phases and crazes from your youth..

nicking a couple of bolts and a nut from Dad's shed, buying loads of those cap things you put in toy guns and putting them between the bolt screwing the together with the nut and thrown on the ground for a loud bang, that went onto one of your mates lgetting hold of rook scarers from his farmer dads supply and setting them off in rotten tree stumps.
Yep dangerous times and we all survived :)
 
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Peter Powell 2 string kites were popular (he died a couple of weeks ago) and I also remember about the same time as clackers a coloured, corrugated tube about 4' long that you would twirl vigorously to make a howling noise, not a very sophisticated toy that one. :)
 
Cartus said:
Peter Powell 2 string kites were popular (he died a couple of weeks ago) and I also remember about the same time as clackers a coloured, corrugated tube about 4' long that you would twirl vigorously to make a howling noise, not a very sophisticated toy that one. :)
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I'd forgotten that pipe - yes, I had one (bright 1970's orange) too.
 
Does anyone remember a playground game called "True, Dare, Double dare, Love, Kiss or Promise"? I think boys and girls took turns, and you had to choose one of those, such as Dare, and the others decided what dare you had to do. Or something?
 
Not a craze but I was given a 'Johnny Seven' (One Man Army!) one birthday, most of my friends had the attaché case 'Secret Sam'.

I saw a J7 for sale recently which made me wish I still had mine, untouched and in it's box of course!
 
ianp5a said:
Does anyone remember a playground game called "True, Dare, Double dare, Love, Kiss or Promise"? I think boys and girls took turns, and you had to choose one of those, such as Dare, and the others decided what dare you had to do. Or something?
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Sounds more like a girl's game :LOL:
 
Platforms, wedges, stack heels, loon pants ( 24" flares, skin tight above the knees, no pockets) scoop neck T shirts with flared sleeves, belt pouches, home made bombs (it wasn't us who blew up the Brick fields, honest officer) splits, throwing arrows (3 ft canes with sharpened & hardened points, playing cards for flights & a notch to wind on the string used to throw it), firing paper clips with elastic bands, catapult fights with acorns as ammo (ouch!!)
 
just remembered another "interesting" one that some of the charmers I went to school with did... making "blowpipe darts" from the Aglet-end of a shoelace and 1/2" of the lace, fray the lace into tassels, push a dressmakers pin through the aglet from tasseled end, so the point sticks out the front - remove the ink and the stopper from a bic biro to use as the blowpipe. Would stick in a blackboard from the rear of the class, not to mention the back of the class spod's head.
 
'Ecky thump' - inspired by The Goodies but with black puddings replaced with the rubber tubing pinched from the Bunsen burners in the chemistry labs.
 
TheBigYin said:
just remembered another "interesting" one that some of the charmers I went to school with did... making "blowpipe darts" from the Aglet-end of a shoelace and 1/2" of the lace, fray the lace into tassels, push a dressmakers pin through the aglet from tasseled end, so the point sticks out the front - remove the ink and the stopper from a bic biro to use as the blowpipe. Would stick in a blackboard from the rear of the class, not to mention the back of the class spod's head.
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THANK YOU, Mark! I've been racking my brain (or what's left of it!) for the name of that end-of-lace thingy for ages!
 
Pirates - going round the sports hall on the equipment without touching the floor.
We used to have metal clips that we'd fire at each other using elastic bands, a lad nearly lost an eye with those so they got banned.
Oxford bags, brogues with segs, doctor marten boots.
The cane darts with the playing cards as flights and the string to launch them, we were shown how to make them by a teacher and used to fire them the length of the football pitch.
 
Boots with blakeys in the soles.

Toxic beer injections - At school mix stuff nicked from physics and chemistry, saliva, pencil sharpener bits etc etc, then dip in a compass point and stab it in the kid next to you, in the leg.
 
Several of the above. Regarding cap detonation devices, you could buy from toy-shops a plastic bomb-shaped thing with flights and a spring-loaded steel point that would hold a cap in the tip which could be thrown against a wall or launched upwards. One game we used to play that hasn't been mentioned was French Cricket.

Also, my Dad used to buy cans of flammable degreaser called Gunk, for his motorbike chain. When he wasn't around, I'd make an origami container from a sheet of paper which could hold a fluid ounce or so of the stuff, fill it with Gunk, quickly light the paper before it softened and throw it against trees or walls. I didn't use glass bottles as I knew broken glass was dangerous:rolleyes:
 
Pepe jeans and keyrings
Kickers shoes
Shell top adidas trainers
Converse
Drifter (bicycle)
Bmx
Nunchaku
 
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