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. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels) Some stations played the National Anthem before going off the air. 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15. S& H greenstamps 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!
Posted by jordanreed on :
23...I dont remember 1 or 6
Posted by bdgee on :
25
Yep, a am older than dirt, but really, one is born a dirty old man. It ain't something you can learn.
If you don't understand that, you batter keep a real close watch on your ol' lady, cause she will understand. The girl can't help it. It's in her bones.
Posted by CashCowMoo on :
You need help
Posted by bdgee on :
Calm down now, cow. Just because you can't handle the implications doesn't mean they aren't obvious or interesting or fun.
I never could understand the thrill of jumping out of an airplane with two perfectly good wings, but I don't run around loudly condemning those that get their kicks doing it or try to pass laws disallowing them their pastime. Hell, man, relax! Live and let live.
Posted by CashCowMoo on :
quote:Originally posted by bdgee: Calm down now, cow. Just because you can't handle the implications doesn't mean they aren't obvious or interesting or fun.
I never could understand the thrill of jumping out of an airplane with two perfectly good wings, but I don't run around loudly condemning those that get their kicks doing it or try to pass laws disallowing them their pastime. Hell, man, relax! Live and let live.
That is what I have been trying to tell you this whole time.
Posted by glassman on :
you two remind me of ---- NEVER MIND, you don't wanna know Posted by bdgee on :
quote:Originally posted by CashCowMoo:
quote:Originally posted by bdgee: Calm down now, cow. Just because you can't handle the implications doesn't mean they aren't obvious or interesting or fun.
I never could understand the thrill of jumping out of an airplane with two perfectly good wings, but I don't run around loudly condemning those that get their kicks doing it or try to pass laws disallowing them their pastime. Hell, man, relax! Live and let live.
That is what I have been trying to tell you this whole time.
No, that is NOT what you have been saying. You have been issuing ridiculous religious platitudes and political insults and passing on bull sh-t you copy from the likes of Fat Rush, the Doper and intellectual midget.
Posted by retiredat49 on :
so much for the light-hearted post I attempted to create
Posted by glassman on :
quote:Originally posted by retiredat49: so much for the light-hearted post I attempted to create
they even went at it in my global warming causes sub-zero temps thread...
i guess the irony was lost in translation
que sera
Posted by bdgee on :
quote:Originally posted by retiredat49: so much for the light-hearted post I attempted to create
Yep, was a hoot while it lasted, though.
Along with Studies and Packards there were Crosleys and real jeeps too, bought covered with cosmoline from war surplus. And there was carbon paper. Trick-or-treating yielded things like home made chocolate fudge and popcorn balls.
Posted by jordanreed on :
How bout kick-the-can...
Posted by bdgee on :
Kick the can, yes!
And if you stomped on one of those old iron cans just right, that had been opened with a "church key" and still had the rest of its lid, they would wrap around your shoe and you could pretend you were walking on stilts.
I'd bet there are several posting here that have never seen a "church key" and may have no idea what one is or is for.
Posted by Relentless. on :
I scored a 6... Holy crap you guys are old
Posted by retiredat49 on :
watch it RD...
Posted by Relentless. on :
What are guys going to do? Throw your dentures at me?
Posted by wallymac on :
quote:Originally posted by glassman: you two remind me of ---- NEVER MIND, you don't wanna know
Heckle and Jeckle?
Posted by CashCowMoo on :
Grumpy old men!
Posted by wallymac on :
How about Underwood manual Typewriters?
And Yes I scored in the 16 to 25 range.
Posted by IWISHIHAD on :
Quote Relentless:
I scored a 6... Holy crap you guys are old
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What he didn't tell you about the scoring is that he left out the part that a very low score can also mean that you are older than dirt.
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Posted by bdgee on :
quote:Originally posted by IWISHIHAD: Quote Relentless:
I scored a 6... Holy crap you guys are old
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What he didn't tell you about the scoring is that he left out the part that a very low score can also mean that you are older than dirt.
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or otherwise deficient.
Posted by cottonjim on :
Scored an 18, I am not older than dirt but my parents are older so I was raised in an "old Fashion" home.
Posted by glassman on :
Ok, Big Buddy bubble gum...
i once got (almost) two in my mouth and blew bubbles bigger than my head...
basically you have to spit the gum out if it pops outa control, or you'll be covered in bubbagum...
bubble gum cigars...
Mallow Cups...
Horehound Candy (yuk)
candied orange peel (double yuk)
jello with fruit in it...
Posted by bdgee on :
cj,
It's alright to be old. What's the pits is not getting there.
Posted by Pagan on :
Sheeew!!! Just under the wire. Scored a 14.
Posted by retiredat49 on :
Pagan...I explicitly said BE HONEST
Posted by Pagan on :
quote:Originally posted by retiredat49: Pagan...I explicitly said BE HONEST
LoL! I was! But it was oh so close!!!!
Posted by cottonjim on :
quote:Originally posted by bdgee: cj,
It's alright to be old. What's the pits is not getting there.
I know there nothing wrong with being old, I'm not in denial or anything. My point was, a person doesn't necessarily have to be "old" to remember most of the things on the list.
Posted by jordanreed on :
snow skiis with the one strap over your boots,
wood shaft golf clubs,
The Kingston Trio,
The Smothers Brothers at the purple onion,
Chad Mitchel Trio,
parents parties drinking and dancing to the Hi-Fi in the baaement,
black and white tv,
3 channels,
Posted by bdgee on :
quote:Originally posted by cottonjim:
quote:Originally posted by bdgee: cj,
It's alright to be old. What's the pits is not getting there.
I know there nothing wrong with being old, I'm not in denial or anything. My point was, a person doesn't necessarily have to be "old" to remember most of the things on the list.
Gotta agree with that sentiment, cj. But my point is that managing to get old is, in and of itself, an achievement worth celebrating, not being ashamed of or afraid of.
Wisdom may not necessarily come with age, but you can be certain it gleefully skips right over youth.
Posted by Relentless. on :
quote:Originally posted by cottonjim: Scored an 18, I am not older than dirt but my parents are older so I was raised in an "old Fashion" home.
Most parents are older....
Posted by The Bigfoot on :
12
and I liked Horehound candy thank you very much! Posted by moremula on :
I'm so old i've got alzheimer, i dont remember any of them. lol
Posted by IWISHIHAD on :
Quote Glassman:
"Ok, Big Buddy bubble gum...
i once got (almost) two in my mouth and blew bubbles bigger than my head..."
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I remember when we use to go to after school activities and they had those bubble blowing and yo yo contests, and sometimes both at the same time.
Many of us could get a lot of Bazooka bubble gum from those baseball cards in our mouths then, in preparation to win that trophy, button or ribbon.
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Posted by IWISHIHAD on :
How many Mickey Mantle, Joe Dimaggio and other baseball cards were destroyed when we use to put baseball cards on the frames or forks of our bicycles with closepins, to rub against the spokes to make that clicking sound.
Posted by cottonjim on :
quote:Originally posted by Relentless.:
quote:Originally posted by cottonjim: Scored an 18, I am not older than dirt but my parents are older so I was raised in an "old Fashion" home.
Most parents are older....
here's the story RD, I am in my mid thirties, my parents are in their mid seventies. That is why I know most of the list.
Posted by bdgee on :
Baseball cards were cherished and kept in often secret indestructibly hides.
Never never use a Peewee Reese card to make your bicycle sound like a Servicycle (http://www.servi-cycle.com/gmodel.htm) (http://americanhistory.si.edu/ONTHEMOVE/collection/object_311.html), slip a couple of kings outta pop's playing cards and slip them back before he catches you.....hell never know....
Posted by IWISHIHAD on :
Quote Bdgee:
"Baseball cards were cherished and kept in often secret indestructibly hides."
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We were not as careful as you.
Sometimes we would leave them around the house and my mother would threaten to throw them away, especially when trading.
To this day when she is questioned about our baseball cards and their disappearance, she just states that we must have misplaced those cards, with a slight smile on her face.
She is 90 now and still sticks to that story when under interrogation.
I think she knows more about where they ended up than she states.
Posted by bdgee on :
quote:Originally posted by IWISHIHAD: Quote Bdgee:
"Baseball cards were cherished and kept in often secret indestructibly hides."
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We were not as careful as you.
Sometimes we would leave them around the house and my mother would threaten to throw them away, especially when trading.
To this day when she is questioned about our baseball cards and their disappearance, she just states that we must have misplaced those cards, with a slight smile on her face.
She is 90 now and still sticks to that story when under interrogation.
I think she knows more about where they ended up than she states.
Mama would never have disposed of a baseball card. Dad, you see played both professional baseball and basketball and before there were kids, the games made up the family business (or religion, if you please).
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