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[Cate Fox]

I'm tattooed.

Fear me.

Fear me or I'll cure your cancer.

I have a teeny tattoo - does that make me powerful like the baby Jebus??

 

[Mawsley]

I have a teeny tattoo - does that make me powerful like the baby Jebus??

Kick me in the face and I'll let you know.

 

[Cate Fox]

Kick me in the face and I'll let you know.

I'll give it a go...

 

[Mawsley]

:icon_lol:

 

[Steven]

No, no, no. :icon_cry:

Comic favourite Dandy faces closure

 

[bocadillo]

No, no, no. :icon_cry:

Comic favourite Dandy faces closure

It cost 2d - that's less than one of our new pennies - when I used to have it bought for me in the 50s. What does it cost now?

 

[The Major]

It cost 2d - that's less than one of our new pennies - when I used to have it bought for me in the 50s. What does it cost now?

I think it still cost 2d in the late 60s early 70s when I first remember it. I was more of a Beano reader myself but I always got the Dandy Annual at Christmas. A real shame.

 

[Mawsley]

Look forward to future posts in this series, dear members, when we find out what old folks used to pay for tea, why they didn't throw socks away and what wacky things they did with a cows intestine.

 

[spionfox]

Look forward to future posts in this series, dear members, when we find out what old folks used to pay for tea, why they didn't throw socks away and what wacky things they did with a cows intestine.

Not forgetting hanging teabags on the line to dry, washing (yes washing) nappies, having Carnation tinned condensed milk poured over a slice of bread for dessert and generally making do.

Youngsters today want it all and expect it all. Not many of todays pampered lot would have survived at that time :icon_wink

 

[pork pie fox]

Not forgetting hanging teabags on the line to dry, washing (yes washing) nappies, having Carnation tinned condensed milk poured over a slice of bread for dessert and generally making do.

Youngsters today want it all and expect it all. Not many of todays pampered lot would have survived at that time :icon_wink

I used to have that as a kid. I'm 36, does this make me old?

 

[spionfox]

I used to have that as a kid. I'm 36, does this make me old?

Depends if you had it as 'something different' or if you had it as a Sundays only treat!

 

[The Major]

Condensed milk? Bread? We weren't all millionaires you know.

 

[pork pie fox]

Depends if you had it as 'something different' or if you had it as a Sundays only treat!

Dunno. My mum's a Geordie, does that make a difference?

 

[Macky]

I think it still cost 2d in the late 60s early 70s when I first remember it. I was more of a Beano reader myself but I always got the Dandy Annual at Christmas. A real shame.

Dandy annual? For Christmas? You ****ing show-off!
We used to get the top of my Dad's boiled egg for Christmas, between four of us.
If we were lucky and Santa had been, that is.

 

[The Major]

Dandy annual? For Christmas? You ****ing show-off!
We used to get the top of my Dad's boiled egg for Christmas, between four of us.
If we were lucky and Santa had been, that is.

Tbf to my dad he always let us eat the shell,the tastiest bit as he called it.

 

[FryattFox]

Dandy annual? For Christmas? You ****ing show-off!
We used to get the top of my Dad's boiled egg for Christmas, between four of us.
If we were lucky and Santa had been, that is.

Should have been good.

 

[Macky]

Should have been good.

Should of

 

[spionfox]

Dunno. My mum's a Geordie, does that make a difference?

It would in the bedroom. Ooh that Geordie lass whispering in my ear...........................

 

[fitz]

It would in the bedroom. Ooh that Geordie lass whispering in my ear...........................

A whispering Geordie lass? Sounds like you've been duped.

 

[spionfox]

A whispering Geordie lass? Sounds like you've been duped.