BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?

Subject: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: Santa
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 04:21 PM

Plenty of people sing about the Hard Times, but surely not all times were thought that way?

Mrs. suggests "When This Old Hat Was New".

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: number 6
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 04:31 PM

"I was born, lucky me
In a land that I love
Though I am poor, I am free
When I grow I shall fight
For this land I shall die
Let her sun never set
Victoria, Victoria, Victoria, 'toria
Victoria, Victoria, Victoria, toria "

..................Ray Davies

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: Gulliver
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 05:03 PM

They took place just before the Rare Old Times in Dublin.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 05:54 PM

Now?

:D

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 06:52 PM

It all depends on which class you are.

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: folk1e
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 06:53 PM

Tomorrow! Yup heard it on the radio, it's definatly tomorrow!
That's when there's free beer at my local too ...... aint I the lucky one?

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: skipy
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 07:18 PM

Jam tomorrow!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 03:17 AM

The good times of old England were before I met that black hearted bitch I got feckin married to.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 04:37 AM

It was pretty good in Preston yesterday, despite the deluge; too wet for my customary pot of partched peas, but we did pick up the newly remastered Esoteric editions of "Christmas at the Patti" and "Be Good to Yourself..." from the ever dependable Action Records before moving onto Weatherspoons for some wholesome (& cheap) lasagne in the company of begraggledly good-humoured PNE fans licking their wounds after their drubbing in the derby with Blackpool. I also bought a lovely little LED torch in the shape of a pretty pink pig - it's the nostrils that light up - a thing of beauty & a joy forever, and only £1 besides!

All this and a near mint R&KP 1978 hardback edition of J. Geraint Jenkins' 'Tradition Country Craftsmen' from Halewood & Sons which will either remain for essential reference or come in useful for an Xmas present, but at £3, who can complain? Not I for one.

Sing, Oh the good times of old England
In old England very good times...

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: autolycus
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 05:33 AM

Like Richard said plus, "the Good Old Times" for whom?

Also,

The following is one of 36 fallacies given by its author,

"That the present age is a Duller Age and less ingeniousthan those which are past." Stephen Fovargue, 'A New Catalogue of Vulgar Errors",1767.


Reminder. "There is nothing new under the sun." (The Bible.)

    (Except the internet and chocolate, of course.)

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 08:45 AM

After much research and burning of the midnight oil, I have found that there were actually TWO "good times of Old England."

The first was between 0401 and 0407 GMT, May 7th, 3007 BCE.

The second was a couple of years later, at 1347 GMT, on October 19th.

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 11:05 AM

Surely Greenwich did not exist then, so neither could GMT?

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: autolycus
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 11:52 AM

No, no, he's right, I'm just old enough the later. (Mind you, all those 7s are a bit suspicious.)

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 12:53 PM

I think Dickens said it best:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way"

Much like today.

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 01:52 PM

Bloody weatherspoons. They are a strange phenomena!

You get these really noisy drunks, cos the beers cheap and they can drink all day. And the curry nights are a bit rough, but you reckon they can do lasagne....I will bear it in mind.

On the original question. I remember a time before Big Brother, Strictly Come dancing and The X factor (my wife's favourite programmes).

Life wasn't good in those days. Too many hardships beset simple folk like myself. However I don't recollect quite the feeling of being fed shit intravenously through an aperture in my front room, quite as striongly.

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: Santa
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 02:27 PM

BCE? Don't think there was even an England then. Hard Times of Old South-East Bit of (not actually) Celtic (but what else do you call them?) Prettonnia?

Doesn't work as a title.

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 02:39 PM

if we had the hard times of some, we wouldn't think ours quite so bad.

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: GUEST,albert
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 05:58 PM

CHRISTMAS AT THE PATTI mmmmm A MAN fan buying a two of their albums...its a long way from folk music but what a wonderful welsh band. Their brilliant guitarist and singer Micky Jones is very ill and his place in the band has been taken by his son.

albert

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 06:31 PM

Our Wetherspoons has the drunks down the bar end, or outside in the cold smoking, and up the other end there's a wall of books, and a fire and it's pretty quiet and cosy, apart from a few people gossiping, which can be quite entertaining too.

That's during the day, mind.

Only black mark is they don't allow singing. But they don't have canned music either.

I suspect that in another generation, when people are lamenting the good things that have gone or changed for the worse, Wetherspoons 2007 will be right up there.

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 07:17 PM

QUOTE
Reminder. "There is nothing new under the sun." (The Bible.)

    (Except the internet and chocolate, of course.)
UNQUOTE

Weel chocolate DID exist, but it was not known outside its natural sphere of existence, and the 'chocolate' that existed then was not how it exists now because the modern method of preparation is new...

oh, ummm wait on, I think I just proved er...

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 09:16 PM

The good times of anywhere happened whenever you happened to be about sixteen years old.

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: Gurney
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 11:55 PM

1969-1973.

Subject: RE: BS: When were the Good Times of Old England?
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Dec 07 - 12:03 AM

Research has discovered another good time: 6:37 a.m. GMT, December 2, 1216. It's been downhill pretty much ever since.