Older Than Dirt!

Dave Olson

Dave Olson

Workin North of 60
Reading Indiana Jones thread about being old, I remembered this email that I received awhile ago. Just thought I would share it with you folks.

My score was 24, what about you? :eek:

Dave Olson


Do you remember?

Older than dirt..........

My Dad was cleaning out my grandmother's house 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 saltshaker 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.

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How Many Do You Remember??
* Head lights dimmer switches on the floor
* Ignition switches on the dashboard
* Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall
* Real ice boxes [Ask your Mom about that]
* Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
* Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
* Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
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Older Than Dirt Quiz
Count all the ones that you remember- not the ones you were told about!

Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive -6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

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, Darling....
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!

Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends like us...
 
After reading the list, I went back to see if there was one that I didn't know. Yes all 25!

David:(
 
neener, neener, I only got 21.
Booyaa will probably get 27, but he is really old.

Scott
 
Don't remember # 6 from personal experience. We got our milk from the cow. Grandpa brought it into the kitchen in an open pan. Grandma would then set it on a counter so the cream would rise to the top and be skimmed off. Any leftover milk would go the the hogs with other leftovers. At 8 years, my job was to load 3 or 4 milk cans onto the cart and push the cart down the lane to the road, and then load the cans onto the dock so the guy from the Caldwell Creamery Association could load the cans into his truck. I still remember how I hated that job!

Douglas Hicks
General Fire Equipment Co of Eastern Oregon, Inc
 
I gave up, knowing this was gonna be a lost cause when I got to Butch Wax.

YEAH I GOT 27, and have been in denial long enough lol.....

Do you think this thread will be closed if I cuss at the Super Moderator, or is that saved for legitimate, well written posts like the one Dave Olson wrote called "Protection"?

Oh wait, I forgot about the edit priveledges.

Edit this!!
 

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booyaa said:

Do you think this thread will be closed if I cuss at the Super Moderator, or is that saved for legitimate, well written posts like the one Dave Olson wrote called "Protection"?

Oh wait, I forgot about the edit priveledges.

Edit this!!
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I agree, it was a legitimate, well written post............as all of Dave's are. I simply closed the thread because it was directed at the PWNA, and he posted the exact same thing on their board. I did not delete the thread, just redirected to the PWNA board.......is there some problem with that? I hate having the same conversation on multiple boards, and in this case, I did something about it.
 
So, what’s the point of having a forum called “PWNA Today”? Is it there for propaganda purposes only?

I speculate that not everybody who visits this site visits that site, or more poignantly, wishes to. Another thing to consider is that in an effort to get a message/question out to as many eyes as possible, people post the same thread on multiple boards. I see it all the time, and I think most of us are guilty of doing it at one time or another.

In my humble opinion, the thread should be re-opened allowing PWNA representatives, or anybody else for that matter, to respond in a manner consistent with their abilities to operate a computer: be it by link, cut & paste, original thought, etc...

Oh, by the way Dave, I scored 24 on the Quiz! Never experienced #11, although I've heard of it. Hey Chuck, I’m wondering what #26 & 27 could have been? I’m only guessing here:
26. Livery Stable Operator
27. Once believed the Earth was square (now, that’s OLD) <b><I>LAMOOOOOOOO!</B></I>

Happy Labor Day!
 
First quiz in my life on which I received a 100 percent grade, but then I am older than both Daves. Anyone else remember when margarine was always white and one had to break the yellow packet and work it through to make it yellow like butter? This was pre-TV and I guess we had nothing better to do!

Richard
 
I can add a couple of things:

8-track tape players
3.2 beer
78 RPM records
Slide Rule
Rotary push mowers
"18" - legal age for drinking wine & whiskey
Vibratory belt weight loss device
Getting a warning driving 25 over the speed limit.
Pay-out on Pinball machines
AFL
Street cars in the US (other than in Frisco and Diego).
Cops making you pour out your beer and letting you drive on.
The Ed Sullivan Show
Dallas Texans
Brooklyn Dodgers
ABA
Cops driving you home after pulling you over for drinking & driving.
Baseball cards with bubblegum

I think it would also be interesting to see the reverse.

How many don't remember life without:
- CD players
- Cell phones
- Pagers
- Personal computers
- Internet
- Personal Calculators
- Chuckie Cheese
- TV's without remote control
- Wireless headphones
- Jerry Springer
- Aluminum cans
- Multiplex Cinemas
- Electric door locks
- Power steering
- Radial tires
- Mountain bikes
- Fanny packs
- CNN
- Auto-focus 35mm cameras
- Instant replay
- Cable TV
- Video rentals
- Home Video games
- Blue colored hair
- Rap music
- St. Louis RAMS

(This test doesn't apply to old folks since we forget half of everything anyway.)

Regards,
 
Gee RT is truly an old timer, wow that makes me even younger now.
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Seems all you old guys forgot about the old 33 ceramic records.

If not ceramic whatever they are made of to break if you drop one.

I have a about a hundred of them setting in my garage.

What about the 5cent bus ride, phone call and candy bar?


Oh I got 100% on Dave O. test.

Pay out pinball machines? I remember the ones that gave you more games as your winnings went higher.

Cops driving you home, hmm, you are old I guess :)

AFL = A lways F ollow L eader. LOL

Street cars = yes Los Angeles had the Red Line, electric trolly cars.
Was somewhat like open subways and it was a shame they removed them. Cheap, running all the time and on time.

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Add to the list

Spin and Marty
Lambchop
Sen Sen
Creature From The Black Lagoon
War of the Worlds
Springs on bikes
Playhouse 90
Decoder Rings
Sky King and Penny

David
 
Jon,

The old 33-1/3's and 78's were made from incorrectly cleaned asphalt. Too much Sodium and Potassium Hydroxide!


Regards,
 
Paul Freeman said:
So, what’s the point of having a forum called “PWNA Today”? Is it there for propaganda purposes only?

I speculate that not everybody who visits this site visits that site, or more poignantly, wishes to. Another thing to consider is that in an effort to get a message/question out to as many eyes as possible, people post the same thread on multiple boards. I see it all the time, and I think most of us are guilty of doing it at one time or another.
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The PWNA forum is here because when we started it, there was no PWNA message board. It has remained, because I feel like you do about the 'as many eyes as possible" remark. I figured that a detailed question like that should probably be answered by somone on the board of directors, and the best place for that would be the PWNA board, not here.

I'll open the thread up.........but if the history of this site repeats itself, its mostly going to get filled up with negativity and useless gargage. Hopefully not.

If you haven't been to the PWNA site, I suggest you check it out.
 
is there some problem with that? I hate having the same conversation on multiple boards, and in this case, I did something about it.

the thing is i sometimes only have time to come to this board and dans with work and what have you......but i can see where you are coming from with running three boards and moderating on two others aswell you must see this often.

i think dave olsen must of gave this some thought as to why he posted the way he did on different boards, he is a well respected in the pw community and his post should be put back.

cheers paul.
 
Thank you, Mike. I believe it takes an open minded individual to reverse his own decision. And, like yourself, I hope and expect that any discussion that evolves from Dave's post is professional.

I think this is an important issue, otherwise, I wouldn't have submitted my opinion. Here in OK, some PW companies intentionally distance themselves from PWNA and I want to know why, or IF, they have a legitimate reason.

Regards,
Paul Freeman, WMPW
OKC, OK
 
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Jon, the ceramic records were known as 'Edison' records, and were very brittle indeed. All of ours have disintegrated. 8-tracks were not invented until relatively recently - all recording was done on a wire recorder on which a literal 'wire' ran from spool to spool. B & W film only - cameras were wound by hand. Other than the technological advances, I see everyday life going on much the same as ever with gangs, drugs, crowded cities, dishonest politicians, etc. Really, not much has changed.
Richard
 
Way older than Dirt

Dave Olson said:
Reading Indiana Jones thread about being old, I remembered this email that I received awhile ago. Just thought I would share it with you folks.

My score was 24, what about you? :eek:

Dave Olson


Do you remember?

Older than dirt..........

My Dad was cleaning out my grandmother's house 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 saltshaker 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.

***********************************************
How Many Do You Remember??
* Head lights dimmer switches on the floor
* Ignition switches on the dashboard
* Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall
* Real ice boxes [Ask your Mom about that]
* Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
* Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
* Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
*******************************************
Older Than Dirt Quiz
Count all the ones that you remember- not the ones you were told about!

Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive -6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

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, Darling....
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!

Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends like us...
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Wow...And we could seriously add pagers, fanny packs, Auto Focus 35mm cameras, and Jerry Springer now cause none of my kids would know what they are! lol

I got a 14 on the original list and I am only 31 (oops...wasn't supposed to tell)!! lol
 
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