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...the many things that you remember as a kid or teenager...

Mr Stickyfingers said:
...Cobbers... Cobbers and more Cobbers... I couldn't get enough of them lol!... also Jaffa's... Sherbies... Cobbers... Injun's... Snakes... Cola Bottles... Cobbers... Golden Roughs... Curly Wurly's... Cobbers... Wine Gums... Choo-Choo Bars and Minties from memory to name a few... almost all lollies except the one's mentioned above lol!... cheers.
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hmmm apart from Jaffas, Snakes, WineGums and Minties those are all foreign names to me

Did you ever have Snifters? they had a hard outer shell like Jaffa's only green with chocolate & peppermint nougat inside ... unfortunately they were discontinued in NZ about 6 years ago - much to my disgust!!!

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crimmy said:
never met a lolly I didn't like = quote of the day!! I'm so right there with you ... although i love licorice

Darrell Lea used to make the most wonderful HUGE licorice allsorts .... but now they've been revived their licorice allsorts are nothing like what they used to make ... :(

had a funny experience when the boys were younger on a train ... not sure where we were off to but train wasn't over crowded but still quite a few in the carriage ... the boys were moving between husband and I ... he was sitting a few seats ahead from me ... I had licorice and offered them some and said "don't take too much" as they grabbed some and ran off to be near dad .... all of a sudden anyone who WAS talking or making ANY noise at all went silent ... just in time for our youngest to pipe up "Noooooo cos if ya eat too much it makes ya do black pooosies" .... and since everyone else had so nicely timed their silence this boomed out for everyone to hear

Both the boys had already moved to be with Dad who then went bright red - it crept up from his neck to his forehead like a rising tide of red ... and is desperately trying to look like he doesn't know these kids (who of course weren't going to have any of that and claimed him!) ... whilst I'm laughing so much I had tears ...


even better was the time I'd just been bathing the boys and since eldest was just about off to school and all the books recommended telling children the proper anatomical names I figured we'd have THAT discussion ... I think it came from being told "Poor mummy ... she doesn't have a peeenie - she's only got a fluff!" (well hey! at least I can aim guys!!!) ... so I took on THE TALK ...

all seemed to have gone very well ... got them out of the bath, dried them off and into their summer pjs ... they hightailed it out of the house like rockets ... and ran up the front path to where dad was doing some weeding on front lawn and yelled out with glee "VAGINA! VAGINA!"
Husband's head whips up ... red tide aka mortal blush starts neck up ... horrified look of "WTF!?!" is aimed at me as I race up the path, grab them both and drag them back into the house hoping to god that none of our neighbours (mostly elderly) had heard it ... very very quiet neighbourhood .... sometimes you just wish you lived in a noisier one!!! :woot:

and that was the LAST time I listened to any advice from those bloody childrearing books!!! ;)
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Bwahahaha your post is hysterical :roflmao:
 
Mr Stickyfingers said:
...Cobbers... Cobbers and more Cobbers... I couldn't get enough of them lol!... also Jaffa's... Sherbies... Cobbers... Injun's... Snakes... Cola Bottles... Cobbers... Golden Roughs... Curly Wurly's... Cobbers... Wine Gums... Choo-Choo Bars and Minties from memory to name a few... almost all lollies except the one's mentioned above lol!... cheers.
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Cobbers were great! I loved spearmint leaves the most though. And the chocolate milk buds. And freckles. And redskins. And Wizz Fizz.. umm fruit tingles, Sunnyboys, milkos, ovalteenies! I loved ovalteenies till I had too many.
 
...I remember that when I was 15 and my mum and dad had to go out to a big function at my dad's work and they couldn't find a babysitter at the last minute... they decided to trust me and let me be the babysitter... bad mistake... when it had got dark my brother (3 years younger) and I were bored shitless so we decided to play a prank on our sister that was in bed fast asleep... (she was 5 at the time)... while she was sleeping we drew a moustache and beard and glasses on her with a permanent marker (unbeknown to us) and then suddenly woke her up and said... "Denise!... Denise!... we've all overslept!... we're all late for School... get up and get dressed quickly... the School bus is coming soon!"... (we already had our School uniforms of the special effect)... she was constantly crying as she was getting ready... she asked 'what about breakfast' and we told her that she didn't have time for it because the bus was about to pull up... she got dressed and rushed to the front door with us and when we opened the door and all she saw was darkness she cried the loudest!... we then showed her the beard... the moustache and the glasses that we drew on her and she cried even louder!... it was hilarious for my brother and I but we came undone big time... we tried to rub off the permanent marker that we used... it wouldn't wipe off no matter how hard we scrubbed it... no matter how much we tried... mum and dad came back home and of course we copped a massive flogging lol!... our sister still calls us a pair of bastards for doing that to her even to this day lol!...

...I remember when she was about 3 years old and she had her hair in in two plats on either side of her head... I dared my brother to cut some of her hair with a pair of scissors... (I meant about half an inch just to make them uneven)... my brother never backed down from a dare... even at a young age... he went and snipped the one of the plats off right at it's base... he put it into her hand all curled up and our sister went to mum and said... "look mummy!"... my mum couldn't work out what it was... (she thought that it was a dead rat or something)... when she realised what it was she screamed out something like... you little bastards!... come here!"... (she very rarely swore)... we quickly ran and hid under our beds which were really heavy oak beds and she couldn't pull them out to get to us so she got a broom handle and kept poking it under the bed at us until she could flush us out... (I always grabbed my little brother and held him as a shield and he always copped the brunt of the poking broom handles lol!... needless to say... when dad came home from work we copped a flogging lol!... and yes... we were little bastard brats lol!... how our sister survived us being her brothers I will never know lol!... cheers.
 
I remember once when we were little kids - I must have been about 8 and my sister 6 - my parents were having a barbecue and I was running around with my sister and we saw that the downstairs bathroom door was shut. We thought it was our brother so we threw opened the door and yelled "GOTCHA!", hoping to scare him and make him miss.... but it wasn't our brother... :jawdrop::facepalm:
 
GROOVER said:
Are you sure you don't just like Cobbers? Hahahaha:laugh:.

I remember Space Bars at school (they're actually revolting from memory).

Loved freckles, those ugly teeth lollies, peppermint leaves, cobbers (Mr S ;)) caramel buttons, musk sticks, those tiny little hard boiled lollies in the glass jar from Darrel Lea. Oh loads more but I would be here all day listing them.
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...hahaha!... I forgot to mention the musk sticks.... they were so yummy too... cheers.
 
Mr Stickyfingers said:
...I remember that when I was 15 and my mum and dad had to go out to a big function at my dad's work and they couldn't find a babysitter at the last minute... they decided to trust me and let me be the babysitter... bad mistake... when it had got dark my brother (3 years younger) and I were bored shitless so we decided to play a prank on our sister that was in bed fast asleep... (she was 5 at the time)... while she was sleeping we drew a moustache and beard and glasses on her with a permanent marker (unbeknown to us) and then suddenly woke her up and said... "Denise!... Denise!... we've all overslept!... we're all late for School... get up and get dressed quickly... the School bus is coming soon!"... (we already had our School uniforms of the special effect)... she was constantly crying as she was getting ready... she asked 'what about breakfast' and we told her that she didn't have time for it because the bus was about to pull up... she got dressed and rushed to the front door with us and when we opened the door and all she saw was darkness she cried the loudest!... we then showed her the beard... the moustache and the glasses that we drew on her and she cried even louder!... it was hilarious for my brother and I but we came undone big time... we tried to rub off the permanent marker that we used... it wouldn't wipe off no matter how hard we scrubbed it... no matter how much we tried... mum and dad came back home and of course we copped a massive flogging lol!... our sister still calls us a pair of bastards for doing that to her even to this day lol!...

...I remember when she was about 3 years old and she had her hair in in two plats on either side of her head... I dared my brother to cut some of her hair with a pair of scissors... (I meant about half an inch just to make them uneven)... my brother never backed down from a dare... even at a young age... he went and snipped the one of the plats off right at it's base... he put it into her hand all curled up and our sister went to mum and said... "look mummy!"... my mum couldn't work out what it was... (she thought that it was a dead rat or something)... when she realised what it was she screamed out something like... you little bastards!... come here!"... (she very rarely swore)... we quickly ran and hid under our beds which were really heavy oak beds and she couldn't pull them out to get to us so she got a broom handle and kept poking it under the bed at us until she could flush us out... (I always grabbed my little brother and held him as a shield and he always copped the brunt of the poking broom handles lol!... needless to say... when dad came home from work we copped a flogging lol!... and yes... we were little bastard brats lol!... how our sister survived us being her brothers I will never know lol!... cheers.
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you really were total ratbags! lol your poor sister!!!!

I once decided to give my fringe a trim whilst grandad was babysitting ... of course it wasn't even so I needed to even it up some more ... and some more ... and a little big more ... then knew I'd stuffed it and was more worried about what mum would say than my hair looking bad ... so voluntarily went to bed early ...

Grandad seemed to get the blame (sorry Grandad!!!) because he hadn't been paying attention ... (when kids are quiet you just KNOWWWWW something is going down that shouldn't be going down! lol)
 
I remember going to Melbourne when I was 8 and going on one of those horse drawn carriages. It smelt like shit.


I remember watching the secret world of alex mack and wondering why she never told her parents about the situation. Later in life i understood why.

I remember watching home and away before i was a teen and one of the characters there drank milk straight out of the carton. And i wondered if i too would have to drink milk straight out of the carton as i lived through my teenage years. But you know what? I never did.
 
crimmy said:
never met a lolly I didn't like = quote of the day!! I'm so right there with you ... although i love licorice

Darrell Lea used to make the most wonderful HUGE licorice allsorts .... but now they've been revived their licorice allsorts are nothing like what they used to make ... :(

had a funny experience when the boys were younger on a train ... not sure where we were off to but train wasn't over crowded but still quite a few in the carriage ... the boys were moving between husband and I ... he was sitting a few seats ahead from me ... I had licorice and offered them some and said "don't take too much" as they grabbed some and ran off to be near dad .... all of a sudden anyone who WAS talking or making ANY noise at all went silent ... just in time for our youngest to pipe up "Noooooo cos if ya eat too much it makes ya do black pooosies" .... and since everyone else had so nicely timed their silence this boomed out for everyone to hear

Both the boys had already moved to be with Dad who then went bright red - it crept up from his neck to his forehead like a rising tide of red ... and is desperately trying to look like he doesn't know these kids (who of course weren't going to have any of that and claimed him!) ... whilst I'm laughing so much I had tears ...


even better was the time I'd just been bathing the boys and since eldest was just about off to school and all the books recommended telling children the proper anatomical names I figured we'd have THAT discussion ... I think it came from being told "Poor mummy ... she doesn't have a peeenie - she's only got a fluff!" (well hey! at least I can aim guys!!!) ... so I took on THE TALK ...

all seemed to have gone very well ... got them out of the bath, dried them off and into their summer pjs ... they hightailed it out of the house like rockets ... and ran up the front path to where dad was doing some weeding on front lawn and yelled out with glee "VAGINA! VAGINA!"
Husband's head whips up ... red tide aka mortal blush starts neck up ... horrified look of "WTF!?!" is aimed at me as I race up the path, grab them both and drag them back into the house hoping to god that none of our neighbours (mostly elderly) had heard it ... very very quiet neighbourhood .... sometimes you just wish you lived in a noisier one!!! :woot:

and that was the LAST time I listened to any advice from those bloody childrearing books!!! ;)
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...both of those memories are so bloody hilarious crimmy!!!!... as they say... kids say the darnest things lol!... cheers.
 
crimmy said:
hmmm apart from Jaffas, Snakes, WineGums and Minties those are all foreign names to me

Did you ever have Snifters? they had a hard outer shell like Jaffa's only green with chocolate & peppermint nougat inside ... unfortunately they were discontinued in NZ about 6 years ago - much to my disgust!!!

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...no I've never heard of them crimmy but they sound yummy for sure... cheers.
 
Insomniac said:
Cobbers were great! I loved spearmint leaves the most though. And the chocolate milk buds. And freckles. And redskins. And Wizz Fizz.. umm fruit tingles, Sunnyboys, milkos, ovalteenies! I loved ovalteenies till I had too many.
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...Redskins/Whizz Fizz and Fruit Tingles were great!... I loved Sunny Boys/Razz and Glugs which were all variations on each other... I wonder if you can get them nowadays?... I always bashed them against a wall to crush them up quicker but you had to know when to stop so that you didn't split the thing open lol!... cheers.
 
Mr Stickyfingers said:
...I remember that when I was 15 and my mum and dad had to go out to a big function at my dad's work and they couldn't find a babysitter at the last minute... they decided to trust me and let me be the babysitter... bad mistake... when it had got dark my brother (3 years younger) and I were bored shitless so we decided to play a prank on our sister that was in bed fast asleep... (she was 5 at the time)... while she was sleeping we drew a moustache and beard and glasses on her with a permanent marker (unbeknown to us) and then suddenly woke her up and said... "Denise!... Denise!... we've all overslept!... we're all late for School... get up and get dressed quickly... the School bus is coming soon!"... (we already had our School uniforms of the special effect)... she was constantly crying as she was getting ready... she asked 'what about breakfast' and we told her that she didn't have time for it because the bus was about to pull up... she got dressed and rushed to the front door with us and when we opened the door and all she saw was darkness she cried the loudest!... we then showed her the beard... the moustache and the glasses that we drew on her and she cried even louder!... it was hilarious for my brother and I but we came undone big time... we tried to rub off the permanent marker that we used... it wouldn't wipe off no matter how hard we scrubbed it... no matter how much we tried... mum and dad came back home and of course we copped a massive flogging lol!... our sister still calls us a pair of bastards for doing that to her even to this day lol!...

...I remember when she was about 3 years old and she had her hair in in two plats on either side of her head... I dared my brother to cut some of her hair with a pair of scissors... (I meant about half an inch just to make them uneven)... my brother never backed down from a dare... even at a young age... he went and snipped the one of the plats off right at it's base... he put it into her hand all curled up and our sister went to mum and said... "look mummy!"... my mum couldn't work out what it was... (she thought that it was a dead rat or something)... when she realised what it was she screamed out something like... you little bastards!... come here!"... (she very rarely swore)... we quickly ran and hid under our beds which were really heavy oak beds and she couldn't pull them out to get to us so she got a broom handle and kept poking it under the bed at us until she could flush us out... (I always grabbed my little brother and held him as a shield and he always copped the brunt of the poking broom handles lol!... needless to say... when dad came home from work we copped a flogging lol!... and yes... we were little bastard brats lol!... how our sister survived us being her brothers I will never know lol!... cheers.
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Mr S, you were quite the rascal big brother weren't you (but adorably cheeky) pmsl.:roflmao:
 
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GROOVER said:
Ooh I just had a funny memory of my sister and I chopping off the hair of our dolls. I had a Chrissy doll and sis had a Velvet doll (does anyone remember these dolls?), barbie dolls, etc. They all ended up with crew cuts.
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Haha we did the same thing! Pity the hair never grew back :(
We also used coloured chalk to 'enhance' their makeup.
And stuck pins in their ears for earrings, except you'd miss and it'd get their face so it looked like acne scars. (they used to make them with softer heads than the hard plastic now from memory - not that I still look at them except to buy my 3 year old neice a b/day present lol).
I had one barbie with a horse and you pressed the button on her back and she would wink. I broke off the plastic eyelid/lash thing so she looked rather odd after that :(
 
Mr Stickyfingers said:
...Cobbers... Cobbers and more Cobbers... I couldn't get enough of them lol!... also Jaffa's... Sherbies... Cobbers... Injun's... Snakes... Cola Bottles... Cobbers... Golden Roughs... Curly Wurly's... Cobbers... Wine Gums... Choo-Choo Bars and Minties from memory to name a few... almost all lollies except the one's mentioned above lol!... cheers.
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Sorry I didn't quite get that, do you like cobbers?
 
Insomniac said:
Haha we did the same thing! Pity the hair never grew back :(
We also used coloured chalk to 'enhance' their makeup.
And stuck pins in their ears for earrings, except you'd miss and it'd get their face so it looked like acne scars. (they used to make them with softer heads than the hard plastic now from memory - not that I still look at them except to buy my 3 year old neice a b/day present lol).
I had one barbie with a horse and you pressed the button on her back and she would wink. I broke off the plastic eyelid/lash thing so she looked rather odd after that :(
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Omg I am lmao as sis and I did the same thing re enhance the makeup.

They had that drag queen look after our makeovers.
 
GROOVER said:
Mr S, you were quite the rascal big brother weren't you (but adorably cheeky) pmsl.:roflmao:
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...I remember lots of times that my mum said a certain phrase or two whenever we had pushed her beyond her limits... one was... "I'll be up for murder one day at the Old Bailey!... I'll be on the News for murdering my own kids I will!"... another was... "wait until your dad gets home... you'll be wearing the end of his belt you will... you won't be so clever then will you?"... lol!... god bless her... cheers.
 
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