Cultural references the ‘young uns’ don’t get

[Peculiar23]

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

Are you old enough to remember the Simon and Garfunkel song Mrs Robinson? I thought the line went. And here’s to you Mrs Robinson Kevin has a place for you to pray. It was actually heaven holds a place for you to pray. I have no idea where I got Kevin from !!

Knock knock knockin' on Kevin's door.

🤣🤣🤣. Remember ‘The Israelites’ by Desmond Dekker ? Often interpreted as ‘Me ears are alight’ !!

Or Vitalite

I sometimes wore stockings in 80s but nowadays they are expensive and hard to find

definitely more hygienic

I could never find any that stayed clipped on, such a faff, and most hold ups seemed to be trying to cut the circulation off in my legs. Bloody horrendous, lycra tights are amazing.

Something just reminded me of "John Collier, John Collier, the window to watch!".
DH denies any knowledge of it and he's 7 years older than me - anybody else remember?

I only know the longer version.

Child is bored at home:
Parent suggests: ‘Read a book’
Child: ’No thanks, I’ve read one. Green, it were.”

I remember it. I think John Collier was a tailor’s shop / men’s outfitters.

They were probably on every high street way back then.

Call at the Esso sign
For Esso Extra.

I’ve only just realised that Esso = Standard Oil. But I’d never heard of Standard Oil, that’s my excuse.

I never watched that, but when I was in primary school the other kids sang it whenever we had to carry anything.

I’ve just been watching Tales of the Unexpected on tv-from the 60s/70s, mystery murder plays originally written by Road Dahl - if the DGCs were here I’d have to explain that the cream plastic thing with a wire is a telephone, and the large object on the desk was a typewriter for printing words, the large glass dish was an ashtray as people smoke cigarettes in the house 😂

That's the least of it.
Apparently many children don't know what sugar cubes are ??
Find out if yours do.

Apparently many children don't know what sugar cubes are ??

They still serve them in some places! I saw some last week.

Devon Loch - which I'm not old enough to remember, but it was still frequently mentioned in my childhood.

Nobby Stiles dancing on the pitch.

'You cannot be serious!'

The Steve Davis-Dennis Taylor epic - one of those events that everyone was talking about in the office on Monday morning.

I remember it! Was it a men's tailor shop or off the peg suits? Maybe it was carpets? 🤔

I think it was men's clothing.

I had forgotten it until this thread, but I can still sing the jingle!

Yes, men's clothing.
Someone mentioned the musician Jacob Collier on Pointless which immediately brought the John C jingle to mind.

Sorry if it's been said already but 'hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face with mild,..........................................................' I sing it sometimes.
I'm perhaps the only person in the country who washes up by using hands.

I wash dishes by hand too @upinaballoon , as do a lot of people.
I wear gloves to do it.

You're not alone in washing up by hand (sadly).
My father used to sing his own version of the Fairy Liquid song (while he was washing up - he was well-trained): "For hands that do dishes can be soft as your head...".
There was an old chestnut that used to crop up in the letters page in Jackie comic: "My little brother's teacher told him to put the word 'judicious' in a sentence to show he knew the meaning, so he wrote 'For hands that judicious...etc' "

Yes I wash up by hand too. But I wear Marigolds. Have to be Marigolds, supermarkets own brands just aren't as good.

“John Collier, John Collier, the window to watch”

Tom Thumb, Tom Thumb, the Christmas gift for men!

He won't sell many icecreams at that speed

Down with that sort of thing