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To: Adelle who wrote (80527)1/26/2000 3:21:00 AM
From: Adelle  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 120523
 
-Subject: No more green bananas for me - I remember too many of them

>Count how many you remember....
>
>1. Blackjack chewing gum
>2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
>3. Candy cigarettes
>4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
>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 levers
>18. Mimeograph paper
>19. Blue flashbulbs
>20. Beanie and Cecil
>21. Roller skate keys
>22. Cork popguns
>23. Drive-ins
>24. Studebakers
>25. Wash tub wringers
>26. 78 RPM records
>27. Rubber-guns
>28. Crank-up Victrola record players
>29. Wood cook stoves
>30. Plowing behind a team of horses or mules
>31. One room school houses
>32. Blacksmith shops
>33. Leather football helmets
>34. Ink bottles and nibs (or penstaff)
>35. Funny books - 10 cents
>36. Double-Bubble gum - 1 cent
>37. First Class Postage Stamp - 3 cents
>38. Postcards - 1 cent
>39. Rationing stamps
>
>
>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!
> If you remembered 26+ = Buying green bananas is a risky investment.

"The utmost extent of man's knowledge,
is to know that he knows nothing."
Joseph Addison



To: Adelle who wrote (80527)1/26/2000 4:36:00 AM
From: lee kramer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 120523
 
Adelle: <It's time to turn off your computer...>. Terrific.
(Lee)


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