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[PurpleTree]

100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About

 

Hubby just emailed me this link to an article http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/100-things-your-kids-may-never-know-about/

 

How many of these things do you all remember?

 

I like the one about Spam being a meat product or even a Monty Python sketch.

[Egluntyne]

There were at least 95 things there that mean nothing to me, never mind my children!

[clootie]

There were at least 95 things there that mean nothing to me, never mind my children!

 

 

and me .....

[Sam Palmer]

I knew lots of these, though the more computery things were a bit beyond me.

(It's the sort of thing my OH talks about though).

[jlo]

I know what you mean. The very geeky stuff went over my head!

 

I do feel nostalgia for some of them though. For some reason the Lego reference made me miss the houses that I used to build with the boring brick shaped bricks! (Yes - I know how sad that is!!)

[PurpleTree]

yeah a few bits didn't mean much to me, but I can remember the noise of a modem dialling up and having to wait forever for a game to load on our old Spectrum computer.

[Scramble]

I actually knew most of them

Probably because my dad complains about them so much, or reminises and seeps the whole house with nostalgia and puts and LP on

[Olly]

Ok, how about this. When I started work, we didn't have a photocopier in the office I worked in. Copies had to be made by cutting a stencil and then running it through this machine (Gestetner? I might be wrong) which produced purple copies, they got paler and paler as the copying went on.

 

We also had a manual switchboard, where you had to physically plug the lines in. I never got the hang of it! I was always cutting people off

[Scramble]

"Ah, yes, hello. I'd like to speak to -" BEEEEEEEEP

 

[WarrensWorld]

Nope went right over my head. I thought it would be about Radio Luxembourg, and the Ovalteenies, Spangles, Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorders. Listening to Around the Horne, and the Navy Lark on Sunday lunch times. Bootsie & Snudge. Rag Tag & Bobtail, Muffin the Mule, Charlie Drake, The Bucaneers, and Andy Pandy on the Television, I can also remember the Potters Wheel and the Windmill (Interludes). When Biscuits came in big tins, and the Baker would slice your loaf in the big red machine, and buy a Pennyworth of broken biscuits. When sweets came off ration, going with my mum to pick up my Malt and Orange juice. Nursery School when you had to have a lie down/sleep after lunch.

 

I'm afraid whoever it was who thought up 100 things, was still wet behind the ears.......

[Chickvic]

I remember the Spectrum games taking forever to load and making a right row when doing so

[chocchick]

I knew quite a few. There is a link where they gave a teenager a tape walkman to test out:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8117619.stm

It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape... When I saw it for the first time, its colour also struck me. Nowadays gadgets come in a rainbow of colours but this was only one shade - a bland grey.

[Sam Palmer]

We came across a Walkman at a church summer fair last weekend and had 'what IS that?' from 11yr old son. Had to explain it all to him and that basically it was the old fashioned version of his ipod. I don't think he was impressed!

Had a good reminisce about them with the lady that was selling it. I was glued to mine all through university and had little speakers that plugged into it, so I could listen to tapes in my room.

[Space Chick]

I can remember having to save for MONTHS AND MONTHS to buy a "cheap" walkman, I thought I was to bees knees when I got it.

 

Great Thread Purple Tree brought back lots of memories

[Valkyrie]

Lego was much more than square blocks - I had round turret bits all sorts of roofing shapes and a garage with a red lego lorry tanker that went in it - and I was at least 3 at the time - so it was much better than that.

 

Starbuck - ooh yes him for the other thread!

 

I do remember our bank computers used to leak oil all over our feet.

 

I prefer using maps - still do and I've never been lost. I even have a homing instinct. DD can read a map - DS is hopeless.

 

I still like my old 35mm camera best - it had instant shutter speed and took the picture I wanted - there was no time delay unless I pressed that button. Unfortunately it went for a drink in a rockpool when I was trying to help DD who had fallen in fully clothed.

And I still have a Super 8 cine camera - hardly seen the films because I never had a projector to go with it. I remember I wanted a Kodak Instamatic camera but ended up with the cine.

 

Never had Betamax and our TV only had BBC and ITV - no BBC2. It had a dial at the side that you turned. We only had videos when mum worked at a TV rental place.

 

And I still write cheques (not checks tut typical) for birthday moneys.

Other stuff I haven't a clue.

[Helly Welly]

OH managed to get the equivalent of Betamax, in that he went for HD DVD and everythings gone blu-ray

 

I definately remember dial tv and being the family remote control. And the TV listings at Christmas were a real treat, as you'd never seen any of the films before.

 

I skipped through the computer stuff, went straight over my head

 

DD was amazed at some of the things in the list, made me feel positively ancient.

[Lesley]

Nope went right over my head. I thought it would be about Radio Luxembourg, and the Ovalteenies, Spangles, Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorders. Listening to Around the Horne, and the Navy Lark on Sunday lunch times. Bootsie & Snudge. Rag Tag & Bobtail, Muffin the Mule, Charlie Drake, The Bucaneers, and Andy Pandy on the Television, I can also remember the Potters Wheel and the Windmill (Interludes). When Biscuits came in big tins, and the Baker would slice your loaf in the big red machine, and buy a Pennyworth of broken biscuits. When sweets came off ration, going with my mum to pick up my Malt and Orange juice. Nursery School when you had to have a lie down/sleep after lunch.

 

I'm afraid whoever it was who thought up 100 things, was still wet behind the ears.......

 

I have to agree....

[Valkyrie]

Er, I have Charlie Drake's record "My Boomerang Won't Come Back" on a 45rpm.

[Lesley]

- well, I suppose someone has to!

[Griffin]

I had a lovely pink walkman. I had to explain it to my kids the other day too!

[Old Speckled Hen]

I got most of these too

Does anybody remember the old A and B button phone boxes?

In 1975 I had a boyfiriend who had his own flat with a push-button phone that warbled instead of ringing. I thought that was really cool

He had a TR7 which was even cooler