Nostalgia

Rogue Chef · Post by **Rogue Chef** » Wed 05 Feb, 2003 2:42 pm

Ahoy there!
What is it that triggers a wave of nostalgia?
Old Films?
Childhood TV programmes?
Music?
A Smell?

Post by **Beast** » Wed 05 Feb, 2003 2:48 pm

Music is one, brings back some great memories for me.
I can relate past music with events.

I will second smell.
And also having a chat with someone about past times.

barryc · Post by **barryc** » Wed 05 Feb, 2003 3:50 pm

I would go along with Jay on Music, certain tunes that were current at various times in my past bring back the memories. Quite useful in music quizzes when a piece of music can be linked to an event or accurately to a time in your life as it provides the answer to when it was being played. On the popular music side, Mary Wells with My Guy, will always mean waiting for my flight home from Aden to be posted and Whiter Shade of Pale will mean the end of a fantastic time with 42 Cdo in Singapore. Bring on the nostalgia, it beats work any day.

Barry

El Prez · Post by **El Prez** » Wed 05 Feb, 2003 9:17 pm

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be

wilson · Post by **wilson** » Wed 05 Feb, 2003 9:38 pm

Music is definatley top of the list! Watching a bit of UK Gold also brings back a few memories...........

Here's one for you all, what triggers De Ja Vu?

Aye,
wilson

El Prez · Post by **El Prez** » Wed 05 Feb, 2003 9:43 pm

Deja vu, now where have I seen that before?

Rogue Chef · Post by **Rogue Chef** » Thu 06 Feb, 2003 7:17 am

Ahoy there!
I don't suppose there is any chance of you lot sticking to the bloody thread is there?

El Prez · Post by **El Prez** » Thu 06 Feb, 2003 11:56 am

I don't suppose there is any chance of you lot sticking to the bloody thread is there?

Abso'kinlutely no chance, 100% correct at your first attempt!

gash-hand · Post by **gash-hand** » Thu 06 Feb, 2003 12:44 pm

A run in with the law

Rogue Chef · Post by **Rogue Chef** » Thu 06 Feb, 2003 1:00 pm

Ahoy there!
Thought as much.

Rogue Chef · Post by **Rogue Chef** » Fri 07 Feb, 2003 4:41 pm

Any song from Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds" instantly transports me to my grot in recruit training.

Anodrog · Post by **Anodrog** » Sat 08 Feb, 2003 12:38 am

Robert Parry wrote:Nostalgia isn't what it used to be

What did it used to be Rob.

If your sword is too short step forward it will be long enough

El Prez · Post by **El Prez** » Sat 08 Feb, 2003 5:49 pm

I can't remember, it was so long ago, but everything was fluffy, clouds were white, not grey, summers were warm, winters were cold; it goes on and on, but it definitely was a long time ago. Now where was I......

Sisyphus · Post by **Sisyphus** » Sat 08 Feb, 2003 7:06 pm

Smell is one of the most powerful memory stimulants.

For years in the UK I searched high and low for mah-mee soup in chinese restaurants but couldn't find it anywhere. No chinese I spoke to had ever heard of it. A few years back I took the missus on a Far East tour and stopped at Singers for a week. Off we trotted to Sembawang, HMS Simbang (now a Singapore Airforce Base) and into Nee Soon. No-nose Annie was sadly absent (or hiding from me - same difference) The London Bar is now a car workshop. But as we walked past a "restaurant" BANG, there it was - the smell of mah-mee soup. Unmistakeable after nearly 25yrs. Straight in and wolfed down two bowlsful. Ooh, my mouth is watering!!!! The memories came flooding back.

By the way, the reason you can't find it in the UK is that it's Hokkien chinese cooking, which you don't get here.

El Prez · Post by **El Prez** » Sat 08 Feb, 2003 8:30 pm

Bill, try Google, type in Hokkien Mah Mee, and see what comes up. There's a recipe there from a Singaporean restaurant, enjoy.

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