tonyh29 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: spending a quiet evening deciphering old grave stones HEERE LYETH THE BODYES OF THE FIVE CHILDREN... 1646 And people say our education system is failing , spelling back then was atrocious 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: I have so many questions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Can't beat a sunny winter's day having a rummage around an old graveyard. The church was covered in stone monkeys, climbing all over the stonework. Singles, pairs, mums with kids. Anyway, I googled up that Christover Boone of Exeter / Tiverton named on that stone and he had a surviving son, George. George had a son, called...George. That George, Chris's grandson, became a Quaker and sailed to the colonies to start a new life in Exeter, Philadelphia. Boring Thread. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 My cat loves the plants I bought. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 24, 2017 Moderator Share Posted January 24, 2017 13 hours ago, maqroll said: My cat loves the plants I bought. Finally we're back on topic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 25, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted January 25, 2017 A contribution from Michael Nesmith (formerly of The Monkees), from his Facebook page... Quote During the Monkees TV show's original airings in the 1960's GM gave each of us a new Pontiac GTO to drive for a year. They were really a gas to drive -- no pun intended -- well-- maybe a little pun -- and I had a great time blasting around with mine. It was about the time that the incipient stage of Celebrity Psychosis had started to set in my thinking -- I discuss this in my new book "Infinite Tuesday" out April 18 -- or so. I won't give as complete account here as I do in the book -- and the whole notion of it is kind of a riff that occurred to me in the 1980's. It's not really psychosis in the literal or scientific sense of the word -- but like all riffs that work, it is a true thing. It was kind of like this -- although I am telling you now to promote my new book -- and to give you a little taste -- this anecdote is not in the book. This is just a riff on a riff. I was in my new GTO-- black coupe, two door, and I had the windows tinted dark --almost black. One could not see in from the outside. The guys at GM Pontiac were a little non-plussed -- but that's the way we rolled in the 60's when we were copying the Beatles. They all had black windows on their cars. Harrison's car was a Radford Mini with black windows -- first i saw and I vowed to have black windows and so I did -- on my GTO. It was soo cool -- but that's another story. So -- there was a kind of emergency -- maybe it was fire -- maybe it was national -- maybe it was a sewer flood in the Sepulveda Basin in Los Angeles -- whatever it was the streets were blocked off and there were Police, Fire and Rescue, ParaMedics, Choppers, and maybe even the military. CP memory is not all that great. I decided to "investigate" and I hopped into my black on black on black GTO and crawled out into the LA night toward the "trouble" The first barrier was unattended so I just drove around it. So was the next one and even closer to the action, closer to the scene. Now, I started really "investigating". I was driving really slow. The dark windows made it hard to see out at night. I peered around looking for the action, looking for a role I could play in it -- preferably a hero. I couldn't see much -- but I decided to turn on my emergency flashers and cruise even deeper into the territory. That's when it happened -- now only in memory because Celebrity Psychotics live in their own world without much awareness of reality/ The flashers are what did it for me. The car driving slowly along -- with the flashers on -- I had become a part of the rescue spy army -- thing -- whatever it was. I was in charge. I was top dog. It was real, I had flashing lights, I had a sleek black car, I was the Chief, the head of the whole operation. It was very very real. After a while I realized nothing much was happening so I went home. True story. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: A contribution from Michael Nesmith (formerly of The Monkees), from his Facebook page... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted February 24, 2017 Author Share Posted February 24, 2017 Wondered what happened to The Boring Thread and it just turned out no one had posted in it in a while. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 I've had the same mobile number for 14 years. Can anyone beat that? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted April 3, 2017 Administrator Share Posted April 3, 2017 5 minutes ago, Xela said: I've had the same mobile number for 14 years. Can anyone beat that? Yes. Since 1994 - although it got an extra digit added in 1997 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted April 3, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted April 3, 2017 Nearly 11 years with the same number for me. Didn't bother with a mobile phone properly until 2006, just after I turned 23. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 47 minutes ago, Xela said: I've had the same mobile number for 14 years. Can anyone beat that? I would be interested in who has the oldest phone ? I think that discussion alone would give the thread a little boost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 6 minutes ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said: I would be interested in who has the oldest phone ? I think that discussion alone would give the thread a little boost. I've had this phone of mine for nearly 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Just now, Rugeley Villa said: I've had this phone of mine for nearly 20 years. Does it ring much ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 10 minutes ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said: I would be interested in who has the oldest phone ? I think that discussion alone would give the thread a little boost. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 1 minute ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said: Does it ring much ? No because no one likes me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 It's too quiet on VT tonight for my liking. It seems everytime I start posting more frequent it goes quiet then when I don't it's busy. I can't make head or tail out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted April 3, 2017 Administrator Share Posted April 3, 2017 2 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: It's too quiet on VT tonight for my liking. It seems everytime I start posting more frequent it goes quiet then when I don't it's busy. I can't make head or tail out of it. We all go to the secret forum when you come online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 3, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted April 3, 2017 9 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: It's too quiet on VT tonight for my liking. It seems everytime I start posting more frequent it goes quiet then when I don't it's busy. I can't make head or tail out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 I've had my phone for 3 and a half years now, before that I was upgrading every 3-6 months so I must have saved a fortune. I'm going to keep it until it breaks and see hoiw long I can get out of it. Apart from a few scuffs on the sides, it still looks pretty much brand new. No idea how long I've had the number for. At least 12 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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