Remember this....
 

How much of this rings a bell.
Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read
this...............

Close your eyes and go back in time...
Before the Internet or the Apple Mac.
Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack....
Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
Way back........

I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.
The corner shop.
Hopscotch.
Butterscotch.
Skipping.
Handstands.
Football with an old can.
Fingerbob.
Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the menace.
Roly Poly.
Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams.
The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
Bazooka Joe bubble gum.
An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays
a tune - Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan
or perhaps a screwball
Wait......
Saturday morning pictures.
Watching Saturday morning cartoons....short commercials,
The Double Deckers, Road Runner, He-Man, Zeebedee
Tiswas or Swapshop?, and 'Why Don't You'? -
or staying up for Doctor Who.
When around the corner seemed far away and going into town
seemed like going somewhere.
Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings.
Sticky fingers.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.
Climbing trees.
Building igloos out of snow banks.
Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach
hurt.
Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights.
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.

Being tired from playing....remember that?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon
Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a
motorcycle.
Choppers and Grifters

I'm not finished just yet.....
Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops.

Remember when...
There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and
Dunlop Green Flash - and the only time you wore them at school
was for P.E.

You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents.
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.

You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve.
When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.
When 25p was decent pocket money
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there.


When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to
dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.

When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or
use him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid,
thought a thing of it.

When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared
to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.
Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't
because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs etc.
parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! -
and some of us are still afraid of them!!

Didn't that feel good?
Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
Remember when....
Decisions were made by going " Ip Dip Dog Shit "
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly".


The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.
And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.
It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic event.
Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult.
Nobody was prettier than Mum.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.

Ice cream was considered a basic food group
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up" life...
I DOUBLE-DARE YOU

Oh Chris,
this is really lovely :)

And yes:

I DO REMEMBER!!!

I want my good old childhood back! Where there were no sorrows and mostly fun!

Chris.............do you have a lotta time on your hands by chance :? :wink:

:D What about the foot long barley sugar sticks and the ones with the chocolate centre. Playing tarzies across the beck and falling in. Aztec bars.
Wall ball, flying kites (home made of course). Five boys chocolate bars. Sweets as a treat not an everyday occurance. Everyone linking arms and singing songs in the playground. Alleys (marbles) - bongis (the big metal ones). Playing "bottle of pop".

You've started something now - ahh sweet memories!!!

Love
Angelxxx

I might be 14 but I'd kill to be back in the pre hormone years.


I want to:

Be able to find something to do when over at someones house and you have an excuse

Be able to play hopscotch and bulldog and leapfrog again

Be able to eat ice cream and jelly at birthday parties

be amused by a clown and baloon animals.


*sigh*

I think some of these were before my time - mainly the Aztec abrs and Five boys bars.

But yes, I remember playing marbles and trying to win the dobbsies( big ones). Making mud pies next to beck. Taking frogs home in coat pockets to show our parents. (one my sister used to do)Finding a worm and eating it!! Snickers bars being called Marathon bars!!!!

Happy days :D

What about the slogans

A Mars a day helps you work rest and play
Do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo

Those were the days

i remember most of these, :roll: i remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday. :oops: :lmao:

I rember this long forgotton Hula Hoops slogan:


EAT DON'T HULA!!!!!

OMG I remember Aztec Bars AND Five Boys Chocolate *okay i'm getting wayyyyyy too nostalgic now* :lmao:

Know what I miss like mad?





TRIO BARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Not once has there been a chocolate bar that tastes so weird and artificial yet so delicious....

that is truely a nice piece. that is SO strong and true. i loved all of it.

i remember most of that stuff, and it was just six years ago. as much as I love MLUKFC, I wish there were no such things as internet, computers because I would love to experience a world without that "entertainment" being sixteen now i rarely see that stuff happen anymore, but its still there, and its slowly leaving :(

nice piece Chris, it was truely lovely

What he said. . .

T-R-I-ooooooooooo
T-R-I-oooooooooo
I wan t aTrio and I want one now
Not one,
not two
but Trioooooooooooo

etc. etc.

They were the ones advertised by that cartoon girl with the huge mouth weren't they??

OMG I even remember that advert for the Trio bars and yep you are right Chris ..... i think i can even remember the flipping tune :oops:

On the moon no less. . . :D

Whats a trio bar?

8O You were deprived. . .

I'm Shocked 8O

CAMPAIN!!!! BRING BACK THE TRIO BAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yummyyummmyyummmyyummmmy in my tummy!

remember when Hula Hoops had the slogan EAT DONT HULA and there was this cereal that turned the milk into banana milkshake! (The pop things stayed fast to the bowl).

And the sun pat advert! "Our Pat, was pretty nifty with a bat, gave the ball a pat..."


AND LUCKY CHARMS CEREAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Am I the only one who was and still is terrified of CATCHPHRASE?

Yes Rob I was deprived, what was a trio bar, please someone tell me.

Ok a trio bar was an odd tasting chocolate bar thing. I only have a vague memory so maybe someone like Gerry or rob might enlighten you better.

Bitty Chunky trio (3) crispy choc-laty thingies..... 8O

Does that help :?

Oh yeah I didn't like it,

I LOVED TRI BARS!!!! THEY WERE AMAZINGLY TASTY AND I LIKED THE LITTLE GAMES ON THE WRAPPER!! :D