The Things You Remember As A Kid Thread

[Son Of Blue]

I've never felt as old or nostalgic as I do right now after reading this thread! However, is there a definitive answer re: White Dog Poo? Its baffled me for years!

 

[Mills-Mcfc]

world war 1

 

[ray21]

Cardboard banger free in the Beano
Coconut tobacco
Licorice Sticks (known then as Spanish)
Tree Top orange cordial
City socks with the maroon top and
2 white stipes

 

[city_boy_lee]

Turtles
He-man
Wrestling
A-team

 

[LEE BRADBURY]

braun butties its a wonder a generation of us did not grow up with mad cow disease.

i think white dog shit was caused by the baking hot sun during the summer holidays,not much chance of that these days.

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

Fireball XL5
Supercar
Red Spanich
Spud Guns
Pea Shooters
Latin: Amo, Amas, Amat, Amamus, Amatis, Amant!
Hot Summers

 

[hjohn]

• What was the one about the guy thrown out of the cavalry called? They broke his sword in half on his way out.
  
  
  Branded
  
  and here's the theme song
  All but one man died,
  There at Bitter Creek,
  And they say he ran away ...
  
  Branded!
  Marked with a coward's shame.
  What do you do when you're branded,
  Will you fight for your name?
  
  He was innocent,
  Not a charge was true,
  But the world will never know ...
  
  Branded!
  Scorned as the one who ran.
  What do you do when you're branded,
  And you know you're a man?
  
  
  And wherever you go
  for the rest of your life
  You must prove ...
  You're a man!
  
  WTF Have you got the record? Next question can you name all the wacky racers?

 

[denislawsbackheel]

The Wacky Racers were:

Rock and Gravel Slag

Big and Little Gruesome

Prof. Pat Pending

The Red Max

Penelope Pitstop

Sergeant Blast and Private Meekly

Clyde, Danny, Kirby, Mac, Ring-A-Ding, Rug Bug Benny and Willy - The Ant Hill Mob

Luke and Blubber Bear

Peter Perfect

Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth

Dick Dastardley and Muttley

I THANK YOW.............

 

[pfazz]

ABC Minors on sat morning
condensed milk
Rowlands electric bread vans
home made bogeys
muffin the mule (now illegal.)
big overcoats on the bed
ice inside the bedroom windows in winter.
rope swings over streams.

Fuk me i'm old !!!

 

[mackenzie]

ice inside the bedroom windows in winter.

and doing patterns in them with your fingers. :-)

 

[bluemoonrising]

tw@ting the b&w tv to get the picture back on whilst stepping on the pause button of the videoplayer...nowadays one lick off the finger and a run along the top and the dusting is done.

 

[bluemoon27]

got caught waggin it in pictures watchin grease (it was good then)

 

[bambablue]

playing army
g.p.(garden patrol)
pigeon street
morph
60 seconds
wembley
longies
wellyphant
egg mayo butties on school trips
shoot and match magazines
king rollo
jawbreakers
10p mixes

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

Cinder toffee

 

[berger10]

Yumyum!

Dad and cousin scared the shit out of me with this outfit when I was a kid!

I wasnt on 'FuzzBuzz' but I remember the kids that wernt so bright having to read them while everyone else was on 'free reading'

No wonder im a jiff:

I loved this

And had the luch box, cast moulds, figures - Leonardo, Rapheal, Donatello and Michelangelo...I think

Legend! ''Uwe, Uwe Rosler.................''

 

[city1961]

Cardboard banger free in the Beano
Coconut tobacco
Licorice Sticks (known then as Spanish)
Tree Top orange cordial
City socks with the maroon top and
2 white stipes

Tree Top orange.Bloody hell,yes i remember it...kinda space age white plastic top on the bottle.

Anyone remember red skin chews?

 

[Matty]

Saint and Greavsie on a Saturday.

Only 4 TV channels, and they all seemed to shut down in the middle of the day, and then late at night so there was nothing on!

Summers where the temperature was actually hot.

Winters where you actually got snow.

Some of the worst miming in the history of the world on Top Of The Pops.

Doctor Who actually being scary (it was those Cybermen for me, scary as feck they were!!)

Space 1999 seeming like a show set WAY in the future!!

Naf-Naf, British Knights, Fila, Carbrini and Joe Bloggs being the clothing/footwear to be seen in.

Taping songs off the radio, and having to rewind/edit when the feckin' DJ decided we wanted to hear HIS voice more than the music.

Now That's What I Call Music, Volume One!!!

Spectrum 48k and Commodore 64 were the height of computing.

Sega Master system replaced the above two, and seemed like the most futuristic gaming console ever!!

Playing football with a casey with an orange bubble sticking out the side.

 

[AustinBlue]

Morcambe and Wise Christmas Special
Everyone going on strike
Buying a Mr Men lollipop for 5p at the beach in Bude
Magic Roundabout, Crystal Tips and Alistair, and Jackanory
Getting a new City shirt on Christmas morning
Watching us lose on boxing day (this is a recurring memory)
Malcolm Allison's first game on Match of the Day... all the hype, all the hope.... 0-0

 

[BUDTHEWISER]

Loved this

But these were quite dangerous Remember getting walloped from my big sister
Had a very large egg on my forehead for a few days

 

[Challenger1978]

I remember being outraged when half penny chews (black jacks mojo and the like) doubled in price from 1/2p to 1p over night because 1/2 pennies were removed as currency .