Bring on the rain!!

[jonnycomelately59]

Thank goodness the weather has turned. As a frock seller(derided I know) I was in a quandry as to what to list so to all the private sellers concerned about no sales,put your jumpers on!! For the last couple of days I have had great sales.Consign your summer wardrobe till next year and get your boots out ! Lets get some enthusiasm back ! (tin hat on)

[aernethril]

Well, TP's hat was sold on eBay, apparently, so we're kind of still on topic - I think.

[*wild*rose]

grey ash blonde

[jonnycomelately59]

As the op,I can't remember what the topic was,but it's been fun and most enlightening (bankhaunter)

[bankhaunter]

There are a number of tin baths listed as well.

[temperate_porcine]

Did someone mention my name? my ears would be burning were I not wearing this hat.

[aernethril]

[ianwhorlow]

I prefer the tartan job.

[temperate_porcine]

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@ianwhorlow wrote:

I prefer the tartan job.

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I can get you one Ian, BG sells them.

[aernethril]

I rather fancy one of those nubrellas.

[towelposter]

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@benedict1066 wrote:

It's OK - I already have a mental vision of cammo bermudas and a grubby string vest......

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Cammo bermudas for work sometimes = yes, string vest = no ;).

Definitely no knotted hanky.

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@wild***rose wrote:

Tsk Towel!  Will you please come to the boards properly attired!  

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I am properly attired thanks - I am now wearing a suit - of the birthday variety 😉

[towelposter]

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@aernethril wrote:

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Just to bring some education to the boards 😉

During the 1920s school boy football was extremely important for everyday life. Sport in school was seen as a character building activity and would help young boys prepare to serve for the British Empire. In the East End crowds in their thousands would turn out to watch local boys play football. One of the most successful schools in the West Ham area was Park School and their head master was a very keen football follower. Furthermore, Mr Cornelius Beal also had great talent in music and rhymes, and wrote special words to the most fashionable song of the time ‘Bubbles’. Whenever a young boy was performing well, the crowd would sing his name in a parody of the ‘Bubbles’ tune.

In the Park School team was a fair-haired young football player named Billy ‘Bubbles’ Murray. He was nicknamed bubbles because his hair resembled to the boy in the famous bubbles painting. The artwork was painted by Sir John Millais in 1829 illustrates a young boy watching a soap bubble. This painting was very popular in Britain because it was used to advertise Pears Soap. Whenever ‘Bubbles’ Murray represented West Ham boys at Upton Park, the crowd were heard singing ‘I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles’. Although ‘Bubbles’ Murray did not play for the first team, the famous song still lingered in the minds of the Upton Park faithful. The crowd started to sing the song every time West Ham played, making them one of the first crowds in English football to sing on the terraces.

[bankhaunter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvuOtlpSAeY

[aernethril]

FAR too much information there!!!

( I woz talking about the suit - hadn't seen the educashun post)

[aernethril]

And I have been 'there' and sung that in me time too - Wembly 1965.

AND, I saw the then very grubby and not at all pleasant to be near father of the eventual wife to be of a former PM - she wot sold on eBay  - to keep it on topic!

He could have done with some Pears himself - but that would only have had an effect on the outside.

[towelposter]

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@bankhaunter wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvuOtlpSAeY

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I have got multiple versions of that song, including ragtime instrumentals and Doris Day's version.  Many get played on the way to/from a game.

[**caution**opinion_ahead]

Blimey! A thread with 55 posts?  On the RT?  What can this be, I thought to meself.

And look at all these posters, who normally frequent other boards.  What has encouraged them over to here, I wondered.

And then I realised ... 'tis an SC Friday night cast-off thread.

[right-then-petal]

wots an SC Friday night

[brrps]

KNIT ONE PEARL ONE(or purl or perl?)

Not sure what's going on!!!!!!!!!!!

[cee-dee]

Seller Central?

[right-then-petal]

oh yes