other firms.
They are quite dear, but very high quality and long lasting.
Malcolm
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Post by dscott on Feb 11, 2021 1:24:48 GMT
Where do you keep yours? Doubling up of course as a tribute to FOUR CANDLES. A new indication of just how much Snow people are expecting in the next week gauged by the levels in the Toilet Rolls Isle! Yes the Candles burnt down slowly during the Summer. Do admire the tiles. David and Lily.
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Post by delaplume on Feb 11, 2021 12:10:41 GMT
Heard recently from a Patriotic Pensioner}----"Bloomin foreign virus coming over here .......What's wrong with our own British virus, that's what I want to know !!".....
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Post by delaplume on Feb 11, 2021 12:14:51 GMT
Where do you keep yours? Doubling up of course as a tribute to FOUR CANDLES. A new indication of just how much Snow people are expecting in the next week gauged by the levels in the Toilet Rolls Isle! Yes the Candles burnt down slowly during the Summer. Do admire the tiles. David and Lily. "If the Soviets accrue more rolls than we do Mr. President why, we'll be facing a Toilet Roll gap !! "......with apologies to the film Dr. Strangelove.
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Post by norfolkandgood on Feb 11, 2021 20:15:05 GMT
I wonder if the Swiss are hoarding their rolls in a similar manner?
Guy
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Post by delaplume on Feb 11, 2021 20:20:58 GMT
My favourite line from Dr. Strangelove}----- "Gentlemen....you can't fight in here-----this is The War Room !! "..... Here's the "Mineshaft gap" scene}---------- youtu.be/ybSzoLCCX-Y
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Post by norfolkandgood on Feb 12, 2021 8:55:14 GMT
It might be apocryphal but, when Ronald Ragan became POTUS one of his first requests was to see the 'War Room'. He, expecting to see the Dr. Srangelove version was told that it didn't exist.
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Post by dscott on Feb 14, 2021 1:31:39 GMT
SEASONAL!!! A brother and smaller Sister creation. Snowmen need. Come on Boys HOW DOES YOUR WIFE ARRANGE HER CARROTS AND CORJET? 60 years ago they planted out the roads with 20 foot trees... There is always one that ignores the rules. Yes the house underneath LOVES AUTUMN. David and Lily braving the cold.
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Post by jon38r80 on Feb 14, 2021 12:14:58 GMT
Davifd Happy New year to you and Lily (Sorry its a couple of days late)
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Post by delaplume on Feb 14, 2021 13:50:55 GMT
My favourite line from Dr. Strangelove}----- "Gentlemen....you can't fight in here-----this is The War Room !! "..... Here's the "Mineshaft gap" scene}---------- youtu.be/ybSzoLCCX-YIf you find the very start of the film--then go to 0.55 the map on the wall is Heathrow Airport circa 1963 !! Notice his nameboard says Jack D. Ripper...and then there's Col. Turdgison !!..........and the Russian Premier Kissof.........The first scene inside the B52's cockpit shows one of the crew reading Playboy magazine.....The centrefold girl is Buck Turdgison's "Secretary"........ Peace is our Profession ?.....in the War Room one sign says}---- Megadeaths !! They don't make films like that anymore........although}--"Seven days in May" comes very close........... youtu.be/YIpqDkdH7FE
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Post by chris vine on Feb 14, 2021 16:22:40 GMT
I have got a Dr Strangelove question: At the end of the film, what are the final words. Whenever I have seen it, Peter Sellers shouts them so they are distorted and I can't understand them. Or is this part of the joke??!!
Chris.
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