

Other parka-batman: www.b3ta.com/board/915944

love that don't you - I saw your reply to the last one too!
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Fri 14 Mar 2003, 11:40,
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was possibly *the* best thing about being a child in the 70s & early 80s. possibly only surpassed by conkers and football stickers.
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Fri 14 Mar 2003, 11:42,
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nothing better than getting the day off for no apparent reason. (at least at the time I thought so)
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Fri 14 Mar 2003, 11:46,
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thing about parkas was flipping them up over your head like a big sail during strong winds and trying to fly backwards.
WARNING: doing this on the school's concrete playground may result in severe head injuries.
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Fri 14 Mar 2003, 11:47,
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WARNING: doing this on the school's concrete playground may result in severe head injuries.

that brings back wonderful childhood memories of me and my brother almost being blown off the back of a channel ferry as kids when "doing the parka batman"
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Fri 14 Mar 2003, 11:44,
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Tiddles my brother was sick over the side of the ferry and poor little me was stood downwind from him. I got it in the face. Tiddles and my mum laughed all the way to France.
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Fri 14 Mar 2003, 11:55,
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cross channel ferries are a never ending source of great childhood stories.
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Fri 14 Mar 2003, 12:00,
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I'm shocked.
On the way back from an exchange trip to France we convinced the one girl who'd bought fags (we were 13) that customs were searching school parties and that she'd end up in prison. She smoked 200 fags in the 5 hour journey - just lighting them and throwing them in the sea. Silly cow. This was also the trip when some boys fed the seagulls bicarbonate of soda.
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Fri 14 Mar 2003, 12:12,
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On the way back from an exchange trip to France we convinced the one girl who'd bought fags (we were 13) that customs were searching school parties and that she'd end up in prison. She smoked 200 fags in the 5 hour journey - just lighting them and throwing them in the sea. Silly cow. This was also the trip when some boys fed the seagulls bicarbonate of soda.

and to think that all we did on our school trip was to play volley johnny and set off firecrackers in the restaurant.
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Fri 14 Mar 2003, 12:17,
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that used to sit on walls and say "wot no..."? i can't even remember what they were called.
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Fri 14 Mar 2003, 11:43,
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by george, that's the chappy!
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Fri 14 Mar 2003, 11:45,
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5 minutes until a Chad gets posted.
4 minutes, 50 seconds
4 minutes 40 - why are you still reading this?
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Fri 14 Mar 2003, 11:48,
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4 minutes, 50 seconds
4 minutes 40 - why are you still reading this?

ever meant to mean anything - or just the vandal's meme of choice?
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Fri 14 Mar 2003, 11:49,
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"Chad also appeared at the back end of the war in England when so many things were in short supply. He seems to have evolved from nowhere in particular but the 'Wot, no -' is directed at the shortages of the time. "
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Fri 14 Mar 2003, 12:03,
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me too young to remember/notice the meanings of stuff like that.
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Fri 14 Mar 2003, 12:05,
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