Older than dirt Quiz...

[Jemisa]

Older Than Dirt Quiz:........................................
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Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom

1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.
(There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient!

I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

[baza]

you've missed 78rpm records

[albaqwerty]

I'm still ancient
I'm just enjoying tutting at my youngsters :-)

[baza]

I was going to say oh I can't remember now, what was the answer

[albaqwerty]

42, baza
or was that the question?

[Baldric]

Got quite a good response here!

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1181048.html

[katburd]

yep! that make me feel ancient all right

[paddywak]

13, the only thing I can't recall is the ice cube tray, when we finally got a fridge the ice cube tray was the plastic type you had to tap on something to loosen the cubes.

[JMR27]

Wish I hadn't done this...what's a blue flashbulb? and ice trays with levers?

[katburd]

http://www.ebay.co.uk...ble-New-/310406289643

[katburd]

http://www.ebay.co.uk...0&hash=item3a7b4ec02e

they attached to the top of your camera for indoor pictures

[cupid04]

You've missed the national anthem when the bbc shut down for the night,
and the man that used to come on and remind you to switch off your set, and the little white dot....National anthem at the end of the cinema features as well. [I'm a royalist, lol!]

[JMR27]

Hi katburd oh god I'm decrepit! I had one of those cameras with the cube flash on the top...waaaa
Don't remember the ice trays with levers - probably too upmarket for us haha. Remember mum and dad getting a fridge - we were the first in the street. I used to sell ice lollies to my friends (how mean was that) until mum rumbled what I was up to and I was swiftly put out of business.

[boxtops]

I remember all of them

...and wooden shoe trees, with a metal bit in the middle
...and kaolin poultice for a throat inflammation
...and my Mobo metal horse
...and fish and chips in newspaper
...and coffee being a luxury
...and having a roast dinner every Sunday, but chicken was expensive so we only had it once a month

[boxtops]

^^ Baldric, thanks for the link, I thought I'd seen this before!

[Baldric]

I forgot to mention I remember all 14 of them

:o(

[katburd]

lol! JMR27 "smart girl wanted"

boxtops, hard times, but lovely memories

[Cruciformist]

And Friar's Balsam; Dinneford's Magnesia; GI's in Jeeps; Fordson tractors - and the first Fergie tractor.....Tempus fugit!

[Georgiesmum]

Iremembered them all except the ice cube tray with levers. Ours was plastic and you had to bang it to get them out.

[Jemisa]

It was lovely reading about all your memiries, thankyou.

I remember rationing.
I remember the 'Pea Soupers'.
I remember Open air Lido's.
I remember being evacuated.
I remember Tar bubbles in the roads.
I remember 'Dick Barton'.


Jem

[shooty]

I'm not telling my age : (