Gen X where are you ????

[JRHartleysmum]

What are you ‘I’m old’ references that younger folk might not understand ?
I’ll start: ‘too orangey for crows, it’s just for me and my dog’

@Stickytoastandhoney yes I am fully aware of that!

yes I remember that song but can't remember the name of the cartoon it'll drive me mad now, let's hope someone comes up with it.
I'm thinking Jason and the argonauts though but I'm probably wrong.

Twigwidge? BBC schools radio.

'My hair looks like Worzel Gummidges' or, if I've over done the blush 'I look like Aunt Sally'

Finger mouse

Denim. For men who don't have to try too hard

and I best not mention Jim'll fix it
and when I think back at how I desperately wanted to go on that show.
and I also loved Rolfs cartoon time.🫣

Worzel gummidge used to scare me when he twisted his head off and put his grumpy head on!

a ha this away, a ha that away,
a ha this away, my oh my!

Me & my husband still say this to each other when we see such a forehead!

Morph & Tony Hart Take Hart?

Fingermouse
Let's Pretend
Mr Ben
King Rollo
Brick-a-brack
Dangermouse
Bananman
SuperGran
Willow the Wisp

Who remembers Mirage and Taboo, I was too young to drink.but the adverts are clear in my head. Oh and Timotei

Wee Jimmy Crankie

Armchair Thriller - the opening titles scared the wits out of me . And that episode with the nun and the rocking chair 😱

Pearl and Dean at the cinemas.

Salon Selectives - “like you’ve just stepped out of the salon, Salon Selectives “

'Double diamond works wonders, works wonders...'

The Leonard Rossiter/Joan Collins Campari ads where she always ends up with the Campari all over her.

'Accurist, acc your elbow, acc your thigh'

'On my horses, lovely white horses I'll fly away...'
Fab thread!

Any North-Easterners who fondly remember Tudor Crisps? 'A canny bag a Tudor.' Much better than Walkers.

And remember being really excited about getting to watch telly at school? The teachers would wheel in that big telly cabinet that had a disproportionately small screen. I used to love a series they'd show called How We Used To Live. I still love history shows even now.

Watch out there’s a Humphrey about

"Like you've just stepped out of the... chip shop?" 🎶

omg salon selectives this just made me sing salon selectives out loud 🤣
whatever happened to revlon flex shampoo my mum used to use it I loved the smell of it.
and Pears soap.

You can tell a Wella woman by the way she wears her hair...

For the irish folk:
Knock knock open wide see what's on the other side
Knock Knock anymore come with me through the magic door..

'Rruff' said Rafferty, 'uuggh' said Cornelius

Bloody tales of the unexpected used to scare the shit out of me even the silhouettes of those women dancing in the fire at the beginning.

Flipper 🐬
Lassie 🐕

I literally used to have nightmares about this advert

Yes!

I don't know the proper versions of anything.

Remember being so shocked when I heard the Blue Peter theme tune - that! For a children's show?! Was years before I realised it's a piece of classical music and isn't supposed to have lyrics 😂

Teddy Bears Picnic is apparently a small child's playtime rhyme in it's original version.

The song about the boat on the river wasn't supposed to feature drugs.

And the song about Daisy the village bike was supposed to be a sweet rhyme about love and marriage or something like that.

We did the levitation thing too. The one being levitated laid down on the floor and the one at their head told a very short story featuring the laying down one, at the end of which they died. Everyone else in turn round the group whispered "died" or "killed" or whatever the story ended with (it had to be something like that). Was supposed to trick them into being temporarily dead. Then we levitated them up towards heaven, about 8 kids using only two fingers on each hand. Goodness knows how it worked, must have all been skinny and weighed nothing. We'd raise them up above our heads before lowering them back down. Good job we never dropped anyone!

Love this! Woman after my own heart.

That was the sequel when Elspeth went to "hen night" in Inverness.

I loved "pea and ham, from a chicken"