"older than dirt"

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From: Strata Rose Chalup (strata@virtual.net)
Date: Sat Jan 27 2001 - 15:16:04 PST

This was just passing around our family emails, and I'm wondering how folks
here would score. Anybody else out there get around a 19 or so? This is
"direct experience", not "oh yeah, I've heard of that".

My score is probably age-shifted due to growing up in a very rural area.
We had party lines up into 1980, for instance. I'm still under 40. Maybe
not that far under, but still under! :-)

_SRC

> How many do you remember? Start counting:
>
> > > > > 01. Candy cigarettes
> > > > >
> > > > > 02. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> > > > > inside.
> > > > >
> > > > > 03. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles.
> > > > >
> > > > > 04. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
> > > > >
> > > > > 05. Blackjack chewing gum
> > > > >
> > > > > 06. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with
> > > > > Cardboard stoppers.
> > > > >
> > > > > 07. Party lines.
> > > > >
> > > > > 08. Newsreels before the movie.
> > > > >
> > > > > 09. P. F. Flyers
> > > > >
> > > > > 10. Butcher's wax
> > > > >
> > > > > 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix or letter
> > > > > ... (Drexel-5505/WH- 9965)
> > > > >
> > > > > 12. Peashooters.
> > > > >
> > > > > 13. Howdy Doody
> > > > >
> > > > > 14. 45 RPM Records
> > > > >
> > > > > 15. S&H Green Stamps
> > > > >
> > > > > 16. Hi-fi's
> > > > >
> > > > > 17. Metal ice cube trays, with levers
> > > > >
> > > > > 18. Mimeograph paper
> > > > >
> > > > > 19. Blue flash Bulbs
> > > > >
> > > > > 20. Beanie and Cecil
> > > > >
> > > > > 21. roller skate keys
> > > > >
> > > > > 22. Cork pop guns
> > > > >
> > > > > 23. Drive ins
> > > > >
> > > > > 24. Studebakers
> > > > >
> > > > > 25. Wash tub wringers
> > > > >
> > > > > If you remembered 0 to 5, you're still young
> > > > >
> > > > > If you remembered 6 to 15, you are getting older.
> > > > >
> > > > > If you remembered 16 to 25, you are older than dirt
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > 

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