Silly crazes you remember

jme2010 · 02-06-2011 10:47am

Ball-in-a-cup.

It's ok, because the ball is on a string attached to the cup!

JustAddWater · 02-06-2011 10:54am

jme2010 wrote: »

Ball-in-a-cup.

2 Girls, 1 Cup

Pupito · 02-06-2011 11:14am

Ouija Boards.

An odd craze swept my school around 1997, you tapped in some fourteen number code into your brick mobile, and you could listen to phone conversations going on in England. I have no idea whether or not this was some sort of hoax, since I only tried it the once.

JustAddWater · 02-06-2011 11:16am

Pupito wrote: »

Ouija Boards.

An odd craze swept my school around 1999, you tapped in some fourteen number code into your brick mobile, and you could listen to phone conversations going on in England. I have no idea whether or not this was some sort of hoax, since I only tried it the once.

I got caught by something similar on a nokia once

Press menu, 3, 5, 3 or something along those lines (not exact!) and then your menu defaults to arab or turkish or some junk like that!

Took days to figure out how to get it back to english! ha!

Uncle Mclovin · 02-06-2011 11:30am

Could have been posted already but

X Works Jeans. If you didn't have them you were seriously uncool.

And.... Oakland Raiders Bomber Jackets. Unfortunately for me at the time my mother wouldn't buy me the coveted bomber jacket.

Edit: Having now read through the thread I see it wasn't just my town that wore the ole X-works.

WASP0 · 02-06-2011 11:31am

The Pepsi Challenge

Nice way to get free samples of cola back in the day!

JustAddWater · 02-06-2011 11:39am

NAFF Co 54 jackets!

Cots1 · 02-06-2011 12:10pm

Sunny Delight how bad was it really.

Ct25 · 02-06-2011 12:11pm

Cavan Cola!!! Miss this stuff!
The Step Haircut!
Doc Martens.

Buddinplant · 02-06-2011 1:52pm

Pretty_Pistol wrote: »

Neon cycling shorts became popular for a time in the early 90's.

Remeber i had a pair of what could only be described as someones acid trip in clothing form. girls in primary would wear em under the skirts pinafors, so you could do cartwheels or other such rambuncous nonsense at break time and not get taunted by the lads (who secretly liked you

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cocoshovel · 02-06-2011 2:11pm

Those little silver bags that cost like 30p that used to inflate and pop, then all fizzy bubbles would come out. Can't remember what they were called at all. Fizzy bags? Eh.

Potato wedges when they first came into shops (or maybe that was just in my neighborhood)

Flashy lights on the side of your runners & velcro straps instead of laces.

Rantan · 02-06-2011 10:07pm

good logs... wrote: »

CRUSTY WHITE DOG ****, DONT SEE ANY MORE....

weird I heard this being discussed somewherre recently....cant remember where though...apparently they used to put bone meal in dog food and that used to turn the s**t white, but I think after the mad cow scare are something similar they stopped putting bone in the food.......

Kersh · 02-06-2011 11:39pm

Pannini football stickers from pre-premiership days.

Lolo balls.

Kelloggs had little airplanes you had to make up, in their cereals, they were deadly.

8 tokens for dinky vintage van with Kelloggs

Trench coats in secondary school :cool:

Whistles you could buy in the shops in the 80s that had a weird sound like a ballbearing whizzing around in it. The harder you blew the louder the noise.

vixdname · 03-06-2011 5:50am

Does anyone remember the little styro-foam glider aeroplanes that came in a flat packet that you stuck in the wings etc and they had a little plastic propeller for the nose and you threw it as hard as you could and it would very slowly glide back to ground, they were usually colored as WW2 planes ?

Jesus Wept · 03-06-2011 6:30am

KeithM89 wrote: »

Pogs.

Remember Alf? He's back, in pog form.

ratmouse · 03-06-2011 4:05pm

Buddinplant wrote: »

Remeber i had a pair of what could only be described as someones acid trip in clothing form. girls in primary would wear em under the skirts pinafors, so you could do cartwheels or other such rambuncous nonsense at break time and not get taunted by the lads (who secretly liked you )

We did the same in our primary school!

boogle · 03-06-2011 4:17pm

Anyone on here ever drink "Cavan Cola" (yes, it was a real drink). Lovely stuff, and you got a head on it like a pint of stout.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SoWTqfEqbSc/TDN5_89U13I/AAAAAAAAAZA/I-eHzv3HnC0/s1600/cavancola.bmp

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 03-06-2011 4:47pm

Cadet cola and orange,is that still being sold?.

orourkeda · 03-06-2011 5:00pm

Jedmania

TheRealSquishy · 03-06-2011 10:04pm

When mobile phones first came out and everyone had those speakeasy watches, the silver ones with the elasticy strap! And the printed stickers of your number that came with the phone. That fad literally lasted a week!

Spice girls memorablia wasn't a fad it was a way of life!

Good movies, that was a great fad, bring it back!

cookie75 · 03-06-2011 10:20pm

Wham bars , refreshers and chocolate mice happy days:)

03-06-2011 10:30pm

army parka jackets!!

everyone had green ones, i had a navy blue one.

the height of cool in my secondary school!

keithzer · 03-06-2011 10:33pm

Collecting 25 coca cola lids to get a watch in xtravision

pencilsharp · 04-06-2011 2:17am

Do you remember The School Around the Corner with Gerry Ryan on a Sunday evening? I know it wasn't a craze but I used to wish my school would be on it! 'The school around the corners just the same, even though the kids may play a different game..........'!

I remember making friendship bracelets in loads of different colours, my mam used to get this special thread in Hickeys for it, and we all used to try have as many colours on our bracelets as possible!!

Lanaier · 04-06-2011 6:15am

Many of the things posted were not "crazes " but rather "things people have/do when they are kids that many kids today still have/do".

With that in mind:

Conquers.
Top Trumps.
Those sweets that would crackle in your mouth.
Insert 80's toy that probably still exists here. IE : transformers, gi-joe, lego.
GI-joe figures that had a parachute, you threw them in the air and sometimes the parachute would kinda work.

some random drunk · 04-06-2011 11:39am

Girls wearing cycling shorts for no reason. Good times.

Neighbours trading cards and later Neighbours sticker books. "I'll swap ya 2 Harold Bishop's for your Joe Mangel".

Wearing a T-shirt with Bart Simpson saying "Ay Carumba" or "Don't have a cow man!".

That yellow duck character that looked a bit like one of the Simpsons. Used to see him on t-shirts everywhere. Anyone remember him?

Girls wearing an old man's flat cap. Backwards. What was that about?

Carrying a swiss army knife with you at all times. Because Macgyver had one.

Bringing a blank audio tape whenever you went to a friend's house so you could copy their commodore 64 games.

Dinosaur T shirts. Dinosaur stickers. Dinsosaur stationery. Everything possible thing to do with Dinosaurs.

Plastic footballs with "Cup Champions" written on them in red or blue. If you had a plastic football with "Derby" written on it you weren't cool.

Those Nerf bow and arrow things and the many cheap knockoffs. They always looked so cool on the tv ads with huge groups of kids having a battle in a forest or treehouse. In reality it was just you, in your kitchen, shooting foam arrows at your cat. And missing.

Larianne · 04-06-2011 11:41am

Lanaier wrote: »

Many of the things posted were not "crazes " but rather "things people have/do when they are kids that many kids today still have/do".

With that in mind:

Conquers.
Top Trumps.
Those sweets that would crackle in your mouth.
Insert 80's toy that probably still exists here. IE : transformers, gi-joe, lego.
GI-joe figures that had a parachute, you threw them in the air and sometimes the parachute would kinda work.

Oh! I loved Top Trumps. My brothers had a deadly dinosaur set. Aw, I wanna play now.

AckwelFoley · 04-06-2011 11:52am

the lolo ball.. remember it? Looked like the planet Saturn and you stood on it and hopped around the place

Calculator watches

Spiked Hair.. not long spiked.. short spiked hair

Under cut hair..hong hair on top, shaved underneath

Commadore 64

Spread · 04-06-2011 12:14pm

A well combed DA

Martyn1989 · 05-06-2011 1:30pm

Valerie Billions Surface wrote: »

Cadet cola and orange,is that still being sold?.

I saw it in a texaco on the howth road recently!

Martyn1989 · 05-06-2011 1:32pm

Screwball Scrabble and Bop It!!!!

Golden Axe and Streets of Rage for Sega Megadrive!

blogga · 05-06-2011 3:17pm

David Norris.

Nead21 · 05-06-2011 4:19pm

Smash Hits and Big magazines and hanging the band posters on your bedroom walls.

sgb · 05-06-2011 9:15pm

In the 90's girls used to wear bodies, them things were impossible to get off

Compton · 05-06-2011 9:36pm

marbles

wing52 · 05-06-2011 10:00pm

Raleigh burner/grifter

Bleedin' rapid bud

AceHi · 05-06-2011 10:07pm

"Shag tags", furbies, monopoly and atmosphere!

Eve_Dublin · 05-06-2011 10:23pm

This has probably been mentioned before but I missed it...those rubber bracelets with words like "Hope", "Energy" etc. on them. I'd a part time job selling them on a stall on a market in England. I made a packet.