Comments on: We Don’t Know How Lucky We Are http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/11/we-dont-know-how-lucky-we-are/ sensitivitytothings.com Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:42:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Shardul http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/11/we-dont-know-how-lucky-we-are/#comment-416 Shardul Fri, 11 May 2007 11:47:33 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/11/we-don%e2%80%99t-know-how-lucky-we-are/#comment-416 Wow man - you're so retro! We had a B&W too - with a remote believe it or not. My Dad was so proud of it. It was on a long cable and had volume nob with a single ear plug as well! All the mod cons... Perhaps he had made it himself - he was a bit of a 'Joe 90' - as we called people in those days who had a fascination for the emerging reality of electronics. That B&W TV was still in the house when I left home - all the other houses had colour probably. Not that I watched it - by then I had discovered motorcycles and the open road... Wow man - you’re so retro! We had a B&W too - with a remote believe it or not. My Dad was so proud of it. It was on a long cable and had volume nob with a single ear plug as well! All the mod cons… Perhaps he had made it himself - he was a bit of a ‘Joe 90′ - as we called people in those days who had a fascination for the emerging reality of electronics. That B&W TV was still in the house when I left home - all the other houses had colour probably. Not that I watched it - by then I had discovered motorcycles and the open road…

]]> By: John Gillespie http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/11/we-dont-know-how-lucky-we-are/#comment-415 John Gillespie Fri, 11 May 2007 11:30:39 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/11/we-don%e2%80%99t-know-how-lucky-we-are/#comment-415 Thanks Alf and Shardul. I must confess I'm a little too young to have seen Fred Dagg in his hey-day—he had "crossed the ditch" to Australia by the time I was old enough to know how to operate the TV remote (actually our TV didn't have a remote, and was B&W). Buffoonery however, Antipodean or otherwise, is always welcome here at <a href="http://www.sensitivitytothings.com" rel="nofollow">Sensitivity to Things</a>. Thanks Alf and Shardul. I must confess I’m a little too young to have seen Fred Dagg in his hey-day—he had “crossed the ditch” to Australia by the time I was old enough to know how to operate the TV remote (actually our TV didn’t have a remote, and was B&W).

Buffoonery however, Antipodean or otherwise, is always welcome here at Sensitivity to Things.

]]> By: alf http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/11/we-dont-know-how-lucky-we-are/#comment-414 alf Fri, 11 May 2007 11:25:54 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/11/we-don%e2%80%99t-know-how-lucky-we-are/#comment-414 Clark is on a current affairs program here every week. He is excellent. http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/clarkedawe.htm They just don't make songs like that anymore, it seems we are too self conscious to enjoy our own buffoonery in the Antipodes these days. Clark is on a current affairs program here every week. He is excellent.
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/clarkedawe.htm
They just don’t make songs like that anymore, it seems we are too self conscious to enjoy our own buffoonery in the Antipodes these days.

]]> By: Shardul http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/11/we-dont-know-how-lucky-we-are/#comment-413 Shardul Fri, 11 May 2007 11:22:53 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/11/we-don%e2%80%99t-know-how-lucky-we-are/#comment-413 Strewth! It's good to see old Fred again mate - he's a cracker! Fred Dagg brought a rather funny light to the seventies. I used to listen to him on the wireless during breakfast before heading off to dreary old school. He would crack on about all sorts of things - the weather, politics of course (it was during the height of the Muldoon era), his neighbours the Bayliss', everyday events like storms, floods, sharing sheep and milking cows. He sounded like a couple of my Uncles - and I enjoyed his show immensely. I think he appealed to a wide range of Kiwis - I guess he sounded like everybody's Uncles really. A highlight for me was when I went to see him live with a bunch of mates in the mid-70's at the old His Majesty's Theatre before it was knocked down. We also saw Split Enz there. It was a great show and we all talked like him for about two weeks afterwards. Even at school! Anyway, she'll be right cobber! See you at smoko... Strewth! It’s good to see old Fred again mate - he’s a cracker!

Fred Dagg brought a rather funny light to the seventies. I used to listen to him on the wireless during breakfast before heading off to dreary old school. He would crack on about all sorts of things - the weather, politics of course (it was during the height of the Muldoon era), his neighbours the Bayliss’, everyday events like storms, floods, sharing sheep and milking cows. He sounded like a couple of my Uncles - and I enjoyed his show immensely. I think he appealed to a wide range of Kiwis - I guess he sounded like everybody’s Uncles really. A highlight for me was when I went to see him live with a bunch of mates in the mid-70’s at the old His Majesty’s Theatre before it was knocked down. We also saw Split Enz there. It was a great show and we all talked like him for about two weeks afterwards. Even at school!

Anyway, she’ll be right cobber! See you at smoko…

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