the nostalgia thread, i remember when...

almax · Post by **almax** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:28 pm

remember when we were kids, In grade 2, a teacher came in and gave us all a lecture about not smoking, and then they sent us over to arts and crafts to make ash trays for Mothers Day.
lol

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:36 pm

I remember when I first started reading this thread.. good times

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:04 pm

I remember that time Stray started reading this thread.

sigh

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:16 pm

i used to smash all the boys at marbles and they'd go crying to their mums about losing their prized cat's eye stonker -who'd go whingeing to mine and i'd have to give em back- after winning fair and square

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:30 pm

I remember fingering girls behind the music block

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:32 pm

CAT'S EYE STONKER!

I remember using the term "Bulk Ace"

DAN!

did you really?

nice one.

Winning free sunny boys

Paying $0.20 for a slurpee.

almax · Post by **almax** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:39 pm

lol deviant, im starting to see the significance of your alias

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:40 pm

the day the wheelie bin was delivered- we lived on a downhill cul-de-sac and fashioned a wheelie bin typa go kart race. bashed em up pretty good. sliding down bitumen inside an on its side wheelie bin

mums were not impressed when they got home but they had to acknowledge our resourcefulness

almax · Post by **almax** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:40 pm

gnat wrote:i used to smash all the boys at marbles and they'd go crying to their mums about losing their prized cat's eye stonker -who'd go whingeing to mine and i'd have to give em back- after winning fair and square

"its a catseye"

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:41 pm

- when you could make yourself sick on 50c worth of lollies
- fags were not fads and had the red tip, same with big boss...and they were called cigars
- basketball/football cards, marbles, elastics, slap bands etc went in and out of fashion each year

almax · Post by **almax** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:43 pm

i remember when stay at home mums in my area would put boxes of OMO laundry detergent in the window to signal "OLD MAN OUT" for any single men walking by to come pay them a visit.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:45 pm

lol gnat & al

i remember when right and wrong were pretty obvious.
i remember when we liked getting high off then 50c lollies and hongs all day long
i remember when I argued against things i now try to understand
i remember when I ran away with a suitcase full of tea towels and my imaginary friend 'pond'

FoundationStepper · Post by **FoundationStepper** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:47 pm

i bought my first album - well an mc hammer casette from a garage sale really

i saw pauline hanson being interviewed by paul homes (nz telly) and thought it was a parody of australians

milk deliverys with foil caps and cream on top
knicking the milk money from someone up the road and getting busted
and introdction of the little plastic discs cos little shits knicked the milk money

almax · Post by **almax** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:53 pm

FoundationStepper wrote: knicking the milk money from someone up the road and getting busted

oh that just reminded me...
I remember following the Loys soft drink delivery truck around and when the guy would go deliver the crate to the door, nick some from the back of the truck

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:54 pm

lol al are you serious?

house parties in our street when our folks would get pissy and silly on green ginger wine and we'd spy on em from behind the barbie, mortified. we'd go toad hunting and climb electricity towers. and the kid up the road bogged in the pool and his dad said it was a chokito lol good times

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:56 pm

I remember

-staring at the ads for sea monkeys for hours on end
-trying to teach wood lice to skip rope using a rubber band
-Playing Donkey Kong at the deli after school
-White Knights ('the big minty chew')... did they shrink that shit as I grew up??
-Rescuing baby birds after storms
-The time my mum tried to resuscitate a rosella I rescued from the neighbor's swimming pool by putting it in the microwave on 'defrost' FA1L.

Post by **lynt** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:58 pm

I remember throwing a meat pie into the fan during maths class when the teacher went outside.

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:00 pm

^ Chokito

hahahahahaha

Did your mum really microwave a Rosella CIA?

That's funny as.

Boogy boarding trips down to Point (Lake) Leo

Big fat skateboard with plastic rails and tail protectors.

who could forget Hotfoots!!

oh - and rasberry drops from Sovereign Hill - gold.

did anyone else get there head flushed down the toilet?

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:17 pm

C.I.A. wrote: -The time my mum tried to resuscitate a rosella I rescued from the neighbor's swimming pool by putting it in the microwave on 'defrost' FA1L.

I remember when our chickens made babies and we read in some hippy book to use tea tree oil to get rid of mites and lice, and me and my mom put one drop on his head and then had to watch as his brain cooked from the outside in.
the hippy book forgot to say 'one drop in a BUCKET of water", and we cried and felt like hitler.

Parenting Animal Care Fail.

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:24 pm

almax wrote:i remember when stay at home mums in my area would put boxes of OMO laundry detergent in the window to signal "OLD MAN OUT" for any single men walking by to come pay them a visit.

For real?

I remember when I used to have a memory.... hang on.... ummm.... no I don't....

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:35 pm

almax wrote:
FoundationStepper wrote: knicking the milk money from someone up the road and getting busted
oh that just reminded me...
I remember following the Loys soft drink delivery truck around and when the guy would go deliver the crate to the door, nick some from the back of the truck

The poor Gold Medal delivery dude used to live about a block away. We'd go to his house about 1am fri/sat nights and jump his front fence and pass crates of the shit out to the person on the outside and all come home with a crate of GM's. Then one day he cottoned on....Went round there standard grabbed all the crates we could carry (1 crate each) and finally made it just a street away and put all the crates down for a rest and drink stop...that delivery guy was a smart man...anyone remember a GM flavour called "chinoto"? :SPEW: well the prick had left his truck full of them for us to steal! man prob knew we wouldnt drink it either it was truly horrible so we ended up piffing full bottles onto the street and watch em explode.

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:06 pm

When we were kids we thought that cinnoto flavour was made from turd juice... we couldn't work out why you'd bother. All these awesome flavours, red, and green and orange, and then the poo-brown anus-flavour.

Yeah, I was feeding the neighbour's dog while they were on hols and I found the rosella. I took it home and wrapped it up and it was recovering when my mum came over to see it. I thought mum knew best (I learned pretty quickly that mine is wrong most of the time... but that's another story), so when she said she was just going to put it in to warm it up and I was hesitant, she reassured me that she would only put it on 'defrost'.

It came out milky-eyed, cooked and stiff as a board.

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:08 pm

Brutality.

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:15 pm

C.I.A. wrote:Yeah, I was feeding the neighbour's dog while they were on hols and I found the rosella. I took it home and wrapped it up and it was recovering when my mum came over to see it. I thought mum knew best (I learned pretty quickly that mine is wrong most of the time... but that's another story), so when she said she was just going to put it in to warm it up and I was hesitant, she reassured me that she would only put it on 'defrost'.

It came out milky-eyed, cooked and stiff as a board.

Do you mean your Mum microwaved a sick bird?

almax · Post by **almax** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:17 pm

oh lol! thats sad...but hillariously sad

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:25 pm

when i had a crush on Katrina Rowntree when she used to host wonder world i think it was

same o · Post by **same o** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:35 pm

Fents wrote:when i had a crush on Katrina Rowntree when she used to host wonder world i think it was

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:38 pm

lol, we used to steal gold medal and alpine soft drinks from peoples houses too. they used to leave em on the front door step. DIR. I mean, really it was the latrobe valley in the 80's and 90's, if you leave something on your door step its fair game.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:47 pm

mrj wrote:lol, we used to steal gold medal and alpine soft drinks from peoples houses too. they used to leave em on the front door step. DIR. I mean, really it was the latrobe valley in the 80's and 90's, if you leave something on your door step its fair game.

That's if you hadn't already stolen their door and the step

Post by **breaksRbest** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:49 pm

Footy players could punch on and have a beer without teh whole country losing their shit

Fantasising about the baby sitter

Getting to 1st, 2nd & 3rd base was a Sport and it wasn't called Baseball

Underage 'disco' at Mooroolbark Roller Rink (see above)

The Bones Brigade

Water Fights

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:55 pm

I remember getting fingered by Dan behind the music block

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:59 pm

Vision Street Wear

almax · Post by **almax** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:15 pm

Feigan wrote:Vision Street Wear

Nachi bearings, NSK bearings
H-street grip tape was fine grade, wheras there was another rougher grade tape but the name escapes me. (maybe wooshka or something similar)
Cockroach pants and wheels, i was gutted when after only a couple of rides the cockraoches printed onto the wheels had already worn off

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:17 pm

Getting home after school to eat vegemite on bread and watch The Wonder Years... Winnie Cooper was the biz! (much more so than these days IMO)...

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:34 pm

spit balls in maths class
curly plastic key ring extentions getting banned
yo yos
wanting to be black after michael jackson dropped BAD
my danny way skateboard
powell peralta
carter unstoppable sex machine
fingering a girl at a Carter USM gig and finding my best mates hand in her pants first LOL

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:34 pm

anyone remember that honey spread stuff that was like butter?

cheese and tomato sandwiches after school.

Captain Planet.

Roger Ramjet

Astro Boy

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:38 pm

almax wrote:
FoundationStepper wrote: knicking the milk money from someone up the road and getting busted
oh that just reminded me...
I remember following the Loys soft drink delivery truck around and when the guy would go deliver the crate to the door, nick some from the back of the truck

did that one, but it was a whole crate. actually, it was a friend of a friend who did, yes thats it.

i remember living on a street that had a swamp at the end of it and catching mud crabs. Also those slater things and building houses out of ice cream containers. also the big tunnels that were at the end of the street and finding frogs and rats and all sorts of stuff down there. > which reminds me of being let out of the house to explore the world without adult supervision.

i also remember having a bikey gang (i was 6 at the time, thought we were hell cool), and i was the only girl.

i remember one of my mum's boyfriends kids putting me on a skate board and pushing me down a hill and then he had to come get me cos i rolled too far, and passed the other brother who was suppose to catch me.

i remember the 1c and 2c lollies. And 1c and 2c coins!

man i could go on...

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:52 pm

Making Boomerangs out of ice cream sticks

a1studmuffin · Post by **a1studmuffin** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:53 pm

deviant wrote:I remember fingering girls behind the music block

*Nostalgia* Dan, not what you did last week.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:59 pm

A1

Feigan wrote: Roger Ramjet
Astro Boy

yes! and
inspector gadget
the smurfs
thundercats
he man and she ra

a1studmuffin · Post by **a1studmuffin** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:10 pm

I remember how far $1 of mixed lollies actually got you - oh, the patience of the milk bar ladies as you ogled the variety of lollies, pointing out very clearly which ones you wanted, and in what (miniscule) quantity. Also, sunny boys, BMXes, talking about that new show "The Simpsons" that was on over the weekend, getting one of the crap toy skateboards for my birthday that came in a colourful box instead of one of the proper cool ones, clear cola, the smell of my school bag (vegemite sandwiches and rotten banana, with a hint of mud), the stock Aussie public school metal drinking taps that you could wet + rub the tops of to make them resonate loudly until the teachers told you to stop it), The Arvo Show/Agro/Marty the monster, spending an awful lot of time under houses/behind sheds/in the garden poking around, playing with matches (hot box!!!), supersoakers, the crap chewing gum that used to come with collector cards like AFL/Garbage Pale kids, slap bands which got banned for slicing too many wrists, yoyos, marbles, oh and skivvies.

almax · Post by **almax** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:11 pm

Direktor wrote:Getting home after school to eat vegemite on bread and watch The Wonder Years... Winnie Cooper was the biz! (much more so than these days IMO)...

paedophile

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:09 pm

ghetto kitty wrote: A1

Feigan wrote: Roger Ramjet
Astro Boy
yes! and
inspector gadget
the smurfs
thundercats
he man and she ra

ThunderCats!

Voltron, Captain Planet and that aussie show called Spell Binders - with the characters Ashka & Paul and they had those stones on their wrists that they used to rub together to shoot lightning bolts!!

Skippy

Secret Valley (Spider McGlurk)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCbwUtbDTU4

I just watched the clip hahahahahaha - Flower Bomb launcher on the back of the motor bike is cool as

buying Fire crackers from the little chinese store at Croydon Market. Tigers, Tom Thumbs, Rockets.

Making skate ramps at home and skating at every opportunity - schools and shopping centres, flat lands and donut lounge in the city, Lilydale bowl, croydon half pipe - Good times

FoundationStepper · Post by **FoundationStepper** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:14 pm

Billy T James

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:15 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VizWYmdzAmM

ALF!

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:18 pm

FoundationStepper wrote:Billy T James

he's funny as

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rRyiidjU1o

Baby Ruth · Post by **Baby Ruth** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:21 pm

Ooooh spell binders!
That was fantastic!

I remember getting a $1 coin from the tooth fairy, it was the first one in our house and my brothers and sister were soooo jealous!

I also remember the first time i saw a $100 note.

hmmm i am sensing a theme here.

Post by **fooishbar** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:06 pm

Feigan wrote:anyone remember that honey spread stuff that was like butter?

creamed honey? unstoppable.

confession o'clock: i used to rock a long-sleeved kross kolours t-shirt. yeah.

FoundationStepper · Post by **FoundationStepper** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:15 pm

spokie dokes

wilks · Post by **wilks** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:24 pm

when there was only one genre of electronica dance music... Techno!

Pump up the Jam yo!