THE VPT JUNK DRAWER. The thread you need when you don't.

[stui magpie]

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I got the train to Sydney with my yr 12 English class in 1983 to see a Shakespeare play. The one with the witches and the "bubble, bubble, toil and trouble". Hamlet or Macbeth?

IIRC it was a semi interpretive version even back then. No costumes, minimal set although they were faithful to the script apart from that.

I have limited recollections of the play itself, just the trip itself.

Bus home from high school Thursday arvo, get bag, drive back to Finley, bus trip to Albury with a teacher driving late Thursday arvo, first time I tried McDonalds, overnight train from Albury to Sydney (no sleep), wander around Sydney for the morning (first time in Sydney), play in the afternoon then spanish restaurant for dinner (first time I tried Sangria, YUM) then overnight train back to Albury, (almost no sleep) bus back to Finley Saturday morning and drive home from Finley to Tocumwal with my eyes hanging out and my foot flat to the floor.

Got home before either of my parents were out of bed, got undressed as I walked up the hall to my bedroom (and dropped the clothes on the floor as I walked) threw myself on the bed and slept until 6pm.

I bought a Penthouse magazine at a news stand in Sydney and was reading it on the train on the way home with a couple of beers (I was 18 at the time, teachers were dirty but couldn't do anything). A girl from my class sitting across the aisle from me asked to have a look, which I obliged, and her and the girl she was sitting next to spent the next 2 hours with a blanket over their heads reading it with a torch. I found out 20 years later she was gay.

Great trip, average play.

[David]

Lol. That's quite a story. (The play's Macbeth, by the way.) No way would my high school have ever bothered to take us on an interstate trip, and we were only 15 minutes drive away from New South Wales! Cheapskates.

[think positive]

[David]

I was up until the beginning of Year 11, then spent two years at Erindale College (Canberra has a distinct junior/senior high school system, so everyone else was starting from scratch there too).

[think positive]

Gees up to year 11? Was that a problem socially? Or did you go to some kind of youth groups or sporting clubs?

[David]

Yes, and yes. I took tennis lessons for four years and worked various jobs from the age of 11, so I wasn't totally cloistered from the world – but it was a real challenge to enter the school system so late all the same. I look back on my two years at college as a necessary but often painful experience.

[stui magpie]

[ronrat]

First, Baz Luhrmann's attempt to make Shakespeare hip for the kids by driving a few nails through it, Romeo + Juliet, just turned 20.

[swoop42]

I've often wondered something.

Why is it that you can take a chicken fillet, freeze it in a freezer bag and then have what I'll call the "essence of the chook" somehow leave a slimy mess when you defrost it on your kitchen sink.

I understand water moisture being present but how does the essence of the chook make it through an undamaged plastic bag when defrosted?

[swoop42]

Glad to see you nuff nuffs have no idea either.

Stuff the climate, scientists of the world unite and answer this question.

[Skids]

[npalm]

[swoop42]

Can someone a little older or with a better memory tell me if during the early 1980's (1982 is my guess) did Sherrin produce full size vinyl footballs in club colours with printed player autographs on them?

Someone I know still has one and while I'm 99% certain the autographs are just printed ones added during the manufacture I'd like to be certain.

Cheers.

[stui magpie]

Older AND better memory? You're stretching there.

Not from my memory. I've got a geelong footy fully signed from the 80's. I know it's real.

[What'sinaname]

Why is a pair of pants called a pair of pants?