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You watched the ABC more than any other station. Those days are
long gone.
You made worms by squeezing your Vegemite or peanut butter crackers
together.
Healthy Harold day was the best because you got to miss class to
sit in a tiny caravan and listen to a talking giraffe.
Super League almost ruining rugby league in Australia.
Getting the Easter Show guide from the paper and circling all the
show bags you wanted.
You thought everyone in America carried a gun and you never wanted
to go there because you were were scared you'd get shot.
Blinky Bill, Sesame Street and Spot.
You always used to see that dried out, white dog poo on the
footpath. You never see that anymore.
SuperTed, Widget The World Watcher and Samurai Pizza Cats.
Going to the Easter Show with a big group of friends from school
once you were old enough to go without Mum and Dad.
Doing research for school projects by going to the library or
looking up an encyclopaedia rather than using the internet.
Paul Keating was some guy that ran the country and John Howard
became the only PM you really ever knew because you were too young
to care before that.
Banana Man, Bangers and Mash and The Raggy Dolls.
Game Boy.
Waking up early everyday to watch Agro's Cartoon Connection.
Hey Hey It's Saturday.
Everyone got the Coke bag at the Easter Show and it was only $10.
Buying those 6 packs of Coco Pops, Fruit Loops, Frosties
, Rice
Bubbles, Nutri-Grain and Corn Flakes so you could have a different
one each day and then opening the packets really carefully and
removing the cereal so you'd have a mini wardrobe afterwards. You
also most probably just let your parents eat the Corn Flakes.
Trying to make the Rainbow Road shortcut on Mario Kart 64.
Postman Pat, Fireman Sam and Lift Off (that show with the dirty,
blind doll named EC).
Playing GoldenEye on the Nintendo 64 and arguing over whether
Oddjob was allowed to be used in multiplayer.
The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Super International Cricket on the SNES.
Arguing over which was better - Nintendo 64 or PlayStation.
Don't push me, push a push pop!
Nobody made not jokes... NOT!!
Who shot Mr Burns?
Watching Captain Planet and then driving your parents mad by always
singing the song.
That's so funny, I forgot to laugh.
You decorated your room with glow-in-the-dark stickers.
You played marbles and could name all the different types like blue
moon, oily, candy, red wine, galaxy and red devil. You never played
anyone for your god marble.
Feeling sad when your Tamagotchi died.
Singing "This is the song that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on
my friend, some people started singing it not knowing what it was,
and they'll continue singing it forever just because this is the
song thatdoesn't end, yes it goes..."
Dolly the sheep.
Getting up early to watch the Rage Top 50.
Friends when they were all actually just friends. Why didn't
Phoebe andJoey get together?
Sonic the Hedgehog.
Watching The Simpsons back when it was funny, every night on
Channel 10.
Power Rangers becoming cooler than the Ninja Turtles, even though
the Turtles will always be cooler.
Watching South Park for the first time and being really excited by
all the swearing.
Blowing on the Nintendo cartridge before putting it in the console
to make sure it worked properly.
Smell the cheese.
Vulcan, Tower, Flame... Australian Gladiators.
Playing Mortal Kombat and trying to do a fatality but just ending
up punching accidentally.
Pokemon! Gotta catch 'em all!
Watching Hey Dad! and then seeing little Arthur McArthur go on to
star in that famous Sorbent ad.
Full Frontal, not Comedy Inc.
Wolfenstein, Doom and Duke Nukem.
Downloading music from Napster.
Chatting with your buddies on ICQ.
Going to see Titanic.
And the winner is Sydney.
Mighty Max and Polly Pocket. Max and Polly always got lost because
they were so bloody small.
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
Ray Martin hosted A Current Affair.
Zoopa Doopa ice blocks were only 20c and if you couldn't afford
it, you asked the canteen lady to cut it in half so you could
split it with a friend.
Happy Meals were only $2.95 and the toys were simple but actually
good.
Thorpe won lots of gold medals and wasn't so gay.
Opposite day.
Playing tackle Bull Rush at lunchtime and having tackling banned.
You had to resort to grab 1-2-3 or tip. Same goes for footy.
Pogs and Looney Tunes Tazos.
Yo-Ho Diablos
Nobody won Wimbledon unless their name was Pete Sampras.
Smarties were better than M&Ms...and both of them were way better
thanmoney, because you could eat them.
You tried Dr. Pepper and hated it.
Service stations didn't need space for 4 digits on their petrol
prices signs.
Girl germs! Boy germs!
Goosebumps.
You had to actually call your friends rather than send them an SMS.
Hubba Bubba.
Wearing a Chicago Bulls T-shirt or cap. Wearing the cap backwards.
The feeling of wonder you got, the first time you were able to see
the image in one of those Magic Eye 3D pictures.
The Secret World of Alex Mack.
Talk to the hand!
Johnson and Friends, Noddy and Humphrey B. Bear.
You wished you had enough Lego to build those amazing cities they
displayed in the brochures.
Slap bracelets.
Jurassic Park and those toy dinosaurs where you could pull a piece
of the skin out to see its insides.
Roger Ramjet, he's our man, hero of our nation.
We had paper money.
Good on ya Mum! Tip Top's the one!
You could buy more than enough food from the school canteen for
only $2.
Begging your parents to go to McDonald's for dinner.
Rocko's Modern Life, Rugrats and Hey Arnold!
Noni, Monica and that bald guy named George on Play School.
Going to World 4 Kids to look at all the toys.
Watching The Lion King and feeling Simba's pain when Mufasa died.
Disney just doesn't make them like that anymore.
Soft serve cones were only 30c and they never tried to up-sell a
Flake because they didn't have it.
Wanting a Brain or Silver Bullet during the yo-yo craze.
Nesquik without the Nes.
Troll Dolls.
The Kids' Works at Pizza Hut with unlimited drink refills. You
made an ice cream mountain covered in choc chips and marshmallows
and could never finish it.
Thomas the Tank Engine and TUGS.
Ba-na-na-na-na! Ba-na-na-na-na! Make those bodies sing!
You had to get your photos developed.
Street Sharks and Biker Mice From Mars
Competing with your friends to see who could eat the most sour
Warheads in one go.
The Channel 9 logo had dots next to it and the Channel 7 logo
wasn't a folded piece of paper.
No Hat, no play.
Dr. Dreadful Food Labs. Kids these days wouldn't be allowed that
because its not healthy enough. We didn't give a shit about our
health in the 90's.
High five! Up high, down low, too slow!
Watching Round the Twist and getting pissed off that the actors
kept on changing. You still loved it though.
Cheating in Heads Down, Thumbs Up.
Watching that game show called Vidiot. Game shows didn't have
to beeducational back then, like That's Academic... that show
sucks.
Collecting basketball cards, whether you followed basketball or not.
You always wished your parents had bought you a bigger Super
Soaker for Christmas. Christmas is hot in Australia... the more
water, the better.
Collecting hundreds of tickets from Timezone just so you could
trade them for some crappy prize that you could have bought from
Woolies for five bucks.
Playing handball with Ace, King, Queen and Dunce and making up
stupid rules as you went along.
"Inside, outside, inside, on." That piece of elastic that everyone
played with at lunch, except your mum wouldn't buy you the proper
pink piece of elastic, so you had the kind she bought from
spotlight and sewed together.
A*mazing.
Hypercolour T-shirts.
Bumbags were the only bag needed
Atari was just the Xbox 360 of its day Master System/Mega Drive
You wanted to solve the mystery with the kids on Ghostwriter
Doing 200 word reports on Behind The News and it seeming like a big task
NOW GO PLAY WITH THE FORUM
