Answer These Five Questions

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?

2. What is your favorite tree?

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?

5. How do you get your mail? i.e., single mailbox in front of your house, or one of several mailboxes standing together, or a slot in your front door, or a mailbox attached to the wall next to your door, or or a community mail box (several boxes together, each with its key, either outdoors or in an apartment building), or a post office box, or other?

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?


Donny Osmond, Bobby Sherman and the Monkees




2. What is your favorite tree?


A dogwood


3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

alas I have tried, but always bit through the last layer
(I am weak)



4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?
not sure



5. How do you get your mail? i.e., single mailbox in front of your house, or one of several mailboxes standing together, or a slot in your front door, or a mailbox attached to the wall next to your door, or or a community mail box (several boxes together, each with its key, either outdoors or in an apartment building), or a post office box, or other?



Single mailbox in front of house


:hi:



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1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?
Monkees

2. What is your favorite tree?
Maple

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
3

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?
One of the old crackerjack commercials with Jack Guilford where the little kid tries to pay with nine cents and a marble.

5. How do you get your mail? i.e., single mailbox in front of your house, or one of several mailboxes standing together, or a slot in your front door, or a mailbox attached to the wall next to your door, or or a community mail box (several boxes together, each with its key, either outdoors or in an apartment building), or a post office box, or other?
Single mailbox on front of the house.

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?

Johnny Cash. My dad had his LP's and I used to play them all the time...

2. What is your favorite tree?

Oak

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

Three.

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?

No idea...

5. How do you get your mail?

Mail slot in the side wall of the building, mail slides down a chute, and comes thru the wall, to fall on the floor on the inside of the front door.

RL

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?

Kiss. I even had a Kiss lunchbox when I was little. Yeah, scared the teachers.

2. What is your favorite tree?

Weeping willow, I suppose.

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

The owl said 3.

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?

Absolutely no idea. I do know that if I see that Blue Cross/Blue Shield "Helen Keller" ad one more time, I'm going postal.

5. How do you get your mail? i.e., single mailbox in front of your house, or one of several mailboxes standing together, or a slot in your front door, or a mailbox attached to the wall next to your door, or or a community mail box (several boxes together, each with its key, either outdoors or in an apartment building), or a post office box, or other?

Single mailbox, outside the fence.

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?

Nirvana

2. What is your favorite tree?

I really like birch and ash trees

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

Really? 1278 on average. 6th grade science experiment. I was the outlier at 1012.

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?

No idea, I'm certain it was probably McDonalds.

5. How do you get your mail? i.e., single mailbox in front of your house, or one of several mailboxes standing together, or a slot in your front door, or a mailbox attached to the wall next to your door, or or a community mail box (several boxes together, each with its key, either outdoors or in an apartment building), or a post office box, or other?

Rural route delivery. Effectively a PO Box.

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?
Aretha Franklin

2. What is your favorite tree?
White birch.

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
I'll never know. I didn't like them.

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?
"Pop Pop! Fizz Fizz. Oh, what a relief it is!"


5. How do you get your mail?
Curbside.

1. Metallica. My Dad got me out of school early in junior high so I could go see them and gnr in Oakland.

2. Valley Oaks are cool.

3. I guess that would depend on a lot of things, such as the abrasiveness of one's tongue, level of mouth moisture... Are we looking at an average or a figure for a specific individual? We should also check to see if different flavors have different properties....

4. Cal Worthington and His Dog Spot.

5. Community mailboxes and package lockers.

He is still around. No "dog" though.

But his commercials are less memorable and just annoying, because he yells.

Troubles over in a flash, go see Cal
If you need a car or truck
Get a bargain, change your luck
Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal

Cal's dog Spot was always a tiger, or an elephant, or a bear . . .

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?
Although I listened mostly to teen oriented music, I think my real, have to be honest, favorite was Frank Sinatra. Regret I never got to see him live.

2. What is your favorite tree?
Weeping willow

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
No idea

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?
Don't know. I'll guess Jax Beer

5. How do you get your mail?
Box next to the front door.

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?
I think Rage Against the Machine.

2. What is your favorite tree?
I don't really have one.

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
Too many.

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?
I try to forget commercials as quickly as possible, so I don't even remember the most recent one I saw.

5. How do you get your mail? i.e., single mailbox in front of your house, or one of several mailboxes standing together, or a slot in your front door, or a mailbox attached to the wall next to your door, or or a community mail box (several boxes together, each with its key, either outdoors or in an apartment building), or a post office box, or other?
Mailbox on the wall by the garage door.

yes INDEED :D

:hi:

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?

A: The B-52's


2. What is your favorite tree?

A: Any fruit producing tree ... fig, plumb, avocado, cherry, mulberry, etc... shade is also a plus!


3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

A: Too impatient to ever find out.


4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?

A: It has to be the Mutual of Omaha commercial where a bull walks through a china shop.


5. How do you get your mail?

A: Single mailbox at the end of a long gravel driveway. Anything that won't fit in the box gets left on the porch.

1. Alice Cooper. My poor parents.

2. Bradford Pear.

3. 3. That's what the commercial said and I totally believe it.

4. Choo Choo Charlie - Good and Plenty. Still love those damned things.

5. Single mailbox at the end of the driveway.

:P

Okay, I guess I will.

1. I didn't really listen to much popular music until middle school. The first modern song I ever heard that I realized I really liked was Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'.

2. Anything climbable.

3. 3. The wise old owl said so.

4. I didn't watch much TV as a kid.

5. Mailbox attached to the wall next to the door. When we want to send mail we have to walk a few hundred feet to the post office. :)

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer? Maynard Ferguson Orchestra

2. What is your favorite tree? Lending Tree

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? More than I've ever wanted to attempt.

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember? I can't remember what it was for, but it was in black & white. It was in the first person (the viewer - you - was the camera). You knock on a front door, and a lady answers. She says, "Hello! My, what a beautiful maternity dress!" After a long enough pause for you to presumably answer, she looks embarrassed and says, "Oh, you're not." Funny by today's standards.

5. How do you get your mail? From my mailbox - out by the street.

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer? - Foghat

2. What is your favorite tree? - Maple

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? - As someone who is allergic to chocolate, I never did find out

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember? - a TV dinner commercial

5. How do you get your mail? i.e., single mailbox in front of your house, or one of several mailboxes standing together, or a slot in your front door, or a mailbox attached to the wall next to your door, or or a community mail box (several boxes together, each with its key, either outdoors or in an apartment building), or a post office box, or other? - The last thing you said

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?
Paul McCartney & Wings


2. What is your favorite tree?
Redwood (OK -- realistically, Christmas -- but that's not a type of tree)


3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
I don't remember. I remember the ad where it's like lick, lick, lick -- crunch

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?
I remember "come up to Marlboro country" and something for Tarryton cigarettes from when I was like 3 or 4


5. How do you get your mail? i.e., single mailbox in front of your house, or one of several mailboxes standing together, or a slot in your front door, or a mailbox attached to the wall next to your door, or or a community mail box (several boxes together, each with its key, either outdoors or in an apartment building), or a post office box, or other?

Box out front

. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?

elvis

2. What is your favorite tree?

the mango tree

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

:rofl:

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?

a detergent commercial

5. How do you get your mail? i.e., single mailbox in front of your house, or one of several mailboxes standing together, or a slot in your front door, or a mailbox attached to the wall next to your door, or or a community mail box (several boxes together, each with its key, either outdoors or in an apartment building), or a post office box, or other?

an apt style mailbox?

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?
Pre-high school? KISS
2. What is your favorite tree?
Weeping Willow
3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
too many
4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?
the old PSA about pollution with the crying Indian
Aha! This one! (Youtube rocks) http://youtube.com/watch?v=X3QKvEy0AIk
5. How do you get your mail? i.e., single mailbox in front of your house, or one of several mailboxes standing together, or a slot in your front door, or a mailbox attached to the wall next to your door, or or a community mail box (several boxes together, each with its key, either outdoors or in an apartment building), or a post office box, or other?
Single mailbox in front of the house.

1. Stevie Wonder
2. Apple
3. Lick? I bite the danged thing.
4. Commercials for Wilkins Coffee -- portrayed by Jim Henson and his early Muppet creations (this is before the Muppets were big time...)
5. Community Mailbox

1. Hard to say, probably Michael Jackson.

2. Pine trees.

3. Many.

4. Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.

5. Community mail box about 1/2 a block up the street.

1. The Monkees. No contest.

2. Pine trees. I love the smell, and the fact that they stay green all year.

3. I'm a biter myself, so hard to say. I guess I'd say 2, maybe 3 licks before the big bite.

4. Oh, I'd love to be an Oscar Meyer Wiener! That is what I'd truly love to beeeee....

5. Mailbox attached to the wall next to my door.

You?

1. James Brown

2. Oak

3. Three (Crunch)

4. I teach the world to sing, COKE

5. Community box

1. Boston

2. As a kid, any tree you can climb. Now ... Red Oak or White Birch.

3. The world may never know.

4. Coppertone suntan lotion

5. Single mailbox / email

1. Rolling Stones (because my older sister liked the Beatles)

2. Western Redcedar


3. No idea, I always bit them.

4. Local fuel company (burned into my brain):
If you need coal or oil, call Boyle…
Fairfax eight one five two one,
Fairfax eight one five two one
For every heating fuel need,
Be your furnace old or new.
If you need coal or oil, call Bolyle…
Fairfax eight one five two one,
Fairfax eight one five two one

5. Mailbox at the end of my driveway.

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer? Frankie Avalon

2. What is your favorite tree? Blue spruce

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? No idea.

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember? Alka-Seltzer ("Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, Oh what a relief it is!")

5. How do you get your mail? Two ways... we have a rural mailbox out on the road and a P.O. Box. We also have two mailing addresses.

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?

George Thourogood - Skynyrd - Black Sabbath

2. What is your favorite tree?

Willow

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

Depends on how much of my tongue I use

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?

Weeeeee're dealin! *roo roo signal with hand*

5. How do you get your mail? i.e., single mailbox in front of your house, or one of several mailboxes standing together, or a slot in your front door, or a mailbox attached to the wall next to your door, or or a community mail box (several boxes together, each with its key, either outdoors or in an apartment building), or a post office box, or other?

Rural route out on the highway in a bunch of other boxes.


Weeee!

:hi:

1. KaTe Bush
2. Oak.
3. None, I bite.
4. Dunno, really. I grew up in London watching the BBC, there were no ads.
5. Community mail, apartment - but I keep losing the key!

Khash.

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?

The Monkees and Lesley Gore. In 1986. Yeah, I was weird.

2. What is your favorite tree?

Pine trees. Then, live oaks.

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

Ew.

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?

Mikey and his Life cereal. Then Madge and her Palmolive "Look, Madge! No dishwater hands!"

5. How do you get your mail?

row of mailboxes in common area

1. The Beatles
2. Flowering crab apple tree
3. 206
4. The "Hamm's Beer" bear commercials
5. Single mailbox out near the road; it's the third one we've had 'cos the snowplow has knocked it over several times *lol*

...Jeff Lynne's stock has risen lately due to boomer nostalgia.)
2) Dogwood
3) The world may never know.
4) http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Marvel+the+pony&search_type=">Marvel the Mustang
5) Single mailbox attached to the wall next to my door....

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?

Bobbie Sherman, Cowsills, Jackson 5, all the Bubblegum Music. (I know how that ages me!)

2. What is your favorite tree?

Redbud tree

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

I don't care for candy.

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?

"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is" Alka Seltzer

5. How do you get your mail? i.e., single mailbox in front of your house, or one of several mailboxes standing together, or a slot in your front door, or a mailbox attached to the wall next to your door, or or a community mail box (several boxes together, each with its key, either outdoors or in an apartment building), or a post office box, or other?

Single mailbox at the house.

1. I'm not sure. Nothing I shouldn't be ashamed of, most definitely. Ours was not a musical household. I liked Shawn Cassidy. Stuff on the radio.

2. I can't pick just one. I LOVE trees - deciduous especially. For the purpose of this discussion I guess I'll settle on a Madrone tree:


3. 3!


4. I have no idea. I don't have a lot of real strong memories of my childhood.

5. Post office box.

1. Probably Dan Fogelberg.
2. The Douglas Fir.
3. The world may never know...
4. Either the "He likes it! Hey Mikey!" Life Cereal commercial, or the "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing" Coca-Cola Christmas commercial.
5. A row of mailboxes on the cross-street leading to mine. Interesting story about that. My mailbox and that of my neighbor used to be right on the cul-de-sac where we live. A mere thirty feet from my front door. Then our mail carrier complained to the Postmaster that the mailboxes had to be moved. He said the cul-de-sac was too small to turn around in, and that his mail Jeep was "too dangerous" to be around the neighborhood kids. Total bullshit. I tried to convince the Postmaster that moving the mailboxes to the cross-street was a bad idea, but no luck. He quoted some obscure postal law to me, along with the amount of the fine levied for disobeying it. So my neighbor and I moved our boxes to a location across a busy thoroughfare on the access road. Yeah, much safer than on a quiet dead-end street... :eyes:

1. Depends on when, before highschool... I really like Living Colour in a huge way when their first album came out

2. Cedar... who knows - trees are neat. There was a great big cedar in my grandma's front lawn when I was a kid, and my favourite tree is that tree (no longer with us).

3. three

4. hard to say.... I very clearly remember the nike "revolution" commercial, but I also remember the one with the picture of earth with Louis Armstrong singing

5. slot in the door

1. The Captain & Tennille (seriously)

2. Redbud

3. Three. That's what the Owl said and I believe it. *crunch* Three.

4. "if you're little short of cash, go see Cal/troubles over in a flash, go see Cal" -- Cal Worthington Ford. "It's Cal Worthington and his dog, Spot!" (It was never a dog. His dog Spot was an elephant, a tiger, a bear, etc.)

5. Mailbox at the end of the driveway.

Thanks for all the answers. This was interesting!

1. KISS

2. Apple

3. THe world may never know

4. Mr Whipple, and please don't squeeze the Charmin

5. Single mailbox in front of house

1. The Monkees

2. Oak

3. 25 or so.

4. Lucky Strike, with the black eye.

5. Single box by the street.

1. Dead Milk Men and Suicidal Tendencies

2. Christmas Trees

3. I have found biting to be much more effective. There are few things that biting can't solve or make better.

4. I am just a bill...That cartoon commercial that told kids how bills got passed into law.

5. Community mail box

1) Def Leppard
2) Weeping Willow
3) Ah one, ah two, ah three. THREE!
4) A cereal commercial advertising the octopus-like toy you could throw against the wall and it supposedly would "walk" down the wall. My brother and I thought that was the coolest thing ever, but it didn't walk. It just got all crummy, stuck to the wall for a few seconds, and fell to the carpet, accumulating lint on its damnable limbs.
5) mailbox in front of my home

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?

I thought bands and singers were only for the older kids, not for me. I suppose I remember liking the Beatles' Let It Be when it came out (I was 10).

2. What is your favorite tree?

A pine tree

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

No one knows the answer to that question

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?

Not sure, but I do remember the Burt Lahr Lays Potato Chip commercials.

5. How do you get your mail? i.e., single mailbox in front of your house, or one of several mailboxes standing together, or a slot in your front door, or a mailbox attached to the wall next to your door, or or a community mail box (several boxes together, each with its key, either outdoors or in an apartment building), or a post office box, or other?

Mailbox attached to wall next to door.

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer? Beatles, Bee Gees, Ten Years After

2. What is your favorite tree? Weeping Willow

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? I lick only until it becomes crunchable :)

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember? Double Diamond beer (England)

5. How do you get your mail? i.e., single mailbox in front of your house, or one of several mailboxes standing together, or a slot in your front door, or a mailbox attached to the wall next to your door, or or a community mail box (several boxes together, each with its key, either outdoors or in an apartment building), or a post office box, or other? Apartment mailbox hall....but I mail my stuff in the apartment complex next door because where I live you have to leave it in a basket in the office which I do not believe is secure

1. Duran Duran (loved me some Simon Le Bon)
2. is a lilac bush a tree?
3. 3, everyone knows that
4. not really a commercial but :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO87mkgcNo (conjunction junction)
5. Single box on my house...

1. When you were a kid, like pre-high school, who was your favorite band or singer?

I loved the Monkees, but my first album was Peter, Paul and Mary (Lemon Tree anyone?)

2. What is your favorite tree?

I have HUGH pine trees around the property, I love that they are green all year and cut the wind

3. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

huh? I chew em

4. What is the earliest commercial you remember?

you're kidding right?? I can't remember what I did last week!

5. How do you get your mail?

Multiple boxes 3/10s of a mile down at the end of the road on the Hwy