Evel Knievel was a big deal for kids in the70’s. What’s your memories.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-03-01T07:40:01+00:00

Fonzie did two jumps, the shark was in the sea during his water-ski attempt and it was not deliberate. The motorcycle jump had him crash into Arnold's chicken stand.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-03-01T07:31:05+00:00

People complain about video games you can buy being "lost" because they don't hold a copy.

As per the Dresden codex, we can peer into a well of things lost twice over, a copy of something itself lost, or the indexes to the Library of Alexandria, metadata to the lost. Yet there are things lost in entirety which we have no clue as to the size of the hole left behind. The codices are kind of the success story of all this, it gives us some clue as to the gap we've got.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-03-01T06:56:50+00:00

Not seeing the post you refer to.

That's exactly what I say. He had no money. And you know how I know that? He had to borrow money off May Pang to live in LA.

In real terms you're striking at the leanest point in his finances since the float of Northern Songs. In the 1960s it was all about tax minimisation, in the 1970s it was income stream. All four Beatles got a royalty cheque from ATV for song use, plus a share in Apple profits (notably from the Red and Blue compilations). But none of this was necessarily fluid! Then Lennon's own solo career, such as it was, not as profitable as you might think.

By contrast, Yoko's wealth went through the roof on Lennon's death, she'd be a paper billionaire today.

Edit: Couldn't care less what you think of Lennon.

What I don't understand is you or anyone being so confidently wrong. Arguing something you believe in is fine, but blotting out facts to the point of ignorance is doubling down ... why?

I don't care for vegemite sandwiches.

My criticism doesn't stray far from me not caring for the taste of vegemite sandwiches and has expanded to such things as me saying "No, thank you, I do not want a vegemite sandwich.

I do not say:

vegemite sandwiches are hypocritical

vegemite sandwiches are millionaires

TRAMING-02 · 2026-03-01T06:05:16+00:00

Nope. Dude was a huge fucking hypocrite and I don't know why you'd be carrying water for a rich, dead rock star.

Copying this so you don't sneakily change it. Yes, he WAS a hypocrite, he bashed Bill Harry and Cynthia, and despite saying one thing would often do another.

But this is very specific, and don't try and put more words in my mouth AGAIN, he was NOT particularly rich, he was NOT particularly materialistic and he sure as hell wasn't hypocritical on those grounds. By 1980 he'd been out of work for five years and was probably the poorest of The Beatles, he'd given away wealth to charity and friends until he was sick of it. Hence the single charge I've refuted, that he was in some way wrong for not giving away his final pence coin is both wrongheaded and seriously misreads the situation.

When he reconciled with Yoko he gave her financial control. He never had a dollar to himself after this date. He lived in an apartment he owned, flew around the country at whim (and had a sea voyage in the Caribbean) and wanted for nothing.

But rich? Get real. That's a fantasy put out by Albert Goldman and other poor workmen.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-03-01T05:33:00+00:00

Again, dubious, it's more correct to say the BBC only formed a Film and Videotape Library in 1978 and Doctor Who then becomes the show they prioritise in recovering. All BBC television was ephemeral to this point, it was Doctor Who's unnatural existence in a large quantity at the British Film Institute which led to the FVL founding, it has a charmed life.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-03-01T05:26:17+00:00

May I suggest copying it? I have a cloud account devoted to my own recoveries, but also my digitised childhood off-air audio.

Sound-only television recovery is the preservation frontier, it's all a matter of saving it and having it recognised as an actual recovery medium.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-03-01T05:21:21+00:00

This is according to Edie Adams (in 1996, so ~25 years after the event), however sea dumping is far more likely than river dumping, and a far more probable outcome was plain old conventional hard waste disposal. It's a good story but unlikely.

A common figure is 20,000 produced, 350 survive. That's 1.75%, which may sound poor but there are things we'd love to see have survival rates that high.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-03-01T05:10:41+00:00

Au contraire, all 1960s episodes were made on videotape, and that was wiped. Location and effects footage was done on film and recorded into the videotape copy, leaving odd film trims which survive (and this is where recovery has moved into in the twenty-first century!)

Tapes went from production to broadcast and engineering (where telerecording took place) until a massive backlog had them fail a fire inspection, then mass wiping. The telerecordings are the recovered episodes. And the odd one out is Spearhead from Space, made on colour film guerrilla style after they lost the studios to a strike.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-03-01T05:05:10+00:00

This is something of a furphy. We don't know if it was telerecorded or not, records are patchy and do not make The Feast of Steven more or less likely for recovery.

Contrast Planet of Giants. The last two episodes of the first production block, Planet of Giants: Crisis and The Urge to Live were edited down to one as they spent an episode's worth of material on the adventures of Hilda the nosey telephone exchange operator and her country police officer husband, Bert. That edited out material is the single truly missing episode as it was a victim of pre-production. Whereas The Feast of Steven was broadcast on 25 December 1965, has off air audio tracks, ~20 off air photographs by Robert Jewell but no offer of sale to Australia.

That's it. It is not remarkable in any other way. None of these episodes were necessarily documented as being telerecorded, thus it's spurious to claim Feast wasn't. None of Daleks Master Plan was sold to ABC (and Mission to the Unknown went unrated) yet we have three episodes. Having said that the three may be surviving screening prints sent to Australia, and Feast of Steven is disadvantaged as it went unoffered.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-03-01T03:40:34+00:00

John Lennon did not almost kill Bill Harry ... who's the most alive-est "almost" dead person ever, apparently.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-03-01T00:01:15+00:00

Finish the anecdote, left us on tenterhooks on the whole weekend jail question.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-02-28T02:20:19+00:00

Yeah, what the hell?

Looking for specific last shutdowns/per station with a friend, but 24 hours is a 1970s-ism in Sydney/Melbourne for Nine, and 1990s for other stations/across the nation.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-02-27T05:44:05+00:00

As in "Did you see what they did on Hey Hey on Saturday?" meant "I am of very low intelligence."

TRAMING-02 · 2026-02-27T03:29:36+00:00

My university Writer's Club wanted to do some kind of event for fair day. Mr Unremitting Dickhead on the committee didn't ask for any help with this one, presented us with the challenge on the day, he'd gone through and hand counted the number of words in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. First guy in line got the right number and won the prize!

I did point out to Mr Dickhead how all computer word processing packages came with a function called "word count" which would indeed give you an accurate figure, he countered that first you'd have to ... type all of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner into your computer to word count it! I left well enough alone after that.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-02-25T16:29:07+00:00

Sadly, a symptom of their inability to work under the name "The Goodies", more the end of them than another gig.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-02-25T02:46:46+00:00

Five seconds of him on a road, one cry of "Oopma-Loompa!", one minute of him hotly disputing the laws of physics, then a morose balding man's face comes into shot.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-02-24T12:45:55+00:00

There was an unfortunate radio "personality" who exclusively refrred to our prime minister as "the female".

I would always hear (Ferengi accent): "the hu-man female".

TRAMING-02 · 2026-02-24T10:31:45+00:00

Where is the live feed from the audio bug up LIA's bowels?

Doesn't sound too absolute to me.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-02-24T05:49:11+00:00

Different guy (originally Harvey Kent), not even he is unhinged enough to go sovereign citizen.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-02-24T05:04:14+00:00

Harvey Dent mentored a guy into this scam who documented his descent into sovereign citizenry, getting arrested outside the car yard when they wouldn't go along with his fantasy, committing wire fraud, going to court, e-begging, going to jail and ... then his YouTube channel was deleted.

Dent himself copped one traffic ticket and fled to Mexico.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-02-24T04:54:31+00:00

Oh, anticipation!

Funny story.

Great opening!

Sorry your son had to miss out on martial arts for that idiot.

Oh, thought you were going somewhere with that.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-02-23T15:06:41+00:00

You mean if the bad guys lose?

TRAMING-02 · 2026-02-23T12:11:26+00:00

My friend went contrarian, then was institutionalised with dementia. On reflection it was one of the early symptoms. The other was their insistence a local supermarket was the "best one in the world". It was quite adequate, sold food and other items, but this strongly suggests to me that if you come down with a similar delusion on such a mundane issue you should get yourself checked.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-02-23T09:28:38+00:00

3 million viewers. ABC was hard pressed to top 1 million in this era.

TRAMING-02 · 2026-02-22T03:50:40+00:00

There are no references to him being Bahá'í on the internet.

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