Charles Bannerman

November 1985. Jags went 2-0 up on a snowy night before Celtic came back to 2-2. It was Roshie Fraser's last game in charge before Lofty Black took over.

British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.... known as BAAPS!

The English are not a very spiritual people, so to acquire a concept of eternity... they invented cricket! :015:

Folk in Glenrothes up at 8 o'clock on a Sunday morning?! It must be bad!

Cyclists... or at least stick a ?50 annual cycle tax on them to compensate the people who REALLY pay through the nose (motorists) for the cost of cycleways and for the absolute nuisance they cause on the road. :33: "Foregoing generality".. what a wonderful example of legalese!

Lawyers. :004:

Grammar.

Tourists.

Aberdeen fan?

FOUR tickets!... TWINS??!!... and the wedding not for several weeks yet! :018::clapping03:

Do you not mean JIMMY Falconer? :015:

Is there something you're not telling us here? :004:

Only if you bring the shoes back from last time. :rotflmao: And you couldn't work out how the bar man in Fairway knew you had been bowling. :rotflmao: **** it Laura... you beat me to that one!

At a price, I take it!

When I first read the title to this thread, I thought "Virgin Vie" was perhaps some kind of nickname for a Lady of Ill Repute who was holding a "Fundraising Party Night" :015:!

Tend to agree. He's the kind of individual you usually just see on Orange Walks.

Pass the butter. Johndo, that was Last Tango in Paris - similar content, different film. But hey, you can sure spot the over 45-50s on this forum can't you!!!

:015: OK, we confess! I'm the organisation's Chief Chemist and Kingsmills is my defence brief!

Why did Billy Urquhart, lifelong Bluenose that he is, choose GREEN AND WHITE as the livery colours for his company HSBS? :015: (OK I know this question is a bit late since he's just sold it!)

Was he equally amazed at the price of the mud huts?

I had a friend who went to Aberdeen Uni in the 80s and had a girl in his class from Peterborough. Her mother had packed a whole case with toilet rolls, and was concerned that there might be no pavements... Your point caller? I think the caller's point is to illustrate (rather well) the kind of perception that people outwith the Highlands and the North have of "up here". I have certainly found it commonplace for Central Belters to have the delusion that people in, for instance, Aberdeen, Inverness and Thurso live in adjoining villages up in what they think of as "The North" (which sort of starts when they get to Castlecary Arches). I suspect there are also some who think we also hack the heather out of each other's ears with Claymores, occasionally foray into the South to steal cattle before returning home for the monthly Brigadoon reinactment. (Now could you imagine us up here harbouring equivalently silly ideas about people in the South dressing up in white shell suits and burberry baseball caps and swigging Buckfast whilst spray painting bus shelters on their way to collect their Giros? ) Anyway, what I was getting round to saying was that a lot of central belt players will initially have a completely inaccurate perception of what it's like up here. Those who are brave enough to give it a try will find it completely different from and a lot better than what they expected but at the same time we can't get away from the fact that it's still a long way away frrom families etc for many of them to stay longer than a contract or two.

It was that auld wumman on the left wearing the pale blue Paddington Bear hat. Seriously, though... what a bunch of complete prats!!!!

I think thats the one I referred to earlier. Did he stay in Merkinch? Am sure it may have been Glendoe Terrace :024: I doubt it since Jocky ran the van in the 50s and early 60s before the "new" shops were built in St. Margaret's Road. At that point he took over one shop (I'm not sure if he kept the van going for a while) while Christisons took over the other. It was always a bit strange to have two grocer's shops facing each other but the perception was that Christisons did that bit better because of the aformentioned bellicose Mrs L whose churlish attitude put a few people off. Christisons certainly did a mean penny box and were also the pioneers of frozen Milky Ways in Dalneigh. They also did a good line in penny bangers and we used to annoy the **** out of the local residents around Guy Fawkes time by chucking them into their gardens. The thought of 10 year olds beng sold these explosives over the counter these days to throw about the place or to owen up to make "genies" is actually quite remarkable. I think Bobby MacKay's butcher's van lasted a bit longer. He lived in one of the houses backing on to the cemetery, beside the Torvean Bridge.

Remember Jocky Lawson's grocer's van (and the bellicose Mrs. Lawson!) and also Bobby MacKay's butcher's van?

When people have been arrested and charges may have been made, you really can't be too careful about the way you word public statements. In fact I sometimes cringe at the way in which some posters on here sometimes sail dangerously close to the wind either with regard to defamation or to contempt of court!