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Posted: 10/3/2006 11:45:15 PM | | Do you remember Storm, Alipali, Ginger, and Zazi. | |
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Posted: 10/3/2006 11:56:48 PM | Those coca cola commercials were great...the solo guy ads were good too | |
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Posted: 10/4/2006 12:11:18 AM | eternalwizard
Do you remember Storm, Alipali, Ginger, and Zazi.
Don't worry, when you catch one, everyone will wonder where you went as well. | |
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Posted: 10/4/2006 12:16:05 AM | Excuse my ignorance here, but can someone tell me what Storm, Alipali, Ginger and Zazi are?  | |
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Posted: 10/4/2006 2:53:09 AM |  still luffin at Marks Spice Girls comment, he he!!!
definately notice these guys missing and their input, well, i spose we're all hoping for the day when we're wrapped in anothers arms and too darn busy to play in the forums, sigh...... | |
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Posted: 10/4/2006 5:51:35 AM | Hi all, this is something that a friend sent me a few years back, its a bit long tho.
Memories.............
GROWING UP IN AUSTRALIA.................
I'm talking about hide and seek in the park. The corner milk bar,
hopscotch, billy carts, cricket in front of the garbage bin,
skipping,handstands,footy on the best lawn in the street, slip'n'slide,
the trampoline with water on it, hula hoops, pogo sticks, stepping in enormous
puddles, mud pies and building dams in the gutter. The smell of the sun and
fresh cut grass. Big bubbles no troubles' with Hubba Bubba bubble gum.
A choc-top Mr Whippy cone on a warm summer night after you've chased him round the
block. When 20 cents worth of mixed lollies was a meal and smoking those
pretend fags was really cool.
Watching Saturday morning cartoons...short commercials, The Thunderbirds
if you got up reeeeeally early), the Smurfs, AstroBoy, He-Man, Captain Caveman,
Archie, Jem (truly truly truly outrageous!!) and heeeey heeeeey heeeeeeey it's
faaaaaaat Albert. Or staying up late and sneaking a look at the "AO" on the second
telly.
When around the corner seemed far away, and going into town seemed like going
somewhere. A million mozzie bites, wasp and bee stings. Sticky fingers.
It being normal to have food stains down the front of your shirt - and not
something to be embarrassed about. Cops and robbers, cowboys and indians,
riding bikes and catching tadpoles. Marco polo in the neighbours'pool
("fish outta water?!""NOOOO"), drawing all over the road with chalk.
Climbing trees and building cubbies out of every sheet your mum had in the cupboard.
When wanting to be an airline hostess when you grew up was considered cool...
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 the giggles.
Being tired from playing...
Remember that??????
The worst embarrassment was being
picked last for a team. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
Cricket cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle ....
eating raw jelly, making homemade lemonade and sucking on a Funny Face red Freeza.
Remember when...
- There were only two types of sneakers - girls and boys.
- Dunlop volleys with the green 'n' gold or blue and the only time you wore them
at school was for "sports day."
- 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 50c was decent pocket money.
- When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for 10c.
- When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there from school.
- It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.
- When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at the local
Pizza Hut with your parents.
- When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed her or use him to carry
groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
- When being sent to the principal'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. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger
threat! Some of us are still afraid of them!!! Didn't that feel good?
Remember when...
- Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo" or scissors, paper, rock.
- "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 boy/girl germs
- The worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.
- Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a slingshot.
- Nobody was prettier than your Mum.
- Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
- Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable vitamin C's.
- Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
- Going to the beach and catching a wave was a dream come true.
- Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dare".
- Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
If you can remember most of these, then you have LIVED!!!
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up" life...
I DOUBLE-DARE YA!!! | |
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Posted: 10/7/2006 1:06:38 AM | Do you remember the Drive In Cinemas..... ahh what fun they were... the outing of the week to go to the drive in.... All the guys with their hotted up Panel Vans and Ute's. The girls well how special did we feel to be asked to go the the Drive In with a guy in a Panel Van.... Ahh we were so easily entertained in those days...
Ahh the popcorn and in winter the windows would all fog up but who cared.... Ahh those were the days...
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Posted: 10/7/2006 1:56:30 AM | well i used to be scared of the cyber men....way back in the early seventies and what do i see on the telly the other night.....
daleks vs cybermen......well im not scared of a dalek but cyber men.....and to think that term was coined in the early 70s.....now i feel at times that i am becoming one.....life is stranger than fiction and really strange coincidences happen.....i had one today...  | |
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Posted: 11/20/2006 3:09:04 AM | Has anyone ever mentioned "THE MALBARO MAN......."
Hot and sexy!! of course it's a pity i was too young to really appreciate him.. Like all things it's a pity they don't make them like that anymore...
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Posted: 11/20/2006 8:05:53 AM | ^^Oh I was wondering where the fish got to!
PS. He's changed his tag by the way. | |
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Posted: 11/20/2006 12:58:17 PM | Mark... I did really want to know that bit of information... Thanks .
I would rather remember him as this gorgeous, hot sexy hunk of a man..
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Posted: 11/20/2006 1:27:21 PM | When we were kids, we'd check under the bed at night in case any Banksia Men were there.
Oh- and what about Milk Shakes and Jaffas ? The lollies.
And Scotch Fingers! I miss them. | |
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Posted: 11/20/2006 1:31:57 PM | You dont have scotch fingers !!! I can't live without scotch fingers.. nothing better than a cup of coffee and scotch fingers.. We still have them here..
As for Jaffas and Milk Shakes they can still be found here..
yummmmy.... | |
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Posted: 11/20/2006 1:39:46 PM | Oh- don't tease me with Scotch Fingers. A friend came over to visit a couple of
years ago and brought some. Heaven!
Kids at the movies used to roll Jaffas down the floor; they made a wonderful noise.
Another memory: sitting on a horse and reaching up to pick passionfruit. | |
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Posted: 11/20/2006 5:02:46 PM | Living in a street where there was one house here and not another for 12 blocks or so ( now we are all so cramped in)
going down to the end of the street to the blocks of vacant land and pretending with your brothers and sisters that you were in deepest africa and there were wild animals all around....we had so many adventerous moments in that scrub land....lol
teenage years.....bay city rollers....lol
dolly hair cuts
going to repco and getting free stickers to stick all over your parents cars ( much to their disgust...lol)
early 20's..... taking your dads charger for a spin and getting it up to 260km per hr
30's....telling your dad that you took his charger for a spin and got it up to 260km per hour and watching his face drop when he tells you he only ever got it up to 200.....lol
40's....well thats the present and the future so ill stop there...smile
Memories..... arent they good......smile
This has so helped me today....thankyou | |
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Posted: 11/21/2006 2:25:01 AM | Even in NZ we got the Marlboro man ads. I remember they came on before the movie was shown at the local cinema. Plus those great coca cola ads, they went on for ages.
I remember milk being 4 cents a pint in a glass bottle and putting the bottles out at the gate for mum. Cool.
Carena | |
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Posted: 11/21/2006 5:03:36 AM | | You guys are great... I've just read the last four pages and loved every little nostalgic piece. On Guy Fawkes Day and Queens Birthday Weekend, when we'd have the fire works, and bon fire near the creek on the shared land out the back of our houses... did you guys borrow 44 gallon drums from the old bloke up the road, tie some planks to it and make a raft, from which you'd promptly fall in anyhow? | |
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Posted: 11/24/2006 2:22:47 PM |
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
That worked better than any medicinal remedy on offer today ... Lots of kisses and hugs... | |
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Posted: 8/9/2008 4:36:31 AM | | firecracker night! being able to walk to the corner store and buying lollies for 1 and 2 cents.. a paddle pop costing 25 cents.... one and two dollar notes.. | |
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Posted: 8/9/2008 4:42:49 AM | | ^^^^^^^ I remember when you could get a bag of lollies for 5 cents and a Paddle Pop used to cost only 10 cents. But back then you had to run quick to escape from the dinosaurs LOL! | |
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Posted: 8/9/2008 5:08:40 AM | Big Charlies when they were actually big and cost like 5c, choo choo bars, roller skates with 4 wheels, treads (now I'm really showing my age lol)
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Posted: 8/9/2008 5:21:14 AM | Schools handing out free milk to kids - little bottles with foil caps under a slab of ice would make it to little lunch.
At the same time parents would drop off watermelons they'd grown, so we'd have a feed of watermelon followed by a slug of milk and then run around in the sun for a while.... | |
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Posted: 8/9/2008 7:19:58 AM | I remember fire cracker night too. It was exciting stuff!
We had a sheep dog that used to grab each cracker in its mouth when Dad threw them, but let them go a couple of seconds before they went off. I have no idea how it knew when to let them go and avoid injury.
I can remember drumsticks costing 15 cents.
I can remember when only old people twittered on about, 'do you remember'. Eeeek! | |
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Posted: 8/9/2008 3:09:44 PM | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ its our time to get nolstagic! lol
i remember asking next door if i could mow their lawn so i could blow the money on fireworks! jeez we used to run amock with those things!!! anyone remember biggy rat+ itchy from the cartoons???? | |
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