if you are older than dirt . . . . please post here!!

I'll go first!

I am officially old!
:party: :toast: :party:

that I remember when Truman was President.

I remember his death.

61 ?

mark

You couldn't be a day over thirty.

i only WISH!!!

:P

Sheeeet. I put God on KP for trying to rest on the seventh day.

When God said, "Let there be light!", I was duty electrician.

nathan hale (a nom de guerre)
Sgt E5
USMC

"Crap! I rigged the charge for the Big Bang."

sarge43, MSgt, USAF
sarge42, TSgt, USAF

You both outrank me.

Compost? OK. I'll cop to compost.

I shouldn't even be here. But I am, so I consider myself "kinda" old.

but I'm gaining ground.


:P

I don;t think I will feel older than dirt until I am 80/90 or something...

For some reason, prasing it in that way cracks me up. I'm 56.

Older Than Dirt Quiz

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Are you an old fart? Let's find out!

Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about! Ratings are 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 bottle

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. Beanie and Cecil

21. Roller skate keys

22. Cork popguns

23. Drive-ins

24. Studebakers

25. Wash tub wringers


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 older than dirt!

But I grew up on a farm, and we pasteurized our own milk, and put it our own bottles with with cardboard stoppers!

I remember all except cork popguns. We had cap pistols.

and H.V.Kaltenborn, and Fibber McGee and Molly and those bags of white margarine where you had to squish the button and knead the dye into it. And one morning a week, a guy would drive his horse and wagon down our alley hollering "rags, old iron". I'm pretty sure we had dirt, too.

before there was History

When the Dead Sea was "just under the weather".

dirt.

Once, for her birthday, I gave her a small bottle of dirt so there would always be at least one thing in the office older than she.

Oh, and I remember all those things in the list, plus I loved Fibber McGee and Molly.

Older than dirt myself.

I held the flashlight for Tom Edison while he worked on his light bulb invention.