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Post by Stan Butler on Oct 24, 2006 13:45:13 GMT
What did we all do all those years ago, before home computers were invented, when there was no such things as video games, e-mail & the internet.... ? Right, I've asked the question, you lot answer it. I will return with some of my pre-computer activities...
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Oct 25, 2006 22:36:10 GMT
Okay then...
chalking on flags.
Using traffic cones as 'peg legs'
Getting a half a football and being 'Kojak'
Licking them awful smilie "Germalene Bubblegum Tattoos" and getting a yellow tongue.
Top Trumps (oh, you KNOW it).
Buying Licquorice Root to give your grebs that 'tobacco stained' effect.
How's them for starters?
;D
N.
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Post by moriarty on Oct 25, 2006 22:40:15 GMT
how about reading a lost art it seem
playing records (yes proper viny not the new fangled c.d. type things)
and playing tapes yes tapes!! on a walkman the size of a brick
one of which i still own and use regularly
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Oct 25, 2006 22:47:41 GMT
how about reading a lost art it seem Funnily enough, I was talking to Mrs. Columbo about this... I've always got a 'book on the go' so to speak, but how many just rely on snippets of information and brief synopses off the internet instead? At the moment I'm reading "Angels & Demons" by Dan Brown... a cracking read. I wonder about all these ruddy edicational toys... all this 'LeapPad' tackle for kids to make 'em brainy - what's wring with books? Oh, you've got me started now! KIDS - get a ruddy book! No batteries, no '5p per text' charges, no fear of a server going down etc. etc. My recommendation? The "Harry Potter" series - I've read 'em all - brilliant! N.
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Post by Stan Butler on Oct 25, 2006 23:54:02 GMT
Getting a half a football and being 'Kojak' N. LOL! ;D Everybody did that! Mrs. S. wondered what I was laughing at when I read that. (it's the little things!)
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Oct 25, 2006 23:56:30 GMT
Getting a half a football and being 'Kojak' N. LOL! ;D Everybody did that! Mrs. S. wondered what I was laughing at when I read that. (it's the little things!) A classic that one - loved doing it! Football bursts - 'cheapo' one sort of an 'Oobidoo' job. No tears - just tear in half - bilateral Kojak fun for you and a chum! ;D N. P.S. I bet you remember getting rolls of 'caps' too... not to use wi' a capgun... but to hit with bricks! 2p each - cheap as!
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Oct 25, 2006 23:57:21 GMT
Here... and what about 'fishing in the grid' - I did that - never caught owt, not even tuberculosis!
;D
N.
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Post by Stan Butler on Oct 26, 2006 0:02:46 GMT
I did silly things myself.
One of them was swapping milkman notes about...
You know the ones, 'No Milk today thanks', 'Two extra pints today please' etc....
Really buggered up the milkman's round the following morning....
We (yes it wasn't just me) even made our own notes, '2 dozen eggs, four pints of orange juice, but no milk thanks' type of thing....
It was Winter-time, dark nights and all that.... Call it boredom!
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Oct 26, 2006 0:09:16 GMT
And what about 'turnip lanterns' at Halloween - Pumpkins hadn't been discovered in Lancashire then!
By heck, they stunk too!
;D
N.
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Post by Stan Butler on Oct 26, 2006 0:09:50 GMT
P.S. I bet you remember getting rolls of 'caps' too... not to use wi' a capgun... but to hit with bricks! 2p each - cheap as! And how many times did you miss the cap and tw*t your finger?!!!
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Post by Stan Butler on Oct 26, 2006 0:10:39 GMT
And what about 'turnip lanterns' at Halloween - Pumpkins hadn't been discovered in Lancashire then! By heck, they stunk too! ;D N. Oh yes! .....and lit with birthday candles!
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Oct 26, 2006 0:17:16 GMT
And what about 'turnip lanterns' at Halloween - Pumpkins hadn't been discovered in Lancashire then! By heck, they stunk too! ;D N. Oh yes! .....and lit with birthday candles! Yes! Them sh*tty pink and blue 'twisty' ones! Good grief - are you sure you ain't me but in a parallel universe? N. P.S. As to caps - yep, I've got sore fingers still... and the scorch marks too!
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Post by Stan Butler on Oct 26, 2006 0:23:53 GMT
....And of course, Trick or Treat, when you actually played by 'the rules'. If you didn't get a treat, through the letterbox the p*ss went! They don't do that anymore (Thankfully!)
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Oct 26, 2006 12:07:59 GMT
Rules? Have you ever seen "The Wicker Man"... I mean PROPER? There are no rules... Eddie WW were offered a good sh*g, some sweets, tinned fruit and a severed hand... he turned this 'treats' down and look what happened to him! He rued the day... THAT day WAS rued! N.
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Post by Stan Butler on Oct 26, 2006 14:45:06 GMT
Rules? Have you ever seen "The Wicker Man"... I mean PROPER? There are no rules... Eddie WW were offered a good sh*g, some sweets, tinned fruit and a severed hand... he turned this 'treats' down and look what happened to him! He rued the day... THAT day WAS rued! N. oh aye! Some folk just don't know they're born! ....Talking of being born. I ACTUALLY remember being born! It's true I tell you... My earliest memory is of being in a warm dark place, then a feeling of going down a slide, out into a well lit place, with loads of people about, mauling. I was crying my eyes out, then dumped on some scales which were layered with a blue polythene cover type thing. Obviously at that time, I wouldn't have known what a slide was, or people, scales or blue polythene, but that's the only way I can describe it!
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