Lets dig up the past.

I lost me Penker doon a Koondy doin a double ra



Jack McH

 

Are you sure about that?

Vim and Ajax were both scouring powders (you can still buy them)

What you call Cif, used to be called Jif,





but the daft thing was lemon juice in a plastic lemon was also called jif

 

I think it was Jif where the adverts used to claim it was even safe to use on glass. One day my dad decided to use it on his glasses, and it left them completely ruined.

 

Apparently the renamed Jif to Cif because some of the European population couldn't pronounce it properly. J doesn't appear in all languages. Spanish would have pronounced it 'Hif' and Balkan countries would have pronounced it Yif.

Was it HSBC that used to be called British Midland bank?

Also O2 used to be called BT Cellnet, and remember one2one phone company?

 

And hop scotch in chalk on the pavement slabs. Five stones. And huge wagon Wheels - yummy. Fruit chews and bubble gum that you could blow bubbles SO big with that when they popped they covered your face ....
and "hold your collar - never swallow - 'til you see a dog". That was because a car had come down your street . It was a very rare sighting !!

 

Stephen, Midland Bank was taken over by HSBC= Honkers and Shankers. Or to give it the correct title "HongKong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

 

By the way... Froot Loops are back.. after 1997 or so, these went AWOL, well theyre back at Tesco now!!

 

But did you know before being called one2one it was called Mercury? (and you could have landline phone with a Mercury button on it that you pressed first and it used the cheaper Mercury network)

 

Same with laser pens, you can get done for trying to down a plane if you are caught with one

 

Cap guns, I had three!
Potato Puffs (Smiths?), tasteless ugh.
Victor Value supermakets (bought buy tesco and Bejam).
Jubbly and Jungle Juice.
Fru-grains breakfast cereal in original tins.

 

Watergarden, didn't know that about one2one.. But they're gone now it would seem.

Talking of companies.. Remember rumbelows and radio rentals?

 

Things i remember....

Working Men's Clubs
Levis
Lambrettas
Northern Soul
Miners Strike
Mecca, Blackpool
Winnie Flynn (worlds best mum)
Speed
Council house milk (sterillised)
Fred Perrys
Rhyl
Freemans catalogue (guys will know what I mean )
Skinheads
Stoke away games
VW campervan
'Chocca' Rowley (RIP)
Ben Shermans
Big black phones
The Who
Proper Chippies
Worthington E
Coal fires
Mini's (car)
Mini's (skirt)
Gollywogs
Sue Warrilow (my first proper GF)
Mrs Rivers' B&B Blackpopl
Harrington Jackets
Park Drive fags

God I feel old lol

 

Nibbits, not sure about my spelling, red bag was plain, blue bag was salt and vinegar, and the orange bag was Mexican spice wheels, hmmmmm :WINK1:

texan bar
cabana bar
pacers
spangles
kop kops

 

Taping the charts on Sunday, trying to hit the pause button before the talking came on
Mum sending me to shop with a note asking to sell me 20 embassy .....and getting them.

Using the old metal trays from the pubs, to slide down the grass banking, always increased speed when you rubbed wax on to the bottom of the tray first
Forgot my evil kinevil, the stunt bike rider, again sorry for my spelling.

I was always out playing and very rarely clean