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Posted: 14:10 Feb 19 2005
The New Look Smartie Tube
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/.../smarties-hex-appeal-name_page.html
<in the voice of Andy> Don't like it
* Bad language filtered out.... just kidding only reduced the size of the url so it didn't stretch up the page so much
(Edited by Staff 20/02/2005 19:55)
<in the voice of Andy> Don't like it
* Bad language filtered out.... just kidding only reduced the size of the url so it didn't stretch up the page so much
(Edited by Staff 20/02/2005 19:55)
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Posted: 14:10 Feb 19 2005
I saw a thing on breakfast news yesterday about it. I dont like it either.
Silly people.
Ive always thought smarties were great because kids get excited about the caps witht he letters on.
Educational and yummy!
Silly people.
Ive always thought smarties were great because kids get excited about the caps witht he letters on.
Educational and yummy!
Posted: 14:41 Feb 19 2005 LOL. My Sam is already panicing 'cos he's a few letter short of having the whole set
by KaTiEStar
Ive always thought smarties were great because kids get excited about the caps witht he letters on.
Posted: 15:03 Feb 19 2005
The change will affect me for and entirely non-sweetie related reason (not that I still don't enjoy my smarties!)
A few years back my brother went on a "do things for charity" kick and he ran London Marathons, Great North Runs, threw hemself out of perfectly serviceable aircraft and such like. With this came an almost constant pestering for sponsorship money. One of the organisations he was raising money for came up with an ingenious idea which resulted in him distributing tubes of smarties to his family & friends. Once empited of their contents a smarties tube is the perfect container for 20 pence pieces.
A full tube = £14!
It was any easy way to put by a few bob for these endeavours and it's a habit which I have kept up to this day. Friends ask for sponsorship, I produce a smarties tube, hand it to them and sit back to enjoy the rather bemused look on their face until they realise what's inside
The past couple of years he's suffered ill health and as a result has had to put these kinds of adventures on the back-burner (he's got a cycle ride across Cambodia amongst other things planned once he returns to full health). But I've continued to use the "smartie method" so that when he does get the green light I can oblige his inevitable request for dosh.
With the demise of the tube, I'll have to think of something else.
(Edited by gobstopper 19/02/2005 16:04)
A few years back my brother went on a "do things for charity" kick and he ran London Marathons, Great North Runs, threw hemself out of perfectly serviceable aircraft and such like. With this came an almost constant pestering for sponsorship money. One of the organisations he was raising money for came up with an ingenious idea which resulted in him distributing tubes of smarties to his family & friends. Once empited of their contents a smarties tube is the perfect container for 20 pence pieces.
A full tube = £14!
It was any easy way to put by a few bob for these endeavours and it's a habit which I have kept up to this day. Friends ask for sponsorship, I produce a smarties tube, hand it to them and sit back to enjoy the rather bemused look on their face until they realise what's inside
The past couple of years he's suffered ill health and as a result has had to put these kinds of adventures on the back-burner (he's got a cycle ride across Cambodia amongst other things planned once he returns to full health). But I've continued to use the "smartie method" so that when he does get the green light I can oblige his inevitable request for dosh.
With the demise of the tube, I'll have to think of something else.
(Edited by gobstopper 19/02/2005 16:04)
Posted: 16:03 Feb 19 2005
The kids have done collecting coins in Smartie tubes at school and nursery. Wonder if it would still work with the new shaped tubes? Maybe they might be slightly bigger.....
Posted: 17:00 Feb 19 2005
that is bloody ridiculous i'm sending them an email to complain to nestle!
Posted: 15:54 Feb 20 2005 
Hey, you see the Hoseasons advert at the top of that page?
That's mine that is
That's mine that is
Posted: 19:36 Feb 20 2005 It' the little things in life which please you isn't it
by Stoo
Hey, you see the Hoseasons advert at the top of that page?
That's mine that is
Although i got an "Ask Jeeves" advert, not Hoseasons...And as for the Smarties new doofer... why? What was wrong with the tube? One of my friends commented on the fact that you won't be able to fire the little plastic lid off it anymore when you hit it
So in honour of this, she and another friend spent some time doing this with the current one as they won't be able to do it soon They are wierd. (Both my friends and the new-look tube
)
Posted: 19:41 Feb 20 2005 
Nooooooooooo!!!
That is all.
That is all.
Posted: 19:58 Feb 20 2005 
It smacks to me of money, not of being modern. I could be wrong but the new tubes look cheaper to make, all thin cardboard, no plastic lid. "The shape that mums and kids loved"? Yeah, right!
And they don't look anywhere near as good as the old ones. Shooting the lids at each other was one of the best bits about having Smarties!
Hey-ho...
Teresa - Which letters is Sam missing? I'll save any I get for him.
And they don't look anywhere near as good as the old ones. Shooting the lids at each other was one of the best bits about having Smarties!
Hey-ho...
Teresa - Which letters is Sam missing? I'll save any I get for him.
Posted: 20:52 Feb 20 2005