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    It's Convoy Day

    Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
    In a Kenworth pullin' logs

    #2
    We found ourselves trying to explain the cultural significance (and omnipresence) of that song to ursus minor a while back.

    It turns out that you had to be there.

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      #3
      Fuck, DLT earworm

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        #4
        I'm Into C B

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          #5
          'Omaha?'

          Have to confess that Convoy was the first reference that came to mind on checking the date this morning.

          In the (godawful) Laurie Lingo & The Dipsticks version currently plaguing SD, Paul Burnett refers to Jimmy Savile as a 'suicide jockey'. If only, eh?

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            #6
            And DLT has a racist moment

            There was even a London Transport bus
            "Hey, that's a nice wagon - fares please..."

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              #7
              We drove out to California in 1978 with a CB radio in the car. You could honestly just sit and listen to the chatter for hours. I remember guys singing - a cappella - that probably could have had recording contracts.

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                #8
                For various reasons, CB never quite took off over here, although there was a brief stirring around 1981-82 when Eddie Yeats out of Coronation Street - under the handle 'Slim Jim' - used one to woo his sweetheart, Marion 'Stardust Lil' Willis.

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                  #9
                  The Sound Opinions podcast had a recent episode that discussed the unusual story of the song.

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                    #10
                    I think nail bars are CB radio stores of the 2010s, don't think anyone's written a song about them yet though.

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                      #11
                      81, 82 in the UK it was all rather silly. Grown men on a Sunday afternoon, giving themselves silly names, driving in convoys of Cortinas, pretending they were driving Freightliners and going home to Mum's for tea.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
                        I think nail bars are CB radio stores of the 2010s, don't think anyone's written a song about them yet though.
                        They wouldn't need to, they could just repurpose "Gay Bar" by Electric Six.

                        Actually come to think of it, those places where fish nibbled the skin on your feet didn't last long did they? I know someone who bankrolled his daughter opening one, so I could ask him but it's probably a touchy subject. (insert joke about how the business had no chance because it was under water from the start).

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
                          I think nail bars are CB radio stores of the 2010s, don't think anyone's written a song about them yet though.
                          I nearly went to a nail bar once. They're not without their uses.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View Post
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                            Actually come to think of it, those places where fish nibbled the skin on your feet didn't last long did they? I know someone who bankrolled his daughter opening one, so I could ask him but it's probably a touchy subject. (insert joke about how the business had no chance because it was under water from the start).
                            There was a string of scare stories about people catching diseases from them and they disappeared almost as quickly as they came.

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                              #15
                              Three of my friends had CBs; two in their cars and one a "home base". Very limited chatter; I remember sitting with my mate who had the home base, listening to silence. Then a girl's voice, on and off for about five minutes: "Diesel, you on channel?"

                              The two car-based rigs (DYSWIDT?) actually proved pretty useful when five of us took two cars on a camping trip to Snowdonia in 1983. We managed to find each other again after getting split up in the wilds of Shrewsbury.

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                                #16
                                The hapless boyfriend of my pal who has settled in Madrid invested his redundancy money in a gel printing nail bar. The machine was very dear so he rented very cheap shopspace in his family's barrio, which surprise, surprise turned out not to have much footfall for selling a new gimmick. He lost it all within 6 months but will still regale us with tales of how much he coulda made and what a great idea it was...

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                                  #17
                                  Originally posted by Sits View Post
                                  Three of my friends had CBs; two in their cars and one a "home base". Very limited chatter; I remember sitting with my mate who had the home base, listening to silence. Then a girl's voice, on and off for about five minutes: "Diesel, you on channel?"

                                  The two car-based rigs (DYSWIDT?) actually proved pretty useful when five of us took two cars on a camping trip to Snowdonia in 1983. We managed to find each other again after getting split up in the wilds of Shrewsbury.
                                  My mum met her husband via CB radio. That was about 1989. I remember my mum having a base unit in the bedroom and him having one in his car.

                                  So committed to CB was he, that he actually had one installed on his Vauxhall Astra in 2016!!! I don't know if he ever used it, since my mum passed in 2014 I only see him when I visit my brother and he happens to be there.

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                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by Simon G View Post

                                    My mum met her husband via CB radio. That was about 1989. I remember my mum having a base unit in the bedroom and him having one in his car.

                                    So committed to CB was he, that he actually had one installed on his Vauxhall Astra in 2016!!! I don't know if he ever used it, since my mum passed in 2014 I only see him when I visit my brother and he happens to be there.
                                    Where did he fit the massive aerial?

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                                      #19
                                      Had a bit cut out of the roof I think - don't quote me on that though.

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                                        #20
                                        These days, I tend to imagine that CB is still used to some extent for dogging and the like. (I may, of course, be completely inaccurate in this assumption.)

                                        Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View Post
                                        There was a string of scare stories about people catching diseases from them and they disappeared almost as quickly as they came.
                                        Early on during its 'moment', my sister went in for this at least once - and repeatedly told us how effective it was. Even then, I thought 'egad - disease!' and couldn't imagine why folk really wanted to share one-another's feet in such a way...

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                                          #21
                                          Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post
                                          These days, I tend to imagine that CB is still used to some extent for dogging and the like. (I may, of course, be completely inaccurate in this assumption.)


                                          Early on during its 'moment', my sister went in for this at least once - and repeatedly told us how effective it was. Even then, I thought 'egad - disease!' and couldn't imagine why folk really wanted to share one-another's feet in such a way...
                                          It's the Garra Rufa fish - they are quite common in Tanzania, and there is a shoal in a natural hotspring in Kikuletwa, not far from me. I've been with the family a couple of times - and did not like the nibbly little buggers one bit.

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                                            #22
                                            Google "fish pedicure health" and there are horror stories about people losing their toenails, having to have toes amputated, and catching hepatitis and HIV.

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                                              #23
                                              It's that day again...

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                                                #24
                                                I do love that film.

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                                                  #25
                                                  It wasn't the worst hit of that year on either side of the pond. Disco Duck and Barry Manilow made No. 1 in the US and the Wurzels did so in the UK.
                                                  Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 06-06-2023, 16:42.

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