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Subject: BS: Apart from that! From: John MacKenzie Date: 25 Sep 04 - 03:41 PM I love the Leon Rosselson song Stand Firm, and it occured to me, in the time houred tradition of a million chat shows. If the 4 minute warning did go off, apart from, or after, you've done THAT. What else would you do? Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: Bill D Date: 25 Sep 04 - 04:53 PM sit down, and look at something beautiful...hopefully with my wife... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: jacqui.c Date: 26 Sep 04 - 03:11 AM Hold onto Kendall and hope that we and our families were taken out by the first blast - I read Neville Shute's 'On The Beach' at too young an age to want to be a survivor of an all out nuclear war. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 26 Sep 04 - 03:40 AM "So, Mrs Lincoln, apart from that, how did you enjoy your evening at the theatre?" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: John MacKenzie Date: 26 Sep 04 - 04:19 AM I too read On the Beach when young, and bits of it stay with me still over 40 years on. I read almost all Neville Shute's works then, and I don't know whether it was because I was at a receptive stage in my development, but I still remember many bits of his great books, especially A Town like Alice. I always was a sucker for happy endings. Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: alanabit Date: 26 Sep 04 - 05:00 AM There's another thread there, because I think Neville Shute was quite good too. He didn't just do happy endings either. "The Chequer Board" and "Requiem For A Wren" are both pretty melancholy books - as is "What Happened To The The Corbetts". Going back to the original question, I think I'd want to put on a rocker that both my kids like and watch them jumping up and down to it. There are not many things which give me as much pleasure as that -not that you can do in public anyway! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: alanabit Date: 26 Sep 04 - 05:00 AM ...or four minutes... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: Strollin' Johnny Date: 26 Sep 04 - 05:07 AM I don't believe there's a man alive today who, if the 4-minute-warning was given, could achieve the necessary blood-pressure in the appropriate area for "That"! I've a strong suspicion that the urge to evacuate the bowels would take precedence! ROFL!! SJ :0) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: Dead Horse Date: 26 Sep 04 - 06:33 AM Do it three more times? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: Georgiansilver Date: 26 Sep 04 - 08:42 AM All that coming and going! Best wishes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: catspaw49 Date: 26 Sep 04 - 08:59 AM Thanks so much for this depressing thought this morning! I just want to be with Karen and the boys for a final few minutes. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: Ellenpoly Date: 27 Sep 04 - 04:28 AM We'd do well to live every day like it may be the last one. I'd go sit under a tree and hope to be at ground zero. ..xx..e |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: George Papavgeris Date: 27 Sep 04 - 04:41 AM Sing "It's a beautiful world" and mean it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 28 Sep 04 - 04:44 AM Find all the chocolate I can and eat it. Please let it happen when I'm on pilgrimage to 'CadburyWorld' where they make the stuff...... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: GUEST,Mingulay Date: 28 Sep 04 - 05:05 AM Funny how some people think of food at times of great stress. But, as someone once said "the world will end not with a banger, but with a Wimpy". Could it have been Ranald McDonald of the clan McFlurry? Given a four minute warning, one would probably be too stunned to do anything for the first 31/2 minutes anyway. So "that" then leaves ME with 27 seconds to fill. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: Blissfully Ignorant Date: 28 Sep 04 - 02:22 PM I think i would revert to form and, after saying a heartfelt fare-thee-weel to all avaliable friends and family, would then proceed to get almightily rat-arsed and repent furiously for all my many and varied sins. YEAH, i'm a chickensh*t, lily-livered, yelow bellied coward.. but then who isn't when they're about to be turned inside out by a nuclear wind? :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: John MacKenzie Date: 28 Sep 04 - 02:32 PM Wish I'd taken my viagra tablet earlier! Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: Chris Green Date: 28 Sep 04 - 02:51 PM Probably do what I did when the four-minute warning went off in Coventry when I was three. Sleep right through it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: Chris Green Date: 28 Sep 04 - 02:52 PM Just read that and I think I should add that it went off by accident and there wasn't actually a nuclear strike on Coventry in the early 80s. Although it might explain a lot about the general look of the place. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: GUEST,petr Date: 28 Sep 04 - 08:40 PM Id go downtown and stand next to a building and make those finger puppet shadows... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: GUEST,Seaking Date: 29 Sep 04 - 06:12 PM I'd make one last attempt to finally get my guitar in tune... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: GUEST Date: 29 Sep 04 - 06:42 PM I'd turn the clock back an hour. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: Georgiansilver Date: 29 Sep 04 - 06:51 PM Find a dining chair... sit on the front edge of it..... open your legs as wide apart as your balance will allow...... lean forward.... and downward.......... tuck your head in between your legs.......... kiss your a..e goodbye!!!!! Best wishes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 30 Sep 04 - 12:37 AM Go back to bed. Seamus |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: Billy the Bus Date: 30 Sep 04 - 12:05 PM Giok, you've started a neat thread. Jaqui - your mention of "On the Beach" took me back a while - Nevil Shute Norway Has a heap of info about the author - what a guy... Georgiansilver - you must be a fast worker - or us Kiwi slow? We didn't look for kitchen chairs in NZ in the 1950's-60's. The four minute warning was... Bend over (Wendover - for aged Poms) Put your head between your legs And kiss tour arse goodbye Whoops... I should have been PC and said 'ASS" Chers - Sam PS - only read the first two ines - that's when the four minute deadine hit me..... Bye-bye |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: George Papavgeris Date: 30 Sep 04 - 02:43 PM Remember some good jokes and die laughing |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: John MacKenzie Date: 30 Sep 04 - 03:07 PM Wouldn't your chuckle muscles be as useless as somebody reckons their love muscle would be in those circumstances? Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: Peace Date: 30 Sep 04 - 03:45 PM Respond to the firehall. May as well die doing something useful. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: GUEST,LDB Date: 30 Sep 04 - 05:05 PM Back in the days of the cold war there were several posters around, some more witty than others, but all had the theme: "And remember this tip: In case of a nuclear attack and you see a really big flash, run, duck and cover. Put your head between your knees, cover your ears, and kiss your ass goodbye." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Apart from that! From: John MacKenzie Date: 30 Sep 04 - 06:20 PM Don't just cower like a shower when the bombs begin to loom Stand firm, stand firm You will have a good four minutes to prepare you refuge room Stand firm, stand firm The early warning system will be broadcasting the news So don't hang around Trafalgar Sqaure, or lounge about the loos And switch off all electric fires so's not to blow a fuse Stand firn, stand firm. Leon Rosselson [great song] Giok |
