Things that were 'very much of their time'

[TonyQuinn]

The Lord Palmerston, the Magdala, the Foresters Arms, the Hamlet Inn.............

[SteveT]

...'and the next one right in here'.....Michael Miles.....'shall he open the box or take the money?'

When discovered in an untidy condition (with his willy out) on an airport bus, the policeman asked for his name he said

"Hughie Green"

On his next show Hughie started off by saying "this is the real Hughie Green folks"

[SimonM]

Crackerjack pencils.....

Pinky & Perky murdering top ten hits of the day

Rag Tag & Bobtail

Jimmy Clitheroe

ventriloquists on the wireless

Two Way Family Favourites

[katie1997]

SimonM Wrote:

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> Pinky & Perky murdering top ten hits of the day

Which ones did they 'cover'? Sounds like a laugh ...

[SimonM]

Which ones did they 'cover'? Sounds like a laugh ...

Different ones every week. One that sticks in the mind is a version of Dylan's 'Lay, Lady, Lay', sung to a chicken....:))

[HonaloochieB]

SimonM Wrote:

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> Crackerjack pencils.....

CRACKERJACK!!!

[red devil]

Nostalgia...

[HonaloochieB]

SimonM Wrote:

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Jimmy Clitheroe.

SimonM if The Clitheroe Kid is in the vicinity, what with his 'sit-upon' getting a regular tanning from his aggressive, if not vaguely abusive Scottish grandfather, then can can the Navy Lark not be far behind?

Leslie Phillips - 'Good morning, how are you'?

Ronnie Barker - 'I've been on the WT all morning, sir'

Leslie Phillips - 'I'm so sorry to hear that, hope you get better soon'

Ronnie Barker - 'That's the Wireless Transmitter, sir'

They did it every week, and age never diminished it so far as I was concerned.

Really.

[MrBen]

Perrier water

Phileas Fogg Californian corn chips

Channel 4 American Football on a Sunday night

Dire Straits

All circa 1986

[HonaloochieB]

MrBen Wrote:

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Dire Straights

I recall a pop group with a similar name in the mid nineteen hundred and eighty period.

The 'singer' would affect a headband sort of affair.

Were they from the North-East or thereabouts?

One can't be sure.

[Lord Sornoff]

National service.

Bob-a-job.

Table manners.

Baddiel and Skinner.

[Narnia]

Lord Sornoff Wrote:

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> National service.

> Bob-a-job.

> Table manners.

> Baddiel and Skinner.

Apparently you were just a couple of days ago.

[SimonM]

They did it every week, and age never diminished it so far as I was concerned.

Really.

Yep. Great Days - and "Round The Horne" was around that time of day too!

[ruffers]

What's your name, where you from, what've you had?

[brum]

A 'barbeque summer'

[brum]

'Segs' and 'plant pockets' and 'penny collars'

[brum]

Playing outside till tea time

[brum]

'pogoing' and spitting at bands (I did lots of the former, but never the latter - so I wasn't a proper punk)

[brum]

Dancing around handbags

[????]

Slow dances...or 'the erection section'

[daizie]

LOL ????'s, best bit of the night .

Eye contact ( does that still happen) ?

[KidKruger]

fancy a snog ?

'open or closed mouth ?'

[brum]

Poking fun using racial and cultural stereotypes. So Bernard Manning, Charlie Williams, Love Thy Neighbour, Rising Damp, On The Buses, It Aint Arf Hot Mum, The Black and White Minstrels etc etc... Sadly poking fun at some sterotypes still remain, eg, Irish, Polish, Scousers, Brummies, Aussies - though in a few years, maybe even these will be thought of as from another time....

[MrBen]

Slinkys

[Sue]

I bought my granddaughter a slinky but the stairs of her house are too wide for it to slink down, it was very disappointing :-S