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Title: Scoubidous
Post by: goldencup on July 30, 2005, 05:12:24 pm
Apparently these are the 'latest craze' and were first seen '20 years ago'.  Now come on Oldspice, Maggie May, even Loulou?, please back me up here - I remember making these things in about 1970!  We all used to put them on the zips of our pencil cases and school bags.  (For the uninitiated they are different coloured plastic strings that you weave together to make bracelets etc).
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Post by: smurfboy on July 30, 2005, 06:17:35 pm
They were called friendship bands when I was at school. I got very good at making them actually.
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Post by: goldencup on July 30, 2005, 06:22:22 pm
I haven't seen the ones that are around now but the scoubidous I'm talking about (and they were always called that) were thicker, flatter and less pliable than the friendship bands but I expect the principle of making them is the same.
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Post by: loulou on July 30, 2005, 08:40:56 pm
Yes I remember these in the 70's.  I think all I could ever make was a keyring with them but I see there is a book out showing how to make helicopters, animals and little dollies. Perhaps we should buy it and have a go.
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Post by: goldencup on July 30, 2005, 10:07:28 pm
Yay, glad you remember.  According to my calculations that's more than 20 years ago (unfortunately!). 
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Post by: oldspice on July 30, 2005, 10:50:56 pm

And even in the 1970s these things were not a new craze! My sister, who is 60 this November, (she's a lot older than me!) enjoyed the craze in the early 1960s and I very vaguely remember her having them attached to her BEA bag(!) the belt loop of her drainpipe jeans and her wrists.


Does anyone remember clackers? Those solid balls on strings that you used to swing back and forth to make them 'clack'? 

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Post by: loulou on July 31, 2005, 01:22:15 am
Yes they were dangerous. Weren't they banned, something to do with kids fracturing their wrists. Some people could swing them so fast but everytime I got mine to clack it usually ended up with hitting my wrist so hard.
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Post by: goldencup on July 31, 2005, 09:03:49 am

I think they decided the noise of them could impair hearing too.


Oldspice my sister had a BEA or BOAC bag too!  Do you remember those tiny plastic replicas of them you could get, presumably as free gifts on plane trips?  I had quite a collection acquired from a well-travelled neighbour.

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Post by: on July 31, 2005, 09:35:26 am
I remember clackers but not scubidous.  Does anyone remember those paper things that you could make and they folded all different ways with a different message in each face. I could never get the hang of making em though.
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Post by: goldencup on July 31, 2005, 09:37:33 am
Do you mean the fortune teller things? 
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Post by: on July 31, 2005, 09:44:24 am
That's it
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Post by: goldencup on July 31, 2005, 09:55:01 am
Strange you should mention those because there's a national reading game going on in the libraries during the school holidays and it involves using one of those fortune tellers.  All the mums are saying, "Oh I remember those" and the kids look totally bemused.
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Post by: loulou on July 31, 2005, 01:17:06 pm
Was that where you picked your favourite colour, favourite animal etc and then it finished with an insult?
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Post by: goldencup on July 31, 2005, 04:33:25 pm
Yes that's them.  Or you ended up with the local hunk/nerd.
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Post by: wjp666 on July 31, 2005, 05:33:39 pm
umm,this may sound a little stupid coming from someone of my age... but ive been trying to remember how to make one of those for years.... can anyone post a detailed step-by-step guide?
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Post by: goldencup on July 31, 2005, 05:59:37 pm
Well I'll try, start with a square of paper.  Fold it in four and unfold again (just so you get the creases to follow).  Fold each corner into the centre like an envelope.  Turn the whole thing over and repeat the previous step. Turn over again and you should have a square with four smaller squares.  Now is the tricky bit.  Fold it into four and unfold again to make it more pliable. Put your index finger under one flap and the thumb under the next.  Same with the other hand.  It then just folds up into the right shape.  Sort of!
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Post by: loulou on July 31, 2005, 06:02:53 pm
wjp have you made it yet?
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Post by: goldencup on July 31, 2005, 06:04:45 pm
Or if my instructions don't work, try this!http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/howto04/tg/movie.htm
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Post by: loulou on July 31, 2005, 06:09:22 pm
It's like blue Peter all over again. goldencup do you want to be Valerie Singleton, Lesley Judd or Janet Ellis. Remembering Janet Ellis will be the richest now.
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Post by: goldencup on July 31, 2005, 06:14:54 pm
Never did like Blue Peter.  Magpie was much better!
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Post by: loulou on July 31, 2005, 06:18:34 pm
bounty likes magpies.
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Post by: goldencup on July 31, 2005, 06:31:15 pm
Now I'm trying to remember the name of the guy with all the hair who presented Magpie.....
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Post by: goldencup on July 31, 2005, 06:34:12 pm
Oh yes, Mick Robertson.  Google to the rescue once again!
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Post by: loulou on July 31, 2005, 06:39:17 pm
i could have told you that. Wasn't the girl called Jenny Hanley?
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Post by: goldencup on July 31, 2005, 06:46:41 pm
Don't remember the girl.  I only had eyes for Mick!
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Post by: loulou on July 31, 2005, 07:18:09 pm
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Post by: on July 31, 2005, 09:20:26 pm
Jenny Handley was lovely.  Presumably still is, but in an older way.  Women like that are always beautiful.  Diana Sheridan and Jimmy Handley's daughter.  See if I can find a picture.
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Post by: loulou on July 31, 2005, 09:22:27 pm
OK
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Post by: loulou on July 31, 2005, 09:24:57 pm
found one yet?
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Post by: on July 31, 2005, 09:29:52 pm
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Post by: maggiemay on July 31, 2005, 10:40:39 pm

What a trip down memory lane this thread has been! BEA bags! Fortune tellers! Magpie!


I know a chap who really lusts after Jenny Hanley. He remembers her from his youth and reckons she's still 'horny' as he puts it.


I tried making scubidoos many years ago but never got the hang of it. As I remember, the colours were stronger back then. They were red and black or blue and black etc. these days they seem to be softer, paler colours.

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Post by: on July 31, 2005, 10:43:30 pm
Hello Maggiemay.  How old are you?
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Post by: maggiemay on July 31, 2005, 11:03:14 pm
Forty something. And you?
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Post by: on July 31, 2005, 11:04:43 pm
40 exactly, but look 35 on a good day.  This links nicely with my post in previous thread.  Interactive posting!
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Post by: wjp666 on July 31, 2005, 11:15:22 pm
YAY! thanks goldie... it worked! (kind of... i'm a little hamfisted these days.) hehe - now all i gotta do is write witty things in the segments like 'you are a loser' and 'you are gay'... hehehe - bringing back all those memories. i completely forgot the construction over the last decade or so... but i can still make a mean water-bomb from paper-folding. odd.
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Post by: loulou on August 01, 2005, 01:16:47 am

Quote from: bounty hunter
Hello Maggiemay.  How old are you?


What an opening line. 

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Post by: on August 01, 2005, 08:36:28 am
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Post by: oldspice on August 01, 2005, 11:41:00 am

Did she keep him amused?


Did he feel used?


 

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Post by: on August 01, 2005, 08:00:31 pm
I bent her over the desk and she thought of England
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Post by: oldspice on August 02, 2005, 12:38:42 am

That's not in the song!


"I know I keep you amused, but I feel I'm being used,


Oh Maggie I wish I'd never seen your face"

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Post by: loulou on August 02, 2005, 01:54:54 am

Quote from: bounty hunter
I bent her over the desk and she thought of England


Doesn't say a lot for your technique if she had to think of England.

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Post by: goldencup on August 02, 2005, 09:04:01 am
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Post by: goldencup on August 02, 2005, 09:06:29 am
Back to scoubidous, I looked at them in a shop yesterday (Somerfield of all places!) and they are indeed much girlier colours than they used to be - pink, lilac, glitter versions etc.  They are also thinner and rounder - I remember them as flat and quite stiff to bend.  It's no good, I'm going to have to splash out 99p and see if I can still make a keyring!