The time has come, I think, for me to apologise for the sheer awfulness of this side-column. Fortnight after fortnight, I struggle to think of anything applicable to the title, and rather than lamenting the passing of something once brilliant – “Whatever happened to…?”, in fact – I find myself musing/ranting/quoting The Thrills at length/writing limericks.
When I devised it I was so full of hope. What an opportunity, I thought, to wax lyrical about childhood memories, get a large student readership thinking “Ah yeah, I remember that”, and cover up my intense jealousy towards The Millword for his ‘In The Papers’ section. But it was not to be.
So for the record, I’m sorry. I hope this goes some way to making it up to you lovely, lovely readers.
Whatever happened to…
Yo-yos? The Simpsons? Glastonbury? The Sega Dreamcast? Ireland’s Eurovision entries? How 2? The Segway? Dinosaurs? Rulers? G-shock watches? Jose Mourinho? The Official UK Top 40 with Mark Goodier? Chocolate banana penny sweets? The Bill’s credits with the feet walking away from the camera? Queenie? The Spring sunshine? Etch-a-Sketch? gair rhydd Sport? Madeleine McCann? Bodger & Badger? Footballers endorsing shinpads? The word ‘radical’? 99p doubles in Metro’s? Mike McClean? Geordie? Penny Farthing bicycles? The Red Dwarf movie? OPM? Brian Dowling? Tamagotchis? Lidl Biscuits? Andrei Kanchelskis? Press Gang? Real teams being in the Premiership? Channel 4’s 100 Greatest… lists? Rubber Duck? Emilia Earhart? Candy sticks with football cards? Cheap petrol? Veritas? Optical illusions? The joystick? Eddie Murphy’s career? The test card?
Rasputin?
