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Title: Beano
Post by rabbit_rabbit on May 3^rd, 2004, 6:39pm

PS Only kidding about firing ya Plugwash me Beano pal

RR

Title: Beano
Post by Dewy on May 3^rd, 2004, 6:52pm

Nothing wrong with the Beano, or the Dandy for that matter.
My uncle left school at 15 only able to read both comics with difficulty but put him on site & he would lay 1000 bricks a day with ease. He taught his son & now they built bespoke houses between them. Damned �good quality ones too. I wonder if he called any of his pets Biffo?

Title: Beano
Post by rabbit_rabbit on May 4^th, 2004, 9:27am

Twas a GREAT era for me 2 Beano and Eagle comics there wre wonderful and the Bash Street Gand were the best.

This is why I am now an electrician and not the brain surgeon I was originally destined to be!!

RR

Title: Beano
Post by big_all on May 4^th, 2004, 9:42am

me and three of my brother used to go to my
grandads for dinner cos he lived close to the school

he used to buy us comics to read we used to get

the beano �dandy eagle beezer and the one
for the clever kids �was it look and learn
or something like that

there was a total of about seven
lucky kids ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Title: Beano
Post by coggy on May 4^th, 2004, 10:23am

The Beano was the one for me. �Dandy was ok but Beano was the dogs hudders ;D ;)

Title: Beano
Post by HandyMac on May 4^th, 2004, 1:02pm

Mum used to buy me every comic in the shop, most of which no longer exist.

I was a spoilt brat. Still, I'm gonna make good one day.

Andrew

Title: Beano
Post by Dewy on May 4^th, 2004, 1:14pm

I used to have the Sun & the Comet until they suddenly stopped publishing part way through stories.
I never did find out if Jetace Logan saved the Earth.
I read the Eagle but it was my dads comic. He used to cut the exploded drawings out of the middle & let me read Luck of the Legion in the half of the page that was left. The idiot. Didn't he know how much a full set of The Eagle from day 1 would be worth. I never threw a single comic away but carefully stacked them in order. I later found out that my mum used to pull a handfull from the bottom to throw away regularly. I had the full set of Eagle Annuals too but they disappeared from here when one of my sons was mid teens & wanted some money. I never did find out how much he got for my beloved Eagles. :(

Title: Beano
Post by HandyMac on May 4^th, 2004, 4:30pm

When I started to get interested in Electronics my Dad bought me a copy of Practical Wireless. There was a project for a metal detector in there which I wanted to build. So Dad took me down to the local electronics store (which weren't popular in about 1970!) where we bought the components - transistors, resistors, capacitors, etc.

However the one thing he didn't buy was a piece of circuit board. He showed me how to wire the circuit together by banging some copper pins into a wooden block, and soldering the components onto the pins. Very heath-robinson, but it worked!

From that day forward I bought Practical Wireless every month and had a complete set covering several years. Eventually threw them all away.

Those pre-integrated circuit days might have made those PW's slightly valuable today!

Andrew

Title: Beano
Post by rabbit_rabbit on May 4^th, 2004, 5:50pm

Thats how it nowadays aint it Andrew? A piece of wood with a few nails banged into it - "There you are Ma'am your new Consumer Unit is ready" LOL

In the downstairs bog here I have a framed copy of Beano Number 1.

Wireless World was a great mag, I used to be an unofficial Ham (otherwise known as a 'Pirate'). 200 watts on home brewed 80 metres transmitter using 807 valves. The Post Office, as it then was, tried to catch me out with the triple detection system but my old receiver (RCA AR33) used to pick up their IF and I shut down and quickly they never did catch me and the locals never did discover who was messing up their TV pictures (RFI).

Ray Wabbit

Title: Beano
Post by HandyMac on May 4^th, 2004, 6:05pm

wrote on May 4^th, 2004, 5:50pm:

they never did catch me and the locals never did discover who was messing up their TV pictures (RFI)

I hated buggers like you!

20 odd years ago a guy 2 doors away fitted a CB radio system in his car that could talk to the far side of Mars. Broke up our picture something chronic. Caught him sitting in his car one day, confronted him, no more problems.

Then a young lad who lived behind us had some sort of radio rig. Similar TV problem. Went out the back and there was a 50 foot aerial stuck up alongside their house. Knocked on door, received the "not us guv", and problem went away.

Andrew

Title: Beano
Post by rabbit_rabbit on May 4^th, 2004, 6:24pm

Creeps! wud not have stopped me buggering up ya TV Andrew lol

I had a soddin great big Rhombus attenae system, could not miss the damn thing, but they did.

Again congrats for hitting the 500 mark (I am sure ya just copy and paste the same postings)

Ray Wabbit

(trying to catch you up)

Title: Beano
Post by HandyMac on May 4^th, 2004, 6:52pm

wrote on May 4^th, 2004, 6:24pm:

(trying to catch you up)

Tsk. Posting messages for messages sake. What becomes of you? ;)

SuperSparky is gonna need an extra hard disk before long..... ;)

Andrew

Title: Beano
Post by supersparky on May 4^th, 2004, 6:54pm

lol, we are using under 2% of system reasources right now!

ss

Title: Beano
Post by rabbit_rabbit on May 4^th, 2004, 6:59pm

For Heavens sake SS dont tell him that he sees that sort of thing as a challenge (right I'll show em get the resources up to 99%)

RR

Title: Beano
Post by Dewy on May 4^th, 2004, 10:25pm

My house was more like Jodrel Bank with all its CB antennas. Up to 6 at a time plus others for the car.
The next door neighbour complained to me about every TV problem. One night at 12.30 when ITV was off the air. He wouldn't accept that we all had the same problem but blamed me for blacking out every TV for 2 miles radius. He never said a thing when ITV appologised for the loss of picture. His wife accused me of messing their picture up with the CB while I was mowing the lawn. He didn't realise there was a teenager across the road with an antenna in the loft & a 25watt linear 2 guys the other side of him, one with a CB & the other with an AM AA transceiver that interferred every time he drove past. The police & fire service do the same yet it was always me who got blamed. I did everything by the book to help him including giving him the address & number of the radio interferance people. It turned out he had corrosion in the antenna & coax plus was using a preamp to increase the gain. He was doing it to himself.
At least that 400 watt linear warms the house up in winter. ;)

Title: Re: Beano
Post by rabbit_rabbit on May 5^th, 2004, 6:27pm

lol Dewy - tiz GREAT stuff!! Its when ya start opening remote controlled garage doors that the fun really starts!

RR

Title: Re: Beano
Post by mailee on May 7^th, 2004, 1:39am

I used to get the Beano, Dandy and the Valiant when I was a kid. Loved Korky the cat, Bash street kids, and Lord snooty. Desperate Dan was good too with his cow pie. Only really liked Captain Hurrican Higgins in the Valiant though. Them were the days when men were men boys would be boys and sheep were afraid. ;D Never did have a CB rig but had a model aeroplane shot down by one >:(

Title: Re: Beano
Post by HandyMac on May 7^th, 2004, 6:49am

wrote on May 4^th, 2004, 10:25pm:

The police & fire service do the same yet it was always me who got blamed

On a related note, my vehicle is fitted with Tracker. So if someone were to threaten me to get my car keys I'd be delighted to hand them over knowing that I'll have the car back within an hour and Mr Reprehensible will be making an appointment to see the beak.

Anyway, I pick my daughter up from St Johns Ambulance every monday evening. And like clockwork whilst I'm out doing that little job Tracker phone up to say my vehicle has been stolen (it's apparently moved without the ignition being turned on). My wife takes the call and says it's okay, I've stolen my own car. Like a favourite TV program, same time each week.

Reason being that the Fire Station is immediately behind the St Johns Ambulance place and when I'm turning my car round in the car park the whizzy electrons are doing their thing to phone Houston and report a problem.

I've had to take avoiding action on this by not going into the car park, but dropping her off out in the road. Works a treat.

Tracker have been out to look into the problem because they didn't like the fact that their box of tricks was waking up their operators early on monday evenings. They can't fix it.

I'm just glad that my tracker isn't getting those fireman scrambling down a pole..... ;)

Andrew

Title: Re: Beano
Post by Dewy on May 7^th, 2004, 5:05pm

wrote on May 7^th, 2004, 1:39am:

;D Never did have a CB rig but had a model aeroplane shot down by one >:(

Was that before or after CB was legalised?
I knew a radio control freak who went mad when CB became legal in Nov 81. He was always losing control because he used crystals that used the legal CB frequency but he didn't want to buy new crystals that lowered the frequency to those he could safely use..

Title: Re: Beano
Post by mailee on May 7^th, 2004, 11:02pm

It was before they became legal when they were on 27mgs. After they legalised the CB they changed the radio control systems to 35mgs so eleviating the problem. I was a bit pi**ed off I can tell you as it was a scale Mustang and took me months to build.