Caryl

Not sure what you mean by signing photos but do you mean automatically adding your name or other details to all outgoing email messages?

The Westpac(?) man in their ad seems to manage with just dishwashing liquid and a potato masher

Back to the topic :lol: Ads that imply you need more than just a basic toothbrush to make sure your teeth are clean and the ones that try to scare us with how many bugs are on everything we touch. How can we build up our imunity to these things if we keep cleaning them off??? :roll: And I still have the Jockey Junior ad song running through my head :roll:

We just use watered down dishwashing liquid

In Hokitika we would take a container to the milk treatment station and they would fill it up with really thick, spoon stand up in it, cream! YUM. Modern cream is not the same I remember... 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soft drink machines that dispensed glass bottles (could never afford to buy a drink though) 5. Coffee shops or milk bars with juke boxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with foil stoppers (except we actually had a cow and made our own milk, cream and butter when I was a child) 7. Party telephone lines (we had 5 on our line. Us kids NEVER touched it!) Husband remembers when the Motueka grocers had the phone number 1 and PO Box 1 :lol: 12. Peashooters (I had 2 older brothers. They also set fore to ants with magnifying glasses :roll: ) 13. Wash tub wringer (we had one of these until I was about 14. Be wary when leaning over the wringer! :-? ) 14. 78 RPM records (still got a lot of these, plus a gramophone on which to play them) 15. Metal ice trays with lever (still got one of these too) 18. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals 20. Head lights with dimmer switches on the floor 21. Ignition switches on the dashboard 24. Pant-leg clips for bicycles without chain guards (I use these today except they are plastic, not metal like the ones I used as a child) 25. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner (Grant has one of these) Chips aren't that cheap these days either Alan

diver21 did you get the tank trucked down to you or did you go collect it (or are you no longer in Blenheim)? Nice rack R32GOTMLK :lol:

I have never had a swimming pool nor seen one cleaned. How do the pond cleaners work? Where does the muck get sucked to? :-?

Note what Alan said is the minimum for a pair of angels. Dividing a 2ft tank gives you two tanks so small there is little you can keep in either them, except a pair of small fish.

This was sent to me by the FNZAS Patron, John Eastwood. I have seen it before but thought some of you might not. 'Hey Dad,' one of my kids asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?' 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.' 'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?' 'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. 'Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.' By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I thought his system could have handled it. Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a store card. The card was good only at Farmers (now Myers). My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day Some people had a lens taped to the front of the TV to make the picture look larger. I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.' When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had. We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a 'machine.' I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could use it, you had to listen and make sure someone else wasn't already using the line. Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was. All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day. Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them. If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing. Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it? MEMORIES from a friend: My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old tomato sauce bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old. Older Than Dirt Quiz: How many do you remember? Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom. 1. Choo Choo bar 2. Drive ins 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soft drink machines that dispensed glass bottles 5. Coffee shops or milk bars with juke boxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with foil stoppers 7. Party telephone lines 8. Newsreels before the movie 9. Packards 10. Blue flash bulbs. 11. Telephone numbers with 2 letters and 4 numbers. 12. Peashooters 13. Wash tub wringer 14. 78 RPM records 15. Metal ice trays with lever 16. Studebakers 17. Cracker night 18. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals 19. Bread delivered by horse and cart 20. Head lights with dimmer switches on the floor 21. Ignition switches on the dashboard 22. Heaters mounted on the inside of the wall 23. Real ice boxes 24. Pant-leg clips for bicycles without chain guards 25. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner If you remembered 0 - 5 = You're still young If you remembered 6 - 10 = You are getting older If you remembered 11 - 15 = Don't tell your age, If you remembered 16 - 25 = You're older than dirt! I might be older than dirt but those memories are still good. Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends.

Very good :lol:

I wouldn't put it past them! :lol:

You hit a nerve with me sorry oeminx. I was in a similar situation but reversed. When 16 I was attacked by a group of drunk men (you can guess what sort of attack but I will not mention it specifically in a family forum). It took 2 breakdowns and over 10 years of therapy to recover. I cannot bear to watch that ad at all. The attack still affects me to this day. I cannot bear drunks and go out of my way to avoid them. Luckily I am a tee totaller (only because I hate the taste) so don't frequent pubs. I did like the those V(?) ads with the insects. I thought they were cleverly done. Anyone remember ye olde ads for Brylcreme (a little dab 'il do ya), Pinkie Bars, or Jockey Junior underwear??? :lol: We all say, you'll agree, Jockey Juniors are for me With a hey ho pull 'em up, 1, 2, 3 Jockey Juniors are for me! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Picture a group of boys marching down the road in their tightey whiteys and singlets singing that to the tune of "This old man he played one, he played nick nacks on his drum". Most of you probably aren't old enough to know that song either! :roll:

Very cute (considering rabbits are rodent pests :lol: ). My daughter has one of those broken eared rabbits too 8)

Oh yeah, I remember that one! :lol:

Perhaps the key here is the size of the tank the fish is in. Given plenty of territory it is probably a much nicer fish

I can look it all up on the medical database when I am at work next if you like.

No such thing as too much filtration

Thanks for posting that. We often learn more from our own, and others', mistakes and this has been a good lesson to all. Why were you not going to post it?

So oeminx are you saying it is perfectly acceptable for someone to attack someone else and abuse them because they are drunk?

I must say I watch little TV and when the ads come on I tune them out. It took me ages to get the joke behind the painted clothes on those Air NZ ads :roll: :oops: The BAM man worries me and anyone who tries to sell me cleaning products. :lol: One ad I always noticed and watched cos it made me laugh (I like ads that make me laugh) was the bulls in the Toyota ute. "Hellooo ladies!" :lol:

phenix44 they don't know how the ice formed that way as it has never done so before. It has somehow come up from below where the cables go down through the floor to the outside. The snow isn't so much squishy up there as icy so most of the time they didn't sink further than their knees It is the ice factor that makes southern hemisphere heavier than snow in the northern hemisphere apparently. They say northern hemisphere snow has less ice so is not so hard and doesn't do so much damage when you fall over in it :-? Barrie, that is why he was wearing Arctic survival gear :lol:

By the way, this isn't bubbles, it is ice that formed inside the building!

Can you carry 80kg batteries? :lol:

He laughs and says "And they pay me to do this!!!" :lol: :bounce: :lol:

Up on the Black Birch Range (1700m) Telecom have a hut containing various radio telephone (RT) equipment for other companies including service for police, ambulance, DOC etc. With the unusual snowfall on Monday night, the overhead powerline, much lower down the hill, couldn't handle the ice load, breaking some of the lines and cross arms on the poles, thus mains power was lost. The battery capacity is only designed for short term mains outages as there is a diesel generator on-site which should start automatically. It didn't. Further down the hill at 1400m is another Telecom site for telephone service for most of the Awatere Valley. This also lost mains power and the batteries failed shortly afterwards. They should have lasted more than 24hrs. Their mission, should they accept it, was to fix it! They first tried to drive up but got stuck in snow at only 500m up :-? . Next, they got to fly in a helicopter to the lower site but it coould not shut down as the weather was likely to change and the cloud ceiling was almost at that level. It lifted 4 batteries weighing more than 80kg each close to the site for them, along with tools, so they could temporarily connect them to the system to get it operational. The pilot warned them that if they heard the helicopter rev, to stop everything and run because as soon as he got the engine up to speed he was lifting off whether they were on board or not! :lol: The first problem was opening the door of the hut as the locks were frozen. They couldn't get to the higher site due to low cloud so went home. Next day was too cloudy for choppers so they got a digger to break a path up the Mt. It took them 4 hours to do 8km :roll: Then it was too dark to see the road so they had to return home until next day. Today they headed up again and eventually got to the top site about midday. It only took 2hrs to do the final 3km. There are more shots here This is ice formed on a waratah