Older Than Dirt Quiz

[Johnboy60]

Count all the ones that you remember- not the ones you were told about!
Ratings at the bottom Blackjack chewing gum
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Candy cigarettes
Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Party lines
Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Flyers
Butch wax
Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
Peashooters
Howdy Doody
45 RPM records
S&H Green Stamps
Hi-fi's
Metal ice trays with lever
Mimeograph paper
Blue flashbulb
Packards
Roller skate keys
Cork popguns
Drive-ins
Studebakers
Wash tub wringers
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards

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.

 

[MN John]

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

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Candy cigarettes
Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Howdy Doody
45 RPM records
S&H Green Stamps
Hi-fi's
Metal ice trays with lever
Mimeograph paper
Blue flashbulb
Roller skate keys
Drive-ins
Studebakers
Wash tub wringers
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards

17!

If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt.

I dispute the scientific basis of this test! I just have an excellent memory is all~!

 

[~Wisdom Seeker~]

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Candy cigarettes
Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
45 RPM records
S&H Green Stamps
Hi-fi's
Metal ice trays with lever
Blue flashbulb
Drive-ins

9 for me. "getting older".

 

[marezee]

i remember:

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Candy cigarettes
Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Party lines
Peashooters
Howdy Doody
45 RPM records
S&H Green Stamps
Hi-fi's
Metal ice trays with lever
Mimeograph paper
Blue flashbulb
Drive-ins
__________________________________

15! Don't tell my age! LOL!

 

[yourinnervoice]

ROBERT43 - I don't like you!!!!!!!! LOL! Just kidding.

Thank you for making me feel older than I was feeling this morning!
Thank you for letting me realize that I am older than dirt!
Thank you Robert43!! You truly have a gift!!


LOL!

p.s. what about L.P.'s (vynil) and typewriters!?

 

[~Wisdom Seeker~]

ROBERT43 - I don't like you!!!!!!!! LOL! Just kidding.

Thank you for making me feel older than I was feeling this morning!
Thank you for letting me realize that I am older than dirt!
Thank you Robert43!! You truly have a gift!!


LOL!

p.s. what about L.P.'s (vynil) and typewriters!?

I don't remember all of those things, because they are clearly before my time. So, what gives? How could you be older than dirt and be younger than me?


P.S. my mother in law sent me this exact test several years ago through e-mail. It's a copy and paste.

 

[yourinnervoice]

WISDOM SEEKER - It might have been that you were not aware of them! But they were definitely around in our time!

Hey ROBERT43 - How about adding to your list STEVE MCQUEEN!?

 

[~Wisdom Seeker~]

Nope, sorry. I haven't got Alzheimers, yet.

I wasn't born until 1962, the era of the Apollo missions, minny skirts, "go go" boots and students protesting the Vietnam war. I am not of the era of Howdy Doody, skate keys and Packards.

My mother talks about some of those things as being from her childhood (she was born in 1942), so yeah, I've heard of them too. But the directions in the o.p. says not things you were told about, but things you remember.

So, although you may be older than dirt. I'm not. Sorry old fuddy duds. Nice try though.

 

[catofhope]

Thanks, Robert, for posting this here.

If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Candy cigarettes
Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Party lines
Howdy Dowdy
45 RPM records
S&H Green Stamps
Hi-fi's
Metal ice trays with lever
Drive-ins
Wash tub wringers

 

[porterross]

16....ouch!

It would be lot worse if we couldn't remember, wouldn't it?

Is memory the first or second thing to go?

 

[MN John]

Is memory the first or second thing to go?

I can't remember

 

[MMXII]

Blackjack chewing gum
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water - I loved that stuff!!!
Candy cigarettes
Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes - do diner's count?
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers - we didn't have this, we had a cow
Party lines - and wasn't it fun listening in?
Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Flyers
Butch wax - both my brothers had flat tops
Peashooters
Howdy Doody
45 RPM records
S&H Green Stamps
Hi-fi's
Metal ice trays with lever
Mimeograph paper
Blue flashbulb
Roller skate keys
Cork popguns
Drive-ins - we still have one in Delaware...lots of and went on in those places

If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt.

Like I didn't know it

 

[yourinnervoice]

Do you guys remember Marshmallow shoes?

 

[MMXII]

Do you guys remember Marshmallow shoes?

No, but it sounds tasty

 

[yourinnervoice]

No, but it sounds tasty

LOL! Not tasty at all!! They were the ugliest things you've ever seen. They came in different colors, but they all had these thick, white, soles and heals - they looked like you were walking on....MARSHMALLOWS!

 

[Tumbleweed64]

Count all the ones that you remember- not the ones you were told about!
Ratings at the bottom Blackjack chewing gum
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
Candy cigarettes
Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
Party lines
Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Flyers
Butch wax
Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
Peashooters
Howdy Doody
45 RPM records
S&H Green Stamps
Hi-fi's
Metal ice trays with lever
Mimeograph paper
Blue flashbulb
Packards
Roller skate keys
Cork popguns
Drive-ins
Studebakers
Wash tub wringers
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards

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.

Well I reckon I'm not quite old as dirt!!!!!!

 

[MMXII]

LOL! Not tasty at all!! They were the ugliest things you've ever seen. They came in different colors, but they all had these thick, white, soles and heals - they looked like you were walking on....MARSHMALLOWS!

You must have a great memory because I can't remember them, unless they weren't that big here in slower, lower Delaware.

 

[Tumbleweed64]

You must have a great memory because I can't remember them, unless they weren't that big here in slower, lower Delaware.

I don't either, but I do recall something they called, "moon shoes". I think...

 

[MMXII]

I remember those too, my girls had them.

 

[GritsnGrace]

I am not of the era of Howdy Doody, skate keys and Packards.

Howdy Doody and Packards may not have been around in the 60's, but roller skates with keys were!