Yup.....

[rob_liss_lms10]

wholy craploa batman,the Gobbledoc just ran through my front yard.chippee chippee chippee

[fiery]

Originally Posted by rob_liss_lms10

wholy craploa batman,the Gobbledoc just ran through my front yard.chippee chippee chippee

Oh I used to loveeeeeeeeeee that ad.... always wanted to catch a Gobbledoc to keep as a pet : :

[Casper]

Originally Posted by PirtekGirl76

Nibble Nobbys nuts before nobby nibbles yours - I didn't know what that meant when I was a little kid but I knew it was funny!

No wonder he hanst come back since April!!!
http://www.fordforums.com.au/member.php?u=2289


I'm Louie the fly, Louie the fly.....

[Martyvan]

Originally Posted by rob_liss_lms10

wholy craploa batman,the Gobbledoc just ran through my front yard.chippee chippee chippee

This is mildly amusing... Who knows when the gobbledock may make a comeback.......................................... ..

Originally Posted by PirtekGirl76

Nibble Nobbys nuts before nobby nibbles yours - I didn't know what that meant when I was a little kid but I knew it was funny!

That quote has been around since before i knew what "Nobbys" were!!

[ten[A]cio[U]s]

:ticking: My head hurts.. I read this thread thinking i would learn something but i have no idea what everyone is talking about..

I spose.. i am only 18 :MrT_anim:

[fairmont1998]

Don't just save it for the lettuce!

[Penelope Pitstop]

On the Bruce Highway to the Sunshine Coast there’s wildlife roaming free
Drive round in your car, you can photograph the deer
There’s a kiosk in the hunting lodge, take home a souvenir

Forest Glen Deer Sanctuary

This is an old advert for us old Qlders - my question is this - Why was there a bloody hunting lodge in a deer sanctuary - this has perplexed me for 25 years...

[Penelope Pitstop]

OMG

How could we forget this one

"Wheres the Cheese?"

[svo347]

You lot are being affected by the pot burning in the surrounding bush fires aint you ya hippies..!!

[svo347]

what no potato

[WILDTRAKPX2]

Don't forget the pyramid shaped frozen ices "Sunny Boy" and "Zap" !!

[Peuty]

Have-A-Heart....

Hit me slowly, hit me quick, hit me with a Samboy Chip!

[svo347]

Originally Posted by Shockwave XR8

Don't forget the pyramid shaped frozen ices "Sunny Boy" and "Zap" !!

Think the originals were called Freeza's ..

[Penelope Pitstop]

Sunny Boys rocked - still do!

What about the ones in the shape of a Kangaroo that were so hard to actually get the ice block out of but they looked cool - used to beg Mum for one of those every shopping trip but she hated them cause they made us really sticky.

[Casper]

ok, now, of all the really weird ad's how about this one?

From the era of new romantics and duffle coats:

http://www.splatt.com.au/blog/video/1986_Big_M_Ad.wmv

[Doctor Gonzo]

Where's the beef?

[Falcon Coupe]

Originally Posted by Casper

ok, now, of all the really weird ad's how about this one?

From the era of new romantics and duffle coats:

http://www.splatt.com.au/blog/video/1986_Big_M_Ad.wmv

Got any of the 70's Big M adds with the girls on the beach, or the old four and twenty add with the panelvan rocking up late to the milkbar to the tune of Hotstuff.

[KEV EB XR8]

Marine boy could swim under water after chewing gum,what is this thread really about casper, are you sampling the neighbours door panels made from hash "lol"

[Casper]

Originally Posted by Falcon Coupe

Got any of the 70's Big M adds with the girls on the beach, or the old four and twenty add with the panelvan rocking up late to the milkbar to the tune of Hotstuff.

lol, the Big M girls.. every boys fantasy.

For thouse of you who were born 25 years ago or less this thread probably makes stuff all sence to you. For us oldies though it is perfect plain english.

Its about growing up in the late 70's/early eighties. A totally different era to now.

I saw this many years ago and have kept a copy ever since and have read it and laughed every few years... For us oldies most of this hits home very clearly.. may as well have been written based on my life because about 95% is my childhood!

Childhood....... Close your eyes... And go back in time...
Before the Internet and DVD.
Before semi-automatics machine guns, joy-riders and crack cocaine...
Before Playstation, Super Nintendo or email...
Way way back...

I'm talking about hide and seek in the park.
The corner milk bar, hopscotch, billy carts,
cricket in front of the garbage bin,
skipping, handstands, footy on the best lawn in the street,
British bulldog 1-2-3,
go home stay home, slip'n'slide, the trampoline with water on it,
hula hoops, pogo sticks, stepping in enormous puddles,
mud pies and building dams in the gutter.

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.
When 20 cents worth of mixed lollies was a meal and
smoking fags was really cool.

Wait......
Watching Saturday morning cartoons...
Short commercials, The Thunderbirds (if you got up reeeeeally early), the
Smurfs , AstroBoy, He-Man, Captain Caveman, Archie,
Jem (truly outrageous!!) and heeeey heeeeey
heeeeeeey it's faaaaaaat albert.

Or staying up late and sneaking a look at the "AO" on the second telly.
When around the corner seemed far away, and going into
town seemed like going somewhere.

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 with chalk.

Climbing trees and building cubbies out of every sheet you
mum had in the cupboard.
Walking to school, no matter what the weather. Running till
you were out of breath.
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt. Jumping on the bed.
Pillow fights. Spinning around, getting dizzy and
falling down was cause for the giggles.
Being tired from playing...

Remember that??????

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 or red sunny boy.
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."

You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents!
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve. 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 at home
when the kids got there 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 parents.

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!!!

Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!

Remember when....

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo" or scissors, paper,
rock. "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly".
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. Having a
weapon in school, meant being caught with a slingshot.
Nobody was prettier than your Mum.

Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable vitamin c's.
Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
Going to the beach and catching a wave was a dream come true.
Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dare".
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest
protectors.

If you can remember most of these, then you have LIVED!!!!

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up" life..

I DOUBLE-DARE YA!!!

[KEV EB XR8]

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the

1930's 40's, 50's, 60's & 70's !!










First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they
carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our cots were covered with bright coloured
lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our pushbikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars
with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a ute on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose
and NOT from a bottle!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE
actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drink with sugar in it, but
we weren't overweight because
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back
when the streetlights came on..

No one was able to reach us all day.
And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down
the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the
bushes a few times,
we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no
99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given slingshots for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang
the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Under 12 footy had tryouts and not everyone
made the team. Those who didn't
had to learn to deal with disappointment.
Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke

the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers
and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an
explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!


And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as

kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it

Know where your coming from

[cArSiK]

Originally Posted by Casper

ok, now, of all the really weird ad's how about this one?

From the era of new romantics and duffle coats:

http://www.splatt.com.au/blog/video/1986_Big_M_Ad.wmv

What a waste of 3.48mb of my data alowance.

[flappist]

Anyhow *

[Casper]

Originally Posted by cArSiK

What a waste of 3.48mb of my data alowance.

Consider it a history lesson..

For some of us its just a trippy look back in time to something that was part of our everyday lives.

You have to remember that, at that time, Big M and Moove were the only real chocolate milk choices and they played hard. None of that yuppy frappe new choc crap back then, it was either Big M, Moove or chocolate topping and fridge milk and mix to taste (think 50/50 mix)

[Casper]

Originally Posted by flappist

Anyhow *

nevermind Flappist.. I think you are actually TOO old to get it! py:

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by Casper

nevermind Flappist.. I think you are actually TOO old to get it! py:

Pretty sure he is quoting Winfield!

[svo347]

you guys seem to be forgetting the chiko roll chick that was sitting on a harley wearing an indian outfit ... Man i loved that pic...

THere was no Quik? before it became Nesquik?

[Casper]

Originally Posted by Peuty

Pretty sure he is quoting Winfield!

Ah, my mistake.. sorry flappist..

But yes, he is TOO old, cig ads on TV were pretty much dead and buried md 80's I think? I can only remember 1 with a horse riding on a beach. Alpine menthols I think.

[Casper]

Originally Posted by BlackLS

THere was no Quik? before it became Nesquik?

Quik's the trick!

Or the time Bing Lee was a scary martial arts master and did a flying karate kick through a wall? I always thought the stuff he sold was stolen...