Do you remember ?

[Westmarcher]

Egg Shell Piercer. What a diabolical kitchen instrument! Looked like a large concave orange 'button,' with an interesting hole in the middle, set on a white oval base (looked like a fried egg - how cute). Ours was attached to the fridge door by my dear sweet mother and curious young men and women (like me and my girlfriend) would then come along and say, "what's this?" and press the 'button' with his/her thumb.

One bleeding thumb, and expletive, later ..... 

You can still get them.

For those yet to encounter these booby traps, when the button is depressed, it moves back to reveal a small spike which pierces the egg shell.

[Fenton]

White dog poo yes (see episode 1 of "Life on Mars" - the original British one, not the white dog US one.)

Being in hospital and my brother telling me about this new TV series that had a spaceship and a man with pointy ears in it.

Being in hospital and my parents bringing me one mounted or two foot Timpo ACW figures when they visited every week.

Going to hospital and being awed by the big green tanks on carriers on the authbahn.

Moving up from plastic headed Action Man (who all became Germans) to realistic hair Action Man (British para.)

Thinking how great X rated films must be.

Getting the Airfix Beach Defence set.

Sherbert dib-dabs

Bazooka Joe bubble gum with the mini cartoon inside

Cutting out "collectable" cards of footballers off the side of TyPhoo tea packs (loose tea, not bags.)

Green Shield stamps.

Proper money - pennies that dates from the 1800's. Earliest found was almost smooth from 1797.

My dad's box of Embassy Cigarette Coupons.

Getting a free glass when you filled up with petrol. I still have somewhere the badges of the regiments of the British Army from Texaco, and I seem to remember World Cup coins from ESSO(?)

The Magic Roundabout

Blue Peter with Valerie Singleton, Peter Purves and the Great John Noakes (none of the Magpie for me - that was for the sort of people who watched ITV)

Department S

Being in hospital and my parents bringing me a War Picture Library comic when they couldn't get Timpo.

Being in West Germany during the 1966 World Cup

The sound of English Electric Lightning's scrambling.

Radial and Cross Ply tyres

Ski Yoghurt being a luxury

TV weathermen attaching fuzzy felt symbols to an outline map of the UK

The first TV in the UK: a wooden box with shutter doors, on a tripod. First program I saw (in B&W) was the film with Dirk Bogarde kidnapping a German general in Crete.

Going to the cinema with a supporting and a main feature, with a proper interval, and ladies with ice creams in trays. They had wooden spoons and if you chewed on them you'd get a splinter in your tongue.

Apollo missions

Seeing the 1970 World Cup being broadcast from Mexico - in colour.

Snooker in B&W

Smokers

The Beatles (insert name of band here) releasing tracks.

Catching the Top 20 on the radio,

Getting up to change the TV channel to the other one.

Books in dust jackets.

Thinking Napoleon's Young Guard was strange and exotic.

Being in hospital and having to down an awful pink liquid that was supposed to calm me down but wound me up because I hated it.

Talking to veterans of WWII being quite commonplace. WWI vets were also around.

Worrying about nuclear Armageddon.

Did your life just flash in front of eyes?

[Westmarcher]

 



[It was a good list though, Nobby!]

[Chad]

Jubblys-had to be frozen
The Eagle comic with Dan Dare
LPs for £1 12s 6d
Gobstoppers
Record booths in shops where you listen to records before buying them
Pint of beer at less than £1
Saturday morning cinema opening for kids
Hopalong Cassidy, the Cisco Kid, Range Rider, etc.
Radio Luxembourg
Box Brownie Cameras
Rugby Union when it didn't look like Rugby League
Eddie Waring commentating on Rugby League

Chad

[Sandinista]

Penny chews costing a penny

Cheers
Ian

[fsn]

Did your life just flash in front of eyes?

Yes. It's hard to type and tread water at the same time. Going down for the third time ... tell Techno ... tell him ...

[jimduncanuk]

Jubblys-had to be frozen
The Eagle comic with Dan Dare
LPs for £1 12s 6d
Gobstoppers
Record booths in shops where you listen to records before buying them
Pint of beer at less than £1
Saturday morning cinema opening for kids
Hopalong Cassidy, the Cisco Kid, Range Rider, etc.
Radio Luxembourg
Box Brownie Cameras
Rugby Union when it didn't look like Rugby League
Eddie Waring commentating on Rugby League

Yes, to all of these except that the beer was much cheaper than £1.

[fsn]

Packs of ACW collectable cards, fake confederate money and bubble gum.

Oh yeah!


Batman bubble gum cards with a puzzle on the back, so you needed the whole set.

[mollinary]

Mars Attacks bubble gum cards - banned as too scary by the government and confiscated by my parents!  ACW bubble gum cards, infinitely more gory,  but permitted as they were 'historical', the excitement of finally swapping about fifty 'spares' to get the Battle of First Bull Run which completed my set. Purnell's History of WW1 in weekly episodes. Shared with three school friends and subdivided when the series finished. Berni's Inn's, the height of sophistication, with a menu of Prawn Cocktail, Steak, and Black Forest Gateau. Even more sophisticated, WINE.  Real Wine, Don Cortez Spanish Sweet wine, Blue Nun, and then, on a completely different level, Black Tower! Oh My G..!   

Mollinary

[Fenton]

Yes. It's hard to type and tread water at the same time. Going down for the third time ... tell Techno ... tell him ...

OK Techno...it would seem Nobby is stuck up to his middle in a puddle after a fearful deluge

[fsn]

This thread is what a Pendraken nursing home would be like.

Everyone tucked up in bath chairs, waiting for the ever youthful Leon to pass around the thin gruel which only has meat in it when one of the inmates passes away. Poor Dave been whipped away to the casting machines, Lemmey at the bar handing out Sanatogen and Night Nurse (no change there, then), Ithoriel looking at the Top Totty thread and trying to remember why, and Techno showing everyone his collection of bits of wall: "Berlin, Wailing, Hadrian, Max, China, 42 Acacia Avenue."  

I'm looking forward to it.  

[Subedai]

When I started drinking in 1972 (aged 16) a pint of lager and lime cost 33p -30p without the lime. 20 No.6 were 22.5p. Nowadays lager is the last thing on my list of drinks, water is at least three stages above it! Plus I haven't smoked since 1991.

Watching England win the World Cup and my mum missing every single goal because she left the room on whatever missions mum's get up to when the football is on.

Hearing about the assassination of JFK while living in Hong Kong (army brat).

My mum not letting me watch a Stingray episode because it featured a puppet of the Loch Ness Monster! She thought it might give me nightmares. I think I was about 8 or 9.  

Fireball XL5.

My problem with TV is that for most of my younger years we didn't have one. Bit pointless unless you were fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese or German. We had one in Wales and I remember being allowed to stay up to watch the Man from UNCLE and Gilligan's Island.

And more on the subject of TV -Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, The Prisoner, Goodies and Python.

My very first shinies -10 MiniFigs British Napoleonic Marines -that was all the shop had left.

Funcken's in French at £1.99 each. Still got 'em.

Radio Luxembourg but the annoying jamming noise used to get on my nerves so I switched to Radio Caroline. Loved rock music ever since.

[fsn]

@RoyWilliamson - Bob Carolgees (and Spit) now own a candle shop in Frodsham.

[Last Hussar]

Deutschland 83 was good. Spoiler - I didn't die in a nuclear holocaust when I was 14.

Watching 'fantastic voyage' in black and white, and that being the catalyst for my parents to buy a colour TV.

The Sweeney, and being allowed to stay up late especially to watch it.

That magic moment when Thames TV went off air, and LWT took over- the official start of the weekend.

Finding my first book of proper wargaming in the library in early 80s. Already read Little Wars.

Saving up to buy Basic D&D.

Simon Mayo breakfast show.

No TV in the afternoon!

[Techno]

Frother Bars !.....At one old penny a go.

And from 'Subs' post above......

The Gerry Anderson shows.......The Adventures of Twizzle, Four Feather Falls and  Supercar.
There was also another puppet show at that time....Torchy the battery boy ?......Not sure who made that one.

Cheers - Phil (Why is there a very wet Nobby, sitting outside my door in a bath chair ?  )

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

WE sent to Wales, he';s wet caues it's raining.....

IanS

[Orcs]

Now we are onto TV

Daktari with Clarence the cross-eyed lion
Pogles Wood
Kung Fu with Grasshopper

[Leman]

Childhood memories... [sweets don't feature, so, now, off-topic]

2-Star Petrol.
4-Star Petrol.

Talbot Alpine car.

Bob Carolgees and Spit the Dog.
Rod Hull and Emu.
Matthew Corbett with Sooty, Sweep and Sue.

Sunday afternoon wrestling on ITV.

Being completely satisfied if I got to go out for an afternoon, on a weekend, up the Yorkshire Moors and splashing about in a very shallow stream bed, just off the side of the road. Moor grass, heather, sheep and other cars with people there too, all of us just getting on together - children playing with each other happily - until it got to around five o'clock then we all went home.

Eagerly awaiting for the A-Team to come on the TV. Thinking Mr. T (as B.A. Baracus) was brilliant, and laughing at Mad Murdoch's antics. Loving to watch the bit were B.A. built a heavily armoured vehicle out of bits of scrap, all to the sound of the theme tune.

Harvest Festival.

Harry Corbett with Sooty and Sweep, Mr Pastry, Whacko with Jimmy Edwards, Billy Bunter, Range Rider, Richard Greene as Robin Hood, Harry Worth, etc. etc.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Threads where old people weren't caught up in dewy eyed reminiscences! 

[Techno]

 

Well.....I'm enjoying the thread !! 

Cheers - Phil