Comics from our youth...

[Churchill]

Are you claiming you were a kid in 2000AD? I know IT is supposed to be a youthful profession, but for those of us old timers who remember watching Winston Churchill's funeral on a flickery old black and white TV in 1965, that is taking the mick

Oooops, Old fart alert...

Who's the eldest? OwlHoot or AJP?

I think it's AJP, he's older than the sand inbetween your toes.

[BoredBloke]

My mum for some reason used to buy us loads of comics (us being me and my sister) We got

Beano - was good at the time
Dandy - was sh1t
Beezer - was worse
topper - on a par with above

My sister had 2 girls ones and I used to get Warlord and Victor which I actually liked.

I used to want Wizzer and Chips but she wouldn't stump up the extra cash.

Later on she started getting me this 'Aircraft' magazine which week by week built up into a big pile of sh1t in the corner of my bedroom. I wasn't even remotely interested in it but she insisted that I should store the bloody thing. If she really wanted to get me something I would have appreciated, then a subscription to Mayfair or Club International would have really gone down a treat but no I had to get something with cut away drawings of the internal workings of a Lancaster Bomber

[hyperD]

Oi Hyper, did you join the club and get your code book and pendant?

What about Catriona? She was a fox...erm... cat... anyway, I thought she was pretty hot. So did Fireball.(who looked rather too much like roller-ball rocco to be a real secret agent!!!) - must discuss that with Threaded...

Yes I did! The code book helped me in my English Lang. O-level. On the subject of code anyway.

But more importantly, fast forward to the end of 2002 when I still had my Peter Flint "genuine" .303 calibre Lee Enfield bullet as a keyring. For some strange reason, my wife had it on her key ring for her spare set of house keys. I had gone through the airport security when the next minute all hell broke loose as she went through the x-ray scanners at Heathrow. They pulled out the key ring with the .303 Lee Enfield dud bullet from her jacket and went ape.

Of course I did the honourable thing and walked straight past her pretending not to know her...

[mcquiggd]

Are you claiming you were a kid in 2000AD? I know IT is supposed to be a youthful profession, but for those of us old timers who remember watching Winston Churchill's funeral on a flickery old black and white TV in 1965, that is taking the mick

Ahem, I checked my CV and I have now been in IT,in various guises, for 15 years.... but, you are as young as the student you feel

Ironically everyone guesses my age as about 28... Im 37 soonish.

[Board Game Geek]

Just to throw my towel in to the ring....

2000 AD as well....since Prog 1.....complete with free gift (Spinner)

Wouldnt sell it though...too much sentinmental value.

Oh...and I still read it every week...never stopped collecting it.

Favourite stories are Judge Dredd, DR & Quinch, Slaine.