Yesterday, Small Boo bought one of those sparky thingummybobs that you use to light a gas hob when the built-in ignition’s gone wrong and you don’t want to get someone to come in and fix it because they’ll see how mucky your oven is. It’s called a Robotron, and perusal of the packaging informs us that it was made in the GDR. Which ceased to exist in 1990. Everything was the future once, including this:
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I remember visiting East Berlin in 1971. We could have done with a Robotron to liven things up, then.
That's a rare video of the young Angela Merkin isn't it?
Sounds ideal for the Museum of Communism in Prague.
We need neunundneunsig luftballoons to drop something on her, quick...
What are you complaining about, Martin? You had Trabants!
Rog: Yes. She's on lead trombone.
Perfect, Geoff.
France Gall, the Nena of the 1960s. I like it, e@l. Although Mlle Gall is of course the Whitney Houston of the 60s as well, seeing as how she was publicly embarrassed by Serge Gainsbourg. But who wasn't?
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