......because then the Wombles would be on TV right now.
man, I loved the Wombles.
....I think I got that right..... they used to be on just before The Goodies......The Goodies were on before Doctor Who........I stopped watching Doctor Who after the giant spider episode scared the absolute shit out of me......you know the one...with the chanting monks and the green slug things that I think were just people crawling around in green sleeping bags......but still, that episode haunted me for months. *shudders*
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 12:25 AM
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 02:20 AM
Underground, overground, wombling free, the wombles of wimbledon common are we.
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 04:04 AM
i had a serious interspecies crush on orinoco...
(reading that tv schedule i'm more and more arriving at the conclusion that house is right - you guys ARE british! is there any bbc series you haven't had?)
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 06:02 AM
Every December, I'm involved with my town's Christmas project for needy families, and this year, a young man was walking through the gym where it's headquartered and he said, "I hate kids these days!"
We were thinking he was commenting on their behavior or whatever, and a few seconds later, he said, "They have the coolest toys!"
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Wagtail, you're right, and he was right too.
We were thinking he was commenting on their behavior or whatever, and a few seconds later, he said, "They have the coolest toys!"
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Wagtail, you're right, and he was right too.
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 06:39 AM
I never really liked the Wombles. I was always more of an animation kid. Probably because the life sized wombles scared the bejaysus out of me. They stopped being nice to me after I bit one of them on the knee for making me jump. Still...that's four year olds for ya!
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 07:55 AM
...making good use of the things that we find
things that the everyday folk leave behind...
The wombles were ahead of their time - who else was into recycling in the 70's?
things that the everyday folk leave behind...
The wombles were ahead of their time - who else was into recycling in the 70's?
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I would settle for being 27 again
I'd settle for 37:o
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 09:02 AM
wagtail said:
......because then the Wombles would be on TV right now.
man, I loved the Wombles.
....I think I got that right..... they used to be on just before The Goodies......The Goodies were on before Doctor Who........I stopped watching Doctor Who after the giant spider episode scared the absolute shit out of me......you know the one...with the chanting monks and the green slug things that I think were just people crawling around in green sleeping bags......but still, that episode haunted me for months. *shudders*
man, I loved the Wombles.
....I think I got that right..... they used to be on just before The Goodies......The Goodies were on before Doctor Who........I stopped watching Doctor Who after the giant spider episode scared the absolute shit out of me......you know the one...with the chanting monks and the green slug things that I think were just people crawling around in green sleeping bags......but still, that episode haunted me for months. *shudders*
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 09:12 AM
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I loved the Wombles too! Now is that episode of Dr Who the one with the Green Death? Can't remember any of the detail of it except it scared the bejesus out of me at the time!
I ran upstairs as soon as the music started for Dr Who. That was enough for me. And though I loved Dads army, I hated the siren at the end, so ran before the siren started as well.
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 10:12 AM
Me too.
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 10:21 AM
wagtail said:
......because then the Wombles would be on TV right now.
man, I loved the Wombles.
....I think I got that right..... they used to be on just before The Goodies......The Goodies were on before Doctor Who........I stopped watching Doctor Who after the giant spider episode scared the absolute shit out of me......you know the one...with the chanting monks and the green slug things that I think were just people crawling around in green sleeping bags......but still, that episode haunted me for months. *shudders*
man, I loved the Wombles.
....I think I got that right..... they used to be on just before The Goodies......The Goodies were on before Doctor Who........I stopped watching Doctor Who after the giant spider episode scared the absolute shit out of me......you know the one...with the chanting monks and the green slug things that I think were just people crawling around in green sleeping bags......but still, that episode haunted me for months. *shudders*
Me and my brother were total Wombleheads when we were little: posters, stickers, lunchboxes, soft toys. I even learned to knit a little jersey for my Orinoco toy. We must have driven our parents nuts making them play the Wombles tape over and over on road trip.
We got into Dr Who and the Goodies a little later. The Dr Who episode that freaked me out the most was one with Tom Baker where a scientist got infected by a plant pod and slowly transformed into a giant carnivorous plant, eventually engulfing a house. It made me frightened for ages that some plant would do the same thing to me.
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 10:22 AM
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i had a serious interspecies crush on orinoco...
(reading that tv schedule i'm more and more arriving at the conclusion that house is right - you guys ARE british! is there any bbc series you haven't had?)
:-)
oneArpeggiopete:cool:
(reading that tv schedule i'm more and more arriving at the conclusion that house is right - you guys ARE british! is there any bbc series you haven't had?)
:-)
oneArpeggiopete:cool:
ORINOCO?! What are you on, woman? Tobermory was the clearly superior womble. You have no taste.
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I ran upstairs as soon as the music started for Dr Who. That was enough for me. And though I loved Dads army, I hated the siren at the end, so ran before the siren started as well.
Ooh, I don't like that siren... or the theme music to 'Allo 'Allo, either, come to think of it.
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 10:28 AM
As do i, though for the life of me i can't remember what was on the picturebox when i was seven......turtles maybe......
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 10:33 AM
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As do i, though for the life of me i can't remember what was on the picturebox when i was seven......turtles maybe......
If you're referring to the teenage mutant ninja variety, I had a glass with them on. I wonder what happened to it...
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 10:35 AM
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If you're referring to the teenage mutant ninja variety, I had a glass with them on. I wonder what happened to it...
No, we were so poor we had turtles in a bowl and watched that instead....:rolleyes:
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No, we were so poor we had turtles in a bowl and watched that instead....:rolleyes:
You and your crazy Irish traditions.
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 12:29 PM
you know they celebrate the day of the turtles every year. that one and the day of the lucky charms. his favorite care bear was probably that irish one. the irish can be very weird.;)
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you know they celebrate the day of the turtles every year. that one and the day of the lucky charms. his favorite care bear was probably that irish one. the irish can be very weird.;)
Who are the they you refer to? Re care bears, i loved them all equally.....share the love and what not.
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Posted 11 April 2007 - 12:42 PM
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ORINOCO?! What are you on, woman? Tobermory was the clearly superior womble. You have no taste.
ew! naw, tobermory was way too practical for my tastes. orinoco had that disaffected teenage wasteland vibe going on, way cool! i had a stuffed tobermory, though, complete with yardstick and screwdriver and stuff. i wonder if the tools are still there, if so he'd probably fetch a fair few bob on ebay now, especially because he was canadian, so somewhat rare in europe i guess...
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