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I remember those jelly he-man type things. Can't remember if they were he-man or something else but I remember they were shaped like little soldier guys. I used to slurp them out the plastic mould hehe.
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They did exist I can assure you, I remember holding a packet of them. |
#63
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here's a link about this hedgehog crisp phenomenon. interesting, but perhaps to be taken with a pinch of msg...or pork fat, or whatever...
http://hedgehoghollow.com/hedgehog_crisps.html i sometimes think that crisps are really weird anyway. you get potatoes and make them taste like meat? why? why not have feta cheese flavoured bananas? |
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I recall on the packets of hedgehog crisps a bit of blurb out the hedgehog centre, which the producer donated to - I assume to keep hedgehog lovers happy. http://www.sttiggywinkles.org.uk/
I'm surprised there's not more stuff on the net about them. I prefer plain crisps myself, unsalted especially - I really can't stand prawn cocktail flavour, why on earth anyone wanted to create those I have no idea, blugh |
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Ip dip dog shit You are not IT (or something like that) Or the slightly (??) racist Eeeni meenie miney mo catch a ****** by the toe If he squeels let him go eeeni meenie miney mo |
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I got Princess Tina in my early teens. |
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Was thinking today about when I was little I was given a children's aspirin called Topsy.
Also my sister and I used to play with dolls a lot and when they were poorly we gave them little sweets called parma violets for pills and also coloured sweets of the same size which I can't remember the name of. |
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I remember doing something very similar at school except we would chant: "Alll join on, the Batman (or whatever) gang!" |
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I remember when I was little I got in my Christmas stocking a cat soap which had a plastic mouse in the middle (I think Avon used to do them years ago). I thought that was really cool.
I also got some children's perfume and I wasted it all in one day by pouring it onto my hankie. |
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Not many of you are old enough to remember but in the late 1960's in a three-year experiment BST was retained so that the clocks did not go back in winter. This meant that children had to go to school in the dark. Our school sold what were called Diddy Jackets which were little orange jackets that glowed in the dark so motorists could see them, although I wouldn't have been seen dead in one.
I was reminded of this by getting up in the dark this morning and remembered having to go to school in the dark during the Sixties. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any reference to Diddy Jackets on the internet. |
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They probably weren't called Diddy Jackets "officially". That would just be a made up name because they made you look like a diddy.
I seem to remember folk coming round our school every now and then to sell us stuff that was "good" for us. I seem to remember bright orange bags being sold. And packs of things for out teeth. I wish I could remember some of the other stuff. The joys of getting old. |
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do you mean those teeth staining red things that you had to chew and spit out to see how clean your teeth were?, we used to get those, along with a free toth brush, oral mirror and a small tube of toothpast.
we were also given those stickers that we were all encouraged to stick around our houses, saying "now turn off the light" "now wash your hands" ect ect.. |
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I especially remembers spangles, cola flavour
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Cor I remember those too!
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http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/bst2.htm High visibility 'diddy jackets' are now used on the 'Walking Bus' in daylight.(bottom Page 8) http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/corpora...s/may06web.pdf |
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Thanks for your insights incommunicado - I couldn't open your second link though - my computer didn't want to play! Good to hear that diddy jackets are still going strong though.
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when the gas company gave you gas and the electric company gave you electric....ahhh the good old simple days
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Does anyone else remember galoshes? My dad had a pair. They were like rubber shoes he used to wear over his shoes on rainy days. |
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my nan had a pair of see through ones with a rubber buckle type thing round the ankle, i used to go waiding round the shallow ledges of the pond with them on as a kid
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Is nostalgia as good as it used to be?
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i never heard of these diddy things
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Also, the black bomber jackets with XTC on the back and the baggy jeans with massive red or green patches on the bum. Suede wallaby's. Made you look like you had cornish pasties stuck on your feet. I had the bright pink ones, loved them. :D Banana clips. Sticking your hair up in a massive plastic clip with 'bits' hanging down the side of your face that you curled with a pencil. Friendship Bracelets. I can still remember exactly how to make them. I even knew how to do the really complicated one with the fishes. |
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I can't think of anything from the 80's or 90's to be nostalgic about - except for these guys of course:
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I used to be a Warlord secret agent
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