So long CEEFAX

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Re: So long CEEFAX

Post by Thinking Aloud » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:19 pm

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Clinton Huxley wrote:Sob. I used to love watching the cricket on ceefax.
How does your mind work? Cricket... the most boring "sport" ever invented... "watched" on Ceefax? It's like, take a trainspotter and make them even duller than they were before. Then take their trains away. And their notebook. But let them keep their pen.
Trainspotters? Very dull.

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Re: So long CEEFAX

Post by Red Celt » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:20 pm

Thinking Aloud wrote:
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Clinton Huxley wrote:Sob. I used to love watching the cricket on ceefax.
How does your mind work? Cricket... the most boring "sport" ever invented... "watched" on Ceefax? It's like, take a trainspotter and make them even duller than they were before. Then take their trains away. And their notebook. But let them keep their pen.
Trainspotters? Very dull.
Bella? You've exchanged body fluids with this man? :bored:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:21 pm

Seems we have some very bitter wannabe cricketers on this forum...
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I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"

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Post by Thinking Aloud » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:23 pm

Meh. I stopped writing the numbers down years ago. Then started running them instead.

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Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:24 pm

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Thinking Aloud wrote:
Red Celt wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:Sob. I used to love watching the cricket on ceefax.
How does your mind work? Cricket... the most boring "sport" ever invented... "watched" on Ceefax? It's like, take a trainspotter and make them even duller than they were before. Then take their trains away. And their notebook. But let them keep their pen.
Trainspotters? Very dull.
Bella? You've exchanged body fluids with this man? :bored:
8-) Every chance I get.

I'd do him in a train, if I could. :ask:
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Post by Red Celt » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:27 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Red Celt wrote:
Thinking Aloud wrote:
Red Celt wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:Sob. I used to love watching the cricket on ceefax.
How does your mind work? Cricket... the most boring "sport" ever invented... "watched" on Ceefax? It's like, take a trainspotter and make them even duller than they were before. Then take their trains away. And their notebook. But let them keep their pen.
Trainspotters? Very dull.
Bella? You've exchanged body fluids with this man? :bored:
8-) Every chance I get.

I'd do him in a train, if I could. :ask:
TA... the trainspotter's messiah. This, too, could be you, my anorak-wearing, notebook-carrying brethren... a (non-inflatable) hot blonde might actually want to have sex with you.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:42 pm

I thought Bella might enjoy some Boxcar Willie....

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Post by Rum » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:50 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:A comment on the BBC new website....


Ceefax is what the internet could be.
Ernest Hope Stephenson, UK

Well said, Ernest!
Someone on Radio 4 just described following cricket on Ceefax as the next best entertainment to watching paint dry. :hehe:

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Post by Thinking Aloud » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:51 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:I thought Bella might enjoy some Boxcar Willie....

Here it is on Ceefax.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:52 pm

Rum wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:A comment on the BBC new website....


Ceefax is what the internet could be.
Ernest Hope Stephenson, UK

Well said, Ernest!
Someone on Radio 4 just described following cricket on Ceefax as the next best entertainment to watching paint dry. :hehe:
Reminds me, I need to check the primer on my radiators....woohoo!
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:11 pm

The song is actually Wabash Cannonball (and extra 'L' in that labelling). Very famous traditional tune.
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Post by Thinking Aloud » Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:12 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:The song is actually Wabash Cannonball (and extra 'L' in that labelling). Very famous traditional tune.
And the engine in that picture, if I'm not mistaken, is a Union Pacific "Big Boy". Which sadly I'm not.

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Re: So long CEEFAX

Post by klr » Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:30 pm

Thinking Aloud wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:I thought Bella might enjoy some Boxcar Willie....

Here it is on Ceefax.
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:50 pm

Thinking Aloud wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote:The song is actually Wabash Cannonball (and extra 'L' in that labelling). Very famous traditional tune.
And the engine in that picture, if I'm not mistaken, is a Union Pacific "Big Boy". Which sadly I'm not.
On the good side, you use significantly less coal.
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Re: So long CEEFAX

Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Oct 23, 2012 3:00 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Thinking Aloud wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote:The song is actually Wabash Cannonball (and extra 'L' in that labelling). Very famous traditional tune.
And the engine in that picture, if I'm not mistaken, is a Union Pacific "Big Boy". Which sadly I'm not.
On the good side, you use significantly less coal.
It's not the locomotive, it's the style with which you manoeuvre it into the sidings. Or something.
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