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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