Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: funtimefrankie on August 10, 2008, 08:44:03 pm

Title: 40 years ago
Post by: funtimefrankie on August 10, 2008, 08:44:03 pm: 40 years ago I/we were getting married, then after the reception off to Blackpool to see Englebert Humperdink, how times have changed.
Anyway same wife, ;D same house ;D....is that a record?
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: DickyD on August 10, 2008, 08:50:02 pm: No, a record is a round thing with a hole in the middle. {-)
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: tigertiger on August 10, 2008, 08:50:20 pm: After 40 years, is it a case of

PLEASE RELEASE ME LET ME GO... ?

{-) {-) {-)
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: funtimefrankie on August 10, 2008, 08:59:47 pm: At times it feels like" the Last Waltz" :(
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: Martin (Admin) on August 10, 2008, 09:06:39 pm: On the contrary, 40 years of happy marriage.... marriage is much to be admired... 80 years really, 40 years each! :)
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: Bunkerbarge on August 10, 2008, 09:36:12 pm: A credit to you both, you've stuck with each other through thick and thin and had fourty years of shared memories together.

I wish there were more people like you around, I'm sure the world would be a better place for it!
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: GaryM on August 10, 2008, 10:01:03 pm: Happy Anniversary Mrs Funtimefrankie and Funtimefrankie

Gary :)
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: swordfish fairey on August 10, 2008, 10:13:02 pm: Congratulations mate, we just had our 31st in May, so there are a few of us who must be doing something right...... O0....... O0........ O0.........Smudge
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: Colin Bishop on August 10, 2008, 10:36:15 pm: 37 for me so just three more to go.... :D
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: RickF on August 10, 2008, 11:03:47 pm: I'm on 37 too - the Great Train Robbers only got 30!!!

Rick
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: Bryan Young on August 10, 2008, 11:10:17 pm: Married in Feb. 1966, same house, still chugging along. Can't move house because I have collected too much "stuff" (of the workshop variety).
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: Roger in France on August 11, 2008, 06:41:32 am: 33 years celebrated last week (+ 10 the first time around!).

However, the amazing one in our family is my father-in-law and mother-in-law 67 years!

Roger in France.
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: nhp651 on August 11, 2008, 08:58:38 am: 40 years ago.......I'd just bought a thundering great BSA Rocket Gold Star (genuine one, not replica) 650cc....boy did I have fun that glorious summer??!! {-) :D
In fact, best funI've ever had with my trowsers still on! ::) :o
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: yewmount on August 16, 2008, 08:08:31 pm: Well, as a noted philosopher once said:
"Marry by all means. If you get a good wife you will be very happy. If you get a bad one you will become a philosopher and that is good for every man" {-)

Cheers
yewmount.
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: das boot on August 16, 2008, 08:25:05 pm: hmm...think I went wrong somewhere. ::)

Rich
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: omra85 on August 16, 2008, 08:30:27 pm: Rich - the clue to what you're doing wrong is in "take her down number one" -
some things you have to do on your own :o

Or am I just old fashioned ::)
Danny
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: alan colson on August 17, 2008, 05:17:34 pm: Cor blimey, I'm still practicing, only done 30 years so far.
Alan
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: das boot on August 17, 2008, 06:15:41 pm: Quote from: omra85 on August 16, 2008, 08:30:27 pm
Rich - the clue to what you're doing wrong is in "take her down number one" -
some things you have to do on your own :o

Or am I just old fashioned ::)
Danny

Absolutely PMWL...I wondered where I'd been going wrong! That's got me into more trouble than any model boat or sub I've ever built! :angel:
Title: Re: 40 years ago
Post by: MOKUMER on August 17, 2008, 07:17:56 pm: IT SEEMS YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING RIGHT
YOU KNOWE THE SECRET
GOOD ON YE :) :) :angel: