Older Than Dirt Quiz

[Ganjafan]

Older than Dirt Question

Older than Dirt Question

I remember all 25. How about this--Do any of you remember when they used to deliver bread door to door? Now that REALLY makes me feel Older than Dirt.

 

[Willie]

Bread AND Milk...And Nope on Pomac and Apple Beer. Probably a regional thing? White Castle burgers.

Peace,
Willie

 

[Goldie]

Oh - I got 19! But Im not that old - I just FEEL that way!

 

[wolfshadow]

Damn!! Does kinda make ya feel old>>>>>NOT!!!
Im with a few others;Your as only old as ya feel..

But this kinda hit me hard.
17. Metal ice trays with lever...Lol, I was about 5 when my older brother got me to STICK my tonge on the bottom of that damn thing. Sumthing I will NEVER forget!!
<<ws>>

 

[pseudochile]

anyone remember when YOU were the remote control?

 

[ledhed]

anyone remember when YOU were the remote control?

Hell, remember your first color TV? Remember how HUGE it was? (Not the picture tube, youngsters, the dang cabinet -- GIGANTIC.)

Remember when nobody you knew had more than one TV in their house? Or more than one phone?

 

[Guest]

I remeber dissecting my step dads new 27" console TV. The kind with the turntable above the screen and giant speakers on the end? Had that thing in pieces, in an afternoon, and I was only 4. I did that to the phone, too. My mom loved me. A lot. I know because I'm still here.

 

[Guest]

I was the remote control AND the antenna adjuster.Remember when you had to "tune in" the channel?
We had the first color tv and microwave oven in the neighborhood - people stopped by to check them out! Looking back at that microwave,I wonder how much radiation I absorbed when I was young.The things we learn later.....

 

[Guest]

Anyone remember when the first cable converter boxes came out so u could get MTV?But they didnt have a remote yet,there was a cable leading from a box with the channel #'s on it that ran to the TV.And i thought wow man were really movin into the future.Man im so old i took my Drivers test on a Dinosouar,but failed cuz i couldnt parallel park it. :wink: Anyone remember when you used to have to give yer mail to a guy on a horse?Used to take a year n a half to get yer seeds.lol

 

[Guest]

Dirt's mom - do I win?

Dirt's mom - do I win?

ha ha, I remember them all and more! Those White Castle hamburgers were called 'belly bombs'. I remember the 'ice man' stopping in the back alley and bringing up a huge block of ice carried by ice tongs for the 'ice box' and at dusk the 'lamplighter' would walk down the street carrying a wooden ladder and lantern so that he could light the (gas) streetlights. We also had the 'milk man' and the 'egg man' delivering stuff. And 'street arabs' with their vegetable carts pulled by ponies; the 'black afro-americans' had a monopoly on this trade but back then they were called 'darkies' and it was ok . Oh yeah, almost forgot the streetcars running on tracks, and later the first 'fast food' place, and the first 'shopping center'. I remember when the Black 'slums' were torn down and replaced by multiple highrise public housing 'projects' - a social experiment that caused more problems than it solved - forty years later they have all been torn down. The one thing I remember and miss the most from my youth was the sight of the Milky Way on a dark night, haven't seen that one in a couple of decades.

 

[Jah]

21 So I have a good memory LrFol

 

[Guest]

Over the hill, Think not

Over the hill, Think not

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tOOtsie roll toostsie pop? The world may never Know.! PeacE

 

[Guest]

Black and white tv's (without remotes), Wax lips and wooden cases for the coke bottles. $.19 a gallon for gas price wars. Now that is old. I said I would quit smoking cigg's when they hit $1a pack but didn't until they hit $3.50 but i quit.

It's funny that most of the younger growers wasn't even born before the space shuttle blewup. I remember my dad worked for a company that built parts for the Apollo's and I had all the space toys.

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

....I can remember when a loaf of bread was 1 shilling and 5 pence ha'penny.......about 14 cents (U.S.)....

 

[Babbabud]

yea im battin a thousand on this one.........acccck

 

[Jah]

Phsychadelia

Phsychadelia

If we were not this ripe we would have missed the sixties and that would have been a bummer man!

 

[silvercloud]

I got 21 .How about maypo or farina.

 

[Guest]

Thought I was old till the other day when I stopped in at the local diner. And heared a couple elderly gentlmen havin a conversation. 1st guy was complaining of being irregular when his buddy says hes got real problems. So first guy says to second guy, Well whats your problem. Second guy says he takes a healthy piss every morning at 5:30 and then a healthy dump a 5:45. 1st guy says so what the hells the problem.2nd
guy say I dont wake up till 6:30

 

[Guest]

Its more like a "how 1950's americana are you"

 

[Guest]

my, my, my...I remember 24. Got me on the studebacher.

I remember my mom bringing my baby sister home from the hospital and commenting on how they had throw away diapers of all things.
I remember when panty hose came out.