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FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
edited March 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Speaking as a child of the seventies, who remembers Jokers soft drinks? They used to have Tom and Jerry on the can. I suppose I'm going back to about 1976.


Googling has been fruitless.
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  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Can an American chime in? :)
    This one?
    http://www.usasoda.com/images/carTJ1.jpg

    Here is the website I found it on:
    http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.usasoda.com/images/carTJ1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.usasoda.com/Toons.htm&h=466&w=252&sz=41&hl=en&start=29&um=1&tbnid=xbUhcX4xxg9d-M:&tbnh=128&tbnw=69&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtom%2Band%2Bjerry%2Bsoda%2B%26start%3D18%26ndsp%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Same cartoon characters, Trixie! But different brand. The characters would have speech bubbles coming from their mouths, one giving the main part of the joke and the other giving the punchline.
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    I suspect you 'had' this stuff to wash down those little mushrooms you picked on the mountainside ;)

    Can't remember it, sorry. What about TAB cola? That was shit, wasn't it?
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Speaking as a child of the seventies, who remembers Jokers soft drinks? They used to have Tom and Jerry on the can. I suppose I'm going back to about 1976.


    Googling has been fruitless.


    nope... but i was a child of the 80's i suppose.

    its annoying that though.. like no-one else i know can remember King Prawn Monster Munch... but they definitely existed!!!
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • reversedarwinismreversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
    There usually seems to be alot of British people here. It looks like a small country goegraphically, like yall aren't too far from eachother. I have no idea how many people live there. May be England has tons of people crammed together, but I always picture green country side with farm houses and little towns with pubs. I've never been there, but I'd like to check it out someday.
    bombs, dropping down, please forgive our hometown
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    dunkman wrote:
    nope... but i was a child of the 80's i suppose.

    its annoying that though.. like no-one else i know can remember King Prawn Monster Munch... but they definitely existed!!!


    I can remember shrinking a packet of King Prawn Monster Munch in the oven. It came out tiny, but perfectly formed. Like one of Danny de Vito's nads, I suppose.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    reversedarwinism wrote:
    There usually seems to be alot of British people here. It looks like a small country goegraphically, like yall aren't too far from eachother. I have no idea how many people live there. May be England has tons of people crammed together, but I always picture green country side with farm houses and little towns with pubs. I've never been there, but I'd like to check it out someday.


    It's a concrete shithole and all the pubs are closing down because of that twat of a prime minister and his taxes.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Anyway, topic integrity. Jokers. I need to find evidence.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    reversedarwinism wrote:
    There usually seems to be alot of British people here. It looks like a small country goegraphically, like yall aren't too far from eachother. I have no idea how many people live there. May be England has tons of people crammed together, but I always picture green country side with farm houses and little towns with pubs. I've never been there, but I'd like to check it out someday.
    lol. come check out Manchester, Birmingham or London. Especially London south of the river.

    Of course, there are places like the idyll you describe but it is the minority that live in those places. I live in one when I'm home. When I'm at university however, like the vast majority of us I live in a bland, grey, concrete shithole.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I can see myself, in July 1976, on my fourth birthday, sitting on my tricycle with the Mary Mungo and Midge sticker on the seat, in the back yard in the sunshine, drinking a can of Jokers and eating Doctor Who chocolate. Anyone remember Doctor Who chocolate? It had Tommmmmmmmmm Bakerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr on the wrapper, and he was sitting in his yellow old banger, Bessie.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Christ Richard, you're so old.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Nah, you little bleeders just keep being born and popping up on the board. :D
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Who remembers getting a colour telly for the first time?

    We were really late getting one in our house. We didn't get one until 1977. I can remember the old black and white. It was a valve set, and the valves would always explode during Heads and Tails with Derek Griffiths.
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    It's a concrete shithole and all the pubs are closing down because of that twat of a prime minister and his taxes.

    I don't remember the last time I saw a real independent pub. It's all 'Wetherspoons' and 'Slug and Fucking Lettuce'.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    I don't remember the last time I saw a real independent pub. It's all 'Wetherspoons' and 'Slug and Fucking Lettuce'.


    Do they sell Jokers and have black and white valve sets?
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    jamie uk wrote:
    I suspect you 'had' this stuff to wash down those little mushrooms you picked on the mountainside ;)

    Can't remember it, sorry. What about TAB cola? That was shit, wasn't it?


    That was the gheyest drink ever.
  • FifthelementFifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,961
    reversedarwinism wrote:
    There usually seems to be alot of British people here. It looks like a small country goegraphically, like yall aren't too far from eachother. I have no idea how many people live there. May be England has tons of people crammed together, but I always picture green country side with farm houses and little towns with pubs. I've never been there, but I'd like to check it out someday.

    Before I got here I thought the same way. Geographically everything looks close. But they do not have the same wide-open highway systems as in North America and there seems to be a hell of a lot more traffic on the roads. So getting around seems to take forever. I used to bitch about the hour-long drive to get from the ferry terminal at Tsawassen to the Trans-Canada Highway - not any more.

    *Topic intergrity* Sorry, never heard of the product you are wondering about.
    "What the CANUCK happened?!? - Esquimalt Barber Shop
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    I don't remember the last time I saw a real independent pub. It's all 'Wetherspoons' and 'Slug and Fucking Lettuce'.
    You fucking west londoners :rolleyes: get dahn to the saaf. The Marquis of Granby in New Cross is a proper pub. Bastards don't even clean the glasses. Cheese toasties are only a quid though and the Jukebox just plays Van Morrison and the Pogues all day.

    This thread is good for me. I often think to myself that I am old beyond my years, in my mind and soon, if the way I treat it is anything to go by, in my body. This is a nice reminder that I'm not as old as some of you people :p
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Shut yer gob, Jimster. In a few years, you wait, just you wait ... some little student who right now is just a twinkle in his old man's Y-fronts will be telling you're old for reminiscing about CD players and the advent of DVD. You mark my words. :D
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Anyway. Back to these television sets. Anyone remember when there were just the three channels?
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Anyway. Back to these television sets. Anyone remember when there were just the three channels?

    Sure do, AND...you had to get your arse offa the sofa to change the channel over on a swtch on the wall.
    Also the three channels we had weren't on all day and night, 'test card' anyone ?
    p.s. sorry, no Jokers memory, can I get you a you a Topdec, and a Texan bar though?
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    jamie uk wrote:
    Sure do, AND...you had to get your arse offa the sofa to change the channel over on a swtch on the wall.
    Also the three channels we had weren't on all day and night, 'test card' anyone ?
    p.s. sorry, no Jokers memory, can I get you a you a Topdec, and a Texan bar though?


    I remember those. I might be wrong, but I only started seeing Texan bars in about 1978-9. Topdec were around for ages.


    Oh, I remember the test card, all right. A typical day on the BBC in the seventies was: Open University programmes, around six. Then closedown. Then an Indian music programme (remember that?), then schools and colleges programmes until about midday. Then closedown. (You'd switch over to ITV for their kids' programmes, then.) I can't remember when the afternoon news bulletin would come on on the BBC, but there'd be Pebble Mill at One, more kids' programmes (of the Bagpuss/Mr Benn/Fingerbobs variety). Then there'd be another closedown for a couple of hours. Then there'd be some programme or other before four, and there'd be more kids' programmes (Jackanory, Blue Peter, etc). At twenty to six you'd get the news, and at six there'd be nationwide. Fook knows what would be on after that. I was only little.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTVYHqHhCXY
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    We had one of these old videos, when I was a kid! Look at the size of that thing!


    No picture search on it.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyvFu8nqC-0&NR=1
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    Those videos were huge, and incredible. Maggie Thatcher made my old man redundant in 1980, and with his pay off he bought us a Panasonic video machine. We were the first in the street to have one, and first night we had it, my brothers g/f brought us a film from the hire shop to watch...'Driller Killer' :eek:. It was the age of the video nasty!!!

    The machine the old man bought in 1980 cost £550 !!!!
    The last one we bought here, about 4 years ago cost us £29.99!!!!
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTVYHqHhCXY

    It's ridiculous to think they would put that on, I can remember it all too well. What about this, must've been 1980/81 ish, ITV started getting all funky and putting pop videos on to fill unsuspected gaps between shows. Like the news would finish, and before the next show, completely out of the blue you'd get Judas Priest doing Breaking the Law, dressed as vicars!!!!
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    That was the gheyest drink ever.


    Nothing ghey about the Tab, dude ! ;)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJL4yQn_7qQ
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNk4fFn9FQ0
  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNk4fFn9FQ0
    You have the creepiest kid shows in the UK....:o
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    TrixieCat wrote:
    You have the creepiest kid shows in the UK....:o


    You should see what we had instead of ads, half the time in the '70s, then! :D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt016gTNp_k
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWcFAJ1_bok

    This one scared the living shit out of me:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-cHH0vl5cM



    :eek:
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