Our Memories

Here's a brief review of an old time movie that was one of my recent free downloads.

'Great to watch if you're tired of the usual phoney intense everybody-screaming-at-each-other-with-foul-language garbage that's so prevalent today.'

This really sums up my belief regarding today's TV movies in this part of the world - even with no mention that a third of each program time is taken up with screaming advertising.

We are all different and you may of course approve of what is now dished up day after day. I'll stick to the free downloading of the old time movies such as 'African Queen' and 'The Guns of Navarone.' - or go even further back, the many wonderful episodes of 'Bonanza' - for some reason these episodes were never seen here when 'Bonanza' was such popular TV viewing.

Another of my idle thoughts.

I was wondering the other day if anybody still sets their dinner table in the good old fashioned way - forks and knives to the left and right and the dessert spoons above, between the others. Maybe you are completely unaware of what used to be the only acceptable way of setting the dining table.

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash........twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

4. Occasionally your car would shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.

6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single 'This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation' warning light.

7. The airbag system would ask 'Are you sure?' before deploying.

8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10. You'd have to press the 'Start' button to turn the engine off.

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I highly recommmend you try this. You've got nothing to lose, and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised."

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Yes we are to blame - from 6 May 1961.... 2 of us > 4 children > 8 grandchildren > 5 great-grandchildren = 19 - quite a big family.

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Different smells can detonate in our memory like land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

Ever since childhood my memory has been frequently detonated by the smell of castor oil, a horrible tummy-ache medicine - never forgetting another childhood medicine horror - liquorice powder!