Born before 1986? Read this...

**Colapop** · 1st February 2006, 13:45

Oh yeah the ALKATHENE!! I cut up the old man's belt so he couldn't smack my arse and the comment that I got when he leaned in real close (after he slammed it down on the kitchen table in front of me) was "Cut that up, there's 300 more metres of it out there..." He said it real quiet and didn't give me a hiding with it that day. I tell ya, I musta stayed outa trouble for almost a week!
Hahaha Charlie. I started off as a townie and that lasted 5 seconds after me moved to Pirinoa (just by the Ngawi turnoff). The first sheep I killed was called Bambi. Townies and pet sheep - Muahahahaa!

**BuFfY** · 1st February 2006, 13:49

Well I grew up in Gore!! And was born in 1987 but we were so behind that it was like being in 1980!!
One thing I remember was having BBQ's in the middle of winter with snow outside and everything! A bit of snow wasn't going to stop us from having a BBQ!!

I really miss the good old days when you could easily entertain yourself... making forts in the house out of all the couches and pillows if it was too wet/snowy outside, exploring the neighbours paddocks and having picnics on the top of the coal shed roof!! Yet today I am bored out of my mind because there is nothing on TV! Very very sad
People make fun of me for growing up in Gore but I loved it, loved being able to walk everywhere and knowing everyone. Only downside was that the movie theatre was closed over xmas and all the new movies were 2 months later to arrive!!

**Charlie** · 1st February 2006, 13:52

Originally Posted by Colapop

Hahaha Charlie. I started off as a townie and that lasted 5 seconds after me moved to Pirinoa (just by the Ngawi turnoff). The first sheep I killed was called Bambi. Townies and pet sheep - Muahahahaa!

I love the country! Miss it HEAPS!
We had loads of pet sheep, even had the annual school pets day.
We eventually ate them all though. I see the truth now... convince the kids they can have a sheep or calf as a pet just so it survives to be plumped up for next summers BBQ! Returned to play with with its sheep friends my arse!

**Colapop** · 1st February 2006, 13:54

Originally Posted by BuFfY

Well I grew up in Gore!! .... Only downside was duelling Bajoes being played before every movie instead of the National Anthem!

You know I'm jus' playing with ya!

**Charlie** · 1st February 2006, 13:56

Originally Posted by Colapop

You know I'm jus' playing with myself!

hehehehehhehe

**T.W.R** · 1st February 2006, 13:56

ha sav's from the butcher & cherios lols and they were free, a pack of chewing gum was 10c & Canned soft-drink came in a steel can & bottled soft drink was in glass bottles

gob stoppers & jaw breaker lollies haha

Video game parlors were seedy dives not like Timeout lols, ChCh people would remember Wizards & the Dog House

Casio calculators were the bees knees for games; spacys, boxing, & baseball a PS2,PSP or Xbox would have been science fiction and cellphones lols whats that the phone was big plastic thingy with a dial

**Colapop** · 1st February 2006, 13:56

Even though we were townies we were under no illusions. We had a pig called "Lunch" (which it would come running to) and a Calf/Steer/Dinner called "Steak"! They both 'disappeared' - "Must have run away to join the circus" was Dad's answer.

**Colapop** · 1st February 2006, 13:58

Originally Posted by Charlie

hehehehehhehe

"I sense an anomaly in the Force" from the first time it was screened. When you had to "phone home" it was with a pay phone not a cell phone and text was words you wrote down.

**BuFfY** · 1st February 2006, 14:02

Originally Posted by Colapop

You know I'm jus' playing with ya!

hahaha yeh don't worry I'm used to it! But it would be more likely to be folk dancing being shown... Gore is very famous for the Golden Guitar awards! and we all had to learn how to folk dance!!

**Kornholio** · 1st February 2006, 14:11

Originally Posted by BuFfY

hahaha yeh don't worry I'm used to it! But it would be more likely to be folk dancing being shown... Gore is very famous for the Golden Guitar awards! and we all had to learn how to folk dance!!

Mikey Havoc and Newsboy said it was famous for something else.....:spudbooge

**Colapop** · 1st February 2006, 14:16

Originally Posted by BuFfY

hahaha yeh don't worry I'm used to it! But it would be more likely to be folk dancing being shown... Gore is very famous for the Golden Guitar awards! and we all had to learn how to folk dance!!

You be getting giggity with this then....

Bugger I can't upload that file type ...

**Motu** · 1st February 2006, 14:21

I think the defining memory in NZ would be - do you remember steam trains? And for Aucklanders,do you remember the trams?

I remember steam trains,shit they were big black hissing smoking scary things! I don't remember trams,although I went on them,but remember the tram tracks,it was a long time before they were pulled up.

**Ixion** · 1st February 2006, 14:23

I remember trams. The defining memory is do you remember the windmill ? And the vehicular ferries from the North Shore. And steam trains were (and are) exciting exhilerating things

EDIT: Actually, the defining memory is probaby getting the front wheel of your motorbike stuck in the blurdy tramn tracks on the corner of Queen and Wellesley Sts.

**Colapop** · 1st February 2006, 14:31

Originally Posted by BuFfY

hahaha yeh don't worry I'm used to it! But it would be more likely to be folk dancing being shown... Gore is very famous for the Golden Guitar awards! and we all had to learn how to folk dance!!

How about this then...?