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!
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It's all in the timing... Posts: 4303 | From: DSA | Registered: Dec 2003
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sheeew!!! Just under the wire. Scored a 14.
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quote:Originally posted by retiredat49: Pagan...I explicitly said BE HONEST
LoL! I was! But it was oh so close!!!!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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