Friday Fun: #Throwback

HA-HA-HA-PPY FRIDAY Y'ALL Super psyched for my first Friday Fun post and even more excited that we've entered October and are one week closer to Halloween!

Whenever this time of year comes 'round, I'm reminded of my first October in the US, going into the second grade, in good ole Houston, Texas.

Honestly, that October was the first and most lasting impression I've had of the US of A. And what can I say? I'm a sucker for childhood nostalgia *chef's kiss* - that yearning for a simpler time (god) especially now 😂

I'll kick off this week with all my childhood go-tos:

School back in the day

(I actually still have that exact same lunchbox at home)

Gotta have the goods!

The real OGs know ;)

Also these movies made my childhood!

As someone who remembers so much of my past, and now have so much time to reflect on my younger days (lol), its wild to see how everything has added ✨flavor✨ to your personality 😆✌🏼

What do y'all remember about your childhood? Don't be shy 🤠 drop your favorite childhood goody or memory in the comments below!

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Well here's mine :-D

My computer stuff. Who remember these one's:

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Then my toys

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And movies/TV shows (a whole) --> Make a guess :-) :
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Omgosh Back to the Future slayedddd!

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Shoutout to King's Quest 2 on my Tandy 1000:

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we have seen this before and you know I love it Mo!

Books were my thing. Lots and lots and LOTS of books.
Tintin and Asterix are particular favourites.

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ABSOLUTE CLASSICS! 👏🏼 I was super stoked for the Adventures of Tin Tin movie when it came out!

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And Jacques Cousteau books. And space books. And Guinness Book of Records.

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Lego too, including this beauty from 1977.

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Matt, awesome collection of Cousteau! I was always a poor reader growing up but did read some of his books and loved all of his TV series as I was an avid diver beginning in HS.

I am proud to admit that I was pretty obsessed with Spice Girls. Spice World was my favorite movie, and I always dreamt of having a tour bus of my own!

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Truly ICONIC! They were the definition of GIRL POWER 💯

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I must not admit I have a (working) Alpha in my study
I must not admit I have a (working) Alpha in my study
Nor that yesterday I used "apt install scummvm" and fed it my original "Sam and Max hit the Road" CD. ("I'm a lagomorph, not a malefactor" - that's the sort of line that inspires stuff like R(n)ick and Morty)
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I must not admit I have a (working) Alpha in my study
Or that I was brought up on Imperial measures and still prefer a lot of them to metric because a lot of them use base 12 instead of the idiotic choice of 10.
I must not admit I have a (working) Alpha in my study
I must not admit I have a (working) Alpha in my study

@Sven Cipido- Nice one, you beat me to it. I was going to dig out the 5.25" disks I still have for a photo (I installed Bane of the Cosmic Forge from them once, but I suspect their age and my lack of care has made them unreadable). I dumped the 8" disks when I moved into this house 12 years ago.

@Matt Doar- I liked the Tintin books, if for nothing else, the joke about the twins, but Asterix is by far in the top three educational books I have ever had in my life. When my parents realised that I was utterly utterly shit at learning languages beyond English, they enlisted our next-door neighbour to try to help.

She was able to get me through a Latin O-level (B) and French (D) and Spanish GCSEs (E), based purely on having "Asterix the Gaul" books printed in all four languages.

I have to say it's a metric-shit-ton funnier in Latin and English than it is in French or Spanish though.

40 years later, my father still delights in pointing out that I can't even speak American proper like, let alone other non-English-based languages.

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Oh yes indeed, I remember writing some essay about Rome using details taken straight from Asterix the Legionary. Cool that you had them in four languages.

Oh yes those 5.25" discs. So much space for data on it :-D.
When using these discs it was like a DJ switching them to read the whole program on my Apple.

But the 8" where is that time.

My next-door-neighbour was a professor of linguistics at Reading university - she actually had a copy of Asterix The Gaul in every language it had been printed in back then, plus several hand-written ones.

I wish I'd had the time with her to learn the ancient greek version (modern Greek is the same letters, but a totally different language) and the Egyptian Hieroglyph version (although she found pTerry Pratchett's "Pyramids" very amusing when it pointed out that it looks like "squiggly line, water jar, field of grain, constipated eagle, two squiggly lines"). I was less keen on learning from the Klingon or Sumerian versions...

I love a throwback!!

@Nic Brough -Adaptavist- I too had Sam and Max, but my favourite was Day of the Tentacle!

I also loved all the 90's kids TV:

Fun House
The Queens Nose
Kenan and Kel
Sabrina
Art Attack
SMTV

Don't miss shellsuits though!

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My childhood in a nutshell: Rainbow-Brite-The-Complete-Series-DVD-root-1KOB6003_KOB6003_1470_1.jpg_Source_Image_grande.jpg

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I love this so much! You've just sent me on a whole nostalgia kick. I'm sure I'm missing a whole bunch of stuff, but here are a few things from my childhood that your pics prompted:

I was going to grab a photo off the web, but then I realised I still had this sitting in the top of the wardrobe.

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