Author Topic: 1976 - the best year ever? (Read 7089 times)

legless · « **on:** March 17, 2004, 07:11:50 »

according to some academics...

...must have been - i was born! ;D

Mimi · « **Reply #1 on:** March 17, 2004, 07:14:28 »

Sure was for me. Got married in August. ;D What a long, hot and fabulous summer we had that year. Sigh :D

Granny_Smith · « **Reply #2 on:** March 17, 2004, 07:23:01 »

One of my daughters was born in August - I remember the heatwave and the ladybirds (swarms of them covered everything in sight).

legless · « **Reply #3 on:** March 17, 2004, 07:34:42 »

apparently i used to eat the ladybirds cos they were crawling all over me :D

Doris_Pinks · « **Reply #4 on:** March 17, 2004, 07:58:02 »

I just remember the HEAT! ;D Oh and trying to sit mock exams in it :(

Moggle · « **Reply #5 on:** March 17, 2004, 08:11:00 »

I was born in 76 too :-)

rdak · « **Reply #6 on:** March 17, 2004, 08:12:55 »

and me

Ceri · « **Reply #7 on:** March 17, 2004, 08:26:13 »

and me....

no, actually I'm lying was 1967 a good year - its got the same numbers in it after all... or am I just clutching at straws.....

Muddy_Boots · « **Reply #8 on:** March 17, 2004, 10:17:27 »

good job, money in bank, flat an car and good social life, didn't know was born! All distant memory now - eek! What went wrong :( :( :( :o

tim · « **Reply #9 on:** March 17, 2004, 11:22:42 »

The 1st year of my RETIREMENT - V good!! = Tim

ava_banana · « **Reply #10 on:** March 17, 2004, 12:29:50 »

........1967 I agree was a better year to be born in........ ;)

...although I remember 1976 very well....all those telly programmes about saving water....news bulletins about empty reservoirs......

....playing in the garden on long hot summer afternoons/evenings, running through the water from the hose (prior to the hosepipe bans... ::))......

.....water-pistol fights that went on all afternoon...... :)

.....aaahhh....memories.....(insert wistful smiley here).....

Mrs Ava · « **Reply #11 on:** March 17, 2004, 13:11:31 »

me was 5 and have absolutely no memory of it what so ever! ;D Mind, I have trouble remembering what I did yesterday! :o

Ragged Robin · « **Reply #12 on:** March 17, 2004, 14:02:47 »

wont say how old i was....ok 14......very serious and studious.....didn't have a clue......snogging at school discos was the height of sophisticated behaviour

and then it all went downhill.....

allotment_chick · « **Reply #13 on:** March 17, 2004, 15:58:57 »

....the decade that fashion forgot, married three years in '76, hated the heat, mortgage, no money, awful wine (mainly Blue Nun and Mateus Rose was chic!) and a cheese and pineapple hedgehog was the height of sophisticated party buffet food...but Starky and Hutch (esp Starksy .. mmm) and The Carpenters!

But I found this which seems to say it so much better that I could:
You know you are a ‘70s child’ if:
- You wore bellbottoms, turtlenecks and tank-tops.
- You had that Fisher-Price doctor's kit with a stethoscope that actually worked. After training with these tools you became an expert at the game of Operation.
- You thought Starsky and Hutch were the height of fashion.
- You had wellies for rainy days. If you were lucky, your mum bought you the green ones with the frog's eyes on the end.
- You had a toy Womble and kept your pocket money in a Wombles' money box.
- You had either a 'bowl cut' or a 'pixie' (not to mention the 'Dorothy Hamill') because your mum was sick of plaiting your hair. How traumatic when people thought you were a boy.
- You had a fluffy Bagpuss pyjama case that you took everywhere with you.
You begged Father Christmas for the electronic game ... Simon.
- You preferred Sindy to Barbie.
- You loved bouncing around on your orange Space Hopper.
- You still have a place in your heart for Noel Edmonds thanks to The Multi-Coloured Swap Shop.
- If your parents wouldn't let you have a Ronald MacDonald or a Mr Wimpy birthday party, you weren't having one.
- You truly believed that a pair of glasses made Superman unrecognisable as Clark Kent.
- You loved your multi-coloured legwarmers.
- Roger Moore is the definitive James Bond.
- You memorised every song in the Annie movie and know at least one person who immediately went out and got the Annie haircut. Every now and then 'It's A Hard Knock Life' will pop into your brain and you can't stop singing it all day.
- You had Star Wars action figures, too.
- You desperately wanted a lava lamp.
- You wished you were part of the Von Trapp family.
- You loved The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe so much, you crawled into wardrobes and actually believed for a few seconds that you were on your way to Narnia.
- You have a pathological fear of sharks. Just the theme tune 'der-dum, der-dum, der-dum' is enough to stop you getting in the water.
- Penelope Pitstop was the epitome of girlpower.
- You used to tape-record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape recorder up to the speaker.
- You thought the Atari 2600 was the ultimate in sophisticated computer technology.
- You thought the Bay City Rollers were naff. Yes, you actually used the word 'naff'.
- Shoelaces with heart or rainbow designs.
- You worshipped Zippy, George and Bungle
- You collected Smurfs and think the Smurf Song is a travesty.
- You wanted to be one of Pan's People.

:D

allotment_chick · « **Reply #14 on:** March 17, 2004, 16:22:24 »

The only hat I can remember were those awful 'fun fur' helmet-type things that did up under the chin - we must have looked totally stupid! And Snoods - were they 70s?

:o AC x

Ragged Robin · « **Reply #15 on:** March 17, 2004, 16:57:04 »

sad to say.....my hero/heartthrob was.....

David Essex.....closely followed by David Bowie.......so there was some hope even then...

and I did wear flares....

allotment_chick · « **Reply #16 on:** March 17, 2004, 17:00:52 »

Snooda are tubes (usually knitted) which you could either wear as a polo neck type effect or you could pull back over your head as a hat - here's one (you'll need to scroll down):
http://www.orkneyangora.co.uk/headwear.html

AC x

Carol · « **Reply #17 on:** March 17, 2004, 19:46:58 »

It was a long hot summer and if you peeps had lotties then then you would have had dryed up allotments. I remember the grass being brown with the shortage of rain. I also remember my lunch breaks being spent outside basking in the sun, loverly......

Me and hubby bought our first house in '76. Exciting it was too and we scrimbed and scraped to get the furniture bought, we got a bit at a time. Hubby borrowed money from his Mother to put up a shed for his very small garden and yes he put up a 'huge' shed. He has not changed, we always have big sheds, need planning permission sometimes.

Good days .......

aquilegia · « **Reply #18 on:** March 18, 2004, 09:32:48 »

Most definitely was the best year ever - it was the first year in which both hubby and I were on this planet! (we are of course both aliens!)

I am still a child of the 70s. I am at this very moment wearing flares, as usual (although I don't do tank tops). I always wanted some of those frog wellies, but mum always got me normal ones. :'( I had the bowl cut, although mum paid good money for it. :o

I still cry when I hear the theme tune to Bagpuss as I just love it so much. (especially the bit: "he was just an old, saggy cloth cat, coming a little apart at the seams, but Emily loved him" - even typing that now, I'm feeling all emotional!) Sindy was so much prettier than Barbie. Yep - had a space hopper. Always wanted a chopper, but had an ordinary bike.

Noel Edmonds, though, is the spawn of satan, as is Ronald McDonald. shiver. But I'm not scared of sharks as I didn't watch Jaws til I was 18 as mum and dad wanted to protect me from nightmares! (I laughed most of my way through the film!)

ah nostalgia!

tim · « **Reply #19 on:** March 18, 2004, 09:53:09 »

OH! So THAT'S what you meant, legless? = Tim

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Author Topic: 1976 - the best year ever? (Read 7089 times)

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