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JonR Offline
#1 Posted: Sun, Aug 29 2004, 5:54 AM EST
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Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about Ratings at the bottom.

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16 Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19 Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!

I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my life


I miss lightning bugs!


Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends....
=====
"Senility Prayer"..God grant me...
The senility to forget the people I never liked
The good fortune to run into the ones that I do
And the eyesight to tell the difference."
Have a great week!!!!!!
SteveS Offline
#2 Posted: Sun, Aug 29 2004, 6:01 AM EST
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25 of 25 ... guess that tells you everything you need to know about me
jazzman Offline
#3 Posted: Sun, Aug 29 2004, 6:37 AM EST
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19---anybody seen my walker??
thurson Offline
#4 Posted: Sun, Aug 29 2004, 7:57 AM EST
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Not only remember but either owned, used or experienced all 25.
Okay, time for my nap...
CWFoster Offline
#5 Posted: Sun, Aug 29 2004, 8:14 AM EST
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18, not too many got by me!
xibbumbero Offline
#6 Posted: Sun, Aug 29 2004, 8:46 AM EST
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All 25 and I also remember when there were no Japanese cars on the road. Think I'll go take a nap. X
snowwolf777 Offline
#7 Posted: Sun, Aug 29 2004, 9:22 AM EST
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PA-62648

The first phone number we had. Momma made memmorize it before I started walking 6 blocks to kindergarten (in a neighborhood where now you wouldn't let a kid walk to the curb without a bullet-proof vest).
thurson Offline
#8 Posted: Sun, Aug 29 2004, 9:39 AM EST
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Sounds familiar Snow.

FRanklin-0263
gorob23 Offline
#9 Posted: Sun, Aug 29 2004, 9:43 AM EST
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I hit all or most all of them...darn it all.
hat Offline
#10 Posted: Sun, Aug 29 2004, 10:52 AM EST
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You missed outhouses.
SteveS Offline
#11 Posted: Sun, Aug 29 2004, 1:10 PM EST
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adding them to the list would make me 26 of 26 ... and, like Thurson, I've used and/or experienced all 26, although I learned at an early age that Blackjack gum was foul tasting, wax bottles were unpleasant, irrespective of what was inside them and Howdy Doody was well beyond boring ...
xibbumbero Offline
#12 Posted: Sun, Aug 29 2004, 3:41 PM EST
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SteveS,Do you remember Debbie Drake? X
SteveS Offline
#13 Posted: Sun, Aug 29 2004, 4:52 PM EST
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nope ... does that make me 26 of 27?
bassdude Offline
#14 Posted: Sun, Aug 29 2004, 5:47 PM EST
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only 14 - but my Grandma had outhouse facilities only.
rayder1 Offline
#15 Posted: Sun, Aug 29 2004, 6:04 PM EST
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You don't have to be older than dirt to remember most of those. Just in your 40's.

I got 22 that I have used, seen or had in my house at one time.
We never had a Studebaker but there was still a lot around.
We didn't have a wringer, but my grandma did but didn't use it.
When I was born our phone number was ANderson5-2555 but we moved right after and had a real prefix (415).

I guess I better call the boss and tell him I'm too damned old to work anymore.
THL Offline
#16 Posted: Mon, Aug 30 2004, 6:25 AM EST
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I got an A. Scored 100% and nailed all of the extra credit questions too!
hensed Offline
#17 Posted: Mon, Aug 30 2004, 10:47 AM EST
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17 or 19 depends if I count the two cars or not. They were old as hell even in the late 60's
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