[Qcwa] A little Christmas cheer

Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:08:15 -0500

Or how about the evaporative coolers that hung on car windows for =
cooling....

Or for the phone prefixes, did you know that the Bell System had =
published a list of standard prefixes?

WD5DBC

=FF=FEHoward Cunningham

Macro Systems, LLC=20

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Fairfax, VA 22030

www.macrollc.com

703-359-9211 Office

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey D Angus [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 11:55 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Qcwa] A little Christmas cheer

Just a little something to fill in between the arguments:
How many of you remember the following?

Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

Older Than Dirt Quiz:

Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about!
Ratings 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 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 lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packard's
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0- 5 =3D You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 =3D You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 =3D Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 =3D You're older than dirt!

I might be older than dirt, but those memories are the best part of my =
life.

I scored 17 out of 25.... Gaaaah. but I'm _only_ 50!
Jeff
wa6fwi

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
 safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
Tara Morice as Fran, from the movie "Strictly Ballroom"

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