[QUOTE="Colin"] Feeling your age, eh?[/QUOTE] Not a bit. Which is probably a bad sign.
They could've launched a plateful of prawns to discover that. Not that I have anything against prawns you understand. Shame thay hadn't worked out the landing bit, but hey, it was Yeahbut she was a NICE little dog. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
Coo I remember that, one of my early experiences with mass hysteria and the merkins. They haven't changed. <waves>
Pete Fisher says... 196 - a good year, wasn't it Champ? -- Lozzo Triumph Daytona 955i SE Suzuki SV650 K3 Honda CBR600 F-W Suzuki GSX-R750L Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka
<steals Pikeys stick so I, too, can wave> The dog was named Laika. I remember having Sputnik pointed out to me, and when I read the newspapers about Laika dying I felt very sad, being young and impressionable like.
<waves> Wasn't born before the start of the MAD Age though. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the river cleaned out in a day.
In communiqué <>, Grimly Heh Frisch-Peierls revisited or did you mean the Magazine? -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
I got through my tertiary education without the benefit of the calculator if that ages me any better.
Headlined in the Telegraph online as "Sputnik at 40" -- | ___ Salad Dodger |/ \ _/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/CBX1000Z |_\_____/_| ..93550../..25068.../..31928. (>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 WG* |__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 PM#5 \ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4 \|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 YTC#4 two#11 '^' RBR Clues: 69 Pts:0960 Miles:3899
*waves* Still too young to remember that, though. But I clearly remember my toy Friendship7 Mercury capsule, with the rotating astronaut inside, received at some Xmas later.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the Well, he wrote about it much earlier, but I was referring to the first Soviet H-Bomb test of August 1953, which turned it into a grim possible reality. After that, everything went to shit. Ah, green-tinted slide rules. I used to love using them, but could probably barely use one to scratch my ear now. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the river cleaned out in a day.
