• OT: Quiz for us older folks

    From Primula N@primrosen@cox.invalid to alt.tv.days-of-our-lives on Fri Nov 18 20:07:21 2022
    From Newsgroup: alt.tv.days-of-our-lives

    I don't remember blackjack chewing gum or cork popguns, but the rest of
    them I do remember.

    Quiz: How Old Are You Really?
    From the following list of 25 items, count all the ones that you
    remember -- not the ones you were told about! How to score yourself is
    at the end.

    Blackjack chewing gum
    Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar-water
    Candy cigarettes
    Soda-pop machines that dispensed bottles
    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 (e.g., Olive - 6933)
    Peashooters
    Howdy Doody
    45-RPM records ... and 78-RPM records
    S&H Green Stamps
    Hi-fi systems
    Metal ice trays with lever
    Mimeograph paper
    Blue flashbulb
    Packards
    Rollerskate keys
    Cork popguns
    Drive-in theaters
    Studebakers
    Washtub wringer

    If you remembered!
    0 - 5 = You're still young
    6 - 10 = You are getting older
    11 - 15 = Don't tell your age
    16 - 25 = You're older than you think!
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  • From suzeeq@suzee@imbris.com to alt.tv.days-of-our-lives on Fri Nov 18 21:20:28 2022
    From Newsgroup: alt.tv.days-of-our-lives

    On 11/18/2022 7:07 PM, Primula N wrote:
    I don't remember blackjack chewing gum or cork popguns, but the rest of
    them I do remember.

    Quiz: How Old Are You Really?
    From the following list of 25 items, count all the ones that you
    remember -- not the ones you were told about! How to score yourself is
    at the end.

    Blackjack chewing gum
    Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar-water
    Candy cigarettes
    Soda-pop machines that dispensed bottles
    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 (e.g., Olive - 6933)
    Peashooters
    Howdy Doody
    45-RPM records ... and 78-RPM records
    S&H Green Stamps
    Hi-fi systems
    Metal ice trays with lever
    Mimeograph paper
    Blue flashbulb
    Packards
    Rollerskate keys
    Cork popguns
    Drive-in theaters
    Studebakers
    Washtub wringer

    If you remembered!
    0 - 5 = You're still young
    6 - 10 = You are getting older
    11 - 15 = Don't tell your age
    16 - 25 = You're older than you think!


    Some of the things we didn't have, but I knew of them.
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  • From Rick@rick@nospam.com to alt.tv.days-of-our-lives on Sat Nov 19 10:11:54 2022
    From Newsgroup: alt.tv.days-of-our-lives

    "Primula N" wrote in message news:MPG.3de1d7f2c3f9eeed98a016@news.eternal-september.org...

    I don't remember blackjack chewing gum or cork popguns, but the rest of
    them I do remember.

    Quiz: How Old Are You Really?
    From the following list of 25 items, count all the ones that you
    remember -- not the ones you were told about! How to score yourself is
    at the end.

    Blackjack chewing gum
    Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar-water
    Candy cigarettes
    Soda-pop machines that dispensed bottles
    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 (e.g., Olive - 6933)
    Peashooters
    Howdy Doody
    45-RPM records ... and 78-RPM records
    S&H Green Stamps
    Hi-fi systems
    Metal ice trays with lever
    Mimeograph paper
    Blue flashbulb
    Packards
    Rollerskate keys
    Cork popguns
    Drive-in theaters
    Studebakers
    Washtub wringer

    If you remembered!
    0 - 5 = You're still young
    6 - 10 = You are getting older
    11 - 15 = Don't tell your age
    16 - 25 = You're older than you think!

    22 or maybe 23 for me. Don't remember the blackjack chewing gum, the blue flashbulbs and maybe the newsreel before the movie. I do recall knowing
    about the newsreel before the movie in the general sense, but I can't recall specific examples of that. Every time I try to remember, I think of the opening to Citizen Kane, where the newsreel is part of the movie.

    --

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  • From Chase@chase4ever@gmail.com to alt.tv.days-of-our-lives on Sun Nov 20 01:11:45 2022
    From Newsgroup: alt.tv.days-of-our-lives

    On Friday, November 18, 2022 at 8:07:23 PM UTC-7, Primula N wrote:
    I don't remember blackjack chewing gum or cork popguns, but the rest of
    them I do remember.

    Quiz: How Old Are You Really?
    From the following list of 25 items, count all the ones that you
    remember -- not the ones you were told about! How to score yourself is
    at the end.

    Blackjack chewing gum
    Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar-water
    Candy cigarettes
    Soda-pop machines that dispensed bottles
    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 (e.g., Olive - 6933)
    Peashooters
    Howdy Doody
    45-RPM records ... and 78-RPM records
    S&H Green Stamps
    Hi-fi systems
    Metal ice trays with lever
    Mimeograph paper
    Blue flashbulb
    Packards
    Rollerskate keys
    Cork popguns
    Drive-in theaters
    Studebakers
    Washtub wringer

    If you remembered!
    0 - 5 = You're still young
    6 - 10 = You are getting older
    11 - 15 = Don't tell your age
    16 - 25 = You're older than you think!
    Primula, Thanks for my fun remembering all of them
    except for Packards. For you and Rick, if you like
    black licorice, you'd love Black Jack gum. To me,
    it was similar in taste. I already knew I was old,
    though. :) (Chase)
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  • From Rick@rick@nospam.com to alt.tv.days-of-our-lives on Sun Nov 20 13:39:37 2022
    From Newsgroup: alt.tv.days-of-our-lives

    "Chase" wrote in message news:bc7c876b-6ee5-4460-9be6-d0b15ff9b550n@googlegroups.com...

    On Friday, November 18, 2022 at 8:07:23 PM UTC-7, Primula N wrote:
    I don't remember blackjack chewing gum or cork popguns, but the rest of
    them I do remember.

    Quiz: How Old Are You Really?
    From the following list of 25 items, count all the ones that you
    remember -- not the ones you were told about! How to score yourself is
    at the end.

    Blackjack chewing gum
    Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar-water
    Candy cigarettes
    Soda-pop machines that dispensed bottles
    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 (e.g., Olive - 6933)
    Peashooters
    Howdy Doody
    45-RPM records ... and 78-RPM records
    S&H Green Stamps
    Hi-fi systems
    Metal ice trays with lever
    Mimeograph paper
    Blue flashbulb
    Packards
    Rollerskate keys
    Cork popguns
    Drive-in theaters
    Studebakers
    Washtub wringer

    If you remembered!
    0 - 5 = You're still young
    6 - 10 = You are getting older
    11 - 15 = Don't tell your age
    16 - 25 = You're older than you think!
    Primula, Thanks for my fun remembering all of them
    except for Packards. For you and Rick, if you like
    black licorice, you'd love Black Jack gum. To me,
    it was similar in taste. I already knew I was old,
    though. :) (Chase)

    Ah, that explains why I didn't know it. I've always been red licorice all
    the way and never liked the taste of black licorice.

    My father actually had a Packard back in the 50s, which is the only reason I know about that.

    --

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  • From Chase@chase4ever@gmail.com to alt.tv.days-of-our-lives on Sun Nov 20 15:46:02 2022
    From Newsgroup: alt.tv.days-of-our-lives

    On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 11:39:38 AM UTC-7, Rick wrote:
    "Chase" wrote in message
    news:bc7c876b-6ee5-4460...@googlegroups.com...

    On Friday, November 18, 2022 at 8:07:23 PM UTC-7, Primula N wrote:
    I don't remember blackjack chewing gum or cork popguns, but the rest of >> them I do remember.

    Quiz: How Old Are You Really?
    From the following list of 25 items, count all the ones that you
    remember -- not the ones you were told about! How to score yourself is
    at the end.

    Blackjack chewing gum
    Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar-water
    Candy cigarettes
    Soda-pop machines that dispensed bottles
    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 (e.g., Olive - 6933)
    Peashooters
    Howdy Doody
    45-RPM records ... and 78-RPM records
    S&H Green Stamps
    Hi-fi systems
    Metal ice trays with lever
    Mimeograph paper
    Blue flashbulb
    Packards
    Rollerskate keys
    Cork popguns
    Drive-in theaters
    Studebakers
    Washtub wringer

    If you remembered!
    0 - 5 = You're still young
    6 - 10 = You are getting older
    11 - 15 = Don't tell your age
    16 - 25 = You're older than you think!
    Primula, Thanks for my fun remembering all of them
    except for Packards. For you and Rick, if you like
    black licorice, you'd love Black Jack gum. To me,
    it was similar in taste. I already knew I was old,
    though. :) (Chase)
    Ah, that explains why I didn't know it. I've always been red licorice all the way and never liked the taste of black licorice.

    My father actually had a Packard back in the 50s, which is the only reason I know about that.

    --
    Rick, I enjoyed reading what you shared. (Chase)
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