Need bottles; will travel...

[JOETHECROW]

ORIGINAL: SAbottles

Hey Joe ~ would love to have heard you singing that ! [][]
Why on earth would you have sung it, though ? It was a British marching song from the Anglo-Boer War (and part of it was in Afrikaans !) Not exactly Metallica or Pink Floyd [] !!

Here's a good rendition Dale... [] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsdcD161T7M&feature=related

P.S. No Pink Floyd till High school in the 70's...[]

 

[SAbottles]

Hi Melinda; actually I do ! I always offer to buy back the bottles at half price if they aren't going to use or keep them ! So far have "re-sold" quite a few bottles.

 

[SAbottles]

Wow, fascinating, Joe! Only problem is that, when you start listening to things on you-tube, you can spend hours wandering from one artist to another !! Out here, many of the verses to that were in Afrikaans and a lot less repetitive.

 

[bostaurus]

ORIGINAL: SAbottles

Hi Melinda; actually I do ! I always offer to buy back the bottles at half price if they aren't going to use or keep them ! So far have "re-sold" quite a few bottles.

That is great! Wonderful way to "recycle" those old bottles! Still waiting for you to find a South African veterinary bottle! There has to have been one made at some point.
I looked at that youtube video..that song sounds familiar so we must have had it in school at some point too. I was just telling my kids the other day that we used to sing a lot of old folk songs and patriotic songs in elementary school. I don't know that they do that any more....it has gone the way of recess. Remember those old playground games?
I am sure nowadays some thin skinned ninny would find something objectionable in each one of those old songs in the same way the education powers-that-be have decided dodge ball and Red Rover are bad for children.
I have started collecting the chords and words for the old folk songs, etc and will be teaching the songs to my future grand kids.....along with those inappropriate kids' games (and bb guns and pocket knives).

 

[SAbottles]

Yes indeed, Melinda ~ you are quite right that some fuddy duddy would find something to object about ! [8D]

Here are some more things from that collection : this little pot was amongst a whole batch of normal, plain pharmacy pots. I'm sure he hadn't even noticed it was transfer printed ! Sorry the photo is a bit blurry; the top reads "Imperial Pharmacy" and the bottom "J. Sachs Pretoria" -

 

[SAbottles]

A rather nice little skittle Codd :

 

[SAbottles]

This is the detail of the logo - as you may notice, these are all "Pretoria" items and will probably go to the lady who collects things with "Pretoria" on.

 

[SAbottles]

And a nice, clean crown top soda for "A A Bones & Co Chemists Pretoria" . A fitting name for a chemist !

 

[SAbottles]

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