How do we know we're getting old ?

[Tim Marlow]

Was that The Incredible Wilson Tim?
Pete

Yep, the wonder athlete…..go on….have some nostalgia….

http://theamazingwilson.com/Wilson%20Stories%20from%20the%20Wizard/index.html

[stillp]

WELL loved the valiant with that big robot ape mytek the mighty an captain hurricane as well as the eagle an TV 21 Centry comic as i used to swop with my mates those were the days eh an ive still got one TV 21 centry COMIC in my time capsule upstairs
chrisb

I've still got a mid-sixties copy of The Eagle buried under one of my model stashes.
Pete

[boatman]

I've still got a mid-sixties copy of The Eagle buried under one of my model stashes.
Pete

WELL Pete you want to dig it out an put it in a poly clear bag as some of these eagle comics are worth a fortune wish i had one
chrisb

[stillp]

WELL Pete you want to dig it out an put it in a poly clear bag as some of these eagle comics are worth a fortune wish i had one
chrisb

It was valued around £60, but that was 20-odd years ago. It's in an acid-free archive envelope.
Pete

[Mini Me]

Kept ALL my comics from when I was a young'un.....pull 'em out and read some of the old Favs. once in a "Blue Moon" just for laffs!

[stillp]

Yep, the wonder athlete…..go on….have some nostalgia….

http://theamazingwilson.com/Wilson%20Stories%20from%20the%20Wizard/index.html

You probably know the story of the author of the Wilson stories wanting a pay rise?
The editor refused him a rise, saying he could easily be replaced, so the author gave a week's notice, which the editor accepted provided he got another week's story to give him time to find the replacement. So the author wrote a tale which ended with Wilson chained inside a locked box at the bottom of a shark-filled lake.
The replacement writer struggled for a sleepless week wondering how to get Wilson out of this jam, and eventually went to the editor and resigned saying he couldn't continue, Wilson would have to die as he couldn't think of a way to write an escape story.
The editor knew that Wilson couldn't die as that would end the series and leave a lot of disappointed readers, so he contacted the original author and offered him a pay rise plus a generous bonus if he'd come back to work. So he returned to the office, and with a flourish wrote "With one bound, Wilson was free"!

Pete

[Tim Marlow]

You probably know the story of the author of the Wilson stories wanting a pay rise?
The editor refused him a rise, saying he could easily be replaced, so the author gave a week's notice, which the editor accepted provided he got another week's story to give him time to find the replacement. So the author wrote a tale which ended with Wilson chained inside a locked box at the bottom of a shark-filled lake.
The replacement writer struggled for a sleepless week wondering how to get Wilson out of this jam, and eventually went to the editor and resigned saying he couldn't continue, Wilson would have to die as he couldn't think of a way to write an escape story.
The editor knew that Wilson couldn't die as that would end the series and leave a lot of disappointed readers, so he contacted the original author and offered him a pay rise plus a generous bonus if he'd come back to work. So he returned to the office, and with a flourish wrote "With one bound, Wilson was free"!

Pete

No, not heard that before, but I absolutely love it! I remember the story where some crooks froze him in a block of ice and he melted his way out from the inside by using Eastern mental concentration…..I suppose in some ways he was the original Kung Fu….

Got it wrong above, by the way…Alf Tupper was a welder. Bernard Briggs (the goalie) was the scrap merchant…..and the story on the fort was Briggs and Tupper…..not Wilson….sorry.

[Tim Marlow]

There it is…..

http://www.victorhornetcomics.co.uk/briggs.html

Issue 439…..if anyone is sad enough to read it….DC comics it ain’t….far more interesting LOL.

[Airborne01]

There it is…..

http://www.victorhornetcomics.co.uk/briggs.html

Issue 439…..if anyone is sad enough to read it….DC comics it ain’t….far more interesting LOL.

Finally, didn't Alf train on on a diet of fish and chips?
Steve

[Tim Marlow]

Finally, didn't Alf train on on a diet of fish and chips?
Steve

Blooming’ Ada, he certainly did, usually just before a race…..

[Tworrs]

[boatman]

YES Garry how so very TRUE
CHRISB

[Neil Merryweather]

I'm particularly affected by # 9....

[Waspie]

I'm getting worried!!! In my 70's still playing on my PS5. (Nothing like a good kill streak to get rid of the frustrations of life). Even been known to play that thump thump music from my car. SWIMBO keep telling me to grow up. Never knew it was compulsory!!!
I feel when age finally catches me it'll be with one hell of a thump!!!!

[Mickc1440]

I'm getting worried!!! In my 70's still playing on my PS5. (Nothing like a good kill streak to get rid of the frustrations of life). Even been known to play that thump thump music from my car. SWIMBO keep telling me to grow up. Never knew it was compulsory!!!
I feel when age finally catches me it'll be with one hell of a thump!!!!

I'm still using mine, it's great stress relief