By the cringe

Whatever happened to people saying By The cringe and while I'm on the subject why don't you get free soldiers or cowboys in your cornflakes anymore .

 

Or those little plastic submarines that you put baking soda in

 

"Whatever happened to" is that a deliberate clever reference to The Likely Lads?

 

Gordon Bennet times have moved on since then.

 

well I'll go to the foot of our stairs

 

cor strike a light guv

 

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John...

 

Don't know that one. Is it the preface to an explosive retort?

 

...went to bed with their trousers on...

 

Re freebies in the cornflake packets. I got a strip of plastic not dissimilar to a cable tie, there were serrations all along the length which when you ran your thumbnail along then you could clearly hear Churchill saying "some turkey some neck" Other quotes were available but that was the one I got. This was about 1971-73.
Anyone else remember these by jingo.

 

and?

 

and thats it.

 

I do remember something like this on ready brek Packets I think

 

Oh thank god, I thought I had gone quite barmy.
Like this but smaller

 

You can't get the little soldiers in cornflakes now
Or peak freans playbox biscuits

 

---Oh put a sock in it

Yeah I agree - By the cringe was just a catch phrase in the Likely lads - at least I hadn't heard it before that.

 

Poor little Herbie Bertie might swallow one ...thick little git

 

shredded wheat used to have stories on the packet but it always seemed to be the same one ,I seem to remember a bloke getting caught by the coppers in a railway yard and he was saying 'its a fair cop guv "

 

We used to tip a whole packet of Rice Crispies out into bowls, just to get the plastic thing. Nobody fancied eating them after our grubby mitts had been in them...