Older Than Dirt Quiz

[Judy Loux]

Count all the ones that you remember-not the ones you were told about!

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard toppers
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. Packard's
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

If You remembered:

00- 05 = You're still young

06-10 = You are getting older

11-15 = Don't tell your age,

16-25 = You're older than dirt!

DDiva

Edited by delawarediva on 10/07/02 09:35 PM.

[chris68]

LOVE THIS! Thanks!  I fell in the 6-10 category so not too bad.

Chris68
Deskdemon Forum Board Staff

[laundryhater]

I counted 12 items.  But I'm really not that old yet - only 29.

[blufire21]

I'm scored a 10, and I'm 22.  I guess living in the country gives you access to the good stuff...Of course I felt my age the other day when I was talking to a friend on the bus about Michael Jackson.  The kid in the seat next to me freaked out when we mentioned he used to be black.  This poor kid's only know him as bleached.


Ellen (yep, the kid thought I was older than dirt) in TX

[countrigal]

Well, at 31, I'm still holding my own.  (scored 9)  And I'm with Ellen, I think most of it is because of where I grew up... I think they're just now getting into the 2000-millenium thing.  Small towns age slower.

Of course, last week while my kids were here I really started feeling my age.  Some of my fav music is on cassettes and they looked at me all funny when I played them.  I bet they would have really flipped if I'd pulled out a record!  And then they asked me what kind of laptop I carried in high school.  They couldn't believe that I didn't carry a laptop, or really even use a computer much, while I was in hs.  Looks like they're gonna be required to have laptops in their highschools.  What happened to good old pen and ink (making penmanship a requisite?)?  Guess I'll just continue to age gracefully.

CountriGal
Deskdemon Editorial Board Member

[blufire21]

I see the pro and cons on the laptop thing.  My senior paper was late because the computer labs were always full, and we could not take the paper home to do it.  On the down side, spell check doesn't catch everything, like gramar.


Ellen (now if anyone knows where to find Brownie Chocolate Drink) In TX

[radaro]

I'm not older than dirt - just older than an 8 track tape!

[laundryhater]

I remember 8 tracks too.

I think everyone is right.  I grew up on a farm in Iowa.  We were always the last to know the latest "in" thing.  Whenever a new kid from out-of-state moved to town he/she would enlighten us on the latest fashions and music.  And it didn't help that we couldn't get cable T.V. in the country so I couldn't watch MTV like the other kids.  I think we only got 3 channels.

[bethalize]

Ha! I saw my first 8-track tape player in Malaysia a fortnight ago. It was in this really ancient Mercedes taxi. I couldn't work out what it was - it was the wrong size for every sort of media I could think of!

Bethalize
Deskdemon Forum Board Staff