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[andrewo]

I was in the tufty club, and loved the ads.

[Jaxom]

It wasn't a Mod as it would say edited by *** on *** at ***. I thought you had edited it yourself?
Jax

[Shortie]

I missed the g******g era as I'm a bit too young, but did have 3 knitted ones when I was younger, and definately remember them on the back of Robertsons jam as stamp sized pictures to collect for pin badges I think it was.... That was until they were taken off as they were deemed 'unsuitable'...

[JennieAtkinson]

Had loads of g********gs as we ate so much jam. Also won a Blue Peter badge when Valerie Singleton was presenting and it was in black and white (the programme not the badge).

There is no incentive to eat healthy things these days - anyone remember the plastic animals in the cornflakes packet that never resembled anything you ever knew, but my brother and I used to fight over who opened the packet of shredded wheat ( yuk ........)

[pigletwillie]

I think there all in the moderators shed?

[Lesley Jay]

It was me you fools. I am the censor from Hell!! You can't say G******g these days. It upsets some people so I think we should be careful - don't you agree?

[Jaxom]

Half my family is black and have the toy that upsets white people they see no harm in them. It is all a case of personal thinking. On a factual note.. The last part of the word is an acronym for "Westernised Oriental Gentleman" and refers to people in Japan that stopped wearing their traditional clothes and started to wear western attire during the 19th century.
Jax

[Lesley Jay]

Personally I think it is PC gone mad. However this forum is read by the world so I do think we should choose our words carefully.

[eskymo]

sorry to have started all the PC nonsense/sense - I just wanted to know what the word was as it was really buggin gme that I couldn't figure it out - like a crossword clue from hell.

I was in the tufty club too!!!

Happy days!

[Nicos]

Dare I ask what that is?.....or should I google it LJ????

[Neil Martin]

gstring? A perfectly sensible item of undewear, when wearing tight jeans.

[Nicos]

what on earth did you google Neil?

[Shortie]

I'm Sorry

Sorry LJ...

[SueA]

Eskymo
You're obviously justa youngster - A g******g is a "G******g" - a sort of cartoon negro - a bit like the black and white minstrel show characters but you won't remember them either. Anyway, used to be used to advertise Robinsons or Robertsons (not sure but think it was the former) jam and marmalade.

I'm surprised they didn't edit out your 'n' word as well Andrewo. As a child I used to collect the tokens off the labels & have the set of g******g figures playing musical instruments.

[Jaxom]

Negroid, Caucasian and Mongoloid are all biological scientific words used to classify genetic characteristics. In science class, hairdressers have to learn the difference in hair structure of all three.
In pathology the three names are used extensively again. It is a landmine out there but we will try to do our best.
Jax