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    Darn, I'm older than dirt!!

    Someone asked the other day,,,,,,,,,,,,,
    'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'
    'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up ,'
    I informed him, ' All the food was slow .'

    'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
    'It was a place called 'home,' I explained!
    'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work,
    we sat down together at the dining room table, & if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it .'

    By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

    Here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:

    Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.

    My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow) .

    We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 11, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God. It came back on the air at about 6 a.m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people ..

    I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
    Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was & so was bread .

    All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers -- my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. He had to get up at 5 AM every morning .

    Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies! There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive .

    If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust their gut laughing .

    Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it ?

    MEMORIES :

    My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) 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 .

    How many do you remember ?
    Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
    Ignition switches on the dashboard .
    Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards .
    Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
    Using hand signals for cars without turn signals .

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

    1. Candy cigarettes
    2. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
    3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
    4. Party lines on the telephones
    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 3 channels !! If you had a TV!!
    7. Pea-shooters
    8. Howdy Doody
    9. 45 RPM records
    10. 78 rpm records
    11. Hi-fi records 33 1/3 rpm
    12. Metal ice trays with lever
    13. Blue flashbulb
    14. Cork popguns
    15. Studebakers
    16. 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 11-16
    = You're older than dirt !!! THAT'S ME !!!

    I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life .
    Don't forget to pass this along!!
    Especially to all your really OLD friends
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    Yep, I'm definitely older than dirt. This was exactly my life.

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    you have a live link that takes you to porn

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    Yupper, that's me !!

    Thanx Justdroppedin !

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    Quote Originally Posted by dishuser View Post
    you have a live link that takes you to porn
    Sexy free cams (I peeked)

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    Quote Originally Posted by dishuser View Post
    you have a live link that takes you to porn
    Damn, I can't find the link but maybe it's because I'm older than dirt and remember them all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dishuser View Post
    you have a live link that takes you to porn

    Found it and fixed it, thanks DU.
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    Anyone remember when they set the fist block on the Pyramids?
    ♫♫♫ I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK ♫♫♫ I drink all night and sleep all day. ♫♫♫



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    Quote Originally Posted by dishuser View Post
    you have a live link that takes you to porn
    Thanks....didn't notice it......

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    Yah, we don't want any of those instructional videos for newly weds around here, it may corrupt my mind.........Yah right.
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    guess I'm older than I thought... lol
    still young at heart and the mind!

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    I think Most of US on Here are "OLDER THAN DIRT" & our Minds are Long past corrupted LOL LOL

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    Wash tub wringers
    they're called manglers and my right arm knows why...lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by dishuser View Post
    Wash tub wringers
    they're called manglers and my right arm knows why...lol
    Same here DU - my sister was helping with the wash and put my arm through it up to the shoulder - just put it in reverse and I was good to go :-)
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    All of the above that's me,in the in the younger ones older than dirt, and think some of the above would create some manners in the younger ones.

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