
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

I only lived through 2 years of the eightys :(
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 10:40,
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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.

quite happy I missed mullets and hair metal though
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 10:43,
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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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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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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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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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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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What exactly are 'Gor Blimey trousers'?
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Sun 15 Jan 2006, 11:17,
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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 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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Yet understandable statement, let's go beat some children!
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