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Womens Weekly October 9 1957
Discovered by ‘Shoe
The Gentle Humour of Past Days
07 Thursday Mar 2013
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Joy!
But where those days gentler, I’d agree with innocent.
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Yes, alge, I only remember the gentler bits…:)
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They’re the ones worth remembering.
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The boy’s laughter at the puppies reminds me of that television show of viewers’ home-made videos that generally end showing a fright or a bonk on the head, crying baby or somesuch. I can’t watch them.
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sandshoe: I agree with you re the videos. Can’t understand how people can laugh at them – I can’t watch either. Wuff, Snuff and Tuff – that has taken me back more years than I care to admit.
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Rosie, certainly familiar response of those of us who don’t like to see babies bonking their heads, puppies stuck in apertures (now there’s a touch of irony).
I am wondering where there is a history of the cartooning done in Australia for the Weekly. I am interested to see a body of work of the artist.
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Yes, innocent fun, when we called ourselves blokes and sheilas. When we bought our dates a malted milkshake instead of a Wodka- Gin Bomb. We had Barossa Pearl and Cold Duck.We stood at the bar and spilled the slops in the trough at our feet with ciggie butts. We shouted our mates with schooners and the misses with a shandy in the Ladies Parlour. She rinsed her hair a lovely pink on Friday arfo which was also curler time. We smoked our Graven A and lingered over the gate talked to neighbours and petted a stray dog.
(as it almost never was)
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There was also a product called Emu wine. I was living in London at the time. Every time I used the underground I’d see these gigantic posters for Emu wine and I would cringe!
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…did Emu wine taste like cat piss ?
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OMG! You don’t think I actually drank this horror? No, no, no, and no. If the ads made me cringe there was no way I would drink a mixture of ethanol and turps. Shudder!
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Aah so sweet, these days nothing is gentle…I told someone to teach their girls to knit and sew their dolls clothes, and stop nagging mum to buy silly party clothes for Barbie and Ken….
The good old days when EVERYTHING was nice and gentle…. 🙂
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Errrrrr……. the ‘good old days’ were not all nice and gentle. There was plenty of domestic violence, returned soldiers not coping and covering it up, women got the sack as soon as they married, women on half pay or less, women needed a man to guarantee their bank loan (if they had the gall to seek one). I do remember some good stuff obviously but I would never want to revisit in a time machine.
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Viv, I’m only kidding, of course they were not all nice and gentle…often people take me seriously, therefore I add an smiley to indicate that I’m far from serious…most of the time…
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Phhhhhhhrrrrrhhhhhhhrrrrrrhhhhuuuuoooo…
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