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Humph Warden Bennett

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Re: 1974 was a bad time to be alive
« Reply #25 on: August 29, 2018, 07:35:12 PM »
You wanted to be allowed back into school?

I cannot think of anybody who had the slightest regret about leaving school, or anybody who has ever wanted to go back.

FTR I left school in 1976, when the Disco era was beginning, and 1974 was just a hideous memory.

(Think "Seasons in the Sun", and then think "Fly Robin Fly".)

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Re: 1974 was a bad time to be alive
« Reply #26 on: August 29, 2018, 07:50:55 PM »
I liked 'Seasons in the Sun'.

I wore floaty tops, jeans and long skirts and had 'pre-Raphaelite hair' (was told that). When I cut my hair I wore the same plus mini skirts and boots. Wasn't a slave to fashion though, always had a bit of a style of my own. Liked Joni Mitchell.

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Re: 1974 was a bad time to be alive
« Reply #27 on: August 29, 2018, 07:56:34 PM »
Joni Mitchell is a nonpareil.

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Re: 1974 was a bad time to be alive
« Reply #28 on: August 29, 2018, 08:14:47 PM »
I think that 1974 was an ok time for me to be alive on reflection, given the alternative.

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Re: 1974 was a bad time to be alive
« Reply #29 on: August 29, 2018, 08:46:45 PM »
Joni Mitchell is a nonpareil.

Yes!

I think that 1974 was an ok time for me to be alive on reflection, given the alternative.

Yup, being dead didn't appeal to me then.
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Re: 1974 was a bad time to be alive
« Reply #30 on: August 29, 2018, 11:17:48 PM »
Joni Mitchell is a nonpareil.

This cannot be said often enough.
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Re: 1974 was a bad time to be alive
« Reply #31 on: August 30, 2018, 03:35:42 PM »
You wanted to be allowed back into school?

I cannot think of anybody who had the slightest regret about leaving school, or anybody who has ever wanted to go back.
When I was 16, I was quite concerned to be allowed back the next year so that I could do some A-levels.
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Re: 1974 was a bad time to be alive
« Reply #32 on: August 30, 2018, 11:21:36 PM »
You wanted to be allowed back into school?

I cannot think of anybody who had the slightest regret about leaving school, or anybody who has ever wanted to go back.
I remember being quite choked up when i walked out of it for the last time.
I once tried using "chicken" as a password, but was told it must contain a capital so I tried "chickenkiev"
On another occasion, I tried "beefstew", but was told it wasn't stroganoff.

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Re: 1974 was a bad time to be alive
« Reply #33 on: August 31, 2018, 01:43:22 AM »
I remember being quite choked up when i walked out of it for the last time.
Same here except that happened when I walked in for the first time, I had to give him my lunch money before he would let go!
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Re: 1974 was a bad time to be alive
« Reply #34 on: September 01, 2018, 06:46:22 AM »
 ;D
I once tried using "chicken" as a password, but was told it must contain a capital so I tried "chickenkiev"
On another occasion, I tried "beefstew", but was told it wasn't stroganoff.

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Re: 1974 was a bad time to be alive
« Reply #35 on: September 01, 2018, 10:33:35 AM »
I was 24, and gave birth to our second daughter in February of that year.
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