A trip down memory lane

[tex]

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conkers was great fun ... You tie one of your nuts on the end of a piece of string and your mate does the same thing then you take it in turns to smash them together ..

It doesn't sound much like fun but you'd have to be there


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[Zincubus]

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XD Buster Gonad also springs to mind!

I remember one of our school teachers lived near a mate of mine and she had a big Horse Chestnut (conker) tree in her front garden and used to let us climb it to get the biggest ones we could find.

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[Mulletino]

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Conkers was great fun ... you tie one of your nuts on the end of a piece of string and your mate does the same thing then you take it in turns to smash them together ..

XD Buster Gonad also springs to mind!

I remember one of our school teachers lived near a mate of mine and she had a big Horse Chestnut (conker) tree in her front garden and used to let us climb it to get the biggest ones we could find.

[Donald the Great]

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Someone tell me about conkers?

[George 1978]

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Never heard of conkers. I was a champion marble player. Had to do something to wile away the monotony. Spent hours playing the two main games. One with two players outside a circle aiming to smash the two marbles inside the circle outside the circle. The other game I recall was flicking your marble into a hole in the centre of a dirt circle.

You would have enjoyed playtimes at my Junior school - the metal grates on the playground floor was always of interest to some of us for the marble contests, and a crowd of a dozen kids surrounding them.

[George 1978]

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I always think of that schoolboy in the Cadbury's Fudge advert when I think of conkers.

That reminds me of pinecones - haven't seen any for years but my late mother used to hang one up with some string in the back garden and she used to say that you could tell it was going to rain because it closed up when it happened.

I knew very little about them back then.

[Zincubus]

A trip down memory lane

Never heard of conkers. I was a champion marble player. Had to do something to wile away the monotony. Spent hours playing the two main games. One with two players outside a circle aiming to smash the two marbles inside the circle outside the circle. The other game I recall was flicking your marble into a hole in the centre of a dirt circle.

Jacks were fun.. A good test of hand/eye co-ordination. As we never ate chicken at the school except as a Easter treat we so had no access to the chicken carcass for the bones .. I had to ask mum to keep the bones for when she visited every month. You could also buy them but I preferred the real thing.

Another game I recall to stop us all going up the wall.. was tossing bottle caps literally against a wall. The winner was the one closest to the wall.

Conkers was great fun ... you tie one of your nuts on the end of a piece of string and your mate does the same thing then you take it in turns to smash them together ..

It doesn't sound much like fun but you'd have to be there


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[Donald the Great]

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Never heard of conkers. I was a champion marble player. Had to do something to wile away the monotony. Spent hours playing the two main games. One with two players outside a circle aiming to smash the two marbles inside the circle outside the circle. The other game I recall was flicking your marble into a hole in the centre of a dirt circle.

Jacks were fun.. A good test of hand/eye co-ordination. As we never ate chicken at the school except as a Easter treat we so had no access to the chicken carcass for the bones .. I had to ask mum to keep the bones for when she visited every month. You could also buy them but I preferred the real thing.

Another game I recall to stop us all going up the wall.. was tossing bottle caps literally against a wall. The winner was the one closest to the wall.

[Zincubus]

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We called the metal marbles steelies or ironies. Shame modern kids don't have the simple pleasure of playing marbles and conkers. Never mind, perhaps there's a phone app for virtual marbles or conkers.

Na .. just a load of games where they can maim or kill someone .. and chat online whilst they do it ..



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[staffslad]

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We called the metal marbles steelies or ironies. Shame modern kids don't have the simple pleasure of playing marbles and conkers. Never mind, perhaps there's a phone app for virtual marbles or conkers.

[zabadak]

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Erm yeah but all the "computers" had staples through there stomachs

Yeah, those fad diets, eh?

[tex]

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Yeah you wont see kids playing marbles again, simple fun we had steel ones we called DOBBERS !..Conkers were banned in schools for being dangerous..flying parts,bruised wrists, we would varnish them to make them hard and then we would also varnish the conkers.

[staffslad]

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Yes, I played marbles, but mainly at school. Also playing conkers was very popular, and we would put our conkers in the oven to make them harder--stop tittering at the back there. Both marbles and conkers would have "seasons" where they would be most popular. I've not seen kids playing marbles or conkers for so many years now. I doubt if most would even know what they were.

[Donald the Great]

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Who played marbles as a kid? They were all the rage when I was at boarding school. Those and jacks.

[Donald the Great]

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There were also many ethnic video shops that lasted well into the 1990s. I remember an Indian video shop and a Pakistani / Islamic video shop. They had some interesting stuff if you cared to look.

Good to see you contributing to TDML Arran.