Showing your age

CTU_Agent · 2005-06-23 11:33:08

Who remember xworks big baggy jeans and kingfisher runners with the little pump on the 'tongue'..... and la lights.... anyone else going down memory lane?

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#62 24-06-2005 12:28PM

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who remembers being able to go out on a weekday but still being able to work the next day?
cause i swear, right now everything hurts after being out last night, its one big bad learning curve but i still have to have my stag night tomorrow

ugghhhh.....

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#63 24-06-2005 12:34PM

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bean wrote:

who remembers being able to go out on a weekday but still being able to work the next day?
cause i swear, right now everything hurts after being out last night, its one big bad learning curve but i still have to have my stag night tomorrow

ugghhhh.....

LOL, I don't get hangovers.

Everyone says "Enjoy it while it lasts",

But my dad is 51, and he still doesn't either.

Remember Chris Evan's show, "Don't forget your toothbrush"?

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#64 24-06-2005 01:37PM

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Sparky_S wrote:

Windows 95 or win 3.1 was an age ago

Workbench 1.3, tbh.

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#65 24-06-2005 02:13PM

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Wibbs wrote:

Hell I had a rubber shark when Jaws came out. So be thankful you're younger than me. As for star wars I'm so old I remember yoda when he had a full head of hair and was wrinkle free.

aye. just find it wierd that i can remember playing with the cool action figures, even though return of the jedi was released when i was only a year old
kids those days made their toys last:)
it must've been 5-6 years after the release of the film at that stage

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#66 24-06-2005 02:29PM

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I remember them never had a pair though

I did have Joe Bloggs and Eclipse jeans though

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#67 24-06-2005 04:14PM

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ah yeah, the teenage mutant hero turtles, the memories of it every morning at 8 on sky one.

Remember the ad that had the "armadillos, smooth on the outside crunchy on the inside, armadillos.
Harry enfield done the ad, i think it was in a supermarket.

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#68 24-06-2005 04:40PM

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*Page* wrote:

where i came from it was

nakers(i know theres ment to be a k)
asking
for
food

that's very offensive page. You should be banned for that

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#69 24-06-2005 05:02PM

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X-Works jeans used to make a person walk differently. It's hard to describe but the stride was shortened somehow, and he (usually a he) walked on his toes with his feet turned in.

Along with X-Works came the Blanket Jackets: Half-length button up coats with busy designs, made from fuzzy material you'd find in a blanket.

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#70 24-06-2005 05:15PM

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Good God ... I feel so old!

I wore the XWorx gear et al. My favs were a pair of Joe Bloggs jeans that had the jumper like material running in a strip down the legs ... they were teh kewl

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#71 24-06-2005 05:19PM

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What about Fido Dido t-shirts

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#72 24-06-2005 05:22PM

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I was trying to remember the name of xworks trousers there last week when talking about fashion back in the good old days, thats mad yeah i rememeber them alright + the shoes you speak of.

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#73 24-06-2005 05:28PM

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Sarky wrote:

Workbench 1.3, tbh.

That was radical dude. Remember the fun you'd have with the Amiga's speech synthesizer? Those were the days...

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#74 24-06-2005 05:32PM

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After reading this thread I have come to the conclusion I was not at all cool in my younger years. The illusion that was my life is now shattered. I am 30 years old and I have no clue what Xworks jeans were. I do remember some of the other stuff mentioned, just not the clothes brand names.

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#75 24-06-2005 05:35PM

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xworks were what early 90's .... bit after your time old man hehe :P

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#76 24-06-2005 05:38PM

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rubadub wrote:

Nike-knacker jackets

They will live on forever from what i see around in town. :rolleyes:

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#77 24-06-2005 05:58PM

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Sparky_S wrote:

Remember the ad that had the "armadillos, smooth on the outside crunchy on the inside, armadillos.

That was my favourite ad!!

It was for a Dime Bar, cuz they were the opposite to armadillos, they were smooth on the outside, crunchy on the inside!

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#78 24-06-2005 07:11PM

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tman wrote:

aye. just find it wierd that i can remember playing with the cool action figures, even though return of the jedi was released when i was only a year old
kids those days made their toys last:)
it must've been 5-6 years after the release of the film at that stage

Yea I still have that Jaws rubber shark. Sad or wha? Don't play with it much now though....

Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.

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#79 27-06-2005 03:41PM

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BizzyC wrote:

Remember Chris Evan's show, "Don't forget your toothbrush"?

I used to sit in my parents' room in my minnie mouse pjs with my toothbrush watching that. I think I was about 5.

LA Lights were class. And after those platform runners came into fashion. I remember a girl in my class wearing them into PE. Silly, silly girl. They were nasty red shiny plastic.

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#80 27-06-2005 10:12PM

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OMG a whole forum for this!!
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=253

I had doc martins once

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#81 27-06-2005 10:27PM

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Little Goose wrote:

That was my favourite ad!!

It was for a Dime Bar, cuz they were the opposite to armadillos, they were smooth on the outside, crunchy on the inside!

Thats it the Dime bar, i forgot the name of the bar.

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#82 28-06-2005 01:15AM

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Ah yes, I remember Xworx and Eclipse! I can proudly say that I never bought any of those things. Got an awful slagging for not having them though! Does anyone remember those Susst pants the girls started wearing all the time? You know, light or royal blue with white stripes down the legs...

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#83 28-06-2005 01:19AM

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Oh yea the height of coolness! lol

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#84 28-06-2005 09:27AM

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What about...

time bars (they were toffee in chocolate in a yellow wrapper)
edible paper (sold for 1/2p per sheet in the v early days!)
arctic log
united snack bars
supercans of coke

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#85 28-06-2005 09:53AM

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Ah I remember those supercans... basically a coke can the same size as a big beer can.

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#86 28-06-2005 10:19AM

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you can still get time bars in this shop in dun laoghaire!!

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#87 28-06-2005 10:23AM

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McCafferty's Time bars ?
in the yellow package ?
WHERE ?

dear gods summers spent reading and eating those as a kid.

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#88 28-06-2005 10:24AM

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wow, i had no idea time bars were still about - are they still only 5p????

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#89 28-06-2005 11:15AM

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ah, good ol' edible paper and dime bars...

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#90 28-06-2005 11:33AM

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i dont know the name of the shop but its in one of the pound shops in dun laoghaire town.. pennys on one side of the street and the time bar shop on the other.. I dont know how much they were i was more interested in seeing how old they were!!

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#91 28-06-2005 11:35AM

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hee hee eddible panties....sorry i mean paper

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