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Audiophiles are older than dirt

Someone sent this to me recently. If you remember number 16..... then you are older than dirt.

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 glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8 Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11.. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and
were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were
only 3 channels... [if you were fortunate])
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. Packards
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!

I wonder what it means if you read posts on Audiogon that are titled;

"What is Hi-Fi", "How is mid-fi defined", "Hearing tests, where and how", "I need help with a Dual 1291 that rumbles", "New stereo trend", "Tubes and moisture", "TT sounds so bad, I cringe", "Real audiophiles dont like remotes", "Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC", "What did you own in the 60s?", "Vacuum tube chess set", "Aging technology verse inevitably aging ears", and this lollapaloozer "An audiophile goal" and finally "Farewell my friends".

Yeah, we are all older than dirt!

Bob
PHP143
If the first 100db suck, why continue?





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Showing 4 responses by t_bone

t_bone
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Somec59, Are you sure that isn't "Duck, and Cover" (sung with a little lilt)?
Foster_9, I think RC was one of the great drinks sold. I remember choosing that every time when I could. Is it still around?
t_bone
1,182 posts
 
I'm not older than dirt yet (at least so I would say - my kids might say I am) but I remember just enough to be classified as such. Some of this has to be a factor of where you grew up... In the city, half of those were gone by the late 60s but in the countryside, lots of these things were still around until the late 70s.
t_bone
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Hotmailjbc,
Is that the one with the hillbilly in raised glass? I remember seeing one of those in a diner once in Mississippi and getting served a bottle with the same guy on it but in red and white paint. I actually loved the old mountain dew; super-carbonated and a caffeine jolt second to none. My mother also got a bottle (that was all they had cold) and she didn't let me drink any more after that one bottle (too caffeinated she said) but that lasted about as long as the end of that trip. Not long after that I was using lawn-mowing money to play pinball and drink MD once or twice a week after school.
t_bone
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Mapman, I LOVE those message tubes. I think they are SO cool. I have always wanted to buy an old building with pneumatic message tubes just to have them.
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