boik
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The rally DS did have a lot of other success though, as did the later SM. http://http://www.citroenet.org.uk/sport/ds-rally-cars-01.html
I'm a bit of a DS nut having owned a couple for a long period of time.
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[Misc] I was there
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The rally DS did have a lot of other success though, as did the later SM. http://http://www.citroenet.org.uk/sport/ds-rally-cars-01.html
I'm a bit of a DS nut having owned a couple for a long period of time.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Gazwag
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You would have got away with it after 1983 when the film came out surely.
Ah hold on though, had you been in a come for quite some years.
These two struck a chord with me.
I was in London when the bombs went off - going to a meeting in Parliament. Didn't have a mobile phone, and all the landline phones had been jammed by the security services - so couldn't get through to the missus, who was obviously a bit concerned. Parliament was probably the best place to be for the morning, as it was flooded with special police. And you're right, the afternoon getting back to Euston was weird - no buses, no tubes, streets packed with people walking.
We were also caught in an earthquake in Athens (it was our honeymoon - cue puns). And again, everyone at home knew about the earthquake, but it was many hours before we could phone home. And if it had been a day later, we would have left anyway, we wouldn't have known about it, and wouldn't have phoned home. Imagine the worry that would have caused.
I still don't have a mobile - but can see it's uses sometimes.
southstandandy
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- Jul 9, 2003
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The other big band that I first saw before they became famous was 'Oasis' when they were the support for 'BMX Bandits' at Sheffield University in 1993. Pretty rough performance from what I can recall.
I was in the same bikeshed at school when Dave H fingered Tracy S and the new geography teacher a young lady in her late 20’s walked straight past. She pretended she didn’t see anything and looked the other way.
Well I can’t think of anything more epic than that sorry.
Well I can’t think of anything more epic than that sorry.
darkwolf666
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Lots of near misses on this thread, so I don’t feel too bad adding mine, besides which if it hadn’t been a near miss I wouldn’t be typing this now!
December 19th 1978, some mates and I went out from Burgess Hill for an evening in Brighton. After a good night out we caught a train out of Brighton at 22.40, and took up our usual position in the last seats behind the drivers cab, so we could step straight off to the steps at B.Hill. We got as far as Preston Park where the train stopped and the lights went out. We sat for a while, before the lights came back on and we started moving again, only to almost immediately for the lights to go out and we stopped again!
We sat for what seemed like hours, in the gloom, when the guard eventually came through he said the power had been cut as someone had wandered onto the line at Brighton station. We sat, until we were told a diesel would be taking us back to Brighton to pick up a bus service!
At this point we were just a bunch of pissed up lads, getting a bit grumpy about the delay. Imagine how we felt when the bus took us past Patcham and the bottom of Waterhall, where the place was awash with flashing blue lights, police, fire brigade, ambulance, the whole lot. We still didn’t know what had happened and it was only next day that I found out that two trains had crashed at Sweet Hill. The power being cut at Brighton station was the only thing that stopped my up line train ploughing into the two crashed trains, and from our seats in the front of the train, I most likely wouldn’t be here today.
So yeh, a near miss, but boy am I glad!
December 19th 1978, some mates and I went out from Burgess Hill for an evening in Brighton. After a good night out we caught a train out of Brighton at 22.40, and took up our usual position in the last seats behind the drivers cab, so we could step straight off to the steps at B.Hill. We got as far as Preston Park where the train stopped and the lights went out. We sat for a while, before the lights came back on and we started moving again, only to almost immediately for the lights to go out and we stopped again!
We sat for what seemed like hours, in the gloom, when the guard eventually came through he said the power had been cut as someone had wandered onto the line at Brighton station. We sat, until we were told a diesel would be taking us back to Brighton to pick up a bus service!
At this point we were just a bunch of pissed up lads, getting a bit grumpy about the delay. Imagine how we felt when the bus took us past Patcham and the bottom of Waterhall, where the place was awash with flashing blue lights, police, fire brigade, ambulance, the whole lot. We still didn’t know what had happened and it was only next day that I found out that two trains had crashed at Sweet Hill. The power being cut at Brighton station was the only thing that stopped my up line train ploughing into the two crashed trains, and from our seats in the front of the train, I most likely wouldn’t be here today.
So yeh, a near miss, but boy am I glad!
Shropshire Seagull
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I lost mine on the beach somewhere between the West and Palace piers in the hot summer of '76 - been back countless times to look for it, but just couldn't find it ....
Megazone
On his last warning
Similar. I thought I'd lost mine in the shower.
Turns out it was in my hand the whole time.
Raleigh Chopper
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It's in a glass case in Brighton museum next to the dinosaur eggs.
Small world. How have you been?
Tokyohands
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I was here in Tokyo when the earthquake struck March 11 2011 and it wasn't very pleasant for a good 2 or 3 months following.
Just try saying Mattessons without saying mmmmmmm.
Klaas
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Yes, Nevermind came out a month after I think and they were playing all these amazing new tracks from it. Blew me away.
I went to see them on the Nevermind tour a few months later and it was rubbish!
Ding Dong !
Boy I'm HOT today !
My two daughters where the ones who had broken down just left from the turning coming from Lancing College. They had been stranded there two hours awaiting recovery. 2/3 mins after the AA chap towed them off the accident happened.
LeicesterGull
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In 2004 I was honeymooning in Phuket, Thailand when the Tsunami hit our hotel. We were having breakfast at the time and watched it all unfold. Luckily for me it wasn't the morning before when I was learning to windsurf....others weren't so lucky.
Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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My two daughters where the ones who had broken down just left from the turning coming from Lancing College. They had been stranded there two hours awaiting recovery. 2/3 mins after the AA chap towed them off the accident happened.
That post actually gave me a shiver
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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A lot of folks on this thread might be advised to avoid the ' Final Destination' horror film franchise! 
SK1NT
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Was the first F1 race i ever watched (on TV).I remember Senna being pronounced dead and walking outside to the Garden and telling my mum Senna is dead. That affected me too. First time i'd really seen a young healthy sports man die. Tragic.