Re: sci-fi comics – TV21. I must have spent a lot of pocket money on these comics, as well as Airfix kits.

Frequently bought from the corner shop when I were a lad:
Black Jacks
Refreshers
Flying Saucers
Sherbert Dibdabs
Spanish Gold (sweet coconut “tobacco”)

Mint Cracknell wouldn’t be allowed these days. I can’t remember how many times I impaled the roof of my mouth with shards of that delicious minty chocolate.

Whatever happened to Cresta soda? It was frothy, man!

That was great when I was 11 – now I think “how many bleedin’ chemicals were in it to make it froth like that?”

You’re right – the Aztec bar was Cadbury’s version of the Mars bar, but there weren’t any raisins in it. But there was in the Amazin’ Raisin bar.

Kaisfatdad said: “Big Orange.”

I like the name “Emperor Cheeto.”

They did. On the Stiff label.

It was, wasn’t it?

How many unicyclists does it take to change a light bulb?
Just one.

How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
Fish.

How many Afterworders does it take to change a light bulb?
Just one to […]

Hear, hear.

Gorilla walks into a bar and orders a pint. Barmaid hands him his pint and says “That’ll be ten pounds, please.”

The gorilla hands over a twenty pound note. The barmaid hands him his change and says “We don’t […]

I got 15 but several of them were complete guesses.

That’s what I’ve heard.

When I was a nipper, I would go to Richmond with my mum for the late night shopping on Fridays nights. The parade of shops either side of the entrance to the tube station featured a shop that sold Cornish […]

Doctor: “Why do you have a steering wheel down your Y fronts?”
Patient: “It’s driving me nuts.”

Will Birch’s Nick Lowe bio is very good.

I tried that but I ended up with chafed thighs.

My wife bought me the big Ready Steady Go! coffee table book for Christmas. I’ve barely scratched the surface.