Are You Older Than Dirt

[KOOL]

I missed only two, 5 & 15. I even feel older than dirt.

[grayelk]

20 out of 20. Boy, I am OLD!!

[colmurph]

But then, I was table commandant at the last supper.

[sfc_darrel]

Double Dog Dare You

If you don't remember this, you're too young anyway.
This is a time we can feel good about remembering so much!

I am sharing this with you today because it ends with a "double dog dare" to pass it on.



Always remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and young enough not to care.


How many do you remember?
1. Candy cigarettes.
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes.
5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
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, (Drexel-5505).
12. Peashooters.
13. Howdy.
14. 45-RPM Records.
15. 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.
26. The Fuller Brush man.
27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders.
28. Tinkertoys.
29. The Erector Set.
30. The Fort Apache Playset.
31. Lincoln Logs.
32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers.
33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slab of bubblegum.
34. Penny candy.
35. 10 cent-a-gallon gasoline.



AND A TIME WHEN ....................
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do over!"
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
A foot of snow was a dream come true.
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures.
"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense.
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles.
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
War was a card game.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!



Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up life...."
I double dog dare ya!

[colmurph]

You forgot .25 cents for a pack of smokes. Cherry Phosphate Sodas in the Drugstore. (That had a 15 seat counter) Candy Pills on a long roll of paper (a penny a foot) Red cardboard pennies as change from Super Markets when you bought stuff with ration coupons. Saving bacon grease in empty mayonaise jars to take to the store so they could make soap and explosives for the soldiers in WW11, horse drawn milk trucks and round (not square) milk bottles with the cardboard stopper. Cold winter mornings with the cream in the milk bottles rising and pushing the stoppers out. The first gallon of gas I bought cost me .14 cents and it was for a Whizzer Motor Bike with a 50cc engine that would go 25mph flat out.

[PHO127]

Movies were 25 cents but during the summer there was dime night on tuesdays. The coke machine at school went up to 6 cents. A box of .22 shorts was 50 cents. Froggy the grimlin and his magic clock (plunk your magic twanger froggy) on the Buster Brown show. Gorgeous George on TV.

[Sgt_Tropo]

Remember when

* Being gay meant being happy, not homosexual

* Being queer meant being a "nerd", not a sexual pervert

* Being straight meant telling the truth

* A rainbow stood for God's Biblical promise to never destroy the world by a flood again, instead of a political or sexual group

* A Saturday Night Special was $1.00 a carload at the local drive-in theater, instead of a cheap handgun

* A joint was a dingy little bar, instaed of a marijuana cigarette

* Coke was a soft drink, instead of a powdered drug

* You spent $10 on a date for dinner for 2 and a movie

* A car jack was a tool used to change a flat, instead of the act of stealing a car

* Computers were still a figment of science fiction

* Roy Rogers was every boy's hero

* Getting ahead meant becoming successful, not something sexual (Yes, I know what the definition of "is" is!)

* Neighborhood "turf wars" were settled by baseball or football game

* Wearing your "colors" meant wearing your school letter sweater or jacket

* There was no such thing as "daylight savings time"

* There were still seven words that you couldn't say on TV or radio

[judyvillecco]

Well my daughter was wrong I did not live in the horse and buggy days but I do remember the wonderful studebaker, etc. and I did play in dirt.......a lady does not admit how many she got right...I'll just drink my RC and play my Everly Brothers albums.

[thesnoopc]

Yea, I remember 3 cent stamps too, they keep telling me that I joind up when JC was a corporal, but gosh, do you have to rub it in, I can still work an apprentice into the ground any day of the week, so Im not over the hill yet, but I definetly feel it some days, (usually when the weather changes)

[judyvillecco]

I remember 5 cent movies!