Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.....

[Cyclefrance]

After my last disastrous attempt at an interesting thread, Hope this one might prove more suuccessful.

Can't remember what we were really discussing at the time that prompted it (age-related short-term memory issues!), but had some interesting exchanges over Rin Tin Tin and Rusty with Wolf and others, and that got me thinking that there were probably lots of areas where a bit of communal participation could lift the fog on partially remembered memories.

There's almost a useful age reference thing here as well. When you're not sure about someone's age, then a quick: 'do you remember....' finishing with something date related should give you a guide to the real age of a person (and whether your assumptin is right or not) -e.g. (mainly for UK subscribers - but pleased to hear your US and other country equivalents):

Do you remember:

Born
1950-1955 - Muffin the Mule, Rag Tag and Bobtail
1956-1960 - Mick and Montmorency, frozen jubblies
1961-1965 - When the first James Bond movie was released, Mods and Rockers
1966-1970 - Watching the first moon landing, seeing England win the World Cup
1971-1975 - ....well, you get the picture

Following on from the Rin Tin Tin episode we touched also on Range Rider who was played by Jock Mahoney. Range Rider had a sidekick caled Dick, I think, played by Dick Weston who then went on to have his own series as Young Range Rider(?) - now whatever happened to Dick Weston? Then there were those other two - Cisco Kid and... (what WAS his Mexican partner's name - see what I mean...?)

Incidentally we have young (well not so young now) Jimmy Osmomd over here about to start in a reality show known here as 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' which involves 10 so-called celebrities being placed in the Australian jungle/bush and having to survive 'x' weeks - the public gradually whittling down the remaining ones by voting to eject one candidate every few days. There's other voting for individuals to perform various 'trials' to gain food for their colleagues - usually involving spiders, snakes and various other creepy-crawlies. Much as normally I hate reality TV shows, this one does have a certain charm about it!

Oh, well over to you. Will put my two-penn'th in as and when appropriate....