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Cookieboy commented on the post, So Bob , Paul Simon etc so out at the top of the market 6 months, 1 week ago
The sources of money can be surprising. In Australia there is a small chain of enormous second hand stores called Savers. That is the individual stores are enormous but they only have a dozen shops in the […]
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Cookieboy commented on the post, Blogger Takeover CII 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Went to the USA One disaster after another. A couple of days after touching down I was in Las Vegas and I tripped over my own feet on the footpath and landed on my knee. At first I didn’t feel unduly hurt, just a […]
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Cookieboy commented on the post, First record you bought 7 months ago
I only remember with my own money… First LP. Money earned as a one off market research thing. I was paid $10.00 (a shitload for a kid in the mid-70’s) I spent $4.99 on the soundtrack to That’ll Be The Day. I […]
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Cookieboy commented on the post, Greatest Opening Couplets 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Like a bird on the wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free The middle line is probably my all time favorite line from any song.
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Cookieboy commented on the post, The Compact Disc is 40 years old 1 year ago
I was very late to the party to get a player, my first cd was a used copy of The Doors debut. It cost $13.00 AUD which was a great buy at the time. It would cost about $1.00 today or $2.00 at the most. I’ve been […]
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Cookieboy commented on the post, Blogger Takeover XCV 1 year, 2 months ago
I went to Japan, I made my bookings the day after they announced the resumption of travel there. More than once I thought I may have been a bit hasty as it was more difficult than it needed to be.
Clearing […]
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Cookieboy commented on the post, Post your Christmas Day weather pic 1 year, 3 months ago
I’m here in sunny Bangkok where it’s 30c all year round. I’m on my way home to sunny Melbourne after a CD buying spree in Japan where it was not sunny.
I timed my trip as I had wanted to see what Chris […]
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Cookieboy commented on the post, Your favourite TV Shows of 2022 1 year, 3 months ago
My favourite TV show probably ever is Pointless ( seriously) when I was in the Uk recently I found out they were showing celebrity episodes every night so I made sure I was back in my hotel in time to watch it as […]
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Cookieboy commented on the post, Kids named after musicians or bands 1 year, 3 months ago
Orazio Fantasia
Is my favourite Aussie rules player name.
May be off topic but when will I next get the chance to throw a name of that quality into the conversation? -
Cookieboy commented on the post, Blogger Takeover XCII 1 year, 5 months ago
I went on a trip from Australia to the UK.
It wasn’t the holiday I had planned. My intention was to catch the train all the way to Inverness and back while stopping off along the way. I figured out an itinerary I […]
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Cookieboy commented on the post, Great put down 1 year, 9 months ago
There was a baseball player named Mark Wohlers who had the yips so bad he was placed on the disabled list with the stated reason, “Inability to pitch.”
He had previously been such a good reliable player he was […]
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Cookieboy commented on the post, Blogger Takeover LXXXVII 1 year, 10 months ago
Devoted – Dean Koontz Audiobook
My first experience of Mr Koontz. I had heard he was a second rate Stephen King. I found him a second rate Stephen King.
Shares some of Mr King’s faults, his good guys are so good […]
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Cookieboy commented on the post, It's Not Them, It's Us! 1 year, 11 months ago
I made two predictions I have never forgotten.
1/ I was watching a music TV show and introducing a clip the host said, “She’s a big star in the clubs of New York and she’s going to be a big star here too.” […]
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Cookieboy commented on the post, Films To Stop Watching Half-Way Through 1 year, 11 months ago
I’m trusting a 40 year old memory here so this might be completely wrong but this in why I never leave a sporting contest early.
In the TV version of The Odd Couple sportswriter Oscar left a volleyball game […]
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Cookieboy commented on the post, Blogger Takeover LXXXVI 1 year, 12 months ago
Heard
Listened to a couple of books on disc that I had purchased second hand…King Solomon’s Mines…
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Cookieboy commented on the post, Your biggest disappointment 2 years, 9 months ago
Okay,
This may not be exactly what the original poster was expecting but the story I am about to relate was a huge disappointment.I caught a plane from Melbourne to Bangkok with a stopover in Brunei. I knew […]
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Cookieboy commented on the post, Sunbury – Australia's Woodstock? 8 years, 5 months ago
I was a very little boy when it happened but I can offer up a couple of facts about Sunbury
1/ It is considered the birthplace of the Ashes being where the now famous urn was handed over to the victorious […]