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"Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson; you find the present tense and the past perfect."

"In common, less clinical usage, nostalgia sometimes includes a general interest in past eras and their personalities and events, especially the "good old days" of a few generations back recast in an idyllic light."

In simple terminology. 'Oh for the Good Old Days.'

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Quote: Erskin Quint

"Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson; you find the present tense and the past perfect."

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never better said, Erskine! (except for the mosquitos in the rain forest as I recall you mentioned)

Which mosquitoes?...do you two talk using telepathICALLy?

Time travel, it's not what it used to will be.

Iain

YES, I AGREE TOTALLY....BUT IT WAS - ONCE - TOMORROW

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Quote: Lady Godiva

Which mosquitoes?...do you two talk using telepathy?

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Previous collaborative effort between EQ (King of the Ripping yarn) and Vic (His native bearer)) look back through their mag articles


Nostalgia - reminiscence about lost time

but yes as lady G says it's more involved there are a couple in the UK who dress up and live in a house equipped as if its still the 1940's neither of them are old enaough to remember. In fact I don't know anyone from that period who'd want to go back to a mangle on a freezing day. However, some, like EQ, have been born out of their time. Imperfectly reincarnated perhaps with residual memories?


You wouldn't get me going next door for a shilling for the meter again!

Lynton, don't you pine for the days of yore...when we went door to door for 'change' for a 'florin' so we could get the electric on again?

When our telly went off...coz we needed a shilling for the meter...my mam's well known phrase was'....'Plunged...we're plunged again'....most embarrasing when I had the 'boyfriend of the month' visiting, who was from the 'posh side of town' and didn't even know what an electric or gas meter was.

Well, those posh lads got an educashun when they came to our 'ouse.

Posh people used to be 'on the quarter' round our way

My an's expression whe it happened was 'Where was Moses when the lights went out' and we kids shouted out 'In the dark!"

Talking about expressions nobody asks "How's yer belly orf fer spots?" these days

My dad had some strange phrases...some of which I didn't 'get' when I was a kid.

If I asked him, for example, where's the bread knife (or anything), one of his answers was,

"Behind the meat in the gas oven"

One I didn't get for years....I'll write what I 'thought' he was saying first,

'In the lampshove in the wickup'

I wondered for years what the 'lampshove' and the 'wickup' were....I thought he'd made the words up,until I realized he was saying,

"In the lamp, shoving the wick up!"

Asked where he was going...we'd often get,

"There and back to see how far it is."

"To see a man about a dog".

Bedtime was,

"Up the apples and pears," (obvious Cockney rhyming slang)

"Up the dicky dancers," (Anyone know the origins of this?)

"Time for the blanket show"

A few others I won't print....

Lady G.

Good grief! You want this?:

The Good Old Days

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Quote: Lady Godiva

"In common, less clinical usage, nostalgia sometimes includes a general interest in past eras and their personalities and events, especially the "good old days" of a few generations back recast in an idyllic light."

In simple terminology. 'Oh for the Good Old Days.'

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Well, I GOOGLED THE QUOTE but I wouldn't mind popping back to those days of innocence when we didn't have a telly and I hadn't a bloody clue what was going on in the world....just popping back of course, for a day or so now and again.....It might help 'calm' me at times.

I know it's impossible...but just hearing other people's nostalgia....helps.

Lady G.

OK.. I DO nostalgia..

Not my nostalgia.. Just a bit before..

I do Art Nouveau..

Art deco..

Movies and music of the 1930s..40s.. 50s.. 60s..

Noel Coward, Hutch, Busby Berkely, Ginger Rogers, Joan Blondell, Ruth Etting, Fred Astaire, Una Merkel, Ruby Keeler and on and on..

Through to Irving Berlin, Bogart, Spencer Tracey, Bette Davis, Steiger, Billie Holiday.. and on and on..

As I posted the other day, I love the war poets.

But I'm also fascinated and don't condemn the music and the lyrics that took the men to war.. with their cocaine and their cigarettes..

A Nightingale Sang In Berkely Square..
Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye..
There'll Be Bluebirds Over The White Cliffs Of Dover

Propaganda... and the US film industry 1930-1960. One of the great artistic legacies of a great nation.

Sorry team.. I'll shut up...

I once had nostalgia.

Paracetomol - that's the ticket.

Regards

Skoob.

All those songs and more..we sang at The Olde English Musical Hall, here in Canada, annually...waving little union jacks and making army costumes, best we knew how.
Sewing buttons on our Pearly Queen costumes (the Pearly Kings had the costume ladies sew theirs on)

Roll out the Barrel
Feeding Pigeons in the park
Bicycle made for two
What a picture.....(later era)...
So long..It's been good to see you....

Classic songs...and some of the older people on the cast had 'lived through it all'.

We collect 'old stuff' (antiques)...some not so old. Old radios...my husband got one working..it was a 1940-50's radio....we were gobsmacked when the first things we heard were songs from that era.

I thought they'd been locked up in that radio for years, waiting for someone to come along and fix it so they could escape.

Yes...I do have a strange imagination.....but I like it.

Regards,

LG.

Skoob....can't get Paracetamol here...
I'm on Tylenol EXTRA Strength....for pain
And anti=depressants for the 'nostalgia'.

Creak...creak.....creak.

I've just posted this on the wrong thread...so left it....but brought it here too.


Sunday dinners before I got married....mam cooked (and still does) every vegetable she could get her hands on...

Dad'd make us shandies...

If we had company we'd bring the table from the small kitchen, into the living room. Mam doesn't have a dining room.LG

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Quote: Lady Godiva



Feeding Pigeons in the park


LG.

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surely you mean this oneLady G - enjoy! everyone
see you all soon

Lynton...yes THAT's the one. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park. One of the women in our 'ensemble' sang it...with actions and toy pigeons which threw around around now and again.....it was hilarious. She tried to give the 'kiss of life to one'...oh my...what a laugh.... I still have the video somewhere.

LG