Do You Remember?

[Minus]

These?

 

[abbynormal]

a similar generic product called yard darts. but these "yarts" are prolly the originals upon which the imitators were based.

 

[Trevor]

Do you remember the show Different Strokes?

 

[abbynormal]

definitely, I'm of "that age" as they say.

do you remember the tv program, "movin' on"?

 

[Trevor]

Can't say I have.

Do you remember the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens?

 

[Trevor]

No Trevor I don't.

Do you remember the Boston Marathon bombing?

 

[Minus]

Do you remember candy Cigarettes sold in sweet shops?

 

[abbynormal]

jeez, things back then were pretty perverse.

 

[TheSkaFish]

I'm not hugely into Family Guy, but it reminds me of this:



ARE YOU SMOKING YET?????

 

[okidoke]

We used have red tipped candy sticks called Fags (because that was the colloquial term for cigarettes when I was a kid) but then they changed the name to Fads, because, y’know.

 

[Minus]

...red tipped candy sticks....

Yes they often had a red tip to simulate the lit end of a cigarette.

 

[okidoke]

Yes they often had a red tip to simulate the lit end of a cigarette.

lol yes I know. They were actually quite tasty.

 

[randomguy]

We had football themed candy cigarettes... possibly because most of our footballers back then were chain smoking alcoholics

 

[Minus]

I grew up reading these, or at least having them read to me by my Mom and Grandma.
They used to read them to me when being tucked in to bed.
Because of that, they have a special place in my heart

That is how I knew this Swift person must be big.

Up there with Smokey Bear and a few other that got their own Golden Book.

I don't know this person, but for me, getting a Golden Book is big.

 

[TheSkaFish]

That is how I knew this Swift person must be big.

Up there with Smokey Bear and a few other that got their own Golden Book.

I don't know this person, but for me, getting a Golden Book is big.

I think my niece just got this book for her birthday. I knew it looked familiar!