Christmas 1958................
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Christmas 1970................
Christmas 1969........
I used to read this advert on the London underground on a virtually daily basis when I first started work in the early 1970s. I must have read it so many times that I can still recite it verbatim today (much like my school register - Babbage, Brunel, Carsley, Challis, Cotton, Creet, Davies... ... But I digress.) Particularly appropriate for this time of year:
It was Christmas Day in the mess
when the Colonel got rather a shock.
He heard to his sorry distress
someone rhyme Cockburn's with cock.
At first he thought he could throttle
this fellow who'd never been taught
the name on the front of a bottle
of Cockburn's delectable port.
But the Colonel's a kindly old soldier
and he'd known the lad's dad long ago
so he just said remember I told you
"one doesn't say cock, one says co...".
I remember the advert on TV.
Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 24th December 2022, 9:15 AMI remember the advert on TV.
Russian? I thought he was a colonel in the German army in war-time Paris.
Christmas 1979.............
Christmas 2001.............. A tad over £3000 in today's money, so not too bad. But sadly, the demise of Comet - I think we all must have gone into one at some time.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 25th December 2022, 5:57 AMChristmas 2001.............. A tad over £3000 in today's money, so not too bad. But sadly, the demise of Comet - I think we all must have gone into one at some time.
Never really occurred to me that they had disappeared.
1893...............
1901.............
3/9 (Three and Nine = as it happens, strangely now about 39p) for a titfer!!
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 27th December 2022, 6:49 AM1901.............
3/9 (Three and Nine = as it happens, strangely now about 39p) for a titfer!!
More like 20p
Quote: Chappers @ 27th December 2022, 8:14 PMMore like 20p
You're right! Even now I still sometimes can't get my head around 2/- not being 20p, which it would have been grrrrr! IF they had based the unit on 10/- and not £1. Bastards.
1904.......... 5/6 (five shillings and sixpence) = 27½p - Yes? ?
1910.............
