| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by infohenry(m): 3:41pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
NwaAmaikpe:
You just took me back to when Nigeria was a country, when coins were precious assets.
When Texaco filling station attendants cleaned your windscreen and thanked you for your patronage.
When Nigerian Airways was still a robust Elephant with wings?
When PAN flooded our streets with seductive 404s?
When we stood by railways counting the number of coaches on each steam train passing.
Do you remember when we used fluorescent tubes to construct HD-ready antennas so we could hear the truth from Siene Allwell Brown and Frank Olize.
And when we put coloured glasses over our TVs so we could watch in colour?
Should I remind you of our TVs that had shutters, keys and legs or tell you the stories of eating moi-moi out of milk cups while watching white cranes come home from their fishing trip and beg them to exchange their white claws with out dirty nails?
When we ate New Society bread with planta.
Drank Ginger Ale or Pronto.
Licked "chichi" sweet and coloured saccharine icecreams after taking an overdose of kwilikwili so we could win the farting competition.
Back to when ladies wore shimmy.
When permed and jerry curled hairs were the styles to beat.
Tales by moonlight for the teens,
Icheokwu for the adults and Danger mouse for the kids.
Tell me did you write love notes and pass to your crush through her younger ones?
Did you sprain your finger from turning the "roundabout" telephone dial?
Did you knot grass leaves to stay out of trouble?
Did you ever smooch your female neighbor on your father's settee while Teddy Pendergrass record was spinning on the turntable?
Did you walk from house to house on Christmas eve to sing carols?
Lalastic.lala.... Did you ever use Aquafresh toothpaste to drink garri or use Krest and Akanwu for birthcontrol?
Did you ever feel a sense of pride sitting "Merry-go-round" long buses because your neighbor's kids had to ride their father's Long John bicycle?
Nigeria was great.
Night journeys were interesting, we had toll gates at every boundary with jovial soldiers exchanging banters there.
Life was greater if you had the privilege of growing up in Eastern Nigeria.
So a full grown man is behind this moniker, because nobody below forty can pen down this. What a nostalgia. Thank you for making me grin with laughter.
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| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by degamemaster(m): 3:41pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
Jgoldie:
Never seen this....how does it work? Indomie generation spotted . 1 Like |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by ddjay: 3:42pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
naijadrivablog:
 OP, only matured people that grew up in the East will know this o. Will the mods relate?
I had one in my room in those days. The sound no be here. Sometimes I connected CD Player to it. If you come play Osadebe's song (Osankwa) on it eh  . Oga nobi only 4 east o, me i built mine with the woofer in a bucket 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by Cymix: 3:43pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
that was before buhari |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by infohenry(m): 3:43pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
NwaAmaikpe:
You just took me back to when Nigeria was a country, when coins were precious assets.
When Texaco filling station attendants cleaned your windscreen and thanked you for your patronage.
When Nigerian Airways was still a robust Elephant with wings?
When PAN flooded our streets with seductive 404s?
When we stood by railways counting the number of coaches on each steam train passing.
Do you remember when we used fluorescent tubes to construct HD-ready antennas so we could hear the truth from Siene Allwell Brown and Frank Olize.
And when we put coloured glasses over our TVs so we could watch in colour?
Should I remind you of our TVs that had shutters, keys and legs or tell you the stories of eating moi-moi out of milk cups while watching white cranes come home from their fishing trip and beg them to exchange their white claws with out dirty nails?
When we ate New Society bread with planta.
Drank Ginger Ale or Pronto.
Licked "chichi" sweet and coloured saccharine icecreams after taking an overdose of kwilikwili so we could win the farting competition.
Back to when ladies wore shimmy.
When permed and jerry curled hairs were the styles to beat.
Tales by moonlight for the teens,
Icheokwu for the adults and Danger mouse for the kids.
Tell me did you write love notes and pass to your crush through her younger ones?
Did you sprain your finger from turning the "roundabout" telephone dial?
Did you knot grass leaves to stay out of trouble?
Did you ever smooch your female neighbor on your father's settee while Teddy Pendergrass record was spinning on the turntable?
Did you walk from house to house on Christmas eve to sing carols?
Lalastic.lala.... Did you ever use Aquafresh toothpaste to drink garri or use Krest and Akanwu for birthcontrol?
Did you ever feel a sense of pride sitting "Merry-go-round" long buses because your neighbor's kids had to ride their father's Long John bicycle?
Nigeria was great.
Night journeys were interesting, we had toll gates at every boundary with jovial soldiers exchanging banters there.
Life was greater if you had the privilege of growing up in Eastern Nigeria.
So a full grown man is behind this moniker, because nobody below forty can pen down this. What a nostalgia. Thank you for making me grin with laughter. 28 Likes |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by KingGBsky(m): 3:48pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
NwaAmaikpe:
You just took me back to when Nigeria was a country, when coins were precious assets.
When Texaco filling station attendants cleaned your windscreen and thanked you for your patronage.
When Nigerian Airways was still a robust Elephant with wings.
When PAN flooded our streets with seductive 404s.
When we stood by railways counting the number of coaches on each steam train passing.
Do you remember when we used fluorescent tubes to construct HD-ready antennas so we could hear the truth from Siene Allwell Brown and Frank Olize.
And when we put coloured glasses over our TVs so we could watch in colour?
Should I remind you of our TVs that had shutters, keys and legs or tell you the stories of eating moi-moi out of milk cups while watching white cranes come home from their fishing trip and beg them to exchange their white claws with out dirty nails?
When we ate New Society bread with planta.
Drank Ginger Ale or Pronto.
Licked "chichi" sweet and coloured saccharine icecreams after taking an overdose of kwilikwili so we could win the farting competition.
Back to when ladies wore shimmy.
When permed and jerry curled hairs were the styles to beat.
Tales by moonlight for the teens,
Icheokwu for the adults and Danger mouse for the kids.
When we just had to consult the telephone directory to get anyone's land phone number.
Tell me did you write love notes and pass to your crush through her younger ones?
Did you sprain your finger from turning the "roundabout" telephone dial?
Did you knot grass leaves to stay out of trouble?
Did you ever smooch your female neighbor on your father's settee while Teddy Pendergrass record was spinning on the turntable?
Did you walk from house to house on Christmas eve to sing carols?
Lalastic.lala.... Did you ever use Aquafresh toothpaste to drink garri or use Krest and Akanwu for birthcontrol?
Did you ever feel a sense of pride sitting in "Merry-go-round" long buses because your neighbor's kids had to ride their father's Long John bicycle?
Did you ever visit the library to check out what new tale Cyprian Ekwensi or Chinua Achebe had made?
Nigeria was great.
Night journeys were interesting, we had toll gates at every boundary with jovial soldiers exchanging banters there.
Life was greater if you had the privilege of growing up in Eastern Nigeria.
Nairaland celebrity 14 Likes 1 Share |
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| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by Topmaike007(m): 3:51pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
NwaAmaikpe:
You just took me back to when Nigeria was a country, when coins were precious assets.
When Texaco filling station attendants cleaned your windscreen and thanked you for your patronage.
When Nigerian Airways was still a robust Elephant with wings.
When PAN flooded our streets with seductive 404s.
When we stood by railways counting the number of coaches on each steam train passing.
Do you remember when we used fluorescent tubes to construct HD-ready antennas so we could hear the truth from Siene Allwell Brown and Frank Olize.
And when we put coloured glasses over our TVs so we could watch in colour?
Should I remind you of our TVs that had shutters, keys and legs or tell you the stories of eating moi-moi out of milk cups while watching white cranes come home from their fishing trip and beg them to exchange their white claws with out dirty nails?
When we ate New Society bread with planta.
Drank Ginger Ale or Pronto.
Licked "chichi" sweet and coloured saccharine icecreams after taking an overdose of kwilikwili so we could win the farting competition.
Back to when ladies wore shimmy.
When permed and jerry curled hairs were the styles to beat.
Tales by moonlight for the teens,
Icheokwu for the adults and Danger mouse for the kids.
When we just had to consult the telephone directory to get anyone's land phone number.
Tell me did you write love notes and pass to your crush through her younger ones?
Did you sprain your finger from turning the "roundabout" telephone dial?
Did you knot grass leaves to stay out of trouble?
Did you ever smooch your female neighbor on your father's settee while Teddy Pendergrass record was spinning on the turntable?
Did you walk from house to house on Christmas eve to sing carols?
Lalastic.lala.... Did you ever use Aquafresh toothpaste to drink garri or use Krest and Akanwu for birthcontrol?
Did you ever feel a sense of pride sitting in "Merry-go-round" long buses because your neighbor's kids had to ride their father's Long John bicycle?
Did you ever visit the library to check out what new tale Cyprian Ekwensi or Chinua Achebe had made?
Nigeria was great.
Night journeys were interesting, we had toll gates at every boundary with jovial soldiers exchanging banters there.
Life was greater if you had the privilege of growing up in Eastern Nigeria.
then when Chisco,ifesinachi and ABC were the flight we took to the east,my mum use to board a sit for I and my elder brother in Jibowu,Night bus is always awesome.. when we get to okigwe the song that will hit my mind will be back to my root by lucky Dube.... 4 Likes |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by naijadrivablog: 3:51pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
hahn:
For your analog mind these proof of poor technology is what makes you state that "Nigeria is great"?
There were still bad roads
Still power cuts
Still corruption
Hiking in prices
Increase in exchange rate
Kidnapping
Armed robbery
Poverty
Etc
Let's face it, Nigeria has NEVER been great as your journey down memory lane rightly points out See you. That was the technology then. Mind you, there was a time BlackBerry phones were in vogue but now  All these vices you listed were not rampant then. We just had one or two notorious criminals and most of the roads today were constructed in that era. Well, kids won't understand. 4 Likes |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by dheaven: 3:52pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
NwaAmaikpe:
You just took me back to when Nigeria was a country, when coins were precious assets.
When Texaco filling station attendants cleaned your windscreen and thanked you for your patronage.
When Nigerian Airways was still a robust Elephant with wings.
When PAN flooded our streets with seductive 404s.
When we stood by railways counting the number of coaches on each steam train passing.
Do you remember when we used fluorescent tubes to construct HD-ready antennas so we could hear the truth from Siene Allwell Brown and Frank Olize.
And when we put coloured glasses over our TVs so we could watch in colour?
Should I remind you of our TVs that had shutters, keys and legs or tell you the stories of eating moi-moi out of milk cups while watching white cranes come home from their fishing trip and beg them to exchange their white claws with out dirty nails?
When we ate New Society bread with planta.
Drank Ginger Ale or Pronto.
Licked "chichi" sweet and coloured saccharine icecreams after taking an overdose of kwilikwili so we could win the farting competition.
Back to when ladies wore shimmy.
When permed and jerry curled hairs were the styles to beat.
Tales by moonlight for the teens,
Icheokwu for the adults and Danger mouse for the kids.
When we just had to consult the telephone directory to get anyone's land phone number.
Tell me did you write love notes and pass to your crush through her younger ones?
Did you sprain your finger from turning the "roundabout" telephone dial?
Did you knot grass leaves to stay out of trouble?
Did you ever smooch your female neighbor on your father's settee while Teddy Pendergrass record was spinning on the turntable?
Did you walk from house to house on Christmas eve to sing carols?
Lalastic.lala.... Did you ever use Aquafresh toothpaste to drink garri or use Krest and Akanwu for birthcontrol?
Did you ever feel a sense of pride sitting in "Merry-go-round" long buses because your neighbor's kids had to ride their father's Long John bicycle?
Did you ever visit the library to check out what new tale Cyprian Ekwensi or Chinua Achebe had made?
Nigeria was great.
Night journeys were interesting, we had toll gates at every boundary with jovial soldiers exchanging banters there.
Life was greater if you had the privilege of growing up in Eastern Nigeria.
You can develop this into a book or film and make real money. 6 Likes |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by Topmaike007(m): 3:53pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
VivaDeAngelo:
The audio CD was invented in line with this concept. saishio karoke player was the best then coupled with Panasonic,my dad conion with 15 batteries use to be the talk of the compound 1 Like |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by Lawalemi(m): 3:54pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
NwaAmaikpe:
You just took me back to when Nigeria was a country, when coins were precious assets.
When Texaco filling station attendants cleaned your windscreen and thanked you for your patronage.
When Nigerian Airways was still a robust Elephant with wings.
When PAN flooded our streets with seductive 404s.
When we stood by railways counting the number of coaches on each steam train passing.
Do you remember when we used fluorescent tubes to construct HD-ready antennas so we could hear the truth from Siene Allwell Brown and Frank Olize.
And when we put coloured glasses over our TVs so we could watch in colour?
Should I remind you of our TVs that had shutters, keys and legs or tell you the stories of eating moi-moi out of milk cups while watching white cranes come home from their fishing trip and beg them to exchange their white claws with out dirty nails?
When we ate New Society bread with planta.
Drank Ginger Ale or Pronto.
Licked "chichi" sweet and coloured saccharine icecreams after taking an overdose of kwilikwili so we could win the farting competition.
Back to when ladies wore shimmy.
When permed and jerry curled hairs were the styles to beat.
Tales by moonlight for the teens,
Icheokwu for the adults and Danger mouse for the kids.
When we just had to consult the telephone directory to get anyone's land phone number.
Tell me did you write love notes and pass to your crush through her younger ones?
Did you sprain your finger from turning the "roundabout" telephone dial?
Did you knot grass leaves to stay out of trouble?
Did you ever smooch your female neighbor on your father's settee while Teddy Pendergrass record was spinning on the turntable?
Did you walk from house to house on Christmas eve to sing carols?
Lalastic.lala.... Did you ever use Aquafresh toothpaste to drink garri or use Krest and Akanwu for birthcontrol?
Did you ever feel a sense of pride sitting in "Merry-go-round" long buses because your neighbor's kids had to ride their father's Long John bicycle?
Did you ever visit the library to check out what new tale Cyprian Ekwensi or Chinua Achebe had made?
Nigeria was great.
Night journeys were interesting, we had toll gates at every boundary with jovial soldiers exchanging banters there.
Life was greater if you had the privilege of growing up in Eastern Nigeria.
You made my day by giving me this flashbacks 9 Likes |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by Maromark(m): 3:54pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
NwaAmaikpe:
You just took me back to when Nigeria was a country, when coins were precious assets.
When Texaco filling station attendants cleaned your windscreen and thanked you for your patronage.
When Nigerian Airways was still a robust Elephant with wings.
When PAN flooded our streets with seductive 404s.
When we stood by railways counting the number of coaches on each steam train passing.
Do you remember when we used fluorescent tubes to construct HD-ready antennas so we could hear the truth from Siene Allwell Brown and Frank Olize.
And when we put coloured glasses over our TVs so we could watch in colour?
Should I remind you of our TVs that had shutters, keys and legs or tell you the stories of eating moi-moi out of milk cups while watching white cranes come home from their fishing trip and beg them to exchange their white claws with out dirty nails?
When we ate New Society bread with planta.
Drank Ginger Ale or Pronto.
Licked "chichi" sweet and coloured saccharine icecreams after taking an overdose of kwilikwili so we could win the farting competition.
Back to when ladies wore shimmy.
When permed and jerry curled hairs were the styles to beat.
Tales by moonlight for the teens,
Icheokwu for the adults and Danger mouse for the kids.
When we just had to consult the telephone directory to get anyone's land phone number.
Tell me did you write love notes and pass to your crush through her younger ones?
Did you sprain your finger from turning the "roundabout" telephone dial?
Did you knot grass leaves to stay out of trouble?
Did you ever smooch your female neighbor on your father's settee while Teddy Pendergrass record was spinning on the turntable?
Did you walk from house to house on Christmas eve to sing carols?
Lalastic.lala.... Did you ever use Aquafresh toothpaste to drink garri or use Krest and Akanwu for birthcontrol?
Did you ever feel a sense of pride sitting in "Merry-go-round" long buses because your neighbor's kids had to ride their father's Long John bicycle?
Did you ever visit the library to check out what new tale Cyprian Ekwensi or Chinua Achebe had made?
Nigeria was great.
Night journeys were interesting, we had toll gates at every boundary with jovial soldiers exchanging banters there.
Life was greater if you had the privilege of growing up in Eastern Nigeria.
This is the only meaningful your have posted all your life. Am happy for you, its a new dawn. Thanks anyway. 3 Likes |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by Topmaike007(m): 3:54pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
naijadrivablog:
See you. That was the technology then. Mind you, there was a time BlackBerry phones were in vogue but now
All these vices you listed were not rampant then. We just had one or two notorious criminals and most of the roads today were constructed in that era.
Well, kids won't understand. you're right Bro  |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by BiseniGirl: 3:55pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
hahn:
For your analog mind these proof of poor technology is what makes you state that "Nigeria is great"?
There were still bad roads
Still power cuts
Still corruption
Hiking in prices
Increase in exchange rate
Kidnapping
Armed robbery
Poverty
Etc
Let's face it, Nigeria has NEVER been great as your journey down memory lane rightly points out There was a reason for this statement: "THE GOOD OLD DAYS"! You may never relate with the substance behind that statement. 3 Likes |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by Born2Breed(f): 3:55pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
Some boys will have this in their room those days with their mecury flourecent long bulb and be feeling like Oba. 3 Likes |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by LadySarah: 3:55pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
We pastedthe bottled lucozade boost wrapper on our black and white tv to get the colored effect . 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by Livefreeordieha(m): 3:58pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
Wigetsolar:
If anyone was born in the East/and or born between 1970s to 1990s, they may see it. I even saw this somewhere in the early 2000s sef. chop knocku na man u be |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by makinson2865: 4:00pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
Nwamaikwpe my guy,He is well informed about many things although he fluctuates like electricity on many occasions.
Twalee for the elder 1 Like |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by Livefreeordieha(m): 4:01pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
LadySarah:
We pastedthe bottled lucozade boost wrapper on our black and white tv to get the colored effect . it was a common thing in the barracks then... Lol. The funny thing was some people then didn't have TVs and even if they did.. They couldn't even spare cash or see any reason to spend such on lucozade... This kind of threads really from comments and traffic one can only agree we have an alarming rate of millennial kids.. Who are already youths.. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by makinson2865: 4:03pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
Maromark:
This is the only meaningful your have posted all your life. Am happy for you, its a new dawn. Thanks anyway. Bro,you sound harsh. |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by Tammynator(m): 4:07pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
MrsNwaAmaikpe:
If there are memories that shouldn't be remembered this is one of them.
am pondering and in awe of the type of sound that will come out of such a crude assembly.
As a young lass, I would cut off relationship with any boy who puts up this arrangement and calls it home theater.
Never mind the old man up there with the lengthy history of his penurious life.
He is still as poor as he was.
I think say na your 'ozband'? 4 Likes 1 Share 
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| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by gwarotango: 4:11pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
NwaAmaikpe:
You just took me back to when Nigeria was a country, when coins were precious assets.
When Texaco filling station attendants cleaned your windscreen and thanked you for your patronage.
When Nigerian Airways was still a robust Elephant with wings.
When PAN flooded our streets with seductive 404s.
When we stood by railways counting the number of coaches on each steam train passing.
Do you remember when we used fluorescent tubes to construct HD-ready antennas so we could hear the truth from Siene Allwell Brown and Frank Olize.
And when we put coloured glasses over our TVs so we could watch in colour?
Should I remind you of our TVs that had shutters, keys and legs or tell you the stories of eating moi-moi out of milk cups while watching white cranes come home from their fishing trip and beg them to exchange their white claws with out dirty nails?
When we ate New Society bread with planta.
Drank Ginger Ale or Pronto.
Licked "chichi" sweet and coloured saccharine icecreams after taking an overdose of kwilikwili so we could win the farting competition.
Back to when ladies wore shimmy.
When permed and jerry curled hairs were the styles to beat.
Tales by moonlight for the teens,
Icheokwu for the adults and Danger mouse for the kids.
When we just had to consult the telephone directory to get anyone's land phone number.
Tell me did you write love notes and pass to your crush through her younger ones?
Did you sprain your finger from turning the "roundabout" telephone dial?
Did you knot grass leaves to stay out of trouble?
Did you ever smooch your female neighbor on your father's settee while Teddy Pendergrass record was spinning on the turntable?
Did you walk from house to house on Christmas eve to sing carols?
Lalastic.lala.... Did you ever use Aquafresh toothpaste to drink garri or use Krest and Akanwu for birthcontrol?
Did you ever feel a sense of pride sitting in "Merry-go-round" long buses because your neighbor's kids had to ride their father's Long John bicycle?
Did you ever visit the library to check out what new tale Cyprian Ekwensi or Chinua Achebe had made?
Nigeria was great.
Night journeys were interesting, we had toll gates at every boundary with jovial soldiers exchanging banters there.
Life was greater if you had the privilege of growing up in Eastern Nigeria.
Ah you take me back. Growing up in the early 80's was so much fun. I've got alot of nostalgia for those days 5 Likes |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by Ganjafama(m): 4:15pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
NwaAmaikpe:
You just took me back to when Nigeria was a country, when coins were precious assets.
When Texaco filling station attendants cleaned your windscreen and thanked you for your patronage.
When Nigerian Airways was still a robust Elephant with wings.
When PAN flooded our streets with seductive 404s.
When we stood by railways counting the number of coaches on each steam train passing.
Do you remember when we used fluorescent tubes to construct HD-ready antennas so we could hear the truth from Siene Allwell Brown and Frank Olize.
And when we put coloured glasses over our TVs so we could watch in colour?
Should I remind you of our TVs that had shutters, keys and legs or tell you the stories of eating moi-moi out of milk cups while watching white cranes come home from their fishing trip and beg them to exchange their white claws with out dirty nails?
When we ate New Society bread with planta.
Drank Ginger Ale or Pronto.
Licked "chichi" sweet and coloured saccharine icecreams after taking an overdose of kwilikwili so we could win the farting competition.
Back to when ladies wore shimmy.
When permed and jerry curled hairs were the styles to beat.
Tales by moonlight for the teens,
Icheokwu for the adults and Danger mouse for the kids.
When we just had to consult the telephone directory to get anyone's land phone number.
Tell me did you write love notes and pass to your crush through her younger ones?
Did you sprain your finger from turning the "roundabout" telephone dial?
Did you knot grass leaves to stay out of trouble?
Did you ever smooch your female neighbor on your father's settee while Teddy Pendergrass record was spinning on the turntable?
Did you walk from house to house on Christmas eve to sing carols?
Lalastic.lala.... Did you ever use Aquafresh toothpaste to drink garri or use Krest and Akanwu for birthcontrol?
Did you ever feel a sense of pride sitting in "Merry-go-round" long buses because your neighbor's kids had to ride their father's Long John bicycle?
Did you ever visit the library to check out what new tale Cyprian Ekwensi or Chinua Achebe had made?
Nigeria was great.
Night journeys were interesting, we had toll gates at every boundary with jovial soldiers exchanging banters there.
Life was greater if you had the privilege of growing up in Eastern Nigeria.
You just reminded me of my childhood years. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by Ganjafama(m): 4:22pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
MrsNwaAmaikpe:
If there are memories that shouldn't be remembered this is one of them.
am pondering and in awe of the type of sound that will come out of such a crude assembly.
As a young lass, I would cut off relationship with any boy who puts up this arrangement and calls it home theater.
Never mind the old man up there with the lengthy history of his penurious life.
He is still as poor as he was.
As crude as it may look, seeing a picture of that tape recorder brings back cherished memories of one's childhood 2 Likes |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by LEAFLET(m): 4:29pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
This is definitely trolling. No way this was a thing |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by DelphiOracle(m): 4:38pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
dangoteinlaw:
That's what happens when ppl refuse to grow. Even now some shameless ppl still use CD plates but when it's 2080 they will lie to their kids CD was the thing in 2019 when infact Netflix and YouTube or kwese TV has taken over cd is still very much in Vogue my dear |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by GMbuharii: 4:44pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
CAPSLOCKED:
I DON'T KNOW THIS TRASH. I DON'T CARE AS WELL. Oh you do,quit pretending you don't...you sure were born in the 1960s nah.... |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by annyberry: 4:45pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
NwaAmaikpe:
You just took me back to when Nigeria was a country, when coins were precious assets.
When Texaco filling station attendants cleaned your windscreen and thanked you for your patronage.
When Nigerian Airways was still a robust Elephant with wings.
When PAN flooded our streets with seductive 404s.
When we stood by railways counting the number of coaches on each steam train passing.
Do you remember when we used fluorescent tubes to construct HD-ready antennas so we could hear the truth from Siene Allwell Brown and Frank Olize.
And when we put coloured glasses over our TVs so we could watch in colour?
Should I remind you of our TVs that had shutters, keys and legs or tell you the stories of eating moi-moi out of milk cups while watching white cranes come home from their fishing trip and beg them to exchange their white claws with out dirty nails?
When we ate New Society bread with planta.
Drank Ginger Ale or Pronto.
Licked "chichi" sweet and coloured saccharine icecreams after taking an overdose of kwilikwili so we could win the farting competition.
Back to when ladies wore shimmy.
When permed and jerry curled hairs were the styles to beat.
Tales by moonlight for the teens,
Icheokwu for the adults and Danger mouse for the kids.
When we just had to consult the telephone directory to get anyone's land phone number.
Tell me did you write love notes and pass to your crush through her younger ones?
Did you sprain your finger from turning the "roundabout" telephone dial?
Did you knot grass leaves to stay out of trouble?
Did you ever smooch your female neighbor on your father's settee while Teddy Pendergrass record was spinning on the turntable?
Did you walk from house to house on Christmas eve to sing carols?
Lalastic.lala.... Did you ever use Aquafresh toothpaste to drink garri or use Krest and Akanwu for birthcontrol?
Did you ever feel a sense of pride sitting in "Merry-go-round" long buses because your neighbor's kids had to ride their father's Long John bicycle?
Did you ever visit the library to check out what new tale Cyprian Ekwensi or Chinua Achebe had made?
Nigeria was great.
Night journeys were interesting, we had toll gates at every boundary with jovial soldiers exchanging banters there.
Life was greater if you had the privilege of growing up in Eastern Nigeria.
My love for dat moi moi in milk can,it gives it a very good taste........ 3 Likes |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by Nobody: 4:50pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
NwaAmaikpe:
You just took me back to when Nigeria was a country, when coins were precious assets.
When Texaco filling station attendants cleaned your windscreen and thanked you for your patronage.
When Nigerian Airways was still a robust Elephant with wings.
When PAN flooded our streets with seductive 404s.
When we stood by railways counting the number of coaches on each steam train passing.
Do you remember when we used fluorescent tubes to construct HD-ready antennas so we could hear the truth from Siene Allwell Brown and Frank Olize.
And when we put coloured glasses over our TVs so we could watch in colour?
Should I remind you of our TVs that had shutters, keys and legs or tell you the stories of eating moi-moi out of milk cups while watching white cranes come home from their fishing trip and beg them to exchange their white claws with out dirty nails?
When we ate New Society bread with planta.
Drank Ginger Ale or Pronto.
Licked "chichi" sweet and coloured saccharine icecreams after taking an overdose of kwilikwili so we could win the farting competition.
Back to when ladies wore shimmy.
When permed and jerry curled hairs were the styles to beat.
Tales by moonlight for the teens,
Icheokwu for the adults and Danger mouse for the kids.
When we just had to consult the telephone directory to get anyone's land phone number.
Tell me did you write love notes and pass to your crush through her younger ones?
Did you sprain your finger from turning the "roundabout" telephone dial?
Did you knot grass leaves to stay out of trouble?
Did you ever smooch your female neighbor on your father's settee while Teddy Pendergrass record was spinning on the turntable?
Did you walk from house to house on Christmas eve to sing carols?
Lalastic.lala.... Did you ever use Aquafresh toothpaste to drink garri or use Krest and Akanwu for birthcontrol?
Did you ever feel a sense of pride sitting in "Merry-go-round" long buses because your neighbor's kids had to ride their father's Long John bicycle?
Did you ever visit the library to check out what new tale Cyprian Ekwensi or Chinua Achebe had made?
Nigeria was great.
Night journeys were interesting, we had toll gates at every boundary with jovial soldiers exchanging banters there.
Life was greater if you had the privilege of growing up in Eastern Nigeria.
ohh my Goddd 4 Likes |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by BluntBoy(m): 4:55pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
naijadrivablog:
See you. That was the technology then. Mind you, there was a time BlackBerry phones were in vogue but now
All these vices you listed were not rampant then. We just had one or two notorious criminals and most of the roads today were constructed in that era.
Well, kids won't understand. Vice has always been rampant in Nigeria. Herdsmen-farmer's conflict did not start today. Police corruption did not start today. Police and soldier brutality of civilians did not start today. Remember the days when police killed drivers over 10 naira. Religious crisis did not start today. Indiscipline, jumping queues, littering streets, disobeying traffic rules did not start today. Remember Buhari's War Against Indiscipline (WAI)? Electricity palavar did not start today. Fela gave NEPA the name "Never Expect Power Always". 419 did not start today. Cultism did not start today. 1 Like |
| Re: Have You Seen This "Local" Home Theater? by Platony(m): 4:57pm On Aug 11, 2019 |
NwaAmaikpe:
You just took me back to when Nigeria was a country, when coins were precious assets.
When Texaco filling station attendants cleaned your windscreen and thanked you for your patronage.
When Nigerian Airways was still a robust Elephant with wings.
When PAN flooded our streets with seductive 404s.
When we stood by railways counting the number of coaches on each steam train passing.
Do you remember when we used fluorescent tubes to construct HD-ready antennas so we could hear the truth from Siene Allwell Brown and Frank Olize.
And when we put coloured glasses over our TVs so we could watch in colour?
Should I remind you of our TVs that had shutters, keys and legs or tell you the stories of eating moi-moi out of milk cups while watching white cranes come home from their fishing trip and beg them to exchange their white claws with out dirty nails?
When we ate New Society bread with planta.
Drank Ginger Ale or Pronto.
Licked "chichi" sweet and coloured saccharine icecreams after taking an overdose of kwilikwili so we could win the farting competition.
Back to when ladies wore shimmy.
When permed and jerry curled hairs were the styles to beat.
Tales by moonlight for the teens,
Icheokwu for the adults and Danger mouse for the kids.
When we just had to consult the telephone directory to get anyone's land phone number.
Tell me did you write love notes and pass to your crush through her younger ones?
Did you sprain your finger from turning the "roundabout" telephone dial?
Did you knot grass leaves to stay out of trouble?
Did you ever smooch your female neighbor on your father's settee while Teddy Pendergrass record was spinning on the turntable?
Did you walk from house to house on Christmas eve to sing carols?
Lalastic.lala.... Did you ever use Aquafresh toothpaste to drink garri or use Krest and Akanwu for birthcontrol?
Did you ever feel a sense of pride sitting in "Merry-go-round" long buses because your neighbor's kids had to ride their father's Long John bicycle?
Did you ever visit the library to check out what new tale Cyprian Ekwensi or Chinua Achebe had made?
Nigeria was great.
Night journeys were interesting, we had toll gates at every boundary with jovial soldiers exchanging banters there.
Life was greater if you had the privilege of growing up in Eastern Nigeria.
I can fully relate bro,...oh, great memories, how we used lucozade boost's wrap to cover our B&W TV making it to become coloured tv......How time flies. How we played coca cola animal kingdom crown corks. Oh, I wish Nigeria can jst go back to d good ol' days.  I am not Igbo but grew up in d east, born in Ogbete Enugu (Old Anambra State), lived there, lived in awka, lived in owerri. I jst love d east. Throughout my family's stay in d east, d treatment we got was warmth. If they know u're a stranger, u'll be so valued n cared for. I don't know if it's same today  7 Likes |
