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Memory Check

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 5:21 am
by William Ohmsford

Memory Check

Count all the ones that you remember. 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. Beanie and Cecil

  21. Roller skate key

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


Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 6:52 pm
by kreep

i'm not that young anymore!! this test was rigged!!!


Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 6:58 pm
by William Ohmsford

This is a Repost from when I posted it on the Internals a long time ago but I had to give it back :P

Last I remember Al proved his age :P


Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:00 pm
by kreep

i only got 2! but if you think about it, the REALLY old people would score low too because they won't remember some of this stuff anyway ;)


Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:02 pm
by William Ohmsford

I score in the Don't Tell your Age, almost in the higher category if that tells you anything.


re: Memory Check

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:21 pm
by kreep

yes but there's a difference between knowing what those things are and actually remembering them...

some maybe i should remember, but i don't....cuz i are forgetful :)


Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 6:33 pm
by William Ohmsford

Blackjack chewing gum <used to be able to get this in Stores :P Used to taste like Black Jellybeans>
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water <mmm good sugar water :P Wax was edible>
Candy cigarettes <Hell I don't think anyone can say they don't remember these>
Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle <My Father Owned one :P>
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes <These are still around >
Party lines <I remember them never used one but remember them :P>
Peashooters <Used to have one when I was younger>
45 RPM records <These were good stuff ;) Used to have some but no longer do>
Hi-fi's <Same as above>
Metal ice trays with lever <level used to dislodge the ice from the metal inbetween the cubes so you could remove the metal :P>
Roller skate key <Used to tighten the Roller Skates every so often :P>
Cork popguns <Used to have one of these as a kid as well>
Drive-ins <Oh yeah Drive ins were cool>
Studebakers <My parents owned one :P I rode it in means I remember it :P>
Wash tub wringers <I have never personally used once but I have watched others using them, some older people don't like them new fangled contraptions :P>


re: Memory Check

Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 10:09 am
by kreep

oops, guess i should say 3..

we had a drive-in in our town up until a few years ago

also i think those coke things are still around


Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:44 pm
by Silver-wolfe

i ranked in older then dirt :'(

i remember 21 out of 25, its because being a hillbilly that i am it takes longer for things to disappear from the country then in towns or cities

but we all knew i'm older then dirt anyway

SW


re: Memory Check

Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 12:38 am
by kreep

geez, you're not that old lol