Cultural references the ‘young uns’ don’t get

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Called someone at work ‘Victor Meldruw’ and got looked at blankly. God, I’m old
Anyone else ??!!!

1970s

Vick's Sinex advert

’Course you can Malcolm’ from the Vicks Sinex ad from the 1970s.

We had DVDs of Wacky Races, Mr Benn, Trumpton, Chigley and Camberwick Green, Bagpuss and Ivor the Engine when our DC was little. He's 20. I'd like to think this was an insight into times past. He especially liked Mr Benn

Previous posts have been eye openers.
For years I've thought "Course you can, Malcolm!" was from the Tunes advert.
Of course it was Vicks Sinex 🤦🏻‍♀️
Tunes was the man saying "A seckodd clard returd to Dottingham, please" to the baffled train ticket seller.
Quick suck of a Tune and he was back with "A second class return to Nottingham, please!" followed with a chirpy "Tunes!" when he tripped off with his ticket.

Lavishly enunciated as “Tyoooonzz!”

Thank you! I remember the phrase "Course you can Malcolm", but not where it came from.

All these years later we still say, "Course you can Malcolm" if the need arises.

How do these things get in our heads and stay there for decades though?

Another one we say is from an advert but neither of us can remember what the ad was for. It had a cartoon hippo who was thick. He was asked a question over and over and eventually he said the word, "NINE".

If we hear the word nine, we both say it again in the voice of the hippo but no idea what the ad was for so can't look it up : (

Mr Benn was always my favourite too😊

Anyone remember “it’s a puppet!!!!” Not that far back. Brian Conley.

The Clapo’meter?

And finally Esther....

We do so so so many of these.

Reference to the moon gets the response full moon /half moon /total eclipse (Jaffa cakes).

Reference to getting a fork is fork handles/handles for forks (2 Ronnies). I have trained my children that it is a legal requirement to say this.

The answer to 'there's no pleasing some people' is always 'that's what Jesus said sir' (life of Brian).

'Haircut!' after a haircut (obviously) (Mary Whitehouse Experience). Likewise 'new shoes?!' (Clarkes ad I think?) when you have new shoes.

Putting something in a bag gets 'she'll put the bag in the bag but she won't put the bag in the book' (little Britain).

Proper reply to someone wanting a specific colour of something is 'the white one??', sometimes followed by 'I'll wash it meself' (persil ad).

And these are both now sadly mostly defunct but discussion of watching or making a video gets 'have we got a video??' and a phone ringing gets 'answer the phone Neil' (both from the Young Ones).

DD is taking sociology A level from September which has caused a recent resurgence in use of 'you got an ology?', and pre GCSE results nerves gave opportunity for 'Anthony! People will always need plates!'(BT ad). She is strangely unappreciative of these though.

I’ve said to my son before “who d’you think I am? Magnus Pyke?” Obviously he hasn’t got a clue what I’m talking about. Or when trying to fit something together me and dh always say “it’s like the Krypton Factor”

Up a bit...
Down a bit...
Left a bit...
Fire!

I used “computer says no” recently blank faces all around.

That Lilo Lil, she is a tart!
Want a top up Ange?
Can you get me a postcard? Can you write it for me? Can you put a stamp on it, can you post it for me?
What biscuits have we got mum? (Custard creams). Do I like them Mum?

What's for pudding? Have we got any pudding?

Bernie, the bolt

Watch out for the blue one - it's a salty little devil!

I remember Salt 'n' Shake crisps being briefly brought back for a while.
Just...why?

And being strangely pleased if I found more than one bag of salt in the packet.

The other day, my mid-teen granddaughter told her b/f, (same age) that he would "lose his street cred" (which is a phrase I use to her sometimes), and he looked at her blankly and then said, "What's that?". She couldn't believe he didn't know that saying, so she asked a few of her school friends and they hadn't heard of it either. That made me feel old! Lol!

This thread has been rather lovely, it’s gone back further than I expected and uncovered some long dead memories. When I hear some of those phrases they evoke a vivid memory of place. A real madeleine moment!

Calling someone ‘worzel gummidge’ if they look scruffy
I once said to a kid in a long scarf ‘ooh you look like doctor who’
blank faces all round

Or aunt Sally for badly applied makeup.