We used to play something a bit similar John. In our version we used to flick gum cards at the wall from about ten foot away, and the one that got closest to the wall won the cards. A bit like marbles, but with cards. Not as easy as it sounds……
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I didnt even know theyd disappeared pete , love a dark bounty
I haven't been able to get for months and nestle have discontinued temporarily or so they say
Hes lost his ESSO badge chris but still got one !
THE MINI SKIRT an jeans with holes in have taken their place
not everyone looked good in a mini skirt....
but no-one looks good in jeans with holes in :tears-of-joy:
I look better in holed jeans than I do in a mini skirt!
There's a LOT of stuff that Terry alluded to in his books which are based on reality so it wouldn't surprise me if this bit was true.
Five Boys Chocolate Bars - Callard & Bowser Butterscotch - Bluebird toffee ( in a tray, with a little hammer to break it )
Dave
Dave
My dad had one on his key ring. There was also one of those flexible 45's that was an advertising song based on when smoke gets in your eyes.
I bet they weren’t alluded to as squishy diamonds though……..that’s what the king of the yellow river called them.
So where was that Tim? I don't remember it from any of the mainstrean Discworld books.
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I don’t remember offhand which exactly, but one of the last ones, in which Harry King with his waste-processing business features as a supporting character. Goblins will also feature in the book, most likely.
Harry King, the King of the yellow river, appears in several books, but Raising steam has him as a main character and I think that’s where I got it from…full bio here….
https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Harry_King
….and if you look up king of the yellow river you get a great many Chinese references LOL
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A plastic diver (small scale ) in a packet of breakfast cereal which you put in a bottle of water, seem to remember you put siechemical in it and it rose to the top.
Oh and people would speak to each other in the street. Police men that would give you a thick ear when you did something wrong and silly , and would say " tell you dad when you get in " You said nothing as you'd probably get another .
Oh and people would speak to each other in the street. Police men that would give you a thick ear when you did something wrong and silly , and would say " tell you dad when you get in " You said nothing as you'd probably get another .
Baking soda Dzohn?
Seem to recall little submarines as well defo baking powder also one where you loosened and tightened the bottle top made it go up and down perhaps one and the same ,can remember me and my little brother (the tufty club member that got ran over)with seven or eight of them in a bucket all going up and down in the back garden ,there's a thought kids playing in the back garden/yard. Dave
I seem to remember divers/submarines with a little flexible tube attached that you'd suck on to sink and blow into to surface? Again, cornflakes packet freebies.
I also remember collecting cornflakes packet tokens to send off for a plastic bulk cargo ship, complete with little cranes, opening cargo hatches, and wheels so you could push it along on the carpet.
I also remember collecting cornflakes packet tokens to send off for a plastic bulk cargo ship, complete with little cranes, opening cargo hatches, and wheels so you could push it along on the carpet.
There was also a small red barrel keyring from ...Watneys Red Barrel!
A really obscure one, I can only remember them from Bridlington early 60's - ' Camphor Queen ' - a plastic liner, powered by little camphor tablets that were inserted in the stern ( worked by decreasing the surface tension at the stern ) - no doubt the tablets were toxic!
Dave
- I found this - very similar!
Dave
- I found this - very similar!
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