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Ms B Wrote:

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> Not for me thanks - best left as a seventies

> childhood memory, along with tank tops, tinned

> spaghetti and greasy hair.


With you on the tank tops and hair Ms B, but tinned spaghetti (Heinz of course) on toast makes a regular showing on the menu at Honaloochie Acres.


Mind I am very much 'of the people'.

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???? Wrote:

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> I think Brotherhood of Man and Bucks Fizz would

> disagree there Loz, and Sandie Shaw won it with a

> classic (er, didn't she?)


You're showing your age, Quids. And, erm, mine... (it was Puppet on a String)


Eurovision is a rather different beastie these days. Cheesy, camp Europop is the formula and though the UK excels in cheese and camp is just about every other facet of culture, they just can't get it into their Eurovision songs.

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Puppet on a String is one the first songs I can remember due to Dad buying the family a record player for Christmas and one of the album he picked up feature a bunch of British female singers of the time.


The other one I remember was Mary Hopkin's "Knock Konck, Who's There", mainly because I thought she sang 'Take off your clothes and come inside" which I found hilarious, as any five year old would. (She actually sang 'coat', which isn't funny at all. My version was much better.)

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But spag hoops are from the era when food had no texture, before we knew about fibre or that you were supposed to chew and include vegetables. The same era in which the Ronco Buttoneer was the cutting edge of technology and a trip to the new and exotic MacDonalds was unbearably exciting - possibly as we had to go up to London, which was 30 miles and several hours away due to the state of the roads, or perhaps the state of the car, though I think not as Lord B had an E-type to go with his denim suit and sideburns. And don't get me started on my mother's home haircuts; I still have panic attacks at the hairdresser. Isn't it funny how when the fashion people revive the seventies it's nothing like the really crap version the rest of us lived in?


I'll make an exception for fish fingers, though. They're as good as they ever were.


Apologies for being consistently off-topic. I'll stop now.



HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> Ms B Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

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> > Not for me thanks - best left as a seventies

> > childhood memory, along with tank tops, tinned

> > spaghetti and greasy hair.

>

> With you on the tank tops and hair Ms B, but

> tinned spaghetti (Heinz of course) on toast makes

> a regular showing on the menu at Honaloochie

> Acres.

>

> Mind I am very much 'of the people'.

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