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Scarecrow
01-24-2004, 09:31 PM
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 jukeboxes
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 remembered 24 of 25 :D
Lilith
01-24-2004, 09:33 PM
dirt:D
PantyFanatic
01-24-2004, 09:46 PM
DIRTY dirt!:o
lmao :D
Only the cork gun was not an everyday thing from childhood. But they were around as an old curiosity.
(which one was it for you SC?)
cowgirltease
01-24-2004, 09:46 PM
OMG!!!!! NOOOOOOOO I can't be!!!!!:eek:
I don't feel it anyways:D
I remembered 19 of 'em......;) :p
Yep, they were the best times weren't they?:)
22 out of the list ranks me as old as dirt
Prehistoric Dirt - 22
*sigh*
sillyme
01-24-2004, 11:33 PM
I'm in good company - older than dirt - 17
Cobalt
01-25-2004, 12:07 AM
21 Damn I knew I was older than dirt, now I have proof!
10...I'm getting older...DAMMIT
Steph
01-25-2004, 12:52 AM
4
Wow, I'm kinda surprised. I thought I'd have a higher score.
cowgirltease
01-25-2004, 12:54 AM
Originally posted by Steph
4
Wow, I'm kinda surprised. I thought I'd have a higher score.
you're still a baby Steph!:p :D
Sharni
01-25-2004, 04:11 AM
Dirt here
musketeer
01-25-2004, 04:38 AM
I remember 8 so does that just make me grubby?
dicksbro
01-25-2004, 05:30 AM
I remember all 25. (hears bones creak. :D) By the way, Scarecrow, do you have any "Clove" gum to go with that Blackjack? And, would you believe, I just saw in a dollar store some of those wax bottles with a bit of colored sugar-water in them. Almost bought some, but didn't.
Think I'll mosey on back to my rocking chair.
Drat, where's that cane?
Oldfart
01-25-2004, 08:29 AM
13,
And we didn't have 10 of them here in Oz that I'm aware of.
Scarecrow
01-25-2004, 02:42 PM
PF I didn't remember the Blackjack Gum because I'd only chewed "Clove" gum.
Lilith
01-25-2004, 02:47 PM
You can still buy both. I always put it in stockings.
dancingrugger
01-25-2004, 02:47 PM
Yeah I'm just gonna go crawl back on over to my crib & grab my binkie.
Granted I know of all of them .... just can't say I "remember"
musketeer
01-25-2004, 03:48 PM
In the UK we had Blackjacks but they were a liquorice flavour chew, I switched the US meaning for the UK one.
jseal
01-25-2004, 08:49 PM
Scarecrow,
Um, 21 here.
But hey! That's GOOD dirt.
Sugarsprinkles
01-25-2004, 10:26 PM
Older than dirt here too, but I'm in good company with PF, dicksbro, BIBI, Scarecrow, CGT, Cobalt. Lilith, et al.
Speaking of the Blackjack and Clove chewing gum....I never cared for those as much as I like Beeman's Pepsin Chewing gum.
Does anyone remember FanTan chewing gum???
exhib_it_all
01-26-2004, 01:45 AM
I remembered 12 of them...
I guess that means I'm still MUD eh?
Irish
01-26-2004, 03:44 PM
24 out of 25.I'm not sure what was meant by party lines,so that
was the one!You forgot those little 1/2 round candies that were on paper sheets.I don't remember what they were called. Irish
DIRT!!
PantyFanatic
01-26-2004, 05:04 PM
I think those were ccalled "DOTS", Irish. They were pink and green and yellow etc. I saw some "reproductions" a few years back, but they weren't as good as I remembered. (What is? ;) )
Lilith
01-26-2004, 05:10 PM
Yep...dots! I ate them too. Nothing better than some sugar stuck to paper, that inveriably ends up in your mouth to say the good ole days :D
sfcretired
01-27-2004, 09:09 AM
24 of 25, I don't really remember the Studebaker. I reckon it's official, I'm old as the hills.:D
SuccubusKitty
01-27-2004, 01:21 PM
I remembered nine...and I am only twenty five. I guess that means my parents collected old stuff? :)
curvyredhead
01-30-2004, 09:41 PM
13...
How'd I get that old?? Boy it really sneaks up on ya!
curvyredhead
01-30-2004, 09:45 PM
Don't know any one who owns a Studebaker, but I've got a friend with an Edisel
LixyChick
01-31-2004, 03:47 PM
22 here.......(though I know of them all) *calls my pet dinosaur over to give her a "Pixie Stick"*
Can't believe they (Pixie Sticks) weren't on there! Who remembers those?
OMG.......and to this day I hate the thought of those metal ice-cube trays! I'd never open one if someone was around to do it for me.....and I'd stick my fingers in my ears as they did it, so that I couldn't here the crackle! If I HAD to open one myself....I would run it under water and shrink the cubes and get all the dryness (from it being frozen) off it before I would crack it open! Ewwwwwwww......gives me the heebie jeebies just remembering them! Fingernails on a chalk board don't hold a candle to the shivers I got/get from metal ice-cube trays!!!!!!
LixyChick
01-31-2004, 03:50 PM
Originally posted by curvyredhead
Don't know any one who owns a Studebaker, but I've got a friend with an Edisel
My father-in-law restores old cars and just sold his Studebaker.
My other father-in-law...(hubbies parents are divorced and remarried to others) raced cars in his day and had a pretty famous Willys for the circuit around our way.
*Edit* Oops...pic was too big.....gonna go fix it.....sorry bout that!
LixyChick
01-31-2004, 03:59 PM
another view.........
LixyChick
01-31-2004, 04:05 PM
Boss Hydro....(racing Willys)...resized.....
Later renamed "Pure Acid"....but same cars above....
Scarecrow
06-07-2006, 02:48 PM
:bump:
sodaklostsoul
06-07-2006, 04:53 PM
Hmm I remember 13...........know most of the rest.
jay-t
06-07-2006, 05:36 PM
24 out of 25 that makes me only 1 day older than dirt
PantyFanatic
06-07-2006, 10:31 PM
I remembered most of those before, but don't remember them now. :shrug: I don't remember much of anything now. :spin: Does that mean I’m getting young again? :confused:
imaginewithme
06-07-2006, 11:01 PM
7.......... so what's that make me?
"You're getting older"......well I certainly hope so!
Sweetkitty
06-08-2006, 09:23 AM
I remember 6. I thought i was still young at 29. Oh Well!!!
scotzoidman
06-08-2006, 09:38 AM
I missed this one first time around somehow...I remember 14 items, some of them, just barely...I colud have counted Packards as something I remember, as there were a few still around when I was little, but they were out of production by the time my memory starts...but I do remember the end of the Studebaker (1964, if memory serves)...
Henrydell
06-09-2006, 09:23 AM
I suppose this means that I was there when dirt was invented...great quiz...H
JassWolf
06-09-2006, 02:14 PM
23 ... but that's only because no one around me ever chewed, lol. My problem is that as they asked, I was able to think of three or four things they could have added to the damn test.
Now, tell me again ... why exactly did I want to take that? :rolleyes2
JW
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