tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31419460.post6664951181907928519..comments2024-03-25T19:07:00.917+00:00Comments on Arthur Pewty's maggot sandwich: Dances with Silica Shop.Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12188628589645074377noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31419460.post-39954016829392023252017-10-24T14:29:17.160+01:002017-10-24T14:29:17.160+01:00I worked at Silica Shop in Sidcup from 1986-1990. ...I worked at Silica Shop in Sidcup from 1986-1990. Anyone else?Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07156092501035607171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31419460.post-24110370643793332922011-12-11T20:32:48.312+00:002011-12-11T20:32:48.312+00:00Bought my first Amiga from Silica Systems through ...Bought my first Amiga from Silica Systems through an ad in "Crash" magazine...fond memories.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31419460.post-2138009806485079642008-06-03T22:17:00.000+01:002008-06-03T22:17:00.000+01:00Thanks for the link! :-)Thanks for the link! :-)John Hoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04108111932661896600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31419460.post-10987347436982392442008-05-12T12:16:00.000+01:002008-05-12T12:16:00.000+01:00Ha-ha!You don't see ad's like that anymore. Just l...Ha-ha!<BR/>You don't see ad's like that anymore. <BR/>Just look at how much TEXT there is. <BR/>I know obviously like anything technical you want to see the spec's but to me this comes across like PC p0rn.<BR/>Look at ad's nowadays, say the Apple website (only cos that's the only computer buying website I've been on for ages), it's all clear plain minimalist not "dulling" your senses with technical spec's as "you know your above that..your buying into an ideal", like car ad's.<BR/>Me I want to know all the spec's not that fact it comes in red and under profession studio conditions can look mean and moody (Pergout I'm looking at YOU!). <BR/>I want to know the geeky things as its a bit of machinery that's used for a specific perpous (ie: getting from A to B in comfort, style and safety). The way I look at it is young men who bodykit their car, yeah it LOOKs great but does it improve the car in any way?<BR/>Well no.<BR/>It's all bluster and vague.<BR/>And girls really don't make a bee-line for blokes in cars*<BR/>Mind you when I was in my early 20's that's what summed me up...anyway I'm now COMPLETLY OFF topic and rambling!<BR/>SORRY!<BR/><BR/><BR/>I remember Silica Shop well as my Dad and parents friends used to get their computer stuff from there (and the little shop in Belvedere Village that's now a cafe and before that a Video shop, AGAIN with the off topic-ness! EEK!)<BR/>To my younger eyes it was very stuffy, complex and seeming full of scary bored looking assistants who were 18 at least! (I was about 13/14).<BR/>Who knows one may have been Proto-Pewty!<BR/>It's now a charity shop with rails of old clothes on the forecourt bit.<BR/>Sad really...<BR/><BR/>Talking of old rotary phones, found one in my loft in the most discusting beige and grey colours. Sadly it doesn't work with modern phone lines, when you plug it in you don't get ringing from any of the other phones in the house.<BR/>Shame.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Now see I love the heat.<BR/>Actually I love searing dryness, best/worst time ever was when I was on a beach not far from Cape Canavril years ago where my shoes MELTED under the heat (I'd left them by the car while I went swimming and they were new)...<BR/>;-)<BR/>No actually I love anything apart from dampness as it sets my asthma off. Hot and damp is suffocating, cold and damp hurts. Anything dry I'm great with you just have to adapt to the weather.<BR/>CHRIST!<BR/>That's a thought though, "Pewty with a tan!".<BR/>EEK!<BR/><BR/>The TV spot really can't be explained how futuristic it would have looked. <BR/>This was the first example of "point & click". It's funny to think that my phone has about 1000x the processing and capability...oh and memory and...etc etc…<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>*Actually they do if they're shallow but then thats the best type when you’re a young bloke #nudge, nudge#Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com