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What if I remember all of them, and used or owned most? What is older than "older than dirt?"
The guy who named dirt
I remember that - in IBM class in Endicott, NY in 1966. The classroom was "smokin' as about 95% was puffin'
-Doug
Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about! Ratings at the bottom.
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!
JOAT Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT Web Page Update 29 Dec 2003. Some tunes I like.
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:41:58 -0500 (EST), T.'s fingers viciously stabbed at an innocent keyboard to form the now famous if slightly awkward haiku:
WOW, I remember 13 and I'm only 43 years young.
If you can't remember what you remember you're older than that
Hell, I remember them all and personally experienced 19 of them. I'm only 46. Like everything else around me, dirt is getting younger every year ;)
Dave Hall
Up yours. Now go back to posting plans for us.
Just kidding of course, but this was a bad test. How can 47 be older than dirt? I'm in the middle of my mid-life crisis and you bring this up...
Hey Larry, I'm 46 and considering having a mid-life crisis. Problem is, I don't really think I'll live to 92 so I'm afraid I'm too late ;)
Dave
Shoot, I remember 10 1/2 and I'm just a 33 year-old baby. Maybe I have an old soul?
-Joe
#3-- a pack in my desk right now #7-- presume you mean telephone, two rings. #14--in the closet #16--in the storage shed #18--that's not old, I remember helping my mother make copies using pans of geletain #19--package in the drawer, little ones, number 5s, #11 clear #22--still have my first one #23--there are still drive-ins #25--you mean with a motor? That came later. We had to turn ours by hand because we had no eletricity.
#11 is a no. Didn't have a telephone at our house until I was in the 7th grade and they didn't use words.
Yeh me too. Depressing aint it?
And you can qualify for the older than older than dirt medal if you can remember
Penicillan when it came as a huge yellow pill big enough to choke a horse.
Gasoline, sugar and tire rationing.
That purple salve used to treat wounds on animals.
The taste of the soybean meal normally reserved for the ol' milk cow.
The night Glen Miller came to town.
A few years before that...my father sent me down to get a pack of Luckies, and gave me 2 dimes. No pennies in the pack coming back and he got angry, thought I'd swiped them. I was maybe 9-10 (long before PC howls about younger than 18 or whatever buying butts). I didn't see anotehr 18 cent pack of cigarets again until I got to Parris Island's PX.
Charlie Self
Mowgli responds:
I'll trade any day. Your real shock comes when you realize your kids are getting gray hairs and facial lines.
Charlie Self
Had mine. Lasted from 27 to 47. All during my first marriage.
Charlie Self
Hey, I resent that. I'm only 45 and I remember ALL of them.. Had most of that stuff in our home, and we drove a Studebaker. I even remember the phone number, Hemlock 5-4093.
45 is NOT older than dirt, 66 is.Greg G.
Ah, the good old days!!!
What about Glenn Miller, the Ink Spots and Skitch Henderson's Band? Now don't get me going.
Was watching a move the other day that brought tears to my eyes all over again. It was about a Dish type TV antenna in Wells that was used for Apollo 11's moon landing pictures. I was one of those glued to every picture. Not that long ago. But boy was I proud to be alive to see that.
Roy
I remember when 45's were the new fad and not likely to replace 78's.
When I placed my first phone call I was five. I cranked the handle and told the operator, "Rosalie, I want to talk to Mama." She rang my father's grocery store, where my mother had gone for a few minutes..
We didn't have dirt until I was about ten. Who knew it would get to be a big thing?
Lionel
Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about! Ratings at the bottom.
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!
JOAT Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT Web Page Update 29 Dec 2003. Some tunes I like.
Greg G responds:
Hell, my first car WAS a Studebaker. Traded it on a new '57 Chevy convertible...first year of the 283s.
I haven't got a clue what my phone number was back then, but it did have a name instead of numbers.
I can wait until next year to be older than dirt (66), but I recalled all the blinking items and owned a bunch of them, even gulped down the colored water in the wax bottles--and chewed the wax.
Charlie Self
Oh my God, 22! I am older than dirt.
BTW, I saw BlackJack gum in the store just yesterday. It's baaaaaack!
Glen
Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about! Ratings at the bottom.
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!
JOAT Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT Web Page Update 29 Dec 2003. Some tunes I like.
I have the Ink Spots and Glenn Miller on old 78s. The still sound lousy.
Glen
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