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  1. StatisTYKE

    StatisTYKE Well-Known Member

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    Suddenly remembered them last night. Think the best we did was a stack of books to get some glass tumblers.

    Just looked them up and you could get a Ford Escort 1300 Super for only 950 books.

    Wonder if anybody managed that? 950 books. Yer tongue would be worn out.
     
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    I actually liked having the job of sticking the stamps and the co op ones into the books. You just don't get the same satisfaction with nectar poiints!
     
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    Yeah we did. I always thought the glue tasted nice. GSS addict.
     
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    It was S&H pink stamps my parents collected. Mostly from the petrol station and I remember we had to go to Aberdeen to redeem them for tack.
    All absolutely pointless.
     
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    I think I have some at mum and dads. Not quite sure why I have them as they (and blue chip) must have been phased our when I was a young en. Got plenty of Tiger tokens too. I wanted to save them for a camcorder. I only needed to dad to buy a lot more petrol. I think the most we got from them was a box of glasses.
     
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    I suppose the concept was ahead of it's time, in that most supermarkets have loyalty cards now. I've never taken an interest in either, as the benefits are so small.
     
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    green shield stamp collection in the 70s can be re-lived by visiting a modern P C circus, all you get is tumblers
     
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    Football league crests and FA coins from Esso.. Got the lot!
     
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    here's one for you so corny but give it a go

    before Gulliver travelled there was a less well known travelling giant called peter troll who saved the people of Lilliput from invasion by wading in sea and squashing 4 invading boats with his foot

    the headlines in Lilliput times next day read

    P TROLL STAMPS ON 4 GALLIONS
     
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    Lucky you. I also had them along with coins depicting the images of England’s 1970 World Cup squad.
    My mother threw them out
     
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    i had one of everything, my dad never carried on collecting owt for me, I had one encyclopedia the A one, I was $hit hot on aardvarks
     
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    Should have said HAD the lot...mine got binned long ago.

    My mother threw them out [/QUOTE]
     
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    Quadruple Green Shield Stamps on petrol. You simply had to go for it at 3s 6d a gallon.
    Then into Sheffield at Christmas for the lights on the Moor and Redgates toy shop with some full books to get your gift at the Green Shield Shop at the top end of the Moor.
    I still have my Scrabble set we got there !
     
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    Brilliant. The World Cup collections were 'ace' as we used to say back then.

    I loved the way they slotted so exactly into the blue cardboard collecting mega presentation thing.
     
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    Unfortunately I collected the most un-PC thing ever. A Robertson's Jam football team... I hang my head for my 9 year old self.
     
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    was going to put a picture of them up but it is too bad ,different world back then, my aunty had massive collection,I coveted those jam golly's so much
     
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    I loved them, so I couldn't have been a racist???
     
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    they was just gollywogs, never once associated them with any race thinking
     
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    The only black man I was aware of at the time was Muhammed Ali, who happened to be my greatest hero. I never related the figures to him in any way. They were just cute. I'm not defending Robertson's marketing strategy BTW, just sayin' us kids didn't turn out racists, or at least I didn't. 85% of my record collection would back me up.
     
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