Nostalgia ain't what it used to be..... - Page 2

Beestie · 11-20-2005, 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

Also herpes zoster is behind shingles, an illness that attacks the nervous system, again as a result of having the virus dormant in your system....

Shingles is a freakin' nightmare. Four to six weeks (if you're lucky) of unimaginably painful hell and there is nothing you can do about it. I remember as a kid when I got chicken pox. I didn't know how good I had it.

11-20-2005, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

But what about Dick West...?????

Oh, OK, already!

Richard West's early years are hazy, but it is believed he was born in Texas. He migrated to Oklahoma as a hired hand on a trail drive and worked on the Halsell ranch in Oklahoma. West was considered a good reliable cowboy. It was here Dick West met Bill Doolin and joined the gang in 1892.
West was with the Doolin gang when they robbed the bank in Southwest City, Missouri. The robbery seemed to be going as planned until the gang mount their horses to leave town. An alarm had been sounded, the citizens armed forced the Doolin Gang to fight their way out of town. In the wild exchange, the gang members were shooting at everybody. Two people exited a building to see what the shooting was all about and Dick West seriously wounded these two innocent bystanders. West received wounds during the flight.

At Dover, OK, West assisted the rest of the gang in a train hold-up. Following Bill Doolin to New Mexico, West once again worked as a cowboy here until 1897. Doolin had returned to Oklahoma and was killed in 1896.

Returning to Oklahoma in 1897, West helped form the Jennings Gang. This Three Stooges type group bungled almost every attempt. They were unsuccessful trying to rob a train at Edmond and Bond Switch, OK and frightened away at a bank robbery in Minco, OK. Another unsuccessful train attempt in Chickasa and a store hold-up in Cushing, West left the gang doing odd jobs.

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xoxoxoBruce · 11-20-2005, 12:11 PM

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Following Bill Doolin to New Mexico, West once again worked as a cowboy here until 1897. Doolin had returned to Oklahoma and was killed in 1896.
Returning to Oklahoma in 1897, West helped form the Jennings Gang.

1896...1897...and the date on the stone is 1895?

Cyclefrance · 11-20-2005, 01:03 PM

Goodness - you have both been so kind to be so informative, that I feel a little embarassed to say that the Dick West I was talking about was the actor who played the Range Rider's sidekick and could only have been in his early 20's in the late 50's and early 60's when I watched the series. I'll have a look see what I can find via the web in any event (lazy old bugger me not to have done this anyway!)

Cyclefrance · 11-20-2005, 01:15 PM

I've found this on the Range Rider series which gives a few links (no photos though), plus this one (with photos).

Poor old Jock Mahoney died in '89. Seems Dick Jones who played Dick West may stil be alive however...

Have foudn from same site a bit about is role in Buffalo Bill Jr

Think I might just have to mosey up int the old attic, see if I can find my old cowboy outfit.... yooo haaah!

11-20-2005, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

Goodness - you have both been so kind to be so informative, that I feel a little embarassed to say that the Dick West I was talking about was the actor who played the Range Rider's sidekick and could only have been in his early 20's in the late 50's and early 60's when I watched the series. I'll have a look see what I can find via the web in any event (lazy old bugger me not to have done this anyway!)

Just ribbing you a little, Cyclefrance! I knowed it wasn't the same Dick West. I'm afraid I don't recall the Range Rider show, and I believe we are roughly in the same age bracket. Was it something that perhaps got more noteriety in the UK than here? Either that, or if it was on TV here, it must have been aired opposite of "Have Gun, Will Travel," my Dad's and my favorite western that we watched religously each week. The world could have come to an end, but we'd have had to see Palladin's latest adventure first!

plthijinx · 11-20-2005, 04:51 PM

[threadjack]herpes. heh. for 18 years i thought i was infected with it. until last week when i got a range of tests done. for those of you that don't know, my pop was a surgeon, and 18 years ago i got a pimple down there. a big one. told dad about it and he told me that's what it sounded like and so i lived with that for 18 years without running the test. kinda funny looking back really. allllll those conversations that i've had with girlfriends about the virus and i didn't even have it. what we've diagnosed in the last week is that i've got something called urethritis and the discomfort that i've had about once a year or so, well i just assumed that it was the herpes. urethritis can be caused by a number of things. i'm shaking my head (on my shoulders y'all) and laughing. well, hey, at least i was honest with every girl that i've ever been with. out of all of them, only one turned tail and ran. [/threadjack]

now.... G. Gordon Liddy/Watergate

Tonchi · 11-21-2005, 12:00 AM

Oh dear, I'm afraid you haven't taken your investigation far enough. If you had some symptoms similar to herpes, or what you thought should have been herpes but tests proved wasn't, then what you have is probably Human Papiloma Virus (HPV). Please get tested for it immediately, because HPV is far worse than the herpes virus. Although men may rarely feel the effect, it can cause cervical cancer in your partners.

plthijinx · 11-21-2005, 12:47 PM

had that test too. no worries.

Cyclefrance · 11-21-2005, 04:53 PM

Well did you ever. Who would have guessed that nostalgia could rely so heavily on a sexually transmitted disease....

Ove here we had Saturday morning pictures before TV took over. 6d (that's six old UK pence) a go. Remember some classic 50's SF serials (I suppose Flash Gordon must have been amongst them), plus the inevitable Gene Autrey and Hopalong Cassidy serials.

Then late teenage years were spent at the local Mecca ballrooms trying to attract the local talent who were inevitably dancing round their hadbags to such memorable hits as 'Spirit in the Sky' and then the early BeeGees 'Lights go down in San Francisco' for the slowie, for when you got lucky...

Then there were the coffee bars frequented by the Mods in the 60's. We had a couple of good ones in South London where I lived, in Norwood and Forest Hill, plus Wednesday evenings we went to some place in Balham to see the original Moody Blues with Denny Laine (main no.1 'Go Now') before he went on to join Paul McCartney when he started up Wings.

Now that's Nostalgia!

limey · 11-21-2005, 05:54 PM

And there I was thinking that you could guess a person's age by asking about the sexual diseases they were afraid of catching in their prime

!
Going backwards in time this would be ... HIV, herpes, VD, syphilis, gonnorhea (OK, YOU spell it better!) ...

xoxoxoBruce · 11-21-2005, 08:38 PM

Chlamydia (Clamidia).

Sundae · 11-22-2005, 04:23 AM

Cyclefrance, you are a year younger than my Mum. She used to pose in tight sweaters in Milk Bars in Ilford & Romford, with little glass cups of milky coffee - which she hates the taste of even to this day - in order to look cool.

Strangely I found out she used to drink in a pub just across the road from where my ex lived in London. I only brought it up because someone had been shot there (we nicknamed the area Beirut - he only bought there to get on the property ladder). When I quizzed her about it further she admitted it was pretty rough even in her day, but they weren't fussed about how old you were & it was far enough from home not to run into anyone who knew her.... The things you learn about your family as you get older!

Cyclefrance · 11-22-2005, 05:37 AM

Didn't venture as far afield as Ilford. We occasionally went to Wapping or even the East End of London around Bow (Kray twins land - remember having been at the Blind Beggar two nights before one of the Krays enemies was killed there - there was an 'in' Chinese restaurant there called the Kwong Ming.

Wapping was fun with a pub called 'The Prospect of Whitby' being home to the rugby crowd and always good for a sing-song of ugby favourites - Mayor of Bayswater, The Good Ship Venus, Immobile, These Foolish Things and so on (ask your mum!)

As a south Londoner, a lot friends (and therefore the action) were around the Elephant and Castle, and also the Walworth Road where there were some good pubs with live music. But, of course we were all well-behaved budding parents in those days who wouldn't dream of getting drunk or causing any noise, or get into trouble with the police or anything like that, and drugs were never to be heard of....................................................................... (all those dots are for the stunned silence) - as I am sure you will appreciate we all were keen to set a good example for our generation, something for our childern to strive to repeat................................................................

11-22-2005, 11:54 PM

LMAO, Cyclefrance!

Yeppers, how old did you say you were again? Never mind.

MY generation and me were extremely polite young people, ourselves. When we had anti-war rallies, we WHISPERED, "Two, four, six, eight, organize and smash the state!" We asked our parent's permission before we dropped acid or smoked pot and we all aspired to be just like Dick or Pat Nixon when we grew up and had our MBA's from the state university we attended, never cutting a single class.

Did I mention that we also walked barefoot to school through 6 foot drifts of snow?

11-20-2005, 01:03 PM	#19
Cyclefrance Pump my ride! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Deep countryside of Surrey , England Posts: 1,890	Goodness - you have both been so kind to be so informative, that I feel a little embarassed to say that the Dick West I was talking about was the actor who played the Range Rider's sidekick and could only have been in his early 20's in the late 50's and early 60's when I watched the series. I'll have a look see what I can find via the web in any event (lazy old bugger me not to have done this anyway!) __________________ Always sufficient hills - never sufficient gears

11-20-2005, 01:15 PM	#20
Cyclefrance Pump my ride! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Deep countryside of Surrey , England Posts: 1,890	I've found this on the Range Rider series which gives a few links (no photos though), plus this one (with photos). Poor old Jock Mahoney died in '89. Seems Dick Jones who played Dick West may stil be alive however... Have foudn from same site a bit about is role in Buffalo Bill Jr Think I might just have to mosey up int the old attic, see if I can find my old cowboy outfit.... yooo haaah! __________________ Always sufficient hills - never sufficient gears

11-20-2005, 04:51 PM	#22
plthijinx Master Dwellar Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,197	[threadjack]herpes. heh. for 18 years i thought i was infected with it. until last week when i got a range of tests done. for those of you that don't know, my pop was a surgeon, and 18 years ago i got a pimple down there. a big one. told dad about it and he told me that's what it sounded like and so i lived with that for 18 years without running the test. kinda funny looking back really. allllll those conversations that i've had with girlfriends about the virus and i didn't even have it. what we've diagnosed in the last week is that i've got something called urethritis and the discomfort that i've had about once a year or so, well i just assumed that it was the herpes. urethritis can be caused by a number of things. i'm shaking my head (on my shoulders y'all) and laughing. well, hey, at least i was honest with every girl that i've ever been with. out of all of them, only one turned tail and ran. [/threadjack] now.... G. Gordon Liddy/Watergate __________________ For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream.

11-21-2005, 12:00 AM	#23
Tonchi Victim of gravity Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding in plain sight Posts: 1,412	Oh dear, I'm afraid you haven't taken your investigation far enough. If you had some symptoms similar to herpes, or what you thought should have been herpes but tests proved wasn't, then what you have is probably Human Papiloma Virus (HPV). Please get tested for it immediately, because HPV is far worse than the herpes virus. Although men may rarely feel the effect, it can cause cervical cancer in your partners. __________________ Everything you've ever heard about Fresno is true.

11-21-2005, 12:47 PM	#24
plthijinx Master Dwellar Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,197	had that test too. no worries. __________________ For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream.

11-21-2005, 04:53 PM	#25
Cyclefrance Pump my ride! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Deep countryside of Surrey , England Posts: 1,890	Well did you ever. Who would have guessed that nostalgia could rely so heavily on a sexually transmitted disease.... Ove here we had Saturday morning pictures before TV took over. 6d (that's six old UK pence) a go. Remember some classic 50's SF serials (I suppose Flash Gordon must have been amongst them), plus the inevitable Gene Autrey and Hopalong Cassidy serials. Then late teenage years were spent at the local Mecca ballrooms trying to attract the local talent who were inevitably dancing round their hadbags to such memorable hits as 'Spirit in the Sky' and then the early BeeGees 'Lights go down in San Francisco' for the slowie, for when you got lucky... Then there were the coffee bars frequented by the Mods in the 60's. We had a couple of good ones in South London where I lived, in Norwood and Forest Hill, plus Wednesday evenings we went to some place in Balham to see the original Moody Blues with Denny Laine (main no.1 'Go Now') before he went on to join Paul McCartney when he started up Wings. Now that's Nostalgia! __________________ Always sufficient hills - never sufficient gears Last edited by Cyclefrance; 11-21-2005 at 05:38 PM.

11-21-2005, 05:54 PM	#26
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	And there I was thinking that you could guess a person's age by asking about the sexual diseases they were afraid of catching in their prime ! Going backwards in time this would be ... HIV, herpes, VD, syphilis, gonnorhea (OK, YOU spell it better!) ... __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

11-21-2005, 08:38 PM	#27
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Chlamydia (Clamidia). __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-22-2005, 04:23 AM	#28
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Cyclefrance, you are a year younger than my Mum. She used to pose in tight sweaters in Milk Bars in Ilford & Romford, with little glass cups of milky coffee - which she hates the taste of even to this day - in order to look cool. Strangely I found out she used to drink in a pub just across the road from where my ex lived in London. I only brought it up because someone had been shot there (we nicknamed the area Beirut - he only bought there to get on the property ladder). When I quizzed her about it further she admitted it was pretty rough even in her day, but they weren't fussed about how old you were & it was far enough from home not to run into anyone who knew her.... The things you learn about your family as you get older!

11-22-2005, 05:37 AM	#29
Cyclefrance Pump my ride! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Deep countryside of Surrey , England Posts: 1,890	Didn't venture as far afield as Ilford. We occasionally went to Wapping or even the East End of London around Bow (Kray twins land - remember having been at the Blind Beggar two nights before one of the Krays enemies was killed there - there was an 'in' Chinese restaurant there called the Kwong Ming. Wapping was fun with a pub called 'The Prospect of Whitby' being home to the rugby crowd and always good for a sing-song of ugby favourites - Mayor of Bayswater, The Good Ship Venus, Immobile, These Foolish Things and so on (ask your mum!) As a south Londoner, a lot friends (and therefore the action) were around the Elephant and Castle, and also the Walworth Road where there were some good pubs with live music. But, of course we were all well-behaved budding parents in those days who wouldn't dream of getting drunk or causing any noise, or get into trouble with the police or anything like that, and drugs were never to be heard of....................................................................... (all those dots are for the stunned silence) - as I am sure you will appreciate we all were keen to set a good example for our generation, something for our childern to strive to repeat................................................................ __________________ Always sufficient hills - never sufficient gears

11-22-2005, 11:54 PM	#30
marichiko Guest Posts: n/a	LMAO, Cyclefrance! Yeppers, how old did you say you were again? Never mind. MY generation and me were extremely polite young people, ourselves. When we had anti-war rallies, we WHISPERED, "Two, four, six, eight, organize and smash the state!" We asked our parent's permission before we dropped acid or smoked pot and we all aspired to be just like Dick or Pat Nixon when we grew up and had our MBA's from the state university we attended, never cutting a single class. Did I mention that we also walked barefoot to school through 6 foot drifts of snow?

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