meganiwish Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Megan, the battery replaced a wind up clockwork device. It was called a starting handle. I can just about remember my dad starting one of his cars that way when the battery was flat. Here's a photo of one I found online: http://a2.ec-images....95a4c7bf7/l.jpg It reminds me of the thing the clown used to turn the titles at the end of Camberwick Green. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dww Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Camberwick Green bit before my time I'll ask me mum about it. life is not a rehearsal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Cheeky young pup! A bit of Camberwick Green might have made you more respectful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SF Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 A shame you think my inquiry was being "lazy." "Why should girls have all the fun!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
at9 Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 It reminds me of the thing the clown used to turn the titles at the end of Camberwick Green. Camberwick Green? Isn't that found at the bottom of the Walworth Road on the way to Herne Hill? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 No, it's on the northern outskirts of Trumpton, just off junction 7 on the A1967/M Chigley bypass. Follow the signs for the Megastore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dww Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Thanks Megan, supercar, whirlybirds and fireball XL5, only one missing Four Feather Falls came out before supercar. life is not a rehearsal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Hmm, not really in the same vein. There tended to be less explosions in Camberwick Green, though I may recall an episode where the enemy sapped a mine under the fort, or am I imagining that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 I love what you've done with my thread Megan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shafted Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Normally I would have said to keep it on topic, but with your car now up and running there's not much more to be said. Shafted, the boots that is! View my gallery here http://www.hhplace.o...afteds-gallery/ or view my heeling thread here http://www.hhplace.org/topic/3850-new-pair-of-boots-starts-me-serious-street-heeling/ - Pm me if you want fashion advice or just need someone to talk to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 No more can be said about my car problem it's true. Nonetheless I have great hopes for this thread. It may well metamorphosize into something of great beauty if its allowed to blossom don't you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Agreed, no need to be 'fixing a hole' and stopping our minds from wandering, where they will go... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 Indeed and what better place to unleash ones imagination ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Anyway, I looked a bit further and found this http://en.wikipedia....amberwick_Green I was delighted to find I could remember the tunes to all the songs. Some of the characters do seem a bit dubious when you consider the words. I mean, Mr Dagenham is nothing but a spiv, and I hardly think Captain Snort sounds like he'd pass a CRB check, but it sounds like Mr Crockett would be a jolly useful chap for you to know, Amanda, if you make a habit of leaving your lights on on Friday nights. As Brian Cant was so good on children's television, it's always astonished me that he was able to write anything so thoroughly unreadable as his Critique of Pure Reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyinHeels Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Maybe if anyone has car trouble you can post it here and we could give the "Pep Boys" a real dose of competition? There's so much knowledge and talent here it is almost as frightening as the height of our heels. Tires, tools, and heels......oh my!! HappyinHeels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 That sounds like an idea, and I'm all for giving prep school boys a run for their money. Teach them what life is about before they go to Eton and it might stop them from messing all our lives up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
at9 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 That sounds like an idea, and I'm all for giving prep school boys a run for their money. Teach them what life is about before they go to Eton and it might stop them from messing all our lives up. Like sticking a starting handle up their big ends. Oh, sorry, I forgot. That's standard practice at prep schools Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Posted February 23, 2013 Author Share Posted February 23, 2013 Like sticking a starting handle up their big ends. Oh, sorry, I forgot. That's standard practice at prep schools Are you speaking from experience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikekicks Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 That sounds like an idea, and I'm all for giving prep school boys a run for their money. Teach them what life is about before they go to Eton and it might stop them from messing all our lives up. Megan.. he said ' Pep Boys '.. its a parts store franchise.. not a school REPEATEDLY ARGUMENTATIVE, INSULTING AND RUDE. BANNED FOR LIFE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba136 Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 They sell auto parts, tires and "stuffs" like that. Being mentally comfortable in your own mind is the key to wearing heels in public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikekicks Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 These are the ' Pep Boys ' REPEATEDLY ARGUMENTATIVE, INSULTING AND RUDE. BANNED FOR LIFE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 I wouldn't trust them to run the country either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikekicks Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 I wouldn't trust them to run the country either. Huh? Their are parts store characters.. ROFLMAO! REPEATEDLY ARGUMENTATIVE, INSULTING AND RUDE. BANNED FOR LIFE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba136 Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 Manny, Moe and Jack -the "Pep Boys". Being mentally comfortable in your own mind is the key to wearing heels in public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyinHeels Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 Megan, They're right I was talking about the "Pep Boys" of U.S. auto parts fame but I sort of like the "Prep Boys" angle too. Imagine their horror at being stranded on the side of the road and a high-heeled samiritan comes along to teach them a lesson in survival auto mechanics. It might be called "Heels and Wheels" but I'm just daydreaming. On the hand, there's a lot of daydreamers who are now wealthy and retired somewhere. Hmmmmmmm, better get back to work....daydreaming. HappyinHeels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 The first one looks like Trotsky, the second has a mullet and the third has an evil sneer. I'm sure they're nice chaps really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sangue16 Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Too funny, I enjoyed every bit of this thread! Yes, living in Minnesota jumper cables are a necessity and everyone knows how to use them. Being artificially "Minnesota nice" you would have had quite the line up of people proving how nice they think they are with offerings of a jump. Glad you got your car going, Amanda! Peeptoe heels are my passion... and flexibility: www.Flexines.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Hi, Sangue. I'm troubled by your inverted commas in 'Minnesota nice'.I've just been watching a historical documentary about Minnesota called Little House on the Prairie. They implied that the bad chaps always lost out to the nice people then saw the error of their ways. Has it changed that much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyinHeels Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Megan, Megan, Megan what oh what will we do with you????? The "Little House on the Prairie" of American TV fame was never in Minnesota but in Kansas. I have seen the house as it is not far from some relatives of mine near Coffeyville, Kansas. Minnesota, being a state of the Midwest, does indeed have prairies in its western and southern halves along with forests, swamps, hilly areas, raging rivers, and lots of lakes all in an area of 224,000 square kilometres or the same size as the island of Great Britain but our friend Laura was not living in Minnesota but in Kansas. Minneosota is a nice place quite similar to Wisconsin where I live but there is one big difference: they have this strange devotion to a crappy football team that wears purple and gold uniforms. Other than that, they're really COOL people! HappyinHeels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Posted March 5, 2013 Author Share Posted March 5, 2013 I think Megan was referring to having watched an historical documentary about Minnesota called Little House on the Prairie. Anyway Minnesota/Kansas, are in America so they're pretty much the same really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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