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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Dec 2, 2006 10:05:08 GMT
A bit late now I know... but I've been looking for stuff on this for my 'Nostalgia' cards and came across this: Click HereBelting snippets of info. there I reckon. Me and Mrs. C were walking on a local field and a couple of kids were looking for conkers... as they were only 'little uns' they didn't know which trees to look for, so I helped out and found 'em a few. Made me think all this... a great seasonal toy that cost nothing (well... the string maybe) - used to love playing conkers. Anyone else? N.
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Post by Stan Butler on Dec 2, 2006 13:19:30 GMT
Oh aye! I used to play conkers.
We used to go up to some place up the top of Wigan Lane (sicklefield or something like that). Although I shouldn't admit that, because I think the place had a quote from the Lord's prayer, "Tresspassers will be prosecuted" ;D
We nipped in, grabbed a bag full and b*ggered off! I would have commpetitions mostly at school, then afterwards in the street with my mates!
Some folk were that obsessed with it, they'd use the laces out of their shoes as spare strings!
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Dec 2, 2006 13:50:37 GMT
Yep - but have you seen how DEAR shoelaces cost now? Jaysus! I used to get all my conkers up the Planatations (Haigh Hall) - I might have even 'trespassed' in the Deanery's Rectory too - I can't remember! ;D N.
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Post by gareth on Dec 2, 2006 20:48:46 GMT
i played conkers when i wuz a kid i had a bag full coz we had have a conker tree near us so i dident have far to go for my conker
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Dec 2, 2006 21:15:48 GMT
Ye lucky s*d!
;D
N.
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Post by funkdooby on Dec 2, 2006 21:34:54 GMT
I remember baking conker on top of the radiators overnight in order to make them hard as iron, then going to school the next day and destroying everything in sight ;D Do I feel ashamed now? Do I b*llocks! There are no rules in love and conkers!
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Post by Stan Butler on Dec 2, 2006 23:05:16 GMT
I remember baking conker on top of the radiators overnight in order to make them hard as iron, then going to school the next day and destroying everything in sight. Oh yes! There was a lot of satisfaction in doing that, especially when it was the school big-headed get, who thought he's conker was indestructible! I saw fights at school because of that!
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Post by BobbyRazzle on Dec 13, 2006 22:34:11 GMT
I got caught once pinching conkers out of someone's garden near us. The chap that lived there caught me and beat the shit out of me. He took me home to my dad and told him what I'd done, then I got belted off my dad.
Now that was not bloody beltin'! It bloody hurt. I never did it again though.
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Dec 14, 2006 15:49:30 GMT
That'd put me off gerrin conkers too!
;D
N.
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Post by Stan Butler on Dec 14, 2006 19:04:50 GMT
I got caught once pinching conkers out of someone's garden near us. The chap that lived there caught me and beat the shit out of me. He took me home to my dad and told him what I'd done, then I got belted off my dad. Now that was not bloody beltin'! It bloody hurt. I never did it again though. Can't understand why you use that catchphrase. It must bring back painful memories...?
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