Friends Reunited?
Just looking at a class photo from 1982 someone has put on Facebook and it made me think - I guess it was Facebook that wiped it out.
Yup, they couldn't compete. It didn't help that the original founders sold it to ITV. It seems to me that larger companies like ITV often lack the flexibility to know how to innovate flexibly with web properties such that they can remain relevant. It's very sad. There's an awful lot of data on FR and there seems to be no way to get it out (other than photos) although I can understand there might be DPA difficulties.Originally Posted by Devonian
Whatever happened to Richard O'Sullivan from 'Man about the House'?
He came to a pitiful end. Some deeply unpleasant disease not unrelated to booze, IIRC.
Whatever happened to the little cardboard tray in a Bounty?
Creamola Foam
The founders sold it and the buyers never did/unable to do anything with it and later offered it back to the founders. But social media is now the thing and overtook it.
My Space ??
White dog poo?
Leon Trotsky
The Likely Lads.
Burnsey66
He has no BP access.
Babylon zoo
Ulster fry
My eyesight ?
Oh yes, I had forgotten about that one ! They probably recycled it ;-)
Cheers
Simon
Ralph Waldo Emerson: We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
Ice pick!
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Capt howdy
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Common curiosity and good manners.
And the News without opinions.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Texan bar, loved them. Cabanas too ?
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I miss Chinese Figs at Christmas time!
Bar Six
Kathy lloyd
Bear in mind that FR was social media! It pioneered the social graph concept (although didn't use that term as far as I know) before Facebook got to it. It just, as you say and as I mentioned above, failed to evolve when in ITV's ownership.
Evel Knievel stunt cycles.
Spangles and Pacers.
Nature Treks and Nutty Bars
Proper collar bacon at the Co-op, cut to order on the bacon slicer, almost purple with creamy fat. Armour baked beans, big with tasty sauce, lovely with aforementioned bacon.
F.T.F.A.
Plus 1 for The mighty Texan bar " a last request gringo"
Sure was a mighty chew
Floral gums, which you can still get in some old sweet shops.
Fruit salads and blackjacks which are making a comeback
Raving bonkers, the boxing game I had as a kid where you could literally knock your opponents block off with a sharp left hook, well that of their plastic robotic boxer. Hours of fun.
Bazooka Joe's.
The wrapper was a work in itself.
Perhaps they all fell out?
For some reason she follows me on twitter - not that I'm complaining
i always wanted to save up 100 wrappers and send off for the live Sea monkeys !??
Nostalgia
'Avril'... my girlfriend I met at the bacon counter in Woolworths
It certainly isn't what it used to be
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Sure you're not thinking of Kathy Staff?For some reason she follows me on twitter - not that I'm complaining
My hair.
If it's like mine, it grows backwards and exits out of your nose and ears!
Cap Guns
Did it make his ears burn?
Excessive masturbations?
Quatro
Oh I loved that drink
Cresta Bear
Probably in a zoo with the Hofmeister bear and Rupert.
I was at school with the daughter of the guy who invented Cresta Bear, and the Smash 'Martians'. Years later in the 90s I walked into an office at work to see two of the Martians stuck behind a filing cabinet. I hope they aren't landfill now.
I remember seeing two of the original outstpan orange cars in a garden centre at berko. I wonder what became of them
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Whatever happened to wrapping the gift when attending a child's birthday party? Now it seems normal for the present to be just shoved into a gift bag, suggesting that a pit-stop has been made en-route to buy both.
Crusader dark lager? I think it was brewed by Bass.
Fortunately they didn't make it for long! 😬
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