Would You Like This Bottle?

75 thoughts on “Would You Like This Bottle?”

1. The 50p pieces, of course. And my weird “OMG, I HAVE TO COLLECT THESE” obsession that resulted in about 100 of them down the bottom of my toy chest when I finally cleared it out as an adult.

   • you didn’t say OMG though!

2. thinking…we should have one of those every year

3. My Da’s old neighbour in Cabra giving me one of the fifty pence pieces, never forgot Mrs Cunningham as a result.

4. Why does it have a Transformer on it ?

   • +1

   • +1 Just said the exact same thing here in the office

   • Well spotted :)

   • Bit of a transformers theme about broadsheet today.

   • Was literally the first thing that came to mind before I read the blurb after the pic. Odd. I wonder what Paramount Studios would make of it?

   • I was thinking the exact same thing, It looks like a stylised ‘Autobot’ symbol

5. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is the giant model of Gulliver they had floating in the Liffey

   • Can someone please explain the aluminium thing?

     • it sounds like millenium. People called it the aluminium when being hilarious

       • I think you mean ‘millennium’

         • I think you mean Willennium

         • Bet you’re great craic at parties

6. When I’d all but accepted that my “51-10″,
   Would explode the very second the clock hit 12am,
   But alas it was saved, no excitement or dramas,
   And I slinked back to bed in my Christmas pyjamas.

7. The Birds pecking the red alunimium tops and destoying the milk, but it was the 80s so we had to drink it!

8. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is…. fancying one of the boys who delivered the milk ;-p

9. When they cleaned all that shite out of the canal

10. Transformer !

11. Gulliver in the Liffey!

12. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is…the floozy in the jacuzzi and getting change from a pint with three aluminium 50ps

    by the way Ken yer aluminiums might be worth a bit now http://www.adverts.ie/coins-notes/dublin-millennium-50p/1442239

    • Score.

      Now I just need to have that argument with my parents over whether they’re technically mine or theirs…

13. Assemblys in primary school where we had to learn traditional Dublin songs… Including Monto. Nothing more appropriate than getting 300 kids under 12 to sing about losing a mot up the Furry Glen.

14. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is…… going home to my mothers house and seeing an original 1988 milk bottle rotting under the sink but still being told i cant have it. grrr

15. Opening the top with yer thumb and getting cream squirting on your crotch, not the best of looks

16. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is…DUBLIN’S GREAT IN ’88.

17. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is……the big row over whether we were celebrating the millenium in the wrong year.

    • … and how we were spelling ‘millennium’ wrongly too

18. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is piercing the lid and stealing the cream off of the top before anyone else got to it :)

    • ….although the bottle in the pic has been upggraded to a screw cap by the look of it :)

19. I also remember that it was 146 years too late

20. The year 1988 was going fine, until my favourite cat got squashed on the road – 28th October, it was a Wednesday. Bin day was a Wednesday too. The bin truck didn’t take him away though, because we got there first. Buried in the back garden. Listening to A-ha on my yellow walkman helped to get me through. I hope I win this millenum milk bottle.

    • awww

    • Awww, yellow walkman… one of dem watherproof ones was it? Fierce posh! :)

21. ’cause t’was all ye had to celebrate in ’88

    So why not repeat it in 2013? ‘Cause I can put it alongside my Cork 800 one
    Ta. And Happy Christmas

22. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is……hard to recall since I was born in the Rotunda in the millenium year and was likely still on the breastmilk not the milkman’s.

    • The what year? Oh, millennium.

23. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is……the way Han Solo and Chewie could manouvre it through the astroid belt!

24. …is that nobody called it the aluminium, Just a few nobs who considered themselves wits. Their off spring do the 12 pubs of Christmas and follow the Irish soccer team.

25. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is… Sticking the lids to my shoes and pretending I was tap dancing.

26. Holy jaysus, 30 comments and no-one has mentioned the misspelling of “millennium” throughout the article!

    • You have. Several times. Also, nobody cares.

27. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is… everyone going fecking metal.

28. Are these the same people who call the Luas the ‘Daniel Day’?

29. ‘Aluminium Schmaluminium’ I work on Merrion Street. And no not ‘in there’….

    I can collect it when evs.
    Gis’ one or I’ll tell Nidge you were slaggin’ his ma

30. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is… birds picking holes in it.

31. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is… being born. ‘Twas a viscous affair. Much like the milk, I suppose.

32. My memory of the millenium was the pedantic school teacher we had who disagreed with the whole thing 1) because it was a blatant rip off of the Cork Bicentennial celebrations
    2) because Dublin was far older than 1000 years old
    3) the correct word was apparently “millenary”

    All the above & ray Houghton too

    • … you remembered ‘millenary’ but not ‘millennium’?

33. I have the 1988 and Itilia’ 90 ones at home http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly7e08EHyv1rnesw2o1_500.jpg must get the new version

34. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is…
    The ‘Time in the Slime’. And there was a machine on O’Connell Bridge which would print a postcard of the countdown.

    • Wrong millenium, no?

    • That was the countdown to the year 2000 I think. And it didn’t go in the liffey till the mid/late 90s

35. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ were the commemorative syringes with yellow, blue and red tassels that were sold by Digs Murphy on O’Connell Bridge for 50p. I still have one somewhere that I use for special occasions like. Apart from that I can’t remember a damned thing.

36. My abiding memory of Dublin circa 1988 s being chased by Bang Bang, the crazy dancing old wan and Lugs Brannigan after robbing King Burger.

    • 2 of these people were dead by 1998

      • *1988 I mean

37. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is Ireland at the Euros.
    The smugness of teh English players on the bus traveling to the ground as shown on ITV.
    Ray Houghton making sure they left the stadium a little less Smug
    Ronnie Whelan shinning it past the Russian goalkeeper who was the best in the world at the time.
    Then the heartbreak of a spinning ball against the Dutch.
    Good times as witnessed by a 12 year old!
    I also started in Secondary school in September and I remember how daunting it was…..

    Yes a year I would love to live again.

    PS. Is it a Transformer on the bottle?

    • It’s a Frans Tromer.

38. What I remember most about the ‘aluminium’ (if that’s what we’re talking about) is not only the birds pecking the top of the bottles to get at the cream, but my nanny’s remarkable inginuity in leaving an egg cup outside the door every night so the milk man could pop it on top of the milk bottle! Take THAT pesky birds!!

39. Carmencita Hederman as Lord Mayor. Van the Man playing a free gig in College Green. Doing my Leaving Cert, and then buying an inter-rail ticket to get as far away from it as I could.

40. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is…… seeing Dublin returning to the “Rare Auld Times”

41. My memory of Dublin in 1988 was that the pubs closed at 11.30pm – same time that the last bus departed and you couldn’t get a taxi for love nor money. Seeing as it was 1988, probably couldn’t afford one anyway.

42. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is spending the commemorative millenium 50p the second i got one from my mother, rather than keep as a heirloom

43. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is…… my dad telling me to hang onto the 1988 Millenium Milk Bottle because it will be worth a fortune in years to come

    http://www.adverts.ie/other-antiques-collectables/1988-dublin-millennium-milk-bottle/847187

44. When Derek Davis walked in a pile of horeshite when he was the grandmaster of the parade in the Finglas Festival.

45. Loosing my virginity. Honest.

46. How tight was it before you loosened it?

47. My one abiding memory of the ‘aluminium’ is years later, my parents telling me the reason they had me is because of it, I was a “surprise”

48. My one abiding memory is being bitterly disappointed that the highly anticipated laser show consisted of just one green flash across the sky due to a technical fault, epic fail as they say now.

    • On reflection, I think that was earlier than 1988, so scrub the above.

49. I have an original if anyone wants to make a decent offer.