Fatty UK food, you can keep it. Thai food for me. While your at it you can keep christmas, taxes, high mortgage rates, the cold weather, crap british rail, and shite tv as well......
Come on Randy you old humbug, I remember those Christmas's when I would put me feet up, wearing me new sweater, eating mince pies and watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Not sure that I miss it too much though
"Sometimes I sits and thinks, and then again I just sits" Punch 24th Oct 1906
I remember as a child, not being able to sleep on Christmas eve as I knew I had Buckaroo and an Action Man under the tree!! (not every year)
I always managed to find my pressies before the event. I still looked surprised when I opened them though.....
Some classics that come to mind -
Mastermind, Kerr plunk, Hot wheels, Bumper shot, Meccano, Lego, Mamood steam thingy, Johnny 7 gun, Yatzee, Magnetic spinning robot that answers questions, Big bag of plastic soldiers, Airfix kit, Subbuteo, Battleships.
Operation (but we kept losing the bits that go in the holes) and Girl's World. I wanted a Girl's World for ages. It lost it's appeal very quickly, though. There's not an awful lot you can do with a plastic head with nylon hair & crappy creme make up.
"The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?" - Jeremy Bentham, philosopher, 1748-1832
Mr. RC: Oh why, oh why, did you mention the magnetic robot that could answer questions? I'd forgotten all about it (for about 35 years) and now memories are flooding back. But vaguely, and in a mist. I think he answered 'yes' or 'no' - but he was certainly accurate and not to be swayed by big sis trying to stop him from spinning round (because she thought that she knew best).
Dawn: I had Sindy and you pressed a button in her back to give her long blond locks. Oh, if life was only that simple...
VS
P.S. Randy: You forgot 'Battling Tops'.
"Properly trained, man can be a dog's best friend"