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nail your "they were cool when you were a kid" to the mast

1. brian jacks (on superstars)
2. tucker from grange hill
3. ponch from chips
4. the GB team (usually east kilbride) in the uefa it's a knockout comp.
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  • Farah Trousers

    Bryan Robson perm -
  • The cardy from Starsky and Hutch......


    Just seems so wrong nowadays!
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    Tank tops and kipper ties.

    Oh and those shoes that you could fit ten toes in as the front of them were so big.

    Watneys Party 7

    My first mobile 'phone - it was like carrying a car battery around.

    Sinclair Spectrum Computer

    Pogo Sticks and those clacker balls

    Action Man

    Angel Delight

    Ford Capri
  • Two Tone Tonic Trousers
  • Anything with the word "turbo" on it.
  • Jossy and his giants
    Mr Benn
  • Pepe jeans with those key rings

    Scooby Do's

    Binatone games console (the one with the tennis game!)

    Touchtone phones - space age stuff!

    Space dust
  • Whippet (the cylindar rubix cube take off)
  • Don Johnson in Miami vice and espredrilles (sp?)
  • -Those Hypercolour t-shirts that changed colour when you sweated or they got hot
    -Being chosen to go into the kitchens at McDonalds for parties
    -GOLA rucksacks that had wheels on the bottom
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  • Derek Griffiths. For childrens telly he was one bad assed mutha - with a porno tash!
  • Tower block housing
    Freddie Laker holiday.
  • Power Rangers and Spice Girls immediately spring to mind
  • daley thompson...legend
  • Sinbad trousers!!! Jesus wht were we thinking?
  • edited November 2007
    [cite]Posted By: Off_it[/cite]Pepe jeans with those key rings


    f****** BRILLIANT - They were the days
  • clogs
    wallabies
  • Dunlop Greenflash, but then it's still all I wear coz they will always be cool!!
  • we are the champions.

    Pepe keyrings I made a fortune.My old man had a jean shop and I used to flog the keyrings at school.Happy Days
  • -Sharky and George
    -NAFNAF Tops
    -Brightly Coloured Adidas Popper Trousers
    -LA Lights Trainers
    -Sega Mega Drive
    -Nintendo Game Boy (The old chunky grey one)
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  • - Chopper Bikes
    - Johnny 7 Guns
    - The Monkees
    - Batman and Robin on TV
    - Pocket Transistor Radios - With Just the one earphone
    - Radio 1
    - Tony Blackburn
    - Rodney Harrington Jackets
    - Mods and Rockers
    - Anyone but Charlton Athletic - Let's face it we've never been cool unless your addickted
  • when i said "they" in the thred title, i meant people, but still bringing back some 'oh yeah' moments.

    some (more) i have thought of;
    being the muddiest after your school football match
    peg guns
    the northern irish 'why don't you' gang trying to introduce a short fillum.
    playing run-outs, 40-40, kerbsie or british bulldog between sunday dinner and tea-time.
    CB radios with channels 14 and 30 only.
    paninni sticker albums
    them cheap footballs with every teams name on them apart from charltons
  • Space hopper
    Brutus flared jeans 25inch
    Clackers
    FU jeans
    Kickers shoes
    Lawrence trainers
    Esso world cup coins collection 1970
    Vesta curries
  • TJ Hooker
    Grifters
    Wham bars
    Transformers
  • K-Tel and Ronco - Great 70's gadgets.
    The Woolworth's Christmas Ad's - spot the stars.
  • Star Wars figures
    The Professionals
    Dog leads with no dog on the end
    Simon says game
    Shakin Stevens
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    Commodore 64 computer
    Pez dispensers
    Waddingtons board games (Mine A Million, Buccaneer, Totopoly, Formula 1, Risk etc.)
    Subbuteo
    Marc Bolan & T Rex
  • the FONZ , there was/is no one cooler
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    Hallmark "Top of the Pops" LPs from Woolworths
    Clarkes Commando shoes

    As for TV & film:

    Wonder Woman
    Luke Skywalker
    the legendary Morcambe & Wise
    Brucie on the Gen' Game
    The Kids from 47a
    Tomorrow People
    Starsky & Hutch
    Grange Hill (first series)
    Soldier and Me (on Sunday tea time)
    Dr. Who - Jon Pertwee, then Tom Baker
    The Singing Ringing tree
    The Muppet Show
    Magic Roundabout
    The Clangers (and all other Oliver Postgate stuff)
    The Herbs
    Mary, Mungo and Midge
  • Rod Jane and Freddy
    Lizzi the exercise woman on tvam
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