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Do You Still Watch EastEnders?

Posted by Big Boo on March 13th, 2010

Having just written about Anyone Can Fall In Love, Anita Dobson’s song set to the EastEnders theme tune, I thought I’d go for an EastEnders themed survey this week.

Given this is an eighties site, I figure many of you reading this will have been around when EastEnders first aired, so I’m curious to find out whether the show is still popular with people from this era, simply because they started watching it when they were a kid and have not stopped. Please choose the option below which best fits your viewing habits for EastEnders.

My viewing habits for EastEnders are...
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The (Kids) Works of Roald Dahl

Posted by Big Boo on March 6th, 2010

These days it’s all tales of boy wizards, teen secret agents, witches and vampires, but for me the author that made up most of my reading diet when I was growing up was Roald Dahl. His books are children’s classics and are obviously still very popular today, indeed we’ve recently just had a film adaptation of Fantastic Mr. Fox, not bad considering that book was first published forty years ago!

My ultimate favourite Dahl book has to be Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I fell in love with this book when it was read to us at primary school, and I’ve loved it ever since. I even love the sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, if only for the wonderfully named Vermicious Knids. Another favourite from school was Danny the Champion of the World, a book about poaching pheasants no less!

Whilst Dahl always had a wicked streak in his books this streak got more and more pronounced as time went by. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is full of wonderful inventions, but it is very much based around a very normal little boy. By the time of The Twits and George’s Marvellous Medicine most normality had been thrown out of the window and the characters have become larger than life in most cases. Not that this is a bad thing, but there is a distinct difference between his earlier and later works.

So, what’s your favourite Dahl book? I’ve provided what I consider the essential Dahl below (although I must confess I’ve never actually read James and the Giant Peach for some reason), but if you feel strongly about one that I’ve missed feel free to add it, even if its Tales of the Unexpected, which isn’t really a kids book!

Your favourite Roald Dahl book is?
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Yummiest Toastie Filling

Posted by Big Boo on February 27th, 2010

Toasted sandwiches are yummy, aren’t they? There’s something about toasted bread that just makes it taste a lot better than when it isn’t toasted. Same goes for sandwich fillings, especially cheese which I really love when melted.

To go with this weeks post on Toasties, today’s survey is intended to find out which filling is the best. I’ve started the ball rolling with a choice of four, but feel free to add your favourite filling to the list if it isn’t already there.

The best Toasted Sandwich filling is...
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Cheese and Onion are Green! Or is it Blue?

Posted by Big Boo on February 20th, 2010

When I was growing up, you could always delve into a multipack of crisps containing the three staple flavours of Ready Salted, Cheese & Onion and Salt & Vinegar, and choose the flavour you wanted using the red, green, blue system.

It didn’t matter if it was Tesco’s own make or something from one of the big manufacturers, you could guarantee that Red was Ready Salted, Green was Cheese and Onion, and Blue was Salt and Vinegar.

The Walkers crisps came along, and just to be different decided to swap the colours for Cheese and Onion and Salt and Vinegar over. Now, quite why they thought this was necessary I don’t know, since in my experience people have a tendency to like one or the other of these two flavours, but not be too keen on the other.

For this week’s survey, I’m interested to see how many other people still think of the red, green, blue system as it should be, or as Walkers want it to be?

What colour packet should Cheese and Onion crisps be?
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Cuddly Ken’s Best Character

Posted by Big Boo on February 13th, 2010

I wrote this week about the brilliant Kenny Everett, so this week’s survey is to find out which of his many regular characters people liked the best.

Need a reminder of who they all were? Here’s a quick recap…

  • Sid Snot – The leather clad, cigarette flipping rocker
  • Cupid Stunt – The movie startlet with the big boobs who did everything “in the best possible taste”
  • Maurice Mimer – The mime artist who drew items on the TV screen with a big marker pen
  • Marcel Wave – The debonair Frenchman
  • Gizzard Puke – The punk with the massive spiky hair do
  • Marvin Bombtheba**ards – The US General with a penchant for blowing things up
  • Brother Lee Love – The preacher with the enormous hands
  • Reg “DIY” Prescott – The Do It Yourself expert, who was actually much better at Maim It Yourself
  • Angry of Mayfair – The disgusted city gent, whose suit had no back to it, revealing he wore womens underwear
Which was your favourite Kenny Everett Character?
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Garfield On Board

Posted by Big Boo on February 6th, 2010

Following my post on Stick On Garfields earlier this week it seemed a fairly obvious decision to make this weeks survey about them. It’s pretty simple, did you (or more correctly perhaps, your parents) have a Garfield in the car?

Did your family have a stick on Garfield in the car?
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Breakfast… The Most Important Meal of the Day

Posted by Big Boo on January 30th, 2010

I wrote about the little toys and free gifts you used to get in breakfast cereals this week, and mentioned that my favourite breakfast cereal as a child was Coco Pops. To be truthful, they probably still are my favourite now, although I do like the odd bowl of Crunchy Nut Clusters with the chocolate flakes, although it is only the odd bowl because they’re too expensive and come in far too small a box.

Breakfast cereals have come and gone since the Eighties. Who remembers Kellog’s Start and the awesome Lucky Charms, a US cereal which was available over here for a while, before it was presumably withdrawn because it must have contained at least 110g of sugar per 100g… ;-)

Anyway, this weeks survey is to find out what was your favourite cereal when you were growing up. I’ve filled in most of the usual suspects already, but go ahead and add your own if I’ve missed something you were particularly fond of.

What was your favourite breakfast cereal as a kid?
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Here Comes Bod…

Posted by Big Boo on January 16th, 2010

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Bod may have been a product of the seventies but it was still a big favourite during the eighties. It may have been a simply drawn cartoon, but it holds a special place in many of our hearts for it’s stories, the voice work of John Le Mesurier and the excellent little theme songs for each of the characters.

For this survey I want to know which of the Bod characters is your favourite, whether it be for their looks, what they were like or even just their signature tune.

Which of the Bod characters did you like best?
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