Do you remember when.....

[She_is_the_strangest_girl]

i remember when 1p sweeets used to asctuakly cost 1 p, non of this 2p, 5p & even 10p buisness!

aah those were the days

[umgaynow]

lol, there are lots of old people around here, if 30+ could be considered old, which in Kittenland, I suppose it probably could be. (There are a couple threads around here somewhere

Speaking of old. Beside the Saturday morning Puffnstuff & Banana Splits, there was weekday afternoons with "Dark Shadows" and the marvelous Mrs. Emma Peel and "The Avengers". Gosh did I wanna be Emma Peel; the first strong female role model for me on TV! Yep! She rescued John Steed as much as he rescued her. They would both be in a fight with the bad guys at least once every episode. She would karate chop guys and throw 'em across the room while Steed would be across the room beating up his guys with his umberella. I still have all those episodes to watch. Still enjoy them to this day. Jan

You is my kind of people...I hardly ever find anyone who remembers the Banana Splits...and H.R. Pufnstuf! With the talking flute and Witchypoo...how trippy was that? I still remember the theme song...hell, Cass Elliot was in the movie as a singing witch...can't get much hipper than that...not to mention Lidsville...which was even freakier...I'm thinking Sid and Marty Croft were smokin' something serious!

Did anyone else ever notice that the theme song to The Banana Splits is the same tune as Bob Marley's Three Little Birds? only yeah yeah yeah instead of yo yo yo...weird! And don't even get me started on The Avengers...Diana Rigg in a skin tight cat suit, karate chopping and kicking people in the face I like this thread

[Kessari]

...when I absolutely hated coffee (shame on me!!!!) and we were wearing all those aweful coloured clothes or our parents made us wear them, I don't remember fully...YUCK!

[Foomatic]

. . . everyone wanted to be a Goonie?
. . . the ultimate status symbols were a Snoopy Snow Cone Maker and a bunch of Garbage Pail Kids?
. . . Uncle Jesse was hot?

[Boschi]

. . . everyone wanted to be a Goonie?
. . . the ultimate status symbols were a Snoopy Snow Cone Maker and a bunch of Garbage Pail Kids?
. . . Uncle Jesse was hot?

1) Rocky Roooooooooad!!!

2) I had'em. Both. How cool am I?

3) hot? Uh... no. Although the Dukes of Hazzard was voted the most popular TV show in my 1st grade class.

[Willowtree252]

Pop rocks and the 5 and dime go in with 25 cents and come out with a small bag of the best candy in the world. Am I the only one that loved playing with my GI Joe better then barbie

[Millerchip77]

Willowtree I was never allowed an 'Action Man' (an English version of GI Joe) - I begged but never got one. I preferred my Star Wars toys though and I have to thank my folks for never forcing me out of being a big Tomboy as a child (a phase I've not yet grown out of). If only my mother hadn't GIVEN AWAY my Star Wars toys (God I'm bitter about that!). I'd still play with them now. We used to play Star Wars at school and I was always desperate to be Han Solo (he got to snog Princess Leia) but yes, you guessed it, I always had to be Princess sodding Leia - though I refused to style my hair like her...

[Lifty]

When this movie was playing in the cinema

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ESFybI9yCN0

amazing. so many memories.

[Kessari]

... you'd get up at 4am on saturday morning to watch Scooby-Doo or some other cartoons on tv?! Man, that was soooo exciting!

[umgaynow]

Pop rocks and the 5 and dime go in with 25 cents and come out with a small bag of the best candy in the world. Am I the only one that loved playing with my GI Joe better then barbie

Not only did I play with GI Joe, I also had Malibu Ken (my fave witht he blonde painted on hair) and Disco Ken (long hair) and I remember having the GI Joe with the weird flocked hair and the scar as well as the painted hair one...I remember my fave outfit for him was the flightsuit/jumpsuit with the combat boots

[Foomatic]

3) hot? Uh... no. Although the Dukes of Hazzard was voted the most popular TV show in my 1st grade class.

Dukes of Hazzard? No, no, I was talking about this mullet. C'mon now.

Speaking of . . . My mom used to hate it when I jumped in the car through the window. Heh. And "Sloth love Chunk!" Gets me every. Damn. Time.

[woahnellie]

DYRW........life was simple

[Adsum]

Millerchip77
What a shame you weren’t allowed an Action Man. I had one with the original painted on hair, and none of the fancy gripping hands, moving eyes etc.
I had a lot of happy hours with it. Unfortunately, my mother gave it away. I’m amazed I can remember this much, but here are some of the uniforms mine had:

(mine had the red tunic)
http://www.actionmanhq.co.uk/pages/sold ... oyals.html

http://www.actionmanhq.co.uk/pages/sold ... rgyll.html

http://www.actionmanhq.co.uk/pages/sold ... diver.html

How about Chopper bikes – nice and unstable - which are back in (Thankfully I didn’t have one)
http://www.rcoc.co.uk/MIKE4.htm

And Space Hoppers - which are back in
http://www.rcoc.co.uk/space%20hopper%20gallery.htm

[Dorothy]

Do you remember when the Spice Girls were goddesses instead of just humans singing and dancing?
Do you remember how we cried with joy over the rumours that two of them were bisexual?
Do you remember Geri's underwear LoLz

[thiswomanswork]

...when there was no cable TV, and you didn't bother buying the TV guide because the guide included in the sunday paper told you all you needed to know?

...when gas was $0.69 a gallon?

...when the first Star Wars movie came out?

[Willowtree252]

When you only had to worry about being a kid and what you were going to have for dinner. When kids really played out side instead of in front of the tv all day/

[dlline]

Heck, I remember when gas was $0.19 a gallon and "The Sound of Music" came out in theaters.

I'll just be going back to my cave now.

[Kessari]

...life was simple and easy?

No?! I don't either...Am I getting old?

[CrazyTaraWitch]

I've been thinking a lot lately about my two best childhood friends that just went off to college. Here are some of my memories from our Elementary school days...

--watching Wishbone everyday
--building Ancient Egypt in a stairwell
--reading an algebra textbook over the summer
--making forts to protect ourselves from the second-grade boys who threw basketballs at our heads
--walking backwards around the track just to prove we could
--learning 14 verses of Amazing Grace (though none of us went to church)
--discovering Harry Potter and making up Hogwarts games
--reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond for the first time
--finding Wicca
--learning to cartwheel...

[Kessari]

...you went to your first concert?
Wow, mine was Evanescence in October 2003. It was like one of the best days ever!

[Kessari]

...you'd go to those LAN-Parties (be the only girl there...) and just play some crazy computer-games for days?

Those were the best holidays ever. One time we were 5 guys and me (I know it sounds like some kinky orgy) in this room (about 30qm) for 10 days. We had so much fun, except that keyboards are no good if you use them as a pillow

[hondos]

Kids delievered the newspapers on bikes.This was my first job....

[Dorothy]

Do you remember when... As a kid, you first knew you loved a woman and it felt like most beautiful and natural thing in the world and you could never have realized someone would think different about that?

[Willowtree252]

I had an easy bake oven I loved to play with it.

[dlline]

Do you remember when... As a kid, you first knew you loved a woman and it felt like most beautiful and natural thing in the world and you could never have realized someone would think different about that?

Wow...you grew up in a really different world than I did. I think that makes me happy for you.

I always knew I was different, but all I got from family members was that there was something wrong with me because I wanted a football jersey instead of Barbie dolls.

[umgaynow]

I've been thinking a lot lately about my two best childhood friends that just went off to college. Here are some of my memories from our Elementary school days...

--watching Wishbone everyday
--building Ancient Egypt in a stairwell
--reading an algebra textbook over the summer
--making forts to protect ourselves from the second-grade boys who threw basketballs at our heads
--walking backwards around the track just to prove we could
--learning 14 verses of Amazing Grace (though none of us went to church)
--discovering Harry Potter and making up Hogwarts games
--reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond for the first time
--finding Wicca
--learning to cartwheel...

Damn, building ancient Egypt? That must have been one hell of a big stairwell!

[Willowtree252]

When school districts weren't thinking of the bottom line.............. Money.

[DreamLover]

Homework all that grumping over schoolwork ...I know it's lamme but now I think it is better then work.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

every day included naptime???

I wanna nap

[Kessari]

...your mom freaked out, because you wanted to dye your hair blue and get your eyebrow pierced?

Ok, she still freaked, when she saw me with black hair, but eventually she got used to it and loved it as much as I did.