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WHAT HAPPENED?
Posted: 27 February 2005
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What happened to the winkle pickers
fishnet stockings,cami knickers.
Bras you stuffed with cotton wool
to bring them to a point?
Back combed hair,beehive look
bottle of plix for the extra touch
paper nylon skirts soaked in sugar
mum swearing cos ironing was a bugger.
Dressing up for the local hop
rock-n-roll,be-bop
quick snog down someones entry
what happened to it all?
Or did I just grow up.
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 Elsie at 20:43 on 27 February 2005
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Missed all that Alice. For me it was Suzy Quatro and The Bay City Roller - cropped off jeans and tartan and the youth club. Then on to Punk and New Romantic Frilly shirts. Bit puzzled by "A quick snog down someone's entry"? Is that their allyway/gate/path?
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 paul53 [for I am he] at 21:51 on 27 February 2005
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Another fine offering. You'll be hitting 10,000 points soon. Hope they sent you a badge.
So many questions.
What is plix?
Did the sugar stiffen like starch?
I also think I might have got entirely the wrong picture from
"quick snog down someones entry" [apostrophe?] but maybe that's my mind.
Permission to wander through your archived stuff again if I get the time.
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Epona Love at 16:59 on 28 February 2005
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Hi
Funny you should mention what happened to... fishnets! I was wearing a pair on saturday night! Fantastic party where we dressed up all "rock-n-roll", great music, great people... so let me asure you it's live and well and seems to reside in Shrewsbury! Sounds like you could teach me a thing or two about the outfits!! Back to the poem though! What a 'hop' down memory lane, not that I was there unfortunatly, wonderful poem... and don't even think about growing up... 'rock-n-roll' is in the soul.
Emma x.
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poemsgalore at 18:17 on 28 February 2005
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Oh such memories - but of course I'm far too young to remember ALL of them...lol. Seriously though Alice, this just bounces along that you can't help getting hooked right from the start, although I wasn't too sure about the last line. It fits the meaning, but not the rhyme and rhythm - or maybe that was intended.
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roovacrag at 20:39 on 01 March 2005
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Paul yes sugar was better than starch and had to ironed wet.
Thats why mum swore and still did it.
xx Alice
<Added>
Paul plix was the bee's knees in green slime called ..setting lotion.
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roovacrag at 20:43 on 01 March 2005
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Epona....yes I saw the adverts to the poem.
Did't know they was still there.
Thanks for the comments.
xx Alice
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Don Gorgon at 23:38 on 02 March 2005
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Nice one roovacrag, not one I can appreciate to the fullest, with not being there at that particular time, but it rings true with all the reminiscing me parents and relatives do. I like the 'quick snog down someones entry' line in particular, that I can appreciate. Nice works.
Thanks
Don
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