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>  I called this "fun quiz" since I know that a lot of
>  you won't "remember."
>
>  DO YOU REMEMBER?
>
>  A friend of mine was cleaning out his
>  grandmother's house after she passed
>  away and he showed 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
>  he had no idea. He 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. How many do you remember??
>
> 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 bottles
>  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
>  26. Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
>  27. Ignition switches on the dashboard.
>  28. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
>  29. Real ice boxes.
>  30. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
>  31. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
>  32. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
>  33. Going to the Store to test your television tubes.
>
>  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 ready for the old
> folks home.
>  If you remembered 26-33 = You are older than dirt!

I'm "older than dirt". Oh well .... FW

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