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

Badgers.

David Naughton

Second post

Ralph Halpern

Those rock watches (tissau or something?)

Japanese throwing stars

Old Spice adverts

Potato powered clocks

Robert Hardy

Christopher Lambert

Quite happy to give up Old Spice ads in favour of the Lacoste ones.

Anyone remember the girl in the waterfall - was it Dannemann cigarillos?

Has anyone seen this website? http://www.thebubbleburst.co.uk/

It allows you to find out what became of some of the people who turn up on this thread.

Penelope Keith

Big Train

Stare Out

David Yip

Inspiral Carpets

David Copperfield

Bungee jump on Chelsea Bridge

'Woffle' trousers

Jason Queeley (anyone know if he's going this year?)

Rex Williams

Atari products

Arthur C Clarke

Empty flagpole at Buckingham Palace

Clive Sinclair inventions

Doug Mclure

Handlebar moustache with sideburns

James

Mark Thatcher

Connex trains

Adverts for Radion

Martin Lewis

Pam Ayres

Jimmy Saville in marathons

Timothy Dalton films

Sandy Gall

QED

Equinox

Jason Connery

Ronco adverts

Hours of cricket coverage on a Saturday

Bradford And Bingley bowler hat men

Charlie Spedding

TFI Friday

Dennis Norden

Mastermind game

One pound note with Isaac Newton

Gladiators

Wolf from Gladiators

Do it all

George Kennedy

Whippit (a puzzle that cashed in on the Rubik Cube)

Susan Dey

Lloyd Honiegan

Terry Marsh

George Cole

Tango man

All creatures great and small

Juliet Bravo

Ask the family

Anyone who starred in the Waltons (except John Boy)

Moulinex adverts

The name Isambard

A microphone bobbing in and out of a shot in a drama.

It's a long time since I've seen (it may still happen) an American politician speaking at a lecturn with about 500 different microphones attached.

Chewing Gum made with real sugar.

Everything available now has one of three different versions of a carcinogenic 'inverted' sugar molecule.

I miss real gum.
Not that I'm a regular chewer, but it used to be nice to have the option. Now it's just too much of a health risk. Same with 'diet' drinks and 'lite' beer.

It ain't nice to fool with Mother Nature.

~jwf~

You never see a queue outside a public telephone box any more, especially noticable after 6pm on Sunday evenings.

You never see a double decker bus sail past a bus stop because it is already full of passengers - and you certainly don't stand at a bus stop and see TWO double deckers pass in succession without stopping as they are full to capacity.

~jwf~
"It ain't nice to fool with Mother Nature." some sort of margerine commercial was it?

Another commercial at that time.
"Better living through Chemicals"
was it DOW chemicals?

irony

>> and 'lite' beer.

It ain't nice to fool with Mother Nature. <<

If God had meant us to drink beer, he'd have given us stomachs.

RF

Peter Skellern

Spud guns

Octopus ride at fairgrounds

Whigfield

Richard Kiel

Inflatables at football matches

Elvis sightings

Stag beatles

Duncan Norvelle

Those magnificent men in their flying machines on telly.

I work with an elvis impersonating, salsa dance teaching body builder.

Top bloke by the way, zany sense of humour

Inflatable *what* at football matches?

At one time - probably late 80s or early 90s - there was sea of yellow inflatable bananas at most football matches. Also there were sheep and even one wag with an inflatable mattress!

Spinks - Doug McLure is dead, hence why you never see him anymore & you may see inflatable fish at a Grimsby football match.

Your list knows no bounds. I'm breathless just reading them.

I need a