[OT] - Re: Do you remember?

[Kevin E. Ramsey]

    Yes, I remember them all, but only because I paid attention to things
when I was less than three years old. I'm only 49 now, so I guess I won't be
officially old until fifteen years from now.
    ( HA! I bet you thought I was going to say next year! Wrong!)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Clyde Hollinger" <cedel@supernet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 4:47 PM
Subject: [OT] - Re: Do you remember?


> I remember most of this stuff, and I'm only 54.  (Regarding #35, I
> remember gasoline at 17 cents per gallon, but that was during a price
> war.)
>
> Regards, Clyde
>
> Ted Simmons wrote:
>
> > > Double Dog Dare
> > >
> > > I am sharing it with you today because it ended with
> > >  a "double dog dare"
> > > to  pass it on. To remember what a "double dog dare"
> > > is, read on. And
> > > remember that the perfect age is somewhere between
> > > old enough to know
> > > better and young enough not to care.  How many do
> > > you remember?
> > >
> > > 01. Candy cigarettes
> > > 02. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> > >  inside.
> > > 03. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
> > > 04. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
> > > 05. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
> > > 06. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with
> > > Cardboard stoppers.
> > > 07. Party lines.
> > > 08. Newsreels before the movie.
> > > 09. P. F. Flyers
> > > 10. Butch wax
> > > 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix ...
> > > (Drexel-5505)
> > > 12. Peashooters.
> > > 13. Howdy Doody
> > > 14. 45 RPM Records
> > > 15. Green Stamps
> > > 16. Hi-fi's
> > > 17. Metal ice cube trays, with levers
> > > 18. Mimeograph paper
> > > 19. Blue flash Bulbs
> > > 20. Beanie and Cecil
> > > 21. roller skate keys
> > > 22. Cork pop guns
> > > 23. Drive ins
> > > 24. Studebakers
> > > 25. Wash tub wringers
> > > 26. The Fuller Brush man
> > > 27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders
> > > 28. Tinkertoys
> > > 29. The Erector Set
> > > 30. The Fort Apache Playset
> > > 31. Lincoln Logs
> > > 32. 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
> > > 33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful
> > > pink slab bubblegum
> > > 34. Penny candy
> > > 35. 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline
>
>