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WILDTRAKPX2 · 12-02-2006, 07:27 PM

getting dropped off at high school, thinking we were just it in Dad's brand new monza red XD:

smciner1 · 12-02-2006, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Shockwave XR8

getting dropped off at high school, thinking we were just it in Dad's brand new monza red XD:

I remember that, but my Dad's was Hermitage Red.

xbcool · 12-02-2006, 08:47 PM

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The Movie Show on Channel 10 (I can't remember the host's name, but he was old, Fat, and always wore square glasses)

Bill Collins

Casper · 12-02-2006, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by JG3282

Casper, I knew I'd seen you somewhere before... Except you were wearing this badge

LOL, not me mate, I never worked for that mob :P

Mrs347stroker · 12-02-2006, 09:01 PM

What about good ol' "Skippy Skippy Skippy the bush kangaroo" Hey Skip

Casper · 12-02-2006, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Mrs347stroker

What about good ol' "Skippy Skippy Skippy the bush kangaroo" Hey Skip

and flipper.. basically the yank underwater version of skippy.

rob_liss_lms10 · 12-02-2006, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Hitman

Shirl's Neighborhood anyone?

O my That brings back such amazing memories I was and still am a huge Shirl fan I have to admit that i cried when i opened the paper and saw that he had passed away....He was an amazingly talented man and i'm sure sadly missed by us 80's kids....RIP Shirl I miss Ya

Lissa

ohhh almost forgot "Alexander Bunyip we all think your great"

rodderz · 12-02-2006, 09:49 PM

Who had Charlie Koala come out to their school with his 5 food groups?

Mrs347stroker · 12-02-2006, 09:52 PM

Does any one remember the group "Whickety Whack" (spelling?) I can just remember them on tv and doing tours around the place playing at RSL's and leagues clubs.

WILDTRAKPX2 · 12-02-2006, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Mrs347stroker

Does any one remember the group "Whickety Whack" (spelling?) I can just remember them on tv and doing tours around the place playing at RSL's and leagues clubs.

Sure do! Saw them live many times.

MO · 12-02-2006, 09:55 PM

How about 'Jet Jackson'.....the 'Jetsons'.....the 'Twilight Zone'.

JG3282 · 12-02-2006, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by rob_liss_lms10

O my That brings back such amazing memories I was and still am a huge Shirl fan I have to admit that i cried when i opened the paper and saw that he had passed away....He was an amazingly talented man and i'm sure sadly missed by us 80's kids....RIP Shirl I miss Ya

Lissa

ohhh almost forgot "Alexander Bunyip we all think your great"

Norm the Kangaroo and Claude the Crow

Mrs347stroker · 12-02-2006, 09:57 PM

Just found this on google:

What were the 80s? . . . Bueller? . . . Anyone? Well, you are truly a child of the 80s if any of the following statements are true for you:

You know what leg warmers are; You know who Mr. T is; You remember when Atari was a state of the art video game system; You used to be able to breakdance (or wished you could); The phrases "bright light" and "phone home" actually mean something to you; You had a BMX bike.

The 80s was a decade where young folk wore fluorescent, neon clothing and business folk wore double-breasted suits with shoulder pads and believed "Greed Is Good" . . . and when Prince sang about partying "like it's 1999" it seemed so far away!

Dallas and Dynasty ruled the airwaves, Transformers were more than meets the eye, leggings under a short skirt was considered a stylish look, Michael Jackson was still black and 'by the power of Greyskull you HAD the power!'

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher promoted a 'return to Victorian values' in Britain, which was matched by a new conservatism in the USA under Ronald Reagan, who was voted in as president and served the maximum eight-year term in office.

AIDS was introduced to the public as a sexually transmitted disease of potentially plague proportions that would put paid to the trendy permissiveness of the Sixties and Seventies.

Meanwhile at home and in the playground, people were struggling to master Rubik's Cube - the biggest craze of the early part of the decade, a block of movable coloured squares named after its Hungarian inventor, Erno Rubik.

Video games were the hottest new innovation as video arcade game machines began to replace pinball machines in amusement arcades across the Western world with Pac Man and Space Invaders leading the pack.

Sophisticated equipment for leisure and pleasure became increasingly affordable as incredible advances in technology continued, and the Eighties soon also became the decade of gadgets - From digital watches to cappuccino machines to cellular phones to computers (Even though a Commodore 64 was the pinnacle of computing excellence).

In 1984, Yuppies appeared on the scene. An acronym for Young Urban professionals, it became synonymous with upward mobility, greed, and selfishness. But then the 80s was the decade of Self; self-improvement, self motivation, self-help manuals.

1987 introduced two new words to the English language - glasnost (openness) and perestroika (reconstruction) as the West fell in love with Mikhail Gorbachev - The first cuddly, user-friendly Soviet leader, who talked of the East and West becoming good neighbours . . . which we finally did as the decade ended with Europe's biggest ever street party as the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 and East met West for the first time since 1961.

MO · 12-02-2006, 10:04 PM

A wonderful effort by the spin doctors.

MO · 12-02-2006, 10:18 PM

'The Ciscoe Kid and his sidekick Pancho'.......'Zorro'.......

MO · 12-02-2006, 10:26 PM

'The Lone ranger and his sidekickTonto'

"what you mean we kimo sabe"

**Mechan1k** · 12-02-2006, 10:58 PM

brings back OLD memories indeed.

KEV EB XR8 · 13-02-2006, 08:42 AM

"Celebrity Squares"

Ugly Dave Grey, Kennedy,and so on. Has been replays on foxtel and it still cracks me as it did back years ago.

Mrs347stroker · 13-02-2006, 10:14 AM

Gilligans Island
Inspector Gadget
Blankety Blanks
The Flinstones
The Smurfs

Swinging on the clothes line
Playing under the sprinkler (before the water bans)

Dark Horse · 13-02-2006, 12:44 PM

The Muppet Show and Fraggle Rock!

Casper · 13-02-2006, 12:48 PM

Does anyone remember Tarzan in the 70's? Man, I loved it.. used to swing on the hill hoist like a loony after every episode!

rob_liss_lms10 · 13-02-2006, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Horse

The Muppet Show and Fraggle Rock!

The Muppet show I loved that! there never seems to be any re-runs of it....
The sweedish chef always used to crack me up...
The Wacky Races....Always great for us budding car fans and Penelope Pitstop reminds me of a ceratin someone begining with T and ending in I you know who you are!!!!

: :newangel:
How about back when playschool was entertaining for adults as well with Benita, John Hamblin (was an absolute classic),Noni, Phillip, Don Spencer, John Waters the list goes on, they could actually sing and act, the new playschool today is WAY past lame and is a sure way to get my 3 year old to sleep...

Casper · 13-02-2006, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by rob_liss_lms10

The Muppet show I loved that! there never seems to be any re-runs of it....
The sweedish chef always used to crack me up...

Foxtel, almost every day! Watch a lot of it as the kids rule the remote up till 8pm.

rob_liss_lms10 · 13-02-2006, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Casper

Foxtel, almost every day! Watch a lot of it as the kids rule the remote up till 8pm.

OOOOOO What Channel!!!! Gotta see that

: Probably wont be as good as I remember it....Watched Buck Rogers in the 25th Century the other month on Foxtel that bloody robot i so admired as a young-un going bidy bidy bidy really started giving me the ИИИИs towards the end....

Casper · 13-02-2006, 01:38 PM

no idea, I'll ask the kids tonight.

Casper · 13-02-2006, 01:42 PM

just checked, its now on every night at midnight on Disney channel.

rob_liss_lms10 · 13-02-2006, 01:45 PM

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just checked, its now on every night at midnight on Disney channel.

Thanks Casper Gonna need the VCR for that one not as young as i used to be

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fiery · 13-02-2006, 02:38 PM

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Thanks Casper Gonna need the VCR for that one not as young as i used to be

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ha ha... almost time for bed now isn't it

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I cant remember who had them, (maybe time life or something like that), but there was a mob selling off the muppet years dvd's, I remember seeing ads for them early last year...

fiery · 13-02-2006, 09:13 PM

If anyone wants a major blast from the past music wise, (and in Qld) tune into channel 9..........
awesome stuff

Hitman · 13-02-2006, 09:52 PM

Dance your cares away,
Worry's for another day.
Let the music play,
Down at Fraggle Rock.

Work your cares away,
Dancing's for another day.
Let the Fraggles play,
We're Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, Red.