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You played out till all hours your mum would call you in for your tea and you'd run in and have it and then go round your mate's and have another tea there and we all had choppers apart from those who couldn't afford a chopper and had one of those shit ones spangles and then Tomorrow's World before Top of the Pops and dad would be all like what's this shit and there was no central heating and the teachers would lock you in the cupboard and make the girls stand on their heads so they could see their pants and spangles and it all ended the day Danny Rideout got his head kicked in by some big boys round the back of the Arcade.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> If I say Catweazle or The Brigadier, will that get

> me points RD?


Out of the two, I reckon Catweazle needs the most mothering ;-)...


http://kevinghill.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/catweazle.jpg

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They didn't put chalk in, the white was calcium from bonemeal.


There's much less bonemeal in animal feed these days because of fears that nerve tissue inside bones may carry prions - the proteins thought to be behind variant Creutfeld Jacob Disease (vCJD), mad cow disease and scrapie.

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