Name one thing from your childhood

Stranger · 23/5/22

Never had to, my mother did though to go and see my "uncles"

Hooked · 28/5/22

Stew · 30/5/22

PLACO FLIPPY the FROGMAN Baking Soda propelled diver
I had one similar to this. Anyone else remember something similar.

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Stranger · 31/5/22

This one was mine, you sucked on a tube and he sank, blew and he surfaced. My first vape

Hooked · 4/6/22

ARYANTO · 7/6/22

Archie and Edith Bunker - , many hours of canned laughter ...

ARYANTO · 7/6/22

Hooked said:
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l Loved the humbugs and butterscotch variants

ddk1979 · 8/6/22

Munro31 · 8/6/22

ddk1979 said:
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Getting offended probably

Stew · 8/6/22

ddk1979 said:
View attachment 257199In Rhodesia we only had 5 digit numbers and calls were a Tickey (2.5 cents) and you could talk as long as you liked for your Tickey. My Grandparents lived further out of town and had a party line.

Hooked · 9/6/22

Oh yes! I remember the tickey boxes (red phone booths) here in SA!

ARYANTO · 9/6/22

To my SADF makkers , we all knew how to make a gyppo tickey in the 70's ,80's ....
our version of unlimited airtime

Intuthu Kagesi · 9/6/22

Stew · 9/6/22

Intuthu Kagesi said:
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I was riding my bike around for eight hours.

Raindance · 9/6/22

ARYANTO said:
To my SADF makkers , we all knew how to make a gyppo tickey in the 70's ,80's ....
our version of unlimited airtime

We had one in our camp. As a roofie, you were only to use it after midnight, jippo tiekie tied to the "return" knob. One morning the RSM got us all on parade at five in the morning. Apparently telkom complained that a very large amount of calls were made on the phone but only about R5 was found in the coin box.
We were chased up and down Gypsy hill until noon, no culprit showed, ja right, infantry and all and all.
The next morning we were called to orders again. The RSM glowing red from a distance. (He knew some normal words but the majority of his vocabulary consisted of variations of the words F**k and M**r.) This time his complaint was that the tiekie box, all of it, has disappeared.
Gypsy hill here we came again. The mistake was, as roofies, we were very paraat, however, giving us opvok with the "ou manne" opened our eyes. by ten we were also as naafie as shit. No more running, just casually strolling along as by their example.
By noon the RSM needed a dop and we were set free. Next morning the tiekie box was back, installed and functioning. Never heard a complaint again.
Eisch, those were the days...

Regards