A visit to the dentist.

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French, once I found I was terrible at it. I'm still terrible at it.

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Wearing glasses a little bit, especially the one time I had tinted lenses... "oh, you must think you're cool".

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The only thing I can think of is Stig Of The Dump, but that was more down a quarry.

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Colargol was a French stop-motion animated bear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colargol

In England he was Barnaby and in Canada he was Jeremy. I have a few picture cards from the show I found on eBay.

Sooty was/is another tv bear, but a hand puppet. Have gotten some vintage...

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Julia Roberts
Nicola Cowper

Those I learned earlier without checking.

Possibly Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, though he'd be ten months older.

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Always curious to read about things televisual from before my time. Even bought a two disc Muffin The Mule DVD set once. Now with Youtube you can check out a lot of old tv easily.

I just associated Toytown with Noddy and figured it was down the road from Hattytown.

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Not a lot of happy memories for most I guess.

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I think Danish cheese is the best for just having a piece of cheese. Jutland for the win! I say that with split English and Netherlands parentage.

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The best bet would be to keep watching eBay, although it can be a long wait I've filled a couple of long-time slim-chance wants from it. One thing I would search for about once a week for ten years but finally got what I was looking for. Never did find a videotape of an old kids show I knew to have...

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I've been in the background a few times on news items, nothing exciting though, something local on a renovation to a street had me walking by and only my back was seen, and another nationally I was at a convention at a hotel where for some reason the camera person was right behind my table (power outlet...

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Very well written!

Sad news though... imagine, he could've been on Corrie all that time alongside his fictitious brother...

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I'm fighting getting dentures even though my mother had them from her late teens, I'll have a partial upper plate after all this present round though. My generation onward were lucky we had fluoride treatments. I remember before and after they started giving them. My mother's side had soft enamel teeth,...

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Have been going through fillings, stitches and one dry socket lately. Thinking of how things have changed... no television on the ceilings back in the day!

Probably mostly bad memories, but you have to take the bitter with the sweet, and there are some things about it I like to remember....

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The first music I heard that was called 'punk' was Stranded by Australia's The Saints. Before that it was something you read about, or would see a band name spray-paint stenciled on something, which is where I saw The Sex Pistols name first knowing nothing about them/it.

Australia with...

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Now I'll really feel old. 29... and I was gearing up to quit smoking just after I turned 30, which I did and have never smoked since! I would've been working at a flowers/plants and produce shop.

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I first 'logged on' via an external stand-alone modem you hung the telephone receiver onto. This was circa 1982-83 and both times some kind of Commodore PC... either Vic-20 or 64. One was at school, when they had just one for the whole school. This was in western Canada.

The internet was...