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Older than dirt...........

Kato

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Got this in my email today............... Took the quiz, and it seems I am as old as dirt..... :shock:

'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'

'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'

'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained ! 'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.

My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 5. It was, of course, black and white

I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.' When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.

We didn't have a car until I was 4. It was an old black Dodge.

I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers; my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at6AM every morning. On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see them.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend:

My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.


How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

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. 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)
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!

I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my life.Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends...

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There were no computers...ipods...wii...cell phones...cordless phones...colored TVs....pop tarts...frozen TV dinners....CDs and DVDs......all the stuff you have now you enjoy, we didn't have.
 
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Anonymous

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Yanuck said:
Ha! I am barely only getting older, what in the world is mimeograph paper?

Copying paper-like carbon paper (do you know what that is :???: :wink: :p ) to be used in the old mimeograph copy machines before they had the fancy copiers that would work on any kind of paper.....

Its Hell when you score 25 out of 25- and all it shows is your getting old.. :roll: :p
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

Well-known member
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....Yeap, and you can still find it around here.
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water...yeap again, we begged for those thangs. LOL came in a bag of about 20 or so.
3. Candy cigarettes...yeap..and my kids even get them. Lil Lilly loves them thangs LOL
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.....yeap, and they were so good if they kept em so cold that they were slushy when ya popped the top.
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes....yeap again, and how many times did I get my hand slapped while sittin at one of those booths??? We won't go there. LOL
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers...no...but we did have a milkman that delivered milk in a plastic dispenser thing that held 2 1/2 gallons.
7. Party lines.....WE HAD ONE IN 1989 when we moved here!!!!!
8. Newsreels before the movie...nope...finally one I don't remember lol
9. P.F. Flyers....nope
10. Butch wax.....no...but my brothers had to use some kinda oil on their hair that had a big blue V on the bottle.
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)....yeap, and right before it went off the air, they played the national anthem.
12. Peashooters.....yeap
13. Howdy Doody...nope but Captain Kangaroo was my hero hehe
14. 45 RPM records....yeap
15. S& H greenstamps....oh yeah...and it was a priviledge to get to lick em and stick em in the books, then go to the Greenstamp store.
16 Hi-fi's...yeap
17. Metal ice trays with lever....oh yeah...hated them thangs...they was aluminium.
18. Mimeograph paper....and if you were the teachers pet you got to go get them from the mimeograph room......the smell was awesome!!!!!
19 Blue flashbulb...yeap them one's that had 4 sides that you turned after each picture....polaroids.
20. Packards....no
21. Roller skate keys.....uh huh...hit a rock goin down the side walk on those old skates....see what happens hahaha
22. Cork popguns....yeap they always had em at the carnival that came to town on July 4th weekend.
23. Drive-ins....yeap that's where we spent most of our Friday and Saturday nights in highschool.
24. Studebakers.....ugly cars.
25. Wash tub wringers.....them'll give ya a mashed finger in a heartbeat if you aint payin attention.

18 out of 25....I may be old as dirt.....but just barely LOL
 

OldDog/NewTricks

Well-known member
Come on, Come-up with something I don't recall
Crank Phones
White Air Raid Helmets
23¢ gal gas
VE Day
Dec. 7th
50¢ beer
Turtle Assoc.
No Breaking Horses until their 5 years old
Paints and Pintos were a Color Pattern
When every one in town HAD to go to you neighbors house to watch Their TV
NO one had HorseTrailers and had to ride their horses to the RODEO's
More?
 

per

Well-known member
Yanuck said:
Ha! I am barely only getting older, what in the world is mimeograph paper?

Heck, I still have on of those things along with a manual typewriter some where around here. We called it a Distentner. I think it was a brand name. It had a crank handle and a drum and you could really make the paper fly. Still could put my hands on an adding machine with the crank handle as well. :lol: :lol:
 

Big Muddy rancher

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per said:
Yanuck said:
Ha! I am barely only getting older, what in the world is mimeograph paper?

Heck, I still have on of those things along with a manual typewriter some where around here. We called it a Distentner. I think it was a brand name. It had a crank handle and a drum and you could really make the paper fly. Still could put my hands on an adding machine with the crank handle as well. :lol: :lol:

Wasn't that a Gestetner?
 

per

Well-known member
Big Muddy rancher said:
per said:
Yanuck said:
Ha! I am barely only getting older, what in the world is mimeograph paper?

Heck, I still have on of those things along with a manual typewriter some where around here. We called it a Distentner. I think it was a brand name. It had a crank handle and a drum and you could really make the paper fly. Still could put my hands on an adding machine with the crank handle as well. :lol: :lol:

Wasn't that a Gestetner?

Yep, I went and looked after I posted and sure enough. I was hoping no one was as old but I stand corrected.
 

andybob

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We had family over for the weeked to celebrate daughters 30th birthday anniversary, we spent late into las night reminising, this post really finished any illusions I might have had about not being as old as dirt :wink:
 

Kato

Well-known member
My favourite candy cigarettes were the Popeye variety. They were the only kind I smoked my whole life. :D :D Now they call them candy sticks. And I still 'smoke' them. :D :D :D

Drinks in glass bottles taste better. I don't care what anyone says. My Grandparents had a small country store that had a cooler full of water. When you fished out a drink there was a towel there to dry it off with. It was wonderful!!!

I also remember crank phones. Does that make me older than old dirt?
 

Blkbuckaroo

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Remember the glass coka-cola dispensers?A guy had one up the road at a garage sale last summer,missed buying it by a few minutes,as i had to run home and get cash.Would have been great though,i thought of filling it with beer,good beer,and then when my buddies came over i could make a little extra income and curb thier appitite for drinking all my brew. :wink:
 
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