Obscure things from my childhood - an appeal

WindSock · 26-02-2010 11:20AM

m@cc@ wrote: »

Ah, your bit of power in the world.

Yes, I am a super powerful Retro mod. Kneel before me and chant thy name.

NothingMan · 26-02-2010 11:22AM

Half way across the galaxy and turn left. Loved that show.

I was on The Works when I was in 5th classs. "Are ya laughin?".

The fizzy quiz! Use to with I had that rotating thing with the frisby hoes and the velcro!

ghosttown · 26-02-2010 11:23AM

Ha, we're showing our age here ! My abiding memory (perhaps incorrect !!) of Saturday mornings was eating cereal watching Fingerbobs followed by Champion the WonderHorse, waiting for the Multi-Colored Swap shop to begin...................but if the weather was right we might pick up HTV and get Tiswas !!
And of course, the ultimate 11 o'clock snack while watching was a packet of aniseed balls !:)

abouttobebanned · 26-02-2010 11:24AM

WindSock wrote: »

Yes, I am a super powerful Retro mod. Kneel before me and chant thy name.

Ah yes...apologetico!!

It was early in the morning and I was trying to write the thread on my iphone with the missus kicking me every now and again.

Don't want it to descend to a lets make a list of things we remember from our childhood...(just to take a random item from a previous poster) Like Thundercats...we all know about Thundercats...

This is for those things that reside in the very back of your mind...in a small room just beside the exit...soon they will walk out the back door and be gone forever...

AssaultedPeanut · 26-02-2010 11:31AM

Ahhhh the memories, they're all flooding back *nostalgic sigh*

No one I know remembers a programme on BBC called You & Me, there was a woman presenter and 2 puppet things.

You can't do that on Television. I think it was set in an American Highschool, everyone seemed to pop out of a locker and say something or get covered in green slime out of nowhere at any given moment.

T-Bag. All I can remember is it was in space and some old hag of a woman was in it. Even then I might be wrong

WindSock · 26-02-2010 11:31AM

Ah yes. The theme tune from 'round the twist' pops into my head every so often.

WindSock · 26-02-2010 11:32AM

dementedsoul wrote: »

No one I know remembers a programme on BBC called You & Me, there was a woman presenter and 2 puppet things.

I do. You & Me, Me & You, theres lots of things for us to do :pac: I think I fancied the orange one.

Chockabloc, now there was a programme.

AssaultedPeanut · 26-02-2010 11:35AM

WindSock wrote: »

I do. You & Me, Me & You, theres lots of things for us to do :pac: I think I fancied the orange one.

Yaaaaaaaaay

you even remember the song

sbsquarepants · 26-02-2010 11:42AM

Saturday evenings on the sofa in front of a roaring fire, after a compulsory bath (showers were for americans in those days!), watching the Paul Daniels magic show! I fancied the pants of Debbie Magee, ha ha, the shame!
Also Kangaroo runners, it would take you about 10 minutes to get the 50p you wedged in there out when you got to the shops.
Why don't shoes have pockets now? Why?

twitch1984 · 26-02-2010 11:55AM

dementedsoul wrote: »

Yaaaaaaaaay you even remember the song

brill show cosmo and dibs were the names of the puppets,

also i remember the sheriffe thing from the op he was like a a bear the size of him with his big beard

FarmerGreen · 26-02-2010 12:03PM

Rowan and Martins laugh in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5vRPPIWzhQ

26-02-2010 12:07PM

Postman Pat/Fruit Salads/Black Jacks/Apple jacks

Those really nice "milk teeth" yokes that had a powder on them

Sharkey & George

Batman (1989) merchandise

Father Ted

Giant chew bars

Cap guns, plastic rings (8's or 12's) of caps and the paper rolls

Choker Chains

Penny Sweets

TCC

On Sky analog - the way certain normal daytime channels would swap over to adult channels at 12am

(so I've heard)

Old school Disney Channel

Art Attack

The Beano (comic and animated series)

The lovely smell of a brand new hurley

I used have a thing for being able to name the make of car just by glimpsing at the shape of it from a distance (don't ask why because I don't know!)

Lovely, warm, sunny summers

Lego

Meccano

Worzel Gummige

Fugees - Ready or Not, Captain Jack - Captain Jack, Prodigy - Out of Space, Voodoo People, Faithless - Insomnia, Babylon Zoo - Spaceman, Shaggy - Mr. Boombastic (and the ad for the jeans it was on)

Round the Twist

THE REAL Christmas vibe and the smell of the tyres on a brand new bike

abouttobebanned · 26-02-2010 09:42PM

einheisserschre wrote: »

Postman Pat/Fruit Salads/Black Jacks/Apple jacks

Those really nice "milk teeth" yokes that had a powder on them

Sharkey & George

Batman (1989) merchandise

Father Ted

Giant chew bars

Cap guns, plastic rings (8's or 12's) of caps and the paper rolls

Choker Chains

Penny Sweets

TCC

On Sky analog - the way certain normal daytime channels would swap over to adult channels at 12am (so I've heard)

Old school Disney Channel

Art Attack

The Beano (comic and animated series)

The lovely smell of a brand new hurley

I used have a thing for being able to name the make of car just by glimpsing at the shape of it from a distance (don't ask why because I don't know!)

Lovely, warm, sunny summers

Lego

Meccano

Worzel Gummige

Fugees - Ready or Not, Captain Jack - Captain Jack, Prodigy - Out of Space, Voodoo People, Faithless - Insomnia, Babylon Zoo - Spaceman, Shaggy - Mr. Boombastic (and the ad for the jeans it was on)

Round the Twist

THE REAL Christmas vibe and the smell of the tyres on a brand new bike

Thanks for killing the thread. Father ted...ffs...

alwaysadub · 26-02-2010 09:59PM

abouttobebanned wrote: »

I can recall some odd things from my childhood and if even one person can say "yes- I experienced that too" then I'll be content.

1. The move "the sheriff and the satelitte kid". So an alien befriends a sheriff...cue usual mayhem...but I think I loved that crazy moving picture.

2. Zodo's club.
I think this was in the Irish press but it was a club for kids...you got a membership card with a secret password (mine was zenga) and on your birthday your name would appear in the paper. Happy times.

3. Air force runners. Actually...the less said about these the better.

4. Naff jackets. Or as we called them in school "nackers asking for food" - horrible things.

5. The tv shows, "why don't you" which made fact sheets and goody bags sound like diamonds and gold bars...."out of this world" another show on during the summer holidays...had the theme music "would you like to swing on a star..carry moonbeams home in a jar..." the father was a piece of Waterford crystal or something...I dunno...

6. Pink and white chocolate mice....

7. Fives..crisps for 5p...

Ok we can all look back upon things that we knew existed...but I'm starting to doubt all the above because with the exception of the confectionary items...most people haven't a clue what I'm talking about. Feel free to list your own...not obvious ones like martin and lance from home and away...but really odd ones...and don't forget to try and remember mine!!

1: Nope sorry don't remember that

2: Think i remember that,but wasn't a member :mad:

3: I was soooo happy the first time i got a pair of air force runners...

4: Yep remember them alright,again,wasn't allowed get one-we used NAFF to stand for something else i think, but can't remember what

5:Why Don't You-LOVED it. Ant from Ant and Dec was in that!!
Out Of This World- OH MY GOD THANK YOU!!!!:D I was beginning to think i had imagined that show-no one else remembered it

6: Prefered white mice but used to get pink one in out 10penny bag..

7:Nope,don't think we could get those..

OOH anyone remember Mallet's Mallet-it was on Channel 4 in the mornings. Timmy Mallet hosted it and there used to be a quiz where he hit the contestants over the head with said mallet-i so wanted to be on that show!

Obscure things from my childhood - an appeal

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