The really bad thing is to know your older than dirt and then as you read
this think. "WOW they forgot XXXXXXXXXXXXX which is even older than you are
feeling when you first read it a minute ago.  Pam Marcum

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan Owens [mailto:ohenry@dfw.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 3:30 AM
> To: Histonet
> Subject: Older than dirt/off subject
>
>
> I know this is not Histology related and some may have a few
> unkind words to
> say about this. But there are times when the stress level gets
> high that one
> just has to kick back and remember the slower and kinder days.  Enjoy.
>
>
> I counted 19, not good. We had one of those bottles on the ironing board
> too. AND I remember all but the soldering iron on the gas burner. Just not
> one of my better days.
>
> Susan
>
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> A: 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 (Oliv! e - 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 wringer
>
> 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!
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> B: 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 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.
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> C: 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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> Don't forget to pass this along!!
> Especially to all your really "young" friends.
>
>
>