Corn Flake Boxes

Cork

Was there better quality of cardboard in Corn Flake Boxes?

When I was going to primary school - we used use the cardboard.

But today - the cardboard is more like paper?

We used also use Mala? Is this an Irish word?

The poshies used say plastercine.

Seamie

I think the cardboard they use today is less rigid. We used to use it to make all sorts of things in primary school. I made the pyramids once...


And yeah, mala (sp?) is the Irish name for plastecine or play dough.

parasite

it's the irish for bag, i think ? i thought it's mostly a cork thing to call plastiscine mála
:dunno:

thejuggler

I think they called it mala on bosco back in the day. So its not just a Cork thing

jill_valentine

I only ever heard it called that on Bosco, and by my insane 400 year old teacher in national school. Mala is bag, but I think they might have been saying "Marla", I don't really remember...

byte

Yeah, I remember it as "marla"

Dave

Yeah I remember marla, didn't it come in like a sheet with 5 or 6 different colours that was kind of divided into maybe 40 strings or something?

oneweb

Yep, Marla. Remember those days well. Often came packed flat in strips of thin lines. Loved the stuff. 'Cept when it got me in trouble for embedding itself in the carpet RE:the cereal boxes - they used to be stiffer and whiter. Always used to make stuff from those silly arty programs like Bits n' Bobs etc...

jill_valentine

Interesting things I built out of cardboard as a kid:

*A small car with a steering wheel that really turned the wheels. True, all the rest of it was flucked up (I couldn't draw a straight line to save my life, even with a ruler) so it looked like a slab of cheese, but it did have turning front wheels.
*An Owl.
*A Crow that sat on my hand.
*Two me-sized robots. My mother threw out the first one and hoped I wouldn't notice.
*A mountie hat (Big Due South fan...)
* A massive gun (Based on Cables' from X Men, with shotgun style pumpy bit for effect. Sadly full of staples and cut my hands to shreds.
*Lots of sets of Wolverine claws.
*Cyclops goggles. (I coloured in the sticky sides of two pieces of tape and stuck them together for the lens....)
*Tutankhamen headress. Again, staples. Sore, sore head.
*Knight's helmet with moving visor. Agony. First my hair would get caught in the paper fasteners that let the visor move. Then the staples jammed into my scalp. So I taped over them. Then the tape got caught in my hair, and there was alllll sorts of pain. I was proud of it though, and I made a matching sword and shield (With my family's coat of arms, I might add.)

I had lots of cardboard and time on my hands...

Kalina

Originally posted by oneweb
Yep, Marla. Remember those days well. Often came packed flat in strips of thin lines. Loved the stuff. 'Cept when it got me in trouble for embedding itself in the carpet RE:the cereal boxes - they used to be stiffer and whiter. Always used to make stuff from those silly arty programs like Bits n' Bobs etc...

Mary Fitzgeralds make & do programme always used up the cornflake boxes in our house. AndI think we called the plasticine stuff marla aswell.

dazberry

Marla - is the r silent - we always used to call it (phonetically) Maula (as in Paula with an M).

I still remember the Maula in school (in the 70s), it was all mixed together and brown and horrible.

Interesting things I built out of cardboard as a kid:

A Death Star (from Star Wars - complete with Sliding Doors and trash compactor)

An AT-AT (Walker - from Empire Strikes Back because I never had one - )

A Space Ship / Submarine (I somehow got 2 really big boxes and put them end to end - they were cool).

A Moon base (really a strip of cardboard covered in tinfoil). Anyone remember the introduction of Space Lego.

A Space Ship for a school project - it was sh1t - think we came last

A cable car for my action man - I saw them making one on Blue Peter out of a 2 litre milk carton, but we had milk bottles (those were the days) so I had to use cardboard.

A robot (i.e. a box with some crap scribbled on the front, with holes for my head and arms).

A bomb (yes I'm serious). Basically I'd seen a film on a boat where they had to defuse bombs - so I got a cardboard box and put wool all around it pretending it was wires. It was a lot more fun to make than play with however.

Now all kids want to do is play on their PlayStation 2s - Bah.

D.

Unpossible

we always called it maula

oneweb

Maula, but always spelt marla for some reason. Only the twats called it Marla

jill_valentine

Maula, but always spelt marla for some reason. Only the twats called it Marla

*Gasp!* Marla on bosco...Marla from Fight Club...coincidence...?

MrBigglesworth

Was it the cornflakes boxes, once, that came with animal's heads on the back, and you had to cut it out and put it together to make a 3-d head. Just have flashbacks of animal's heads looking down at me from the wall.:D

peterk19

Yea i remember those they were on all the kellogs boxes for a period and oi remember we called Plastecine Maula too not sure why
pete

oneweb

Originally posted by MrBigglesworth
Was it the cornflakes boxes, once, that came with animal's heads on the back, and you had to cut it out and put it together to make a 3-d head. Just have flashbacks of animal's heads looking down at me from the wall.:D

Yeah, made loadsa those Now I'm just thinking if the lack of creativity of today's youth is all down to Kelloggs not doing arty farty things like that anymore??

jill_valentine

Those animal heads were scary...what were you supposed to do with them? they just sat there like some grotesque trophy...plus they had their tongues out and had crazy staring eyes...

penguinbloke

Mary FitzGerald in

"How Do You Do?"

Now that was quality programming, they don't make them like that anymore although from alot of the stories I've heard it was her less attractive older sister that did the work although Mary got the credit.

I really want to make something out of a margarine tub, sticky tape, maula/rla, egg cartons and toilet roll tubes now.

Agent Smith

Originally posted by oneweb
Maula, but always spelt marla for some reason. Only the twats called it Marla

ah yes.... thoese were they day's!

Capt'n Midnight

Saw this thing on TV years back about bogs and seasonal lakes and things and there was a section through the turf , and below the turf was a layer of white clay - very fine and malable and sticky - guess what they called it ?