Does anyone know..?......Just ask a question.

staffordjas

staffordjas

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Gramaisc said:
... if this really existed?

I have a 'definite memory' of a small comic available when I was a child - like a 'younger style' Beano, and about half the size, more A5 than A4.

The special feature of this publication was that it was printed on rice paper, using food colourings for the "inks".

This meant that copies could be easily disposed of, when finished with them, by the simple expedient of eating them.

Few people that I've mentioned it to have been prepared to confirm the existence of this publication, and it is possible that it may only have been available to me when living in Malta,

Anybody else remember such a thing? The internet is quiet on the matter.

Maybe it was felt that it might induce people to attempt to eat less edible comics?
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I don't remember the comics , although I do remember rice paper from somewhere sometime in the distant past. Can't remember where or when ....
 
BobClay

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So let me get this straight .... you finished reading it ... and then you ate it .... !!! :eek:

(Whatever happens people, don't buy him a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica as they don't make nuclear powered stomach pumps.) :P
 
Mudgie

Mudgie

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Gramaisc said:
My memory has it definitely(?) in pamphlet form.


Rice paper, in general, does seem to have had a declining prevalence in the last few decades.
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Probably the last six decades since Many Rice-Davies was in the news.
Being born near Llanelli and moving during childhood childhood to Solihull wasn't a good start for her.
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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BobClay said:
I have to admit I played Mandy Rice Davies on a pageant float around 64/65. One thing I learned from that experience ... getting off and on a flatbed moving lorry in a tight skirt is putting your life on the line. :urgh:
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I remember the pageant floats and dance troupes parading through Stafford in the 60's Used to march back home from town to Baswich slapping my legs dreaming I was in a dancing troupe.

BobClay said:
. getting off and on a flatbed moving lorry in a tight skirt is putting your life on the line.
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Climbing out of a HGV lorry in a calf length pencil skirt caused much amusement at the GEC gates , after me getting a lift to work in the early 70's .....had to hitch it up around my waist to be able to get down the steps when we arrived at the works gatehouse. 🤣
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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staffordjas said:
I remember the pageant floats and dance troupes parading through Stafford in the 60's Used to march back home from town to Baswich slapping my legs dreaming I was in a dancing troupe.



Climbing out of a HGV lorry in a calf length pencil skirt caused much amusement at the GEC gates , after me getting a lift to work in the early 70's .....had to hitch it up around my waist to be able to get down the steps when we arrived at the works gatehouse. 🤣
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Cine film, or it never happened...
 
littleme

littleme

250,000th poster!
...how things worked before the NHS?

I remember my dad, now in his 80s telling me he was sent to phone the Dr from the public phone box for his brother who had tb, the Dr was a paid for Dr, who didn't arrive in time & I imagine couldn't help with the Tb But, what about midwifery and everything else...who dealt with that? How did it all work? Paying random uneducated strangers? Nuns? 🙄🤒
 
joshua

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Glam

Glam

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Right, I didn't know where else bung this, so it's going here.
Does anyone know the name of this actress please? She was in an episode of a programme called Cheaters entitled, Time to Kill. Her name doesn't appear in the end credits.

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Gramaisc

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littleme

littleme

250,000th poster!
How the theatre works now, post covid times....specificly Hanley.

Minime has tickets to Jimmy Car next week ...on the ticket it says 'allocated seating time 7pm' , but the show starts at 8pm.

The carer is worried about her roaming Hanley pre show as she's not not familiar with the town, and it's occupants. Does it mean the doors open at 7pm, so she has to wait for an hour before hand...or could she go in nearer to the time? She won't be spending time in the bar beforehand.

We're only used to the Gatehouse (neanderthals, I know!).
 
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