BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / MEMBERS POLL: What's your age?

**Posted by Davina** May 5, 2013 11:38 am

OI! Not so much of the fogies! Lol!

**Posted by Harriet** May 5, 2013 11:46 am

We were with the internet before you were born, actually

**Posted by Punch me in the face** May 16, 2013 8:04 pm

20-30

Still 4 months to go before I update to 30-40 though. Well, they're just numbers...

**Posted by ancientsgate** May 16, 2013 11:45 pm

Harriet wrote:
We were with the internet before you were born, actually

I remember manual typewriters, so.... *grin*

**Posted by Davina** May 17, 2013 2:06 pm

Me too. And carbon paper!

**Posted by Tantalus** May 17, 2013 3:40 pm

Has anyone seen my penny loafers? I know I kicked them off around here somewhere...

**Posted by m0r1arty** May 17, 2013 3:43 pm

When I were 'lad, all this was nowt but fields!

-m0r

**Posted by Davina** May 17, 2013 6:13 pm

Aye! And you slept in a cardboard box in the middle o' t' road.

**Posted by m0r1arty** May 17, 2013 6:25 pm

Cardboard? Road?? You don't know you were boren!

We slept in puddle in gravel field en ate coal fir tea.

Cardboard, road...you and your big fancy posh oopbringen'

-m0r

**Posted by ancientsgate** May 17, 2013 6:43 pm

Davina wrote:
Me too. And carbon paper!

Carbon paper. OMG, it's been decades.

I also remember mimeograph machines and helping the teachers "run off copies" of the things they wanted to hand out to the students. No copying machines in those days.

And in high school and college, typing up reports and term papers on that funny special white paper where you could erase your mistakes with a regular eraser and not leave big smudges-- but the trick was then getting the sheet of paper back in the typewriter and lined up again.

Those were the days, my friend.

**Posted by ancientsgate** May 17, 2013 6:44 pm

Tantalus wrote:
Has anyone seen my penny loafers? I know I kicked them off around here somewhere...

And saddle shoes. Ugh.

**Posted by ancientsgate** May 17, 2013 6:45 pm

Davina wrote:
Aye! And you slept in a cardboard box in the middle o' t' road.

And walked five miles to school in the snow. Uphill. In both directions.

**Posted by Davina** May 17, 2013 7:16 pm

Tipped for between the paper to wipe out errors. Banda machines for running off worksheets. These always smelled suspiciously alcoholic to me. Roneo stencil type cutting machine things for running off worksheets with photos etc. on. What were saddle shoes?

Funnily enough I did used to walk about 3 miles to school and weirdly some of that was uphill and downhill. The worst was walking across out local park, in a blizzard, carrying an E-Flat bloody horn in its case. I thought I was going to die! The chilblains were awful! The best bit was sitting by the coal boiler with a hot mug of elderberry wine! Ah those were the days!

**Posted by ancientsgate** May 17, 2013 7:22 pm

Davina wrote:
What were saddle shoes?

Apparently they're back in again (what goes around, comes around, in fashion) and all the pictures I could find were of the modern incarnations of them. But anyway, this was the style, except ours were a lot boxier and uglier than this back in the 50s, lol.
http://www.robertsshoestore.com/bassimage/Saddle_whiteblack.jpg

**Posted by Davina** May 17, 2013 7:32 pm

I think wed call these 'spats' although they aren't really spats. Spats are like a topper thing you can put n boots and shoes for extra protection. If they are plain colours with the little holes patterning them hen hey are brogues.

**Posted by ancientsgate** May 17, 2013 7:43 pm

Davina wrote:
I think wed call these 'spats' although they aren't really spats. Spats are like a topper thing you can put n boots and shoes for extra protection. If they are plain colours with the little holes patterning them hen hey are brogues.

I imagine they were called saddle shoes back in 50s America because during that time everyone was cowboy-crazy and TV and movies were loaded with back to back Westerns. I have a picture somewhere of L'il Me at age about 5, all outfitted out like Annie Oakley, little shiny six guns in my double holster, cowboy hat jammed down on my head, little cowboy shirt with bolero tie, etc. Everything western was the rage. So mebbe that's why we called them saddle shoes? No idea. Yeah, spats are like something from 100 years ago-- I think men attached them to their shoes to protect the shoes/laces, or maybe just for style? Removable, anyway. And brogues, yes, I know that word, even though Americans don't use it-- I think of any leather lace-up old-fashioned shoe being a brogue. I think technically, saddle shoes are brogues, just with the distinctive pinto-like coloration, lol.

**Posted by Davina** May 17, 2013 8:19 pm

Yeah. I think that Westerns were a really big thing here too, in the UK, in the 1950s. A lot of the films kids and adults went to see were Westerns. Playing 'Cowboys and Indians' (I guess we'd have to say Native Americans nowadays) was a popular game, costumes, pistols and all. I actually miss some of the Spaghetti Westerns, although they were later.

**Posted by SilverMoonDragonB** May 21, 2013 10:05 pm

I'm turning 20 in just over a month...

**Posted by Myraya** May 24, 2013 3:45 pm

I think the category "under twenty" should be splitt up a little. I doese make a difference whether someone is 9 or 19^^

**Posted by Ginger** July 1, 2013 1:15 pm

22 already (geez, I'm old!).
I can see that the most of us are under 20... lucky young things ;)