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Hard News: The Civility Code

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  • Riddley Walker,

    cool Juha.
    is it just me or is Paris Hilton modelled on Lady Penelope or what?

    AKL • Since Feb 2007 • 890 posts Report Reply

  • Juha Saarinen,

    Not sure, but Lady P would never have done this. She'd have got Parker to do it for her.

    Since Nov 2006 • 529 posts Report Reply

  • merc,

    I had Thunderbird 3? with Thunderbird 5 inside, one of the thin little detachable white legs went down the plug-hole, I was inconsolable, and realized then that I would come to nothing as the black hand of fate was upon me. All my pure thoughts toward Lady Penelope turned to guilty angst, I was six, the 60's were ending, it was then I turned to the Dark Side...

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report Reply

  • Juha Saarinen,

    It's different nowadays. Best you can hope for is those Hilton and Richie hoses up your backside.

    Since Nov 2006 • 529 posts Report Reply

  • merc,

    They're going to put out their own range of hoses?

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report Reply

  • Riddley Walker,

    "Soap M'Lady?"
    "Yes Parker"

    i had the same T3 with T5. it was cool. but the 60s, and even more so 70s, were also the time of new lows in shittily manufactured toys that broke soon after you got them - thus spawning a generation of dissaffected Soldiers for The Dark - mwahahaha

    AKL • Since Feb 2007 • 890 posts Report Reply

  • Riddley Walker,

    yes, they'll be Hobby Hoses - good for a flogging

    AKL • Since Feb 2007 • 890 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    She'd have got Parker to do it for her

    And he always looked like one was being done to him.

    BTW - you guys, like me, had Thunderbird 2, with Thunderbird 4 inside it.

    Mine's a bit beaten up, with "Slade" painted in red on it these days (but painted in 1972), pity, because if pristine, they fetch a lot of money at auction.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Riddley Walker,

    hmm, Slade eh

    AKL • Since Feb 2007 • 890 posts Report Reply

  • Juha Saarinen,

    Since Nov 2006 • 529 posts Report Reply

  • noizyboy,

    I was about to correct Juha and Riddley, but llew bet me to it.

    I will leave you with a link to an image of said toy, instead

    wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 171 posts Report Reply

  • merc,

    Awe, it's worth more with Slade on it. Shows real character when you mod your precious toys.

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    hmm, Slade eh

    Heh. Yes. Saw them in their pomp, in Cardiff 1972. They were supported by then unknowns Suzy Quattro & her band, and Thin Lizzy.

    Great concert.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Juha Saarinen,

    I said nuffink about that! Dammit, incorrect attributing is teh CoC!

    Since Nov 2006 • 529 posts Report Reply

  • merc,

    Noizyboy, thank you, I was just transported back then, you're right, it was 4 and 2, and there are the launch legs, I'm...ar, choking up.

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    I'm...ar, choking up

    An emergency! F.A.B. They're on their way!

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Riddley Walker,

    i liked the pete and dud better, that's a classic

    AKL • Since Feb 2007 • 890 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    I can find no link to them, but did anyone else see a couple of mimes calling themselves The Fabulous Thunderbirds (not the band), who mimed an entire episode while wearing thunderbirds 1 & 2 hats?

    Pretty much the funniest thing I've ever seen in a live theatre.

    They did an arts fest some years ago.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • merc,

    And Riddely, it was a beautifully made, metal toy, I was a connoiseur, Lesley's mostly, but somehow I got the Thunderbird toy. I thought my parents must have worked for years to get me that toy, hence my shame and the fall.
    That Gerry Anderson really knew his stuff about merchandising. I hear they found Virgil, drunk and hopeless in a rubbish bin, some years after the show had finished, he just couldn't handle that Stingray tanked and here he was, out of work, damn shame.

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report Reply

  • merc,

    I saw the mimes, it was out loud funny and impossibly clever. Hell are we all crossing paths, it's that number 9 isn't it?

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report Reply

  • merc,

    An emergency! F.A.B. They're on their way!
    Thanks, I just spat on my screens and nearly caused a goffer incident.

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report Reply

  • Riddley Walker,

    yeah mine was metal too. was it matchbox? i can't remember.
    and yes i heard that about Virgil, the gary coleman of supermariontion.
    but oh, Mariiiiiiinaaaa, pretty marina.... . he was probably in love with her, all that fishiness and a tail - who could blame him?
    l

    AKL • Since Feb 2007 • 890 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    yeah mine was metal too. was it matchbox?

    It was Dinky :) We also had a Lady Penelope pin k Roller, a couple of Capt. Scarlett vehicles, a James Bond Aston Martin DB5 (complete with firing missile & ejector seat), and a Yellow Submarine with all 4 beatles.

    We have none of these anymore, except for parts of some of them.

    I think that it'd be a good strategy for parents to buy two of everything like this - one for the kids to destroy & paint the names of their favourite bands on, the other to keep in its original packaging, for selling years later on trademe.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • 3410,

    That thunderbird 2 was HEAVY. Cast iron, no?

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report Reply

  • Riddley Walker,

    they were all die cast then.
    andrew i had that same silver DB5 - are you sure we didn't live in the same house but never noticed each other? i am quite introverted myself.

    AKL • Since Feb 2007 • 890 posts Report Reply

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