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seandcWilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was on telly earlier - I heard the sweet store owner say "scrumdiddlyumptious" and just lost it :lol:
I wonder if the part with Tim Brooke Taylor and the computer was a kind-of pre-cursor to The Goodies - now imagining if it had been Graeme with the computer instead...
I got this on the email, thought I'd post it here since I actually remember a lot of this stuff (amazing but true!) And so, a trip down memory lane, and recall a bit about:
GROWING UP IN AUSTRALIA
I'm talking about hide and seek in the park. The corner milk bar, hopscotch, billy carts, cricket in front of the garbage bin and inviting everyone on your street to join in. (who needed billycarts when we had bikes and a large shopping centre's empty carpark one minute away?)
Skipping, handball, handstands, elastics, bullrush, kiss chasey, footy on the best lawn in the street. (handball was serious business for us)
Slip'n'slide, the trampoline with water on it, Hula hoops, stepping in puddles, mud pies and building dams n the gutter. (A-yup, even I had a slip'n'slide - it seemed so big back then)
The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
'Big bubbles no troubles' with Hubba Bubba bubble gum.
A choc-top. Mr Whippy cone on a warm summer night after you've chased him round the block. (right down to the chasing...)
20 cents worth of mixed lollies lasted a week and pretending to smoke "fags" (the lollies) was really cool!
A dollars' worth of chips from the corner take-away fed two people (AND the sauce was free!!)
Being upset when you botched putting on the temporary tattoo from the bubblegum packet, but still wearing it proudly.
Watching Saturday morning cartoons: 'The Smurfs', 'AstroBoy', 'He-Man', 'Captain Caveman', 'Archie', 'Jem', 'The Wizard of Oz', 'Banana Man'and 'Heeeey heeeeey heeeeeeey it's faaaaaaat Albert'. (Yes! Take note, tv stations - cartoons are what Saturday mornings were invented for! Not for video hits or finance shows...)
Or staying up late and sneaking a look at the "AO" movie on the second telly.
When 'Monkey Magic' with fish face & pigsy had a cult following.
Miraculous Mellops & who could ever forget Degrassi Jnr High? (Degrassi definately remember - Mellops was often on before I could get home. And why wasn't Pugwall/Pugwall's Summer mentioned?)
When around the corner seemed a long way, and going into town seemed like going somewhere. (*nods* even though where I lived at the time was really quite close to the city - the longest part of the trip is waiting for the right bus)
Where running away meant you did laps of the block because you weren't allowed to cross the road?? (And what part of "Australia" have we forgotten, oh writers? ;) Me, I was hopping over the highway on the other side of that shopping centre and back like nobody's business.)
A million mozzie bites, wasp and bee stings.
Sticky fingers, Cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, riding bikes and catching tadpoles.
Marco polo in the neighbours' pool ("fish outta water?!""NOOOO"), drawing all over the road and driveway with chalk. (We needed some kind of lines for handball :lol:)
Climbing trees and building cubbies out of every sheet your mum had in the cupboard. (My next-door neighbour and I had the perfect place for this too, these big bushes with big spaces underneath just on my side of the fence.)
Walking to school, no matter what the weather. (Didn't have much choice.)
When writing 'I love....?'on your pencil case, really did mean it was true love. "he loves me? he loves me not?" (Pfff... like any one of us would be stupid enough to sign up for that much mockery. Not even my true love of donuts was declared.)
Running till you were out of breath. ([Jake Morgendorffer]Lousy sports teachers![/JM] )
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.
Pitching the tent in the back/front yard.
Jumping on the bed.
Ghosts stories with the next door neighbours.
Pillowfights, spinning round, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for the giggles. (Yes - although some people kept saying this would just make me throw up, it never did.)
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
Cricket cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
Eating raw jelly, making homemade lemonade and sucking on a Funny Face, Zooper Dooper, Paddle Pop or red Icy Pole. (Not just raw jelly - jelly crystal sandwiches!)
Remember when there were only two types of sneakers - girls and boys.
Dunlop volleys with the green 'n' gold or blue and the only time you wore them at school was for "sports day."
Bloomers ('Sports Knicks' - For the Country Folk) in primary school & bike pants under netball skirts.
You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents!
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best friends" & you would ask them by sending a note asking them to be your best friend.
You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve and pretended to sleep for the tooth fairy.
When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.
When 50c was decent pocket money.
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for 10c.
When nearly everyone's mum was there when the kids got home from school.
It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at the local Chinese restaurant with your family. (Well, not so much a privilege, but still rather special. A big hello to the staff of Ten Ten Kitchen if that place is still around.)
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed her or use him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! Some of us are still afraid of them!!! (Yes, even when it's teachers who were faaaar more vindictive.)
Remember when decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo" or dib dib's- scissors, paper, rock. (Inkum-dinkum I've been thinkin'...)
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly.
Terrorism was when the older kids were at the end of your street with pea-shooters waiting to ambush you.
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was boy/girl germs, and the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.
Where bluelight disco's were the equivalent to a rave, and asking a boy out meant writing a 'polite' note getting them to tick 'yes' or 'no'.
When there was always that one 'HOT' guy/girl.
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
Your biggest danger at school was accidentally walking through the middle of a heated game of "brandy". (Actually, it was *falling down* during a game of brandy or red-rover-all-over - hooray bitumen quadrangles!)
Nobody was prettier than your Mum.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Taking drugs meant scoffing orange-flavoured chewable vitamin C's, or swallowing half a Panadol. (Well, it wasn't like I could scoff non-chewable vit-cs back then...)
Ice cream was considered a basic foodgroup. (It ever stopped?)
Going to the beach and catching a wave was a dream come true. If you actually lived there boogie boarding in the white wash made you the next Kelly Slater.
Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dare".
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
Now, didn't that bring back some fond memories??
If you can remember most of these, you're an Aussie legend!!!
Hooray, Aussie Legend status! :D
Oh, too funny. I was just looking at a Daria website mentioning her previous "life" as a character on Beavis and Butt-head - and wondering what Jake and Helen's would have been to Daria's hanging out with them. A scene that *so* should've been made! :lol:
I wonder if the part with Tim Brooke Taylor and the computer was a kind-of pre-cursor to The Goodies - now imagining if it had been Graeme with the computer instead...
I got this on the email, thought I'd post it here since I actually remember a lot of this stuff (amazing but true!) And so, a trip down memory lane, and recall a bit about:
GROWING UP IN AUSTRALIA
I'm talking about hide and seek in the park. The corner milk bar, hopscotch, billy carts, cricket in front of the garbage bin and inviting everyone on your street to join in. (who needed billycarts when we had bikes and a large shopping centre's empty carpark one minute away?)
Skipping, handball, handstands, elastics, bullrush, kiss chasey, footy on the best lawn in the street. (handball was serious business for us)
Slip'n'slide, the trampoline with water on it, Hula hoops, stepping in puddles, mud pies and building dams n the gutter. (A-yup, even I had a slip'n'slide - it seemed so big back then)
The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
'Big bubbles no troubles' with Hubba Bubba bubble gum.
A choc-top. Mr Whippy cone on a warm summer night after you've chased him round the block. (right down to the chasing...)
20 cents worth of mixed lollies lasted a week and pretending to smoke "fags" (the lollies) was really cool!
A dollars' worth of chips from the corner take-away fed two people (AND the sauce was free!!)
Being upset when you botched putting on the temporary tattoo from the bubblegum packet, but still wearing it proudly.
Watching Saturday morning cartoons: 'The Smurfs', 'AstroBoy', 'He-Man', 'Captain Caveman', 'Archie', 'Jem', 'The Wizard of Oz', 'Banana Man'and 'Heeeey heeeeey heeeeeeey it's faaaaaaat Albert'. (Yes! Take note, tv stations - cartoons are what Saturday mornings were invented for! Not for video hits or finance shows...)
Or staying up late and sneaking a look at the "AO" movie on the second telly.
When 'Monkey Magic' with fish face & pigsy had a cult following.
Miraculous Mellops & who could ever forget Degrassi Jnr High? (Degrassi definately remember - Mellops was often on before I could get home. And why wasn't Pugwall/Pugwall's Summer mentioned?)
When around the corner seemed a long way, and going into town seemed like going somewhere. (*nods* even though where I lived at the time was really quite close to the city - the longest part of the trip is waiting for the right bus)
Where running away meant you did laps of the block because you weren't allowed to cross the road?? (And what part of "Australia" have we forgotten, oh writers? ;) Me, I was hopping over the highway on the other side of that shopping centre and back like nobody's business.)
A million mozzie bites, wasp and bee stings.
Sticky fingers, Cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, riding bikes and catching tadpoles.
Marco polo in the neighbours' pool ("fish outta water?!""NOOOO"), drawing all over the road and driveway with chalk. (We needed some kind of lines for handball :lol:)
Climbing trees and building cubbies out of every sheet your mum had in the cupboard. (My next-door neighbour and I had the perfect place for this too, these big bushes with big spaces underneath just on my side of the fence.)
Walking to school, no matter what the weather. (Didn't have much choice.)
When writing 'I love....?'on your pencil case, really did mean it was true love. "he loves me? he loves me not?" (Pfff... like any one of us would be stupid enough to sign up for that much mockery. Not even my true love of donuts was declared.)
Running till you were out of breath. ([Jake Morgendorffer]Lousy sports teachers![/JM] )
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.
Pitching the tent in the back/front yard.
Jumping on the bed.
Ghosts stories with the next door neighbours.
Pillowfights, spinning round, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for the giggles. (Yes - although some people kept saying this would just make me throw up, it never did.)
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
Cricket cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
Eating raw jelly, making homemade lemonade and sucking on a Funny Face, Zooper Dooper, Paddle Pop or red Icy Pole. (Not just raw jelly - jelly crystal sandwiches!)
Remember when there were only two types of sneakers - girls and boys.
Dunlop volleys with the green 'n' gold or blue and the only time you wore them at school was for "sports day."
Bloomers ('Sports Knicks' - For the Country Folk) in primary school & bike pants under netball skirts.
You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents!
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best friends" & you would ask them by sending a note asking them to be your best friend.
You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve and pretended to sleep for the tooth fairy.
When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.
When 50c was decent pocket money.
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for 10c.
When nearly everyone's mum was there when the kids got home from school.
It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at the local Chinese restaurant with your family. (Well, not so much a privilege, but still rather special. A big hello to the staff of Ten Ten Kitchen if that place is still around.)
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed her or use him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! Some of us are still afraid of them!!! (Yes, even when it's teachers who were faaaar more vindictive.)
Remember when decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo" or dib dib's- scissors, paper, rock. (Inkum-dinkum I've been thinkin'...)
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly.
Terrorism was when the older kids were at the end of your street with pea-shooters waiting to ambush you.
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was boy/girl germs, and the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.
Where bluelight disco's were the equivalent to a rave, and asking a boy out meant writing a 'polite' note getting them to tick 'yes' or 'no'.
When there was always that one 'HOT' guy/girl.
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
Your biggest danger at school was accidentally walking through the middle of a heated game of "brandy". (Actually, it was *falling down* during a game of brandy or red-rover-all-over - hooray bitumen quadrangles!)
Nobody was prettier than your Mum.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Taking drugs meant scoffing orange-flavoured chewable vitamin C's, or swallowing half a Panadol. (Well, it wasn't like I could scoff non-chewable vit-cs back then...)
Ice cream was considered a basic foodgroup. (It ever stopped?)
Going to the beach and catching a wave was a dream come true. If you actually lived there boogie boarding in the white wash made you the next Kelly Slater.
Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dare".
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
Now, didn't that bring back some fond memories??
If you can remember most of these, you're an Aussie legend!!!
Hooray, Aussie Legend status! :D
Oh, too funny. I was just looking at a Daria website mentioning her previous "life" as a character on Beavis and Butt-head - and wondering what Jake and Helen's would have been to Daria's hanging out with them. A scene that *so* should've been made! :lol:
