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Older Than Dirt Quiz Count all the ones that you remember- not the ones you were told about! 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 |
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Getting these emails so I just was getting a laugh, though I would share. I Want To Go Back To The 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 rant he fastest Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly" Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends Being old referred to anyone over 20 The net on a tennis court was the perfect height to play volleyball and rules didn't matter the worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties" It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb It was unbelievable that dodgeball wasn't an Olympic event Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot Nobody was prettier than Mom Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the amusement park A foot of snow was a dream come true Abilities ere discovered because of a "double-dog-dare" Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures No shopping trip was complete unless a new toy was brought home "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 Ice cream was considered a basic food group Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors |
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It must be OLD email Day. Hope you have a smile.  How many do you remember? Candy cigarettes Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles Hoola hoop contests Buying milk from a vending machine for a quarter, with your penny change taped to the side Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum 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 .... (Drexel-5505 Peashooters Howdy Doody 45 RPM Records Green Stamps Hi-fi's Metal ice cube trays with levers Mimeograph paper Blue flash bulbs Beanie and Cecil Roller skate keys Cork pop guns Drive ins Studebakers Wash Tub wringers The Fuller Brush man Reel-to-reel tape recorders Phonographs The "twist", "mashed potatoes", and "funky-chicken" Tinkertoys The Erector Set The Fort Apache Playset Lincoln Logs 15 cent McDonald hamburgers & 10 cent fries 5 cent packs of baseball cards..... with that slab of pink bubblegum penny candy 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline When the first man walked on the moon When Elvis Presley first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show When the Beatles arrived When the Barbie doll hit the scene 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!!! |
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Okay last one, hope you have a grand laugh indeed.  You Know You're Getting Old When... Your joints are more accurate than the National Weather Service. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off. Your back goes out more than you do. The twinkle in your eye is only the reflection of the sun on your bifocals. You feel like the morning after when you haven't been anywhere the night before. You finally got your head together, now your body is falling apart. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to a manageable size. You wake up with that morning-after feeling and you didn't do anything the night before. You don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along. It takes twice as long to look half as good. Many of your co-workers were born the same year that you got your last promotion. People call at 9 PM and ask, "Did I wake you?" You can live without sex but not without glasses. The clothes you've put away until they come back in style... have come back in style. You look forward to a dull evening. Your mind makes contracts your body can't keep. The pharmacist has become your new best friend. There's nothing left to learn the hard way. You come to the conclusion that your worst enemy is gravity. You start video taping daytime game shows. You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room. Your idea of a night out is sitting on the patio. You look for your glasses for half-an-hour, then find they've been on your head all the time. You wake up, looking like your driver's license picture. Happy hour is a nap. You begin every other sentence with, "Nowadays..." You constantly talk about the price of gasoline. You don't remember when your wild oats turned to shredded wheat. You sing along with the elevator music. You are proud of your lawn mower. You wonder how you could be over the hill when you don't remember being on top of it. Getting lucky means you find your car in the parking lot. The little gray-haired lady you help across the street is your wife. Your idea of weight lifting is standing up. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either. Your ears are hairier than your head. You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize it. It takes longer to rest than it did to get tired. You talk about "good grass" and you're referring to someone's lawn. The end of your tie doesn't come anywhere near the top of your pants. You give up all your bad habits and you still don't feel good. Your childhood toys are now in a museum. You can't remember the last time you laid on the floor to watch television. You confuse having a clear conscience with having a bad memory. You frequently find yourself telling people what a loaf of bread USED to cost. You know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions. You enjoy hearing about other people's operations. You got cable for the weather channel. Old Folks MTV! Your new easy chair has more options than your car. Your little black book only contains names ending in M.D. Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt, doesn't work. You find yourself beginning to like accordion music. You have too much room in the house and not enough in the medicine cabinet. You get into a heated argument about pension plans. "Getting a little action" means you don't need to take a laxative. Conversations with people your own age often turn into "dueling ailments." You buy a compass for the dash of your car. You take a metal detector to the beach. The car that you bought brand new becomes an antique. You are cautioned to slow down by the doctor instead of by the police. You realize that caution is the only thing you care to exercise. You don't remember being absentminded. You have more patience; but actually, it's just that you don't care any more. Your memory is shorter and your complaining is longer. Your drugs of preference are now vitamins. You tip more and carry less. You read more and remember less. You get propositioned by AARP. Younger women start opening doors for you. You begin to become invisible in the dating and mating game. The highway patrol sigh or shake their heads but don't give you a ticket. You scout for a warmer place to spend the long, cold winters. You are no longer 'promising'. Younger men ask you for advice. You work on your short game. Youthful injuries return with a vengeance. Youthful indiscretions harden into bad habits. You shop for health insurance the way you once shopped for a new car. Your medical expenses go up 50%. A 'late night' now ends at 11 pm. You learn where your prostrate is. You develop a knack for wearing hats. |
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Okay I did say one last one, this another one just sent to me. Made me smile hope it does for you to. Stroll With Me.... Stroll with me.... close your eyes.... and go back... before the Internet... before bombings, aids, herpes before semiautomatics and crack... before SEGA or Super Nintendo ... way back! I'm talking about sitting on the curb, sitting on the stoop...about hide-and-go-seek; Simon Says and red-light-green-light. Lunch boxes with a thermos ... chocolate milk, going home for lunch, penny candy from the store, hopscotch, butterscotch, skates with keys, jacks and Cracker Jacks, hula hoops and sunflower seeds, wax lips and mustaches, Mary Jane's, saddle shoes and Coke bottles with the names of cities on the bottom. Remember -- When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up. When nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids arrived home from school. When nobody owned a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces. When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done everyday and wore high heels. Running through the sprinkler, circle pins, bobby pins, Mickey Mouse Club, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Kookla, Fran & Ollie, Spin & Marty...Dick Clark's American Bandstand ... all in black and white and your Mom made you turn it off when a storm came. When around the corner seemed far away, and going downtown seemed like going somewhere. Climbing trees, making forts, backyard shows, lemonade stands, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, staring at clouds, jumping on the bed, pillow fights,ribbon candy, angel hair on the Christmas tree, Jackie Gleason, white gloves, walking to the movie theater, running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt...remember that? Not stepping on a crack or you'd break your mother's back ... paper-chains at Christmas, silhouettes of Lincoln and Washington, the smells of school, of paste and Evening in Paris. What about the girl who dotted her i's with hearts? (that was before that stupid smiley face)! The Stroll, popcorn balls and sock hops? Remember when there were just two types of sneakers for girls and boys - Keds and PF Flyers, and the only time you wore them at school was for gym. And the girls had those ugly gym uniforms. When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking -- all for free -- every time! And, you didn't pay for air either, and you got trading stamps to boot! When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents. When the worst thing you could do at school was flunk a test or chew gum.And the prom was in the gym or the lunchroom and you danced to a real orchestra. When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed -- and did! When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was so much greater than the threat. Remember when a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car -- used to cruise, peel out, lay rubber, scratch off or watch the submarine races? When people went steady; and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped Band-Aids, dental floss, or yarn coated with pastel-frost nail polish so it would fit their finger. When no one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the car and house doors were never locked! Remember lying on your back on the grass with your friends and saying things like "That cloud looks like a..." And playing baseball with no adults needed to enforce the rules of the game. Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals, because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger. And, with all our progress, don't you just wish, that just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace...and share it with the children of today? So send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk... As well as the sound of a real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, bowling, visits to the pool ... and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar from the palm of your hand. There, didn't that feel good? Just to lean back and say: "Yeah...I remember......." |
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Edited by
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I needed a laugh today. Here is another from email. Quotes from women, about being a woman! The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. Helen Hayes (at 73) There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest. Margaret Mead One is not born a woman, one becomes one. Simone DeBeauvoir I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. Janette Barber Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. Lily Tomlin A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car. Carrie Snow Old age ain't no place for sissies. Bette Davis I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. Zsa Zsa Gabor If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. Catherine Aird A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't. Rhonda Hansome The phrase "working mother" is redundant. Jane Sellman Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. Charlotte Whitton Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. Caryn Leschen Whoever thought up the word "Mammogram"? Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone. Jan King I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb and I'm also not blonde. Dolly Parton You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. Erica Jong If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them. Sue Grafton Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends. Laurie Kuslansky I think - therefore I'm single. Lizz Winstead I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on. Roseanne Barr My second favorite household chore is ironing; my first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. rma Bombeck When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. Elayne Boosler Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. Maryon Pearson In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man - if you want anything done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. Gloria Steinem I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home who answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late every night. Marie Corelli The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a noose around your neck? Linda Ellerbee Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. Eleanor Roosevelt I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lbit lower -- Gypsy Rose Lee A woman never forgets her age once she decides what it is. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner -- Tallulah Bankhead The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. -- Erma Bombeck Behind every successful woman...is a substantial amount of coffee. -- Stephanie Piro Behind every successful woman...... is a basket of dirty laundry. -- Sally Forth A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!" -- Linda Ellerbee Behind every successful woman is a cleaner and a nanny. -- Unknown A woman's rule of thumb: if it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it. -- Unknown |
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This Lady friend is on a one liners emails. Again hope you are smiling. An a laughter has shown its self.
To Women Everywhere From a Man Who's Had Enough Learn to work the toilet seat. If it's up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us bitching about you leaving it down. If you won't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't expect us to act like soap opera guys. If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don't ask us. We refuse to answer. Don't cut your hair. Ever. Long hair is always more attractive than short hair. One of the big reasons guys fear getting married is that married women always cut their hair, and by then you're stuck. Birthdays, Valentines, and Anniversaries are not quests to see if we can find the perfect present yet again! If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, expect an answer you don't want to hear. Sometimes, we're not thinking about you. Live with it. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as navel lint, the shotgun formation, or monster trucks. Sunday equals SPORTS. It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be. Shopping isn't a sport, & no, we're never going to think of it that way. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine. Really! You have enough clothes. You have too many shoes. Crying is blackmail. Ask for what you want. Let's be clear on this one: subtle hints don't work. Strong hints don't work. Really obvious hints don't work. Just say it! We don't know what day it is. We never will. Mark anniversaries on the calendar. Peeing standing up is more difficult. We're bound to miss sometimes. Most guys own three pairs of shoes. What makes you think we'd be any good at choosing which pair, out of thirty, would look good with your dress? Yes & No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a problem. See a doctor. Foreign films are best left to foreigners. Check your oil. It is neither in your best interest nor ours to take the quiz together. No,it doesn't matter which quiz. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. All comments become null and void after 7 days. If something we said can be interpreted two ways, and one makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one. Let us ogle. We're going to look anyway; it's genetic. You can either tell us to do something OR tell us how to do something but not both. Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials. All men see in only 16 colors. Peach is a fruit, not a color. If it itches, it will be scratched. Beer is as exciting for us as handbags are for you. If we ask what's wrong and you say "nothing, " we will act like nothing's wrong. We know you're lying, but it's just not worth the hassle. What the hell is a doily? Secret tips for making a marriage last... Two times a week, we go to a nice restaurant, have a little wine, good food and companionship. She goes Tuesdays. I go Fridays. We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in Florida, mine is in NY. I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back. I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our anniversary?" "Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!" So I suggested, "How about the kitchen?". We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops. She has an electric blender, electric toaster, and electric bread maker. Then she said "There are too many gadgets, and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair. My wife told me the car wasn't running well, there was water in the carburetor. When I asked where the car was, she told me "In the lake". My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but BOY, can she climb a tree now! She got a mudpack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off... She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too late for the garbage?" The driver said, "No, jump in!" |
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Older Than Dirt Quiz Count all the ones that you remember- not the ones you were told about! 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 |
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Okay I did say one last one, this another one just sent to me. Made me smile hope it does for you to. Stroll With Me.... Stroll with me.... close your eyes.... and go back... before the Internet... before bombings, aids, herpes before semiautomatics and crack... before SEGA or Super Nintendo ... way back! I'm talking about sitting on the curb, sitting on the stoop...about hide-and-go-seek; Simon Says and red-light-green-light. Lunch boxes with a thermos ... chocolate milk, going home for lunch, penny candy from the store, hopscotch, butterscotch, skates with keys, jacks and Cracker Jacks, hula hoops and sunflower seeds, wax lips and mustaches, Mary Jane's, saddle shoes and Coke bottles with the names of cities on the bottom. Remember -- When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up. When nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids arrived home from school. When nobody owned a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces. When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done everyday and wore high heels. Running through the sprinkler, circle pins, bobby pins, Mickey Mouse Club, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Kookla, Fran & Ollie, Spin & Marty...Dick Clark's American Bandstand ... all in black and white and your Mom made you turn it off when a storm came. When around the corner seemed far away, and going downtown seemed like going somewhere. Climbing trees, making forts, backyard shows, lemonade stands, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, staring at clouds, jumping on the bed, pillow fights,ribbon candy, angel hair on the Christmas tree, Jackie Gleason, white gloves, walking to the movie theater, running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt...remember that? Not stepping on a crack or you'd break your mother's back ... paper-chains at Christmas, silhouettes of Lincoln and Washington, the smells of school, of paste and Evening in Paris. What about the girl who dotted her i's with hearts? (that was before that stupid smiley face)! The Stroll, popcorn balls and sock hops? Remember when there were just two types of sneakers for girls and boys - Keds and PF Flyers, and the only time you wore them at school was for gym. And the girls had those ugly gym uniforms. When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking -- all for free -- every time! And, you didn't pay for air either, and you got trading stamps to boot! When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents. When the worst thing you could do at school was flunk a test or chew gum.And the prom was in the gym or the lunchroom and you danced to a real orchestra. When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed -- and did! When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was so much greater than the threat. Remember when a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car -- used to cruise, peel out, lay rubber, scratch off or watch the submarine races? When people went steady; and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped Band-Aids, dental floss, or yarn coated with pastel-frost nail polish so it would fit their finger. When no one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the car and house doors were never locked! Remember lying on your back on the grass with your friends and saying things like "That cloud looks like a..." And playing baseball with no adults needed to enforce the rules of the game. Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals, because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger. And, with all our progress, don't you just wish, that just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace...and share it with the children of today? So send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk... As well as the sound of a real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, bowling, visits to the pool ... and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar from the palm of your hand. There, didn't that feel good? Just to lean back and say: "Yeah...I remember......." 
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Edited by
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Tribbles!
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Okay I did say one last one, this another one just sent to me. Made me smile hope it does for you to. Stroll With Me.... Stroll with me.... close your eyes.... and go back... before the Internet... before bombings, aids, herpes before semiautomatics and crack... before SEGA or Super Nintendo ... way back! I'm talking about sitting on the curb, sitting on the stoop...about hide-and-go-seek; Simon Says and red-light-green-light. Lunch boxes with a thermos ... chocolate milk, going home for lunch, penny candy from the store, hopscotch, butterscotch, skates with keys, jacks and Cracker Jacks, hula hoops and sunflower seeds, wax lips and mustaches, Mary Jane's, saddle shoes and Coke bottles with the names of cities on the bottom. Remember -- When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up. When nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids arrived home from school. When nobody owned a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces. When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done everyday and wore high heels. Running through the sprinkler, circle pins, bobby pins, Mickey Mouse Club, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Kookla, Fran & Ollie, Spin & Marty...Dick Clark's American Bandstand ... all in black and white and your Mom made you turn it off when a storm came. When around the corner seemed far away, and going downtown seemed like going somewhere. Climbing trees, making forts, backyard shows, lemonade stands, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, staring at clouds, jumping on the bed, pillow fights,ribbon candy, angel hair on the Christmas tree, Jackie Gleason, white gloves, walking to the movie theater, running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt...remember that? Not stepping on a crack or you'd break your mother's back ... paper-chains at Christmas, silhouettes of Lincoln and Washington, the smells of school, of paste and Evening in Paris. What about the girl who dotted her i's with hearts? (that was before that stupid smiley face)! The Stroll, popcorn balls and sock hops? Remember when there were just two types of sneakers for girls and boys - Keds and PF Flyers, and the only time you wore them at school was for gym. And the girls had those ugly gym uniforms. When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking -- all for free -- every time! And, you didn't pay for air either, and you got trading stamps to boot! When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents. When the worst thing you could do at school was flunk a test or chew gum.And the prom was in the gym or the lunchroom and you danced to a real orchestra. When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed -- and did! When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was so much greater than the threat. Remember when a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car -- used to cruise, peel out, lay rubber, scratch off or watch the submarine races? When people went steady; and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped Band-Aids, dental floss, or yarn coated with pastel-frost nail polish so it would fit their finger. When no one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the car and house doors were never locked! Remember lying on your back on the grass with your friends and saying things like "That cloud looks like a..." And playing baseball with no adults needed to enforce the rules of the game. Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals, because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger. And, with all our progress, don't you just wish, that just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace...and share it with the children of today? So send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk... As well as the sound of a real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, bowling, visits to the pool ... and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar from the palm of your hand. There, didn't that feel good? Just to lean back and say: "Yeah...I remember......." Yes indeed fun to think back to a better time.
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Edited by
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Older Than Dirt Quiz Count all the ones that you remember- not the ones you were told about! 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 I can remember everyone of them. Studebaker was my first car.
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I remember all of those, plus
Paying 16 cents to get in the movies Gas was 25 cents a gal. Learning to drive in a '37 Ford pick up truck, a stick shift...lol When the guys would peg their pant legs and you wondered how they got them over their big feet.. Guys wearing "British Walkers".. Girls not allowed to wear slacks to school.. Getting a new bicycle for Xmas was like winning the lottery.. Getting a big ice cream cone for a nickel.. I can remember my grandma getting ice delivered for the "ice box".. Getting my first "Harley" at age 14 (you didn't need a license to ride then) |
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Getting my first "Harley" at age 14 (you didn't need a license to ride then) |
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 I LOVE living and love life,,and it is really HOW you feel with your body that allows YOU to be ok,,good, or feeling bad all the time.. Me,,I just have so many real thoughts of this process,,and IT reflects very poorly in the mirror and the mind as our youths blood drains from our time here... SEE,,I wish God would have had us all come-into THIS LIFE HERE, as 100 years old,,,then,,each new day. WE would all be feeling BETTER,,younger and more energized,,, As that time clock ran through,,we would resort back finally to our egg....  Just WISHFUL THINKING,,, GREAT POST,,Viv...  
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It must be OLD email Day. Hope you have a smile. How many do you remember? Candy cigarettes Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles Hoola hoop contests Buying milk from a vending machine for a quarter, with your penny change taped to the side Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum 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 .... (Drexel-5505 Peashooters Howdy Doody 45 RPM Records Green Stamps Hi-fi's Metal ice cube trays with levers Mimeograph paper Blue flash bulbs Beanie and Cecil Roller skate keys Cork pop guns Drive ins Studebakers Wash Tub wringers The Fuller Brush man Reel-to-reel tape recorders Phonographs The "twist", "mashed potatoes", and "funky-chicken" Tinkertoys The Erector Set The Fort Apache Playset Lincoln Logs 15 cent McDonald hamburgers & 10 cent fries 5 cent packs of baseball cards..... with that slab of pink bubblegum penny candy 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline When the first man walked on the moon When Elvis Presley first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show When the Beatles arrived When the Barbie doll hit the scene 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!!! OMG....I am older that dirt!!!  Our first phone only had 3 numbers....983 !!! No prefix at all. And I can remember all of the above, and when gasoline was 10cents a gallon!! Excuse me while I go cut my throat
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I LOVE living and love life,,and it is really HOW you feel with your body that allows YOU to be ok,,good, or feeling bad all the time.. Me,,I just have so many real thoughts of this process,,and IT reflects very poorly in the mirror and the mind as our youths blood drains from our time here... SEE,,I wish God would have had us all come-into THIS LIFE HERE, as 100 years old,,,then,,each new day. WE would all be feeling BETTER,,younger and more energized,,, As that time clock ran through,,we would resort back finally to our egg.... Just WISHFUL THINKING,,, GREAT POST,,Viv... Aw...Thanks Terry! I've always told my kids and grandkids that I grew up in the best time possible. And I did...I just wish this generation and the last one too, could have seen it. |
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It must be OLD email Day. Hope you have a smile. How many do you remember? Candy cigarettes Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles Hoola hoop contests Buying milk from a vending machine for a quarter, with your penny change taped to the side Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum 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 .... (Drexel-5505 Peashooters Howdy Doody 45 RPM Records Green Stamps Hi-fi's Metal ice cube trays with levers Mimeograph paper Blue flash bulbs Beanie and Cecil Roller skate keys Cork pop guns Drive ins Studebakers Wash Tub wringers The Fuller Brush man Reel-to-reel tape recorders Phonographs The "twist", "mashed potatoes", and "funky-chicken" Tinkertoys The Erector Set The Fort Apache Playset Lincoln Logs 15 cent McDonald hamburgers & 10 cent fries 5 cent packs of baseball cards..... with that slab of pink bubblegum penny candy 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline When the first man walked on the moon When Elvis Presley first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show When the Beatles arrived When the Barbie doll hit the scene 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!!! OMG....I am older that dirt!!! Our first phone only had 3 numbers....983 !!! No prefix at all. And I can remember all of the above, and when gasoline was 10cents a gallon!! Excuse me while I go cut my throat Ohhh Viv, just because you know those things, don't mean a thing. Will take bets on most of us "older" folks out doing most of these young sprouts. My money is on you & most of the rest of this "50"s" crowd. We get the job done EVERYTIME;just might take us a little longer, but "QUIT" is not a term we know. |
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It must be OLD email Day. Hope you have a smile. How many do you remember? Candy cigarettes Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles Hoola hoop contests Buying milk from a vending machine for a quarter, with your penny change taped to the side Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum 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 .... (Drexel-5505 Peashooters Howdy Doody 45 RPM Records Green Stamps Hi-fi's Metal ice cube trays with levers Mimeograph paper Blue flash bulbs Beanie and Cecil Roller skate keys Cork pop guns Drive ins Studebakers Wash Tub wringers The Fuller Brush man Reel-to-reel tape recorders Phonographs The "twist", "mashed potatoes", and "funky-chicken" Tinkertoys The Erector Set The Fort Apache Playset Lincoln Logs 15 cent McDonald hamburgers & 10 cent fries 5 cent packs of baseball cards..... with that slab of pink bubblegum penny candy 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline When the first man walked on the moon When Elvis Presley first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show When the Beatles arrived When the Barbie doll hit the scene 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!!! OMG....I am older that dirt!!! Our first phone only had 3 numbers....983 !!! No prefix at all. And I can remember all of the above, and when gasoline was 10cents a gallon!! Excuse me while I go cut my throat Ohhh Viv, just because you know those things, don't mean a thing. Will take bets on most of us "older" folks out doing most of these young sprouts. My money is on you & most of the rest of this "50"s" crowd. We get the job done EVERYTIME;just might take us a little longer, but "QUIT" is not a term we know. Longer is right....that's my name...Long Just as you will forever be Young!
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