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I'm Old Enough To Remember...

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3 minutes ago, David Guiza said:

Wasn't sure where else to post this, but two things have been bothering me over the past few months of having nonsense thoughts circulating and I hope somebody can verify the following happened:-

 

1. Does anybody else remember a giant bit of graffiti in the city centre of the mathematical sum 7 x 8 = 56. From memory it was on a building board/fence where the Highcross now is. It randomly sprung to mind when I saw one of those viral tweets about 'what is your favourite sum?'

2. Am I correct in thinking that there used to weird messages in tiny font within the Leicester City programmes. I'm fairly sure it was on the fixtures page at the end of the programme, and used to say mundane things like 'Hi, Sharon, how are you?'. Must have been around the 05-08 wasteland years. If I've imagined this then I really have got an overactive imagination. 


 And when did you usually spot this? In the ground Whilst watching the game or in the pub a few hours after the game? :whistle:

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7 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Image result for double diamond beer

 

Well not remember exactly, but my old man still talks about it  :rolleyes:

Then there was Beer at home means Davenports

 

 

 

 

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13 minutes ago, David Guiza said:

2. Am I correct in thinking that there used to weird messages in tiny font within the Leicester City programmes. I'm fairly sure it was on the fixtures page at the end of the programme, and used to say mundane things like 'Hi, Sharon, how are you?'. Must have been around the 05-08 wasteland years. If I've imagined this then I really have got an overactive imagination. 

YES! These took place for a few years. Think they stopped in 2009 or 2010? I remember spotting them originally and when I was delving into my stuff a few weeks ago and having a flick through old progs I actually made a special bee-line to these in the back to see some. You're not imagining it! lol

 

There was random stuff from memory. Little references, comments etc. Someone was having fun anyway.

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3 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

YES! These took place for a few years. Think they stopped in 2009 or 2010? I remember spotting them originally and when I was delving into my stuff a few weeks ago and having a flick through old progs I actually made a special bee-line to these in the back to see some. You're not imagining it! lol

 

There was random stuff from memory. Little references, comments etc. Someone was having fun anyway.

THANK YOU!

 

I had a vague recollection of there being a topic on here and I've found it - https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/60055-has-anyone-noticed/

 

Can't imagine that sort of thing happening in the Premier League lol

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49 minutes ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

I started drinking in 1979-80. My recollection is that some young men drank bitter, some lager (which was already popular to some extent by then - though not like now) and some cider.

I switched around between bitter, lager and cider for my first year of drinking, but then became a settled bitter drinker - so a "dad", apparently. :D

A fair few blokes drank mild, too, but that was mainly (though not entirely) dads and granddads. My early years were in Kent and Norwich, not Leicester, so might have been different here.

Don't get me wrong, I was exclusively a bitter drinker in those days, part of my contrarian nature. :D 

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46 minutes ago, Finnaldo said:


I do remember hearing about Skol being the breakthrough brand. Interesting now we’re seeing something similar with fruit ciders like Dark Fruits getting more popular with lads in my age range, but then at the same time you have the blokes in the same demographic more inclined to craft ales. Fits in with the fact culturally we’re a lot more fractured now whereas it was a lot more homogenous then I guess.

I wasn't craft beer in those day, just standard keg bitter. That was, a bit like the fruit ciders, more of a 90s thing.

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Parade ads and no, I an not talking about the soft porn mag.

These tended to be on a Sunday, usually before/during/after Star Soccer (remember that?)

They were  small ads of just a few seconds and would cover different areas of the Midlands.  They would say something like

'Lichfield. Visit Mr. Brown's hardware store for all your decorating needs..Mr. Brown's just off the High Street'

' Tamworth. Collins haberdashery,  all the latest materials and wools. New range of zips just in". Call in soon.

Solihull.  etc etc

 

 

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1 minute ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

Next thing you know, @davieG will be on here boasting about all the mead he remembers drinking when he first arrived in this country with the Vikings. ;)

Ha! I was never a big drinker 5 pints and I was a goner but I had a few mates who never seem to have a limit and sadly only Non-Alcoholic Beer for me these days

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Don Amot,King of Caravans,the price is right and the choice is your's!.....No idea why that has allways stayed with me.;)

35 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Parade ads and no, I an not talking about the soft porn mag.

These tended to be on a Sunday, usually before/during/after Star Soccer (remember that?)

They were  small ads of just a few seconds and would cover different areas of the Midlands.  They would say something like

'Lichfield. Visit Mr. Brown's hardware store for all your decorating needs..Mr. Brown's just off the High Street'

' Tamworth. Collins haberdashery,  all the latest materials and wools. New range of zips just in". Call in soon.

Solihull.  etc etc

 

 

Don Amot,King of caravans,the price is right and the choice is your's!No idea why that has stuck in my head for the last 40 years.;)And local adverts in the cinema,don't know wether they still do those as i haven't been to the pictures for years.

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45 minutes ago, PAULCFC said:

Don Amot,King of Caravans,the price is right and the choice is your's!.....No idea why that has allways stayed with me.;)

Don Amot,King of caravans,the price is right and the choice is your's!No idea why that has stuck in my head for the last 40 years.;)And local adverts in the cinema,don't know wether they still do those as i haven't been to the pictures for years.

:D I can still sing the jingle.

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3 hours ago, PAULCFC said:

Don Amot,King of Caravans,the price is right and the choice is your's!.....No idea why that has allways stayed with me.;)

Don Amot,King of caravans,the price is right and the choice is your's!No idea why that has stuck in my head for the last 40 years.;)And local adverts in the cinema,don't know wether they still do those as i haven't been to the pictures for years.

Soon as I saw you line of 'local ads in cinemas' this memory bpopped into my mind; 

 

Roy's Sports and Toys. Wigston.

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2 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

Soon as I saw you line of 'local ads in cinemas' this memory bpopped into my mind; 

 

Roy's Sports and Toys. Wigston.

There was allways one from a curry house,when my then gf and i went to the cine centre on tuesday night(pound night) to see Pretty in pink,Breakfast club,ferris buellers day off or something else that usually involved Molly Ringwald!This would be about 1987......god i feel old!

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Modern Toys

 

Also (Think it was called) Burbages on Uppingham Road (Opposite Sparrow park), use to sell washing machines downstairs, but had an amazing selection of Action Man toys upstairs!

 

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11 hours ago, The Syrup said:

And speaking of fizzy pop...

 

I love old TV adverts, we had to study them in school for a bit (can’t remember which subject for). This is probably one of my favourites, along with the old Levi’s 501 advert in the laundrette. 

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