I must have been the prehistoric ancester of dirt! I can remember all but two of them!!!
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:24 pm ] |
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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. Sweet cigarettes 2. School milk 3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles 4. Newsreels before the movie 5. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. 6. Peashooters 7. Andy Pandy 8. Spangles 9. 45 RPM records 10. Hi-Fi's 11. Sparky and his piano 12. Blue flashbulbs 13. Cork popguns 14. Standard Vanguards 15. 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 11-15 = You're older than dirt! |
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| Author: | cabbyman [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:27 pm ] |
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I must have been the prehistoric ancester of dirt! I can remember all but two of them!!!
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:28 pm ] |
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I got 100% 
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:29 pm ] |
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Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Trouser 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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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:31 pm ] |
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Quote: 'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down
together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.' I remember that well......................... |
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| Author: | cabbyman [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:07 pm ] |
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wannabeeahack wrote: Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard. Seperate starter button, on the floor (proper Mini) or in the dash. Choke knob. Pump action windscreen washers. The Avengers, shown in black and white; 'This programme was filmed in colour!' Wow!! 10 cadets or no. 6 for 2/- in the vending machine. Ooh, I could go on and on....and on.........and on..................... |
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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:12 pm ] |
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Fresh butter sold directly from the churn into greasproof paper & weighed out, from the shop at the corner of College Road & Oxhill Road, Handsworth. |
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| Author: | cabbyman [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:37 pm ] |
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Nursery school in the old nissan hut just off Elm Grove, Hayling Island! |
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| Author: | MR T [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:30 pm ] |
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Cocky watchman at the bottom of the street... roasting his chestnuts on an old spade over his fire....  And of course the invention of television 
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| Author: | captain cab [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:36 pm ] |
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MR T wrote: Cocky watchman at the bottom of the street... roasting his chestnuts on an old spade over his fire....
And of course the invention of television MrT.....your in Liverpool and there was a postal strike (again) last week
CC |
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| Author: | grandad [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:44 pm ] |
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MR T wrote: roasting his chestnuts on an old spade over his fire....
I find just standing quite close gets my nuts warm enough. 
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| Author: | Saltmarket [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:58 pm ] |
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Washtub wringers! With the vice on top to adjust the pressure so you didn't smash the buttons on your shirt. My Gran had one. By then we had moved on to the latest technology; a Hotpoint Twin Tub!
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:04 pm ] |
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Saltmarket wrote: Washtub wringers!
With the vice on top to adjust the pressure so you didn't smash the buttons on your shirt. My Gran had one. By then we had moved on to the latest technology; a Hotpoint Twin Tub! we called em "mangles" popular amongst yuppie types as ornaments now just in case any dont understand 
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:07 pm ] |
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have u noticed how curlywirlies and wagon wheels are only half the size they used to be? |
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| Author: | Saltmarket [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:07 pm ] |
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wannabeeahack wrote: Saltmarket wrote: Washtub wringers! With the vice on top to adjust the pressure so you didn't smash the buttons on your shirt. My Gran had one. By then we had moved on to the latest technology; a Hotpoint Twin Tub! we called em "mangles" popular amongst yuppie types as ornaments now just in case any dont understand This is the one my gran had: 
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