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[Richard1978]

The machine I mentioned above was seen about 1986. so £1.50 sounds right for a pack of 20. Sometimes the price of cigarettes in machines were rounded up to the nearest easy to handle price, but had loose change taped to the packets.

I remember someone saying they had a machine where they...

[Richard1978]

The drinks machines I'm thinking of were the plastic fronted ones, with a backlit Coca-cola logo on.

Also I assume there were condom & tampon dispensing machines in toilets at one time that only took 50p coins....

[Richard1978]

I remember some cigarette machines in pubs in the 1980s would take 3 50ps for a pack of 16.

Some pool tables in the 1990s would take on 50p on one of those sliding metal plate coin mechanisms, which could also take 2 20ps & a 10p.

Some drink can dispensing machines in the...

[Richard1978]

I remember occasionally seeing the Confessions films when Channel 5 had the rights, like the Carry Ons & some other sitcom films for all the sauciness they usually seemed to have an oddly naive feel about them. This was enhanced by the low budget & sometimes simplistic scripts that usually...

[Richard1978]

Very sad news, I remember he retied from first class snooker in the late 1980s when his eyesight started to fade, and started to wear glasses similar to Dennis Taylor's.

[Richard1978]

Someone I know once mentioned meeting some "cool" kids a decade after they left school, one being a girl now with a load of kids & a boy now twice the size he was in his teens after too much drinking & fast food! The latter recognised her & claimed he now understood her lifestyle,...

[Richard1978]

The makers of Airplane!, the Naked Gun & some other comedies have clips, along with some other jokes in the credits, like "if you left the theater at the beginning of the credits you would he home by now"!

[Richard1978]

Yes they are very funny!...

[Richard1978]

Sometimes for comedy films the credits run over some out-takes or something else to keep you watching....