Overview

"Do you have fond memories of Knight Rider, Etch-a-Sketch or Raleigh Choppers? You wouldn't be alone. Books, broadcasters and newspapers have fed us a constant diet of why the good old days were so fabulous. They've made a warm, thick treacle of the past which we've bathed in for too long. This book finally pulls the plug on all that. ""The Crap Old Days"" is a savagely funny recollection of how things really were: Tiny Tears was a washout, the Flying Pickets fouled the airwaves and Subbuteo was just flicking daft!"

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Author:   Wayne Williams ,  Darren Allan
Publisher:   Welbeck Publishing Group
Imprint:   Prion Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 20.20cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781853756832

ISBN 10:   1853756830
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   06 October 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Books, broadcasters and newspapers have fed us with a diet of why the good old days were so great, but The Crap Old Days remembers things as they really were: Tiny Tears was a washout, Rambo was rubbish and Weebles may not have wobbled, but they fell down when it came to doing anything interesting or useful! The Crap Old Days de-bunks the myth of how great everything used to be - apparently.; Contents include:; 3D Movies; 3-2-1; Action Man; Atari VCS; Big Glasses; British Beer; Bros; Brut; Cabbage Patch Kids; CB Radio; Charley Says...; Raleigh Chopper; The Clangers; Dirty Dancing; Dr Seuss; Eldorado; Etch-a-sketch; Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle; Frankie Goes to Hollywood; Going For Gold; Green Shield Stamps; Raleigh Grifter; He-Man; Impulse; Ketchips; Kia-Ora; Knight Rider; The Krankies; Legwarmers; Magic 8 Ball; Metal Mickey; Mittens on a String; Monkey; Naked Lady Pens; Nena; Operation; Panini Stickers; Red Phone Boxes; Reliant Robin; Rod Hull and Emu; Roland Rat; Rubik's Cube; Scalextric; Shoulder Pads; Sinclair C5; Slinky; Smurfs; Snoods; Sodastream; Space Dust; Space Hopper; Spot the Ball; Stock, Aitken & Waterman; Stylophone; Subbuteo; ThunderCats; Trivial Pursuit; UB40; Vesta Curries; Wash & Go; Weebles; White socks; Why Don't You?; The Word; Yahtzee; ZX81; and more!

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Wayne Williams has been writing for magazines for over 18 years. Until September 2005 he was the Editorial Director of Live Publishing an independent magazine publisher based in South Manchester. He lives in Manchester. Darren Allan has been a freelance journalist for a large range of computer magazines and websites for the past eight years. Previous to this role, he was Editor of a computer magazine at IDG Media based in Macclesfield. He lives in Scotland.

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