Neville Southall is a God among men though, you'll always have him.Another thing i miss about the 80's and 90's, is that both Carlton and Everton used to actually win stuff!Carlton will come good sooner rather than later though.
As for Everton i doubt i'll ever see them win anything again tbh. They just don't have and probably never will have the finances, to compete for the big prizes again sadly.
Three years later the Nintendo NES went on the market though. That would've been a huge upgrade on the Dick Smith console.
Basic Instinct went all fuzzy at the infamous moment due to excessive rewinds
In that Paper Giants: Magazine Wars docudrama from a decade back (set 1987-97) apparently Australians were then the highest consumer of magazines per capita. A lot of people had a few monthly mags of interest (maybe one go-to and a few maybes), and then there were the more general ones that you wouldn't mind flicking through when bored, and yeah hanging out in a newsagent like a library and being asked to leave lol. Cutting things out of mags and newspapers for clipboard and collage. When you think of all the magazines over the years that you were a regular or semi-regular reader or subscriber to, you're probably talking dozens of different ones which cover diverse interests. I think the last one I read regularly was Australian Book Review, or some relevant academic field quarterly. But it is a habit that goes back to single digits, I still have some old shoeboxes full of special back issues going back decades, fun to pull them back out and revisit every 5-10 years.
And vienetta for dessert
Yes, you wanted to keep up with your social circle or workmates. You learned about the latest trends from television, magazines and store windows.
That was so the wife wasn't rejected after having the garlic prawns
Crickey. Fussy lot back then
My mum would get the Women's day and New Idea every week.
Prawn cocktail back then
Cricket was more popular BECAUSE you had to wait till summer to watch (outside some overseas tours highlights). Now people are desensitised to it. Competitions around the world most weeks, T20, etc. The 80's/90's/00's having the one-day format starting up, with real characters like Lillee, Marsh, Thommo etc., leading into the glory years of the unbeatable Aussies, with some great opposition, like the 80's Windies teams and players like Lara and Tendulkar, was a great time to follow the game, even if like me, you only did so casually, rather than heavily invested. I can barely name any cricketers now and they are mostly either boring or bogans, but without the talent to make it likeable like Warnie.
The 12th man tapes and CDs raised the profile of the commentary team tenfold
True, but that's a good point. Even the commentary team back then was a class above now. Benaud to lend class, with commentators trying to provide interesting and meaningful insight, rather than trade jokes or sell themselves.
Does anybody know why Frank Tyson and Keith Stackpole got the boot from Channel 9?
I use to collect MAD magazines. The local 2nd hand bookshop always had plenty of old editions I could get my hands on.
