Who remembers?

[Warthog]

I thought Ghoen/Goon was the big marble, and an ironie was the steel ball bearing.

Arlies were definitely the normal sized marbles.

Crystal rings a bell on the clear ones.

I knew them as Marlies, and clearies.

[Gen]

Yeah. My favourite one was a deep blue galaxy. Normal size, but just looked mega cool. So much so that I never played it after I'd won it. [emoji23]

Lol

 

And you will all be happy to know that primary school kids still collect and play for marbles.

 

My boys still have their winnings from their primary school days.

[Patchelicious]

I knew them as Marlies, and clearies.

Yeah, clearies were worth less than a politicians promise. Yuk

[Red Robin]

Lol

 

And you will all be happy to know that primary school kids still collect and play for marbles.

 

My boys still have their winnings from their primary school days.

 

Yep, in the pre covid days, there was lots of marble playing in primary school. My boys tried to explain the value of different ones to me but I kept forgetting. At primary school I played conkers but don't think that was played in SA? 

[Hairy]

How much did you steal from the old lady...

All I did was steel her heart .... and then we hit the local Spar for their flipping awesome glazed fruit counter

[Hairy]

I found mine the other day but the stretchy rubber part was perished. I am thinking of cutting up a tube from my road wheel and using that. But I'll have to do it on the slide, my 3 lighties will cause havoc if they use it. They have already broken 2 windows in my house by throwing stuff around, imagine what they will break with these bad boys. 

 

I made sling shots for my boys and I last summer .... we would go for a walk on the beach and then start launching stones into the surf and rocks.

 

This kind of vibe

[Hairy]

Someone here mentioned they were an Afrikaans kid in an English school .... now I was an English kid in an Afrikaans school for my first year of primary school (Robertson).

 

As per just about every school in the galaxy marbles was a big game, and I was good at it .. in fact better than the kids a little older than me.

 

This ended up with them ganging up on the Engelsman ..... fortunately my best friend was also older than them, and a big guy too (I think every Werner I have ever encountered was a big guy) and he set them straight .... no more problems.

 

Werner and I also dug a "den" into the clay on the open fields and used to have clay latte fights with the nearest other den ... good times!

[The Ouzo]

My uncle in the Free State used to bread tropical fish, instead of gravel at the bottom of the tanks he used marbles.

 

During one of our visits there he was discarding all the old marbles and I landed up with a 5litre bucket full of them.

But since they had been in water all their life and knocked around quiet a bit during the daily cleaning of the tanks the glass had become rather cloudy.

 

The first time i took some to school the interest in them was high, but soon the other kids realised they were rubbish and rather brittle, after that I could not get rid of the things.

[Long Wheel Base]

My uncle in the Free State used to bread tropical fish, instead of gravel at the bottom of the tanks he used marbles.

 

During one of our visits there he was discarding all the old marbles and I landed up with a 5litre bucket full of them.

But since they had been in water all their life and knocked around quiet a bit during the daily cleaning of the tanks the glass had become rather cloudy.

 

The first time i took some to school the interest in them was high, but soon the other kids realised they were rubbish and rather brittle, after that I could not get rid of the things.

I dug out some of my old glass marbles and chucked them in my lighties fish tank recently. It looks pretty cool but they do end up getting covered by the gravel after a clean so you need to make sure you move them before hand.

[The Ouzo]

I dug out some of my old glass marbles and chucked them in my lighties fish tank recently. It looks pretty cool but they do end up getting covered by the gravel after a clean so you need to make sure you move them before hand.

yeah look, he must have had a good few hundred tanks, there was no time for gravel in any of those.

[Red Robin]

I found mine the other day but the stretchy rubber part was perished. I am thinking of cutting up a tube from my road wheel and using that. But I'll have to do it on the slide, my 3 lighties will cause havoc if they use it. They have already broken 2 windows in my house by throwing stuff around, imagine what they will break with these bad boys. 

 

To be fair you need 3 of them, one each. 

[CAAD4]

Yep, in the pre covid days, there was lots of marble playing in primary school. My boys tried to explain the value of different ones to me but I kept forgetting. At primary school I played conkers but don't think that was played in SA?

Conkers? Definitely. We used to soak the acorns in vinegar and bake them hard. Blue knuckles...

[Patchelicious]

Conkers? Did you guys do maths on an abacus too?

[CAAD4]

You were brought up well to call it maths, Son...

[DJR]

You were brought up well to call it maths, Son...

He's older than you think, if he was a youngster he wouldn't know what an abacus is   

[CAAD4]

Oh I know, some of those Yamaha's he talks about, are of good vintage.