Its your age
The ancient schoolground art of throwing your money (or more typically somebody elses money) onto the floor and yelling 'scrambles!' to which a violent scrum would ensue as people scrabbled for cash.
And of course, the arcade game from the 80s 'Scramble'. Ah, you see what I did there? ;)
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 10:38,
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And of course, the arcade game from the 80s 'Scramble'. Ah, you see what I did there? ;)
/old blog
Ahhhh, like stampseys with conkers.
I only lived through 2 years of the eightys :(
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 10:40,
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Heh
I lived through them all (and nine years of the seventies as well).
God, I'm old.
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 10:41,
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God, I'm old.
God I'm young
quite happy I missed mullets and hair metal though
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 10:43,
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I had 3½ years of the 60s
Don't remember 'scrambles' though - we were too poor to have dinner-money, 90% of my school were on free schoolmeals.
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 11:07,
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Yay for wise and aged b3tans such as ourselves!
EDIT: Wondering if Scrambles was perchance a Midlands thing - quite prepared to be proven wrong!
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 11:09,
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i'm a dirty southerner
we played it. Maybe it had migrated down during the time between you going to school and me going to school.
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 11:14,
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well we didn't have scrambles as such
at my secondary school we had a thing called box out which was basically a mugging where things were snatched from you without warning
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 11:24,
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All my childhood was in Bradford
I don't think it was a geographical thing, the barbarity of children in universal
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 11:25,
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Which begs the question
What exactly are 'Gor Blimey trousers'?
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 11:17,
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ha ha ha
I remember "Scramble".
I'm not quite that young. Scramble was dangerous and usually ended up as a bundle with a small fragile child at the bottom.
For some reason I completely missed the reference.
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 11:06,
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I'm not quite that young. Scramble was dangerous and usually ended up as a bundle with a small fragile child at the bottom.
For some reason I completely missed the reference.
You have a bag of sweets or something
You take a handful, throw them in the air while shouting SCRAMBLE, and watch in joy as small children hurl themselves on the floor to collect the sweets, all the while kicking the fuck out of each other
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 10:38,
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A rather sweeping
Yet understandable statement, let's go beat some children!
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 11:03,
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