I can remember my Dad hand-carving new timbers for the back of

his old Morris Traveller 1000.

It used to be a police car - he was pulled over once on the Mulbarton Road by a copper, just becuase the copper recognised his old squad car and wanted a chinwag with the new owner.

Posted By: Arizona Bay on September 19th 2007 at 16:39:37

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Old traditions that have needlessly died out and should be brought back (n/m) (General Chat) - Partial Angler, Sep 19, 16:04:36
- Stanley climbing up the fence in the Barclay (n/m) (General Chat) - double hipness, Sep 20, 08:28:09
  - stanley falling down and breaking his ankle (n/m) (General Chat) - trianglepatch, Sep 20, 13:03:14
- Letters on the side of the pitch for the half time scores (General Chat) - KentonCanary, Sep 19, 23:36:45
- The digital clock above the executive lounge in the city stand (n/m) (General Chat) - Clare, Sep 19, 22:33:41
  - The Sprowston Garden Centre clock on the south stand (n/m) (General Chat) - double hipness, Sep 20, 08:26:07
- The Supporters Consultative Group (n/m) (General Chat) - Chalk Hill Bitter, Sep 19, 22:05:20
- Prudence with ambition (the ambition bit anyway) (n/m) (General Chat) - Bob in France, Sep 19, 22:01:31
- Canary and Dumpling (n/m) (General Chat) - double hipness, Sep 19, 21:56:50
- winning away from home (n/m) (General Chat) - double hipness, Sep 19, 21:55:14
- Norwich Mild (n/m) (General Chat) - trianglepatch, Sep 19, 21:07:26
- Two old boys carrying the scoreboard round at half time (n/m) (General Chat) - Army Boy, Sep 19, 20:56:37
  - Those 2 old fellas taking the Golden Goal board round the pitch (n/m) (General Chat) - double hipness, Sep 20, 08:27:04
- Voting Tory (n/m) (General Chat) - Chelmsford Yella, Sep 19, 19:26:28
  - Along with Thatcher bating (n/m) (General Chat) - Cannydc, Sep 19, 19:37:54
- Employees turning up for work on time (n/m) (General Chat) - Blind Lemon Creosote, Sep 19, 19:18:09
- thr'penny bits (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Sep 19, 18:39:36
  - Not true - had them last night (n/m) (General Chat) - Chelmsford Yella, Sep 19, 19:25:01
    - were they your tits or someone else's? (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Sep 19, 20:50:12
- testing for witchcraft (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Sep 19, 17:41:27
- Stag beetles in the coal shed (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 17:31:58
  - In fact, coal sheds. (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 17:32:21
- paying an extra 10p to move from the river end to the south stand (n/m) (General Chat) - fond, Sep 19, 17:31:45
- white dog shit (General Chat) - Dave in France, Sep 19, 17:26:22
  - sorry nixon (General Chat) - Dave in France, Sep 19, 17:29:03
- The dodgy old scoreboards at carra rud (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Sep 19, 17:25:19
- Marigold (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Sep 19, 17:24:16
- playing the scum on a saturday at 3 pm (General Chat) - Fuel_rox, Sep 19, 17:22:05
- The ritual bumming of mbk by the Wicker Man's younger brother (n/m) (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Sep 19, 17:21:53
- norwich city having a chance of wining something (n/m) (General Chat) - Fuel_rox, Sep 19, 17:21:18
- the bloke who used to sell (General Chat) - Fuel_rox, Sep 19, 17:20:33
- Cannabis that just made you feel good without spazzing your brain for good. (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 17:19:58
- standing terraces (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Sep 19, 17:18:13
- Fun House with Pat Sharpe and that crazy mullet (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Sep 19, 17:15:38
  - Hit man & Her (n/m) (General Chat) - BoundsGreen, Sep 19, 17:16:24
- scc26 and pants having a tear up (n/m) (General Chat) - Fuel_rox, Sep 19, 17:15:32
  - That's Clog-head's job now. (n/m) (General Chat) - tudders, Sep 19, 17:17:55
    - lol (n/m) (General Chat) - Fuel_rox, Sep 19, 17:19:33
- long threads on wotb (n/m) (General Chat) - Fuel_rox, Sep 19, 17:14:38
- Timmy Mallet (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Sep 19, 17:13:02
- Ruthless dictatorships (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Sep 19, 17:11:58
  - ... (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 17:13:10
    - good point (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Sep 19, 17:14:07
      - .. (General Chat) - BoundsGreen, Sep 19, 17:15:24
  - Timmy Mallet (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Sep 19, 17:12:38
    - bonk on head (General Chat) - BoundsGreen, Sep 19, 17:13:56
    - *shit, wrong place (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Sep 19, 17:13:22
- Sixpenny pieces. When I were at junior school in Colchester, there were (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 17:11:06
  - and a lot of marys (n/m) (General Chat) - tudders, Sep 19, 17:13:52
- Carpet bombing of the East End (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Sep 19, 17:06:57
  - That could certainly do with a revival. (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 17:09:18
- Vernons pools coupons (n/m) (General Chat) - BoundsGreen, Sep 19, 17:05:57
- Bryan Hamilton talking to the Gunn Club before a game (n/m) (General Chat) - Bob in France, Sep 19, 16:59:54
- Pubs that didn't sell lager (in fact no where sold lager) (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:58:49
  - Watneys Red Barrel (n/m) (General Chat) - Bob in France, Sep 19, 17:00:52
    - Ahh, The Red Revolution, party sevens!! (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 17:02:03
- Sherbet Dabs - they used to make you do a screw-up face. (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:57:39
- Mobile discos in village halls, called things like 'The GT Roadshow'. (General Chat) - tudders, Sep 19, 16:56:07
  - Oh my God (General Chat) - donkeydublin, Sep 20, 09:57:47
- The bloke that used to shout SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETS at the river end (n/m) (General Chat) - BFG, Sep 19, 16:53:06
  - Actually, it was "Sweets, chocalates, hot drinks, cold drinks" (n/m) (General Chat) - Chalk Hill Bitter, Sep 19, 16:57:02
- Side mouth talkers (almost) (General Chat) - Tomblander, Sep 19, 16:51:40
  - You doity rat. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Sep 19, 16:52:19
    - zakkerly (n/m) (General Chat) - Tomblander, Sep 19, 16:55:46
- Drink driving without a concience (I should add, (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:42:21
  - It still remains in a few countries (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Sep 19, 16:45:15
- Bristol (n/m) (General Chat) - iwans_ex_dentist, Sep 19, 16:41:35
- White Dog shit (n/m) (General Chat) - nixon, Sep 19, 16:41:18
  - GREAT NEWS, it has returned. Tesco's new complete Senior (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:45:34
    - Does it work with Humans? (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Sep 19, 16:48:04
      - Great. Could you eat a big bag of Oinks and a multipack of Wostsits as well (General Chat) - Small, Sep 19, 16:52:33
        
        I'm on the case as we speak. (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Sep 19, 17:02:17
      - only one way to find out (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Sep 19, 16:48:31
- Elton Welsby (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Sep 19, 16:40:55
- The stocks for naughty people (n/m) (General Chat) - iwans_ex_dentist, Sep 19, 16:40:24
- yellow goal nets (n/m) (General Chat) - Swarn, Sep 19, 16:39:47
- Shit on a stick (n/m) (General Chat) - iwans_ex_dentist, Sep 19, 16:37:47
- Gladiator battles (not the shitty tv show) (n/m) (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Sep 19, 16:35:12
- Doing your own car servicing before they went all complicated (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:32:06
  - rolffle and body repairs. P40 - tastic. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:32:45
    - I once rebuilt both rear wheel arches on my Montego estate. (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:34:28
      - I used chickenwire and filler on the front wings of my chevy (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:36:02
        
        I can remember my Dad hand-carving new timbers for the back of (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Sep 19, 16:39:37
        
        'squad car' (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:41:34
        
        My first car was a 1954 split windscreen Morris Minor. (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:43:54
        
        I had a Chevette, a red one. (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:36:29
- The death penalty... (General Chat) - donkeydublin, Sep 19, 16:31:08
  - Yes, if only we'd had it for that pesky Birmingham 6. (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Sep 19, 16:37:53
    - Would be a good deterrent though (n/m) (General Chat) - donkeydublin, Sep 19, 16:45:51
      - Works a treat in the USA - practically no crime at all. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Sep 19, 16:47:17
      - Hasn't been in America. (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:47:06
    - Yeah but everyone knows they did it really - they (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:38:51
  - ... (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:35:47
- match tickets available at Norwich & Peterborough (General Chat) - BoundsGreen, Sep 19, 16:30:10
- Mead and then doing a twiddly dance whilst holding a pig's bladder on a stick. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:29:11
  - I done some mead a few weeks ago - brought it back from Devon. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Sep 19, 16:40:23
    - I got my mead from cornwall (General Chat) - camcan, Sep 19, 16:52:43
    - I like it. Never drink a lot of it though - it spazzes you off. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:43:09
      - I did a litre right quick thinking it was beer strength. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Sep 19, 16:45:12
- cow tipping (n/m) (General Chat) - DiscoDaleGordon, Sep 19, 16:28:02
- boxes of fruit gums at theatres (n/m) (General Chat) - camcan, Sep 19, 16:24:08
- Buying coke and crisps from the 'Off sales' hatch window at pubses. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:21:39
  - You could buy Fry's chocolate cream from the Plover offsales (n/m) (General Chat) - camcan, Sep 19, 16:27:48
- Doing a den after Tiswas (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:20:36
- dot-to-dot puzzles and those slidey plastic letter puzzles (General Chat) - camcan, Sep 19, 16:19:35
- Doing gym in knickers and vest (General Chat) - camcan, Sep 19, 16:18:36
  - Did you used to tuck your hanky in the leg of your knickers? (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:27:49
    - I still do (n/m) (General Chat) - camcan, Sep 19, 16:30:13
      - Me too. (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:31:46
        
        are you going to Wolves? (General Chat) - camcan, Sep 19, 16:38:08
        
        Possibly - I'll bring a hanky. (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:39:49
        
        This is Camcan before PE (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:40:47
        
        ha ha (n/m) (General Chat) - iwans_ex_dentist, Sep 19, 16:41:23
        
        I loved pinafore dresses. (General Chat) - camcan, Sep 19, 16:51:43
        
        I can remember my country dance partner, (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 17:00:26
        
        Settle down old boy, you'll do yourself a mischief (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Sep 19, 17:05:52
        
        What, in ya knickers? (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:39:37
  - It was good though. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:19:53
- Setting fire to huge hay bale castles (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Sep 19, 16:18:32
- Writing in exercise books (n/m) (General Chat) - camcan, Sep 19, 16:17:43
- Building huge castles out of hay bales (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:17:15
  - I was threatened by a farmer with a shotgun (General Chat) - KentonCanary, Sep 19, 23:41:02
  - I once got caught by a farmer doing that and (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:27:10
    - 2 lads I went to school with died in one when they set fire to it. No kidding. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:30:08
- Coypu (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Sep 19, 16:15:17
- Men delivering Corona pop (n/m) (General Chat) - camcan, Sep 19, 16:13:44
  - That was my Saturday job for about a year (General Chat) - watfordcanary, Sep 19, 17:02:10
  - And bastard crisps (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Sep 19, 16:16:35
    - I love bastard crisps. (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Sep 19, 16:19:08
      - Savoury vinegar crisps (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:24:19
  - esp. Dandelion and Burdock. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:14:41
    - My dad used to make it. (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Sep 19, 16:33:25
      - I like Crooma. (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:37:56
      - get us one next time you're there. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:35:07
        
        Yes. (n/m) (General Chat) - Garry Brooke, Sep 19, 16:37:33
    - Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhh....now you're talking.........fucken lovely, that... (n/m) (General Chat) - Partial Angler, Sep 19, 16:18:26
      - pop without artificial sweeteners (General Chat) - camcan, Sep 19, 16:20:27
        
        "Eiffel Tower lemon crystals" (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:26:13
        
        Those little boxes of sweets shaped like alphabet letters (General Chat) - donkeydublin, Sep 19, 16:29:04
- Accidents (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:12:42
- 'Confessions' films (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Sep 19, 16:09:53
  - Confessions of an Assistant Kit Manager....I can see it now.... (n/m) (General Chat) - Assistant Kit Man, Sep 19, 16:12:37
    - Robin Asquithtastic (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:13:16
      - In 'Driving Instructor' he shagged a bird so hard (General Chat) - Small, Sep 19, 16:16:13
        
        In 'Window Cleaner' he had to do a excape down his ladder when hubby got home early. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:19:28
        
        A lady got stuck on a roof but managed to escape (General Chat) - camcan, Sep 19, 16:25:07
        
        True (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 19, 16:30:51
- having your trousers changed by dinner ladies (General Chat) - BoundsGreen, Sep 19, 16:09:08
  - Who's doing it for you now? (n/m) (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Sep 19, 16:13:53
    - a romanian granny (n/m) (General Chat) - BoundsGreen, Sep 19, 16:21:34
      - they're the best (n/m) (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Sep 19, 16:45:22
  - and doing a small tent by accident? (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Sep 19, 16:11:27
- Norwich City Playing A Fast, Short Passing Game (n/m) (General Chat) - Martin Peters, Sep 19, 16:09:00
- Wassailing (n/m) (General Chat) - Partial Angler, Sep 19, 16:08:58
- Cars driving through chicken sheds and coming out with all feathers on them (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Sep 19, 16:06:08
- Burning witches at the stake (n/m) (General Chat) - Partial Angler, Sep 19, 16:04:46
  - Public flogging (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 19, 16:11:33

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