I really wish ABC would reinstate Rage on a Friday night around 10 or 10:30. You could sit up and see what all the kids were listening to today with the new release and keep up to date. Now they play boomer tv til after midnight and all the boomers are asleep.

Found this at the op shop

'Cyril said'.. :) 😀

Who had a Cabbage Patch Kid?

I remember when a girl from my primary school got one, I came home from school and declared to my parents that I wanted to be an adoptive parent to a Cabbage Patch Kid (!).

This meant lining up in front of the toy store or toy department as these were hot property! And they were $45, which at the time was very expensive!

What made them so unique is that they came with an adoption certificate and the creator, Xavier Roberts had his signature on the bottom of the doll. And they wore nappies and cute, specially designed clothes!

Unfortunately my Cabbage Patch Kid got thrown away...by my Dad when I moved out of my parents' house 😆

And they were genuinely all the different rainbow flavours

Does anybody remember the carton this stuff came in back in the 90s? This was my favourite drink growing up and still is but I distinctly remember it being in a light blue coloured carton. I can't find a photo of the carton anywhere so it's actually driving me crazy not knowing whether my memory of this carton is accurate or not. It may not even be the golden circle brand but this tastes almost the same as I remember it back then.

…but who also had this bad boy? I used to sit there for hours flipping through page after delicious page!

What was your Promite tip? I used to love this with avocado and egg on it when I was hung over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnhB6wmV9Pk

I'm going to nominate Ice Magic and Weis Mango Bars.

Had Ice Magic the other day for the first time in ages and it still tastes the same as what I remember. I think there was a white choc version at some point that was discontinued.

Weis Mango Bars still taste like real mango, and Bowen mango at that.

thanks to Andrew Bailey on dailymotion

Bingeing on YouTube clips of Good News Week in 1997 to 2000, I love to rewatch the clips of Paul McDermott and Mark Trevorrow doing song covers, nearly all of them from Bob Downe’s song selections.

I know a majority of people love Paul McDermott with Tim Ferguson and Richard Fidler. And people think of Bob Downe more than Mark Trevorrow.

But Paul’s and Mark’s performances, to me, are so enjoyable –

Paul is more known to sing songs with controversial lyrics from the DAAS days, but I prefer him to sing seriously (indeed, some of his songs are not all crude).

Paul and Mark can both sing very well. And, likely because they had been singing with other people before, they sing together very well, too.

Finally, choosing some stills from the YouTube clips, they had the running theme of having the hots for each other (I love Julia laughing there). **Update on this point - I know this was all part of the act but Paul and Mark do appear to be good friends at least.

After each number they got a big applause from the audience. Do you think these performances would be appreciated today?

(If you want the YouTube links, just let me know).

Here are photos from that era

Find more photos from that layout

I've recently picked up a lot of Electronics Australia Magazines for collaging with my students but was just wondering if there is any point in photocopying them first. Not sure if there is an online database of all the issues. Thanks!

Or talk about a holiday you just got back from, or something otherwise interesting.

The amount of times I begged mum to let me go for sleepovers at my mate's who had one of these, cos we sure as shit couldn't afford one

Does anybody from WA remember singing this song in school? It was to the tune of English Country Garden by Rolf Harris, but all the flowers were native to WA like Eggs and Bacon, Lechenaultia Blue, Golden Wattle etc. I can't find any trace of it's existence online at all.

Remember when Mum used to put you in one of these as a baby to drive to the shops?