Autopsy "I remember when"

[James1970]

I can remember when channel 0 stopped being channel 0
What was it never called channel zero?

As my sergeant in the army used to drill into us. "it's zero. ****s say Oh!"

Channel O was known as ATV-O, and always looked awful due to a bad frequency, hence, "Oh deary me, it's Channel Oh." This was especially dire when one was a touch obsessed with a certain news-reader's obvious charms.

Murdoch took a controlling interest, moved the frequency, and Channel 10 was hatched with a variety show that should have ended all variety shows (memory tells me Bernard King sang My Way while Dazza played drum solos). See kids, TV has always been shocking.

 

[Vdubs]

I remember when there was no Television,and when when it first come in crowds would gather of a night down in Packo to watch the TVs in the store windows,some would take chairs even the pet dog and settle in for the evening.

We could have known each other way back then!

 

[you pick one]

We could have known each other way back then!

Ann St West Geelong,St Pats and St Joeys.
I remember we have been down this track before

 

[giggler99]

I can remember when channel 0 stopped being channel 0
What was it never called channel zero?

As my sergeant in the army used to drill into us. "it's zero. ****s say Oh!"

I remember as a Kid (not so long ago the 80's ) TV stations use to close for the night at midnight, stations like 7 and 9 use to have city back drops on screen and play weird classical music.

Lot more entertaining then some of the crap on TV these days

 

[Pollywaffle]

I remember when Kent Kingsley was good.
Uh, nevermind.

Was that in a parallel universe?

 

[The rabbi]

I remember when we were kids we used to watch "Deadly Earnest" host the B grade 50's,60's and early 70's horror movies on a Friday night.

 

[The rabbi]

And yes, Deadly Earnest was on Channel O.

 

[you pick one]

I you can remember this there probably mashing your veggies about now.

 

[vinum coupe]

I remember as a Kid (not so long ago the 80's ) TV stations use to close for the night at midnight, stations like 7 and 9 use to have city back drops on screen and play weird classical music.

Lot more entertaining then some of the crap on TV these days

No joke.
About 5 years ago my Mrs was looking at the programming on the TV.
She'd always ignored the 'program' station close.

But one night she decided to see what the show was like.
She is going to cop crap forever over that one

 

[Farmer2Goggin]

What an amazing thread

I remember a Preseason game down at Torquay were this one guy kept ripping it up. Sure there was handy players on the field but he made them all look average. Some Hawk discard somebody said.
Good year that one . Hawk discard. A Carlton reject that was slow than cold honey and a nutjob FF that was more circus act than footballer.

And what about the day we played North at Geelong . Sell out crowd must have been mid 30's. Funny I could sort of remember crowds in the 40 something at sometim in the past. Anyway , it was early 80's and North and Geelong were up there. Sellout , shoulder to shoulder.

Sellout back then was no place to have a phobia about being touched. I talking standing up the city end , like a sardine and if you went for call of nature you may never find your original spot. And back in those days people brought beer to the ground. Not just a can , but slabs. They brought Eskys stacked with ice, 2 or 3 cans a quarter. Messy in big crowds. Of course that changed to a two can purchase , must be opened.

Anyway , the North game started like that. Tight as a fish's proverbial. Then the rain came, and did it come. By half time id say there was only half the crowd left and by the last in the low thousands. If I'm correct North failed to score the second half.

Funny those games when condition were horrid can be the most memorable. I remember driving out to VFl park , a final I think. V Ess? The hail come down on the way there so strong we had to pull over. Then at the ground , miserable rain belt , just sitting there with garbage bags on , not want to move or the timber seats would get wet. Talk about a sitting duck.

In fact going to all the other grounds. Vic Park or Windy Hill. Princess Park. Junction Oval was a good one. One day there , our group got told to go in a certain gate which ended up being wrong. Then before we knew were getting ushered around the ground , inside the boundary and into the Social Club. Great Day. Still remember the bloke next to me of Italian extraction , him yelling "Cum on da Lie-ons"

Great memories. But the one I'll remember to my dying day is standing next to my girls in Q4 in 2007.

After so many painful losses , many when it was over after half time. GF and GF bad results , me being so woundup I could hardly eat , think , anything. Just once I thought , Id be nice to actually enjoy Halftime entertainment at the GF. Stuff a good game I want one when it our was beyond doubt.

Then 2007 happend. And could I enjoy it? Your kidding. If we could kick enough to be 50 somehing up , they could kick enough to get back. I could just see it , "best GF ever" and Geelong being on the wrong end of it again. But then we came out and kept going. 90 something at 3/4 time and I knew it but I didn't. Is this real? Then in the last , to be singing the song before the end of the game, with my children. What can I say. Thats a memory that I hope never to lose.

Great thread

So , so true - after so many heartbreaks and watching my Essendon mates celebrate so many flags couldn't believe it was finally our turn.
I ignored all those texts during the game for fear it would break the spell if I answered them.
My StKilda supporting wife insisted my 11 YO son and I go and I will never forget hugging him and singing the song over and over again. What's more we both repeated the dose in 2011

 

[Turbocat]

So , so true - after so many heartbreaks and watching my Essendon mates celebrate so many flags couldn't believe it was finally our turn.
I ignored all those texts during the game for fear it would break the spell if I answered them.
My StKilda supporting wife insisted my 11 YO son and I go and I will never forget hugging him and singing the song over and over again. What's more we both repeated the dose in 2011

How did 09 work out for you?

 

[winty]

All the talk about cricket clinics earlier in the thread reminded me of when I was doing some voluntary work at GFC in 2000 and was helping out with one of the footy clinics they used to have during the June school holidays.

I was one of the leaders of a group of 5-6 year olds and they had a heap of different stations set out on the adjacent cricket ground with stuff like the handball targets, tackle bags and the like. When it was my group's turn at the tackle bags, Cameron Ling and another player (can't remember who) were holding a bag each, and they held a footy on top of the bag and told the kids to tackle the bag, pick up the footy and handball it back to the player so the next kid could have a go.

Being little kids, they were all scared of hurting themselves, so they'd just lightly bump the bag and the player would drop the ball and the kid would just hand it back. After about 10 minutes of this, Lingy had had enough and stopped the drill and got the kids to come into a huddle. He said to the kids "Imagine this bag is Nathan Buckley (pointing to the bag he was holding) and this one is James Hird (pointing to the bag the other player was holding). Now, let's do this again." (The clinic was held during the week between games against Collingwood and Essendon.)

Well, you should have seen the change in the kids tackling techniques! They were now charging in and flattening the bags, but instead of tackling the bag and chasing the ball, they were more interested in punching the bag, sinking the slipper in or even dropping the old elbow or knee! Lingy, the other player, the other leaders and myself were just cracking up laughing, and Lingy took over the role of the tribunal and was handing out suspensions for kids..."Oh, that punch would get you a week", "Gee, you'd get six weeks for that kick", etc, etc.

 

[Strangled Cat]

I can remember when channel 0 stopped being channel 0
What was it never called channel zero?

As my sergeant in the army used to drill into us. "it's zero. ****s say Oh!"

I always use "zero" as the digit as "Oh" is a letter. So what time did you have to get up in the morning in the army, zero six hundred hours or oh six hundred hours? American movies they always seem to say "oh". It's annoying!

 

[Farmer2Goggin]

How did 09 work out for you?

A little bit bitter ( for the Mrs) but very , very sweet for my son and I.
Celebrations were a little subdued but the good news is my wife has now seen the light and , even though she will always be a saint , she actually knows and likes the Cats players better than her own.
I think the Duthie episodes and setting fire to the 'entertainer" this season has just about been the final straw.

 

[Turbocat]

A little bit bitter ( for the Mrs) but very , very sweet for my son and I.
Celebrations were a little subdued but the good news is my wife has now seen the light and , even though she will always be a saint , she actually knows and likes the Cats players better than her own.
I think the Duthie episodes and setting fire to the 'entertainer" this season has just about been the final straw.

Bloke at work now goes for GWS for the same reason. Hard enough to barrack for a club , without spending your life defending your support. Clubs too have duty to be worthy of support.

 

[Vdubs]

Who remembers
The Alfred Hitchcock Show?
"Good Eeeevening".
Some of those episodes still now give me the heebie-jeebies.
Apparently Hitch appeared somewhere in every single episode. That was my excuse to stay up and watch, just to find him. Parents were not in favour of me watching, yet years later it was fine for my younger sibs.

The 3 Stooges? Used to be annoyed if Shemp was in for Curly.

And late 80's?? Sticky Moments- Julian Clary. Wierd but clever.

And The Royle Family? A gem of a show.

This nostalgia trip is not really related to footy, except that my walking mate who is as fanatical about Geelong as I am, has identical memories and likes.

 

[vinum coupe]

Too young for the hitchcock stuff.
I kind of remember it.

Night Stalker is what gave me the jeebies.
Especially the mummy ep.

 

[Turbocat]

Who remembers
The Alfred Hitchcock Show?
"Good Eeeevening".
Some of those episodes still now give me the heebie-jeebies.
Apparently Hitch appeared somewhere in every single episode. That was my excuse to stay up and watch, just to find him. Parents were not in favour of me watching, yet years later it was fine for my younger sibs.

Is that right? Actually can t remember his TV show but I was under the impression he just did the intro type stuff for it. Sort of like Bill Collins doing movies. Speaking of which , in his movies Hitch always made special little cameo's.

Not footy related but weird TV shows form the dim dark past do seem engrained.

Anyone remember Dobie Gillis or Its about Time. Yank shows of course. The Aus ones I remember all seem to be cop shows. Homicide, Division4 etc.

 

[Vdubs]

Is that right? Actually can t remember his TV show but I was under the impression he just did the intro type stuff for it. Sort of like Bill Collins doing movies. Speaking of which , in his movies Hitch always made special little cameo's.

Not footy related but weird TV shows form the dim dark past do seem engrained.

Anyone remember Dobie Gillis or Its about Time. Yank shows of course. The Aus ones I remember all seem to be cop shows. Homicide, Division4 etc.

Dobie Gillis and his mate Maynard G Krebs? who I think was Gilligan in another programme.

 

[FredLeDeux]

Dobie Gillis and his mate Maynard Krebbs? who I think was Gilligan in another programme.

Don't forget the G. Maynard G. Krebs.

 

[Hot Tin Roof]

Anyone remember Lancelot Link?

 

[Hot Tin Roof]

.....Funny those games when condition were horrid can be the most memorable. I remember driving out to VFl park , a final I think. V Ess? The hail come down on the way there so strong we had to pull over. Then at the ground , miserable rain belt , just sitting there with garbage bags on , not want to move or the timber seats would get wet. Talk about a sitting duck......

[Google]... Fairly sure it was round 22 1981 I almost attended. Due to work committments and traffic hell on Wellington Rd., I arrived late to Arctic Park (around 40 mins pre-game). Finally got waved through to a carpark down near the Monash. With 15 minutes to the bounce we bolted toward the outer wing gate, reaching the road prior to the hill before grim-faced Cats and Bombers fans walking back towards us screamed out, "Don't bother fellas,.. they've locked the gates!"

Only game I have ever been locked out of (it had to be THAT one!), and being a member, nothing sucks more.

Driving out of the carpark, the sky looked ready to drop housebricks again. So we pulled into the first Maca's just as hail and lightning struck. Took the radio in with us and listened up to 3/4 time over a couple of coffees. The place was packed with disgruntled, rain soaked footy supporters.

Geelong: 7:13:55
Pre-Injectors: 6:11:47

Attendance: 75,221

Same game?

 

[you pick one]

Twilight Zone,Outer Limits any one.any one?

 

[corio bay]

I remember when they used to release those huge bags of balloons at the grand final.

something in the back of my mind tells me they had pigeons at one stage too?

 

[Willo_]

I remember when they used to release those huge bags of balloons at the grand final.

something in the back of my mind tells me they had pigeons at one stage too?

I remember the balloons... they were doing that those awful grand finals we we in during the 90's I think