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The Beige Allegro
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Time to reach into your grab bag of 70s nostalgia with a fab new concept in MC. Get from Fingerbobs to Slade without passing blaxploitation or The Winter of Discontent. Punk Scores double but has nothing to do with the Mystery winning move.
Sponsored by Pearl and Dean.
Fingerbobs with home at British Leyland.
Grrr... slightly too young to play this game:)
Make mine a Dalek Death Ray, puttingWatney's Party Seven in knid.
Vision On, declaring Gallery
Hanging up some very wide ties home at Jim Callaghan
Deep black mascara eyes, black hair, bass guitar hung low Gaye Advert playing at at home with "Three minute Heros"
Evel Knievel. Home at Peter Shilton
*thinks* Does The Good Life count?
rab] Felicity Kendal scores triple - an excellent move gaining you a Nimble podume.
Bifurcating to Mike Reid's Runaround/Raleigh Chopper declaring home at Cresta. It's frothy man...
Declaring home on the Dark Side of the Moon progressing to Safety pins
Cheggers Plays Pop, home at Saturday Swap Shop.
Crystaltips and Alistair Raising LV by Warp five.
Stripy Tank Top Uh-oh, loop iminent... where are the sleeves?
Blast it. Forced to *womble*.
Cheeky Weekly declaring free gift with first edition
I can do nothing but head for an All-Nighter at Wigan Casino. Beetlecrushers and 20-inch hems wild. (no, I wasn't there either. But I heard about it.)
I might celebrate the Silver Jubilee.
In that case The Green Cross Code applies, forcing me to Brentford Nylons.
Matt's move forces me to take a seat... Shackletons orginal high seat chair - it's lovely!
OMG - I can recall this one almost verbatim...that's the power of repetitive advertising for you.
"It's grand to find a comfy chair when you're getting on a bit or you have arthritis. My neice got this from Shackletons, you know. Never thought it would be so easy to get in and out of. First she went to their showroom, they had over a hundred chairs to choose from..."
Ridley Scott's Hovis advert
Oh no! There is a giant kitten on the Post Office tower! Keeping my head low with a Bay City Rollers.
Fab! Now I can progress with Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Mind the drum solo!
Is Pink Floyd valid at this stage?
[rab] only if playing a Roger Waters podume. I move to David Bowie playing an Aladin Sane podume of course and hopefully putting male makeup in knid.
Upping the cheese factor with Rubettes and a sickly Sugar Baby Love
Gary Glitter no one wants to be in his gang. But hey its cool in my gang when its Ladies Night.
Pre-spellchecking wiv crazee boyz Slade teetering on Platform Boots.
Taking the middle of the line with Nana Mouskori/Dennis Roussos. Tasteless diagonal: Wife Swapping Parties/Hairy Cornflake.
There's only one way to get the PV (polyester velocity) down from its current dangerously high levels. And that's to go for The Good Life, and a quick flash of Harvy Smith's V Sign
Leading, inevitably, to The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin.
And shunting me to Sugar Smacks, via Space Hopper
Is this podume fizzing? Ah, it's because it's made out of Space Dust.
Hmm sticky, therefore must play Bazooka Joe bubblegum
Hey Girl Don't Bother Me that will be ten shillings in old money, setting the first single bought wild.
Hmm - Tiswas as a primary move, home at Spangles.
Countering Saskia's Tiswas by changing channels to an emphatic Swapshop and disappearing into the distance on a Spacehopper. Mwahahahah!
Having an observation round with Screen Test before attempting to get hold of penelope's clackers.
A Carnaby Street/King's Road bifurcation before purchasing plum and burgundy flares at Biba.
Tomorrows World Raymond Baxter podumes wild
(Penelope) Only thing I can say to that is "Crackerjack!"
[Saskia] Oh ho! So you would dare to defy me? Hmm. Double Deckers, Take that! Gillian and Tiger on the top deck, Brains at the wheel!!
(Penelope) Nice try, but I shall play my Joker with Stuart Hall and It's A Knockout! Beat that!
[Saskia] My ire is raised, I won't be beaten... going for a hostname pleonasm cascade with Robert Robertson in Ask the Family and Magnus Magnusson in Mastermind.
F e e l t h e f o r c e !
Bugger. Was it Robert Robinson? 'Close enough for agriculture', as we used to say in the chemical analysis business...
[penelope] Oh no you don't. A Whitbread (Big Head) Trophy Bitter (the pint that thinks it's a quart) will soon put a stop to that nonsense.
Taking possession of all the devil's podumes with The Exorcist!
[Matt] Damn You! Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom! Esso Blue!
(Penelope) I think you missed a golden opportunity there. Nationwide featuring such rising stars as Frank Bough, Bernard Faulk, Hugh Scully, Sue Lawley and Mr Sex himself John Stapleton. If the link doesn’t work, blame the dog.
Der-dum, der-dum, der-dum-dum-dum-dum, der-dum-dum-dum dedededum! You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark! - Jaws
(Continuiing on the Nationwide theme) Richard Stilgoe, the parachuting bagpiper and of course, David Icke. (Penelope) Give up yet?
[Saskia] Not while I'm still being told to Put a Tiger in your Tank
pshaw. I give up. It moved while I was watching it! Try http://www.prod.esso.com/eaff/essoireland/about/mn_esso_tiger.html.
Led Zeppelin loop! Hey hey mama, said the way you move, gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove!
waving her red pettocoat in The Railway Children
pettOcoat?
[Chalky] *GONG* Didn't loop.
[DrFu+nxum] *GNOG* Didn't have to. Check the RV. Meanwhile: Jimmy Saville says Clunk-Click, Every Trip
It's got to be that Grange Hill Sausage.
La la lah! Its time for Drooper, Fleegle, Bingo & Snorky in The Banana Splits!
Summer holiday viewing cascade:
Robinson Crusoe
The Singing Ringing Tree
Belle and Sebatian
Why Don't You...
Cloe Ashcroft wearing dungarees and singing 'Jelly on a Plate'...
Worthington E - Double diamond loop
[Saskia] You think you're so smart, but I'm wearing stripy socks and all I will say to you is DORIS! (And Watch Out! There's a Humphrey About!)
Watneys Red Barrel aahhrghhh
How! interesting.
Huggy Bear - avoiding The Hair Bear Bunch.
staying with the animal theme Top Cat
Bachman-Turner Overdrive You ain't seen nothin' yet...b-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen n-n-nothin' yet!
Plastic serrated Woo-woo tubes. Spin 'em round and they go woooo.
Entertaining with 'The Fondue Set' [what ARE those charred black thingies lurking at the bottom of this pan?] but restoring credibility with Curved Air's 'Phantasmagoria' [what ARE those charred black thingies lurking underneath Sonja Kristina's fringe?]
Stealers Wheel Stuck in the middle with you, without any later associated connotations of acts of torture, thankyouverymuch.
(Penelope) Were you a member of the Tufty Club or did you listen to what Charlie Says?
[Sakia] I was in the Tufty club, the Puffin club and I was a Brownie too... Professor Brainstawm Ner-ner ner-ner-ner!
Cheech & Chong - Up in smoke man
"I am not a crook."
10CC, "I'm not in love"
Joan Armatrading - I am not in love, but I'm open to persuasion
pen]Found just the man for you Lord Brett Sinclair.
Inkspot] In that case, Danny is Wilde. Getting my digital calculator out , I see the next move is Clive Sinclair.
Guess I'll have to play Kate Bush on the side of double decker buses. Abba moved from number one.
Meatloaf Let me sleep on it.
Let's go to Abigail's Party for a bit of Demis Roussos
A Multi-Gobble-Choc-Bomb is really rather nice
Topped with choc and sugar balls and strawberry flavoured ice
But a Multi-Gobble-Choc-Bomb has a big surprise
For every Multi-Gobble-Choc-Bomb has a bar of choc inside!
Hey! Crusader, have you any nuts?
I've got mixed nuts and raisins, salted cashews,
I've got my favourite roasted peanuts!
(More, more, more!)I've got three
Bags
Full.
Does this mean that it's time for a Finger of Fudge?
[BtD] Only if you let me play The small piece of cardboard that you used to get in a Bounty Bar.
Space Dust *crackle*
Logically on to Spacehoppers
I know just what you're thinking The Tomorrow People ... such nice children.
Dangerous playground equipment like slides that are over 6 feet high, see-saws that chop fingers off, solid wood swings which bash you in the face. And no protective soft surface to fall on.
Goldfish in Bags.
Umpteen Apollo Missions spawning The Moonwalk
Peters and Lee
Benny from Crossroads.
Hence Benny from Abba.
Benny! Benny! Benny! Benny and The Jets!
more tooth-rot : Imps, Tacks (very similar), rainbow crystals, pink panther bars and those pink waffle-shaped chewy spearmint things between two sheets of greaseproof paper...
[Tooth-rot] Mojos! Cinnamon flavoured tic-tacs, and those Fry's choclate bars with the multi-coloured, multi-flavoured soft fondant centers.
Pink Panther Pink Chocolate Bars (And still available in Norwich as late as 1991, by the way)
Dad's Army & M*A*S*H each lasting longer than the wars they portrayed.
[Puckoon] Because they lasted just one hour a week... :oP
The Liver Birds Ye dancin'? invoked.
Leading to the usual companion move of Butterflies.
Pen] Ya askin'? Mrs Slocombe's Pussy. Donna Summer - feeling Lurveeee. Oooooh!
Green Shield Stamps! Sandwich Toaster, anyone?
In which case, I'll have a Three Day Week.
Darn it, rab, that forces me into a Hard Day's Night - at home, of course, in Abbey Road!
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt! Hard Day's Night was 1964.

What ever happened to
Marathon Bars
Smiths Crisps
Opal Fruits
Rowntrees Fruit Gums...?
Marathon Bars became 'Snickers' in about 1990
Smiths Crisps are still available
Opal Fruits became Starburst in about 2001
and Rowntrees Fruit Gums are still available

all of which forces me to Shop at a FineFare Supermarket, using a checkout till with mechanical buttons and a totalling button that goes KERRRR-CHINNNNG! and opens the cash drawer (where there is a compartment for half-pence pieces).

Arkwright's till with it's mousetrap like One Pound Note clip, in Open All Hours. [pen] that compartment would have originally been for tanners.
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