What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

20th wedding anniversary today...

[Cavcraft]

In the grin thread?

 

 

Only joshing, congratulations!

[Guest]

ITS COS OF THE GINNERS INNIT:

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=110503

 

And if the [locked] thread does one, here's the original URL:

 

http://photosbycoop.tumblr.com/

[Mr H Sceptre]

Well, God (Eric Clapton)

With respect to the mighty Mr Clapton, these three are guitar gods (to me):

 

Robert Lockwood Jr, reputedly taught how to play guitar by Rober Johnson no less, playing on stage - aged 91:

 

 

Steve 'The Colonel' Cropper & Donald 'Duck' Dunn playing Green Onions live on stage in Australia

Saw these cats rock in London recently with Eddie 'Knock On Wood' Floyd on vocals. Oh, and Bill Murray popped in two songs from the end to play tambourine, while Terence Stamp watched in the wings:

 

 

 

Clarence White every day of the week for me:

 

[trigger]

ITS COS OF THE GINNERS INNIT:

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=110503

 

And if the [locked] thread does one, here's the original URL:

 

http://photosbycoop.tumblr.com/

 

Or just cut out the middle man... (NSFW BTW)

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coop666/collections/

[dollywobbler]

[chaseracer]

...the uptight repressive Vans shoe-wearing...

 

 

 

[Amazo]

#ensures bargepole is requisite length to that subject#

[Amazo]

Amazo stays at arm's length so's not to get jettisoned from RR.

No, it's because your tirade at Hotwire now bores me. We know he's an arse, but he really isn't worth wasting energy on. End of subject.

[Pete-M]

Just been given a pair of Canon S-35 speakers on the proper stands.

 

 

Same as these, but on stands obviously.

 

Just got home, plugged 'em in, and they're still bloody good.

 

Listening to Oxygene IV on 'em now and it's making me grin.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Oxygene IV

 

QUALITY

 

My Polish neighbours were having a party in their garden the other day, had that blasting out. MY KINDA PARTY!

[retrogeezer]

yeh, top choice there Pete...

[trigger]

I just had to "YouTube it" to find out what it was!, wasn't it once a theme tune to some 80's show like Krypton Factor or something?

[r.welfare]

That was The Art Of Noise, son.

[tonedepear]

S'ok, it's no Tubular Bells though.

[Station]

I remember being blown away by it in 1994 or thereabouts when I first played it in an arcade somewhere in Liverpool. I think I got through about £10 frantically trying to play through all the stages.

 

They had that in the Jacaranda pub in Liverpool! It's similar to 1000 mille miglia, which is identical looking.

[autofive]

S'ok, it's no Tubular Bells though.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx8peNet8Sg

 

i ll just leave this here

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That was The Art Of Noise, son.

 

You're right, but I think Oxygene was on some TV show or other, i think it was a 'The time, the place' style discussion show with Sarah Kennedy.

[Pete-M]

That was The Art Of Noise, son.

 

You're right, but I think Oxygene was on some TV show or other, i think it was a 'The time, the place' style discussion show with Sarah Kennedy.

 

It was something with Miriam Stoppard (makes me want to set fire to commemorative tea towels). "Where there's life" or summat.

[trigger]

From Wiki:

 

Oxygène (Part IV)" was used as the theme tune for the UK medical series Where There's Life, broadcast between 1981 and 1989, and presented by Dr. Miriam Stoppard.

 

It also featured in GTA IV.

[Spottedlaurel]

Oxygene was the cassette left in the car for me by Datman when I bought the Laurel, it's still the only tape I have in there so it regularly gets listened to - not entirely sure the OE tape deck is the perfect thing to listen to it on though...

[peter9000uk]

Insurance assessor rang today to advise Mrs9000's Laguna is a write off (as I suspected all along due to crumpled florr & rear quarter). Offered £1200 or I can keep the car and they will deduct £72 from the payout. Scrap is fetching £205/tonne around here at the mo. Happy with that as I paid £500 for it 18 months ago!

 

Mentioned CAVCRAFT Jag to Mrs9000 as a replacement but she reckons Jags are dirty old men's cars. Mind you she fancies the Shropshire Beemer on here for sale, but stumbling block is when I get cheque from Insurance company

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Theres some seriously great old daily-use chod for sale RIGHT THIS MINUTE:

 

Wuv's Alfa 166.

 

Wobblah's Saab 9000.

 

A cracking Cavalier SRi (ecotec) on Retro-rides for £425.

[Spottedlaurel]

My Camry Sport is still available too (perhaps you deliberately forgot that?!). Once I get through this rather finacially tight month I'll stick a fresh MoT on it and properly put it up for sale. At the moment I'm only using the Laurel and the Camry and they're all the cars I need, which brings into question the V6 too.

[cms206]

Insurance... ahh yes.

 

Expected a right royal lot of fucking about from Admiral to change the Proton to the Cavalier on the insurance policy and a massive premium hike.

 

Total difference including charges... £37. Beezer!

[Amazo]

Listened to the Bladerunner soundtrack for the first time in a while. Godlike.

[eddyramrod]

Been to see Green Lantern tonight. Not bad at all! I'm one of probably not very many Brits who used to read the DC comic back in the 60s. GL was actually one of my preferred superheroes, not least because his ring could conjure up stuff as and when he needed it. I suppose 45 years for the FX industry to catch up isn't that long really... Would have liked less pompous music, but I can forgive that just for the way GL rescues a crashing helicopter. It's truly AS-worthy! Also, he drives a 1970 Dodge Challenger...

 

So yeah, this belongs in the Grin thread.

[Amazo]

Been to see Green Lantern tonight. Not bad at all!

Must be a different film to the one I saw, as that one was pretty lame, and I've been reading GL since the early 90's and also have the classic Dennis O'Neal/Neal Adams stuff.

[chaseracer]

...Green Lantern... one of my preferred superheroes, not least because his ring could conjure up stuff as and when he needed it...

 

That's a useful if unusual superpower...

 

[Amazo]

...Green Lantern... one of my preferred superheroes, not least because his ring could conjure up stuff as and when he needed it...

That's a useful if unusual superpower...

 

 

A Green Lantern's (there's a Corp of them to protect the whole universe) ring is theoretically the most powerful source of energy known, limited only by the will of the user.

One could kick Superman's arse without even breaking a sweat, should he desire it....