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

Scrabble games with wooden tiles? I don't think I've ever seen one without wooden tiles... then again, I'm in a different country.

My list includes:

Those funny-smelling worksheets printed in purple ink (Where I'm from they're known as "dittos") and the duplicating machines that produced them.

Filmstrips and filmstrip projectors (I especially remember the science-themed ones with lots of lines and blotches on the film, a narrator with a garbled sounding voice, and piercingly loud and serious-sounding filler music when the narrator wasn't talking.)

Cheers!
Raindawn

hi Raindawn (nice name)

In fact, my scrabble game is about 30 years old, bought in Canada. And everytime I haul it out people say - 'Ohmigod! Wooden tiles!' - as apparently the new games are made with plastic ones.

mmmmm I love the smell of those purple printed sheets...
Probably not very good for you, but anyhow...

I saw a 78 record/player and a Cylinder/player on Sunday!

J.J

Those flowers that danced when you played music near them or talked

Thundercats
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles

The smell of those purple sheets was carcinogenic, which is why you don't see them any more.

On that subject...

Lead painted toy soldiers
Tin toys
Asbestos mats on ironing boards

Or those toys in a children's playground - I think they were called a witch's hat - I always thought they were incredibly dangerous.

Football or rugby matches where the players would come off, and you would have no idea what colour their kit was due to it being completely obscured by mud.

Sprout

Bugger, that's worrying Hoo, my college uses them, or at least, did do up until arround four years ago

There is a new, safer version of the witch's hat out now, with no gap at the top. Very dangerous things they were - lots of crushed fingers.

Rice Paper.
Deely boppers.
Thin leather ties with keyboards on them.
Manequins of blind boys with slots in their heads outside chemists.
Strawberry fool.
SHATTERPROOF.
Flow chart stencils.

Payphones!

Rumbelows

Re: post 2 (yes, I know I'm a bit late)

2legs mentioned "glass bottles with a return price on them"

so i just thought I'd inform 'im that when I was in Boston for Christmas, i drank a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale that could be returned for either 5 or 10 cents, depending which state you were in.

I think that in Canada all beer bottles, and some soft drink bottles, are still returnable for a 5 or 10 cent refund.

Marston's Low C bottles are returnable in the UK.

I used to work at Rumbelows!

(not that I'm implying that employing me led to their disappearance from the High Street... )

H.

As for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles no longer existing - not long ago I rented a small beach apt in Spain and the bed cover with festooned with these guys.

Some things die hard.

Jubilee's - those pyramid shaped ice pops

Where's all your lip gone eh? You're nothing without your ring binder.

Needless to say, that entry was meant for non-secateurs.

my ex boyfriends! and thank god for that!