Janice.... Please feel free to use my excuse. A friend wouldn't be a FRIEND if'n they didn't share a good excuses with 'em ("The dog ate my homework" is still one of the best in my book) <smile> Barb Mallut barb_msn@email..msn.com -----Original Message----- From: Janice Morgan <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 11:49 AM Subject: Re: NON PD - Age and Memory Barometer >Hi Barb, > You truly are funny, I liked you excuse so can I use it too please. I >knew every one of them also. I even worked the old wringer washer for my >mother. I am still young and not getting older. By the way I watched Patch >Adams the other day also and loved it very much. Have great day and thanks >for the laugh Love Janice >----- Original Message ----- >From: Barb_MSN <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 10:50 AM >Subject: Re: NON PD - Age and Memory Barometer > > >> Waaaaah! Does it make any difference if I actually remember each >> item on the list or if I just happen to know what each item is? >> >> I knew what everything was from reading about ancient history >> (Yeah! That's it... I read a lotta history books) <giggle> >> >> Whew .... I'm glad THAT'S settled >> >> I'm still young. (but getting older mighty fast) >> >> Barb Mallut >> [log in to unmask] >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Hawkins, Darwin <[log in to unmask]> >> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> >> Date: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 8:58 AM >> Subject: NON PD - Age and Memory Barometer >> >> >> >> Are you still young??? >> >> >> >This sure did bring back some wonderful (and not so wonderful) >> memories for >> >me. I think I know what number 9 was (a brand of tennis shoe?). >> Number 20 >> >was probably cartoon characters on TV, an appliance we didn't >> have in the >> >hills of Arkansas. All the rest are just as if it were yesterday! >> > >> >> Count how many you can remember... and then check the bottom. >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 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! >> >> >>