Childhood Memories???

*Lees* · 01-11-2005 05:05PM #1

Myself and my sister were chatting last night and found ourselves in a fit of giggles reminiscing about the good old days!!!!
One thing that has always stuck with me growing up and that still haunts me to this day is.......
..........my mother's knitting!!! :mad:

I used to live in a big housing estate called "Springfield Estate"... My parent's unfortunatly christened me "Lisa"... anyway my mam found a pattern for a lisa simpson jumper on a magazine and thought it would be cute if she knitted me one!!... Oh what a disaster... she knitted me this big green woolly jumper with a red lisa simpson on the front!!!

.... It was the 80's... the poor days when nobody had anything!.. She didn't know what colour Lisa Simpson was because we only had RTE1 and RTE2 which didn't show the simpson's!!! OH THE SHAME!!!!:eek:

Hehehe... Has anyone got any funny childhood memories??? Or embarrassing stories about what your mother dressed you in?? hehe

Sparky · 01-11-2005 05:13PM

things i remember from my young days were, the good teenage mutant hero turtles, some of the old songs, we only had the 2 or 3 channels at the time and didnt have cable, as everyone did at the time, so the classroom discussion of the simpsons, i was left in the background listening.
Ah i will always miss my young days, people were true when they said they were the best days of your life, at most the easiest.:D

*Lees* · 01-11-2005 05:21PM

Hehehe... yea i sat in the back listening to people talking about the simpson's with my trendy lisa simpson jumper!!hehe

Oh my god... the turtles!!! Hehehe... i used to fancy Donatello!!!!... He is the guy with the puple head band isn't he??... hehe... i used to fancy him because purple was my favourite colour?? hehehe

xzanti · 01-11-2005 05:30PM

Yeah I grew up in a housing estate as well... I have a lot of fond memories, playing queeny-IO and making rope swings on lamp posts, playing tip the can, buying cheap sh*tty sweets off the ice cream man.. remember those horrible chewing gums you used to get with the transfer tatoos and you'd plaster your arms in them and you're mother would go mental cause she'd have to scrub your arms for an hour in the bath to get them off :rolleyes:

ferdi · 01-11-2005 05:32PM

queeny-IO.........very vague memories....what the hell was it?

tip the can - an eternal classic.

Le Rack · 01-11-2005 05:35PM

When I was two and living at my Nan's there was a play pen for me but I hated it. Instead Nan had a big drawer for pots and pans and I used to pull them out and sit happily in the drawer!

Oh and feeding my pet lambs in the kitchen by the fire on bottles of warm milk...

And my kitten Figgaro attacking me while it was eating, but then the fox ate it!

Le Rack · 01-11-2005 05:35PM

God I sound like such a farm girl!
I'm not!

*Lees* · 01-11-2005 05:36PM

Oh my god yeaaa.... the tattoos!!! hehe... they must have been made from chewing gum or something because they really stuck!!!! I used to be red raw from being scrubbed!!!!
And kiss and torture!!!
..... hehe.... and jumble sales!!!! we used to have people plagued over our jumble sales!!!! My mam used to buy our toys from us to shut us up!!! haha

ferdi · 01-11-2005 05:40PM

kiss chasing...now there's a game that shoulndt die with childhood

xzanti · 01-11-2005 05:41PM

ferdi wrote:

queeny-IO.........very vague memories....what the hell was it?

tip the can - an eternal classic.

Queeny-IO who has the ball
Is she big or is she small
Is she fat or is she thin etc etc.....

It was a game where someone would throw a tennis ball with their back turned to the catchers and then have to guess who caught it... bit lame but we were easily amused

ferdi · 01-11-2005 05:43PM

of course, pure genius!

Le Rack · 01-11-2005 05:46PM

and all those jumpy hand clappy games!

dundalk cailin · 01-11-2005 05:46PM

ah the good old days

tip the can and kiss chase (or kiss catch as we called it) should be a staple part of every child's activites!

all my cousins and me used to spend sat afternoons coming up with the most imaginatve games (in our opinions anyway!!) then we'd arrive in filthy and have to be scrubbed clean

the teenage mutant hero turtles, loved that prog

Dellgirl · 01-11-2005 05:47PM

I used to share a room with my brother - him being 2 years younger than me. I was about 5 and decided one fine Summers evening that we would go to bed quietly for a change and then when all was clear pile stuff up till we got to window level.
It was the finest jail break of all time - until a neighbour saw a 5 year old and a 3 year old running around on the roof of a 2 storey house and had to crawl out to get us without not making us losing our footing through the excitment of being chased around. We thought it was the best fun ever until we saw about 10 neight bours standing around at various points around the house. My mother was in the bedroom trying to coax us in.
Poor woman. The 1st of many trials.
Locks appeared ont he window the next day!

dundalk cailin · 01-11-2005 05:47PM

xzanti wrote:

Queeny-IO who has the ball
Is she big or is she small
Is she fat or is she thin etc etc.....

It was a game where someone would throw a tennis ball with their back turned to the catchers and then have to guess who caught it... bit lame but we were easily amused

we called that alabala alabala who's got the ball, i havent got it, he/she hasnt got it albala alabala whos got the ball... or something along those lines!!

also red rover..

BossArky · 01-11-2005 05:48PM

Someone was always "getting the stick" from the teacher for misbehaviour.

Dave! · 01-11-2005 05:51PM

My sister used to dress me up as a girl

Trousers for hair, high heels, the whole works...

My dad must have been scareeeeddd! :eek:

dundalk cailin · 01-11-2005 05:55PM

Lol at dave!! u poor thing, must have been traumatic!!!

Naos · 01-11-2005 07:03PM

Ah Rec - All things Retro, how I do adore you..

Cant be Manhunt/IRA Bash.. Classic game.
Also that chasing one called "Stuck in the mud' - when you were caught you had to stand still legs apart, and someone had to crawl under you to free you..

Le Rack · 01-11-2005 07:04PM

DaveMcG wrote:

My sister used to dress me up as a girl

Trousers for hair, high heels, the whole works...

My dad must have been scareeeeddd! :eek:

I do that to my bro...

NoDayBut2Day · 01-11-2005 07:10PM

Le Rack wrote:

and all those jumpy hand clappy games!

Those were fun... hehe.

I also remember playing an annual game of "boys chase girls" or "girls chase boys" when the homeschooled kids would meet to take their SAT's. I don't know how this game started up each year, but it's like everyone knew exactly what we would be playing each day on the playground!

Sparky · 02-11-2005 12:33AM

kiss chasing, we called it tonsil hockey, didnt have a clue about it till it happened

Then in my childhood, i finally knew what it felt like to be booted in the balls, by a girl.
Its like they know naturally where to hit

Pain was the second thing in my childhood, from having my little finger crushed in a gate by another girl, to being run down by a car 2 hours after my first communion

dundalk cailin · 02-11-2005 01:11AM

ah yea stuck in the mud that was fun!

boneless · 02-11-2005 01:48AM

Goin' on the hop from school... I used to love the victory of not getting caught.

Adding 10p of sweets to the shopping bill, even though your mother knew you did it; it was one of those tacit agreements.

The first explorations of the other race... GIRLS!! They were a strange band of creatures... and I thank the Supreme Being I do not believe in for them!!

I wish I was on the cusp of life again...

*Lees* · 02-11-2005 02:16PM

hehehe... We used to play "getting married".. haha... i remember wearing my sister's communion dress and i got married to the fella living a few doors up!!! haha... twas a great day out!!! hehe

Originally Posted by DaveMcG
My sister used to dress me up as a girl

Trousers for hair, high heels, the whole works...

My dad must have been scareeeeddd!

My brother used to dress up as wonder woman!!.. My mother made him a cape and all!.. He used to wear a helmet and run into walls!! hehehe

Kablamo! · 02-11-2005 02:47PM

bikers crisps. remember them; anyone?
and johnsons room, with that really sad accordion!

dundalk cailin · 03-11-2005 12:35AM

i used to play the accordion..AGH!! and of course the obligatory irish dancing

PS loved biker crisps, and fives, snaps

Sparky · 03-11-2005 03:33AM

hot lips

yum
they're still out it think

Canis Lupus · 03-11-2005 11:05AM

xzanti wrote:

Yeah I grew up in a housing estate as well... I have a lot of fond memories, playing queeny-IO and making rope swings on lamp posts, playing tip the can, buying cheap sh*tty sweets off the ice cream man.. remember those horrible chewing gums you used to get with the transfer tatoos and you'd plaster your arms in them and you're mother would go mental cause she'd have to scrub your arms for an hour in the bath to get them off :rolleyes:

God I remember those tatoos. They were the bomb. As for tip the can. I recently taught my young brothers and sister to play it and I spent the summer acting like a kid again. Mind you now that I'm a few feet taller and distinctly wider it's damn hard to find a good hiding place, never mind running to the can. Pesky kids.

Or after being reminded about it by a mate last nite who used to chew the stems of those weeds with the pink flowers. They were bitter but nice.

Green_Martian · 03-11-2005 11:30AM

Burger bites anyone???

They were lovely as well, Stinger bars and Strawberry refresher bars mmmmmmmmmm i feeling hungry now lol

MrJoeSoap · 03-11-2005 12:30PM

Tip the can, Queeny-I-O, Red Rover, Kerbs, Polio, there are tonnes more but thats all I can remember now.

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