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[Dopey BJ]

I think Gary McDonald may have first shown his Norman Gunston character on the Aunty Jack show as well.
I dont remember the original screening of the show but watched repeats on ABC when i was very young.

You're right Snake, Norman Gunstan was a spin-off from the Aunty Jack show

 

[Dopey BJ]

Is David Warner the biggest flog playing test cricket or is it just me.

 

[VDS66]

I know a lot of young peeps on here will say
" who the f*** is that " but the first record I ever had was 'Farewell Aunty Jack'
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Surely somebody else remembers her errr him?
and her catch phrase " ill rip ya bloody arms off"
I was very young at the time and i thought the picture disc was really cool.
And who wouldnt like a fat aunty with a moustach who wore a boxing glove
Probably explains my odd sense of humour growing up with stuff like that

and yes VDS66 we had a ktel record selector as well and then when you ended up with heaps of LPs I used to store em In milk crates

Farewell Aunty Jack
We know you'll be back?

Nup, don't remember it at all.

The record selector was ok until you tried putting in a double album.

 

[VDS66]

This is a great trip down memory lane.

I smile when I remember sitting with my "greatest hits" blank cassette.

I would be a coiled spring. When I thought a song was about to start i would punch the record button. If it was a song I wanted I'd let it run (and hope the dj shut the hell up and not talk over the top of the first few bars). If not, I would have that 3 minutes to reset my cassette back and do it all over again next song.

God I spent some hours building my perfect tape. But great times! Those of us my age were the lucky ones. Young people today just won't have those sort of memories.

Those were the days when getting your car ready for a road trip simply meant arranging your cassettes in order in your cassette carry box.

Did you use silver tape? Or standard one?

 

[Keg on legs]

Those were the days when getting your car ready for a road trip simply meant arranging your cassettes in order in your cassette carry box.

Did you use silver tape? Or standard one?

Started on standard. By the time
I had the money to upgrade I started buying cd's instead.

Can't remember what my first ever cassette was, but REM's Out of Time was my first cd.

 

[Joffaboy]

You're right Snake, Norman Gunstan was a spin-off from the Aunty Jack show

Yes Garry McDonald played Kid Eager and Norman Gunston cub reporter from Woolongong.

Apparently the name derived from a very rude air hostess named Norma Gunston.
The episode when colour TV started was one of the funniest sketches I have ever seem. Absurdist humour at it's finest

 

[Joffaboy]

Started on standard. By the time
I had the money to upgrade I started buying cd's instead.

Can't remember what my first ever cassette was, but REM's Out of Time was my first cd.

Anyone remember eight track cartridges? My older brother had one in his car

 

[Keg on legs]

Anyone remember eight track cartridges? My older brother had one in his car

I vaguely remember them. But we never had one.

I vividly recall when we got our first colour tv, complete with a remote on a 3m cord that plugged into the front. Dead set felt like millionaires!

 

[Joffaboy]

I vaguely remember them. But we never had one.

I vividly recall when we got our first colour tv, complete with a remote on a 3m cord that plugged into the front. Dead set felt like millionaires!

Was it a Rank arena? Everyone has one of those.
Eight tracks we're a mystery to me. I mean what was the point? I think it was better quality.
Heard Dark Side of the Moon on an eight and the quadrophonic sound was awesome. Hearing On the Run was a life changing experience

 

[MacMum]

How could I have forgotten the EasyBeats, had them all over my bedroom wall....their songs are still classics today.

R.I.P Stevie

 

[Joffaboy]

How could I have forgotten the EasyBeats, had them all over my bedroom wall....their songs are still classics today.

R.I.P Stevie

Have you got Friday on your Mind today?

 

[aussierulesrules]

R.I.P. Stevie.

What an epic Evie is! The Aussie version of Stairway To Heaven.

 

[aussierulesrules]

Is David Warner the biggest flog playing test cricket or is it just me.

I hear that if he wasn't playing cricket professionally these days he might still be working at Woolworths

 

[Grav]

Those were the days when getting your car ready for a road trip simply meant arranging your cassettes in order in your cassette carry box.

Did you use silver tape? Or standard one?

And rewinding them with a pencil so they started from the beginning.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

I hear that if he wasn't playing cricket professionally these days he might still be working at Woolworths

Nah he's loaded from realeasing "Just a suburban boy " before he was even born

 

[austinnn]

R.I.P. Stevie.

What an epic Evie is! The Aussie version of Stairway To Heaven.

Agreed, although Stairway to Heaven is only one song, Evie was three! More like Aussie version of Tommy!

 

[austinnn]

I know a lot of young peeps on here will say
" who the f*** is that " but the first record I ever had was 'Farewell Aunty Jack'
View attachment 203692
Surely somebody else remembers her errr him?
and her catch phrase " ill rip ya bloody arms off"
I was very young at the time and i thought the picture disc was really cool.
And who wouldnt like a fat aunty with a moustach who wore a boxing glove
Probably explains my odd sense of humour growing up with stuff like that

and yes VDS66 we had a ktel record selector as well and then when you ended up with heaps of LPs I used to store em In milk crates

I came across an Auntie Jack video in the flat I moved into when I went to Uni. I'd only been in Australia for 2 years. Mind blown. Like an Aussie Monty Python sketch.

 

[austinnn]

Joey did conspire with his mate, Milney, and perform actions that allowed Milney to (IMO) deceive a woman into thinking she was engaging in an intimate act with Joey when she was in fact with Milne. This isn't just morally grey!

Also it was Joey who arranged the "dwarf" entertainment that led to Jones setting this man alight in parody of burning their coach, Scott Watters.
These actions brought the club into disrepute (yet again) and show a blatant disregard / disrespect for the victim and for their coach

Watters was eventually sacked and a very good replacement found, but the actions of the players involved were reprehensible - and forced the club to prevent "the tail wagging the dog" again.

There are undoubtedly other incidences that I do not know of.

I think Joey is very lucky to still be playing for this football club given the need for GOOD role models / leaders as we rebuild

100% agreed.

 

[Keg on legs]

Anyone a fan of Creedence Clearwater Revival?

Boy they could play.

Do yourself a favour and listen to "Ramble Tamble"

My top 5 is:

1. INXS
2. CCR
3. Nirvana
4. Cold Chisel
5. Crowded House

I think I was always a bit of an old soul.

I grew up loving the Beatles, despite them breaking up the year before I was born

1. The Beatles
2. Queen
3. Meat loaf (don't judge me. He could actually really sing back in the day! I still know every song from bat out of hell word for word)

no other bands ever really grabbed me like they did.

So, I used to be an old soul. Now I'm just an old fart!

 

[Saintos The ITK]

Is David Warner the biggest flog playing test cricket or is it just me.

Finally!

 

[VDS66]

Anyone remember eight track cartridges? My older brother had one in his car

Yeah we had as Rank Arena with speakers on both sides. Those buggers were bullet proof and it lasted until the late 80's. AWA and PYE were also popular. But the RA was the rolls Royce of it's time. I think we paid about $800 back then... or some stupid amount.

The 8-track was music's version of the Betamax video player. Great in theory...

I did had a copy of Machine Head in Quadrophonic. These days we call it surround sound.

And then there was the original video disc.. a 12"DVD.

 

[VDS66]

And rewinding them with a pencil so they started from the beginning.

YES... this!

Nothing worse than having them chewed up. That's when the pencil came in handy. I even had a splicing kit from Tandy in case a tape broke or snapped on the rewind.

Man the crap you had to put up with back then.

Head cleaning solution. head demagnetiser.

Then a stylus brush, record cloth, and you had to have a turntable with the orange oscillator so you were 100% certain of the turn table speed.

 

[Sir Skid]

Just finished watching the Scientology movie on Foxtel. Key senior members who've left talking openly about the practices inside that were and are still going on. Filled with regret about the part they played over many years.

Now there is one seriously F'd up organization.

 

[Kilroy]

Except that whole thing could just be a one sentence suggestion:

The club should survey lapsed members to figure out why they initially stopped and what is keeping them from coming back.

That's useful and worthy of consideration. Paragraphs of crap about old drama is useless as not only does it not suggest anything that the club already doesn't know, but isn't even a representative sample of the reasons for lapsed members. All it does is shit up the thread.

Just wondering, Periphery but are you still planning to delete your account?

We've lost a few this year for a variety of reasons. Like many others I'm sure, I can imagine how the time spent on here may interfere with performing other important duties in their lives, but maybe we should survey those posters who wish to leave Bigfooty to see why that is too.

Appreciate your contributions.

 

[DarkSaint]

Just a late night update lads, scored a ripper milf!! Preseason looking the goods so far!!