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Post by Claret & Blue Army on Feb 9, 2006 18:57:42 GMT 1
Any nostalgia not television related.
Anybody remember playing conkers at school?
When Coventry Sound was all the rage?
Look -In and Shoot magazines?
Roy Of The Rovers?
Angel Delight?
Texan Chocolate Bars?
Football scarves worn around the wrists?
Any other memories to add to the list with anecdotes if ventured
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Post by PW on Feb 9, 2006 19:21:40 GMT 1
ANGEL DELIGHT! God...we used to have that for pudding at weekends...and my Mum makes this gorgeous dessert with chocolate roll and butterscotch Angel Delight. Heaven...
As for conkers, I once had a 112er which I used for about three years, then it finally broke after being battle-scarred. Was it only my school that played the rule "if you beat a conker, you assume its victories" so that a 3er beating a 6er became a 9er, not a 4er...
Shoot magazine was good, but Match was better...
I don´t remember the footy scarves-wrist thing, but I DO remember Hypercolour t-shirts-which changed colour when wet. And everyone wanted them.
Also, Astro Belts...strawberry strips which you got for 5p a go...they were gorgeous...
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Post by Claret & Blue Army on Feb 9, 2006 19:55:53 GMT 1
Top Deck cans of drink. The smell of adults drinking Mackersons Stout at Chrmbo parties along with Double Diamond, Tuborg, Hemeling long lost brews. K.P. Spacers- a crisp based snack. Corona pop delivered once a week. Spacehoppers and Pogo Sticks. Drawing a white chalk line across your nose trying to look like Adam Ant Black Harrington jackets Thinking Musical Youth were cool....erm maybe not  Football shirts without sponsors. Coventry Citys brown kit with the tramlines Boney M When exotic foreign food was Vesta Chow Mein  Betamax video recorders. And going onto video rental shops and being totally taken in by the blurb on the back and being very let down by the film. The playground rhyme about My Friend Billy.... |
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Post by Rich on Feb 10, 2006 16:04:37 GMT 1
I very rarely brought Shoot or Match, I just used to do a runner from my mum when we went to Asda and spend between 30-40minutes each week standing and reading whichever one I saw first.
I was never into kids crazes. I think I must have always been off school ill when most of them first came about so I would always be oblivious to them. Here are some that I remember though:
Premier League Football Stickers - Yes I collected them along with my brother and remember queueing for what seemed like ages at the swap shops.
Pogs - The amount of trouble they caused at my Primary School, they even banned Year five and year six from playing for a week once.
Go Go's - Something that never really took off.
Push Pops - As far as I can remember they were big lollipops that kids used to suck. I was never allowed one though as my parents found out that kids had died using them.
Tamergotchies (Spelling) - Another thing I never had but they were all the craze when I was in Year 7. I think they were supposed to be some kind of vertual pet.
Yo Yo's - The yo yo craze returned when I was in Year 8. Again I wasn't one of these kids that got all excited about them but I did buy a musical one once when I was in Tenerife, which I got a knocked down price for after long negotions with the guy selling it.
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Post by covunistudent on Feb 10, 2006 17:42:00 GMT 1
Just checking here, but slam was a national event wasn't it?
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Post by Claret & Blue Army on Feb 10, 2006 18:22:43 GMT 1
Panini football sticker oh my god!!! The sounds in the play ground each break time "Got got got got got need got swap yer" I only ever managed to fill an album by sending away the form at the back. Also I recall the bubblegum football cards which were very similar to the hockey trading cards at merchandise tables everywhere. Over Christmas a few of us found one of those Panini albums in the 4Ps and rolled back the years with the players involved...and their hairstyles ;D Every August in Shoot magazine they would do their League Ladders with the tabs of all the teams involved in their respective divisions that year. Another 80s craze was the Rubiks cube. My first one was one of those mini ones which were hard to manipulate at speed. Some of the cheating ways that people went away and returned with a "completed" cube were to remove the stickers or to take apart the cube. When I got my first regular sized one I quickly memorized the solution and managed to record a personal best of about 52 seconds. Unfortunately some geek at my school did it in about 47  The follow ups to these soon flooded the market. Rubiks snake- whic I never saw the point of. Followed by pyramid (Slight variation on the cube solution), Ball (Exact same solution but more of a challenge to hold and position as swiftly) followed by the 4x4 which my best time for was around about 3 minutes |
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Post by PW on Feb 10, 2006 18:42:27 GMT 1
Panini football stickers! They were great...especially the "shinies" which had the logo of the team on, and the home shirt, or there were the two part action pics which were a real bitch to complete...I managed to fill Premier League 94 though. Shinies were usually worth two normals, or one half of an action pic. If you had lots of shinies (one in each pack) then you were laughing. The sticker packs used to be 20p each or something similar... Top Trumps...they were legendary. Or the "space" cards...I can´t remember what they were called but they had monsters and wizards on. Battle Cards or something similar. People used to bring their albums to school along with big boxes of swaps-the trading always reached its peak about halfway through the season. Does anyone else remember Aquila or is that just me-a thing on CBBC about a Roman flying machine. That was good... Oh, and Tuborg is still a popular brew in Germany... |
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Post by Claret & Blue Army on Feb 10, 2006 18:48:31 GMT 1
Forgot all about Top Trumps given their resurgence recently (Can't beat the Shark ones ;D) but I recall having well over 30 different sets at my peak including two mni sets one of cars and one of planes. A game all about luck but some kids would claim invincibility about it  |
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Post by PW on Feb 10, 2006 18:54:12 GMT 1
Cardsharps...that´s what they were.
If you´ve still got any of those, then they´re definitely worth a play..
I remember having one on, no less, Volkswagens-and the sad thing is I know the best one on every category. Still.
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Post by Claret & Blue Army on Feb 10, 2006 21:33:00 GMT 1
I remember getting a Tennis set which was endorsed by Ille Nastase who coincidentally happened to be the best card in the pack Anyone remember the haircut known as "The Charlie" after the footballer Charlie Nicholas? |
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Post by davetheblaze on Feb 11, 2006 0:26:09 GMT 1
Who remembers the Eclipse?
The Tango advert that got banned because kids got busted ear drums.
Flourescent laces and socks.
Fila
Naf Naf
Wrecking the knees in new trousers.
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Post by Rich on Feb 11, 2006 16:01:07 GMT 1
Every August in Shoot magazine they would do their League Ladders with the tabs of all the teams involved in their respective divisions that year. Until quite recently I still had one of them league ladders from 1996-97 up on my bedroom wall. |
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Post by Claret & Blue Army on Mar 1, 2006 18:43:42 GMT 1
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Post by Claret & Blue Army on Mar 7, 2006 18:16:07 GMT 1
Got this in an e-mail today
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Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read this....
>
>Go back in time...
>
>Before the Internet or the Apple Mac.
>
>Before semi-automatics, joy riders and crack....
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>Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
>
>Way way back........
>
>I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.
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>The corner shop.
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>Hopscotch.
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>Butterscotch.
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>Skipping.
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>Handstands.
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>Football with an old can.
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>Fingerbob.
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>Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the menace.
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>Jam Roly Poly.
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>Hula Hoops.
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>The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
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>Bazooka Joe bubble gum.
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>An ice cream cone on a warm summer's night from the van that plays a tune -
>Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps a
>screwball
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>Watching Saturday morning cartoons....short commercials, The Double Deckers,
>Road Runner, He-Man, Zeebedee Tiswas or Swapshop?, and 'Why Don't You'? Or
>staying up for Doctor Who. When around the corner seemed far away and going
>into town seemed like going somewhere.
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>Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings.
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>Sticky fingers. Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.
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>Climbing trees.
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>Walking to school no matter what the weather. Running till you were out of
>breath and getting a stitch, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.
>Jumping on the bed.
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>Pillow fights. Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for
>giggles.
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>Being tired from playing....remember that?
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>The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
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>Water balloons were the ultimate weapon playing cards in the spokes
>transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
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>Choppers and Grifters
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>I'm not finished just yet.....
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>Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops.
>
>Remember when...
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>There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop Green Flash -
>and the only time you wore them at school was for P.E.
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>You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents.
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>It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
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>You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas Eve.
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>When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.
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>When 25p was decent pocket money
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>When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
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>When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there.
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>When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real
>restaurant with your parents.
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>When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry
>groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
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>When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate that
>awaited a misbehaving student at home...
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>Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive-by
>shootings, drugs, gangs etc. Parents and grandparents were a much bigger
>threat! - And some of us are still afraid of them!!
>
>Remember when....
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>"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
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>Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly".
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>The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.
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>And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.
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>It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic event.
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>Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a catapult.
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>Nobody was prettier than Mum.
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>Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
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>Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
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>Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
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>Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
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>Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
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>If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.
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>Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up" life...
>
>GO ON!! ..................................
>
>I DOUBLE-DARE YOU!!
Edited for swearing
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Post by Dave on Mar 7, 2006 21:35:45 GMT 1
read it, loved it.
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