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  • Who recalls toys in cereal packets?
  • MikeT-23
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    Oh yes.

    Shrinky-Dinks, the plastic native-American busts, iron-on patches, and the holographic/2-D pictures are all sounding familiar.
    Thanks, you guys, for reminding me.
    If I'm right, some brands may also have offered plastic soccer figurines, frozen in an 'action' pose, e.g. a striker unleashing a powerful shot on goal, the ball just attached to his toecap and no more.

    That aside, there's been some funny stuff written here, causing me to LOL and giggle heartily in a cafe. The 'tuppence' stuff – that's priceless.
    A 'rad to the max' Cornflakes chicken – daftness and genius combined.
    Wombat's info about Tom Good's career before becoming self-sufficient – I never knew that, and I'm rather impressed to learn it.

    Thanks one and all.

    eldridge
    Free Member

    FFS It wasn't "tuppence" in the Xmas pud – there was no such coin!

    It was "sixpence" or, more likely, a "sixpenny bit" or a "sixpenny piece"

    Who now remembers a "thru'penny bit"? (A coin worth three pennies)

    Or a "ha'penny" (pronounced hay-penny) for a coin worth half a penny.

    Or a florin?

    Or a guinea?

    Or a half-crown?

    Or a shilling?

    Or a ten-bob note?

    Or the bloody farthing?

    We've dumbed down the currency and the litle darlings still can't add up properly

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