h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We were just talking about fads. Like Rubiks cubes. Then we went onto other fads.. do you remember those really long plastic yellow arials people had on their cars, do you remember when it was fashionable to paint your car red with a white stripe down it when Miami Vice was on TV? There must be thousands more - anyone?

I thought the red with wide stripe came from Starsky & Hutch.

Bell Bottoms.

Ripped Jeans - amazingly still found.

Blue Jeans with White Boots.

Mohicans.

White Trousers with a Tartan Stripe (From The Bay City Rollers).

Bondage Trousers.

Body Warmers.

Shell Suits (Ugh).

Sorry, this is more like fashion mistakes than fads.

Let's see......

NO. will definately come back to that one though.

Yo-yo's are a great example of a fad, around every three years they become really popular for about 6 months and then die away again untill the next time. Does anyone (probably only English people) remember when the coca-cola ones came out?
COOL!

Yoyos are a thriving world-wide competitive sport.

As for vehicles.. Psychedelic Vans! (and similar paint jobs on other vehicles... I once had an Old[s] Jetstar 88 with a psychedelic paint job and "La Gringa" written across both sides and the top. Jalopies were 'in' (along with the torn jeans that hung 2 inches below the soles of your shoes so no one pointed and laughed, "Is it going to flood? (High-water pants.)" )

hoola hoops
fuzzy dice
CB radios

hoop earrings.. I mean BIG HOOP earrings! (worn with gypsy-style scarves) I was born in the wagon of a travelin show

Peanuts in coke
fringed jackets
embroidered denims
patches
carpet-bag pocketbooks (purses)

beads (on persons and in 'pads')
blacklights

Peanuts in coke? Please elaborate. Either you mean peanuts in cocaine or peanuts in coca-cola. Both ways seem pretty strange to me.

I think the unknown rodent means placing peanut in Coke (the drink) or any fizzy beverage. The nut rises as gas attaches to it, then sinks after all the bubbles disperse on reaching the surface.

Hours of amusement when drunk, stoned or labotomized

CH

Yes... Or just into country music.. Which I'm not.. now.

Ah, lovely and old.

Now it would seem that what was wicked cool at the time THIS thread began is now seen as nothing but a fad...

So what other fads were there?

We had those little rubber balls, about the size of a table tennis ball, that would bouce in pretty strange ways: you drop them from about three feet height, they will almost come up to that height again, then fall down again - but then they won't come back up, but bounce off sideways... They were cool for about a year, and then gone forever.

Y.

We had fads at school.

Paper aeroplanes were around for a while.
Chewing up bits of paper and blowing it through pea-shooters.
Penny-up the wall.
Rubber dinosaurs.

Gosh a conversation from when I had been here less than a month - gosh doesn't time fly.

Anyway, of course the is the current fad of having St Geoge flags on cars - no idea why as St Geoge's day was months ago.

CHawke

deely boppers!

What more can I say?

Well, you could tell the uninitiated what Deely Boppers are

Y.

http://justdolphins.safeshopper.com/107/1037.htm?529

See the above link.

Ahh, yes, I see. It's a sad world.

Y.

Original deely boppers had the springs on the top of the hair grip, not on the side. They were much cooler. When I was a kid, I wanted hearts, but only if they were red. The shop I went into only had blue ones, so i ended up with windmills instead, as my dad liked them.

I've never got over that.

I think I've still got one of those coca-cola yo-yos somewhere

*rummages around in cupboard*

Ah - string's gone

Chopper Bikes
I had a Tomahawk
Now that shows my age

I always wanted a Tomahawk

*cough* I mean, I remember my grandfather telling me about them *combs hair forward with hand*

I wanted a Chopper but only the big kids had them

>>hoop earrings.. I mean BIG HOOP earrings! <<

And now, 5 years later, the height of fashion