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’

Will it be mushrooms(?), fried onion rings? You'll have to wait and see!

Hope it’s chips it’s chips
we hope it’s chips it’s chips

"Ohhhhh-uh" here when someone was in trouble.
England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales,
Inside, outside Puppydogs' tails!

Yes, skipping was such great fun but I agree, jumping in was in important skill to learn. Do you remember there was an easy side and a hard side to jump in from? Some games needed you to have mastered both.

Yes skipping was very good for us without realising it . Social skills that no one was left out, singing songs (memory) compassion when someone fell over , not leaving people out , taking turns and there is also the fitness .

Clapping songs -
"I went to a Chinese restaurant to buy a loaf of bread, bread, bread.
He wrapped it up with a five pound note and this is what he said, said, said.
My name is Elvis Presley, girls are sexy, sitting in the car, drinking shandy... wowee!"

So inappropriate for six year olds 🤣

See also, ip, dip rhymes to work out how was 'it' "Ip dip, dog shit" I got a slap round the legs for teaching my brother that one!

Oh and also, not sure if this has been posted already, but "Itchy chin" or "Chinny reckon"

We had
Ip Dip Doo
The cat's got the flu
The monkey's got the chickenpox
So out goes you

There were additions like O-U-T spells out (if you wanted to fix it so someone else went out)

I’d forgotten about those. We had slightly different versions - the end of the Chinese restaurant one was “my name is Elvis Presley, girls are sexy, sitting in the back seat drinking Pepsi”.

Counting rhymes were:

Ip dip sky blue, who’s it not you
Not because you’re dirty, not because you’re clean
My mother says you’re the fairy queen

and (this will not be spelled correctly!)

Ibba dibba dation, my operation, how many people at the station? 1, 2, 3 (etc)… you’re it

Photo stories in My Guy, Cathy and Claire problems in Jackie, sing lyrics in Smash Hits. Feeling grown up when you progressed to Just 17

I wasn't allowed My Guy, mum thought it was too raunchy 😃

No not really we had to be out the house most of the day and not doing fun activities either just get out and play!

My sister is tail end of Gen x and she was allowed in the house 😄

Mizz was a bit raunchy if I remember rightly !

It was my older cousin let me read it had sex topics in it was practically porn😃

Ahh I used to read Twinkle , then Bunty , Judy and my brothers Whizzer and Chips . Actually the Whizzer and Chips Annual used to cause massive fights in our house , we were all desperate to read it .

I’m so impressed! I could only remember the first line!

My friend at primary school taught me this and when I came home singing it my dad was really interested and thought it might have been sung for hundreds of years because the lyrics were so old fashioned. No idea if he was right. So lovely to remember it again. 😊

i was astonished at myself! It's the tunes that help me remember, I think.

We had 'ip dip, dog shit, you trod in it.' Nice!

If you were making up with someone after a falling out, you joined hands (possibly crossed over) and waved them up and down chanting, 'make friends, make friends, never never break friends, if you do, you'll catch the flu and that will be the end of you'.

The girls used to chant 'We protest, boys are a pest, flush them down the lavatory and hope for the best'

If there was some kind of delay to something happening at school (and we were with a teacher who would tolerate it), we'd sing 'Why are we waiting, we are suffocating' to the tune of O Come All Ye Faithful (the first few bars of it anyway).

@UrsulaBelle -

When Suzy was a school girl, a school girl Suzy was- Miss, Miss I can't do this my Knickers are I an awful twist!

Stand back Superman, Iceman, Spiderman , Batman and Robin too!

Yes!

We called it GFrench skipping. Started at ankles raised to knees and then Hipsies!

Banana Split, Bananas Split, Banana, Banana, Bananas Split!

England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales Inside, Outside, Donkies Tails!

I still remember the jumps/moves 😂

😂 October 1987! Michael Fish 😬

Don’t wanna cause a ruckus for BA Baracas…

There was an amazing thread on here about 6 months ago where someone described a vague memory of a childhood story and asked people to help her identify the book- within about ten posts someone had found it in a 1980s Mandy Annual and even posted a picture of it from the actual annual that she had just bought in a charity shop! Cue hundreds of posts about Mandy, Bunty, Judy etc. Mumsnet at its best.

@ChocChipHandbag That is quite brilliant . I have a Playschool annual I bought some years ago on Ebay . I love Playschool but most footage was lost years ago at a bbc storing facility .