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

fake rabbit fur jackets with at least four different colors

corduroy gaucho split skirts

blue jeans held together with bits of leather lacing

bare wood stratocasters

davenports with plastic on them

Actually, those sorts of jeans seem to be back in fashion around here.

Makes you wanna carry a Boy Scout knife, don't it?

On previous page - pop bands with saxophone -- Dave Matthews Band has sax and violin.

Does anyone else remember those spherical 'dalek' things that used to hang from the ceiling in Boots in the 70s/80s? They were security cameras and I found them slightly frightening as a child.

yep, sure do. My dad used to be in charge of them in some stores.

Little Chef

Floopy drives *whistful sigh*

Sloping race tracks. Like the one at Brooklands. Why did they get rid of them?

Little Chefs? Try the A1(M). Still lots in Scotland too

I think I meant Happy Eater? I'm always getting things wrong!

Happy Eater? Now you're talking (about something you really don't see much anymore)

But no, the Little Chef thing is indeed a mystery - they were really common all over the country at one stage. They seem to have thinned out at around the same time as starlings

Eh? We had the thinning out of sparrows. How odd.

Sparrows, starlings. Maybe they're together somewhere - who knows?

They're making a comeback (both of them) here in Brum

on the menu of little chefs??

Well, any kebab shop in Brum really *lol*


They've kinda overtaken from shoeshops round these here parts...

Marathon choccy bars.

Didn't they just change the name to Snickers?

According to

http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/03/18/p23s2.htm

the Marathon bar known in the States was different to the British one. The British Marathon was known as "Snickers" in the States so now it's called that everywhere. It was always called "Snickers" in Germany. But they had another name for Twix (Raider) and now that has changed to "Twix" in Germany, too.