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Originally Posted by joveski
one giant leap for mankind..
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I came here fully intending to start a new thread subject
"
Bananas and Neil Armstrong"
but then found that an erk from the Southern Hemisphere had beaten me to it
wow the memories come flooding back!
In July 1969 I was on a visit back to the UK from Canadar to go over details of the new company venture still known as Rung Heating Supplies Limited
http://www.rungheating.co.uk/about.html
that I was going to help get off the ground in Sherborne Dorset with an old school friend
(by name of RUss KiNG) hence the company name which has nothing to do with ladders laddie at all
Anyway on the day of the moon landing my family and I had been visiting relations about 60 miles away and I recall how my grandfather drove home fast so that we would not miss the actual. landing live on television he needn't have bothered as I think we had to wait about 4 hours before Neil's foot could just about be discerned in an indistinct black and white image,It was one of my life's most memorable moments.I gave an anecdote about how the BBC entertained us while we waited in a thread I started about bananas at:-
http://www.rungheating.co.uk/about.html
to revert to the subject of Bananas
I am very fond of watching the Jay Leno show on NBC especially his Monday night Headlines feature and I might have a VHS tape from a couple of years ago when one of the humourous newspaper adverts he presented was a grocery shop selling "yellow fruit"
I will attach for posterity a picture I have just found on flickr
John