What ever happened to.....?

[TreeHuggery]

Pink Parrafin
Sterilised milk
Powerballs
Stick-on heated rear 'windows' for cars
Butterflies (lots of)

I remember putting a stick on heated rear window on my car - I can also remember having to drive with the choke fully out all the way to work... and having to walk to phone boxes to call the RAC when it repeatedly broke down (in the end they told me that "they weren't a garage" which was a shame 'cos I'd rather thought they were...

 

[swee'pea99]

we started to treat women as people, not as decorative objects in swimwear

...or sausages.

 

[TheDoctor]

That too.
This thread needs the Blackadder 3 Prince Regent shouting "Sausage time!"

 

[andytheflyer]

Balsa wood

There's plenty of it in my workshop for building and repairing model aircraft.

 

[Massivecompacthalo]

Just wondering the other day after watching Inner Space with my kids....Rod Stewart?!

 

[oldfatfool]

(I hate beauty contests - that goes without saying

You still haven't got over only placing second in miss Hebden Bridge 2014 have you Col?

 

[ColinJ]

You still haven't got over only placing second in miss Hebden Bridge 2014 have you Col?

I wouldn't complain, but only 2 of us entered!

 

[Milkfloat]

I wouldn't complain, but only 2 of us entered!

Better than poor Jenny

 

[Fnaar]

Beauty contests!

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Miss Sausage 1955

I think that's Mis Goodbody's great Aunt

 

[Fnaar]

You just have to know what to search for

Is that the Mr Sausage contest?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Belisha beacons

I was talking to someone last night about Parking Meters (don't ask!), and we wondered whatever happened to them, I mean, there must have been millions of the things, it must have cost a fortune to make them, install them, and then resurface pavements after they disappeared. It is quite mind boggling when you think about it!

Where did they all go?? Were they all melted down, or, as I like to think, are they all in a huge warehouse somewhere in Acton, waiting for their return??

Or an actual squirrel, I suppose!

...... Followed by a nasty Brain destroying Prion disease as some people in the U.S. found after eating them.

Spangles

They did bring them back for a short period sometime in the '90s

Clacker Balls

Probably banned for being too interesting.

I wouldn't complain, but only 2 of us entered!

Was the other entrant Rocky Mountain by any chance??

 

[mybike]

I was talking to someone last night about Parking Meters (don't ask!), and we wondered whatever happened to them, I mean, there must have been millions of the things, it must have cost a fortune to make them, install them, and then resurface pavements after they disappeared. It is quite mind boggling when you think about it!

Where did they all go?? Were they all melted down, or, as I like to think, are they all in a huge warehouse somewhere in Acton, waiting for their return??

They'll turn up as villains in Dr Who.

I was reminded of the Nimble Girl.

 

[jefmcg]

Probably banned for being too interesting.

United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls

 

[User169]

Just wondering the other day after watching Inner Space with my kids....Rod Stewart?!

Prolly just as well..

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

^^^^^
What was he thinking??