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Heard Any Good Ones: Part 2
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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 406212" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a">My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span><span style="color: #da211f"></span></p><p><span style="color: #da211f"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">How many do you remember?</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span><span style="color: #6d110f"></span></p><p><span style="color: #6d110f"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.</span></span></span> <span style="color: #6d187a"></span></p><p><span style="color: #6d187a"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Ignition switches on the dashboard. </span></span></span><span style="color: #001078"></span></p><p><span style="color: #001078"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall. </span></span></span><span style="color: #001ff0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #001ff0"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Real ice boxes. </span></span></span><span style="color: #3b7e7e"></span></p><p><span style="color: #3b7e7e"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. </span></span></span><span style="color: #da211f"></span></p><p><span style="color: #da211f"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. </span></span></span><span style="color: #3b7d20"></span></p><p><span style="color: #3b7d20"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. </span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Older Than Dirt Quiz:</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a">Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #001ff0">.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a"> Ratings at the bottom.</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">1. Blackjack chewing gum </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #da211f"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #da211f">2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #3b7d20"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #3b7d20">3. Candy cigarettes </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #001078"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #001078">4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #001ff0"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #001ff0">6</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #001ff0">. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #3b7e7e"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #3b7e7e">7. Party lines </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">8. Newsreels before the movie</span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #da211f"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #da211f">9. P.friend. Flyers </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d110f"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d110f">10. Butch wax</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #807e25"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #807e25">11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">12. Peashooters</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">13. Howdy Doody </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d110f"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d110f">14. 45 RPM records</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #3b7d20"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #3b7d20">15. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #3b7d20">S&</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #3b7d20">H green stamps </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">16 Hi-fi's </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #001ff0"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #001ff0">17. Metal ice trays with lever </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #001078"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #001078">18. Mimeograph paper </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #3b7e7e"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #3b7e7e">19 Blue flashbulb </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a">20. Packard's </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #da211f"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #da211f">21. Roller skate keys </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #807e25"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #807e25">22. Cork popguns </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">23. Drive-ins </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d110f"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d110f">24.</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d110f">Studebakers </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #001ff0"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #001ff0">25. Wash tub wringers </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d110f"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d110f">If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d110f">If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d110f">If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age, </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d110f">If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d110f"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d110f"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a">I might be older than dirt but those memories are the</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #da211f">best</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a"> part of my life. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a">Don't forget to pass this along!! </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a">Especially to all your really</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d110f"> OLD</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #6d187a">friends...</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 406212, member: 1246"] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d187a]My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [/FONT][COLOR=#da211f] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]How many do you remember?[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#da211f] [/COLOR][/SIZE] [/FONT][COLOR=#6d110f] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=#6d187a] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]Ignition switches on the dashboard. [/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#001078] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall. [/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#001ff0] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]Real ice boxes. [/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#3b7e7e] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. [/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#da211f] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. [/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#3b7d20] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. [/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]Older Than Dirt Quiz:[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d187a]Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#001ff0].[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d187a] Ratings at the bottom.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d187a] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d187a] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4] 1. Blackjack chewing gum [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#da211f] 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#3b7d20] 3. Candy cigarettes [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#001078] 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4] 5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#001ff0] 6[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#001ff0]. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#3b7e7e] 7. Party lines [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4] 8. Newsreels before the movie[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#da211f] 9. P.friend. Flyers [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d110f] 10. Butch wax[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d187a] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#807e25] 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#807e25] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4] 12. Peashooters[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4] 13. Howdy Doody [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d110f] 14. 45 RPM records[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d187a] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#3b7d20] 15. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#3b7d20]S&[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#001078] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#3b7d20]H green stamps [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4] 16 Hi-fi's [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#001ff0] 17. Metal ice trays with lever [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#001078] 18. Mimeograph paper [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#3b7e7e] 19 Blue flashbulb [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d187a] 20. Packard's [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#da211f] 21. Roller skate keys [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#807e25] 22. Cork popguns [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4] 23. Drive-ins [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d110f] 24.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d110f] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d110f]Studebakers [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#001ff0] 25. Wash tub wringers [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d187a] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d110f] 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![/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d110f] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d110f] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d187a] I might be older than dirt but those memories are the[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#da211f] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#da211f]best[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d187a] part of my life. Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d110f] OLD[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d187a] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=#6d187a]friends...[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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