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

Rag and bone men.

Used to get at least one in my street once a week. Now it's a rarity.

Some of those 5 1/4" discs are in my boxroom (some blank, some with shareware & stuff on). Together with a dismantled AT (286), 3 dot-matrix printers (1 with exploded printhead), 2 AT ketboards, spare floppy drives etc. (Well, I did only manage to upgrade from it 2 years ago!)

Any chance of giving the stuff to someone who'll be in County Donegal?

Folks wearing bowler hats.

The candy floss van (like the ice cream van but they rang a big bell instead of playing a tune)...or maybe that was a local thing

candy cigarettes

Bubble gum cigarettes that puffed flour or dust or something when you blew in them.
Cool prizes in the cereal box.
In the US, small sized items at fast food joints ... it's large and extra large and super size and biggie ... even Starbucks doesn't sell the small size anymore.

Chads

Wombles

My wife gave me a womble as a gift yesterday.

Siam, Burma, Atlantis, Babylon

Boys under 15 NOT wearing a baseball cap.

girls under 15 with shirts that cover their midriffs

Conversations with children at junior school where they do not use the words f, b, s, c, or * as an adjective.

(Guess what MY day was like then)

'humorous' car stickers.

the "alpine" drinks lorries (possibly a local thing)

although i did see some white dog poo the other day,my 4yr old daughter pointed it out to me.
it made my day.

arrow bars,
mojo's
texan bars.......ah beautiful texan bars.
milk tray bars,
weekend chocolates.
and of course the famous spangles.
i remember the alpine pop wagon and A.A pop, all those additives made you giddie.

Wow I'm either old or in the wrong country I've never heard of any of those things

But I can't remember the last time I saw soft packs of smokes

i still have one spangle. its got to be about 30 years old now.

it was a joke christmas present from a very close uncle.
he put one in an old small jewellery presentation box and coveered it with some plastic.

he said that it was all i deserved, but there were lots of other goodies that he had hidden.

when you are that age though, you believe everything they say..
ive never forgotten this and the spangle is on still display on a wall unit.

helen.xx

Hankies. No one seems to use handkerchiefs any longer, I probably don;t want to know what they do use though