Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-ha-ha-ha-ha
... the sound of Katie the friggin Kookaburra still haunts me to this day. Yes, I was a fully paid up member of the Tinga and Tucker Club.

Fuck me, that dates me doesn't it?
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 11:30, Reply)

I was brought up in the seventies....
...enough said.


The memories are still too painful to talk about.
(CdrVimes, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 10:56, Reply)

I uses to really fancy
Anthea Turner
(dr-kill, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 8:38, Reply)

Add another vote for...
Bon Jovi.

I also had a Kappa shirt. And I'm not a wog. Deary me. Someone could have told me, I liked those little men sitting down the side.
(AlexV - stop coming to my house!, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 8:08, Reply)

Ah, crap,
I never grew out of my childhood bad taste stage. I just ordered "Buddy's Song" off Ebay (yes, the Chesney Hawkes classic) as it reminded me of when I was 17.
I loved then, and still love now, the Carpenters. (Fair enough, I ain't the only 30 year old in the world who does.......)
When the local "oldies" station plays Erasure, MCHammer, Roxette, I get all excited.

And no, person in the Kia Sedona down Rosecrans Street in San Diego, I was NOT singing along to Tiffany's Could've Been today. Absolutely not*

* Ah shit*
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 7:19, Reply)

To my mum...
...thank you for

a) not letting me have a ra-ra skirt
b) or a puff-ball skirt
c) leg warmers
d) a perm

However - how did you let the Frankie Says t-shirt get under the radar?

Did have a bit of a crush on Morten from A-Ha though, but that's better than my dorm-mate at boarding school - she played Chris de Burgh ENDLESSLY in 1986...

*shudder*
( Strangey is present at, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 6:31, Reply)

I said "man" and "dude" almost every other word
as in "Hey man, what's up dude?" "let's do this man, okay dude" I thought it was cool
I thought Jethro Tull was hard. edit: He played a FLUTE!
I liked NKOTB.
ALL of my t-shirts came past my knees and I wore those shoes that light up.
I still know and will willingly sing Ice Ice Baby very well. I'm not too embarassed about that, for some reason the chicks dig it.
I had a rat tail. A long one. To the middle of my back.
Whenever I started to run anywhere, I would yell "Thundercats, HO!"
I still wear my slap bracelet.
I was on "Where in the world is Carmen Sad Diego?" I almost won. I thought I was king shit at school, but got shitkicked for it. And the show was rigged.
I feel nostalgic now. Someone punch me.
(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 4:50, Reply)

Music you say?
My first ever music purchase was a cassette single of Cotton Eye Joe. My second was Scatman World by the Scatman, solely because I couldn't find the Scatman song on single. And if anyone remembers the band Clock, guess who my third ever cassette was by. And in a school project about statistics where everyone was asked about their favourite musician, I was the only person ever in the history of the exercise to mention Gary Glitter.

Christ how did I survive primary school?
(Pablissimo, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 3:45, Reply)

Pork Scratchings between 2 slices of bread
At age 8 I was the only kid in school to have more dental work than my gran.
(Citrin, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 2:12, Reply)

Baking soda and dry oatmeal
mixed together. i used to beg my mom to let me have it when i was 3. the scary thing is that, now, 13 years later, i can still remember exactly how it tasted.
(sponch!, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 1:42, Reply)

I am the one and only
Yup, good ol Chesney Hawks, and I was bullied for it, yet still didn't take notice.
If I could go back in time, I would have given them bigger sticks.
(Gert-Big-Robot-Gal, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 1:02, Reply)

bucks fizz
Wanted to ruin cheryl Baker following that skirt thing in 'making your mind up'

bless only 4 at the time -remeber it well!

Guess I needed bromide in me playtime milk
(1st team orc, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 0:49, Reply)

When I was young...
I liked Bon Jovi. I mean, really liked... they were so hard, y'know?

A strange thing: when I was about 10 - 15 I had a round sort of afro hairdo, at age 16 - 20 I hated myself for it, and now I kinda dig it again... but now my hair just won't fro up.
(BigMoose, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 0:49, Reply)

This really hurts to talk about it but...
When I was young, I bought...

1)MMM Bop by Hanson *sob*

and as if that wasn't bad enough I then went and bought...

2) Barbie Girl by Aqua

Oh the humanity!
(Mr Slippyfist, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 0:44, Reply)

A quick browse in the closet reveals the following items..
Clothes:

Owning two pairs of shell suits. Seemed a good idea at the time until I got too close to a heater with one pair and the back of them turned into a solid lump of black plastic. Mum threw both pairs away.

Dangermouse boxer shorts. Would buy them now if I could find any to fit.

Lemon-coloured tie: what WAS I thinking??? Made it look like I pissed myself down the front of my shirt.

Music:

Barron Knights - Got loads of their stuff and saw them live this year, great concert.

Tribe of Toffs - John Kettley is a Weatherman.
Sorry this is just shit, should of known better.

Cat Stevens - The Old Schoolyard. Saw this in a bargin bin. Made sense at the time..

Tight Fit - Fantasy Island

Laurie Anderson - For Science LP. Contained the hit 'O Superman'. Also contained the first (and hopefully last) drum 'n bagpipe track.

Midnight Oil - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 - Anybody who can listen to this without losing will to live after the first track already lacks a pulse.
(Chuckman, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 0:41, Reply)

mrs. jackson
i'm not embarrassed about the NKOTB phase, the smurf tapes, the flannel shirts, etc. etc.
but - I was four when "Thriller" came out, so therefore i kinda have to blame my parents for this because I didn't have money.
I was determined to marry Michael Jackson when I grew up. I had posters all over my room, I was going to name my first child Billie Jean, (and would sing it for my dad's friends for pocket change) I had a shirt that said "PYT" and a micheal jackson doll with several outfits (he was going to marry barbie), it gets worse! i had a sparkley glove, and i actually had a little-kid-sized red pleather jacket with lots o' zippers. My parents must have been so proud. The sad ending to the story is that my jacket got stolen from pre-school and it was cold out and I didn't have a jacket to wear home. It was very traumatic.
here's some extra punctuation, insert as necessary...,,,,;;""''
(lisa, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 0:39, Reply)

MC Hammer
I once begged my mom to buy me the MC Hammer cassette. One day, she surprised me when i got home from school with it. I spent months listening to it non stop.
(pk, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 0:24, Reply)

Bad doesn't even come into it
Roxette - The Look
Wilson Phillips - Hold On
Partners in Kryme - Turtle Power
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Maria McKee - Show Me Heaven
Stevie B - Because I Love You

These are all songs that my parents recorded onto a cassette, which I used to play in my bedroom on my little portable tape player (actually a bile-coloured bulky thing with massive push down buttons).

Thankfully about 3 years later I recorded "stories" over the lot of them......

Don't even speak to me about cardies and Henry's Cat T-Shirts!!!!
(knife_of_justice, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 23:26, Reply)

I used to like the Spice Girls, a hellova lot
Now I just like some of their music...

I also used to like the pop charts... But now I only listen to Kerrang and random internet radio stations.
( Rev. Cleo still alive, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 23:21, Reply)

Depends on your outlook.
I have vaguely gothic overtones, and occasionally wear lots of black and metal and black eyeliner (I'm male). I also have a nipple piercing.

Depends on your definition of bad taste I suppose.
( Detrius521, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 23:16, Reply)

First hangover
My first hangover was a few years ago on my birthday - my birthday being the 1st of January. I have to put up with some absolute bastards of hangovers on my birthday, I can tell you!!

Anyway, this first hangover wasn't caused by much alcohol - I was, and remain, quite a lightweight. Hey it's cheap!! I woke up that morning seemingly seconds after my head hit the pillow, with a horrible alcohol/rotted sugar/unbrushed teeth taste in my mouth. My first thought?

"Wow. That tastes like when I kiss x (my first girlfriend)". I'm ashamed to say I continued to go out with her for a further 6 months. I don't think the taste got better.
( Detrius521, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 23:14, Reply)

Disney characters.
Well, I used to have quite a crush on the Little Mermaid. I wanted to marry her and be her Prince Eric. My parents even bought me her in doll form.

Shame it wasn't a RealDoll, but then again I was 7 or something.
( Detrius521, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 23:04, Reply)

Childhood Bad Taste
Ketchup & Marmalade Sandwiches
(cinsidy, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 23:00, Reply)

My first ever music I liked
Was a Jason Donovan tape.
Bright pink it was
I used to dance to it for ages.


Im not gay

Oh, and Branston Pickle in my Sandwhiches
And mint saucee on everything
( OneSullenBrit *air sandwiches*, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 22:58, Reply)

My early bad taste
Was getting a fat kid at school to say he had a minge.

Y'see, it was reverse psychology - we said he hadnt got one, and he pretended to know what it was, so he got upset coz he thought it meant 'Teh Cock'.
( empty_personality, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 22:52, Reply)

christmas '99
self explanatory, really.






serious effort went into tree decoration that year. i'm still rather proud of the Angel of Death, come to think of it.

the scariest thing is, i was only 12.

bad taste. good times.
(dunkin' goodhew, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 22:48, Reply)

Bad taste wasn't me so prob don't count
I remember a teacher at my school trying to shut a group of chatting girls up , after about 40 minutes of the lesson he had finally had enough and shouted ,or should I say meant to shout "Kate Sp....er do you want your tongue cut out" it came out in front of a group of 14 year olds " Kate Sp....er do you want your c**t tongued out"

I'll be honest if she did I would have done it for nothing ;-)
(alwaysallways, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 22:40, Reply)

Bad Taste
I wore a yellow double breasted suit black shoes and shirt yellow tie to a works do god I felt just like a six foot liquorice allsort



'Am I the only one that remembers oxford bags'
or am I just showing my age now
(alwaysallways, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 22:33, Reply)

i was young
I asked for All4One's (the black boy band of the 90s) album for my birthday. And learned all the words to it. I was very depressed as a child.
(spamcicle, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 22:19, Reply)

A sons love!
One christmas when i was too young to truly understand swear words and more of the adult words that appeared on the news and that my older brother had started using. I was having a play fight in the lounge with my dad, whilst my grandparents, both sets, my uncle & aunt, mum & brother looked on, half watching noel edmonds up the post office tower, half watching dad & i tussle. dad had been overpowering me for a while, and i somehow managed to get dad onto his front with me sat on his back, feeling a little angry and happy i was winning the fight i screamed out "I'M GONNA RAPE YOU DAD", the room fell silent, eyes bulged, glasses were dropped, jaws hit floors. i was very very quickly escorted to my room where i spent the whole of xmas day wondering what the hell i had done. my tiny sponge like brain for some reason thought rape meant beating some one up who you love, but in a nice way!! oh how we laugh now.
i also brought joe dolces "shuddupa-ya -face", sorry midge ure!
(chop chop old boy, Fri 10 Dec 2004, 22:11, Reply)